When I see people judging others for eating their lunch in a shared public space
I think it's time for that person to have some real trouble in their life and be humbled.
So much so about themselves, it's rather appalling and is exactly what they
themselves complain about.
Perhaps being bed ridden for 3 months might change one's perspective
of how others should behave around them.
Get over it. It's not all about you.
Real assholes threaten other's lives, they insult, abuse, bully. They are not defined
by eating on a train in my opinion
Pandora, I know this may come as a shock to you, but you are not omniscient, and your opinion is not carved in stone. So please don't come at me with your patronizing, sanctimonious claptrap.
This thread was made half in jest. It wasn't made so that you could use it as a platform from which to preach down to me from on high.
When I see people judging others for eating their lunch in a shared public space
I think it's time for that person to have some real trouble in their life and be humbled.
Really? You would wish "some real trouble" like that upon another? To teach THAT lesson?
We all get humbled in our own ways at our own times.
I'd venture to say many, if not all, have been there time and again.
When I see people judging others for eating their lunch in a shared public space
I think it's time for that person to have some real trouble in their life and be humbled.
Really? You would wish "some real trouble" like that upon another? To teach THAT lesson?
We all get humbled in our own ways at our own times.
I'd venture to say many, if not all, have been there time and again.
just making a point got no voodoo doll here or higher powers...
well at least not those kind
Yes humbling is a very welcome place to be ...
what is of real importance becomes crystal clear.
Trouble is a gift, in my opinion, it is how we grow, learn and appreciate.
And teaches not to be an asshole.
When I see people judging others for eating their lunch in a shared public space
I think it's time for that person to have some real trouble in their life and be humbled.
Really? You would wish "some real trouble" like that upon another? To teach THAT lesson?
We all get humbled in our own ways at our own times.
I'd venture to say many, if not all, have been there time and again.
just making a point got no voodoo doll here or higher powers...
well at least not those kind
Yes humbling is a very welcome place to be ...
what is of real importance becomes crystal clear.
Trouble is a gift, in my opinion, it is how we grow, learn and appreciate.
And teaches not to be an asshole.
Trouble teaches us, as do good times. Character shows itself in all circumstances, not just the bad.
I just don't get (even if to "make a point") hoping someone hurts deeply enough to get that lesson. Time will tell. Why wish that upon anyone?
Please don't try turning this thread into being all about you. Because you know they all end up getting locked when you do.
actually what gets it locked is talking about another poster
Is that what you think?
Oh, you two.
B: that is explicitly why Kat shuts threads down.
P: you do have a way of saying things that can come across preachy and self-righteous.
Now then, back to the thread. I think it's human nature for us to remember vividly (and thus exaggerate our opinion on the prevalence of) the major arses we've come across in our lives. I would say the vast majority of these arses were not regular offenders; were in fact just having a bad day or made a momentary concession to expediency that imposed upon the people around them. A concession they might not typically make, but did this one time. However as one of the "people around them", we don't see the 100 other circumstances where said concession was made.
Anyway, on a similar note, I was on the tube once in London on my way home from work. It was Summer and it was hot. The train was crowded and was stuck going nowhere - The Circle Line. Someone on the train farted, and it stank like a skunk with a penchant for curries.
I distinctly remember thinking/realizing that I was in hell.
It was not long after that I quit my job and vowed never to commute to work again.
Anyway, I'm not quite sure what my point is here, other than to point out that some people simply have no class, and no consideration for others. I think it's fair to say that such people qualify as assholes.
Likely the work of a Category 2 Asshole. Although it is possible that a Cat 1 may have just been standing there, seeping gas, unaware that others were subjected to the assault of the olfactory senses.
If I'm in the right kind of mood (and depending on the offender - too many incidents of road rage here), I'll pull up next to the litterer and give them a dirty look, maybe say something too
I was once in line at a drive through at Tim Horton's (Canada's Dunkin Donuts), and the guy in front of me, before he ordered, tried to toss some of his truck trash into the bin, and it missed and went all over the ground. He just looked at it. He then continued to order and drive on up.
I got out of my car, picked up all his trash, and put it in the bin, shotting him the stink eye the entire time. I get to the drive through window to get my order and pay, and the girl said "yours is paid for, the guy in front of you said he'd buy whatever you ordered, he said you picked up all his garbage?".
That's how you deal with an asshole.
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Fargo 2003
Winnipeg 2005
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St. Paul 2014
I was once in line at a drive through at Tim Horton's (Canada's Dunkin Donuts), and the guy in front of me, before he ordered, tried to toss some of his truck trash into the bin, and it missed and went all over the ground. He just looked at it. He then continued to order and drive on up.
I got out of my car, picked up all his trash, and put it in the bin, shotting him the stink eye the entire time. I get to the drive through window to get my order and pay, and the girl said "yours is paid for, the guy in front of you said he'd buy whatever you ordered, he said you picked up all his garbage?".
That's how you deal with an asshole.
:thumbup: Bravo!
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If I'm in the right kind of mood (and depending on the offender - too many incidents of road rage here), I'll pull up next to the litterer and give them a dirty look, maybe say something too
I was once in line at a drive through at Tim Horton's (Canada's Dunkin Donuts), and the guy in front of me, before he ordered, tried to toss some of his truck trash into the bin, and it missed and went all over the ground. He just looked at it. He then continued to order and drive on up.
I got out of my car, picked up all his trash, and put it in the bin, shotting him the stink eye the entire time. I get to the drive through window to get my order and pay, and the girl said "yours is paid for, the guy in front of you said he'd buy whatever you ordered, he said you picked up all his garbage?".
That's how you deal with an asshole.
Well done! Nice to know too that he recognized his asshole-ness, albeit after the fact.
We need to hear more of Byrnzie's encounters with assholes.
Here's one from about 5 years ago, just after I'd arrived in China: I was in a shop, and about to hand my money to the cashier to pay for something, when a woman reached across from behind me and plonked her thing (I think it was a bottle of shampoo) on the counter, trying to push in ahead of me. The girl behind the counter was about to pick this woman's thing up and scan it, and I thought 'Fuck that!' and grabbed hold of it and chucked it over my shoulder across the shop. The woman next to me and her friend then started making a lot of noise - in Chinese - and I simply turned to her and said quite calmly "Timbudong!" (Timbudong means "I don't understand"). I then paid for my thing and left.
I don't mean to offend anyone, a lot of what I say should be taken with a grain of salt... that said for most of you I'm a stranger on a computer on the other side of the world, don't give me that sort of power!
My point is, Monty, and I'm not being rude to you personally. I will eat and fart wherever the fuck I please, if the people surrounding me don't enjoy my eating and farting then I don't know what to say. I guess I would say, sorry I'm hungry, then I'd Blame the person beside me for farting, hopefully that person is a chick because its always funny when a chick farts in public, especially if she's hot and the fart stinks haha.
This is a fine line one walks.
A serious player of the fart game? Or a Category 2 Asshole?
Category 2 Asshole 'The Rude Asshole'
Description: These assholes are aware of the impact of their behaviour on other people, however they could care less as long as the behaviour is one that serves them some form of satisfaction.
By taking responsibility for the smelly food saying, "Sorry I'm hungry"... and blaming the person beside him for the flatulent... I'd be inclined to think Push Me would be a fart game player and hence, not a Category 2 Asshole.
I'm okay with a fart here and a fart there, but when some chubby guy with bad dance moves farts his ass off in front of my wife and I at the Tragically Hip... I want to take my right foot and deliver a swift upwards blow with it into his ass- ever so slightly grazing the testes with my toes as I do so. Geez, man. Go have a poo.
I really detest the Cat. 2 Asshole - prevalent in this (ironically named) City of Angels.
Last week I was behind a car waiting for the left-turn signal. Green arrow comes up, car in front of me doesn't move. I tap the horn - he rolls up a foot or two but HAS to continue to look at the "artwork" on the median next to us.
The light lasts for just a few seconds and if you miss it, gotta sit through the whole damn light rotation. So fuck it, I lean on the horn.
Asshole gives ME the finger and runs the arrow as it turns red.
Sometimes I'd love to go all Falling Down on these pricks.
I really detest the Cat. 2 Asshole - prevalent in this (ironically named) City of Angels.
Last week I was behind a car waiting for the left-turn signal. Green arrow comes up, car in front of me doesn't move. I tap the horn - he rolls up a foot or two but HAS to continue to look at the "artwork" on the median next to us.
The light lasts for just a few seconds and if you miss it, gotta sit through the whole damn light rotation. So fuck it, I lean on the horn.
Asshole gives ME the finger and runs the arrow as it turns red.
Sometimes I'd love to go all Falling Down on these pricks.
Don't be too quick to judge this person as a Category 2, Hedonist.
Very easily, such a person could be a Cat 3 'Pompous Asshole' (assholes that possess some or all the qualities present in Category 2 assholes, however there are definite signs of intelligence in the Category 3 Asshole. Capable of intelligent thought, they tend to think that others are not on the same level as them).
Going at their pace, in a really fancy car, with little regard for anyone else can be an indicator that you were dealing with a Cat 3 Asshole.
Then again... was the car a piece of shit? Maybe it was a Category 1 Simple Asshole? (essentially stupid, these assholes would be the most common asshole. Their behaviour manifests itself in such a way that would reflect very little awareness for those around them. For example, they might be found texting at a green light- unaware that the light has turned from red to green).
The car may or may not provide insight as to what type of asshole was in front of you, but it should be noted that 78% of Category 1 Assholes drive piece of shit cars. Such stats can be helpful- especially when considering how to best deal with the asshole.
Don't be too quick to judge this person as a Category 2, Hedonist.
Very easily, such a person could be a Cat 3 'Pompous Asshole' (assholes that possess some or all the qualities present in Category 2 assholes, however there are definite signs of intelligence in the Category 3 Asshole. Capable of intelligent thought, they tend to think that others are not on the same level as them).
Going at their pace, in a really fancy car, with little regard for anyone else can be an indicator that you were dealing with a Cat 3 Asshole.
Then again... was the car a piece of shit? Maybe it was a Category 1 Simple Asshole? (essentially stupid, these assholes would be the most common asshole. Their behaviour manifests itself in such a way that would reflect very little awareness for those around them. For example, they might be found texting at a green light- unaware that the light has turned from red to green).
The car may or may not provide insight as to what type of asshole was in front of you, but it should be noted that 78% of Category 1 Assholes drive piece of shit cars. Such stats can be helpful- especially when considering how to best deal with the asshole.
Gah! He WAS a Cat 1 SA. Older mini-van - which is fine, takes all kinds - but the shittiness of it was proportionate to his reaction (or vice versa). The texting dipshits in nicer cars out here are definitely Cat 3's.
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Please don't try turning this thread into being all about you. Because you know they all end up getting locked when you do.
Pandora, I know this may come as a shock to you, but you are not omniscient, and your opinion is not carved in stone. So please don't come at me with your patronizing, sanctimonious claptrap.
This thread was made half in jest. It wasn't made so that you could use it as a platform from which to preach down to me from on high.
Thanks.
Is that what you think?
We all get humbled in our own ways at our own times.
I'd venture to say many, if not all, have been there time and again.
well at least not those kind
Yes humbling is a very welcome place to be ...
what is of real importance becomes crystal clear.
Trouble is a gift, in my opinion, it is how we grow, learn and appreciate.
And teaches not to be an asshole.
Trouble teaches us, as do good times. Character shows itself in all circumstances, not just the bad.
I just don't get (even if to "make a point") hoping someone hurts deeply enough to get that lesson. Time will tell. Why wish that upon anyone?
Maybe that in itself is a lesson to be applied.
B can be a bit snarky but I don't think he'd stoop to that level. :P
B: that is explicitly why Kat shuts threads down.
P: you do have a way of saying things that can come across preachy and self-righteous.
Now then, back to the thread. I think it's human nature for us to remember vividly (and thus exaggerate our opinion on the prevalence of) the major arses we've come across in our lives. I would say the vast majority of these arses were not regular offenders; were in fact just having a bad day or made a momentary concession to expediency that imposed upon the people around them. A concession they might not typically make, but did this one time. However as one of the "people around them", we don't see the 100 other circumstances where said concession was made.
Likely the work of a Category 2 Asshole. Although it is possible that a Cat 1 may have just been standing there, seeping gas, unaware that others were subjected to the assault of the olfactory senses.
We need to hear more of Byrnzie's encounters with assholes.
I was once in line at a drive through at Tim Horton's (Canada's Dunkin Donuts), and the guy in front of me, before he ordered, tried to toss some of his truck trash into the bin, and it missed and went all over the ground. He just looked at it. He then continued to order and drive on up.
I got out of my car, picked up all his trash, and put it in the bin, shotting him the stink eye the entire time. I get to the drive through window to get my order and pay, and the girl said "yours is paid for, the guy in front of you said he'd buy whatever you ordered, he said you picked up all his garbage?".
That's how you deal with an asshole.
Fargo 2003
Winnipeg 2005
Winnipeg 2011
St. Paul 2014
we might have to wait a bit.
Fargo 2003
Winnipeg 2005
Winnipeg 2011
St. Paul 2014
:thumbup: Bravo!
I'll re-read and have a new asshole report for review tomorrow. Especially if I come across a Category 3!
Maybe Prince will resurrect himself with this one?
Here's one from about 5 years ago, just after I'd arrived in China: I was in a shop, and about to hand my money to the cashier to pay for something, when a woman reached across from behind me and plonked her thing (I think it was a bottle of shampoo) on the counter, trying to push in ahead of me. The girl behind the counter was about to pick this woman's thing up and scan it, and I thought 'Fuck that!' and grabbed hold of it and chucked it over my shoulder across the shop. The woman next to me and her friend then started making a lot of noise - in Chinese - and I simply turned to her and said quite calmly "Timbudong!" (Timbudong means "I don't understand"). I then paid for my thing and left.
That woman was an asshole.
This is a fine line one walks.
A serious player of the fart game? Or a Category 2 Asshole?
Category 2 Asshole 'The Rude Asshole'
Description: These assholes are aware of the impact of their behaviour on other people, however they could care less as long as the behaviour is one that serves them some form of satisfaction.
By taking responsibility for the smelly food saying, "Sorry I'm hungry"... and blaming the person beside him for the flatulent... I'd be inclined to think Push Me would be a fart game player and hence, not a Category 2 Asshole.
I'm okay with a fart here and a fart there, but when some chubby guy with bad dance moves farts his ass off in front of my wife and I at the Tragically Hip... I want to take my right foot and deliver a swift upwards blow with it into his ass- ever so slightly grazing the testes with my toes as I do so. Geez, man. Go have a poo.
Last week I was behind a car waiting for the left-turn signal. Green arrow comes up, car in front of me doesn't move. I tap the horn - he rolls up a foot or two but HAS to continue to look at the "artwork" on the median next to us.
The light lasts for just a few seconds and if you miss it, gotta sit through the whole damn light rotation. So fuck it, I lean on the horn.
Asshole gives ME the finger and runs the arrow as it turns red.
Sometimes I'd love to go all Falling Down on these pricks.
Don't be too quick to judge this person as a Category 2, Hedonist.
Very easily, such a person could be a Cat 3 'Pompous Asshole' (assholes that possess some or all the qualities present in Category 2 assholes, however there are definite signs of intelligence in the Category 3 Asshole. Capable of intelligent thought, they tend to think that others are not on the same level as them).
Going at their pace, in a really fancy car, with little regard for anyone else can be an indicator that you were dealing with a Cat 3 Asshole.
Then again... was the car a piece of shit? Maybe it was a Category 1 Simple Asshole? (essentially stupid, these assholes would be the most common asshole. Their behaviour manifests itself in such a way that would reflect very little awareness for those around them. For example, they might be found texting at a green light- unaware that the light has turned from red to green).
The car may or may not provide insight as to what type of asshole was in front of you, but it should be noted that 78% of Category 1 Assholes drive piece of shit cars. Such stats can be helpful- especially when considering how to best deal with the asshole.
Source: www.assholesamongus.org
(loving this lingo :P )