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BS: An Asshole Looks Never Changes

11 Feb 08 - 10:19 PM (#2260034)
Subject: BS: An Asshole Looks Never Changes
From: Beer

Not the sort of title for me, but I was wondering about something(and no, I am not smokin.). A few days ago I was unfortunate enough to run into a fellow who in my opinion is a complete asshole. No I will not explain my interpretations of one. You have all met one so take it from your point of view. Any way, we greet each other and within a few minutes we part. I hadn't seen this person in at least 30 years. When he was out of ear shot I said to my wife "No matter how old an asshole gets, his looks never change". Maybe he was saying the same thing.
Beer (adrien)


11 Feb 08 - 10:23 PM (#2260037)
Subject: RE: BS: An Asshole Looks Never Changes
From: Rapparee

You've heard the saying, "Unless you're the lead dog the view never changes."


11 Feb 08 - 10:26 PM (#2260040)
Subject: RE: BS: An Asshole Looks Never Changes
From: Beer

Yup! yep!


11 Feb 08 - 10:53 PM (#2260048)
Subject: RE: BS: An Asshole Looks Never Changes
From: Bee-dubya-ell

Sure, an asshole's look changes!


Sometimes he looks like this: *


Sometimes he looks like this: *


It all depends on whether or not he had hot peppers in his breakfast omelet.


11 Feb 08 - 10:53 PM (#2260049)
Subject: RE: BS: An Asshole Looks Never Changes
From: Little Hawk

Ah, yes, but at the heart of every @$$hole is a worthy soul trying desperately to somehow get loose from the grip of the outward personality. ;-)

Consider, for example, the obnoxious life insurance salesman, "Ned Ryerson" in the movie "Groundhog Day"....an utterly classic asshole! (grin) When "Phil", the deeply cynical and jaded weatherman, finally became enlightened, he learned how to show compassion and kindness even to that guy...with interesting results. I think people's main problem...perhaps their only real problem...is their fear, and an "asshole" is always someone with some kind of underlying fear that throws him off balance and makes him act...like an asshole.

Then too, there are some people you'll probably never get along with, because their approach is like oil to your water. I know I've encountered people like that. It's a major challenge to turn something like that positive...sometimes a challenge that doesn't seem worth it, I'll admit.

I had an uncle whom I was quite happy not to have to see at any given time. He was an ****ASSHOLE******** par excellence!!! He could have chaired a show for celebrity assholes, in all probability, and been elected chairman for life.


11 Feb 08 - 10:56 PM (#2260050)
Subject: RE: BS: An Asshole Looks Never Changes
From: Melissa

The one I know has recently started looking like he's roughly 900 years old..maybe what you've got there is "The Asshole of Dorian Gray" or something equally eerie?


11 Feb 08 - 11:02 PM (#2260052)
Subject: RE: BS: An Asshole Looks Never Changes
From: Little Hawk

You know Keith Richard???

(just joking!) (Sorry, Keith!)


11 Feb 08 - 11:19 PM (#2260062)
Subject: RE: BS: An Asshole Looks Never Changes
From: Beer

Lol L/Hawk.


11 Feb 08 - 11:38 PM (#2260071)
Subject: RE: BS: An Asshole Looks Never Changes
From: catspaw49

Why do I feel like I have to stand up and say, "Hello. My name is Spaw and I'm an asshole?"

And oddly enough I'm reminded of this:

Look carefully at the two objects below this line:

      O                O

One of the above is your ass and the other is a hole in the ground. Which is which?

Spaw


11 Feb 08 - 11:42 PM (#2260072)
Subject: RE: BS: An Asshole Looks Never Changes
From: Rapparee

I wish to gracious that people would STOP characterizing worthless jerks who aren't worth the powder to blow them to Hell as "assholes."

Assholes are important, assholes have a purpose. Ask yourself: Where would I be without my asshole?

That's right. You'd be fuller of it than you are now. Eventually you would disappear is an explosion of your own...poop. (Extensive and expensive studies conclusively demonstrate that the word "poop" is actually the sound made when someone explodes due to a clogged asshole. But the "poop" sound is very, very loud and you do not want to be in the vicinity of the explosion.)

Those that you so characterize are usually important only to themselves (and as a provider to their family, sometimes). We need a new word to describe them. Perhaps a contest is in order.

Thank you.

Rapaire
President,
Society To Treat Assholes With The Respect They Deserve (STTAWTRTD)


11 Feb 08 - 11:49 PM (#2260077)
Subject: RE: BS: An Asshole Looks Never Changes
From: catspaw49

Okay......Fuck ya' Rap......You're a Complete Asshole with Hemorrhoid Clusters

Just tryin' to help.

Spaw


11 Feb 08 - 11:54 PM (#2260079)
Subject: RE: BS: An Asshole Looks Never Changes
From: Rapparee

Spaw, that is no way to talk to a guy who had a recent colonoscopy.

That's the award I got for being a sedated patient: The Complete Asshole with Hemorrhoid Clusters. I was kissed on both cheeks when it was presented, too.


12 Feb 08 - 12:08 AM (#2260082)
Subject: RE: BS: An Asshole Looks Never Changes
From: catspaw49

My gawd how inspiring. Future generations will revere your name and Paul will copper clad your ass. I am humbled by the depth of your deed as was the Doc.

Spaw


12 Feb 08 - 12:33 AM (#2260094)
Subject: RE: BS: An Asshole Looks Never Changes
From: Little Hawk

"The Complete Asshole with Hemorrhoid Clusters"

That sounds like the perfect name for the most coveted award of the New World Order, Rapaire. ;-) Only those serving way above and beyond the call of duty in defeating "Terror" are gonna snag that one, and it can only be conferred on them by the Commander in Chief himself...at the White House.

But, hey, I think you're right, we need another word for "asshole".

Here are some good ones.

"diddlyboob" - Bloom County expression. Opus has been called a diddblyboob on several occasions by other characters in the strip.

doofus - another good Bloom Country expression.

jerk - all round good word to express the basic concept.

moron, idiot, fool - these tend to focus on the witless aspects of assholehood.

bolthole - a Shaneism. Means exactly the same as the pejorative word "asshole"...and without offending the human body!

dipwad - another Shaneism.

retread - slightly different Shaneism. Implies extreme incompetence and stupidity.

corkpuller (!) - this is the ultimate Shaneism, but it's much, MUCH stronger than bolthole. You don't call someone a corkpuller unless you are utterly infuriated, beside yourself with outrage, and ready to come to blows over the matter. Reserve it only for the most extreme moments.

loser - a more generalized term, but related, nonetheless..

looser - What Shane writes when he means "loser".

mamalucca - A Spawnism. Talk to Spaw to get the full lowdown on this rare and exotic pejorative word. It's stronger when coupled with "broke-dick"*, as in "Yer nothin' but a broke-dick mamalucca with shit for brains and a face to match..."


* No connection with the movie "Brokeback Mountain".


12 Feb 08 - 12:52 AM (#2260102)
Subject: RE: BS: An Asshole Looks Never Changes
From: Janie

Some people seem to just be born assholes. I don't like 'em, but I can tolerate 'em for short periods of time and try to be charitable in my thoughts.

It's the one's who choose to be assholes that really bring out the natural born asshole in me.

Janie


12 Feb 08 - 12:57 AM (#2260104)
Subject: RE: BS: An Asshole Looks Never Changes
From: Little Hawk

That sounds a lot like my uncle. They could have put his picture in the illustrated dictionary next to the word "arrogance".


12 Feb 08 - 04:39 AM (#2260166)
Subject: RE: BS: An Asshole Looks Never Changes
From: Bryn Pugh

My favourite term for what is described as 'asshole' in this thread -

is an expression I heard Jim Carroll use many years ago -

'prick with ears'.

When are you people going to spell 'arsehole' properly ? :-)


12 Feb 08 - 05:35 AM (#2260190)
Subject: RE: BS: An Asshole Looks Never Changes
From: John MacKenzie

Reminds me of the circles joke.


12 Feb 08 - 10:59 AM (#2260391)
Subject: RE: BS: An Asshole Looks Never Changes
From: Louie Roy

One thing you have to watch out for you can get aids from assholes


12 Feb 08 - 11:03 AM (#2260394)
Subject: RE: BS: An Asshole Looks Never Changes
From: Liz the Squeak

Well I'm happy calling the git who USED to sit opposite me an arsehole, because all he ever gives anyone is sh!t. He is so two-faced, he's got an arsehole at each end.

LTS


12 Feb 08 - 11:03 AM (#2260396)
Subject: RE: BS: An Asshole Looks Never Changes
From: Peace

"Look carefully at the two objects below this line:
      O                O

One of the above is your ass and the other is a hole in the ground. Which is which?"

I can't tell the difference, Spaw.


12 Feb 08 - 11:13 AM (#2260408)
Subject: RE: BS: An Asshole Looks Never Changes
From: Little Hawk

Me neither. Boy, that's a tough one, eh? I was up half the night trying to figure it out.


12 Feb 08 - 11:17 AM (#2260411)
Subject: RE: BS: An Asshole Looks Never Changes
From: Louie Roy

As John said if in doubt turn your circle fly loose it is impossible to fool an old circle fly


12 Feb 08 - 11:28 AM (#2260424)
Subject: RE: BS: An Asshole Looks Never Changes
From: Peace

BTW, Beer, it was great seeing you just after New Years. I forgot to mention at the time that I like your henway. Consider it said.


12 Feb 08 - 12:06 PM (#2260474)
Subject: RE: BS: An Asshole Looks Never Changes
From: Little Hawk

Haven't heard that one in a long time.

Okay, I'll say it...

What's a henway?


12 Feb 08 - 12:22 PM (#2260495)
Subject: RE: BS: An Asshole Looks Never Changes
From: Amos

A henway is usually something female, rarely mentioned in public, I guess; but if Beer has one, he musta borrowed it.


A


12 Feb 08 - 12:37 PM (#2260501)
Subject: RE: BS: An Asshole Looks Never Changes
From: Louie Roy

A 1936 henways about 4 pounds


12 Feb 08 - 01:27 PM (#2260539)
Subject: RE: BS: An Asshole Looks Never Changes
From: Beer

Thanks Bruce. I thought it was attractive as well. However it is the last one I have so you can't have it.


12 Feb 08 - 05:14 PM (#2260809)
Subject: RE: BS: An Asshole Looks Never Changes
From: bobad

From the Urban dictionary:

henway         

when you try to cop dome while playing guitar

c'mon dude, c'mon, seriously.. fucking henway.


Really Bruce? I guess I missed that.


12 Feb 08 - 05:23 PM (#2260817)
Subject: RE: BS: An Asshole Looks Never Changes
From: Peace

LOL


12 Feb 08 - 05:37 PM (#2260819)
Subject: RE: BS: An Asshole Looks Never Changes
From: Bill D

I don't need to know about a henway...I would be more concerned about a steinway. They get REALLY heavy.


12 Feb 08 - 05:53 PM (#2260836)
Subject: RE: BS: An Asshole Looks Never Changes
From: Amos

Definition: about two and a half pounds.

"Hey dude! Do you know where I can get a henway?"
"what's a henway?"
"Oh about two and a half pounds."


13 Feb 08 - 10:50 AM (#2261392)
Subject: RE: BS: An Asshole Looks Never Changes
From: bankley

Did Hemingway have a henway too ? ...along with his 5-toed cats ?

or is it just a ball park in Boston ?

careful with that shotgun, Papa...


13 Feb 08 - 10:52 AM (#2261395)
Subject: RE: BS: An Asshole Looks Never Changes
From: Amos

Well, what's a Steinway?

8 ounces, empty, 20 ounces full.


A


13 Feb 08 - 10:57 AM (#2261400)
Subject: RE: BS: An Asshole Looks Never Changes
From: Donuel

ummmm, the first one?


13 Feb 08 - 12:48 PM (#2261499)
Subject: RE: BS: An Asshole Looks Never Changes
From: kendall

Fact is, we are all an asshole to someone.


13 Feb 08 - 01:02 PM (#2261516)
Subject: RE: BS: An Asshole Looks Never Changes
From: Little Hawk

Yes, probably. The only way to avoid it would be to avoid other people entirely. And then you would probably be remembered as "that asshole who lives all alone up there on the hill and won't talk to anyone".

Like Timon of Athens, the famous misanthrope.


13 Feb 08 - 03:32 PM (#2261652)
Subject: RE: BS: An Asshole Looks Never Changes
From: Rapparee

THAT'S what a I want to be when I grow up! A misanthrope!


13 Feb 08 - 04:36 PM (#2261690)
Subject: RE: BS: An Asshole Looks Never Changes
From: number 6

I think I'd rather be misteranthrope.

biLL


14 Feb 08 - 12:52 PM (#2262368)
Subject: RE: BS: An Asshole Looks Never Changes
From: Liz the Squeak

The office is like a tree full of monkeys. Those on top look down and see smilng faces... those below look up and see nowt but assholes.

LTS


14 Feb 08 - 01:59 PM (#2262434)
Subject: RE: BS: An Asshole Looks Never Changes
From: Donuel

Ass holes can influence the lives of others from beyond the grave.

My Aunt Hattie was an ass hole. She was caught trying to explain to me when I was 4 years old that my daddy was not my real daddy.
She always declared hereslf boss. She ranted how she was right and others were stupid.

She died in the most horrific way a person can die of cancer. She prolapsed out her rectum and survived in that state for many many weeks.

Her assholedom did not end there. This horrorific death lingered in my Dads mind to such an extent that he developed an irrational fear of death so that when my mother had a stroke, he was caiing hospice first thing and conveneing ethics board meetings at the hospital to remove all care or life saving surgury in order to hasten my mother's death, supposedly to minimize her suffering.

Yet when it comes to an incomprehensible amount of human suffering I do believe our President makes Hattie look like a saint.