MetaFilter posts tagged with asshole

Christ, What an Asshole: an NPR hour on a word they can't say on-air

Mngo — Sun, 27 Jan 2013 10:47:34 -0800

To the Best of Our Knowledge does a program on assholes. Much bleeping/blanking ensues, along with a lot of use of "a-word" to describe both word and the persons it names. After beginning with an apologetic disclaimer, the show intros with Denis Leary's classic "I'm an Asshole" (uncensored version on Youtube here). Highlights include thoughtful discussions with Geoffrey Nunberg, author of Ascent of the A-Word: Assholism, the First Sixty Years (the title of which sounds like "Scent of the..." when you say it on the radio) and with philosopher Aaron James, author of Assholes: a Theory. Perhaps in a bit of NPR solidarity, the show also intercuts sections of Terry Gross's bizarre interview with Gene Simmons (empty Fresh Air page here, archive.org page here) with the Leary song. [No mention is made of the New Yorker Cartoon Contest.] TTBOOK previously on Metafilter: 1 and 2.

"There are many species in the asshole kingdom."

bardic — Sun, 06 Jan 2013 22:04:41 -0800

"So what is an asshole, exactly? How is he (and assholes are almost always men) distinct from other types of social malefactors? Are assholes born that way, or is their boorishness culturally conditioned? What explains the spike in the asshole population?" -- The Chronicle talks to two professors, linguist Geoffrey Nunberg and philospher Aaron James, about their recent work on, well, assholes. "James argues for a three-part definition of assholes that boils down to this: Assholes act out of a deep-rooted sense of entitlement, a habitual and persistent belief that they deserve special treatment. (Nunberg points out that use of the phrase 'sense of entitlement' tracks the spread of 'asshole'—both have spiked since the 1970s.) How to distinguish an asshole from a scumbag, a jerk, a prick, or a schmuck? Assholes are systematic. We all do assholeish things, but only an asshole feels fully justified in always acting like an asshole. As James puts it, 'If one is special on one's birthday, the asshole's birthday comes every day.'"

"And inevitably for a woman, she is not a complete master of a house, so that comes over in her writing too."

Fizz — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 05:49:49 -0800

"I read a piece of writing and within a paragraph or two I know whether it is by a woman or not. I think [it is] unequal to me." VS Naipaul, no stranger to literary spats and rows, has done it again. This time, the winner of the Nobel prize for literature has lashed out at female authors, saying there is no woman writer whom he considers his equal – and singling out Jane Austen for particular criticism.

The universal punchline?

pjern — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 04:49:09 -0800

Can it be that all cartoons resolve to one common sentiment?

Can't touch this

Antidisestablishmentarianist — Wed, 27 May 2009 18:54:18 -0800

Prince Marcus Von Anhalt (painting with nudity, nudity in picture galleries), also on MySpace (autoloads his very own gangster rap song), might have you believe that he is of royal blood. Wikipedia would disagree, revealing that he bought his royal title from ZsaZsa Gabor's husband. Incidentally, he owns over 20 brothels, a chain of exotic dancing establishments, and wrecks cars. To ice the cake, he has been dubbed the worlds richest asshole by Jared Paul Stern (Other pages on this blog contain partial nudity.)

intellectual property asshole competition

philip-random — Mon, 25 May 2009 19:53:32 -0800

who's the biggest asshole? Obama's face vs Shepard Fairey vs Associated Press vs the rest of us. Go Evan Roth Go!

I piss on Gods stupid world!

Artw — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 23:26:24 -0800

"Our boss is a madman! I was in the sorting office and he said our system was outdated! I spat in his face! He fired me! I have to look for a job now!" Would Klaus Kinski have been so angry if he hadn't been so famous? A vintage column by Graham Linham (Father Ted, The IT Crowd) from the late lamented Neon magazine. (via).

It's Official.

gman — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 08:06:38 -0800

Nader's done it, once again.

Quiz: are you an asshole ?

elpapacito — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 16:54:18 -0800

Are you an asshole ? Of course you are not ...but what if you look, walk, and quack like an ....asshole ? You may be seen as one ! Fear not, for this King of All AssHoles that goes by the name of Bob Sutton wrote a test for you. He also wrote a book and he dares teach at Stanford and even has spare time to run a blog. What a royal ass !

I want to buy my own food critic, mommy

grobstein — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 16:18:12 -0800

Restaurant crybaby lashes out at NYT's Frank Bruni (pdf). Jeffrey Chodorow's new restaurant (where each diner is constantly threatened with impalement by samurai sword, apparently) got a (funny and) decidedly lukewarm review in the Times. So he took out a full-page ad to complain about it (pdf linked above), price tag: at least $30k. He also whines about it on his new blog. The word "critic" is deployed in scare quotes.
[via this Slate piece by a former NYT food critic; interesting in itself]

Iran in Iraq?

whozyerdaddy — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 20:38:43 -0800

How to use MS PowerPoint to exploit the U.S. Oh, the humanity...

55 years for breaking a EULA?

bigmusic — Sat, 22 Jul 2006 17:20:20 -0800

A unethical businessman could get 55 years for clicking ok on a eula.(pdf)

Oi dickhead! Where are you?

bap98189 — Thu, 17 Feb 2005 05:30:19 -0800

Google maps is still in beta form and still limited to the US. One potentially useful feature is the option to search for suppliers of a particular service. For example searching for Pizza in Chicago brings up a map showing pizza outlets in central Chicago.

Searching for an Asshole, Dickhead, or even Institutionalized economic repression, however, bring up some rather more unusual results. Links possibly NSFW. Via memepool.

He's an asshole!

metaxa — Thu, 04 Nov 2004 02:36:06 -0800

Imminent job openings at CNN... Open the link and right click the picture of Bush and wife, click "Save Picture/Image" and look at the filename! In the words of a certain Denis Leary, "He's an asshole, asshole, asshole-e-o-oe-oh". I suggest someone mirrors this ASAP!

You're an asshole.

Brilliantcrank — Mon, 01 Nov 2004 18:14:52 -0800

"You're An Asshole." A film strip we can all appreciate in time for tomorrow's big event. Try singing along!

Major league asshole:

aladfar — Tue, 05 Sep 2000 06:45:18 -0800

Major league asshole: Y'all have probably heard about this already, but I'm thinking it'd make for good discussion. While I'm always happy to hear of dirt on Dubya, is this really all that big of a deal?