HEY! SCREW YOU.
 

Have you ever tried to be an asshole (figuratively, to bar all one-liners)? Better yet, are you one? For the latter, is it enjoyable? Is it just that much fun to flood everyone's parade? Or, if obscenity-prone, is is just that enjoyable to curse everyone around you?

And for the former, have you ever found it difficult to do this, as if it was taking a significant effort to will yourself into this?

I don't just mean online; I mean anywhere. This can be just verbal offensiveness or even being aggressively pushy in a crowd, let's say.

Dude, what is this, some kinda fucking joke?

Apparently people can't act like assholes without being raked over the coals for it anymore. What happened to free speech and free America?

That's right, DON'T TREAD ON ME, BITCH!

No way. I tried that once and it almost got me killed.


Never again will I insult a fat person.

It's hard to be an asshole here on GFF with the current avatar setup I have going on. Can't really take any insults seriously, you know? Then again, I've avoided any serious problems, which for better or worse, is probably part of my non-confrontional nature.

In any case, I feel that the majority of "assholes" are people just picking on people weaker than them or who can't fight back. It's definitely easy to push someone around who can't do anything back. That's why it's really easy to be an asshole here, there's very little actual penalty (and it's fun, as I've heard).

Of course, not many assholes who try and push people who can beat them up last long anyway.

Sometimes I'm an asshole, but in the hilarious Shake sort of way. You know, it's bad for the people to which I'm an asshole; hilarious to everyone else.

I'm more of a sarcastic fuck than anything. However, I will pull out the asshole card if pushed far enough.

I don't try to be an asshole, but I ususally come off as one anyway. When I talk to people, I have a way of throwing the truth at them in a joking manner. The problem is, most people, while finding it funny, still concieve it as me being a smartass, even though I just see it as calling things how they are. This, combined with the fact that I play around a lot, lead people to believe that I'm an asshole (if there was an award in high school for biggest asshole, I so would have won it).

Oh god, I can't stop laughing. That made my day, lol.

Me, I'm an asshole on a regular basis. To some people, anyway.
It doesn't take any great effort to be an asshole.

There's no way I want to become one. To become an asshole is a choice, not by nature. There's nothing you got by insulting others.

I really try to be nice to people. I'm a big believer in the concept that you reap what you sow, and I don't like it when people aren't nice to me, so why would I treat others in a way that I don't like to be treated?

Besides, like eriol said, there's really nothing to be gained by being mean.

I can be, but I just do it to joke around. I never truly wanted to hurt someone or make them feel bad. People like that end up miserable when they think about their life.

Except corporate Bigwigs...

the thing is I'm a polite asshole. always quick with an insulte but very polite about it, I'm one of those people who you like because of it and know I'm more often then not joking about it.

I'm an asshole by popular opinion. I'm not afraid to tell the truth but I happen to do it in "unproductive" ways (or so I'm told). I don't mind breaking hearts, crushing hopes, or spitting in your cereal - I tell it the way I see it and I could give a shit less whether you like it or not.

Fortunately my core group of friends (and particularly my closest friend) don't mind and actually find me pretty damn amusing. But it has gotten me into trouble a couple of times.

Not on purpose. I tend to be polite to everyone I meet and even to my closest friends. If I were to act differently, I'd probably just be joking around with someone.

I think you're bit too emotional, it might cause you trouble in future. I think it's okay to be an assertive, but think if you were treated that way, you wouldn't like it right?:)

I'm usualy a very nice person, but i can be a grade A bitch very easily. I can switch from 'Nice Girl' to 'Complete Bitch' in a matter of seconds. It's quite fun to piss people off sometimes. I do it alot online. Somebody picks out something they don't like about me or something i've said and i just do it even more until they block me. I feel satisfied then and carry on with my usual nice girl routine.

But that's just it. I'm not emotional. And trouble in the future? No, my attitude gets me in trouble now. And when people treat me that way I fight fire with fire - that's how I've always been.

But what's ironic is that usually I'm just being sarcastic but people take it as completely serious. I may act mean but it's just to throw people off - I'm actually quite nice when you get to know me.

That's why I said "by popular opinion" and put "unproductive" in quotes; I tend to not beat around the bush and just answer honestly. Most people ask you a question expecting you to give them the nice (read: sugar-coated) answer they WANT to hear. I give the bare, no frills, completely honest one they don't want to hear but NEED to hear. So that's why I'm considered an asshole.

But it doesn't really offend me - I just know the true me and the me they see. Let them invest brain sweat figuring out which is which.

Well sorry generalizing that attitude into "being too emotional", perhaps I'm wrong, maybe you're just straightforwarded person, mean you don't hestitate telling what you have in your mind.

Well, every human is unique in different way I guess...

I have been told occasionally that I am an asshole, and other times I am an extremely nice guy. I am trying to bring that latter half of my personality out, while removing the former one, but I have trouble really recognizing when I am being an ass. It would be nice if people would kindly point that out to me, but people have a tendency to hold their tongue.

I'm a very nice young person and would NEVER behave in an assholish way. Never ever. I always make it a point to be as nice and polite to everyone, regardless of how stupidly they are behaving or acting towards me.

That is false. You asked me if I was going to stop living.

I am kind of sarcastic, though too shy to show it half the time. But PMS sort of amplifies that sarcastic-ness and it comes off as if I'm trying to be one when I don't want to be a royal Bitch....It just happens.

Ok you caught me. I am, in fact, a big huge jerk.

Being an asshole comes naturally to me. If I could change it, I would. I get too angry at people and I will more-than-likely die of a coronary someday.

I would rather be a nice, easy-going person. But in this day and age, I find that next to impossible.

I also suffer from the "tell it like it is" syndrome. I try not to pansyfoot around to cater to peoples' feelings. I think its dishonest and conniving. I'd rather just lay it out.