Some notes on 'asshat' (2018)
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Some notes on 'asshat' (2018)
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Re: Some notes on 'asshat' (2018)
#2> In the case of pronoun usage, it really comes down to: Are you being a nice person or an asshat?” — Steve Kleinedler (interviewed by Sarah Grey), Conscious Style Guide (consciousstyleguide.com), “Conscious Language in the American Heritage Dictionary,” 22 Feb. 2018
I had no idea this guide for not being an asshat existed. That's pretty interesting and could help a lot of would-be asshats who don't feel comfortable hiding in actions-not-words territory anymore.
Re: Some notes on 'asshat' (2018)
#3My late father-in-law and his buddies used the expression "uglier than a hat full of assholes," and I always assumed that "asshat" came from that. Guess I was wrong.
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#4It's been a long time, but I seem to recall the term being used to describe a specific animation performed over the head of a fallen enemy when playing MMOs like Asheron's Call or Dark Age of Camelot, which I played a lot of circa 2001 or so.
Re: Some notes on 'asshat' (2018)
#5> In the case of pronoun usage, it really comes down to: Are you being a nice person or an asshat?” — Steve Kleinedler (interviewed by Sarah Grey), Conscious Style Guide (consciousstyleguide.com), “Conscious Language in the American Heritage Dictionary,” 22 Feb. 2018 I had no idea this guide for not being an asshat existed. That's pretty interesting and could help a lot of would-be asshats who don't feel comfortable…
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Re: Some notes on 'asshat' (2018)
#6I have loved this word since I first heard it. I assumed it evolved out of the common expressions: "get your head out of your ass" or "he's got his head up his ass".
To me, this evokes an image of wearing one's ass as a hat. I love the ridiculousness of picturing that.
Re: Some notes on 'asshat' (2018)
#7Another related word is "assclown" — which, as far as I can tell, was created accidentally when actor David Herman delivered a line of dialoge with emphasis on the wrong syllable while filming Office Space.
He was meant to call Michael Bolton a "no-talent-ass clown", but delivered the line as "no-talent ass-clown".
Or something like that. And now assclown is a thing.
Re: Some notes on 'asshat' (2018)
#8I first encountered this term while playing Kingdom of Loathing. https://kol.coldfront.net/thekolwiki/index.php/Asshat which puts it at somewhere in the 2005 or so timeframe when I encountered that term.
Re: Some notes on 'asshat' (2018)
#9In case you need asshat quantified...
> Statistics for asshat
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> Top 6% of words
Re: Some notes on 'asshat' (2018)
#10I have loved this word since I first heard it. I assumed it evolved out of the common expressions: "get your head out of your ass" or "he's got his head up his ass". To me, this evokes an image of wearing one's ass as a hat. I love the ridiculousness of picturing that.
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