""" Two very different ways of being in the center of the universe. 
 There are probably lots of ways of being in the happy middle on this one. 
 * That's a perfect description of a Narcissist.   

 == A Motto. == 

 Your irritability is my chardonnay. 

 See also: Talk: Decadence: The Essence of Decadence. 

 Talk: Evil. 

 == Asshat? == 
 In my experiences, I've always foud the word ""assclown to be a lot more popular than ""asshat"".   

 :Among fans of American professional wrestling (mainly WWE) assclown has become extremely popular due to Chris Jericho's use of the word in his promos.   

 It'd be better if the usr/bin/w00t link actually went to a strip which used the word ""asshat"". 

 ""Asshat"" may have an origin (or at least a source of popularization) in dialogue from the Coen brothers' film Raising Arizona (1987), where Gayle says (during a robbery of a ""hayseed bak""): ""Anyone caught bipedal in five where's his ass for a hat!"" Or maybe I just like the trivia. ""Assclown"" also has significant film usage; in Office Space (1999), Michael Bolton (a character, computer programmer) uses it to describe the pop singer with the same name (if I remember correctly).   

 == English origin? == 

 ""This word is found in colloquial speech in a number of cultures (in both English and in direct translation to other languages)"" implies that it originated in English, and in other languages is a mere ""translation"" (loanword). No evidence supports that. According to de:Arschloch, the German and English words seem to be coetaneous (early Middle Ages). Removed the ""translation"" part.  

 On the subject of ass vs arse, would it be logical to assume 'arse' came about through hypercorrection in non-rhotic speakers? 

 :If we didn't know better, that would be plausible enough.  But we do know better.  Arse came first and has cognates in other indo-European languages.  It's worth noting ass and arse are not pronounced the same by most British speakers of English, be they non-rhotic or not. The first usually has a short vowel, the second a long one.  In the north of England, of course, speakers may use a short vowel in both.  Scots tend not to make such distinctions of length, but then Scots tend to be rhotic too, so they distinguish. I'd guess (and I'm being lazy and not looking this up now) that the similarity of arse and ass led the second to be used euphemistically for the first, but I might be wrong.  Either way, the /r/ is no hypercorrection.    

  
 >>> I made a page on the word Asshat, but wikipedia is gay and made me think it actually existed. I sent a link to my friend and he was directed to asshole. Now that I am signed it, it goes to asshole to. Fuck you wikipedia. Lick my ass..hat. <<<  

 ^^ Best definition of Asshat so far! ^^ 

 == I would be == 

 I would probably top that list, I am all for it. 

 == asshat forum bit == 

 Does anyone have any info on why the behaviour of minor denizens of a Lost forum in a single thread is in any way encyclopaedic and worth including in this article?  's only edits on Wikipedia so far are to continuously re-insert, in one way or another, information about this ""infamous"" board with a pointer to the (rather juvenile) thread as his only evidence for why it's notable.  What's so special about these guys?    

  
 SEAN AND HIS POOP STAIN HE LOVEES to keep his butt hole nice and loose. and he poops his pants when he sees us cuz were so ugly. yeah BOII 

 →== Asshole Game ==  
 While cute, this paragraph has nothing to do with any attempt to formally define asshat. 
 
   
 A more modern cultural definition is the (traditionally college-based) drinking game Asshole.  It requires simply a deck of cards and for each error or break in rules, players must take a sip of their drink.  Typically, players are ranked and any player who wins three times in a row (earning the title of ""President"" three times) gets to make a new, temporary rule.  Games may get out of hand when players of higher rank force lower ranks to drink at their whim for any reason. 

 rosie and daniel shit their pants also an