As Andrew Ross Sorkin tells it in "Too Big to Fail," Nides pushed Mack to appeal to federal officials for a ban on short selling, saying, "We've got to shut these assholes down!" He set up calls for Mack with the S.E.C. and the Treasury Department, as well as with Senators Hillary Clinton and Chuck Schumer.
"The asshole took down my plates," he says.
When "Greenberg" opened, in 2010, the spectacle of Ben Stiller as a sour, haunted man — an asshole in a down vest — was so off-putting, to some people, that one cinema posted a sign reading, "We must limit refunds to an hour past the start time".
He went on, "Because Donald Trump is normally a giant asshole who punches down, the one time that he does it up to the Pope then we say it's O.K.
When I looked up, my family and friends were staring at me in a way that said, "Put the damn thing down, asshole".
A guy walked by and said, "Nice t-shirt, asshole!" I looked down to see what t-shirt I was wearing.
Since this is Brooklyn, everyone in the audience wasn't taking shit, and quickly started telling the man behind us to "shut the fuck up," and "quiet down asshole".
But I definitely feel like an asshole for how things went down.
It might be a bit dull to keep on and on about North Korea's habits, but when the asshole who lives down the street refuses to turn down his music, the topic inevitably creeps into conversation during neighborhood association meetings.
A New York attorney searches for a way to bring down an asshole one-per-cent-er hedge fund douche.
