Back in the day, L7's song Shitlist celebrated having enemies, and she could still fill a notebook with the names of "the squares who get me pissed … all the assholes that won't be missed".
"It's like saying, 'I hear there are assholes in New York, so I'm not going there'; yes, there are assholes, but you should still go there because we can figure out who the assholes are," says Jeff Jarvis, a former journalist and newspaper consultant who blogs at Buzzmachine.com.com
José Manuel Barroso, president of the European Commission, even refused to be in the same room as Mr Lukashenka during a recent commemoration of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster".I don't want to talk about types like Barroso and other morons and assholes and the like," said Mr Lukashenka in response.
(Officially, the army no longer uses conscripts in Chechnya, but some claim to have been sent there anyway. "Young boys are just dying for assholes that make money on it," says one).
One refreshing thing about Mr McCain was always the healthy contempt in which he held the nastier sort of Republican ("Why would I want to be the leader of a party of such assholes?" he is quoted as saying).
He once stormed into a meeting with suppliers and bellowed that they were "fucking dickless assholes".
I would Musk and try to save the world, but that just exposes me to the same type of assholes that made me sell minecraft again.
While Oliver opened his monologue on Last Week Tonight by describing the militant terror group as "gigantic f**king assholes", Neil dismissed the terrorists as "a bunch of loser jihadists [who] slaughtered 132 of innocents in Paris to prove the future belongs to them, rather than a civilisation like France".
"I do not speak Italian," Jarrett tells the audience in Perugia, "so someone who speaks English can tell all these assholes with cameras to turn them fucking off right now".
I sell my ass every day to deal with these assholes".
Phrases captured on tape, prosecutor John Guy said, included, "fucking punks, these assholes always get away".
