Title got your attention, didn’t it? I debated on sweetening the title or maybe censoring it a little bit but there are so many things to be offended by on the Internet if someone is deeply offended by my using the word “asshole” in a post on my tiny little sector of the web, um, I guess they wouldn’t click on this in the first place, would they? If they did, maybe they’re a bit of a masochist.

There’s not really a better way to phrase it because frankly I don’t take the word “jerk” or “meanie” seriously and the word “bitch” is far too gendered (that’s a whole other story). Frankly there’s no word that has quite the widespread connotation as “asshole.” It’s universal. I’m already being a bit of an asshole in my introduction alone, whoops. I’m losing my credibility as a reliable narrator but I promise I’ll win it back in the next paragraph.

Perhaps you don’t consider yourself to be an asshole and maybe you aren’t one, but there are definitely habits you (and me, definitely me) can take on or end to be less of an asshole in general. Basically here are some ways to make the world a little bit of a better place, here’s how to be less of an asshole. I’m not preaching, I swear, I’m guilty of many of these things.

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