# Distinction between assholes and douchebags? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 5, 2011, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/distinction-between-assholes-and-douchebags/584404 "2011-06-05T17:12:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Farmer\_Jane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Farmer\_Jane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Farmer_Jane)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2011, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/distinction-between-assholes-and-douchebags/584404/41 "2011-06-07T01:34:43Z")
Assholes don’t usually pop their collars. ---
**Author:** ![joebuck20](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/74df32/32.png) [@joebuck20](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joebuck20)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2011, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/distinction-between-assholes-and-douchebags/584404/42 "2011-06-07T01:38:00Z")
> [@CitizenPained](#): > > Assholes don’t usually pop their collars. Or wear their sunglasses backwards. ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2011, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/distinction-between-assholes-and-douchebags/584404/43 "2011-06-07T14:11:35Z")
> [@astro](#): > > I didn’t get that from the exchange. He’s being asked a question way outside his expertise by a worried homeowner and he’s trying to give a cogent answer based on his opinion. Well, could be that I’m just not communicating the tone and everything properly. Either way, when you’re asked a question way outside your expertise, you shouldn’t emphatically state anything, especially when it could be eschewed as part of your job. > [@](#): > > The fact that he’s somewhat emphatic about about the answer is no more silly or rude than your neighbor having the expectation he was going to have some useful answer in the first place. I didn’t say he was silly or rude - I said he was a tool, per WordMan’s description. > [@](#): > > What you perceive as the brusque and direct tone of his conversation simply the usual way a lot or working people and tradesman talk. Correct - the “usual” way a lot of working people and tradesmen talk suggests they’re trying to compensate for something. Again, WordMan’s definition of “tool”: > [@](#): > > A tool thinks they’re the shit because they are an important cog in their little world and can flaunt that in some settings against you, like a DMV clerk. ---
**Author:** ![Farmer\_Jane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Farmer\_Jane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Farmer_Jane)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2011, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/distinction-between-assholes-and-douchebags/584404/44 "2011-06-07T14:16:21Z")
> [@joebuck20](#): > > Or wear their sunglasses backwards. Or their visors upside down. ---
**Author:** ![cmkeller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmkeller/32/118_2.png) [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2011, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/distinction-between-assholes-and-douchebags/584404/45 "2011-06-07T14:22:46Z")
My world view is being totally shattered here. In my mind, there were only three types of people in this world: dicks, pussies, and assholes. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2011, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/distinction-between-assholes-and-douchebags/584404/46 "2011-06-07T17:04:54Z")
If you ask an asshole to do you a favor, he will give you seventeen kinds of shit about why he shouldn’t have to do it for you. And he won’t do it. If you ask a douchbag, they might do it, but they will remind you of it seventeen years later. ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2011, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/distinction-between-assholes-and-douchebags/584404/47 "2011-06-07T17:45:11Z")
> [@CitizenPained](#): > > Or their visors upside down. _And_ backwards. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/distinction-between-assholes-and-douchebags/584404.md?page=2)