"The world is only broken into two tribes: The people who are assholes and the people who are not."

[villager]

--Sherman Alexie, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

[Somawas]

1. One should not be too harsh on assholes.

Everybody has one and you'd die without it.

[arcadian]

2. Takers are assholes

That makes most Americans assholes.

[BeHereNow]

5. Then this one's for YOU!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNzZzsvOClc

Enjoy.
BHN

[skids]

3. I thought the two types of people were...

...those who divide the world into two types of people, and those who do not... :-)

[gratuitous]

12. Precisely true

And I'm in the latter category.

[jody]

4. Does that mean those who are not are constipated and full of it? n/t

[jobycom]

6. Seems like identifying which tribe was which would be impossible

Since there are no objective outsiders, each group would accuse the other. And both would probably be right, at times.

[keep_it_real]

7. Those who know and those who do not know

[tomg]

8. Well, it seems to me that the

ones who are assholes never think they are, and the ones who are not assholes are always worried that they are.

[elocs]

9. You know, I gave an answer like that to a friend who wondered if she had been a good mother.

I told her that people who are not good parents never question that or give it a second thought. Those who are good parents are the ones who are concerned about being good parents and question whether they have been.

[tomg]

10. That's it. nt

[TexasObserver]

11. One person's "guru" is another person's "asshole"