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Total Douchebag. Article from Rare Magazine

by JB Hager , posted Oct 31 2011 5:23PM

Never have I had more response than the "Douchebag article" that I wrote for a href="http://www.rareaustin.com/"Rare Magazine/a last month. I refer to this article as "Ode to Bobby Bones". Very fitting for this a-hole. Isn't it horrible when you try to do some good in your industry and you have complete d-bags ruining your industry by making it as moronic as possible. Real "lowest common denominator" material.br /br /Anyway, enjoy the dbag article from last months Rare Magazine:br /br /p class="MsoNormal"My absolute goal here today is to talk to those of you who are young men in your twenties. I work with a lot of young women and they came to me and asked if I could do something about all the men in their twenties. They canât stand them because they claim they all act like total douche bags. I completely understand why they date men in their thirties. Young men in your twenties, you ARE acting like total douche bags! Stop it right now. Itâs absolutely out of control./p p class="MsoNormal"What has happened in recent years. I promised them I would do my part to try to get the word out. Douchism is very similar to narcissism, but with more cheeseball flair. Sometimes even being âcockyâ is acceptable, if you can back it up, but being a DB is uncalled for and you do not impress anyone. Let me fill you in on what a douche bag is and you can decipher for yourself if you ARE one./p p class="MsoNormal"o:p /o:pb style=""Are you a douchebag? Pop quiz number 1:o:p/o:p/b/p p class="MsoNormal"o:p /o:pWhen you go out with your boys for the evening, does your outfit head to toe cost more than your monthly rent?/p p class="MsoNormal"o:p /o:pHave you ever spent more than $200 on a pair of sunglasses and do you put them on top of your head even if you are going out after dark?/p p class="MsoNormal"o:p /o:pDo you watch âThe st1:personname st="on"Hill/st1:personnamesâ and not get completely frustrated with the guys?/p p class="MsoNormal"o:p /o:pDo you deny that you work at a kiosk in the Mall?/p p class="MsoNormal"o:p /o:pHave you upgraded your phone so many times that you are now up to a 10 year contract with your provider?/p p class="MsoNormal"o:p /o:pDo you pay the valet guy an extra 20 to put your Honda up front and does it have a huge exhaust system?/p p class="MsoNormal"o:p /o:pDo you overuse nicknames for women with your buddies? Ex: âCheck out that baby, honey, cougar, kitten, spinner, etcâ¦/p p class="MsoNormal"o:p /o:pDo you love Bottle Service at bars?/p p class="MsoNormal"o:p /o:pDo you look at the ads in GQ or a Brit Pop musician?/p p class="MsoNormal"o:p /o:pHave you modified your name to give it hairdresser type flair, such as changing Gerald to JuRahld?/p p class="MsoNormal"o:p /o:pDo you pick out shirts based on how the material feels or if your nipple ring with show?/p p class="MsoNormal"o:p /o:pDo you have a hookup at the gym to get supplements that you donât see at a GNC?/p p class="MsoNormal"o:p /o:pDo you ever wear compression gear when your NOT working out?/p p class="MsoNormal"o:p /o:pDo you like it when people think you are talking to them when you are shouting to your Bluetooth earpiece?/p p class="MsoNormal"o:p /o:pDo you act like a big baller on a Vegas trip and have 8 guys crashing in one room?/p p class="MsoNormal"o:p /o:pDo you think itâs o.k. to jump in with a group of girls dancing with each other?/p p class="MsoNormal"o:p /o:pDo you talk about yourself in third person?/p p class="MsoNormal"o:p /o:pDo you have more than one type of hair styling product and/or do you use more than one mirror to look at your hair from other angles?/p p class="MsoNormal"o:p /o:pb style=""Are you a douchebag? Do you use any of this terminology on a regular basis?o:p/o:p/b/p p class="MsoNormal"b style=""span style="" /spanPop quiz number 2. o:p/o:p/b/p p class="MsoNormal"o:p /o:pShituation /p p class="MsoNormal"n.: a bad situation./p p class="MsoNormal"i style=""âLooks like we may have a shituation on our hands, I donât know either of those door guysâo:p/o:p/i/p p class="MsoNormal"o:p /o:pA Bag o' Beagles/p p class="MsoNormal"Term used to ridicule a woman with a less than fit posterior. /p p class="MsoNormal"i style=""âShe shouldnât even try to squeeze into 7âs sportin a bag oâ beagles like that.âo:p/o:p/i/p p class="MsoNormal"o:p /o:pTextual Relations/p p class="MsoNormal"To engage in dirty talk with ones partner via text message. /p p class="MsoNormal"i style=""âHold on dog, go on outside to smoke without me, Iâm in mid textual relations with that baby from earlier tonight.âo:p/o:p/i/p p class="MsoNormal" style="border: medium none ; padding: 0in;"o:p /o:pRut ro/p div style="border-style: none none solid; border-color: -moz-use-text-color -moz-use-text-color windowtext; border-width: medium medium 1.5pt; padding: 0in 0in 1pt;" p class="MsoNormal" style="border: medium none ; padding: 0in;"âUh ohâ in Scooby doo language./p p class="MsoNormal" style="border: medium none ; padding: 0in;"i style=""âRut ro, looks like JuRahld (I) done forgot his ATM card.âo:p/o:p/i/p p class="MsoNormal" style="border: medium none ; padding: 0in;"o:p /o:pBarsexual/p p class="MsoNormal" style="border: medium none ; padding: 0in;"A term used to describe girlfriends that kiss at bars when drunk, usually do get attention. The female DB./p p class="MsoNormal" style="border: medium none ; padding: 0in;"i style=""âLetâs roll up on dem barsexuals, smells of easy pickins, love dem bachelorette partays.âo:p/o:p/i/p p class="MsoNormal" style="border: medium none ; padding: 0in;"o:p /o:pMake it rain/p p class="MsoNormal" style="border: medium none ; padding: 0in;"Term used by a DB to convince the bouncer they are going to spend a lot of money if he letâs his posse in. It will be raining currency./p p class="MsoNormal" style="border: medium none ; padding: 0in;"i style=""âYo dog, weâve been on da wrong side da velvet rope for over an hour. We promise to make it rain once we get in.âo:p/o:p/i/p p class="MsoNormal" style="border: medium none ; padding: 0in;"o:p /o:pWi-five/p p class="MsoNormal" style="border: medium none ; padding: 0in;"This is what DBâs do to each other when on opposite sides of the room. Itâs a pretend, mid-air hi five, usually because heâs talking to a girl./p p class="MsoNormal" style="border: medium none ; padding: 0in;"i style=""âWhy you wi-fivin that a-hole. He tried to steal your look.âo:p/o:p/i/p p class="MsoNormal" style="border: medium none ; padding: 0in;"o:p /o:p/p /div p class="MsoNormal"Clark st1:place st="on"st1:country-region st="on"Kent/st1:country-region/st1:place job./p p class="MsoNormal"This is what most DBâs call their job. Itâs an excuse for why they work at a kiosk. Just a day job, a cover for saving the planet./p p class="MsoNormal"i style=""âSelling gyro-copters at the mall is just my Clark Kent job, me and my boys are working on building one of the skyscraper condo deals.âo:p/o:p/i/p p class="MsoNormal"o:p /o:paskhole/p p class="MsoNormal"Someone who asks many stupid, pointless, obnoxious questions. Most DBâs are askholes themselves, but donât know it. /p p class="MsoNormal"i style=""âWho you callin askhole, askhole?âo:p/o:p/i/p p class="MsoNormal"span class="dailydate"o:p /o:pTextpectationo:p/o:p/span/p p class="MsoNormal"Some poor girl mistakenly gave a DB her number and he starts texting her that same night. This is the lag time between the DB asking if he can come over and her response./p p class="MsoNormal"i style=""âIâm throwin it out there to meet her at an after hours party, but my textpectations tell me sheâll reply to just come over to my place to break of a piece oâ me.âo:p/o:p/i/p p class="MsoNormal"i style=""o:p /o:p/iSo now I think you get the idea. If you answeredi style="" yes, /ito any part of quiz one or use terms far too often in quiz two, itâs time to, as Dr. Phil would say, âtake a look at yourself.â Try not to hate me for laying it all out there for you. I wish someone w ould have had this talk with me when I was 22. I wasnât at the level of the douche bags of today, but I had to look pretty silly as a Tony Robbins protÃ©gÃ© in the heyday of Nirvana. I can never redo that, but you still have time. Next time you go out, just wear a plain white undershirt. If you are worried that you canât get into your club of choice wearing that, you donât need to be going there anyway./p p class="MsoNormal"And as for you twenty something chicks, I hold you partially responsible for this mess we are in today. If you would stop talking to these guys and giving them your phone numbers, this would all go away and you wouldnât have to pull and Anna Nicole and date 90 year old men. /p