This is exactly what I thought as well. Drunk is no excuse for being an ass, but at least it’s an explanation.
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Almost certainly the answer is both. We all suffer from periods of stress in our lives, many of us suffer from mental illness. Yet some of us treat one another relatively well and some of us treat one another like shit. A situation you are in can explain why your emotions are running hot. It can’t explain why you decide to exorcise those emotions in a violent, sexual rant in the direction of a McDonald’s employee.
Exactly!
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Hey, Americans, it’s not all about you. We can be just as big assholes all by ourselves.
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Right? Like jeez. We can be our own flavour of jerk all on our own!
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Yeah, like this one time I was out with a group of people, and one person bumped into a stranger. And she said, “Sorry” and the stranger said, “That’s alright” instead of also saying “Sorry”. What a bastard!
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Anyone who complains about the lack of men’s rights clearly has mental issues.
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Right? That stranger was “honestly being so fucking rude.” Honestly. Just like, rude! 
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Look- sometimes you just
really need your chicken sandwich.
Why can’t you all just understand that?
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Point taken. “Mental illness”, used informally, covers a broad range of very different conditions. Like many people, I tend to use it to describe behaviour as extreme as the sort of immaturity seen here. Perhaps “narcissism” would fit. Of course the tantrum may be temporary and drug- or alcohol-induced.
Welcome to BoingBoing. It’s fun here.
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Yeah. Why’s he have to be like that, eh?
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Okay. What exactly do assholes like this think is going to happen when they do this? The cashier can’t just magically create more chicken whatev’s that he was trying to get.
Being abusive to service industry people is one of the biggest signs of someone I’d never want to employ, talk to, or hang out with.
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Very polite!
I can’t see though why he’d want Mitt Romney for a father in law.
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Ignorance, sure.
But to join the chorus, can y’all please stop blaming the mentally ill for every arsehole on the planet? We’ve got enough shit to deal with already.
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I’m sorry about that. I have it in my family as well and should have known better than to make such a statement.
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I dunno, is that guy really a Canadian? He didn’t say “eh” once? American tourist? Did someone also inform him that “asshole” is a proper English word?
Also I live by a town called Ottawa, so I get confused for a second every time Ottawa makes the news. I mean, odds are the city of 880,000+ is in the news, not the one with ~12,000.
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“Asshole” isn’t a proper English word, “Arsehole” is 
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A man who dresses like a toddler throws a screaming tantrum in public. What… a surprise. :\
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I’ve seen this on lists of advice for women on a first date. Treating waitstaff badly appears in the “dump immediately” column.
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I always love watching jackasses who think that the cops won’t haul them out of a business when they’ve been asked to leave. They generally lose all their bluster and bravado the moment the cop walks in.
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