Rude and in the News

Husband posts status on Facebook, gets drunk, discovers wife hasn't 'liked' the status, punches her in the face, tells cops she punched herself. 

How rude is that?

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First Alec Baldwin slams a barista with a scathing tweet -- we're not totally sure who was the ruder rudester in that encounter, but there appears to be plenty of bad behavior on both sides.  Then there was the Starbucks Rant Song, which earned its Chowchilla barista place in the unemployment line.

Today in  Starbucks rudeness news: a passive aggressive SBUX employee uses her magic marker to share an of a customer, replacing her name with a less-than-flattering description.  Another rudester employee about to be show the Starbucks door?

One too many fans?  Or are hydrangeas really THAT loathesome?

Hard to know what Madonna was thinking when she completely dissed a starstruck fan's gift of an impressive flower.  Maybe she didn't know she her mic was on when she revealed how much she hated it.  Of course, even without the audio, the poor guy would have figured out his gift was less than fully appreciated when he saw her immediately toss it under the table.  Ouchy!

How rude is that?

Read it -- see the video on -- Yahoo!

... don't insult the cook!  So says an ancient Chinese proverb.  Perhaps it should be expanded for the Internet Age: if you simply must tweet obnoxiously about a restaurant, save it until after you get the check if you don't want to get kicked out.  Because getting kicked out is what happened to a self-described  “opinionated, extroverted lefty & feisty Gemini” who thought it was a good idea to tweet that the bartender at the Down House in Houston was a "twerp" and a "jackoff."  The restaurant's manager saw the tweet and invited the inexplicably shocked patron to seek sustenance elsewhere.

Restaurant Boots Diner for Rude Tweets