Fuck me, what an arrogant twat...
I originally had a rant about this chap during the "Bastard Colleagues" QotW, b3ta.com/questions/bastardcolleagues/post115932
and, as I'm sure you'll agree, he sounds like an irritating cockdonkey. Since we graduated and started doing research in different bits of the department, I don't see him very often, just the occasional polite "hello" in the corridor.

And the last time I had a conversation with him, I honestly thought he'd mellowed and become a likeable person.

Just now, however, he reaffirmed to me what a pillock he could be. I was putting up posters for a talk being given by an external speaker tomorrow. It's about icebergs breaking off from the poles and the effect they have as they travel South (or North) and melt.

"Oh, that looks boring," he remarked after taking a glance at the title

I was flabbergasted. I even tried to reassure myself that he wasn't just being fucking rude - was he suggesting that it wouldn't be that interesting to my group (atmospheric physics) on account of it being more ocean-related? I suspect he was, in fact, reverting to his old ways, which assumed that anything outside of his navel-gazing theoretical physics was trivial, boring and easily soluble.

I tried to assume the former, and then tried words other than "fuck off, you arrogant prick."
"...well, actually, it looks quite interesting. It's nice to have a diverse range of speakers in, and it tends to draw a broader audience."
He shrugged.
"You dump a load of cold water into the oceans, thermohaline circulation shuts off, we freeze. That's about all there is to it, isn't there?"
Christ on a fucking jet-propelled hairdryer, you smug, arrogant heap of festering badgerflaps. You've read a couple of articles and you honestly think you know it all, don't you?
Through gritted teeth, I ventured,
"Well, it's really not quite that simple..."
i.e., did it ever occur to you that there's a reason people are still working on these things?

Did he ask me to elaborate? Did he seem interested? Did he fuck. What a twat. Grrrrr.
(LongJohnBaldry, Mon 1 Jun 2009, 17:58, 8 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

Your link's broken.
But yeah, the guy sounds a prick.
( Cawl, Mon 1 Jun 2009, 18:05, Reply)

Arse...
Does that work now?
(LongJohnBaldry, Mon 1 Jun 2009, 18:06, Reply)

Yep,
All sorted.
( Cawl, Mon 1 Jun 2009, 18:09, Reply)

I think he's in the right,

(PsychoChomp, Mon 1 Jun 2009, 18:06, Reply)

Yeah, you would, wouldn't you?

(LongJohnBaldry, Mon 1 Jun 2009, 18:07, Reply)

:)

(PsychoChomp, Mon 1 Jun 2009, 18:09, Reply)

You need to punch him
Punch him right in the kisser!
( whenanimalsattackhumans clad in global hypercolour, Mon 1 Jun 2009, 18:12, Reply)

That was my immediate response
if by "kisser" you mean "cock".
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Mon 1 Jun 2009, 18:19, Reply)