In January, Travel & Leisure magazine released an article on a dumb survey that purported that NYC is the second rudest city in America. As we pointed out, Travel & Leisure completely misrepresented the survey, which was actually about how "friendly" a city is, in their pursuit of a juicy, click-friendly headline. Nevertheless, some NY natives were quite upset that LA was named ruder than us—so they started a tumblr to collect evidence of NY's "inner asshole."
They say that they will take the evidence they collect on their site, "Re-Establish NYC As The Rudest City In America", and send it to Travel & Leisure "to secure the title belt in 2012." They've actually accumulated an impressive amount of rude material over the last three months (a "celebration of rudeness"). It includes everything from rude NYC cop stories ("They sat at a table next to me and while consuming their “free meal” and loudly lacing their conversation with obscenities proceeded to trade stories on busting hookers"), to profane subway drivers, pissed off subway preachers, angry Santas, and of course, Yankees fans.
In particular, the subway has proven to be the greatest litmus test for NYer's rudeness, and certainly the best documented: the spaghetti fights, the disregard of seating priority, the fingernail clipping, the rats in the mouth, and of course, the public masturbating. And that doesn't even include all the other subway douchery.
And the best part of all this: when we inevitably "win" the title belt, we won't even give a shit, cos go fuck yourself!
