Am I an ass hole?

[Seafog]

Buddy and his Missus are in the boat, but facing each other.
They've been going round in circles for ten minutes.
Am I an ass hole for laughing?

I am Canadian, we say ass hole,

@Seafog

Sorry for the offenseIm Canadian

I really don't understand the thread. Who are the people?

Definitely a ‘Mom’ household here

We’re a ‘Mum’ household. Apparently my accent can’t pick a bloody team

Arsehole

Isn't "am I the asshole?" a subreddit? Like AIBU?

Apologises for the thread derail OP!

Are they just going round in circles?

@CoffeeWithMyOxygen

YABU for saying an ass hole instead of arse hole

You do realise not every British accent has long vowels, right? I say ‘ass’, not ‘arse’ because I have a Midlands accent.

Stop being a spoil sport, the picture shows the most boring potential for a thread ever so we should squabble about arse versus ass instead

Have they only got one oar?

It’s as though all the people on this thread are facing each other in a boat and going around in circles.

Always spelt arse in the UK.

And the picture is off the back deck, here in British Columbia

@CoffeeWithMyOxygen

Definitely a ‘Mom’ household here

We’re a ‘Mum’ household. Apparently my accent can’t pick a bloody team

I am so confused. I refuse to believe you were born and raised in the midlands. There’s just no way!

Ok, @Seafog, but you haven’t explained what the thread is about?

@PourMeAMerlot exactly that, spinning in circles

'Mom' household here !

OP do you say 'mom' in Canada?

Buddy, and Missus, are euphemisms for people you don't know, but are talking about

And we say Mum in this house, tbf, my mother's family is all from the UK

That's not what euphemism means.

The occupants of the boat need to be facing the same way, but instead they face each other, and so paddle in circles.

I could shout out to them for one to turn around in their seat, but I'd rather just watch and laugh....
Hence, am I an ass hole?

WTF? West Midlands and its arse ! Arse arse arse .

East Midlands here and it's arse too. Arse arse! I want to know where in the Midlands they say "ass"

Oooh, see we (as in my family and everyone I know) pronounce grass as in ass and bath as it’s spelt....

That’s the thing though. I bet everybody would say they pronounce words as they’re spelt.... well, maybe not so much all the words with ough in given how many different pronunciations there are of that...

Buddy can mean a lot of things, so if I used euphemism wrong

“You do realise not every British accent has long vowels, right? I say ‘ass’, not ‘arse’ because I have a Midlands accent.”

It’s not the vowels that are different...it’s whether there’s an r or not...

How had this turned in to a spelling thread. Does it really matter?

Absolutely hilarious but I think you need to tell them.

Make sure you get a video first

I'm Midlands, and I say ass, but only because I'm pretentious and I've picked it up as an americanism. I think I used to say arse in the late 80's/90's when I was a young teenager and thought swearing was cool!

Also, I use both 'ah' and 'arrr' so I would have a bath in the barth, or sit on the grass, but the cow eats the grarss. My hobby when I was young was riding so all the posh pony club people said 'arrrr' but I went to a normal school, so I picked up both as I was desperate to fit in everywhere and then it became habit. Also, I'm in Leicester which borders Northampton which although still midlands, definitely favours the southern accent.

I really want to know where the OP is though, and in answer to your question, as long as the couple are safe and having fun, and they don't know you're laughing at them, I don't think you're an asshole.