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OK, people of the LIH, the story goes this way. My brother and I are completely different people. Basically, I'm a telecomms engineering student on his 5th semester in college, I'm among the top students in the entire major, yet I'm still wise enough to not let school become my life, and therefore I do have my social life and I'm trying to get a girlfriend; I don't have a job though, because my college schedules usually suck hard enough to have class on mornings and afternoons.

My brother, on the other hand, barely managed to pass high school with the GPA he needed to enter my college, and he decided to wait a semester and enter college until January 2008; in the meantime, he's working at a call center, where they pay him $400 dollars a month.

So, in short, I'm very intelligent but can barely pay my food at college, while he's a big flaming a*****e with a bloated bank account.

However, there's one difference between the two of us. While I usually am rather humble about my achievements and my intelligence, he just keeps gloating about how ******** much gold he wins and believes he's as rich as Bill Gates.

Now, the story of what just happened between the two of us begins here:

Today we went at the mall to buy some tickets for the Iron Maiden concert. I didn't had any money to buy them because they cost $60, and well, considering that I had to starve to death for 3 weeks just to get the $30 miserable dollars I needed to buy Gran Turismo 4, I pretty much gave up all hopes of going there.

But this is just the beginning of the story. After seeing how sad I was because I'd never gather the gold to go to that concert, he started saying "Look at how ******** much money I win, you ******** starving nerd!". I tolerated this for like half an hour, but then I snapped.

I started telling him something like this:

"You owe me respect, you idiot. You think you're the best in town just because you win money? Well, you ain't. I might not win any money, but I am among the top students in networks and telecomms, and I am gonna win all the money you win, ten-fold. And besides, I know you ******** the ugliest ******** girl in your generation! I know everything! And you still say you're a big ******** stud? Well, lemme tell you this: that makes you a ******** loser, a jerk, and an a*****e who like to talk big about himself, when you're in fact a ******** piece of s**t. You owe me respect, because I am better than you on even more difficult stuff, and because I am 20 years old and I am your older brother".

And guess what he answered?

"I don't give a s**t. I'm the biggest stud in town. Academic achievements are irrelevant in your life".

People of the LIH, seriously, I don't know what to do. I just gave up any hopes of teaching my brother some respect. If he was another dude, I'd just have to ignore him. But guess what? I have to endure the pain and the agony of having to cope with his assholery every single ******** day.

What can I do?

Well the combatting douche-bagacity with douche-bagacity is no way to teach respect. I understand your distress at his unjustifiable patronizing attitude; however, this type of respect is probably something that he cannot just be told. He is too immature to understand that by words. He will probably learn it the hard way. I mean it will still suck because you don't want your family to have to go through any hardships, but one way to learn that kind of respect is through hardships. If he's going to learn it, he will learn it by experience. The only thing you can do now is relax about your brother and get on your life and college needs such as a career and a girlfriend.