Originally Posted by Lazyrider

20 pages later and you guys still don't get the OP's point. Instead, many of you keep responding with posts that try and justify your reactions by dissecting and asking "what did I say that was so wrong" or "show me where I was mean" rather than seeing the OP's point about the general "tone" in which some of you respond. But that is the prototypical personality trait of some of you obsessive and overly competitive contrarians who don't even want to concede a point in a discussion. You respond for 20 pages to try and justify why it is o.k. to be an *****hole.

I am all for the ribbing if the person is in on the joke. Hell, I listen to Howard Stern and love a Roast where nothing is sacred. But there is an element here and amongst the "Roadie" crowd that obviously touches a nerve with some as this topic keeps coming up (ie, who's a Fred, poseur etc). If it walks like a duck. Being an A-hole on the internet is easy and some of you never dissapoint. Pcad can call me "arrogant" because I confront that element here every now an again but in the grand scheme of things, this is all silly (see our economy and misguided war in Iraq etc.)

Whether you can admit it or even recognize a sense of elitism, arrogance and snobbery amongst this subculture, that is an individual's choice or potential inability to be insightful enough see it, but it exists.