David R Kendrick has a nice note about the Billy Becks of the world, I suggest you go read. Now, he calls ’em fuckheads, I calls ’em fucktards, tomato/tomatoe.

Now, I don’t know David R Kendrick from adam, but the piece made me giggle. Money quote:

With the advent of the Internet as a force in popular culture, this schism has not only survived, but become stronger and more readily acknowledged. In the new Information Age, the antisocial face new pressures, such as flaming, Usenet death penalties, and being netcopped, and they even have a new name.

They are called Fuckheads

Update: My dear old friend and confidant Mlle Jenny opines thusly:

People come to cyberspace for many reasons. There is a subset that is a common animal across the internets because they are situated in such a way that they and their traveling psychoses are prevalent. We see them a lot because they are obnoxious and loud. We see them a lot because they tend to congregate in places where they can be fucktards to the best of their ability and that’s most obvious where people with half a brain hang out. And they tend to be people with mental/developmental/emotional disabilities who have time and computer access to hang out on the internets all day and harass the shit out of people. They are the “urban outdoorsmen” of the internets and they get rousted from place to place and just like the aforemenetioned homeless people they gather their signs “will rant for food” and go hang out in someone else’s park. Just one person’s opinion. I could be wrong.

She typed all this shit off the top in like ten seconds time. NOW you know why she is my dear old friend.