/rapturous applause.

Because... totally. Same rule also goes for people who says "Anyone got Recount?" when they just happen to be top of the list just says to me, hey, look, you have Recount too, I know it, you know it, eeeeeeeeveryone else in the group knows it. Knock it off.

The trouble is, as I see it, that a lot of men (and, mainly, boys) have this sociological compulsion to prove that they're men but the concept is largely dead, certainly in the context of sitting in front of a computer and pressing some buttons. Run into a burning building and save some children, against all the odds perform surgery on someone and save their life, raise a child to know the difference between right and wrong and maybe you'll be "The Man", but doing something stupid to make your numbers higher than someone else's and you're nothing more than a weasel with weaselly ways.

It all reminds me of one of my favourite quotes, as far as I know attributed to anon, "Having a penis is a great responsibility, which is why I think most men shouldn't be allowed to have one".