Why would you want to call someone a jerk and not mean it?
Thats funny is it?
Your ability to be condescending exceeds both your ability
argue a rigourous case and on the face of it, to make people laugh.
Your base assumption, despite the abcence of smilleys in my proposition, was that I agreed with it. This is not consistent with the thesis you put forward, and may well therefor be ill founded.

Cheers, Jopo.