In this testosterone-laden world where people seem to love watching kids do absurd stunts on their bikes and skateboards (carefully cutting away just before the poor soon-to-be eunuch lands), I don’t think that “extreme” was selected as a perjorative word.

People like us who sit on our fat <!>ses all day, typing on a keyboard while zoning-out to an iPod, love to think of ourselves as ... rock stars, atheletes, and just generally D00D5 (and to a lesser degree, D00D3TT35).