Now I'm beginning to get the picture. an arsehole, but a certain type of arsehole.
I'm sensing a pick-up, not a shit pickup, a nice new shiny black pick-up with "rims"
Trucker hat, spray tan, tribal bicep tattoo. A white guy who says "phat" and listens to Kanye West, yet calls black people "******s" among his white friends.
Somebody who still listens to Korn or thinks Disturbed didn't get enough respect. Somebody who's watched a movie because it stars somebody from the WWE.
Somebody who can name three people from The Hills.
Those are douches.
I think it's relative, and like you said, cultural. Sure there's many Korn fans who aren't douches. It was just an example of this kind of douche: http://www.hulu.com/watch/113213/saturday-night-live-underground-festivalI can see that the idea behind the word "douchebag" is quite culture-bound. Where I come from, noone would be called a douchebag because he/she still listens to Korn. The concept "douchebag" isn't even that prominent here. There are definitely enough assholes in my country. It's not for nothing considered quite unfriendly, even though that has changed over the last two decades. We have other, different labels for people who commit "douchebaggery".
I (or we) would call someone a douchebag who parks that close to my mirror, that I can't even open the door to get into my car. Or a permanent cockblocker would definitely sooner or later be called a douchebag.
Somebody who still listens to Korn or thinks Disturbed didn't get enough respect. Somebody who's watched a movie because it stars somebody from the WWE.
Now I'm beginning to get the picture. an arsehole, but a certain type of arsehole.
This may help, here's what a douche looks like.
http://www.ratemyeverything.net/ImageDatabase/PostImages/8411/Large/Anatomy_of_a_DoucheBag.jpg
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