"Gosh You Are a Mean Jerk" -- No One in New York City

“A friend of mine who grew up in Los Angeles once declared that transplants to Gotham only truly become New Yorkers when they exchange the exhortation “motherfucker,” which, to be sure, has a satisfying sting, for “cocksucker” — a designation more mellifluous, the ugliness behind its origin notwithstanding. And yet, as comforting as both those epithets may be, in the colloquial currency of a city where you are constantly confronted by a teeming mass of narcissists hell-bent on thwarting whatever goal you hope to achieve (even something simple as completing a speedy transaction at an ATM), the most common denomination of irritant — the dollar bill of sweary, frustrated descriptors for those exasperating sacks of skin swarming our space — is ‘asshole.’”
 — An expert speaks.