In fact it usually means “asshole”.
Doris Lessing, the Nobel Prize-winning British author, has called the attacks on New York on Sept 11, 2001, “not that terrible”, compared to the campaign of terror waged by the IRA…
“Some Americans will think I’m crazy. Many people died, two prominent buildings fell, but it was neither as terrible nor as extraordinary as they think. They’re a very naive people, or they pretend to be,” she said of the Americans.
FOAD, bitch. Too bad you weren’t dining at Windows on the World that morning.
(H/T: Steyn.)