How can you even be a PHP programmer without a sense of humor?

There are many people who just put their heads down and get a bunch of work done in PHP (or Perl/C++/Java or whatever) and don't really pay attention to or participate in the online programming culture/new/community etc.

I actually have a good buddy who has no CS background but happened to pick up Perl when he was a young and he now makes his living with it. Doesn't give a crap about other tech and spends most of his free time with his family.

I imagine this comes across as smug and condescending to those folks. Though I suppose most wouldn't be reading Atwood's twitter...