Yeah. The term is a reference from Red Dwarf. The episode where they meet Krysten and Lister describes how to refer to Rimmer when being polite.

There are rules about these types of people as well.

• It doesn't matter what you do, there will be someone trying to take advantage of it.
• If you more need to get out of a bad situation, the more the use of assholes become useful.
• Any organization dedicated to stopping assholes, will be full of them.
• If someone says we need to stop these assholes, they are hiding their own asshole tendencies.