"Fare la punta al cazzo" (literally "sharpening the dick") or "puntacazzismo" ("the philosophical attitude of sharpening dicks") is a colorful expression used often by users in regards of what they are saying by themselves, a preventive self-criticism to avoid the charge of pedantry and nitpicking, to absolve themselves morally when they are really pedant and nitpicking -- http://i.imgur.com/BkGl1C...
