I know what you are saying...I do...and I even understand it......if you are picked it was YOUR fault.....which I agree with completely......
but it is what it is....a pick.....which in my book is totally different then say...a vulch......
Once again incorrect. In order for something to be a 'pick' as you call it that something would have to be seen the same from two perspectives. First, the pilot doing the shooting, and second, the pilot getting shot. One clearly has his attention focused on something other than the real danger, and so he is tumbleweed blowing in the wind (an easy kill). To say that a 'pick' (tumbleweed) is a 'pick' (as you call it) implies that an easy kill should never be taken.
The term has been so overused that now noobs are calling bnz pilots of every description 'pickers.' This is the same mentality that says HO shots should never be taken, from any angle between 9 and 3 (fore quarter).
Horse hockey! If you go tumbleweed you get shot. There is no such thing as a pick.
EDIT: def. Tumbleweed = A pilot that has lost situational awareness.
So when someone says they got picked what they really mean is they went blind and lost awareness of their surroundings. i.e. They deserved it.