Where are you seeing B tags? The bolding option here uses STRONG.

What does it matter, as long as it still works? 

<anal retentive> Some folks just want everything just so, ya know.<obsessive compulsive disorder>

Those tags lack closing tags. If they're not meant to have closign tags, they should be self closing.

Also, who knows when Firefox, Chrome, or IE decide to just drop the <b> tag? God only knows what kind of weird crap will happen if <b> is still on the page. 99% of the time it just wouldn't show up, but sometimes bad browsers like IE will decide that you meant to put </div> instead of </b> or something retarded like that.

No. Apparently it's a horrible attempt at humor.

I save the insults until I get to know somebody.

I am a bit anal. I get pissed if people do <br> instead of <br />

(It isn't 100% required to do <br />, but it followest strict XHTML standards)

That was very shonky, ya pommy dag!

QFT! This.

I thought I played it pretty safe. It's tricky when you dabble with another cultures slang.

Sweet, thanks for indulging me.

Until PHP and Javascript, Web Design and Development is laughably easy.

You can learn all of HTML in three days. You can learn all of CSS in two days. 
For graphics, Photoshop/GIMP takes a year to fully learn the UI. 

PHP is really neat when you can make it do what you want, but as a first language, it's hard to learn

Javascript is bizzare gibberish

Web standards are there for a reason

Javascript isn't fun until you use a javascript library like jQuery.  Then it feels like you have the world open to you.

Bara

It might not be deprecated, but its meaning will change come HTML5: http://stellify.net/html5-b-and-i-tags-are-going-to-be-useful-read-semantic-again/

Bara