Yes, and I honestly can’t imagine how he pulls it off. It must be like riding a bicycle on a railroad track. His constant “I really think this way” schtick probably saves him - reasonable doubt and all.
Plus I’m sure none of the mods wants to be known as Dio-killer, this place is his life.
Oh, dude, that is just foul. Glad to hear he apologized for that; not impressed to see him attempting to defend himself for it again in this thread.
as my grandmother would say: what on EARTH are you children on about in here?
I can only assume that the people in this thread enjoy being trolled, otherwise why would you keep playing the game so ardently? And if you are enjoying it then this thread would be a lot more fun to read if you’d just admit it.
You can’t get mad at someone for taking a poo if you’re the one who keeps feeding him the laxatives.
Dio is gutter trash and a troll. Some people don’t realize it, so we are making it known. That’s what us kids are on about, granny.
Oh, I think everyone realizes it. Don’t kid yourself that this is 9 pages of some kind of public service.
One flaw in your calculations.
How many parents forgot their children but then remembered and got them out of the car before death? Two seconds, ten seconds, 10 minutes later, but they got the kids out in time.
Hell even by his own admission it has happened to the high and mighty, never wrong Dio. By his own admission he was distracted from his children by something that was far more important, a Vikings game.
If you could get those numbers, I am sure this would be a lot more common.
I actually posted a thread in GQ once asking if there were any stats on number of kids left in cars with a non-fatal outcome. (I think my original question was along the lines of why we never hear about babies freezing to death in cars in winter like we hear about them in summer.) The consensus was that it probably happens a fair bit, but in mild weather - or even cold weather but the baby is well-bundled - the only thing that happens is that the kid is traumatized from being left in the car way too long, but otherwise is OK, and nothing gets reported.
For a fatal outcome, you need the combination of a distracted parent AND failure of daycare/babysitter/etc to call and check on the kid AND outdoor temperature that is hot enough to kill AND length of time in car long enough to kill. This combination is thankfully rare, but the individual elements are undoubtedly less rare.
This thread reminds me of the winged monkeys and the scarecrow in The Wizard of Oz. Only they were more likable.
Maybe so. But I know that Dio is creaming his shorts to realize that people have been talking about him for nine pages.
Let’s not give him the satisfaction of a tenth.
I got a few things out of it. I learned something about the law I hadn’t previously known, I had fun arguing it, and I exposed Dio as a liar in addition to his being a troll.
I was out in the woods today by myself. An hour from the car. No cell phone reception. Got attacked by yellow jackets. A handful of stings and a shit load of running and diving underwater. Got woossy from the adrenaline rush. Wondered if I might go into anaphalactic (sp?) shock, stroke out/have a heart attack (and it was hot as fuck too) and die alone (but it was a pretty place to die).
But, in all honesty, I think I had a better day doing that than keeping up with Dio’s shit show for the day.
I can see how one might view Diogenes’s posting style as being very similar to being attacked by a swarm of angry yellow jackets but you felt good because you got away and saved your life… only to come back and stir up the hive.
Why not just try beekeeping with yellow jackets? I would have offered you a link but I don’t think you can even find the Yellow Jacket Beekeepers mailing list online. 
So “Diogenes” is obviously a name for someone who has genetic material of the Gods. That guy was born in Sinope 1,600 years ago (+/- 6 years). The people of Sinope didn’t like Diogenes and kicked him out and so Diogenes of Sinope moved to Athens where he became known as Diogenes the Cynic. Here is a link to his page in Wikipedia:
Please try to keep the vandalism minimal and in good taste! In fact the guy seems to have look at dogs as role models (Diogenes the Dog) so I imagine the vandalism is probably completely unnecessary; not that vandalism is ever necessary…
Well, we had it all planned out perfectly to be one post shy of page ten. If you hadn’t posted, it would have worked.
The two are not mutually exclusive. Take Stormfronters, for example.
Oh, yes. Here’s that example of Diogenes being completely right despite being shown to be quite wrong:
Dio couldn’t be assed to provide a cite
Complete with some saying “Seriously man, are you ok?”. In his defence, searching on those terms showed me that he had made the same categorical statement years earlier and no one called him on it so I guess that helped cement his opinion as totally right in his mind.
Wow, gutter trash. I kinda had him pegged as an internet a-hole, and annoying, but often amusing, crazy person. But gutter trash. All right then.
Well, the interconnected series of tubes has to eventually drain somewhere. Thats where you’ll find Dio.
That’s hilarious!
Treis: If CPS thinks there is an immediate danger to the kids they can take them without a court order. It is true that they will have to go in front of a judge pretty quickly to justify their actions.
Dio: This is wrong. If there is an emergent situation, CPS will call the police and the police will do the removal.
Dio: CPS cannot take kids out of a home. It has to be ordered by a judge. CPS can make a case to a judge as to the why it thinks a household may be unfit, but they don’t make the decison. A court does. If these kids were removed, it was because a judge ordered it done, and the judge ordered it done because the evidence presented fit a prescribed set of criteria. The image that CPS workers can, or even want to, just arbitrarily snatch kids away from homes is a bogus one…
Muffin: No, in an emergency they do not require a court order. They make the apprehension, and then later ger a judge to ratify it. [cite]
Dio: If we agree that courts are always “involved” then I was right in saying the courts are always involved.
Dio: What I was really trying to say was that CPS does not have anywhere near the autonomy that a lot of people think they do. Even after an emergency situation, they still have to explain themselves to a judge and do so quickly.
:smack: