I agree.
Wrong. But if it makes you feel better about yourself to believe that, knock yourself out.
You really need to smoke some dope and try to chill out once in a while. Have you ever had a moment of your like that wasn’t fraught with righteous indignation and moral superiority?
Yes, the $14 or so dollars I spend on the dope to witness you reach new heights of assholery really makes me feel good about myself and society in general. It’s better therapy than a bottle of scotch, and cheaper than a blow job. Although if the economy doesn’t get any better, and the price of blow comes down some, I’m so out of here.
Hey folks, **Dio **made a nicely worded and unconditional apology in the other thread. Can we drop the sticks and torches now?
Plenty. Oddly enough, they tend to be circumstances when you’re not around.
Perhaps it’s all a coincidence.
As stupid and cliche’d as it is, all we have to go on are your posts here. I’ve spoken openly in the past about reserving judgement and discretion being the better part of valor, having been on the end of judgemental pronouncements once or twice myself. I’ve come off the fence, mostly, in your case.
Blurting out crap like you did in the thread that started this one, or your judgemental pronouncments in threads about education and evolution, or abortion, or the war in Iraq, or virginity, or people who talk on cell phones while driving, or any number of other topics is not the behavior of someone who is aware of the impact their pronouncements have on the impressions others form of them. With over twenty THOUSAND posts here, your track record isn’t going to be erased by a simple denial of the charge. The fact is that, here, and at length, you have demonstrated a pattern of behavior marked with condescending judgements and unqualified statements on a large variety of topics.
In real life the people who offer their “opinion” loudly and forcefully on pretty much every topic, and are willing to argue it at length, are frequently not considered good company.
Enjoy,
Steven
That’s good enough for me.
Diogenes, as a fellow loss-father, I feel a kinship toward SadDad.
My first impulse was to call you out.
Given your gentlemenly and timely apology, I stand down.
Carry on, Sir.
Things that are “good enough for me”:
SDMB is a great place to practice being non-defensive, making apologies, admitting you were wrong, or standing by your argument when you’ve a mind to.
How does Maureen manage to say so much is so few words?
Excalibre, I particularly appreciate the sensitivity and compassion of your earlier posts in this thread. They helped me personally to deal with some old feelings of loss that were being resurrected in a thread that was important to me. Thanks to you, my sadness was limited to a few moments of burning eyes and nothing more.
Ehm, I meant a 12 weeks old fetus obviously. Do you really need to wonder that much to figure that mistake out?
Where did anybody say that?
Don’t be stupid–there’s been enough stupidity in this thread already.
It was an apparently too subtle point about how people can easily post the wrong thing, all the while thinking they are contributing to the conversation. I probably should have pointed that out at the time.
Excalibre --I find your castigation re having the opinion but not needing to share it with the group ironic. Much the same could be said of your opinions re **Dio’s ** family, no?
And with that, I am off to work-where people never say tactless things and we all share the same assumptions… 
Aw, dammit! I was hoping to get the chance to kick him in the nuts too while everyone was holding him down.
Damn, when I was a kid it was pulling pigtails not kicking in the nuts.
Kids these days.
I blame South Park.
Enjoy,
Steven
I blame Canada.
Dio has pigtails? Well! That would explain a lot.
That’s comedy gold, baby!
OP here. Remember me?
While I am quite pleased that my thread made it to six pages (a first for me!), the intent was to tap Diogenes for his behavior, and not for what he did/didn’t believe, either at the time of posting or afterward. As Diogenes has (eventually) responded appropriately in the thread which sparked this Pitting, I respectfully request that this one be closed, so we can’t derail it further with accusations, counter-accusations, and arguments over whose Truth is more Truthy.
Are we still on about this? Excalibre didn’t say anything bad about Diogenes’ family. He said that Diogenes seemed like someone who has limited social contact, despite the fact that he has a family; the family would only constitute “limited contact.” IOW, having a family did not negate the idea that Diogenes was socially isolated. Where is the insult to his family in that?
It has also been expressed that, based on his behavior on the SDMB, people feel sorry for his family. Personally, I bet his dickish demeanor is an online persona and probably not an accurate reflection on how he treats his family. Regardless, nowhere has ANYONE said anything bad about Diogenes’ family.
OTOH, people have dismissed **SadDad’**s wife as having an hysterical pregnancy, both of them have been scoffed at for mourning for “an empty yolk sac,” SadDad has been accused of trolling, being deliberately misleading, being a wimp who needed to “man up” for having trouble dealing with his anger and grief, etc. So really, by harping on the alleged wrongs done to Diogenes, the OP’s point has been totally missed. Diogenes is not the victim here, eleanorigby. Let’s try to stop spinning it as though he was.