As much as I wanted to throttle him for his behavior in the infertility thread, in the end I had to own the fact that I’d tried to engage at all.
Not sure if his conduct has actually gotten worse over time or if it’s just that this was the first time I’d tried to talk with him. At any rate, it became abundantly clear that all I was doing was winding myself up while not impacting his iron-clad worldview one iota. So why spend the energy?
Posters that haven’t been around long get a pass from me for engaging with him. It’s the posters who have been around as long as I have that I’m getting aggravated with for aiding and abetting the Dio Show. Move on, already.
Of course, because it’s a public message board: when you say controversial or inflammatory things, someone always takes the bait and replies. That’s why DNFTT never, ever works. People as a collective don’t spontaneously ignore trolls and irritants very well.
Which is not to say I think Diogenes is a troll, I don’t. I think he’s just an attention whoring blowhard who is deeply in love with the sight of his own posts. Unfortunately, the net effect on otherwise-interesting threads is the same.
It’s simply burnout. Too many posts, too many years, too much invested in a message board. Dude needs a new hobby, and to spend more time with his family (if he has one.) This amount of pointless internet argument cannot be healthy.
They came first for the Post Padders,
and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Post Padder.
Then they came for the Trolls,
and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Troll.
Then they came for the Charter Members,
and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Charter Member.
Then they came for me
and by that time no one was left to speak up. :rolleyes:
You fucking drama queen. You talk and you talk as if you have some kind of an answer for everything. You live in a small little world with small little views. You add nothing to the world and make it that much more sad and dreary. The air that you breath would be better uses fueling a tire fire at an abandoned dump.
You are the internet version of that sad old man with the scrawny legs poking out of Bermuda shorts and the black socks with white shoes. Everyone is laughing at you and still you won’t shut your everlasting pie-hole. Your wit is weak and your intellect feeble. You act as if saying something over and over again in a louder and louder voice somehow makes you right.
