# Just how dense is Diogenes the Cynic **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 7, 2011, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-how-dense-is-diogenes-the-cynic/573749 "2011-03-07T04:30:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2011, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-how-dense-is-diogenes-the-cynic/573749/41 "2011-03-07T18:48:00Z")
That makes 34 Pit threads about him now! And yes I am \<\\> that he is keeping score too. ---
**Author:** ![magellan01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@magellan01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/magellan01)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2011, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-how-dense-is-diogenes-the-cynic/573749/42 "2011-03-07T19:07:54Z")
> [@John\_DiFool](#): > > That makes 34 Pit threads about him now! And yes I am \<\\> that he is keeping score too. No doubt he’s jockeying back and forth with **Der Trihs**. Who, by the way, deserves ten for every one of **Dio’s.** ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2011, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-how-dense-is-diogenes-the-cynic/573749/43 "2011-03-07T20:35:49Z")
_sets clock_ ---
**Author:** ![FinnAgain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/finnagain/32/12500_2.png) [@FinnAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FinnAgain)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2011, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-how-dense-is-diogenes-the-cynic/573749/44 "2011-03-07T20:58:48Z")
To be fair, I think most folks can understand how insulting it would be to be confused with Valty. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2011, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-how-dense-is-diogenes-the-cynic/573749/45 "2011-03-07T21:00:40Z")
Frankly, I feel insulted as a Canadian to share my country with Valteron and to have someone think I was also sharing it with Warraq. ---
**Author:** ![Ibn\_Warraq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e19b73/32.png) [@Ibn\_Warraq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ibn_Warraq)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2011, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-how-dense-is-diogenes-the-cynic/573749/46 "2011-03-07T21:09:52Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > Frankly, I feel insulted as a Canadian to share my country with Valteron and to have someone think I was also sharing it with Warraq. Ouch. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2011, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-how-dense-is-diogenes-the-cynic/573749/47 "2011-03-07T21:22:03Z")
Yeah, well, everything negative to say about Dio has already been said. ---
**Author:** ![RaftPeople](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/6f9a4e/32.png) [@RaftPeople](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RaftPeople)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2011, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-how-dense-is-diogenes-the-cynic/573749/48 "2011-03-07T21:59:31Z")
“It’s like, how much more dense could this be? and the answer is none. None more dense.” ---
**Author:** ![magellan01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@magellan01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/magellan01)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2011, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-how-dense-is-diogenes-the-cynic/573749/49 "2011-03-07T22:38:33Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > Yeah, well, everything negative to say about Dio has already been said. Cite? ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2011, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-how-dense-is-diogenes-the-cynic/573749/50 "2011-03-07T22:42:00Z")
Well, he might smell bad. I can’t say for certain. Doesn’t brush his teeth often enough? Is ugly and his mother dresses him funny? ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2011, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-how-dense-is-diogenes-the-cynic/573749/51 "2011-03-07T23:44:25Z")
> [@magellan01](#): > > Cite? Oh, there are whole depths to plumb about _you_, you stupid sexist homophobe, for anyone who can stand delving into the slime that is the fucked-up way of your thinking. You’re such a such a fucking coward living in terror that somebody somewhere might get gay married or have an abortion and care nothing for your interference, dismissing it as the buzzing of a particularly insignificant and asthmatic gnat. Well, that time is coming, so just shut up and shed a silent tear as your fellow reactionaries die off all around you and at least you won’t be annoying in addition to being obsolete. Idiot. ---
**Author:** ![magellan01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@magellan01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/magellan01)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2011, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-how-dense-is-diogenes-the-cynic/573749/52 "2011-03-08T00:05:42Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > Oh, there are whole depths to plumb about _you_, you stupid sexist homophobe, for anyone who can stand delving into the slime that is the fucked-up way of your thinking. You’re such a such a fucking coward living in terror that somebody somewhere might get gay married or have an abortion and care nothing for your interference, dismissing it as the buzzing of a particularly insignificant and asthmatic gnat. Well, that time is coming, so just shut up and shed a silent tear as your fellow reactionaries die off all around you and at least you won’t be annoying in addition to being obsolete. > > Idiot. Hmm. Well I guess I should have used that smiley face to indicate the joke, after all, for the hard of thinking. Other than that, I appreciate the laugh for thinking I’m not Pro Choice. But I do love—LOVE—that you are so unhinged by someone whose Mighty Sin is agreeing with you on a measly 99% of gay issues. This is some colossally funny shit. From someone with a colossal stick up his ass…up his ass so far it’s tickling your uvula. Keep up the good work. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2011, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-how-dense-is-diogenes-the-cynic/573749/53 "2011-03-08T00:28:23Z")
> [@magellan01](#): > > Other than that, I appreciate the laugh for thinking I’m not Pro Choice. But I do love—LOVE—that you are so unhinged Please. You can only DREAM of stirring emotions from me that any more energetic than a deep eye-rolling contempt. Your tactic of “I agree with X, but here are a bunch of arguments against X that I promise I don’t really believe but will cling to anyway” is too ludicrously transparent for even a sliver of outrage. ---
**Author:** ![magellan01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@magellan01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/magellan01)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2011, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-how-dense-is-diogenes-the-cynic/573749/54 "2011-03-08T01:07:48Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > Please. You can only DREAM of stirring emotions from me that any more energetic that a deep eye-rolling contempt. Your tactic of “I agree with X, but here are a bunch of arguments against X that I promise I don’t really believe but will cling to anyway” is too ludicrously transparent for even a sliver of outrage. Oh really, my little marionette I call Mr. Unhinged?. I make a joke that basically _supports_ what you we’re implying about **Dio** and you take it wrong. Which would be fine, (no ha-ha form you was such a big boo-boo to me), but then you go on some rant as if someone is sticking a splintered shillelagh up your ass. The substance of which, when parsed, is that you don’t agree with me on SSM, which makes me sad to no end. (Sob.) Oh, and some nonsense about me not being Pro Choice—odd that :dubious: And now you continue down Mr. Unhinged Lane sputtering some inanity about me not being Pro Choice. You’re giving credence to the old adage that when conservatives disagree with liberals they just think they’re wrong, but when liberals disagree with conservatives it’s because we’re bad people. I guess that might explain your nonsense about my stance on abortion: if I disagree with you on something, I am a bad person. And because I am a bad person, I must disagree with your position—even on things we agree about. That’s comedy gold! I can’t wait to see your next act my little marionette. Of course, someone not so full of themselves (or splintered shillelagh) might realize that they took my post the wrong way and apologize. But not you, Mr. Unhinged, not you. Thanks for showing your true colors. Ignorance fought and all that. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2011, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-how-dense-is-diogenes-the-cynic/573749/55 "2011-03-08T02:52:21Z")
> [@magellan01](#): > > Oh really, my little marionette I call Mr. Unhinged? You couldn’t get a rise out of me with those ten or fifteen “I’m cumming in your mouth!” posts in that earlier thread, so you’ve no reason to expect to do so now. Pathetic, and typical of your ilk. ---
**Author:** ![magellan01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@magellan01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/magellan01)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2011, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-how-dense-is-diogenes-the-cynic/573749/56 "2011-03-08T03:17:53Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > You couldn’t get a rise out of me with those ten or fifteen “I’m cumming in your mouth!” posts in that earlier thread, so you’ve no reason to expect to do so now. > > Pathetic, and typical of your ilk. Huh? What the fuck are you talking about? I even did a search, but to no avail. Maybe you’re confusing “posts by me” with “dreams of me”. Or me with another poster? ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2011, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-how-dense-is-diogenes-the-cynic/573749/57 "2011-03-08T03:54:35Z")
Huh, whaddya know… that was the now-banned poster named mswas. I withdraw the claim, with a chuckle for my own foolishness for confusing one homophobe idiot for another. ---
**Author:** ![Lobohan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobohan/32/79_2.png) [@Lobohan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobohan)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2011, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-how-dense-is-diogenes-the-cynic/573749/58 "2011-03-08T03:58:46Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > Huh, whaddya know… that was the now-banned poster named mswas. I withdraw the claim, with a chuckle for my own foolishness for confusing one homophobe idiot for another. I thought it was weird that Magellan would joke about that because he’s a level 3 homophobe. They can’t even eat hotdogs. ---
**Author:** ![Rand\_Rover](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/db5fbb/32.png) [@Rand\_Rover](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rand_Rover)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2011, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-how-dense-is-diogenes-the-cynic/573749/59 "2011-03-08T03:58:49Z")
Man, this thread sure delivers the blue balls. I was all ready to get my weekly Dio minute of hate on and the OP went and shat himself. ---
**Author:** ![magellan01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@magellan01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/magellan01)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2011, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-how-dense-is-diogenes-the-cynic/573749/60 "2011-03-08T03:59:47Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > Huh, whaddya know… that was the now-banned poster named mswas. I withdraw the claim, with a chuckle for my own foolishness for confusing one homophobe idiot for another. Okay. We all make mistakes. But that’s it? With all the venom you just dished my way, for no reason and in error, it’s just “Huh, whaddya know…chuckle”. Not quite the way I would handle it, but to each their own, I guess. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-how-dense-is-diogenes-the-cynic/573749.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-how-dense-is-diogenes-the-cynic/573749.md?page=4)