# What is Diogenes the Cynic's Condition Called **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 17, 2011, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-diogenes-the-cynics-condition-called/571709 "2011-02-17T16:19:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 20
**Author:** ![rogerbox](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/76d3ee/32.png) [@rogerbox](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rogerbox)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2011, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-diogenes-the-cynics-condition-called/571709/381 "2011-02-24T00:18:33Z")
> [@RaftPeople](#): > > Furthermore, his conclusion that it has never happened because he’s never seen it is pretty bizarre for a fully functioning adult. This is actually a common Dio debate tactic. His life is his cite, if he has never seen it it does not happen. It is actually frustrating because I agree with his politics quite a bit, but he is the least honest debater I’ve seen on the boards between “I have never seen this so it NEVER happens” and “What offensive/wrong thing I said is quite true if you define word X by definition Y (which only I on the planet use)”. ---
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2011, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-diogenes-the-cynics-condition-called/571709/382 "2011-02-24T00:26:42Z")
\*_Dio_ hasn’t posted since Monday. I can’t believe he is running away. ---
**Author:** ![crypto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b3f665/32.png) [@crypto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crypto)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2011, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-diogenes-the-cynics-condition-called/571709/383 "2011-02-25T05:46:18Z")
> [@bucketybuck](#): > > This is known as the Loop in the rollercoaster. Dio has now suckered some poor soul into going back to the start of the discussion, a position that offers him the greatest scope for subtly changing his position. This allows him to claim that he has been misrepresented all along, usually accompanied by a claim of persecution. To keep things interesting, he may concede inaccuracy on some small issue, prompting four different people to post “Thank you”, and one to declare him a “Class act”. > > Interestingly, after coming out of the Loop of the rollercoaster, the thread should have picked up speed, but instead will either fizzle out on a flat track as posters lose interest, or hit a wall very quickly as posters lose interest even quicker. Nailed it. > [@RaftPeople](#): > > I wonder if we can get some icons added to threads so we know where this is happening. > > Maybe a little TV with “Dio” on the screen > > Or a train wreck, a few cars at odd angles all piled up Love this idea. It would be great to appear in the Title of the OP, where readers are forewarned that the Dio Show is in progress in the current thread. It would also be cool if that announcement could say something like ‘up to post 33 is readable and relevant’ or “read after post 33 at your own risk”. ---
**Author:** ![RaftPeople](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/6f9a4e/32.png) [@RaftPeople](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RaftPeople)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2011, 8:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-diogenes-the-cynics-condition-called/571709/384 "2011-02-25T08:20:54Z")
Or “posts 33 through 97 have been deleted due to their extreme idiocy” ---
**Author:** ![anya\_marie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ebca7d/32.png) [@anya\_marie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anya_marie)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2011, 6:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-diogenes-the-cynics-condition-called/571709/385 "2011-02-26T06:17:08Z")
Yeah, I’m not getting what Dio brings that we can’t tell him to take a hike to Fuckoffville. It’s painful to read his dribblings that pass for logic and arguments. And I’m so gay that I’d let Rachel Maddow spank me. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-diogenes-the-cynics-condition-called/571709.md?page=19)