Posted on 07/31/2015 11:49:41 AM PDT by Slings and Arrows
The time has come to take action against thread hijackers.
Let me begin with an example of thread hijacking:
Like most Freepers, I am pro-life. Abortion and and euthanasia appall me, and marketing the results even more so. I support candidates who oppose the culture of death, and cheer when it is thwarted.
I also do not find it necessary to mention these facts on EVERY. FREAKING. THREAD.
There is a certain type of Freeper, though, who has no such restraint. For these zealots, any thread that deviates from the pro-life cause, no matter how trivially, is a heresy that must be immediately suppressed.
You are shocked by cruelty to animals? I guess that means you couldn't care less about the cruelty of THE MILLIONS OF CHILDREN ABORTED EVERY YEAR!!!!!
You lost a beloved pet? Why can't you mourn THE THOUSANDS OF ABORTED BABIES WHO DIED THE SAME DAY?!!!!
Your car shredded its transmission and you're looking at thousands of dollars in repairs? Why aren't you thinking about THE BABIES WHO WILL NEVER GROW UP TO BE AUTO MECHANICS BECAUSE THEY WERE ABORTED?!!!!
(OK, maybe I made that last one up.)
Arguing with these people is pointless. It's the same principle as wrestling with a pig - you just get muddy and the pig enjoys it. Similarly, trying to convince them that they are being rude is a waste of time - THE CAUSE is far more important little things like courtesy and respect.
So, what can we do about it?
We can get drunk.
I hereby propose The Thread Hijack Drinking Game. The rules are simple: When a poster tries to hijack an unrelated thread to his or her pet cause, you 1) reply to the hijack attempt by quoting the text in question, followed by the word "DRINK!", and 2) Take a drink (or any volume) of your favorite beverage (alcoholic or non-alcoholic). Moderation is suggested on animal cruelty threads to avoid alcohol poisoning.
This game will not, I admit, solve the thread hijacking problem. But after a certain number of attempts we will no longer care.
And if anyone is offended by my little proposal, I can only say...
DRINK!
I don’t recall when mine expires, but I probably have another two years to wait. That’s OK. I think the next time I need it they will just mail it to me, since I don’t have to have a picture taken. YAY!
And going today to get a different type of plate, means I will have a year before I have to renew it...which makes things easier.
Dang. I want to go to bed for another two-hour nap. And I don’t know why that is. *sigh*
NYC has pretty strict leash laws as you can imagine. Most people don’t even bother letting their cats outdoors.
One lady who lives across the street from us (I think from Argentina) had 3 dogs that she would let out of her building off-leash, then yell at them to come get hooked up. My wife used to complain about the yelling.
One day last month one of the dogs got hit by a car and killed. My wife said she was really upset, holding the dog and asking for help in what to do.
She started bringing her dogs out already leashed - for about 2 weeks. Now things are back to normal.
Sometimes the stupid is so thick you can cut it with a knife.
“Rule Number Two is that you must maintain deniability. As long as they can’t prove anything, well then they can’t prove anything.”
I must say, I like this....
Rule six = there is NOOOOOOOOOOO ... rule six.
Or is that a different list?
I am so bummed...I went to DMV, thinking I would be home with new plates on my truck, and I didn’t. I came home, but not with new plates.
I am so freaking bummed out and flummoxed, I can’t stand myself.
Same list same impeccable logic.
“I am so freaking bummed out and flummoxed, I can’t stand myself.”
Don’t hate on yourself, hate the DMV. Join the rest of us!
I think I would not be able to stand the DMV.
In fact, without even having gone through whatever it was you have gone through I can not stand the DMV so I was right.
Yes, that, exactly.
Once upon a time there was a DMV office sitting in the middle of a parking lot.
The DMV office exploded.
And there was much rejocing.
The end.
(At this point in time the author declines to explain why an office where you can apply for a license to drive is in the middle of a drive-up parking lot. You will just have to accept that this is standard logic for a DMV.)
Could bummed out and flummoxed be rendered bummoxed? Or flummed out?
Bummoxed has a catchier ring to it.
In fact, I be stealin it!
Yes..
The ability to maintain plausible deniability is of vital importance.
Especially when dealing with Batty Neighbors who tend to call the cops..
Worse than bad lady to do that to a kitteh.
Evil woman. And I’m not talking about the song from ELO.
Well don’t you be using dat crazy talk roun hyar. Ya keep ya bummoxin to yasself.
It’s the noisey neighbors that puts the spice in life, even if they are so very annoying and we can’t stand them.,
Where would this world be without our Alice Kravitzes?
Gah. I can’t stand them either. What if we put them all on a desert island and let them spy and tattle on each other?,
It might also add a point or two to the IQ gene pool,
“Especially when dealing with Batty Neighbors who tend to call the cops..”
To cop: “ Whaddya mean I poured a vat of molasses on her doorstep? I was in Micronesia selling a McDonalds franchise at the time! “
Yes’m!
“Yes’m”
you must be from around here. :)
hmmm
Boom!
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