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!
The lyrics were easy. “Zero, zero, zero, one ...”
Large foot!
My brane is telling that what my eyes see doesn’t make sense. The Late Igor knew all about that stuff, having worked in aerospace after his navy career, but I just had to let it go. My brain doesn’t do math.
Clumsy me...as I was fumbling around in the dark for another sip of ice water, I knocked my 64oz mug to the floor and this time, the lid broke. I had used the last of the ice cubes, thinking this would last me til morning when the ice cube trays would be solid once more, so I not only lost all the cold water...it was the ice cubes as well.
*groan* I had to get up and turn the lamp on and mop up the water and it really irritated me that I could be so clumsy. It’s not the first time that happened. But this time, the lid broke.
I stopped at the Rebel station at the corner and they are all out. If I feel up to it in the morning, I will go to the only other one that’s close...about two miles away, and see if they have any.
For now, the lid is “repaired” with duct tape.
*whispers*
(I hope it doesn’t cost too much. Last time [three years] it was $6.99, and then there is tax...and I’m running low on funds.)
Teddy Roosevelt has to be our coolest President.
Rides a moose, and has the Teddy Bear named after him.
You have to admit that riding a moose and saving a bear cub that becomes a teddy bear, is way cool.
I’ve never been to Maine, and I’ve never seen a moose.
I have watched Bullwinkle. I have seen a picture of our Moose which was posted here. He’s quite good looking. IMHO. Alas, they aren’t real moose.
(The plural of moose is moose? )
I suspect that picture is not an accurate depiction. For one thing, Teddy's hands are in the position of one holding reins, but the moose obviously has no bridle to effect control.
The logical conclusion is that the "picture" is a PhotoShop confabulation.
Oh, you don’t let dead presidents have any fun!
Why, yes ma'am I certainly do. I tell them, all and sundry, "Get in my wallet!"
If everyone in the world was exactly like me ...
... they would still annoy the crap out of me.
Roosevelt on the moose, William Howard Taft on an elephant, and Woodrow Wilson on one of his family members, a jackass.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2427778/Famous-photo-Teddy-Roosevelt-riding-moose-revealed-FAKE-despite-doctored-1912-way-existence-Photoshop.html
While Ms. Cole is possibly qualified to be a book curator, a sort of backwoods one room librarian, she is woefully informed as to the re-touching and masking of photographic negative film. Her comments on the use of tape is risible. Clearly a child of this computer era and quite possibly an affirmative action hire.
The photograph is clearly a confabulation, but one involving techniques more than a hundred years old and never presented as anything else but a sort of cartoon.
That said Teddy Roosevelt was a bona fide pioneer in the hunting of rhinos, an admirable pursuit in which conservatives should indulge with glee.
Roosevelt on the moose, William Howard Taft on an elephant, and Woodrow Wilson on one of his family members, a jackass.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2427778/Famous-photo-Teddy-Roosevelt-riding-moose-revealed-FAKE-despite-doctored-1912-way-existence-Photoshop.html
While Ms. Cole is possibly qualified to be a book curator, a sort of backwoods one room librarian, she is woefully uninformed as to the techniques involved in the re-touching and masking of photographic negative film. Her comments on the use of tape is risible. Clearly a child of this computer era and quite possibly an affirmative action hire.
The photograph is clearly a confabulation, but one involving techniques more than a hundred years old and never presented as anything else but a sort of cartoon.
That said Teddy Roosevelt was a bona fide pioneer in the hunting of rhinos, an admirable pursuit in which conservatives should indulge with glee.
All of a sudden, my eyelids wanted to slam shut, so I took a nap for an hour. Dang. What did I miss? Besides dead presidents?
I have an authentic Teddy bear, 100th Anniversary edition.
It’s going to be about 110 or so again today. :o]
Our forecast says 94.
97 currently, with 16%.
I need another breathing treatment. Chest pains are back...they seem to come when I first wake up. I dunno wassupwithat.
It’s supposed to be 95 with 100 percent humidity.
Warnings for seniors and small children and babies to stay inside. They have a cooling center near me but I’m thinking of going to a movie. Theaters are air conditioned.
Just nothing out I want to pay 10 for. I have Netflix.
I’d go to a movie, but I don’t have the money, and they won’t let me bring in my own popcorn. I’d get kettle corn if I wanted to smuggle some in...with my backpack, no one would know...
100% humidity???? I missed that when I read it the first time! Air you can drink! Last time I experienced that, I was in VA. And then MO before that. Ugly stuff.
It’s a jungle in the DC area.
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