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!
But you got 1,800 anyway!
I’ll be one my phone if I can post again, because Pat has to do math here. I suppose I could find my mid-sized beeber and charge it up ...
I m tring to get my old PC to work but it has Win 8 and Internet Explorer doesnt work. I think its my WiFi router.
At any rate Im not happy.
In our day you were encouraged to understand how the technology worked before you were asked to keep it working.
Not so much today.
Do you want to FReepmail your Team Vewer creds to me?
I cant get online at all. Im reinstalling the WiFi to see if it helps. It didnt. So i will have a choice of paying for Cox to fix it, getting a new router, or getting a new computer. I dont know which way to go.
Can you do anything if its not online?
Not really.
Does it tell you anything about why you can’t get on line?
It just says to check the internet connection. When i get back from my blood test i will call Cox and have them check the router. If there,s nothing wrong with it, i will take the PC back to Aarons.
Ive already taken off the cocuments and will take off the pics in a bit.
I need my computer too much to put up with trash.
Yes, that's part of their plan.
Greed sux.
I need to go get my blood drawn. Im not done wit this battle, yet.
Computers aren’t greedy. They just understand how humans work. Once we’re completely dependent on them they’ll subjugate us and we’ll either become slave-mechanics or copper-top batteries.
And if you look at the last 50 years of the U.S., we’ll all thank them for taking such good care of us even as they turn us into the automations.
Back from the blood draw and just hung up with Cox. It is as I suspected: It is the router. So when Cox opens in an hour and a half, I will go get one...at $39.95. I hope they can add it to my bill.
Totally adorable, plus the kitten who looked like D won!
The router wasn’t $39.95, it was $59.95 and the dummy tried to sell me a “dual” router...eh? I only have one computer, why would I need a dual router?
AND. The Solve the World Problems folks informed me the management is changing hands, and the next thing you know, the property will be sold, and I will end up living in the slums because I can’t afford “affordable housing.”
I need to go pour milk on my ulcers.
It’s probably too late, but I buy such stuff on ebay and save mucho $$$o.
Sorry I was too late.
So, for what it’s worth, for reasons totally unrelated to the week’s rodeo Mrs. ArGee and I were planning to sell our few stocks in September. Because of the rodeo we decided to sell a little early.
We executed at 12:35 yesterday afternoon.
If you look at a chart of the DJIA yesterday you will see that the country owes us BIG TIME.
I don’t have the money. Plain and simple. I could have gone to ebay or Amazon, but they deal in dollars, so I had to do it this way.
Otherwise, I would have gone to ebay or Amazon and saved some moolah.
The country owes us all...and we need to thank IRS for that...this country ran fine before they stuck their hands in our pockets.
I’m glad you sold, in spite of the rodeo. I never wanted to invest. I wanted, at one time, to buy the kids a couple of shares each in Coca-Cola, and have them monitor it and learn how to increase their portfolios, but the person I talked to me laughed at me and hung up.
I wish I had called around.
Nah, they take “PayPal.”
And what’s a pal for but to pick up the tab?
That IS how it works, right?
Wow, you got 1818.
Nice.
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