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!
Tom made comments to that effect after we listened to a couple of deeply batty people calling in to the Andrew Wilkow show.
Sorry...cat and dog were too mundane in the home I grew up. We used big, different words as a matter of course because that’s how my parents spoke to each other.
I was ridiculed in school because no one understood what I was saying until I got into Jr. High and found that there were LOTS of definitions in the thesaurus that could be substituted. It’s a wonder I ever had any dates at all...
My math skills are really bad...worse since CFIDS. And I was just getting comfortable with the calculator...
I have to teach math, so I keep up my basic skills. Bill said he’s forgotten how to do the one basic calculus function a business major needs!
Tom is extremely lucky to have been born into a family that loves education. I’m not sure I would have fared any better if I had come to Earth in Tom’s era or my own, but I know that CFIDS would still be my nemesis. It probably would have hit at the same time in life, but that would have been WAY in my future.
Still, I’m grateful for my parents who believed in education, though my mother only went to the 9th grade, and my dad may or may not have graduated from high school. I will have to try to find out if the records go back that far. He has no birth certificate, so we only have other records to verify it. Same with my mother.
My mother had only a high school education. She took a lot of professional training over the years ... real estate, income tax, investment planning ... but never got a degree.
Dad was valedictorian of his high school class ... of 7 students, in a tiny rural school. He got all his real education after he joined the Navy.
Anybody with half a brain should be anti-gun; 'cause every time I meet them, I want to use one on them.
I know how that works.
My mother never had the opportunities to increase her knowledge in a structured environment, but she READ, and she learned, and she taught us how to do the same.
And truth be known, I still miss her...
And I’m off to bed. It’s not been a fun day for me.
How different the work might have been if Nixon had chosen to wear make up?
How different the world might have been if Nixon had chosen to wear make up?
(Channeling Barbara Billingsly -- I speak ThomasThomas.)
...and they didn't put voting booths in the Chicago cemeteries...
I poked the Trumpees. It was a tiny amuzing.
The comments are - interesting.. ;-)
Sh**house crap caravan £75,500.00
Isn't that something like $115 thou green pictures of George? (And what asylum escapee would bid on this, let alone £75thou ;-)
Castle Ashby is about an hour and a half , on a good day.
The write-up is almost worth posting on here for humour purposes.
£115 ,worth every penny ,to pay for its disposal.
She could always take it to Bovington, the Challenger crews could dispose of it in a suitable top gear manner.
Perhaps a mobile Hen house? Interested,,,,,? :)
Ready for your paltry offerings
Thanks for the Friday Katz.
Too sad yesterday. Couldn’t really get out of bed pretty much.
I fear today wil be more of the same.,
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