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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 thought that was hilarious! I sent a pic to my daughter and told her to get one for her dog, Daisy, for Halloween. Daisy is a rat terrier!!
That, and they think there is a rhinoceros attached to the back of their heads.
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Mrs Puff,
Spongebob’s driving Ed teacher?
That’s too cute to even be real! Sqeee is in asplody mode, for sure!
They don’t know from size, and that’s the truth!
What an incredibly adorable kitten. Absolutely off the scale!
“It’s a dangerous world out there ... take this!”
Yes, I’m not even sure whether it is a stuffed kitty or a live one.
Mini-fugu. Don’t eat it!
That’s what I needed today, for sure.
I was pretty depressed for a while, but I went outside and gathered up a few “friends” and then I got angry, almost as quickly as I got depressed. Then it, too, went away. CFIDS at work. If you’ve ever wondered about the term, “sudden mood swings,” wonder no more. I’m living proof that it happens.
I took a cup of coffee with me, but after I drank it, my stomach began to hurt quite badly. Dang. No bananas. And only enough milk for breakfast.
I heard a noise long about 0800 or so, and when I went out to see what it was (I thought it was a moving truck) it was a tow truck dropping off a vehicle right next to my truck. If it’s inoperable, it can’t be on the property. It belongs to a new guy who has already proven he has an attitude problem, but since it’s an ugly, old, beaten up POS, I’m telling the manager about it tomorrow.
He is NOT a welcome addition to our community, for sure. And that car of his needs to be in a junk yard. Part of it is missing on the passenger side, around the headlight. Really an eyesore. And that spot is often used by lots of people so for him to put a vehicle there that is just used to hold the place is wrong on SO many levels.
Did you ladies hear that explosion? So very loud.
Head exploded from squee, and almost impossible to clean up. That was double squee.
So darlin. Look the necklace. Has to be a princess in training, looks like such a tiny ball of squee. Her tail is larger than her body!
I think kitty is reals. Should we get our favorite catman’s opinion? Darks or Slings?
Their heads would go explody from squee too.
Certainly could be a real image of a real kitteh.
Ceirdwyn resembled that as a tiny mite of a kitten.
Only overall black with ridiculous ear feathers.
She’s still tiny with large eyes, but she’s “obviously” not a “kitten”.
Though I am told she’s never going to get bigger.
Saw your cat pictures. Ceirdwen is the fuzzy one, right, and the sleek black is ... ?
Ceirdwyn is the tiny ball of fluff, Colton is the tank.
He is nearly twice her size, pics don’t do the size disparity justice.
Dwyn is also a shoulder cat.
Colton tries but is too big and not as sure footed.
My mom had a brain-damaged Siamese who would drape around her neck and snivel in her ear. Inbreeding. She loved him because he was needy!
Slings,
See post 2065
Real or squee?,
You have such original and lovely names for your kitties.
Dwyn and her siblings were abandoned by mom.
She likes sitting in precarious locations for some reason.
If we had curtain rods she could get to without extreme difficulty, she would be up there looking down on her human servants.
As it sits, she lays on the bed with her nose in the air as if she expects supplicants to fearfully approach.
The missus says its her “princess” mode.
Colton, “I’m a tank. I eat bugs. Ooooooh, moooooth!”
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