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!
Heh - a quick google search brought up the term “mirror twins”. They can even have similar finger prints (which my girls do - found that out as they signed in to the orthodontist one day!)
Where does the slipper end and the kitteh begin? So much floof!
I’m here. I could have used another hour of sleep, and that’s the truth.
Right now, I’m paying bills. Unngh!
A light breakfast ...
Good morning. Are your feet warm enough? Here, use this!
I need to pay bills, too, but first I need to find them.
I wish I could lose my bills. I’m going to have what the little boy shot at for groceries and I’m not a happy camper.
Still, in less than hour my bills will be paid for another month, so I can breathe easy over that. I really need to get rid of the payments for this computer, and I’m thinking next month will do it. I hope.
No milk, so I can’t have breakfast and my pills, but I’ll get to Walmart soon and take care of that.
There is no off-topic on this thread. We lost the Topic when I had only seven children!
The one on the left has a nice wristwatch.
New ‘puter is almost functional. I still need to get my email across. I’ve given up on networking the two.
I’ll test the output of the old ‘puter on the TV when I’m done with setting up the new, just to know how to sell it (or whether to keep it for the occasional movie streamed from Amazon).
Face, I know noting about Dragon, but I’ll sneak a peak when I get a chance.
As for the router - that’s an easy excuse. Can you open a command window and type ipconfig? Make sure you get a local IP address and a gateway address. If that works, type ‘ping www.amazoncom’ (without the quote marks). If you get to amazon, it’s not your router.
Not really, no. We are the unsorted detritus of discussion groups, united only in finding unexpected juxtapositions of incongruities, which tentatively stimulate our amusement in mild ways for short periods of time.
That, and sharing our common commonalities, the "I know, you know?" characteristics of being supposedly human. These unending banalities form a continuum of faint titillation which is our customary abode, the Undead Thread.
For example, your online ID, "21twelve" is a mathematical palindrome, and twelve times twelve and twenty-one times twenty-one are also mathematical palindromes.
That is, 12 x 12 = 144 and 21 x 21 = 441.
Interestingly, 13 x13 = 169 and 31 x 31 = 961 but that's as far as it goes in base ten math.
Good Morning!
Bills are paid, tank is full and I’m back from Walmart by about 30 minutes. I didn’t spend at much as I thought I would, but when I got done buying cleaning supplies, air fresheners and paper products, I spent a whopping $20 on actual food.
Of course, iherb.com came first, and that wipes out my good feelings about being paid. Sadly, I can’t stop taking all of the remedies without becoming sick. :o[
I will send you a copy of the monthly order so you can see what I mean.
In that case, I've always wondered. Why did God create flying squirrels? It's not like they chase their prey or anything.
Did you ever think of becoming a politician? I don’t accuse you of having bad morals, but you’re one of the best I know at putting words together in such a way as it sounds like something was said, but I can’t quite figure out what.
Are they mirror symmetric inside as well?
She would sleep in the toe of my shoe.
BTW, you can't shake a squirrel out of your shoe...
Another of those things I’m glad I didn’t find out for myself.
Changing the ‘and’ to ‘&’ would make them true palindromes...
Because their predators chase them!
G-d made flying squirrels so Bullwinkle could have his best friend Rocky.
The show would have been very different if Rocky was a regular squirrel.
*shrug* It was very rewarding.
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