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 love squirrels. The university near me is famous for its black squirrels.
Today’s floofy kitteh is the kitteh version of Mother Goose.
In the kitteh version, kitteh sleeps in thr shoe, but doesn’t live in it.
What was that middle thing?
When I was filling the tank, I somehow managed to splash some gas on my arm. I had some wipes in my backpack and washed it off, but it smells like I got some on my shirt.
And now, I’m REALLY depressed. That stinking router went bad at the worst time, and now I’m going to be like: YAY, my bills are paid and I have some food, and then BOO, I have nothing left for the rest of the month...not even laundry money.
Takes less than two hours for me to wipe out the deposit.
Maybe I’ll go take a nap...when I wake up, I may be able to face the rest of the day. *sigh*
It helps them escape from predators. We read a book yesterday about flying lemurs, which are not lemurs but a kind of flying squirrel that lives in Southeast Asia and the Philippines.
Whatever the predators are, we need more of them here in NYC. We don’t have the flying kind, but we have WAY too many of the walking kind.
I read that firing a .22 is actually legal in NYC. I’m wondering what would happen if I ran through the parkk that’s de Blasio’s front yard acting like I was hunting squirrels. I could even dress like Jeb Clampett.
Birds of prey, monkeys.
” The university near me is famous for its black squirrels.”
So much for the faculty, now how many students are there?
Interesting times in the Biology Department?
Wow...that was weird...almost two hours...
The wind is blowing, and I woke up with a frog in my throat. My bad. I should have had a mask on yesterday.
We have birds of prey here. I’m not sure a flying squirrel can out-fly one of those.
Winged monkeys?
Well, I'm glad you didn't try to blame the frog. Quite decent of you, actually.
To say the least : )
Even after my massive iherb.com order, I realized, as I was sorting pills for the next five days, that I forgot one. And there was just enough in the account to cover it.
*sigh*
Brings the total to $222...:shaking head: I want to cry.
Thanks, guys! I appreciate your thoughts.
I need something to cherk* me up, for sure.
*Cheer+Perk=Cherk
We Cherkin
Cherkin
Cherkin the night away....
No, monkeys in the trees. The flying squirrel or flying “lemur” glides from one tree to another. The predator can’t go so directly from here to there, and so, probably loses track of the prey or loses interest.
It’s another one of my “Motherisms.” She was really funny, but she never realized it.
I honor her by bringing as many of them as I can to light! And I’m sure she would have loved FR and all my FRiends!
I don’t think ANYONE in Alaska is impressed by his pandering a$$hat ways. What a chump.
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