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!
Undergrad or graduate? A lot
I sent you an email with the name of the school.
“Are they mirror symmetric inside as well?”
I mentioned that to my wife how that IS actually observed in a small set of mirror twins! (She didn’t believe me.) And are we SURE that they don’t have organs on the wrong side?
“As many times as they were checked by doctors when they were born [premmies], I think one of the doctors would have figured it out if their heart was on the wrong side.”
It is quite rare, my old ex-special forces medic roommate (who was never in Vietnam) found a little Vietnamese kid like that.
Ya know, zish shread drinking gaming hijack ish a blasht!
Lol!
I have made a beet salad.
Beet salad by Dr. Dre?
Ya know, if I had a nickel for every time I said ‘if I had a nickel’ I’d ... well I’d have a bunch of nickels.
I don’t remember where I was going with that. Nevermind.
What goes into a beet salad besides the obvious?
I found two more bills today that I had forgotten about, having arrived last week.
Today was going to be the day that I really got busy on my transcribing. Ha-ha.
I went out with the Fan Club, earlier, but my chest began to hurt so I came in. There are two women, both named Cindy, who join me and the guys, and between the two of them, my staying power is only about 20 minutes. The New Cindy is condescending and “I did this better than you,” when I didn’t even know there was a competition, and the Old Cindy is loud and obnoxious, but well-meaning. My tolerance for one is not good, but when they are both there, I need to leave in a hurry.
One of the guys, Charlie, knows why I leave, I think, but he is far too polite to tell anyone. One of the guys is from the same county I grew up in, about eight miles from me. I think he’s about two years younger. He’s Chuck, and he’s cool. But Charlie is my favorite.
He’s been here almost as long as I have, and he always got good stories to tell. So does Chuck! The two wimmins??? GAH!!
Tom mentioned Dr. Dre, too. I guess he’s a think.
If every time I said, “If you do that again, I’ll kill you, and they did and I did, I’d be serving multiple consecutive life sentences.
PS: I’m wearing my Spam 70th Anniversary shirt!!! :o])
Beets, beet stems, and beet greens.
The latter two I don’t have...*sigh*
I love beets........
Actually, hes a woman abuser so if I ever met him I’d probably have to open a can of w-a on him. The biopic of his group NWA is in theaters now but it leaves out the abuse part.
He makes audio accessories under the brand Beats by Dr. Dre.
I’m having spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, baked-beans and spam.
Baked beans are off.
Then can I have spam instead of the baked beans?
I dunno...but when I bought the shirt (5 or 6 years ago) it was like a “spray-on” shirt, and when I put it on this morning, it was LOOSE!!! YAY!!
I haven’t bought Spam, lately.
Though I DO like it fried!
Yes, Tom said something about headphones.
Query: with your knowledge, what would be a better choice: iMac or Chromebook? Asus or HP?
OK...I’m outta here for the night!
So technically those would be "leapin' lemurs", would they not?
No, because they aren’t primates.
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