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!
Hope you have a good night!
Little Orphan Annie may have to just take up cursing then; it appears her favorite epithets lack scientific vigor.
And no.
No I don’t.
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Get your own. Go fish.
No, she was absolutely correct. Lemurs lead (climb, scramble, and swing.
“Flying lemur” is a misnomer. They are accurately called “colubos” or “cobegos,” depending on the species.
I mean, they leap.
Chromebook is useless if you can’t connect. With your experience connecting I suggest not.
I am very happy with my Assets tablet and HP upset me once. But my wife had a Compaq she was very happy with (same engineering). If go by price.
Look up System76. Linux for consumers. Not el-cheapo but cheaper than a Macbook.
Asus tablet.
I have an ASUS tablet, too. I use it on vacation sometimes.
My grandfather had a grudge against the John Deere dealer in our hometown, and so we always had other brands of tractors.
HERE is what was SUPPOSED to greet you Monday.
I know that SOME of you saw it, but I went back to look, again, tonight, and Facebook had boogered the link. Ssssoooooo, I fixed it. AND it's HD quality this time. Muy bueno!
Cheers!
That was entertaining . :)
I liked that. Today is going to be a good day!
Glad you enjoyed that. I’ve watched it half a dozen times and I still laugh aloud. I’ll have that pennywhistle stuck in my head for weeks, tho. Sorta catchy, really. May even try the dance number at the end. Barefoot on the hardwood floor. And have a pint at the end of it all.
I’m fascinated with how much expression they were able to gin up out of two plain white eyes on featureless blackness. Death in disbelief taking a jellyfish to the head; Death in sullen resignation being dragged down to Davy Jones’ Locker. Just hilarious!
It was a very entertaining Grim Reaper. You wouldn’t think the Grim Reaper would be skipping stones with pirate booty coins.
It’s amazing (to me) what animation can do with a computer, instead of the old way of drawing frame by frame.
I’ve a friend who works at Pixar, and a neighbor who hired in there from another, smaller firm. Went to an afternoon presentation featuring some guys from Industrial Light and Magic talking about computer-generated effects.
The big secret?
Eigenvectors.
Yup. Eigenvectors.
Oh, yes — and quaternions, too.
And a whole slew of other heady mathematics.
You want to become a demigod of 3D animation?
Aside from popping out of the womb with mad artistic imagination, you’d better be a double major with computer science and mathematics on your C.V.
I can’t draw. I still draw stick figures.
I also can’t do math. My SAT’s were 770 verbal, 310 math. So double majored in English with a minor in Creative Writing, Psychology, and History.
I was able to use it all for a very good career. However, if I could do math, I would have been an astronomer,
Mothers are wonderful.
Bless you TC, and all your chickadees.
Where the wild things grow.
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