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!
Hmmm...that could be Busdaddy’s bus... ;o]
No, he just liked to think he was smarter than I was! Not the first guy, or the last to make that mistake!
I suppose I'll have to write a paragraph on the difference between Undead Threads and undead people.
*Sigh*
Undead people are the walking dead, or more typically the rolling dead, as they tend to be electrified and artificially oxygenated. If Doctor Victor Frankenstein had considered using an oxygen tank for his creation, then he'd only have needed to worry about fire. ... Oh, wait ...
Anyway, Undead Threads are different. They are discussion forums that still continue because a consensus or agreement on the original point has not yet been reached. And since no one present has any clue about whatever this mythical and ostensible point may ever have been, it is extremely unlikely that we will ever get around to agreeing about it. So the discussion continues.
Not my problem, anyway, thank goodness. I only have to fix the weather.
And me? I have to fix my truck. Tomorrow morning at 0900!!!
That means, of course, that I have to walk back up the hill in the heat. I think I’m getting too old for this...
“extremely unlikely that we will ever get around to agreeing about it. “
Ah! The beauty of ambiguity!
And who would know that besides someone who had been there? NOT!! The only thing we Undeaders agree on is being Undead!
100’s of thousands of UT posts can’t be wrong!
And that’s the TROOF!!! *thbbbbbpth*
*ouch*
Iknowhuh? ;o])
You can’t brag about liking hot weather, and then complain about the heat.
I tell people, “I like hot weather. Your coffee doesn’t cool off as quickly, and you don’t have to pee as much.”
People probably think I’m crazy. I want them to have confidence in their opinions.
Agreement is overrated.
And not nearly as much fun!
“You can’t brag about liking hot weather, and then complain about the heat.”
Actually, I brag about the weather to my friends on the East coast during the winter, and whine about the 100+ degree weather to my friends here. Seems fair to me.
I love hot weather. But I’m not as young as I used to be, and walking uphill in the heat at my age is not something I really relish doing. Of course, I could be a real wienie and ask them to give me a ride home...
Works fer me!
Or you could wait. Take a book or something with you.
So..
You’re going to primary Warren Wilhelm, Jr.?
So the question arises - does the UT Statistician have an official count of the running total of posts from wayback to now??
We know for a fact that it is over 64k.. ;-)
" - does the UT Statistician have an official count of the running total of posts from wayback to now??"
The Wizard Tim hasn't posted for many years.
I'd guess it's about two hundred thousand. It's only been ten years or so.
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