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!
We had 104 in the aptly-named Diablo Valley today, but only about 15% humidity, so call it an even 100.
Now, you take that same 104 where you are, and factor in your local 40% humidity; that’s like 119 [gasp].
Don’t feel bad, though; ritzy Palm Springs only made it to 99, but saw 55% humidity doing it. That feels like 120.
Here.
http://www.atmos.colostate.edu/wx/fcc/fccwx_app_temp.php
Have some fun with that. Works for the winter months, too.
We had thunderstorms.
*yawn* ‘morning...
Morning TC.
The first Fog of the year has arrived this morning.
Morning/afternoon. Fog would mean it was a little cooler, here, and it’s not.
I get that every morning, but "bleary-eyed" and "foggy" are not quite the same thing.
For two hours? When home is less than ten minutes away, walking? The waiting area isn’t much bigger than my bathroom, so no. Not waiting.
;o]
Clean your glasses?
I have both of those charts, but they aren’t as concise and readable as these you linked. So I printed them, The heat index is good, as I’m more curious about that than the wind chill, since it doesn’t get “that” cold here.
Anyway, thanks!
That’s almost brand New squee! Awww... *floof*
We get fog occasionally. We even had fog in central Utah were I grew up. I don’t remember it in Alaska, but we lived on an island so we probably had it. I was quite small...
'Face and I don't need to wear glasses anymore. An affordable miracle of modern medical science called "cataract surgery" has made it possible for me to have, for the first time in my life, a driver's license without the phrase "vision correction needed".
The blurriness on arising is internal. Hence the need for coffee.
And, one of my sisters is going to have cataract surgery, too! YAY! We both wore contact lenses for many years, but I was the first to head for better, easier vision. Of course, I need reading glasses, but I love opening my eyes in the morning and being able to see the clock without fumbling for my glasses!
I’ve been telling people that the reason they do one eye at a time is not merely because there is a slight but possible chance of complication to the surgery, but mainly because with one eye corrected, and one eye left alone, you have a chance to really compare, over days or weeks, the true difference in vision you are getting.
That alone would be worth doing, but you wouldn’t know it without being exposed to it in this manner.
I loved that comparison when I was seeing with one “good” eye. What was hard was trying to read. I got so I just read with the bad eye, and let the good one do what it wanted. Yep. It can be done!
In certain religious circles they are those who are only animated as human beings without receiving the spark of the divine, cf. Ezekiel 37..
While you've assured me I'm a year or two your junior, I have decided I'm too old to be aging.
And all of Congress and the Administration, not to mention a bevy of candidates for office, said, "AMEN!!!!!!!"
“scratches head”
Don’t know what you just said, maybe ye should just ask Darks
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