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!
No we don’t.
I vote in the pubbie primary.
It’s pretty boring.
If I were a dem I’d vote for a dog before I’d vote for Herr dB.
Of course, as a pubbie there were plenty of times I wished a dog were running.
Huh! What are we agreeing on?
LIAR!
You wouldn’t love me forever if I adopted you, fed you, petted you, and gave you a warm dry place to sleep every night.
You might, howsomever, hire me.
You talk about hot weather, don’t you still live in Maryland, the land of the four Hs? you know, hot, humid, hazy and HUNDRED!
Yes we do.
While Darks usually has the answer and can communicate it well, something will usually follow you home and take up residence in a dark closet or the basement.
Oh, look, this isn’t an argument!
Without her millions of chillren, you have no clue what Tc would do, if she suddenly found herself adopted, fed, petted and with a dry place to sleep that she didn’t have to share with catz, kidz and another adult!!
Yes it is. ;o]
“Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?”
“Just roll with it.”
right, forgot about that, thanks.
What!?
You know, I could actually do about 75% of the sketch from memory.
And that includes when he opens the one door and the fellow says, “Shut your festering gobutit you snotty faced heap of parrot droppings!”
1960. The ball cleared the right field roof at Tiger Stadium and landed in a lumberyard across the street that ran along the stadium. Over twenty years later the distance was calculated at 643' - considered the longest HR ever hit by the Guinness Book of World Records.
Later, a recalculation awarded Babe Ruth the title for the Longest MLB HR Ever Hit - with a distance of 575' in 1921, also at Tiger Stadium in Detroit.
I don't know who measured Mantle's HR at 643' only to be off by almost 100', but he, she, or they need a refresher course in remedial math - or else need to stop buying tape measures from the sales bin marked 'defective.'
And good morning to you all.
I took Tom to school and then went to the bank. Now I’m having some beet salad I found in the back of the refrigerator.
Odd. Google is celebrating some obscure American pastime that apparently involves getting some hunk of rawhide down a cow pasture without stepping in something.
You’d think if Google were going to focus on American pastimes they’d do something good like baseball.
A sport, I guess. I’m not good with sports.
A sport, you mean like that one were grown men throw a an oval shaped ball covered with a piece of pigskin across a field and try to knock each other over?
Since when does google focus on anything sensible?
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