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!
Massive writer’s block on my end.
Ideas, but always at the wrong time and they don’t fit anywhere into the tales.
That’s where the creativity comes in get an idea and write it down, sometime you can build a story around that idea.
Middle of the night or while I’m driving, usually.
Oh, that’s not good.
So you could try dictating it into a recorder. That doesn't work for me.
So what I do is just let the revery roll. It slowly accrues, until I have acquired a bit of structure to the story.
Then when I sit down to put in "on paper", all I have to do is put the links and remembered situations together. It isn't as tedious as it seems, because the act of typing it up gives you the chance to reflect on it and compose it the way you want it to be.
Characters take on their own personalities, and pretty soon the story starts telling itself.
I cannot relate the mental image of me dictating into a recorder interspersed with my running commentary on the drivers around me.
It shrinks to a reasonable length once you bleep out all the *expletive deleted* remarks.
That could become one of your stories there your running commentary of the other drivers on the road and your thought about the, you can make it humorous while making it thought provoking.
Minus the expletives of course
Working title: “Color Commentary”
“THAT is NOT a valid direction!”
“What are you doing? It certainly isn’t driving!”
“Really?! You pass everyone just to go slower than the column?”
“Headlights and windshield wipers do NOT equal a turn signal!”
I get too many people around here who seem to think it’s a video game. Twice today people zipped out of the fast lane into the slow lane to pass a car on the right and then get back into the fast lane.
Usually this kind of activity is immediately followed by everybody coming to a stop at the next traffic signal.
Idiots.
And it took you HOW long to figure that out?
;-)
Or going straight from a turn lane.
That’s always a good one.
Yesterday; right turn from the left turn lane.
Drivers here are so weird, no one even honked a horn.
Had an all wheel drive pass me in the snow, pull in front of me, then go off the road to the right before crossing the road behind me to head off on a magical adventure in the median.
See what I mean?
Wellll! I haven’t been on in a while and it took a few moment to remember.
Just imagine all this written in a book, you’d make a fortune.
Hi everyone, I don’t know how you all feel about this but I just been to a thread entitled 13 ways Trump would make a Good President
All I can say is what was this poster smoking?
I mean when I think of DT I think of casinos, the Trump Towers, putting one’s foot in ones mouth and someone who’s been married more times than Henry VIII! Do we really want THAT in the White House?
Or coare after Obama.... I guess I’ll stop there.
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