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!
The really rude one come out during the holiday Christmas shopping season ironically
I’d love to take credit, but that was actually a flashback from “Batman Begins.” Young Bruce Wayne was running from the housekeeper’s daughter and fell into an abandoned, covered well that just happened to have an opening into what would one day become the Bat Cave. A bunch of bats were disturbed and came flying out, scaring him.
We get a lot of tourists here, as the Walmart I go to is on the way to Lake Mead and Hoover Dam, so rudeness is always present. Which is why I go so early. The rude ones are still in bed or otherwise occupied.
And I seldom do any Christmas shopping...no one to shop for and no money to spend on them. :o]
Fortunately, $2.80 isn’t much. It will barely buy a cup of coffee around here.
You know, I seem to recall seeing that movie, but I don’t recall that part of it. *sigh*
Two things happen when you start to get older: 1. You tend to forget things, and I don’t remember what the other one is...
Here in the Tardis we quit worrying about trying to match our times to the times in the standard continuum.
We say, “Good moment,” and, “How are you this moment,” and stuff like that.
LOL! Good one!
Sound resonable
Never saw that movie does that make me weird?
And that’s what I’m going to say from now on, “Good Moment!”
Everyone on the Undead Thread is weird in some way. But all of them are loveably weird!
:o)
I don’t think it has anything to do with not seeing the movie.
At least, not in my case.
Oh? You must’ve been reading some of my other posts then. *sigh* can’t get away with anything ;o)
Just kidding, of course.
Whenever youngsters ask me the secret to a long marriage I always say, “Go ahead and have the fight and get it out of the way. If your wife asks, ‘Does this dress make me look fat?’ just get it over with and say, ‘I don’t think it’s the dress.’ Just by her asking the question you’ve lost, so just get it over with.”
Makes sense and saves a lot of grief and misunderstanding.
We’re all weird in our own weird way and if you’re not weird then you’re REALLY WEIRD.
Doing fine. I just got back from the park. I’m about to put Kathleen to bed.
I just went out and spent time with the World Problem Solvers. There were only three of us today, but it was quality time for sure!!!
Well? Did you solve any problems?
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