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!
I had turtles like this when I was a kiddie.
Anyone else have turtles (the non ninja pizza eating kind) when they were little?
There’s the floofy for Caturday.
Yay! Yay for the new computer!
Yay for clement weather..
Yay for Caturday!
Yay for Face being Face and being here.
I’m saying this only because I’m on the undead thread and safe here.
I wish I was Joey Chestnut. Seriously. Entering the 4th of July hotdog contest is on my bucket list but I fear I could only eat about twenty before I vomit.
If I told this to my mother or anyone else in real life I’m afraid they would send for the men in while coats to take me away. Aha!
See 3644
Kitty cooking hot dogs, Canada pillow in background. Could it be one of Bubble’s cats?
They are smarter than the average kitteh because they are loved by Bubbles. And it might be the trailer park in the background.
Caught a lot of turtles, toads, frogs, tadpoles, crayfish in the creek near the house but always let them go. Mom would not allow any in the house. And certainly not the occassional snake.
Neighborhood buddy bought a chameleon from a comic book ad. That was the most exotic pet in the area.
Karma chameleon?
(I’ve never seen a chameleon )
Way back in the day a friend’s date swore she could down two dozen raw oysters in a sitting.
Problem no.1
We were in a very nice expensive restaurant.
Problem no.2
She had already had two Black Russian cocktails.
She made it to 14 before a hasty but dignified assisted walk to the ladies room.
Don’t recall my friend dating her again.
Wasn’t there a tiny Chinese woman that knocked Joey Chesnut off? (such a NY mob type name)
Do they award second and third place ribbons at the Coney Island event?
Hahaha! Separate cord attaches to the back (or front) of the machine, and presto! Treadle!
Well, that was back in the fifties before transgender was invented and Corkie didn’t give his critters names.
The chameleon was pretty boring to watch as it pretty much just sat very still on the sticks in the terrarium. Corkie would take the whole thing outside hoping to see it catch flies.
We didn’t but my younger sister had a turtle. The nearest pet shop was 20 miles away and with only one car (my mother never learned to drive) it was a long time between trips to the pet shop.
I think she survived two turtles... They are in the big turtle pond in the sky.
My grams would smack me on the back of the head if I sat down and worked the treadle on her old Singer and work the treadle. The mechanics intrigued me.
And yay for Gefn being my Number One Fan! LOL!
It’s too cool for me. While I’m still wearing pedal pushers/clam diggers or whatever else they are called, I have been wearing long sleeves the last week.
Next week, after the next warming spell, I will have to swap out the summer clothes. That is, after I get the last of them washed...
I thought it would be today, but I dunno...
When I was in Home Ec in school, we had to learn to sew on the old treadles before we were allowed to use the new electric ones. I kind of enjoyed them, actually.
I had already been making my own clothes for four years, and the teacher just loathed me. I was so far ahead of the class that she gave me a D. While everyone was struggling with making a blouse, I made the blouse and a dress for me and a shirt for my boyfriend!
I love the Scottish Fold cats!!!
And it comes in RED!
Funny, I think I understand.
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