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!
Somebody researched enough to identify the make and model number of the parts, facts imprinted on the circuit board itself.
My favorite big cat of all...a lion.
That pretty girl is in a mood, LOL.
Good afternoon catfriends,
Been offline yesterday with a bad infection, saw the doctor and on antibiotics. Should be my old self in a day or two.
All I want to do is sleep.,I’m even missing Yom Kippur evening dinner with the family. The antibiotics and low grade temp makes me just want to sleep.
Tomorrow is a holiday, so I’ll be back Thursday morning.
She just noticed another batch of dishes to wash.
Have a good holiday. I hope you feel better quickly!
Is that what you asked the doctor for?
When I go to the doctor and he tells me I’ll be back to my old self I tell him if that’s what I wanted I wouldn’t have come to him. He’s supposed to make me into a new and improved self.
Feel better soon!
<3
LOL
I’ll buy that.
I got a few things done today, but I suddenly got depressed and didn’t want to do anything but eat. GAH!!!
And nothing sweet in the place. I wanted to make some cookies, but I have no flour. I have everything else, though...
It’s just one of those days, I guess; I don’t want to make that long drive through traffic in the morning (at least an hour) but it would take me that long on the freeway at rush hour, and I would still need to fight at least two miles worth of stop lights.
Then Thursday or Friday, I will have to go back downtown to pick up my new prescription for morphine. My right ankle is telling me there is rain on the way, and the morphine doesn’t make this pain go away, so I have to take Ibuprofen. *sigh* I need to get some more of that, along with the Gabapentin and the steroid, soon.
No wonder I’m depressed. And the radio in the truck doesn’t work, either...
I often wonder what life would be like if I didn’t have to pretend like I was po’ folk. :o| You know...things like having a home of my own, a fairly new vehicle with working A/C and enough extra money to get my hair cut and nails done periodically. You know, things that would make me feel like a person of worth once in a while.
So I’ll hang out for about 30 minutes and then trot off to bed. There’s not much sense staying here and depressing all my FRiends.
Ahhh, cute.
A kittie with a cornetto.
G-mail ma’am.
I’ve put it in the drawing room . :)
Misread that as “Cat Fiends”.
Which then had a horribly funny mental montage run through my head of our feline overlords, a cat pointing with a paw and commanding “Meow!” and the humans standing around trying to figure out what the decree actually was.
That sounds like a hitch hikers guide sketch. :)
Mr. Adams was a master.
I thought you told the hired help not to drive the Jag when I was in residence?
(Oh, but the pics are so very beautiful! Thank you!)
And with that, I’m off for the night. The uglies have won this round.
G’ night ‘ face. :)
Rumour has it ,there was a sixth book on the way.
What gems of wisdom that contained we shall sadly never know.
The return of Marvin the paranoid android, probably.
Maybe.
Or maybe a lot of vogon uffishness.
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