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!
Jake has spots on his belly, too.
They all look like angels when they’re asleep.
If they ever remake Casablanca. ( I hope they never do) this little guy could be the piano player.
Play it, Sam.
Good morning Jake the angel.
Jake hunted some birds this morning, but they got away. Our animal books say that hunting attempts fail much more often than they succeed!
I had to go back and lie down. This is getting weird.
It’s still not even 6:00 a.m. in your time zone. You’re just getting up, reading a little news, and then going back to bed until a sensible hour!
Elmer Fudd had the same experience with hunting.
Prey would have to get away most of the time. Think how boring it would be to go hunting and always catch something.
You can never catch the red dot! Ha ha ha!
“You can never catch the red dot!”
And even if you did, you couldn’t eat it.
Kathleen said, “I’m sorry, I’m afraid you’ve misunderstood,” but actually, we understand perfectly well that she doesn’t want to use the toilet.
I was awake at 0330. Now that I’m back up (0558) I’ve already been to WinCo for some chocolate creamer and ribs, then stopped at Rebel for some laundry change.
I will call Jerry today to have him look at the truck, then will decide a course of action.
I got the creamer home and found it was chocolate caramel. GAH!!! Not going back.
Too bad Kathleen’s not older — you could have her clean her own mess.
So you've named the birds in your neighborhood with names you also used for your children.
By any chance, do you happen to have a friendly bat coming around that you call Vlad?
*GAH*
I went to print out the Will and it won’t print. I’m using OpenOffice.org, and nothing has changed except for Win10. I don’t know how to make it go through the printer.
Can you help, please? (I HATE Windoze!)
I have not noticed a friendly bat, no.
We were looking for Perseids last night, and saw a few friendly bats. Also fireflies, although I don’t know if the bats were friendly toward the fireflies.
On your Win-tin-tin did you make sure your physical printer is your default printer?
Other than that, we can try the Team Viewer thing again sometime after 2:30 my time.
Fireflies are poisonous to some animals, such as bearded dragons, but it’s possible they aren’t poisonous to your local bats.
I read Kathleen a book about bats last week.
I will have to do that...I forgot. Thanks.
Stay tuned.
That would be kewl. I have always been fascinated by the Major Leagues sticking with wooden bats. I've tried to imagine the metallic clang when I'm listening to a ball game over the radio but I can't. I've wondered if that wooden whack is why they keep the wooden bats. It might juice up the game more if they allowed aluminuminuminuminum ones.
It took me a while to find it because I couldn’t find Control Panel, which is where I know to go. Anyway, it printed. Thanks for jogging my memory!
*clang*
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