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!
NOOOOOOOOO. THEY're ahead of schedule. I haven't had nearly enough time to get the gas masks zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.
I hope you get a good rest. I’m sleepy, too, but we have Cubs tonight.
Greetings from the formally great state of California.
I am sad to tell you that Benihana in Beverly Hills has closed.
We have windstorms a bit and our weather is going to be plunging down to 72.
My little guy is 7 and quite the busy little guy. Giving book reports in the second grade in front of class, a blue belt in Karate, learning violin but refuses to listen as well as he can to his parents.... He didn’t want to spoil us. ;-)
Crumpets are elusive....hmmm....Sounds like a code for something.
Drink more ovaltine...No.
The beard is long....No.
Will have to check the ‘Allo ‘Allo book of codes for that one.
Do you have a Waitrose in your area? (Do they even exist...)
I just read about that in the Daily Mail: it’s where Adele shops.
Sounds familiar..
Once the mangagers have left the room ,then the real meetings begin.
Meetings: the practical alternative to work. Since AD 976.
Never let your children learn combat skills you don’t posess.
Just sayin’
The kind of place you do a weekly shop, when the lottery has just been kind to you.
£50 doesn’t go very far in there at all.
But they may have Crumpets or be able to obtain them. :) Yummy.
I believe that one is, “The tea is unusually weak today.”
If your contact continues from there to discuss tea and crumpets, veer off. It’s not your contact.
If, OTOH, your contact makes a ‘weak tea’ reference to Democrat foreign policy then this is your contact. Proceed immediately to the nearest “pub” for an “ale”.
LoL...
That would be classed as an Emergency Call.
Weak Tea!!!!! No!, Drake’s Drum would boom out loud over that one.
Another dead giveaway. The “pub” is actually the safe house and “ale” is a planning session for the operation.
Did you even READ your manual?
Read the Manual?
You mean we are supposed to read the thing?
Well, Ale has always been served at the best planning meetings down the Pub. :)
“What you having?”
0-003 was using his for a doorstop.
0-010 thought hers was for raising the monitor to a better height.
I did an experiment with the 1- group and marked it “classified, need to know” and they all read it immediately.
Lessons learned.
We can raise a Bass and discuss it further after our semi-annual reviews.
“Eyes Only” has the same effect. *Cough*
G’Night. :)
G-night.
Oh, and the wicker is in the headgerow.
It seems like a person could bake her own crumpets.
I like junk mail. Especially the type that includes a business reply envelope.
I use their envelope to mail their stuff back to them toward the fulfillment of two not necessarily related goals..
1) They can have the privilege of recycling their own stuff thus saving the Earth and allowing them to prove their enviro-conciousness...
2) Aid in keeping the US Postal Service a minute bit further from insolvency...
(Whether they appreciate the thought behind the mailing is not my concern..)
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