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 think that almost every day when I go to put my socks on! LOL!
Matching catz works, though! :o]
I would happily take a nap with them.
Jake and Shannon wanted me up early to feed them, but I held them off until almost 7:00. Tomorrow we’ll be back on our regular schedule.
I have laundry to do today, and I really don’t want to. The sciatica is flaring up again, and that doesn’t mix well with wash day. I had strange dreams just before I woke up, and that always makes me wish I could stay in bed and make them go away — getting up makes me think about how ugly they were.
I will need more laundry money for next week’s wash, but I think I have enough for today. Yep. Just exactly enough.
And sometime this week, I will have to get my steroid refilled...to the tune of $33. *sigh* If it ain’t one darn thing...
Also I’m thinking seriously of dismissing my aide. I notice more and more things that she is either not doing or doing in a half-assed manner, and that is stressful. It is also stressful that they give me someone who needs to be trained. She still doesn’t really know how to make a bed. And I’m very picky about my bed because I spend so much time in it. I don’t see much choice in this, for sure.
Who maintained your old home page?
Who is your ISP?
I didn’t like my dreams, either.
1. MyWay.com
2. Cox
And I forgot to get stamps. Dang! I’ll hunt up my change and see how many stamps I can buy.
I’m so used to laundry at Busdaddy’s (still) and stamps.com that I still haven’t shifted gears into manual mode. My bad.
50 degrees today, but it’s going to be very windy which means it’s going to be extremely chilly. I don’t want to be out in it, not even this early, before the winds start in earnest.
I have about 10 minutes before I have to go wash clothes.
Check out Cox MyConnection. That might do it for you.
I used a stamp once. It was an absolute pain to get it off my screen.
Apparently email doesn’t need stamps.
Pat is insisting we go to the library to get his reserve books, but I don’t want to. I’ll send Tom if I can get him out of bed.
Ok, thanks. I’ll check it out when I get back from doing the laundry.
Good idea! Tom needs to earn his keep as a tame ogre, and this sounds like a perfect job!
See ya in about 90 minutes...
The marathoners won’t return until late afternoon, so the car is available for Tom. I filled the gas tank yesterday.
I guess it’s Monday for everyone out there.
If that translates into “laundry day,” it IS Monday. But I’m done for one more week.
In about 40 minutes, I have to go back up to the office for my re-cert. GAH!
GAH. I’ve been vacuuming. Tom finally got out the door to the library. It’s lunchtime here, and then we’ll go to the gym.
I bought the dollar hot dogs and ate one, and then remembered that I need the all beef ones if I intend to keep from tasting them all day. Still, I will eat them. One by one. I keep thinking I’m going to try the kosher dogs one day, but I never remember to look for them when I go to the store.
Maybe when I get done with my re-cert, I can get to the post orifice and get a couple of stamps. I don’t have enough to get a whole booklet, but I can get some, I think.
I hope the meeting goes well!
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