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!
Current conditions: 55, S @ 22, gusting to 53, 48%.
The wind has been blowing all night and at times, it woke me up.
No thoughts of death this morning, but it is looming over me today, just the same.
What did it want?
C&H — the best comic strip characters of all time!
And I agree with both posts! Thanks!
It wanted to know why I didn’t just get up and go to the bathroom, instead of lying there, listening to the wind whine through the screens...
So, it had something lurking in the bathroom, did it?
Was it a Darkswind?
Naw...that’s too reminiscent of Darks’ coffee...
I would have stayed in bed, if that had been the case.
For you Monty Python fans, we now present the...
Monty Python’s Argument Clinic, Millinneal Edition
Man: Is this the right room for an argument?
Mr. Barnard: I told you once.
Man: No you didn’t.
Mr. Barnard: (punches man in the nose). CHECK YOUR PRIVILEGE you white supremacist piece of filth. POLICE! Arrest this man. His microaggression is causing me unacceptable pain.
(Police arrive and handcuff man and drag him off.)
-End-
Ah. Mr. Toad before he ransacked the virgins and pillaged the Willows...
55 degrees, SSW @ 35, gusting to 58.
GAH!!!!
Apparently weather reports kill undead threads.
I’ll keep that in mind...now that the wind has deposited a new layer of leaves in my patio...my payment for broadcasting the latest weather conditions, I guess.
We needed the wind to knock the leaves off the trees, and tonight, we have a freeze warning. *shiver* I will stay in where it’s nice and warm!
I really wanted to take a nap, but it was too late when I thought of it...
I know how you feel. I love afternoon naps myself.
But they tend to upset my boss.
I have to take morning naps, or I won’t sleep at night. Part of CFIDS. The best I can do on an afternoon nap is to just plain go to bed at 1700!
These days it gets so dark her by 1630 that one COULD go to bed.
I wonder if I had CFIDS if I could get NYC to make giving me an afternoon nap a City right? Maybe they would under deB.
If you have a disability with specific requirements for the workplace, I’ll bet you could. And CFIDS may qualify!
It has so many symptoms, and each person is affected so differently, that it’s a possibility.
Which would be worse, trying to explain reality to a liberal or listening to someone scratch a blackboard with a mail glove?
I’m really struggling with this one.
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