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’m hazy on what you mean. If it’s Heinlein, I’ve read it. But that could have been a long time ago.
Our “pressure dome” is a bridge-type structure that I like to call the open space design. It has a face, two faces actually, that are also fastened together.
This allows our transparent panels (made of AlON, aluminum oxy-nitride) to be able to flip from one orientation to the adjacent one.
This kind of “tiling” lets panels move to fill in the ranks if damage occurs. We are in the Asteroid Belt, after all.
We also have crawling tractors on the inside and outside for repairs to the “track” assembly. You don’t see the ones on the inside because they’re painted a sky-blue color, and you don’t see the ones on the outside because it’s dark out there.
The repair crew are all kids, junior astronauts. Keeping the canopy in repair is training for further adventures in space.
In that short story the lunar colony kept its air in a pressurized natural dome. The pressure was such that human beings could strap on wings and (thanks to the low gravity) fly like birds.
The “Menace” was an earther who was up on tour who attracted the attention of the narrator’s best male friend whom she would never have admitted she had a yen for.
The story was a little dull but the flying idea was cool.
I’m waiting for the Sunbeans to come in my window. It has to get up over the hills, then the roofs, and then the trees, and it will come and shine in my eyes for five minutes before it moves on.
I have to look and see if I have any baby carrots left as I want to make split pea soup today. I don’t want to go to Walmart.
The window in this room is behind me. When the sunbeam came in this morning it shone on my monitor so that I could hardly read it.
Fortunately, that lasted about 5 minutes. It IS NYC, after all.
The window in this room is behind me. When the sunbeam came in this morning it shone on my monitor so that I could hardly read it.
Fortunately, that lasted about 5 minutes. It IS NYC, after all.
Apparently, I have the hiccups.
Apparently, I have the hiccups.
Jake was happy. I just remembered we don’t have to pick Tom up at 12:15: he drove himself because Bill is sitting here studying. So I’ll take the remainder to the library and Walmart, much as I dislike having to take the whole batch to Walmart.
Having done that, I don't recommend it.
Thinking of you...
I found the carrots! (Baby ones) and chopped up a package for the soup, then enclosed the rest in a double plastic bag to freeze for later. The soup is on, and it’s smelling good! In about 15 minutes, I’ll add the ham and salt, and let it simmer another 30 minutes or so. Yummers!
I don’t know what it would be like to go into Walmart with a horde of my own. We seldom see youngsters in this one. It is small and the aisles aren’t very wide.
At some point, I’ll have to buy another bag of split peas. The next soup will be a bean soup, but I will put bacon in it, and maybe some celery. Maybe. I’ll decide on that later.
The Sunbean is very close to being in my eyes, so I’ll just sit here and wait for it to attack me. :o]
I don’t know why but I want to go back to bed.
And you grabbed yet another 50 post.
Of course, maybe I’m the only here set to display 50 at a time.
Mine is set for 20 because it loads faster. I like 50. It was a good age! LOL!
Afternoon. Back from the library and the Walmart. I hate taking all the kids to the Walmart. The byos will have extra chores with no reward the next couple of days.
You should get to know the manager at Wal-Mart. Then you can have him give the byos chores when you arrive.
Not a bad idea!
Exactly why I shop in the early morning...mo kids!
The boys are slurping up the “pizza,” using forks and spoons. James says it tastes like enchiladas, which is not a problem because he likes enchiladas, and can he have another piece?
Pizza-enchaladas? The anti-cultural appropriation people are going to be busting your doors down in 3... 2... 1...
They can eat what’s left of the pizza-like dish. Tom doesn’t want it because it has mushrooms.
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