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!
Huzzah!
Either you have too many s-faced pedestrians, or the cops are not doing their job.
Boulder Highway is about a mile between intersections almost all the way to Charleston/Fremont, and people just don’t want to walk that far. The rest of them are killed on The Strip, and that’s because they are drunk and from out of town.
I can see why they want to cross in the middle, but it sure isn’t safe.
Great tagline! LOL!
I had to get a couple of other things besides night light bulbs, and Walmart is only a mile from here. I went and got back. I had coupons for a couple of free things that I needed, thanks to emailing the companies, and needed to get detergent, too. I didn’t have enough to get a big jug of it, so I got the little one. It may last me a month. *sigh*
Yesterday, I got a check from my auto insurer for $.15. It cost them more than that to send it, and I’ll spend more to deposit it if I’m not already at the bank. However, if I don’t deposit it, they’ll send me reminder letters and spend even more.
I like the new tagline. I went to yoga class with Sally this morning. It was fun. Now I’m hanging out at the dentist while Pat gets his teeth cleaned.
What exciting days you have. And mine are so “meh” — I go from fairly contented to depression in a split second, but the return journey is a lot longer. Maybe that’s why I don’t have a social life. *sigh*
I just went to mail a couple of Jack-In-The-Box antenna balls to my son (Christmas themed,) as I do every year, and it cost me more to mail them than it did to buy them. $2.65 compared to $2.16. I did it at the machine in the lobby as the line for mailing was hugh.
I think I’m done with everything for the day. Wait. Maybe dishes. They are multiplying at night.
When I got back from the store, earlier, I went to hang my keys up and the whole letter holder came down. I think I bought that thing in 1993, from Lillian Vernon. Solid ash. That and the ash step stool are the only things I have left from there. They seem to be indestructible.
W00t!
Wait until you have another check to cash. The insurance company probably won’t remind you for at least 60 days, so you should be safe!
Anyway, that’s what I would do!
Ya know? I just looked at the Thanksgiving card again and it has squirrels on it!! LOL! Where was I that I didn’t see that???
DP has taken the girls to the hardware store to choose paint for their room. Perhaps they can agree ... or at least, Elen won’t care enough to disagree with Sally forever.
I found Beginning Yoga easier than I expected. I do weightlifting and I have some dance experience, which I’m sure was helpful. Some of the stretches hurt a bit, especially around my right upper arm and shoulder. I had some pain there earlier in the fall, when I move in a particular way.
Ah, they have chosen. It’s kind of “seafoam.” We’ll see how it looks on the walls. It will probably take a couple of coats to cover the periwinkle.
I figured you would probably be good at Yoga, since you had at one time been a dancer. I probably could have started it if I had known CFIDS was going to ruin my life.
I remember you talking about that pain in your shoulder. That’s odd.
Watching the depression hit from the inside is pretty ugly, but there it is. I wasn’t feeling too bad until about 15 minutes ago, and all of a sudden I was fighting back tears, again.
This is getting to be a habit and I don’t like it. There is no reason for it except that’s the way CFIDS rolls, and even when I expect it, I’m not ready for it. So here I sit, watching the screen blur up with no warning, and wishing I could make the depression go away. I don’t know how to do that.
I don’t even have any Pink Drink to ease the transition to the darker side of my eyelids, where the Depression Monster resides. :o|
Isn’t Seafoam what the byos chose for their room?
That card company is the best. You should see the holiday cards I’m working on now.
Cats dressed up like elves and reindeer, etc.
:o])
I’ve never heard of that company, but that’s OK! That’s a nice card, and I like the paper quality.
I heard a story a while ago and I believe it.
It seems a computerized fold, spindle, and mutilation system actually mailed a bill to a credit card holder for the true balance, which was $0.00. The credit card holder did what any rational person would do. He filed the bill and promptly forgot it.
Two weeks later he got a letter from the credit card company saying his payment was past due and asking when payment could be expected. The letter even told the guy a number to call if he had trouble paying the entire balance. He circular-filed it.
Then he got a threat that his credit would be impacted if he didn’t pay, So he wrote a check for $0.00 and mailed it in.
Then the fun began. He got a call from the bank’s VP of IT asking why he’d written a check for $0.00 and sent it in? Apparently some low-level flunky had recorded the payment but it crashed their computer system when the syste tried to process the check. Even better, the system was designed to pick up from the first unprocessed transaction in the event of a crash so when they tried to restart the thing it promptly crashed again.
Apparently it took 4 hours to figure out how to clear that transaction from the queue and re-start the server.
The bank decided not to request payment any more and keep the guy’s credit intact.
Ain’t technology wonderful?
Doing your part to keep the EFPALS going, eh?
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