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 sometimes wonder if that guy from “The King’s Speech” could teach Obama to say “Islamic terrorism is committed by Muslims.”
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I have GOT to stop reading Twitchy.com. I just read how President Obama said you can’t build a border fence to stop global warming and facepalmed so hard my nose hurts.
Ouch.
I’d have to do a Maximum FacePalm over that, as well. What a stupid, POS. He’s gotta be on drugs. Again. Still.
France hates him.
Well, then, Viva la France!!!!!
That’s what I say!!! LOL!
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ArGee u r brilliant!
Well, I figured maybe he has a speech impediment.
Like his sentences get blocked by the stupid or something.
The boys had “Crocodile Dreams,” iirc. More green than the color the girls chose, as far as I can tell.
I’m sorry you’re feeling badly again!
Sounds believable. We are billed about $3.50 a month by Windstream, our former internet/telephone provider, because we kept some email addresses. I send them a check for $12 occasionally and let them bill me negative balances. “Please do not pay!” they say. I suppose writing them a check for -$9.45 would be like dividing by zero.
Wow! My old Earthlink addresses are costing me $7.95/mo. They bill my credit card.
I like to write a check.
Amazing!
Checkyouremail.
Crocodile Dreams sound unnatural, for some reason...
Thanks for the “sorry.” I have no idea when this will hit and it hurts to say that. I’m still fighting with a blurry screen, and I’m hoping tomorrow will be better.
I hope your tomorrow is better, too. We have a bunch of people going to work at the Mint Hill Senior Citizens’ Christmas Luncheon, and I’ll be going to the flea market with the Spanish choir.
Dang. I just did. THANKS.
And the tears came when I did.
What is going on with me?
I think you have CFIDS and depression. It’s a bad hand for you, but it’s not your fault and we certainly don’t blame you!
I don’t even want to contemplate tomorrow. It just seems so very far away and I don’t even want to think about a Christmas Luncheon.
It sounds so alien.... You mean, with “other people?”
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