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 see your point. If only I could send you Tom ...
Depression comes with CFIDS, as it comes with all chronic diseases, which CFIDS is. If it were just the depression, I could handle it, but CFIDS and its mood swings make the depression a thing to be reckoned with.
I can’t control it, but I wish I could... It is so difficult for me to rise above this and not let it spill over to the Undeaders. So many days, I feel so helpless to even post something that is benign...
If you had Tom, you could be enraged instead of sad ;-).
If I had Tom, I suspect he would be more of a benefit than a sad thing. I’m sure he has a ripping sense of humor!
And so, I am going to take my bad self to bed...it just seems like the right thing to do.
And with any luck, I will head for the barn and wish all good things to the Undeaders.
We keep Tom around for his sense of humor, and for his occasional superhero appearances as Adult Man.
Overall, it takes about fifteen years from this point to the stage where he will be the superhero Adult Man all the time.
People who see it at that time will be hard pressed to say precisely when such an awesome change came about, or where in God's Kingdom it came from.
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But of course, we will know.
They joined a "Save the whales" demonstration and soon had a group following them chanting "Save the Naugas!".
The idea caught on...
Unfortunately the campaign was unsuccessful. Naugas were hunted almost to extinction and now the only known herd of Naugas is located on a remote farm near Naugatuck Connecticut along the banks of the Naugatuck River..
We had a Naugahyde sofa in the 1970s. I feel terrible now.
I thought Naugahyde became pleather.
Angelic kitty for Caturday. You can see the halo on this babeh.
I think it’s a trick.
Photoshop?
Kitten mind control. He wants you to believe in his innocence, so you do.
Daaaw.
My sister called my first kitty Cujo Cat.
Steam punk kitteh looks like he was studying to be an eye doctor.
“Can you see better like this, or like this?”
They aren’t ebil. Just naughty. And hungry.
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