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!
You probably wouldn’t love this part of the world, either We might hit 51 today, although for us that’s an unusually warm December.
The late Igor used to say, “A change is as good as a rest.” The longer I live, the more I see the wisdom in that statement.
I tried to access the genealogical data that I had stored on several CD-ROMs and after the first one, containing the info for my son’s birth father, I’m in tears. The disc is blank.
I have 10 more discs with genealogical data and I’m afraid to even start looking. Add that to an earlier event today and the tears are hard to hold back.
It will take me three months, at least, to reconstruct, and I promise I will print out hard copies.
I am so tired of my lack of foresight... One would think, after I had to start over four times after computer crashes, that I would have printed out the data of every morsel of info I found.
I changed my underwear this morning and I don’t feel rested.
No, don’t ask me about yesterday.
Check your driver.
Did you get any CDs with the compooper? If you did, try them.
You may not have lost your data. You may have a problem with the CD-ROM driver or its firmware. I’m reading a post on Google where someone with at Dell had the same problem. If you want to look it’s ccm.net/forum/affich-706515-dvd-writer-shows-all-disks-blank-or-insert-disk.
Don’t you agree that the orphaned baby of that terrorist couple should be given to a nice Jewish couple to raise?
I think I’m like, maybe three or four generations away from when I “thought” I put this stuff on CD. Still, I installed the original program and it automatically got updates, so I’m still not happy. Would it do any good to take the offending CD’s to Kinko’s to let them check?
This is so overwhelming for me.
I took a shower and changed my underwear, yesterday and that’s how the world works.
So yesterday sucked just as bad as today.
That baby deserves a good home, and a Jewish one would be perfect!
I’m particularly thinking of the couple watching from Hell and yelling “Nooooooooooooooooooooo” all the time. :)
I know how that works...LOL!
Reformed Jewish couple. That way she can know what a cheeseburger is and what joy bacon brings to food.
Let her know how marvelous pork chops are. And I hope she has a dog as well.
I like the part of the world that I'm in because it is centered on the happiest people there.
I think I would like that part of the world, since I’ve read so much of your stuff...
I’m not sure that I expressed the concept properly. What I meant was that wherever I am, I’m happy to be there.
That said, it is a weird place. Sometimes I think my eyes must look like “Mad-Eye” Moody’s eyes; I spend more time looking inside my head than I do looking out the other way.
Evening, epople. We went to yoga class. It forces you to turn off your internal dialogue, because you have to concentrate on what your limbs are doing, or you’ll go splat. At the end of an hour, I feel completely relaxed.
I wouldn't my inner me to think I was mad at it.
That’s very thoughtful of you.
I almost never lose an argument with myself.
Colorizing by Ted Turner.
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