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 don’t get it.
how can you start a vanity thread when thousands of black babies are being aborted ?
Yes, but see, you live on the Gulf, and I live in the desert. We seldom have humidity over 9%. When it gets into the double digits, folks begin dropping like flies.
So DRINK! And go take a cold shower! It will cool your body down so you can drink more!
What does any of this have to do with the starving Pygmy Albinos in Tanzania?
Learned BASIC on a Timex Sinclair 1000 in 1983. Speaking of youthful exuberance, wish I’d had it in 1969 when I was half that age. :)
I actually had *TWO* T/S-1000’s. Neither one worked. Ended up with a TI-99/4A.
My sister got bitten by a moose last week while she was eating some cheese.
Kitty Ping List is the best ping list eva!
I'll DRINK! to that!
Thread Hijacking For Great Justice!
I think some of you ‘uns just want an excuse to DRINK !!
DRINK!!
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DRINK!
That DRINK! doesn’t count.
DRINK!
And besides all that, Karl Rove is a smarmy a$$.
(Been wanting to get that off my chest...)
-JT
OK, you earned that drink.
"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!!!!!"
Are you saying people are making a choice about one issue to the exclusion of the other? I hate cruelty to animals, but this abortion and body parts thing is abhorrent and evil. It's making me ill. I refuse to ping anything related to abortion, and don't want to be pinged to it. May God forgive me for even knowing about baby body parts.
I'm grateful there are freepers who have the strength to deal with this horrendous event.
Well, frankly, it wasn’t me that did it. But I thought that those posts pointing out the hypocrisy of the media for being more outraged over the death of one lion than the selling of thousands of body parts were actually relevant.
Or perhaps he should have turned it into an anti-Islamic observation, and pointed out that shooting a lion is no worse than making love to dozens of goats.
"And turn off that movie!"
Oh, and....... You want to play a game when illegals are pouring over our borders??!!
DRINK
Suggest humblegunner head up a ping list to hijack all threads started by blogpimps.
Excellent suggestion.
DRINK!
LMAO!
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