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A Modest Proposal: The Thread Hijack Drinking Game [vanity]
Still me. | Today | Me

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!


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To: Covenantor

That must rank up there with Bomb disposal.


801 posted on 08/13/2015 10:41:24 AM PDT by moose07 (DMCS (Dit Me Cong San ) - Nah)
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To: moose07

What can I say but that I was feeling very blood thirsty at the time and unaware of the post position.


802 posted on 08/13/2015 10:41:49 AM PDT by Covenantor ("Men are ruled-...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern." Chesterton)
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To: Monkey Face

Thank Heaven for small favors.

Maybe GLK is starting to have an impact.


803 posted on 08/13/2015 11:13:08 AM PDT by ArGee (Unfortunately, when everything's insane, nothing is.)
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To: Monkey Face

Our own pathalogical liar got the CPS called on us for starving our children. Then a NP got the older daughter’s BMI wrong and we had to have her observed for months.

Mad at the PL, the NP, and a government that watches my kids while someone else’s kid is out committing armed robbery.

Is Amerika great country or what?


804 posted on 08/13/2015 11:15:29 AM PDT by ArGee (Unfortunately, when everything's insane, nothing is.)
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To: Tax-chick

Chuck Norris was bitten by a rattlesnake and after several weeks of intense pain the snake died.


805 posted on 08/13/2015 11:16:13 AM PDT by ArGee (Unfortunately, when everything's insane, nothing is.)
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To: Monkey Face

From “Beethoven’s Last Night” by TSO

The graveyard is full of important men
Who could not be spared, but were in the end.


806 posted on 08/13/2015 11:17:05 AM PDT by ArGee (Unfortunately, when everything's insane, nothing is.)
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To: Covenantor

Ah dang. That’s just WRONG! *blech*


807 posted on 08/13/2015 11:29:49 AM PDT by Monkey Face (I've finally lost my mind!If you find it don't bother to return it It wasn't working properly anyway)
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To: moose07

W00t!!! Good ON ya, Moosie! <3


808 posted on 08/13/2015 11:30:44 AM PDT by Monkey Face (I've finally lost my mind!If you find it don't bother to return it It wasn't working properly anyway)
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To: Monkey Face

Hi Face,
It was just sat there ,unguarded.
Who dares, wins. ;)


809 posted on 08/13/2015 11:34:10 AM PDT by moose07 (DMCS (Dit Me Cong San ) - Nah)
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To: ArGee; Tax-chick; All

GLK is earning his keep, for sure!

I managed to get a few things filed, and a few more sorted, but I will try to finish the job in the next day or two.

While Solving the World’s Problems, the guy who opens up the community room/laundry room has graciously allowed me to show up Saturday morning at 0630 so I can get a good start on the day. If I can talk him into doing it the next day, I can get most of my laundry done by 0830 on Sunday.

Saturday will be sheets and towels, and it will take me much longer than the clothes do, as I hang the clothes in the bathroom. That means I’m at the laundry room for a max of 40 minutes.

I just have to make sure my stamina holds out. I hate when I can’t do the things I’ve planned.


810 posted on 08/13/2015 11:37:47 AM PDT by Monkey Face (I've finally lost my mind!If you find it don't bother to return it It wasn't working properly anyway)
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To: moose07

Well, it was sorta your turn! LOL!


811 posted on 08/13/2015 11:38:38 AM PDT by Monkey Face (I've finally lost my mind!If you find it don't bother to return it It wasn't working properly anyway)
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To: Tax-chick

I saw what you did... <3


812 posted on 08/13/2015 11:39:36 AM PDT by Monkey Face (I've finally lost my mind!If you find it don't bother to return it It wasn't working properly anyway)
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To: Monkey Face

Aw, come on now, it’s tidier than the cat chow cannery. Carnivores, it’s what they do.

Just really big tid bits.


813 posted on 08/13/2015 11:40:49 AM PDT by Covenantor ("Men are ruled-...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern." Chesterton)
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To: W.

My Z80-core TI-85 has a 128x64 LCD display. The old TRS-80 had 128x48. I’m mulling an emulator to see if “Invasion Orion,” “Temple of Apshai,” “Taipan” or other fun 1980’s games would run on the thing. THAT would be a real kick!


814 posted on 08/13/2015 11:41:09 AM PDT by HKMk23 (You ask how to fight an idea? Well, I'll tell you how: with another idea!)
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To: Covenantor

Not before lunch, is what I’m sayin’...and that’s in the microwave while I wait for my stomach to settle...


815 posted on 08/13/2015 11:44:23 AM PDT by Monkey Face (I've finally lost my mind!If you find it don't bother to return it It wasn't working properly anyway)
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To: HKMk23

Good to see you again, Mr. Mom. How are things going?


816 posted on 08/13/2015 11:45:10 AM PDT by Monkey Face (I've finally lost my mind!If you find it don't bother to return it It wasn't working properly anyway)
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To: Tax-chick

The old “That’s the only time we’re booked” ploy, eh?

I can tell you that’s a KAOS front. KAOS has been infiltrating that area from that photo shop since the days when I was the only one who had a shoe phone. 99 had gotten herself a job answering the phones, but I’ve since lost contact with her.

I went in there looking for her last wee. Apparently I missed her by that much.


817 posted on 08/13/2015 12:11:16 PM PDT by ArGee (Unfortunately, when everything's insane, nothing is.)
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To: Monkey Face; NicknamedBob; Darksheare; Tax-chick; Dead Corpse; fanfan; Harmless Teddy Bear; ...

I didn’t sleep at all last night...

FIL’s attorney weeks ago objected to our annual conservatorship accounting. There’s a receipt requirement that is commonly waived as long as the overall numbers pencil out. But — NNNOOOOO, not THIS year — this bozo wants receipts for EVERYTHING; I’m talking HUNDREDS of transactions, so we’re burning down the barn, here, to pull it together.

I’m a hair’s breadth from releasing the cantankerous old salt to the care of a Private (read “PAID”) conservator who will not put up with ANY of his crap; ergo, NO more internet, NO more VISA card (reloadable cash card, maybe), NO more TV, NO more personal bank accounts, and — if he won’t cool his oppositional jets — a new apartment in the “secured” wing of a care facility, and dialysis transport limited to a SHORT list of pre-approved, paid providers.

I’m NOT married to him; he’s NOT one of my kids; he’s pushing his luck pretending to be as high on my priority list as he acts like he is. If he wasn’t a Veteran with the Purple Hearts to prove he’s actually got a modicum of honor, I’d have washed my family’s hands of him MONTHS ago. Even at that, he’s tap-dancing on my VERY last nerve.

In funny news:
Our bevvy of hens are popular with a few friends who come by for premium eggs on occasion, but the laying has abated somewhat in recent days. One friend phoned the other day asking after a dozen, and I had to tell her we had just 11. She said she’d be happy with just that, and started on her way. I replied that I’d check the coop once more just before she arrived on the possibility that one of the hens would round out the full dozen as she was driving over. Sure enough, there in the coop my little black hen was brooding over an egg. An egg ALMOST — but not quite — the size of a ping-pong ball. Laughing uncontrollably at the irony, I put it in with The Eleven. Our friend was every bit as humored when she arrived and I gave her the “ta-daa” moment revealing her fresh dozen eggs; she thought it was just a riot.

So, just this morning the same hen gifted us with yet another “pebble.”

It’s just my opinion, but I think that little black hen knows more than she’s letting on. If I had to hazard a guess, I’d say she’s the ringleader of the labor slow-down. There are rumblings of trade-unionism about the hen house.

The poor dears; such heavy yolks they bear...

Hope you all appreciate my efforts at keeping the sunny side up.


818 posted on 08/13/2015 12:14:09 PM PDT by HKMk23 (You ask how to fight an idea? Well, I'll tell you how: with another idea!)
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To: HKMk23

UGH,.

May things get better soon!
As for me, I haven’t been on WoT as often as usual, “real life” intruded.


819 posted on 08/13/2015 12:18:21 PM PDT by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
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To: Monkey Face
file that says “MHTML Document,” and I can’t open it without IE trying to interfere. ...I don’t know how it got changed to MHTML..

Since you came up with a file format I never heard of, I did some research, and as I suspected it's one of those Microsoft inventions that is used if you save a web page from IE, which is why IE wants to play with it..

So we start with this tidbit:

A few words about MHTML files

MHTML files are nothing more than web page archives that contain external links, such as images, animations, audio files, but also its HTML 
source code. These are integrated in a single file that acts just like an archive.

The incompatibility issue occurs because this file type was created only for Internet Explorer. Consequently, it is more than likely that other 
browsers don't support it. 

And then there's this - which is probably more info than you ever wanted to know about a 'special' M$ file type:

MHTML document (MIME)

MHTML (short for MIME HTML) is a file extension for a Web page archive file format as saved by Internet Explorer. The archived Web page is 
an MHTML document. MHTML saves the Web page content and incorporates external resources, such as images, applets, Flash animations and so on, 
into HTML documents.

In Internet Explorer, when you save a Web page as a Web archive, the page is saved as an MHTML file. Any relative links in the HTML (those 
that don’t include all information about the location of the content but assume all content is in a directory on the host server) will be 
remapped so the content can be located.

MHT files open in Internet Explorer or, with an add-on, in Firefox and some other browsers. MHTML Converter is one program that converts 
MHTML files to regular HTML.

Because MHTML files can be infected, they should always be scanned before opening.

MHTML files may also go by the extension MHT.

That repository of all the world's knowledge, Wikipedia says this about MHTML...

And, if all else fails and you can't get it to open, there's this freeware program on softpedia that will convert it back to normal HTML that should open on any browser or wordpad or whatever...

MHTML Converter

Of course, other than what the reviews say, I have no knowledge or experience with this software..

I would recommend also that if you get it to display, see if you can re-save it as something more standard like a PDF or even RTF which even though it's another M$ invention can be opened by more things than just IE... Another option if all else fails is to see if you can email the file to someone who could open it and also convert it to a PDF for you to eliminate the problem in the future..

820 posted on 08/13/2015 12:26:22 PM PDT by NoCmpromiz (John 14:6 is a non-pluralistic comment.)
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