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!
That is what I was afraid of.....to advanced to make it swirl. Lol. :)
That kid will go far in life.
Darks will glide with finesse and grace and touch folks with the icy fog when they least expect it. Ask him some day, about the “Anti-Claus.”
(I could tell you about the Anti-Claus, but it’s not my bidniss.)
*ahem*
Even MENTIONING the Anti-Claus is best done in a very bright room with all entrances and exits clearly in sight and easily accessible.
But the boy built his own redneck farm Segway and that’s a heck of a lot fun.
Face, now that I’ve thought about it, that gizmo would be the perfect Walmart shopping cart for you.... with a canister foghorn of course.
Ooh yeah! :)
The best Wal-Mart shopping device would definitely need a cowcatcher.
One that can handle very big cows.
LoL,
Evening ArGee. :)
I’m so glad you didn’t put “good” on there.
I’m sitting here waiting for others to solve a build problem so we can get an urgent build made and tested and put into Production.
The urgency is palpable and there’s nothing I can do but watch.
This is where tradition comes into its own.
“ I’m putting the kettle on, anyone for a brew? “
Kills two birds with one stone. :)
When a wheelbarrow comes with a helmet ......I quit !......:o)
Can’t recall the comedian, but back in the late fifties, he had a skit with this bit,
“James Louis you stay away from that wheelbarrow, you know you don’t know nuthin’ bout machinery!”
Fairway must be similar to our Fresh Market.
I haven’t bought anything there so far, but it’s an awfully pretty place. I like the way they have the coffee and the chocolate facing each other...those two aromas just go together, IMO.
Look on the bright side; at least you aren't working with Legos.
Speaking of which ... What makes sense about using Legos to build a replica of the Antikythera Device?
Lego doesn’t corrode in salt water?
Is it even possible to build it in Lego?
Brother Dave Gardner .......:o)
That’s the man!
Thanks, I can look him up now.
;-)
Apparently, there are devices meant to be assembled into the matrix of a Lego assembly to do physical comparisons and gear-working, such as orreries and the Antikythera Mechanism.
I haven't located the links I was following when I was studying the matter, but yes it is possible.
Perhaps a better mechanism for the ardent amateur historian is a clockwork mechanism designed to duplicate the ability of the Antikythera Mechanism to predict eclipses and such. But one has to decide whether a complete duplication is a desirable thing, considering that the dates involved are a couple of thousand years past.
I am inclined to think that the device had a purpose in being aboard a ship in the Mediterranean. I like to think that it could be used to facilitate navigation.
Even after the monumental task of deciphering precisely what the mechanism was and how it could be used, there remain some intriguing possibilities about who used it and in what ways.
It is, or was, in a word, the world's first analog computer; tasked with tracking and indicating eclipses and other movements and relationships of observable heavenly bodies.
An extremely ambitious concept! And it was completed and functional!
.
Two thousand years ago ...
Is Dave Gardner like Dave Bowman?.
Or my favorite, Dave Lister?,
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