Does he spell derailment differently than we do in America? Like deraolment or derailiment? Or maybe the British have a different word for it like unrailment or trainfobbing or churleywonkery.
I think of them as tangents, not derailments. Usually they make a dead-end thread a little more interesting.
I like tangents, I’m talking more like a thread with a medical question on abortion and then someone will suggest the current term is birth cancellation and then a abortion debate breaks out for the one millionth time and then no one wants to wade into it so thread basically derailed.
You start out by never giving a thread a title like that, because most folks here will take it as a challenge or a dare.
Or a double dare.
Or a double dawg dare.
Did you know that Daisy never made a Red Ryder model that came with a compass in the stock and a thing to tell you what time it was?
I’m not sure that discussions about wheat flour are relevant to the OP.
I think the OP asks an interesting question, but I would rephrase it: how do you ensure that the topic of the thread gets addressed? In other words, the answer to bad speech is more speech.
But you can do something like I just did. Point out that a hijack is non-topical, but don’t worry too much about it. Restate the question of the OP, or point out topical elements that have not been sufficiently addressed. You can even cajole (though that can backfire). Just don’t bark orders or act like a control freak.
If you are a poster, it’s nice to avoid or evade hijacks and tangents on page 1, or until the OP has been addressed. Another courtesy is to label your hijack/tangent: that puts a damper on the replies and permits the uninterested to skim over the material.
(Yes, yes, I got the joke and I approve.)
Agreed. The OP is more of a rice flour OP. So what are some of your favorite brands? Also, should I be using organic?
And you can always take another shot. Nothing stops you from reframing the question, and trying again, it’s been done before. Just own, in the OP, it didn’t go the way you’d hoped, and you want to try again. That’s not so hard.
But some of the threads I’ve enjoyed most were conversations that wandered away, and back around, finally settling where no one could have guessed! Sometimes, it’s part of the fun!
I’m a huge Wilco fan, but prefer their more experimental stuff from the Yankee Hotel Foxtrot era.
Oh, brands? Probably McDonalds.
Where’d you learn that shit? Fox News?
FTR, McDonald’s is a Tom Steyer outfit.
I neglected to mention that in the Wake, I, iv, 87.12, John MacDonald is mentioned. He wrote the account presented by the Parnell Commission, which runs through the guilty conscience of HCE, and bears an amusing resemblance to the way the mods approach these matters. (Jonathan Chance knows exactly what I mean…)
But you can still shoot your eye out.
Would this were true. I see all too many threads like this one, essentially ruined within 10 posts.
That’s not true. Some threads are actually derailed by the OP himself throwing in some extraneous opinions that people take issue with. And it’s pretty common in GQ for people to pop in with personal opinions that do nothing to address the actual question in hand.
In GQ, I’m less concerned with thread drift after the question has been adequately answered, and hardly consider it a derailment. It’s posts that distract from the question being answered at all that are a problem.
Hey! Boca Raton is my part of the world. It’s about a half hour drive from my office.
I wonder him many cities we can name that are two-parters, like Boca Raton.
I use scissors
Philadelphia, Illinois, Salt Lake City…This is too easy.
You know who else was easy? Hitler.
No wait, that doesn’t sound right…
Damn. Even the Kindle edition is nearly $150.00.
There is no way to keep a thread from being derailed.
However, if you use a derailleur, it’s pretty easy to put it back on the chainring.