I knew, before I’d opened either thread.
I figured it was the usual heavyhanded crap, and I was right.
Although the mislabeling of the link back to the original thread (“Would you support jackbooted thugs beating down your doors and setting your homes on fire?”} was a particularly disarming touch. Ditto the claim that it related back to a thread about mandatory restaurant inspections.
You see, while links are a necessity, if you purport to tell your audience what it is that you’re linking back to, they have every right to rely on that description, unless they decide they want to know more.
If people took you at your word, and were confused as a result, that’s your fault.
Funny thing, Lib, was that I’d taken your advice before you gave it - I figured I knew what was coming, so I didn’t need to read it because I could write it ahead of time. Kinda like a Cal Thomas column.
And if, here, you’d just left it at a general warning, I still would have stayed out. But I had to see whether your anti-Twisty rant was justified, or was as asinine as your parody promised to be. This is how it works: if you Pit a particular poster, people are going to go to the original thread and see if they think it was justified.
Anyhow, if you’re going to name names, as some sort of indication that Twisty was wrong: Eve and Revtim seemed to take you seriously. Waverly and jarbaby took you seriously about the restaurant inspections. Jack Batty, PhiloVance, and peepthis thought you were the One-Trick Parody Pony**. And Maeglin, lieu, and anya marie, whether they ‘got it’ or not, had the following to say, respectively: “This has got to be an all-time low.” “Dude, this is pretty rough.” “I think this is an awkward and bloodyminded topic for a parody thread. And the thought of people entering my home like that invites nightmares and advanced weaponry.”
Like I said, Lib, I’ve quit reading your parody threads, except when you attract extra attention to them, like here. Including a rant at a specific poster, referencing back to the parody thread, was not a way to get people to avoid the thread, but rather a way to get more people to read it.
So AFAICT, this thread itself is a parody of its stated purpose. I don’t know whether others will ‘get the joke’ or not, but as usual, people will be confused, and opinion will be divided. But suffice it to say that if you meant the thread title seriously rather than humorously (admittedly, I don’t believe it), you undermined your own message.