Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

[J.Quondam]

No, I’m pretty sure this has been asked before and the software doesn’t support it.

you're right, it is brought up periodically:

Thread 'Is there a way to block threads?'

Nov 29, 2024

There are a bunch of thread topics that have been popping up recently that I really just don't even want to see in the feed.
Is there anyway to just block a thread outright?

• Leatherhead
• Replies: 16
• Forum: Meta

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Thread 'Thread block function?'

Mar 22, 2023

Just a request to enable/implement a thread block function so we can avoid topics or discussions which have gone in a direction we dont care for.

• Scribe
• Replies: 5
• Forum: Meta

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Thread 'Any Way to Block *Threads*?'

Jul 18, 2022

So here's something that has come up for me in the past month: while I am averse to blocking members (I have no quarrel with those who do, mind you), one thing I have found myself wishing I could do is block from view whole threads that have veered into pedantry and acrimony (el-remmen really chose the right term for that: "pedantry"). Is there any way of doing that?

• Guest 7034872
• Replies: 5
• Forum: Meta

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[Scribe]

you're right, it is brought up periodically:

Thread 'Is there a way to block threads?'

Nov 29, 2024

There are a bunch of thread topics that have been popping up recently that I really just don't even want to see in the feed.
Is there anyway to just block a thread outright?

• Leatherhead
• Replies: 16
• Forum: Meta

• 

Thread 'Thread block function?'

Mar 22, 2023

Just a request to enable/implement a thread block function so we can avoid topics or discussions which have gone in a direction we dont care for.

• Scribe
• Replies: 5
• Forum: Meta

• 

G

Thread 'Any Way to Block *Threads*?'

Jul 18, 2022

So here's something that has come up for me in the past month: while I am averse to blocking members (I have no quarrel with those who do, mind you), one thing I have found myself wishing I could do is block from view whole threads that have veered into pedantry and acrimony (el-remmen really chose the right term for that: "pedantry"). Is there any way of doing that?

• Guest 7034872
• Replies: 5
• Forum: Meta

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Yeah, you have to block the thread starter.

 

[overgeeked]

Ah. So you weren’t planning on actually reading anything I wrote before responding.

Mrs. Brown voice. “That’s nice.”

 

[Scribe]

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You've got no clue, and it shows.

 

[Thomas Shey]

Getting birthday reminders for dead friends is kinda bittersweet. It reminds you both that they're gone and that you had time with them in the first place.

I can't help but grimace when I occasionally see Scott Bennie and Steve Perrin's FB profiles pop up. But I can't make myself unfriend them.

 

[Thomas Shey]

Yup, I found it in the crawlspace. First thing I'm going to do is paint it blaze orange, and wrap the pipe with reflective tape.

Something else that you home-owning folks might not know: when you need to shut your water off in a hurry--say, a pipe froze and ruptured--the easiest place to do that is at the water meter. You need a special tool for that, and it costs $3 at the hardware store. Buy a couple of them: one for your tool box, and another for your emergency kit.

I gather other places don't have external cutoffs? We've got a knife switch right next to the house.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Oh, Rule 34 pre-dates the internet by a couple of decades...

Given what I’ve seen of visual and sculptural representations, I’d say it may predate the written word.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

If it exists there is... an adult version of it.

I believe the first published observation of the rule was a cartoon that showed a young man looking at a computer screen, exasperatedly exclaiming "Calvin and Hobbes!?!"

Disney is famously rumored to have a vault of pornographic illustrations of its characters by their own employees. By their terms of employment, those pieces are Disney’s IP.

But instead of destroying it all, they’ve archived it. Don’t ask me why.

 

[CleverNickName]

I gather other places don't have external cutoffs? We've got a knife switch right next to the house.

It varies by location and era. Houses built in Portland in the late 19th century definitely don't, houses built here in the last 30 years definitely do, and everything in between is a big fat Maybe.

 

[dragoner]

Here, because an external one would freeze, I have one in the garage, and one out in my front yard, under a plate with the water meter, it is below the freeze line. Gate valve in the garage, and I have a long handle for the one in the yard.