An over-inflated sense of self-importance.

[Hamadryad]

Arden Ranger:
I scandelize people enough just posting some of the stuff I post here!

Try and wrap your minds around what would be in a Journal of mine...

hardygrrl:
And just when I had decided to stop being a board slut....

I'm now the expert on anal sex

Just....I mean, damn. You're both popular posters and stuff, and I'm sure you get invited to the best parties and all of the cool people write your names in their slam books, but you're REALLY not that goddamned interesting.

AR: On the i-net, I can find pictures of people shitting into each others' mouths. I can buy used tampons. (I mean, you know, if I wanted to...) Do you REALLY think anyone would be THAT shocked or surprised at anything you wrote in an online journal...especially considering how little your posts have already left to the imagination?

hardygrrl: In this thread (http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=68974) two people referenced your post, which was the fourth one in the thread and therefore easily the first one with ANYTHING other than an embellished "yes" or "no". It did not automatically make you the board expert on anal sex (although you and AR seem as though your would be happy to take anyone who asked on a world tour - on your mattress). It just made you the first one to post clinically in that thread.

Don't get me wrong. I have no problem with peoples' sexuality, or their expression of the same. But, damn, y'all are both already so impressed with yourselves, I'm amazed that there's room for anyone else.

If you crave readership and attention that much, open an MPSIMS thread and make the OP nothing but a link to the things you're written that we should all be awed/educated/rendered breathlessly sweaty over. If you're going to wear your ego out in the open for everyone to see, be fucking blatant about it. You both post like you're waiting for people to say, "Oh, you're so open-minded and fascinating!!!" But believe me...in context, neither of you is a trend-setter.

(Oh, and since I linked hardygrrl's ego, I'll go ahead and link Arden Ranger's (http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=47331&pagenumber=2) as well.)

[kabbes]

You know, one could set a clock by the regularity with which Hama posts such a thread in the pit. I kind of visualise her as an empty bottle filling with a purple fluid that represents her levels of annoyance at the egos of other posters. Then it reaches the top of the bottle and bam!

I like you Hama. Please don't stop. It's fun.

pan

(you do know that you're going to get the usual slams that go back and forth and draw this into a three page thread-about-nothing don't you? "If you don't like it don't read it" "I call 'em as I see 'em" "Leave them alone!" "I got the RIGHT" "yeah but you don't have to use it" etc etc ad nauseum. Still, each to their own.)

[Coldfire]

Don't mind me. I'll just be sitting in the corner, smiling gently at the sheer irony of someone starting a thread in the Pit to tell others that they're full of themselves - based on one sentence per poster.

[Hamadryad]

Originally posted by Coldfire
Don't mind me. I'll just be sitting in the corner, smiling gently at the sheer irony of someone starting a thread in the Pit to tell others that they're full of themselves - based on one sentence per poster.

Happy to entertain you. I live to serve.

[Hamadryad]

Originally posted by kabbes
You know, one could set a clock by the regularity with which Hama posts such a thread in the pit. I kind of visualise her as an empty bottle filling with a purple fluid that represents her levels of annoyance at the egos of other posters. Then it reaches the top of the bottle and bam!

You know...that may not be wholly inaccurate.

You know...I have no problem with ego. I have ego. I am the vainest person with low self-esteem I know...and I'm not trying to joke. I love it when people read things I've said and respond at all - it means I've made an impact and feeds my ego. See? I know that anyone posting to this thread feeds my ego. I'll say it: MY EGO IS BEING FED! That's not why I STARTED the thread - or any thread - but I'll cheerfully admit a certain rush when I see my name mentioned by someone else.

It's the self-referential sotto-voce ego-feeding that kills me. The hyphens kill me too, but they kill me with kindness - how can I refuse their insidious appeal?

[kabbes]

I do so admire those who truly know themselves.

And I don't want to get in too deep here lest I too be forced to face aspects of myself that I don't want to admit to.

pan

[Arden Ranger]

WTF?

Excuse the hell out of us. Heaven forbid we should offend you.


(although you and AR seem as though your would be happy to take anyone who asked on a world tour - on your mattress).

Very nice.

[hawthorne]

And I thought I finally had myself a Pit thread. Fuck.

[Kayeby]

Hamadryad, I don't get it. I read both those threads, and honestly didn't see their posts as ego-feeding. :confused:

Was it just those threads, or is there some board history that I'm not getting? For what it's worth, I posted in your MPSIMS thread ... :)

[Finagle]

Hamadryad, what is your problem? First you ran SexyWriter out of town on a rail and now you're attacking two other posters for posts that are completely non-offensive and non-confrontational. You had to go back over a month to find something of hardygrrl's to attack. What, you've been saving up for this lame rant?

Are you worried that there might be female posters who are more popular than you are? Trust me, keep this up and there are going to be 14 year old trolls that are more popular than you are.

[Hamadryad]

Originally posted by Finagle
Are you worried that there might be female posters who are more popular than you are? Trust me, keep this up and there are going to be 14 year old trolls that are more popular than you are.

Agh...you have cut me to the quick. You hit the nail on the head. You are totally, completely right. I ache for more popularity and the only way I think I can get it is to run down people who are obviously more beautiful, intelligent, witty and charming than myself.

And the 14-year-old trolls thing....oh, how could you so surgically slice to the root of it like that? I stand in awe at your amazing ability to look into my very soul and pinpoint the one thing that stands between me and the popularity I so desperately crave and deserve.

I bow down in awe. Your amazing innate ability to see into my very soul and wrest from therein my innermost terrors and fears...it leaves me a hollow shell, withering on the floor under the blazing fire that is your righteous indignation.

I have been felled. Throw me in the fire. Thou hast bested me in this battle of wits and I humbly beg that you make the killing blow swift and sure.

hee hee hee hee hee hee hee hee

[Cat Whisperer]

SexyWriter's gone?!? Awwwww...I've gotta admire anyone who can argue Scylla to a standstill.

[hardygrrl]

Hamadryad...

First off let me state the blindingly obvious-if you don't like it don't read it.

Second-of you're going to quote me,di it correctly. The exact quote ends with a smilie-as in haha,I"M KIDDING.

Third-Why just pick on me and AR? Why not attack some of the male Dopers as well? There are some guys here-we all know who-who flirt heavily in every thread or make references to their abilities,so to speak...is that ok?

Fourth-While you were doing your search you skipped threads/posts where I admitted insecurities or problems I'm having with MY love life-was that selective reading on your part? Didn't fit your case so didn't register,huh?


Yes,I flirt on this board. BFD. I try to contain it in threads about flirting. And if you read my sig, you will see that I do have someone in my life I care deeply about. He's aware on my activity here and does not judge me so why should you?


PS....Go to the doctor,please, and get that bug pulled out of your ass. Tell them ahead of time to use the long forceps because it sounds like it's really lodged up there.

[tiny ham]

In the immortal words of my mom:

HI-YA HOLY LADIES!

Hama, I mean WOW! The anal sex thread happened like...glaciers ago. It's still bothering you?

And Arden Ranger, while being also being a fun little sexual powerhouse, is one of the more brilliant, clever and kind posters I've met on these boards along with being a good, hardworking mother. (I'd like to know hardygrrl better, but I don't so I can only speak to your comments about Arden)

Do you REALLY think anyone would be THAT shocked or surprised at anything you wrote in an online journal...especially considering how little your posts have already left to the imagination?

Arden never said that we'd be shocked or surprised. She asked us to wrap our minds around what she wrote. I'd be shocked and surprised if what she wrote wasn't insightful, funny, sexy and smart.

Just my opinion.

And before you go off on me. Yes I know, I'm a flirter as well. WHEN IT'S APPROPRIATE. Somedays the hormones just dictate my behavior.

From what I've seen, neither of these ladies have subjected us to their dripping wet hot hot all anal libidos in Great Debates lately so do us all a favor and ease up.

jarbaby

[Drastic]

My cynical side's first thought was "huh. Cattiness about other women flirting. That's new." I must admit, it was also the second and third thoughts.

My slightly-less cynical side, once it could get a thought in edgewise, sees somewhat clumsy but nonetheless sincere attempts at humor on all sides, and all sides missing same. (It also pointed out that perhaps I'm misreading gender, whereupon my cynical side shrugged and grumbled and wandered on to something else.)

That said, flirty threads cause mild annoyance in me. So I tend to avoid them. Works pretty well.

[hardygrrl]

Selective reading...it's not just for breakfast anymore.

Hama-- I just had to add something. I have a challenge for you.

GROW THE FUCK UP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


I'm oh so sorry if me and AR's posts offend your elegant sensibilities so much. I guess the posts I've had about movies,music,books,even when I talked about my family and friends or helped other Dopers with issues would REALLY piss you off.

Again, I flirt. Big fucking deal.But that's not all I do and to imply so makes you look stupid and petty.


BTW-does the fact we get responses make you crazy? Good.


You don't know me at all and therfore have NO right to judge me.



Go get laid,please.

[Helen's Eidolon]

In MHO, this isn't about flirting.

This is about Hama completely and totally overreacting. What is up with that? Two people make offhand jokey comments and you start a pit thread? That's fucked.

[manhattan]

Originally posted by Hamadryad
But, damn, y'all are both already so impressed with yourselves, I'm amazed that there's room for anyone else.


Originally posted by Hamadryad (http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=72519)
I am openly bisexual and proud of it.
I give amazing head.
When I do, I am a fantastic flirt.
I can touch my tongue to my nose.
I am raising awesome kids.
When drunk, I can dance like no one's business.
I find the beauty in at least one ordinary thing every day.
I don't tell other peoples' secrets.
I am openly, rather than underhandedly, a bitch.
I make killer deviled eggs. OK, I admit it. I'm confused.

[tiny ham]

Originally posted by manhattan

OK, I admit it. I'm confused.

just reread the penultimate line in that list, Manny and you'll have your answer.

I had a friend who was so excited and proud to be a bitch. She delighted in telling everyone how she treated people badly and had little regard for their feelings.

yeah.

that was in highschool.

jarbaby

[Albert Rose]

Come on now.

[AwSnappity]

When people make posts such as AR's and hardy's, it's mostly in jest. Like, "You all know how totally awesome I am. Oh yeah, I'm real great." (No offense to AR or hardy; I don't know if you took it to mean any offense.) Or at least, I say stuff like that all the time as a joke. My friends know I don't truly think I'm the greatest, nor do they think I have the lowest self-esteem. It's just silly and fun. I think that's what these posters might be getting at.

That being said, I do think it's a little annoying that the hardygrrl posts I have read most recently usually include something about her SO. However, I know I haven't read all of her posts, so I can't say either way if she brings him up all the time. Plus, her posts that I have read in the past have been nothing but great. So it cancels out, I guess.

I know this is the Pit, but I honestly don't want to offend anyone. I have no real beef with any of you.

[hardygrrl]

FireUnderpantsBoobs...

Huh?


If I'm talking about Stinky Paws, it's-I think-in threads that it would be natural to talk about him. The Secret Crushes thread or the Pit Thread I had about my former friend.


Like I said above,I don't just post about my sex life or my SO. I do post to other threads and discuss other things.

Geez....I try to behave, I really do.

[andros]

. . .must . . . resist . . .

. . . temptation . . .growing . . .






Meeeee-ow! Fffft! Hissss!

CATFIGHT!



. . . oh shit . . .

:d&r:

[AwSnappity]

Hardygrrl:

I said that I haven't read every single one of your posts, so I'm probably wrong. However, I don't remember going into any secret crushes threads - I try to stay out of those - and I still remember hearing about your SO more times than once or twice. Anyway, I'm happy for you and SP...or as much as I can be without really knowing you. But I do know how good it is to have someone who cares about you. Honestly, though, I wasn't trying to attack you. And I didn't mean to hijack - sorry about that.

[Ukulele Ike]

Y'know, Hamadryad really does make the best deviled eggs.

[hardygrrl]

Originally posted by FireUnderpantsBoobs
Hardygrrl:

I said that I haven't read every single one of your posts, so I'm probably wrong. However, I don't remember going into any secret crushes threads - I try to stay out of those - and I still remember hearing about your SO more times than once or twice. Anyway, I'm happy for you and SP...or as much as I can be without really knowing you. But I do know how good it is to have someone who cares about you. Honestly, though, I wasn't trying to attack you. And I didn't mean to hijack - sorry about that.

It's cool. Sorry if I snapped at you when my anger should be directed at the OP.

After what happened with my IRL former friend-see the pit thread What the Fuck is YOUR problem-Besides the Obvious?-I'm a little hypersensitive about the topic.

I'm still flirting with other Dopers so Hama?

Go get fisted,hard.Repeatedly with a hand dipped in honey and sand. And shut your whining piehole while you're at it.

[obfusciatrist]

How about we all just quit flirting altogether. It is, after all, pretty stupid.

There are about five people on these boards I avoid because all they ever seem to talk about is how much they like sex (much as there are several I avoid because all they seem to talk about is how they are gay, or christian, or atheists, or whatever). I'm not saying that it is all they talk about, but it sure feels that way.

Arden Ranger is one of those.
Hamadryad is another.

hardygrrl is not on the list.

So, Arden Ranger and Hamadryad, you both seem pretty full of yourselves. Cope with it. (And before anybody brings it up: yes, I too am full of myself. But that is because I rightly realize that I am superior to you all in every way.)

[Arden Ranger]

Oh. I'm crushed.

No. Really.

::rolleyes::

You obviously don't open the threads I post in except the sex threads. I think that says more about you, [b]obfusciatrist[/b,] than it does me.

[Sue Duhnym]

In "Cheezy Porn Plot Situations You've Been In" ( http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=70907 )

Hamadryad said: I post as a chunk of me screams, "Don't...don't...you're not awake yet...you're so totally not awake yet....you'll regret this...."

Aiight, I was dressed in a very interesting thingy made of leather straps and metal rings, and I was tied spread-eagled on the bed, and the hub left the room and invited a very good (male) friend of mine to come back and, you know, fill in the blanks.

[bum-chicka-WOW-WOW.....]

And I went to a wedding last year and the wedding present I gave the bride and groom was me for the weekend, and they did indeed avail themselves of my gift vigorously, several times.

And I'm a' shuttin' up now....

Interestingly, Arden Ranger and hardygrrl didn't have anything to sat in that one.

I wonder who's bed it really is that's being used to it's best, highest use.

[Grok]

Originally posted by featherlou
SexyWriter's gone?!? Awwwww...I've gotta admire anyone who can argue Scylla to a standstill.

I exchanged email with SexyWriter last week. She's around, but busy. I predict, and hope for, her return to active posting soon.

[Arden Ranger]

Not everyone sees their sex lives as a "Cheezy Porn Plot"

[hardygrrl]

Sue .....thank you :)

Interesting post from someone who states me and AR want to give world tours on our mattresses.


At least I don't give my cooch as a wedding present.


And was that something they registered for? Oh-they registered at Psychoskankorama. That explains it.

[Scylla]

Ladies, ladies.

Enough all ready.

There's no need to fight.

There's plenty of me for everybody.

[manhattan]

Originally posted by hardygrrl
At least I don't give my cooch as a wedding present.
::quietly scratches hardygrrl off the invite list...

[hardygrrl]

Originally posted by manhattan
[
[/B]::quietly scratches hardygrrl off the invite list... [/B][/QUOTE]

Sorry manhattan....I've looked and looked but even Martha Stewart has no hints on how to wrap a cooch.

[hardygrrl]

Originally posted by manhattan
[
[/B]::quietly scratches hardygrrl off the invite list... [/B][/QUOTE]

Sorry manhattan....I've looked and looked but even Martha Stewart has no hints on how to wrap a cooch.


Interesting that Hama had the balls to start this thread but hasn't replied lately....

[Silo]

Originally posted by obfusciatrist
How about we all just quit flirting altogether. It is, after all, pretty stupid.
Yeah, but remember when you first came to the board and flirted. It was like whoa! - I'm flirting with people online and turning them on with my words :eek: OMG this is fan-tab-u-lus!!!! OOoooOOOO I'm turning on HotJennieSleek with my words! -swoon- Oh yeah she wants me BAD :::halting::: Well it seemed fun for a little while. ::shrug::

Hm, so let me straggle for a point here ...

OK, here's one:

There are about five people on these boards I avoid because all they ever seem to talk about is how much they like sex (much as there are several I avoid because all they seem to talk about is how they are gay, or christian, or atheists, or whatever). I'm not saying that it is all they talk about, but it sure feels that way.

Good point - very true. A priviliged few here are so trademarked in their ways and topics of discussion they're actually somewhat predictable... and sort of annoying. I've thought about starting a pit thread about this, but I'm lazy :p;) Pedestal posters I call them. It's nice to have a cause or strong interest, but when eighty to ninety percent of a person (with a *high* post count)'s posts purvey some agenda, it gets into the realm of masturbatory one-track-posting. Of course they have every right to be annoying, in that sense, and apparently don't know how to post otherwise. I tend to skim/skip over their posts for the most part as well. Anyway... not naming names here, but I'm sure most of you can jot down a handful of the same redundants. I wouldn't think of anyone in this thread as being one of them. ;) Bleh bleh bleh.

Oh, and if anyone wants an all nite tour of my mattress: openings are availible. Please take a number and BYOA.

[Hamadryad]

Yowza, folks.

Defensive much?

It stuns me that y'all have managed to get this pissed off this quickly over something I, known to none of you (and vice-versa, of this I am fully aware), posted.

I think (as usual) this is being blown entirely out of proportion. kabbes said, "you do know that you're going to get the usual slams that go back and forth and draw this into a three page thread-about-nothing don't you? "If you don't like it don't read it" "I call 'em as I see 'em" "Leave them alone!" "I got the RIGHT" "yeah but you don't have to use it" etc etc ad nauseum" - and accurately so.

First, allow me to quote these two lines:
"Don't get me wrong. I have no problem with peoples' sexuality, or their expression of the same."
"...open an MPSIMS thread and make the OP nothing but a link to the things you're written that we should all be awed/educated/rendered breathlessly sweaty over. If you're going to wear your ego out in the open for everyone to see, be fucking blatant about it."

The second of which addresses manhatten's: "OK, I admit it. I'm confused."

Okay...now....hardygrrl first.

hardygrrl: "There are some guys here-we all know who-who flirt heavily in every thread or make references to their abilities,so to speak...is that ok?"
me: I'm sure I'll get around to them eventually.

hardygrrl: "Didn't fit your case so didn't register,huh?"
me: Well... since I in no way indicated that I was talking about every single post you've written in every thread about anything, I'd say that doesn't apply. I guess it could be a qualified "yes...."

hardygrrl: "Go to the doctor,please, and get that bug pulled out of your ass."
me: Actually...I'm beyond medical help. The doctor told me that the bug has its pincers firmly set in my colon. With luck it will slowly deteriorate. As senility sets in, in my twilight years, it may finally lose brain function and I will have peace.

hardygrrl: "BTW-does the fact we get responses make you crazy? Good."
me: Not particularly. Sorry to rain on your parade. I'm honestly not on the boards for popularity.

hardygrrl: "Go get laid,please."
me: Wow...you even used the magic word. I can't tell you how much that means to me. I'd be happy to. I promise not to say anything about it on the boards, though.

hardygrrl: "Go get fisted,hard.Repeatedly with a hand dipped in honey and sand. And shut your whining piehole while you're at it."
bear in mind, these are all WITHOUT further comment from me.
me: Hrm. I imply that you have ego and are highly sexualized, and use your sexualization in part to feed your board ego...and you tell that it would bring you pleasure to know that I had basically been fisted with sandpaper.
And I'm whiny?

hardygrrl: "And was that something they registered for? Oh-they registered at Psychoskankorama. That explains it."
me: *pinches cheek* You're so adorable!

Sue Dunhym: "Interestingly, Arden Ranger and hardygrrl didn't have anything to sat in that one."

No, I think they've said it adequately in quite a few other places. At any rate, that post was entirely topic-appropriate. I don't recall having said...once...that I was annoyed by any flirting anyone did in any thread which was intended for flirting. Again. As usual. Besides which, I don't know why my opinion should matter enough for anyone to be this heated about it.

jarbabyj: "that was in highschool."

*pinches cheek* Gosh, and you're adorable TOO!! All of this cuteness is just KILLING me.

Arden Ranger: "Not everyone sees their sex lives as a "Cheezy Porn Plot""

I don't see my sex life as that either. Just the incidents I mentioned. Now who's judgeing someone's entire body of work on isolated incidents?

Ukelele Ike: "Y'know, Hamadryad really does make the best deviled eggs."

Damned straight, I do.

[Hamadryad]

Originally posted by hardygrrl
Interesting that Hama had the balls to start this thread but hasn't replied lately....


Sorry, I was out living my life, not waiting breathlessly for replies. Not to imply that you were. Which I'm not. But I know you won't believe me. Which I can live with.

[hardygrrl]

Hama....


Really,again with the selective reading.


Arden's comment about "cheesy porn" was in direct reference to YOUR post.


Yes, me and Arden flirt and discuss sexual techinques BUT I'll be damned if I've ever brought up something from my personal ilfe in the same excruciating detail like you do.

And the condescending attitude needs to go. Maybe that's why people respond to me and AR-beacuse we don't come across as a bitter bitch on wheels.



Ironic-you start the MPSIMS thread manhatten quoted from above and it's me and Arden who have the ego problems?

Hello kettle residence? It's the pot calling-you're black.

[Amedeus]

Originally posted by Hamadryad
Originally posted by hardygrrl
Interesting that Hama had the balls to start this thread but hasn't replied lately....


Sorry, I was out living my life, not waiting breathlessly for replies. Not to imply that you were. Which I'm not. But I know you won't believe me. Which I can live with.

Ahh, the "I have a life" law in action. Seems to pop up as often as Godwins law. Perhaps we should label it.

"Sorry, I didn't post because I have a life! Yes thats right, I had to go throw some Jews and Homosexuals in the gas chamber, sweep the bodies into the mass grave, and then make some really neat speech, sorry"


*This implies no insult, just a bit of humor combining the two noted laws*

[Crunchy Frog]

Hama - really now, I'm a bit lost here. What exactly is the problem you have with AR and hardygrrl? Since you've started the OP, the only evidence you've shown for their behavior is the posts mentioned in the OP, both of which can easily be construed as meant to be humorous.

If you're basing your opinion of these two based on those two posts, then shut up and quit being so judgmental. Not one of your posts following the OP has offered up any examples that they engage in the sort of activity you accuse them of on a regular basis. If there's more evidence, I'd like to see it. If not, quit being so bitchy and taking someone to the Pit because *you* seem to think they're engaging in too much ego-feeding.

[Hamadryad]

Originally posted by Amedeus
Ahh, the "I have a life" law in action. Seems to pop up as often as Godwins law.

Which is precisely why I phrased it, "living my life," rather than "having a life." I wasn't implying that I have a life (and thereby implying somehow that other don't), you goon, I was saying, "I didn't reply all day because I was in a place other than where my computer is, doing other stuff."

:rolleyes: again with the hardygrrl:Ironic-you start the MPSIMS thread manhatten quoted from above and it's me and Arden who have the ego problems?

Hello kettle residence? It's the pot calling-you're black.

And if you bothered to read my posts as carefully as you insist that I should read yours, you would note that this has been more than adequately explained.

Boy, that whole pot/kettle thing, though...what a zinger.

[Myrr21]

Hello kettle residence? It's the pot calling-you're black.

Ok, that does it.

If I see one more mindless variant of pot, kettle, and black, somebody is going to pay with blood.

Sweet, delicious blood...

[obfusciatrist]

Originally posted by Arden Ranger

You obviously don't open the threads I post in except the sex threads. I think that says more about you, obfusciatrist, than it does me.

You'll note that I very explicitly said that I wasn't saying all you talk about is sex. Just that it feels that way. You're right, you talk about other things. I just did a quick look see and it seems your sex talk runs only about 33% of the threads in which you participate.

When somebody's reply to "what's your fantasy" is "to do half the stuff Arden Ranger has and not die in the process" then you have to admit that people are noticing a prominent element of your personality.

I'm not saying it is a bad thing to be redundantly, boringly, embarrasingly sexual in public places. I am just saying that Hamadryad is right in that you are very fond of letting us know how sexual you are. Unfortunately, Hamadryad is much the same so her attack comes off looking pretty stupid.

Anyway, sorry for intruding into the catfight. When I see a crowd resorting the rhetorical style of seventh graders I can't help but join in. It is so fun to reexperience my childhood.

If you people are going to have all out, grind down rumble of personality flame wars, try to do it with style and skill. Arden, hardygrrl, your replies make you sound like you're stuck in high school. Hamadryad, your riposte was nearly incomprehensible and resembled the barkings of a sun-stroked prarie dog.

TAKE SOME PRIDE IN YOUR WORK!


Oh, and Silo? I can't remember that because I never did it. Flirting with real people has always been my preference.

[Weirddave]

The best thing about Hammy is her balck-and often self depreciating-sense of humor. Others seem to be getting offeneded here, while as I see it, Hammy is having fun and making no apologies for herself. It's kinda a nice change from the DRAHMA that so many posters revel in.

[hardygrrl]

Geez Hama.....

Were you born this condescending OR did you mold yourself this way?


Jesus H Christ,like Crunchy said....

One line from a post PROVES that I'm an egomanic.

I'll state it again. You don't know me. The Dopers that do can testify that I'm nothing like you say. It's a fucking message board,not a way of life.

You dare to judge me based on posts and things I've stated here in my self defense? Again...you have no idea of what I'm like.So, to quote Chris Jericho...


Would you please SHUT THE HELL UP!


Deep breaths Hama.....in with the good air and out with the bad.








And BTW..there are a few Dopers who rub me the wrong way but I just let it slide. Since you felt the need to unburden yourself and attack me, I'm responding.

[Mauvaise]

Originally posted by Hamadryad
Just....I mean, damn. You're both popular posters and stuff, and I'm sure you get invited to the best parties and all of the cool people write your names in their slam books, but you're REALLY not that goddamned interesting.


Maybe not to you, but I'm sure there are plenty of people on this board who think they are. I mean really, how many of us is interesting to everyone on the boards, or even to the majority? I'd say damn few of us. I'm sure there are plenty of people that would be more than happy if I never posted again, or you never posted again, or if Arden never.. and the reverse is true. There are also people that would miss each of us if we didn't post again.

If you don't think a particular poster is interesting or what they post bugs you, why don't you just skip over the posts and not read them? What purpose is served in attempting to rake them over the coals in the Pit? I just don't get that. I mean there are plenty of posters that I could do without (and no, that's not a pointed barb directed to the OP or anyone else in the thread) .. and I do that exactly: do without them. I don't open threads that they start, and for the most part don't read any replies they've made to threads I am reading.

For the record, I generally enjoy your posts, Hama, but, and this isn't directed only at you, I don't understand the reasonings behind pit threads directed at posters who, for one reason or another, piss you off. Isn't it much simpler to just ignore them?

I also think you're wrong about Arden's motives behind what she posts regarding her sexuality. (I don't know hardy, so I won't presume to speak on her behalf .. not that Arden needs me to either) She is a very intelligent, witty, generous, compassionate, and yes, sexual, woman. I've seen nothing underhandedly egomanical in her posting style, nor do I believe she posts to seek validation as she strikes me as a confident person. And as someone pointed out, not even the majority of her posts are sexual in nature.

:: hits the submit button with trepidation -- I hate the Pit ::

[Sue Duhnym]

Originally posted by Silo
Please take a number and BYOA.

What is that acronym?

Bring Your Own Astroglide?

[Silo]

Originally posted by obfusciatrist
Oh, and Silo? I can't remember that because I never did it. Flirting with real people has always been my preference.

Well same here. I'm saying it was fun and different for a while. Still do it every now and then, but it doesn't do much for me. Different strokes; different folks, I guess. Some people appear to really blow their load flirting online - more power to them. I think the gripe is more geared toward the abundence of flirting content in MPSIMS because it didn't used to be like that... well not that excessive! And I'll admit all those cum covered threads make my mouse button stick everytime I visit MPSIMS anymore. Quit cumming people!


Sue, you got it! ... and don't forget to bring your own Astroglide!

[Mr. Cynical]

You are all stupid ninnies, and I hate you all equally.

[Living Dead Girl]

As much as I don't want to get involved here, I do partly agree with the OP's point. It can be annoying when someone appoints themselves the board "expert" on a certain matter - especially when the vast majority of posters would disagree. And when they approach a topic as if everyone has just been waiting for them to post. But then, I'm an easily forgotten, bitter newbie, so feel free to ignore me.

[hardygrrl]

I'll say it again...

What I said was "Now I'm the expert on anal sex :) "


as in haha, I'm kidding. I would never presume to be the expert on anything nor do I think people are breathlessly awaiting my posts.


I'm surprised I get replies sometimes....better not say that, it'll ruin my rep as being egotistical.

[Hamadryad]

Welp, all responses noted.

I still think a lot of folks are missing the point entirely, but that's their option and I'm not losing any sleep over it.

Arden Ranger: I do apologize for cutting as close to the bone as I apparently did. I have a great deal of respect for you overall...especially having read a lot of the posts you've made regarding the OK bombing and your participation in the search-and-rescue and cleanup. Your post in the thread I referenced....it's like (for instance) in threads about books, the people who make a point of saying, "Well, when I was 3 I had read the collected works of Descartes..." if you see what I'm saying. "I don't have an LJ because I'm soooo uber-risque and stuff." It's a stealth-ego thing, that's all. I do come across as a hell of a lot more harsh than I actually am. That can serve to sort the wheat from the chaff, though.

hardygrrl: Nothing you've said has changed my opinion about you an iota. I don't care how cool your friends think you are. That's why they're your friends...because they think you're cool. Everything else, though...if you care about my opinions this little, I'm not sure why you've been spluttering at me so heatedly - if ineffectually. I've been (as far as I can tell) reasonably even-tempered, and you have wished all kinds of abuse on me. *shrug* Your call. A little bit more originality would make your posts at least entertaining, though. Think about it, mmmkay?

Manservant Hecubus: Noted. So?

[Ukulele Ike]

It's the pickle juice, isn't it? You put a teaspoon of dill pickle juice into the yolks when you're mashin' them up?

[Hamadryad]

Originally posted by Ukulele Ike
It's the pickle juice, isn't it? You put a teaspoon of dill pickle juice into the yolks when you're mashin' them up?

Good gawd, no. I use mayo, sour cream, regular mustard, deli mustard, celery salt and dill...no pickle juice, no sugar and DEFINITELY no gods-be-damned pimento.

And of course a dash of paprika on each as a garnish. :D

[CrankyAsAnOldMan]

Originally posted by Living Dead Girl
As much as I don't want to get involved here, I do partly agree with the OP's point. It can be annoying when someone appoints themselves the board "expert" on a certain matter - especially when the vast majority of posters would disagree. And when they approach a topic as if everyone has just been waiting for them to post. But then, I'm an easily forgotten, bitter newbie, so feel free to ignore me.

No, I think you've hit the nail on the head, here. I'd like to completely set aside the debate about whether or not AR or hardygrl are guilty of this (and how much Hama herself might be seen to do the same). I think that generally speaking, some people get annoyed when any poster is perceived to be setting themselves up as the the "expert" in anything based on their unique personal experience. Be that suffering, christianity, martrydom, poverty, rock climbing, sexiness, dysfunctional families, wealth, love gone wrong, kinky sex, auto repairs, or making art out of toenail clippings. It just galls.

Now, what one does to set up this perception in other people may be overt--especially in the "suffering" and "martyrdom" department, to my chagrin--or it may be subtle, such as suggesting that other people better hold on to their chairs before they read what you're about to write. Even if that's done in jest, it's gonna bug some posters more than others.

I am saying this without passing judgment on the appropriateness of this thread or the accusations therein. I'm just expanding on what I thought was really perceptive in LDG's comment.

But I think the tone of this thread has turned completely, and the real debate still lays before us. I am sure I speak on behalf of the pimento lovers everywhere when I say Hama's vicious prejudice against pimentos must not go unpunished. Surrender your deviled-egg recipe, bitch, or suffer my wrath. Or send me some. Two dozen fed-exed to my home address by Sunday, whore. And don't try to skimp by counting the halves as complete eggs.

[moi]

Originally posted by hardygrrl
I'll say it again...

What I said was "Now I'm the expert on anal sex :) "


as in haha, I'm kidding. I would never presume to be the expert on anything nor do I think people are breathlessly awaiting my posts.

Um. Not long ago, the board seemed to have a field day over the interpretation of :rolleyes: (http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=71024). And now, gosh, I'm gonna have to do it all over again with this: :)

I read and posted to the anal sex thread back a bit, and when I read the above-mentioned and much-disputed line, hardygrrl, I read it as "I'm now the expert on anal sex, joy, hoorah!" (not hahaha).

Also, since I have nothing to add on this new deviled-egg front (aside from: ewwwwww), I have to ask about this new-fangled "just ignore so-and-so's posts" advice. Anyone really do this? Does it work? Or admit it! are ya like me, readin' things just to add to your annoyance every time ya see dagnabbit so-and-so's username?

[Hamadryad]

Originally posted by CrankyAsAnOldMan
I am sure I speak on behalf of the pimento lovers everywhere when I say Hama's vicious prejudice against pimentos must not go unpunished. Surrender your deviled-egg recipe, bitch, or suffer my wrath. Or send me some. Two dozen fed-exed to my home address by Sunday, whore. And don't try to skimp by counting the halves as complete eggs.

It's not prejudice. Prejudice is an unreasonable fear and hatred of something. Pimentos are little red slimy tangy nasty harbingers of death. That's not prejudice; it's FACT.

And I already surrendered the recipe. Geez, there's no pleasing some people.

And I don't recall having given you PERMISSION to criticize me. I hate pimentos, OKAY? And if it makes you mad that I like them, GOOD! I hope the thought of me hating pimentos gives you NIGHTMARES!!! And I'll cut the eggs any way I want to. I know you never mentioned it once, but I have to defend my rights, damn your eyes.

And I'm not a whore. I've never charged money. Not even once.

ANYhow....
Originally posted by CrankyAsAnOldMan
Now, what one does to set up this perception in other people may be overt--especially in the "suffering" and "martyrdom" department, to my chagrin--or it may be subtle, such as suggesting that other people better hold on to their chairs before they read what you're about to write. Even if that's done in jest, it's gonna bug some posters more than others.

Personally, I've gone through a bit of change since I started posting here....I used to do the flirting thing, but realized that I didn't want to have a reputation as a broad who wouldn't shut up already about her sex life...so I stopped. I understand that some people like that kind of attention and as I've said innumerable times, when they keep the flirting IN the flirting threads, hey, more power to 'em.

To restate my opinion: I have no problem with overt flirting in flirting threads, or with overt ego. It's the manipulation of people into thinking you're cool...or what have you...or, rather, the manner of speaking which implies that this is true without stating it outright...that irks me.

No one has to please ME, though. These threads I've started let me vent and, honestly, it's funny as hell when people blow things way out of proportion and start spewing incoherent insults at me. Blatant Ego: It makes me feel superior. Even though it's an illusion, it'll do for now.

[Finagle]

Originally posted by Hamadryad

Personally, I've gone through a bit of change since I started posting here....I used to do the flirting thing, but realized that I didn't want to have a reputation as a broad who wouldn't shut up already about her sex life...so I stopped.

And now you have a reputation of someone who just won't shut up already. Be proud.

[Mr. Cynical]

Originally posted by Hamadryad
Manservant Hecubus: Noted. So?
Exactly.

[Arden Ranger]

Hamadryad, if it's all the same to you, I would just as soon forget this whole thing. My post you referenced in the OP was made way past my bedtime and was a lame attempt at humor.

A sterling example of why I'm one of those people who need to use smilies consistantly, I guess.

That out of the way, I'm with you on the pimento thing. Abominations, that's what they are.

[Hamadryad]

Originally posted by Finagle
And now you have a reputation of someone who just won't shut up already. Be proud.
NOW??? Where have you BEEN??

[Ukulele Ike]

Originally posted by Finagle
And now you have a reputation of someone who just won't shut up already.

But many of us are willing to forgive her her sins, on account of those heavenly deviled eggs.

[Guinastasia]

Deviled eggs suck. As does this thread. Good god, do we CARE?

Jesus H. CHRIST! If this is the most annoying a poster ever gets!

I mean, Hamma, you're cool and all, but don't waste good Pit space and valuable flames on something so lame.

[Crunchy Frog]

Originally posted by Hamadryad
Prejudice is an unreasonable fear and hatred of something.
Actually, that's closer to a phobia.
Prejudice is a preconceived judgment or opinion or an adverse opinion or leaning formed without just grounds or before sufficient knowledge.

Still, judging from your description of pimentos in the same post it seems you have sufficient knowledge of the nasty little buggers to properly dispise them.

[hardygrrl]

And now that I've had some time to think clearly....and had a LONG talk with SP about this-thank you baby.:)


I'm not trying to pass myself off as the expert on ANYTHING. I'm also not trying to impress everyone with how cool I am, or how much I can flirt, or even what I do or don't do sexually.

I'm just responding as honestly and openly as I can. Sometimes that may come across as having a Diva attitude.


Hama..

Point taken about the personal attacks. I felt cornered and lashed out like a high schoooler instead of rebutting your OP like I did above. I do apologize for that.

When I said "you don't know me" I should have added because the Dopers who do can testify that IRL I might be this ballsy chick like I am here but I do have insecurities. Lots of them. I rarely show them here on the SDMB because I don't want to admit that I'm vulnerable. That I have had my feelings hurt by comments made here towards or about me.


Can we just let this die and agree to disagree?





BTW...thanks SP for listening to me:)

[Una Persson]

Originally posted by Hamadryad
Ukelele Ike: "Y'know, Hamadryad really does make the best deviled eggs."

Damned straight, I do.

Do you use a lot of paprika on them? I really like paprika on mine. Both for the taste and the color contrast - the bright red on the bright yellow and white of the egg.

[Una Persson]

Oh, never fucking mind. I just read that you use a dash of paprika. Shoulda read the whole thread.

[Stoid]

Originally posted by Hamadryad


And of course a dash of paprika on each as a garnish. :D


I too, am mistress of the Deviled Egg. And my secret is minced chives ( real chives, not the chopped tops of green onions...don't you just hate it when a restaurant tells you they serve their potatoes with sour cream and chives and they bring you chopped green onions? Annoys the hell outta me...) and horseradish Divine! (Also mayo, deli mustard, smidge of pickle, salt and pepper. I'll have to try your recipe)

[kabbes]

I love youse guys. All this entertainment just for lil' ol' me? Sadly it now appears to be winding down. So I'll just sigh, stick a note in the calendar and wait four weeks until Hama starts another such pit thread on .. oh .. ::checks diary:: June 28th.

See y'all then :D

And moi? I think that I may have to adopt "dagnabbit so-and-so" as my new SN replacement for "kabbes." Quite, quite beautiful.

pan

[kabbes]

Actually, come to think of it I would like to say a few slightly more serious things:[list=1] AR and hardygrrrrrrrl, did you not think that it would have been slightly more stylish to come in here and say something like "Don't worry folks, I'm now here to settle all your anal worries" or somesuch? Ever hear of rising above it? A touch of humour will always difuse a situation faster than a return rant and it's advice we could all do with reflecting upon from time to time.

obfusicist - JFTR I think that you're pretty cool.

My thoughts on flirting can be found in numerous places, e.g. here ("") where I said [example of flirting in a discussion of annoying things...]”PosterX, I love you, I want to screw your brains out” – otherwise known as flirting. If you want to indulge in this meaningless crap endlessly in MPSIMS then knock yourselves out. Just don’t interrupt a fierce debate on Republican Marijuana Smokers for Buddha in order to do it.

The thing is – it isn’t my position to tell others what they should post and how they should post it. They have to find their own MB feet. I’ve been chatting on various guises of the internet for about 10 years now – I’ve done the flirting thing, I’ve done the best friends thing, I’ve done the Meets and the chat. All good fun but I’m a bit bored with it now and the lures of IRL are a little too strong for me. I just want to use the MB for what is, in my opinion, its best attribute – debate with intellectually strong individuals from all viewpoints of life. However to many others this is all still relatively new and exciting. Furthermore to still more people, they haven’t got bored with it all - and I don’t have the right to tell them that they are wrong.[/list=1]Tolerance and humour. This MB would be a nicer place with more of each. On the other hand it'd probably be a great deal less fun.

I'm rambling now.

pan

[TwistofFate]

Kabbes- Did I ever tell you that I want you to bear my children? ;)

Hama: Wow. I usually look forward to anything you have to say. You are usually informative, interesting and fun. I really dont know why you posted this thread. It could have gone Freak Freely for a while, but fortunately seems to have been diffused. While you weren't the only one waving shitty sticks, the thread was a little OTT.

Arden and Hardy: I think both of you are the shiznit. While you were provoked, you needn't have baited Hama into replying again and again.

C'mon people. why fight each other over trivial matters when we should be out fighting ignorance?

[rodney king]
Can't we all just get along?
[/rodney king]

[kabbes]

Originally posted by TwistofFate
Kabbes- Did I ever tell you that I want you to bear my children? ;)Bear them where? Are we going on a trip?

hee hee

An' I love you too, man

pan

[Living Dead Girl]

hardygrrl: I never specifically said it was you I was talking about - I personally don't really care what you do or don't think you're the expert on. But on a message board, it's not what you think you said that matters - it's what everyone else took it to mean. And apparently, that comment rubbed a few people the wrong way. So maybe you should think about that.

Cranky: You have no idea how much I appreciated that response. :) I know we're not supposed to be nice in the pit, but thanks - you said that way better than I ever could.

[Ukulele Ike]

Mmmmmmmmmmmmm...I'm gonna try this if it ever gets warm enough to have a picnic around here.


Uova Sode Ripiene Estive

6 eggs
2-3 Roman tomatoes, cut into small dice
6 anchovies, coarsely chopped
1 tablespoon capers
Mayonnaise
Salt & pepper
3-4 large fresh basil leaves

Prepare the eggs as for deviled eggs.

To the yolks add the tomatoes, anchovies, capers, and enough mayo to bind the mixture lightly. Season with S&P to taste. Carefully mound the mixture into the egg whites. Tear the basil leaves into small fragments and scatter over the tops of the stuffed eggs.

-- from La Place & Kleiman; CUCINA RUSTICA, Morrow, 1990

[tiny ham]

Hama, I'm sorry I made a snide remark about your pride in being a bitch.

I came in here to defend my friend Arden and my hackles were all up. That was a crabby day for jarbaby all around.

I hope we can put this thread behind us and that I, one day soon, may sample your eggs.

IF YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN.

:: ahem ::

For lower fat and cholesterol deviled eggs, substitute half of the hardboiled yolks with plain mashed potatoes!

Just a little hint.

jarbaby

[hardygrrl]

LIvingDeadGirl...point taken as well.

I really need to think before I post which I'm learning the hard way.


Sometimes I say things that I think are clearly joking-the oft cited anal sex thing being a prime example-and find out later that what I said was not interpreted the way I meant.


More thinking,less typing. :)

[Fiver]

kabbes:A touch of humour will always difuse a situation faster than a return rant and it's advice we could all do with reflecting upon from time to time.
Defuse.

[Living Dead Girl]

hardygrrl: Hey, I wouldn't worry about it too much - obviously a lot of people took it the right way as well, looking at the amount of supporters you have. So no hard feelings?

[hardygrrl]

LivingDeadGirl....no hard feelimgs :)

[moi]

Utter Hijack #1
Stoid: What are "real" chives? Educate me!

Utter Hijack #2
kabbes: curtseycurtsey Thankyathankya!

Utter Hijack #3, a.k.a. With Some Trepidation...
Since everyone's at peace now and since kabbes brought up this flirting-in-unrelated-threads issue (okay, now I'm just makin' up excuses), can we chat, hardygrrl?
I usually dig ya. IRL, I bet you could fulfill my need for a foulmouthed, hard drinkin', sex talkin' girlfriend (http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=67122&pagenumber=2&postid=1255531).
What the hell is her point, everyone is asking...
But I'm startin' to cringe when I see your threads or posts. 'Cos it seems like there's always a little subline to yer SO. And part of me knows it's new and it will pass...or that it's all sorts of high drama 'cos it's the mystery doper...But, mostly, it just grates me. And I doubt my fellow Dopers want me adding a PS to most of my posts to that darn cat, y'know, thankin' him for an e-mail or mind-blowing sex...or reminding him to pick up some soy milk on the way home from work. It's kinda irrelevant. And maybe kinda tacky to use the SDMB to pass on what seems like private communciation.
You're obviously a popular and well-liked poster, and I certainly didn't want to "take you to the Pit" over this. 'Cos, really, I was just gonna get that infamous "don't read it" schtick mentioned above. But, mah problem is, I usually like your posts and generally want to read them--just that these days, I usually have to only read the middle bits, so I don't have to endure this:
[i]Originally posted by hardygrrl
And now that I've had some time to think clearly....and had a LONG talk with SP about this-thank you baby.:)
<snip>
BTW...thanks SP for listening to me:)
Um. Okay. Glad I got that out there. I don't know what you're gonna do with this info, maybe just food for thought. Hopefully ya won't wish rareasstorture on me.

FTR, I'm not flippin' out atcha. I'm just, y'know. Sayin'.

[kabbes]

Originally posted by Fiver
kabbes:A touch of humour will always difuse a situation faster than a return rant and it's advice we could all do with reflecting upon from time to time.
Defuse. No, I actually want my situation to gradually spread through the rest of the atmosphere.

Er...

[Fiver]

kabbes:Originally posted by Fiver
kabbes:A touch of humour will always difuse a situation faster than a return rant and it's advice we could all do with reflecting upon from time to time.
Defuse.No, I actually want my situation to gradually spread through the rest of the atmosphere.

Er...Diffuse.

[Stoid]

Originally posted by moi
Utter Hijack #1
Stoid: What are "real" chives? Educate me!


Moi, my dear, you have missed out if you have missed real chives!

Real chives are a plant in the onion family. They are green, and look exactly like green onions tops (hence the restaurant fake-out, except in perfect, delicate miniature. Here, let me actually measure...(goes to kitchen, selects perfect chive) this one fits comfortably in the 1/8th inch area on my ruler, with a little room on either side.

The flavor of a chive is like the look of a chive: a marvelously delicate, yet very particular sort of onion flavor. It is not the flavor of green onion (I don't wish to give the impression that I am in any way hostile to green onions. In fact, I am quite fond of them. I am only hostile to them when they masquerade as something they are emphatically not, which is chives).

There is even a variety of chive called garlic chives, which are charming as well, but I must say I have a weakness for simple, basic chives. I buy them like some people buy milk, as a staple of my household, and I dump them on everything I can think of. Particularly potatoes, of course, cottage cheese, and angel hair pasta with butter and thyme and raw garlic and Reggiano.

I think I'm going to have to head over to Zenster's threads if I keep talking like this...

Get yourself some chives. Herb section of produce aisle. Live a little.

stoid

[hardygrrl]

Gotcha Moi.....I'll stop the references to SP.

The sig line stays for now. Let me have my little bit of fun.

[Silo]

Can you feel the love tonight?

[Cat Whisperer]

Thanks, Grok. Glad to know SexyWriter hasn't been scared off :)
I gotta go buy me some chives and make me some devilled eggs now.

[White Lightning]

this is the nicest pit thread i have ever read. what the fuck.

i'm a total pit newbie and even I'm ashamed for you guys. i mean, yall started off great but then it was just back-pats and sweet little finger-fucks all around. is this what the legendary pit has come to?







<d&rlm>

[Arden Ranger]

Aww...

Okay, everybody! Group hug for White Lightning!

{{{{{{{{{White Lightning}}}}}}}}}

:D

[manhattan]

Originally posted by White Lightning
i mean, yall started off great but then it was just back-pats and sweet little finger-fucks all around. is this what the legendary pit has come to?

White Lightning - shhhhhhhhh. Leave them alone. We're hoping they start to make out soon.

[hardygrrl]

Keep dreaming Manhattan :)


If I'm going to make out with anyone from the SDMB....I think we all know who that'll be. ;)

[Arden Ranger]

heh...

Same here.

[tiny ham]

Yeah.

Me too.

:: looking around...not really knowing myself ::

:: crickets ::

anyone wanna make out? I mean...I am the expert and all :)

jarbaby

[Arden Ranger]

Originally posted by jarbabyj

anyone wanna make out? I mean...I am the expert and all :)



Wanna compare notes? ;)

[Crunchy Frog]

Originally posted by jarbabyj
anyone wanna make out? I mean...I am the expert and all :)
And here's my cue to re-enter this thread. I've got the Polaroid and the digital camera, now which of you ladies wants to help me expand the photo gallery for my adult website?

[Guinastasia]

Hehehe...I've got some whipped cream, Crunchy...

[hardygrrl]

Crunchy....

What's the name of your site?

http://www.assclownofevil.com ?


::d&r::

[Hamadryad]

AAAAND...more flirting in the wrong goddamned thread.

Thanks for demonstrating one of my points, folks.

[Turbo Dog]

Paprika?? Puhleeeeeeze.

Cayenne is what REAL eggs have for the lovely red color :)

[Hamadryad]

Originally posted by Turbo Dog
Paprika?? Puhleeeeeeze.

Cayenne is what REAL eggs have for the lovely red color :)

Yeah, if you want your whole mouth to fall off!

I make these things for my elderly mother-in-law...and, stereotypes aside, she's awesome. I'm not gonna substitute cayanne for my paprika and watch the poor thing turn red, then blue before my eyes.

Sheesh..."cayanne"....hey, WAIT! This is just Turbo Dog deliberately trying to feed his ego in an underhanded way by implying that he can take hotter foods than me and is therefore, by association, a cooler human being!

Nice try, but I see the game you're playing! Underhanded toad.

note: any resemblance to any sarcasm, living or dead, is purely coincidence. no animals were harmed in the genesis of this sarcasm. details inside. void where prohibited.

[Una Persson]

Originally posted by Turbo Dog
Paprika?? Puhleeeeeeze.

Cayenne is what REAL eggs have for the lovely red color :)

Oh wow! I never thought of that. (slaps forehead) Cool idea - I'll try it next weekend!

[Turbo Dog]

Blow me Ham. I am the expert on Deviled Eggs

:)

[hardygrrl]

I'd like to say that I wasn't flirting -for once-merely mocking Crunchy Frog.

I gave him that sig line and I'll never let him forget it.:)

[Crunchy Frog]

Ok, this is just bullshit:
Originally posted by Hamadryad
AAAAND...more flirting in the wrong goddamned thread.

Thanks for demonstrating one of my points, folks.
What the fuck ever Hama. You started this to bitch and moan about people slyly feeding their own egos. You allowed it to get hijacked without a thought when it fed your ego, but when it got hijacked for flirting, suddenly it's the wrong thread. As if kissing your ass over some fucking eggs belongs in this thread. That's hypocritical Hama.

You said once in this thread that many people here missed your point, but that's their option. I'm willing to bet none of us chose to miss your point, as much as it was poor communication on your part. Apparently we're still missing your point.

Your last post smacks of hypocracy. You berate AR and hardygrrl for using their sexuality to boost their ego, yet you claim you have no problem with people flirting. It seems though, you have a problem with flirting outside flirty threads. So why not just SAY that? Why not find a couple posts to show what you mean instead of the two you picked?

But wait, that's not it, cuz later you say it's the sly ego-feeding. What is it Hama? What the fuck is your point? Spell it out because apparently we didn't get it right the first time. Of course, you seem to believe that's "our option" and no fault of yours.

And I'd like to see your rationalization about how feeding your ego about some deviled eggs is more acceptable in this thread than other posters doing some flirting after this thread appeared to have been hijacked beyond rescue. A hijack is a hijack. I just love how one hijack is deemed no longer acceptable once it no longer involves you in a thread bitching about others' over-inflated sense of self-importance.

If you don't like to see people flirting outside the specially designated flirty threads, then come out and say it so we all know not to flirt with you or in one of your threads outside of a duly designated safe-to-flirt zone.

[hardygrrl]

<in a non flirtatious manner>

Couldn't of said it better myself,Crunchy. I hereby recind my comment about you being the "assclown of evil".


You are now the assclown of wisdom. If you want to change your sig,feel free. Just give me my proper credit. :)

[Guinastasia]

Crunchy is the assclown of LOOOOOOOVVVVVEEE!!!


*sorry, had to say it*
d&r

[kabbes]

::kabbes pops in just to check that the thread has made the predicted three pages. Checks also to see that it has continued via the predicted back-and-forth posts-that-go-nowhere...::

(Oh - and Fiver? Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr)

pan

[Ukulele Ike]

Originally posted by Hamadryad
I'm not gonna substitute cayanne for my paprika and watch the poor thing turn red, then blue before my eyes.

Much as I love hot n' spicy things, Turb, and am therefore cool, I got to side with Hamadryad on this point of debate. Deviled eggs are comfort food and therefore should not be overly abrasive to tongue and throat; I'd sooner put habaneros in my mashed taters.

[Hamadryad]

Originally posted by Crunchy Frog
If you don't like to see people flirting outside the specially designated flirty threads, then come out and say it so we all know not to flirt with you or in one of your threads outside of a duly designated safe-to-flirt zone.

a) I thought I had.
b) No one's flirted with me in months, and I haven't flirted with anyone in months. And rest assured: should the compulsion strike me again, you'd be one of the last people with whom I'd try it. You're safe.

As to the rest...whatever you need to think of me is fine with me, dollface. I am not universally loved, nor universally vilified. I can't think of any time at which you have acknowledged my presence prior to this, nor I yours.

[Hamadryad]

Originally posted by Ukulele Ike
Much as I love hot n' spicy things, Turb, and am therefore cool, I got to side with Hamadryad on this point of debate. Deviled eggs are comfort food and therefore should not be overly abrasive to tongue and throat; I'd sooner put habaneros in my mashed taters.

See? SEE? Hrmph. Thinkest thou canst best me in deviled eggs, dost thou? Thou dost have another think coming, yea verily.

(Yay, Ukelele Ike defended my eggs!)
(That sounds, in retrospect, like one hell of a strange commando operation. "Grab your guns, Uke! We gots to protect them aigs!!")

[Crunchy Frog]

Originally posted by Hamadryad
Originally posted by Crunchy Frog
If you don't like to see people flirting outside the specially designated flirty threads, then come out and say it so we all know not to flirt with you or in one of your threads outside of a duly designated safe-to-flirt zone.

a) I thought I had.


No, you claimed to have had no problem with flirting, it was the ego-feeding you said you were against. Yet you seem to have no problem when it's your ego been fed. In fact, to quote you:
"Don't get me wrong. I have no problem with peoples' sexuality, or their expression of the same."
"...open an MPSIMS thread and make the OP nothing but a link to the things you're written that we should all be awed/educated/rendered breathlessly sweaty over. If you're going to wear your ego out in the open for everyone to see, be fucking blatant about it."
No mention of flirting, per se. Just ego.

On psge 2, you say, "I still think a lot of folks are missing the point entirely, but that's their option and I'm not losing any sleep over it."
Now please explain how it's not YOUR responsibility to get YOUR point across? Because apparently you didn't do a good job, and if you had, most of this could have been avoided.

In that same post you go on to say, "....it's like (for instance) in threads about books, the people who make a point of saying, "Well, when I was 3 I had read the collected works of Descartes..." if you see what I'm saying. "I don't have an LJ because I'm soooo uber-risque and stuff." It's a stealth-ego thing, that's all."
Again, your problem seems to be with self-ego feeding, not flirtation.

Later, in a response to CrankyAsAnOldMan you finally bring up the flirting issue, but it seems a side note to what Cranky says and not one of the main points of your thread. You also go on to say, "It's the manipulation of people into thinking you're cool...or what have you...or, rather, the manner of speaking which implies that this is true without stating it outright...that irks me."
Again, this would imply that your problem is not so much flirting in non-flirty threads, but the ego-feeding.

From there the thread gets hijacked beyond reason with everyone being nice to one another and discussing deviled egg recipes. Then, when the hijack no longer centers around you, you have something to say about how wrong it was and we demonstrated a point of yours. You didn't make any clear points, Hama, that's what I'm trying to say.

I just went back and re-read your posts, and your point seems to be the ego-trips - not flirting, which comes across as a side note in your last post before hijacking runs rampant.

If your point was ego-trips, how about your write an OP on ego-trips instead of focusing on two posters which make it seem you have a problem with THEM. If you have a beef about something done on the board in general, make a general rant. If one of the points of the thread is about flirting, maybe you should have mentioned that in your OP instead of putting the responsibility on the readers to figure out what the hell your problem is.

Hell even the title of the thread does not give the impression you have a problem with flirting.

And please, please tell me how it's ok for the hijack to center around your ego and fucking eggs of all things? How is that more germain to this thread than some flirting? You don't bitch at anyone for that not being where it belongs. That's why I said you were being hypocritical.

I'll now go cry in my beer because you said I'd be one of the last people you'd flirt with. Boo-fuckin-hoo. :rolleyes:

[Esprix]

Originally posted by Silo

A priviliged few here are so trademarked in their ways and topics of discussion they're actually somewhat predictable... and sort of annoying. I've thought about starting a pit thread about this, but I'm lazy :p;) Pedestal posters I call them. It's nice to have a cause or strong interest, but when eighty to ninety percent of a person (with a *high* post count)'s posts purvey some agenda, it gets into the realm of masturbatory one-track-posting. Of course they have every right to be annoying, in that sense, and apparently don't know how to post otherwise. I tend to skim/skip over their posts for the most part as well. Anyway... not naming names here, but I'm sure most of you can jot down a handful of the same redundants. I wouldn't think of anyone in this thread as being one of them.

I'm sure I wouldn't have any idea what you were talking about.

Neigh.

Esprix

I am entitled to poke fun at myself. Nyeh.

[Hamadryad]

Aiight, CF.

"No mention of flirting, per se. Just ego."

I was posting about ego. As usual, I got folks replying about how they're not gonna stop flirting no matter what I say. Never said I had a problem with flirting initially...adressed it because others brought it up.

"Because apparently you didn't do a good job, and if you had, most of this could have been avoided."

You're probably right. However, I think we (the other participants in the thread) had pretty much declared a tentative truce until you showed up. I'm sure I didn't do a very good job. I'm not particularly eloquent and I'm extremely bad at figuring out the words I need to say what I mean.

"Again, your problem seems to be with self-ego feeding, not flirtation."

Right. Exactly.

"Again, this would imply that your problem is not so much flirting in non-flirty threads, but the ego-feeding."

As far as the original intent of the OP, yes, exactly.

". Then, when the hijack no longer centers around you, you have something to say about how wrong it was and we demonstrated a point of yours."

The point I had later made about flirting everywhere, rather than when it was at least reasonably appropriate. The hijack only centered around me because someone ELSE brought it up...I wouldn't've.

"If your point was ego-trips, how about your write an OP on ego-trips instead of focusing on two posters which make it seem you have a problem with THEM."

You're right, I should've.

"Hell even the title of the thread does not give the impression you have a problem with flirting."

That's because it was a side note brought up by others. It wasn't IN the OP. As you've pointed out. Four times. In one post.

"And please, please tell me how it's ok for the hijack to center around your ego and fucking eggs of all things? How is that more germain to this thread than some flirting? You don't bitch at anyone for that not being where it belongs. That's why I said you were being hypocritical."

As soon as I see people bringing up goddamned deviled eggs in many threads obstensively devoted to other things...or even people feeding my huge gargantuan planet-sized ego in many other threads...I will happily rip them to shreds (or try) as well.

"I'll now go cry in my beer because you said I'd be one of the last people you'd flirt with. Boo-fuckin-hoo."

Only because your plate is entirely too full already, my dear. Your 'tone' is entirely more hostile in response than mine was in my original statement.

As we *have* never particularly interacted in the past, I don't know why you care one way or the other.

The same could be said about me and the subjects of the OP, of course. So start your own damned thread.

[Una Persson]

I still don't know whether or not I was supposed to talk about the eggs. :confused:

[Fenris]

Originally posted by Anthracite
I still don't know whether or not I was supposed to talk about the eggs. :confused:

Anth: It is always appropriate to discuss deviled eggs, regardless of the circumstance, excluding in movies, plays, and similar.

I remember once, at a funeral, a heated discussion broke out amongst the mourners regarding the type of mustard one uses in deviled eggs (weenie "French's Yellow" mustard or dreaded "horseradish and honey stoneground dijon" type). What better way to honor the dead?

I believe Miss Manners wrote a book about this once.

;)

Fenris

[Ukulele Ike]

Talking about deviled eggs is my method of flirting.

Damn. I knew I was being too subtle.

[Crunchy Frog]

Originally posted by Hamadryad
The hijack only centered around me because someone ELSE brought it up...I wouldn't've.
Yet no mention of that hijack being inappropriate for this thread because someone else brought it up? I just find it interesting that the hijack involving you is ok, but a hijack involving flirting was not. How is one hijack any more appropriate for a thread than another? You claim the flirting was in the "wrong goddamn thread." I'm pointing out that the bullshit about the eggs is also in the wrong goddamn thread. An original hijack is still a hijack. Hell, it wasn't even tangently related to the OP.

However, I think we (the other participants in the thread) had pretty much declared a tentative truce until you showed up.
I was here, posting before your truce, Hama. I even asked for a clarification on the points of the OP back on page 1. I received no reply. The thread was going along all nice and friendly, but *you* brought it back by balking once the hijack reached a level that you didn't agree with, claiming it was in the wrong thread and we demonstrated a point of yours. Your points were ill defined to begin with, and you seemed to have no problem with a hijack that centers on you. It smacked of hypocracy to me for you to snap at others for hijacking an already fully hijacked thread. On top of which, you cite one of the 'points' you made, when so many seemed to have missed your point, which you said so yourself.

That's because it was a side note brought up by others. It wasn't IN the OP. As you've pointed out. Four times. In one post.
Just trying to make sure I got MY point across. You seemed to have missed it before, when I asked for clarification on the OP before your tentative truce.

As soon as I see people bringing up goddamned deviled eggs in many threads obstensively devoted to other things.
So, when you get tired of it, then it's in the wrong thread? I say again, just because a hijack is new, doesn't make it any less of a hijack.

So start your own damned thread.
I'm addressing the OP and trying to understand what the hell this was all about, and you suggest I start a new thread? Whatever, Hama. Discussing the OP and the point you were trying to make in this thread no longer should be discussed in this thread?

How's this for a suggestion: Start a new thread about deviled fucking eggs in the correct forum. You bitch at people for flirting here, stating it's the wrong goddamn thread. (I know, I'm repeating myself, but you seem to habitually miss this point.) Discussions of deviled eggs is in the wrong goddamn thread, too Hama, yet you don't bitch about that. Are you starting to see my point?

If you claim flirting belongs in flirty threads, then why don't recipes belong in recipe threads? Simple, isn't it? It's no different to me and you've shown yourself to be two-faced by allow one hijack and bitching about another. This only leaves me with the impression that the hijack is fine when it's about you, but inappropriate otherwise.

Enjoy your hijack, enjoy the rest of this thread revolving around you, enjoy your own over-inflated sense of self-importance - although I still suggest that's a topic more appropriate for your a thread in MPSIMS and that it's in the wrong goddamn thread here in the Pit. But you don't tell anyone else to start a new thread about deviled eggs, because this is obviously the correct forum and correct thread for that sort of discussion. I am so wrong for discussing the OP again after you snap at people for demonstrating one of your 'points' of this thread.

[Una Persson]

Originally posted by Crunchy Frog
(snip)

So...what you're saying is...I wasn't supposed to talk about the eggs? :D

[Ukulele Ike]

{jerks thumb up at preceding post}



...guy doesn't like deviled eggs.



Kids today. No taste for the finer things.

[Ukulele Ike]

(Sorry; that was clearly meant for the Frog, and not Anthracite.)

[Crunchy Frog]

Originally posted by Anthracite
So...what you're saying is...I wasn't supposed to talk about the eggs? :D
LOL. I especially love how you quote me just to snip it all out. I got too wordy, didn't I? I tend to do that.

I don't really care about the hijack itself one way or the other. In fact, as a direct result of this thread, I'm going to try cayenne on my deviled eggs next time I make them. I just don't see the reasoning behind griping at one group of people for a hijack, but letting the other group continue. In either case, the topic of the hijack was in the wrong thread.

If a truce had been called and Hama didn't want to discuss the OP anymore, maybe she should have requested the thread be closed. Instead, she let the hijacks go, then snaps at people for flirting, claims this as one of her points in the thread (bringing the hijack back to the original topic), then gets mad at me for having the audacity to call her on it and suggests I open my own thread for discussing the OP. I contend that this is the proper place to discuss the OP, and she should have the thread closed if she no longer wants to discuss it. If she wants to discuss eggs, maybe she should follow her own advice and discuss it in the appropriate goddamn thread in the appropriate goddamn forum. Quit being two-faced about what's in the right goddamned thread. I'm not saying flirting belongs here, but don't jump on those people when other people (Hama included) have been engaged in a hijack which was just as equally in the wrong goddamned thread.

The double standard by which Hama is conducting business here is what bothers me. And the sheer irony, in a thread where she bitches about others' over-inflated sense of self-importance, she has no qualms with a hijack about her, but bitches about a hijack that involves flirting. Both topics are hijacks, both topics are in the wrong thread, but she only balks at the hijack that does not involve her.

Yell at all for hijacking, or no one Hama. Face it, neither topic was in the right thread.

[Hamadryad]

Okay. I'm an egotistical cunt who deliberately skews everything to revolve around me. I deliberately misunderstand people because that will keep them talking about me and, of course, people must be talking about me at all times or I start to shrivel to dust.

I don't know what the hell I was thinking, starting a thread at all. Starting threads does nothing but contribute to ego. Who the hell to I think I am. I must be pretty fucking stupid to think that anyone has the slightest interest in my opinions or anything else that I could possibly have to say.

I should get down on my face and lick Crunchy Frog's boots for being good enough to post to my threads and show me the error of my wanton ways. Since he has seen to the heart of the matter so clearly and concisely, I should turn over every other idea I have to him. He obviously never misunderstands anything anyone says, so he must be totally and completely on the mark with me.

O, thank you for showing me that I am nothing but a huge, sucking need-hole. Thank you for precisely and accurately pointing out how badly I have failed. I will include you in my prayers that God will keep you healthy and safe from harm for decades to come, so that others might reap the benefits of your extensive wisdom. I am so glad you came into this thread to point out to me exactly how out of control my ego has become.

How can I thank you? I can't. There isn't any way for me to adequately demonstrate the weight that has been lifted from me by your succinct evaluation of the problems with my personality. I am wrong, wrong - nothing but wrong in all things and in every way. I humbly beg your most august forgiveness and pray that you will, in your wisdom, see your way clear to forgive me for all of the heinous wrongs I have perpetrated upon you and your sensibilities.

Thank you from the bottom of my heart for making sure I am adequately aware of the fact that I'm a slimy, heartless, hypocritical, two-faced, lying, underhanded, slimy, dirty, intellectually, emotionally and spiritually bankrupt waste of skin and oxygen. I'll always remember you for bringing me this moment of crystal clarity.

By the way, darling...
"As we *have* never particularly interacted in the past, I don't know why you care one way or the other.
The same could be said about me and the subjects of the OP, of course. So start your own damned thread."
Means,
"I haven't particularly interacted with either of the people in the OP, either. This is, therefore, a relatively hypocritical statement, but should you choose to do the same as I did (i.e., attacking me (or anyone else) with whom you've had little to no interaction), start your own thread."

I apologize humbly for having posted in so base and spineless a way as to force you to misunderstand what I said. I beg your forgiveness for this, as well as all other transgressions.

[Crunchy Frog]

Fine Hama I'm through. You have just put a shitload of words into my mouth without once addressing my comments made in my last post to you.

I asked why one form of hijack is ok while the other you say is in "the wrong goddamn thread." This is the heart of the matter these last few posts. You have not addressed this issue once.

It seems like a double-standard to me, but you instead chose to ignore that part and just get sarcastic and write a post that implies I made those claims of you. I didn't call you any of those names. I didn't call you ANY names in fact.

For some reason, you refuse to see any double-standard in condoning one type of hijack while condemning another and also refuse to give an explanation. Instead, you want to go on the defensive, acting as if I am attacking you (which I'm not, however harsh the language may be, I'm asking for clarification which you refuse to give). You made a juvenile evasion, indicating that not even you can explain your actions.

I also don't see why you raise the point of our small amount of interaction (again). We've interacted here, and it's your actions in this thread alone I am puzzled about, why do you suggest I start a new topic to discuss your actions in this thread, when they pertain to the OP? You claimed the flirting was one of your points of the thread, so shouldn't discussion of one of the points in this thread be continued in this thread? See how that works?

It's clear though you have no desire to discuss the points of your own thread any further. You seem to want the hijack which has no business in this thread or this forum and to me goes against the very point of your OP. I would love an explanation for why it doesn't go against the OP, but I doubt you'll bother.

Enjoy the deviled eggs.

I hope any hard feelings that may have occurred in this thread will end in this thread. There aren't any hard feelings as far as I'm concerned.

[kabbes]

::kabbes pops in and sees that this Hama thread has potential. What with the eggs an' all, it might even make four pages!::

Crunchy - not to stoke the fire and all, but for what its worth, I do see a difference between a hijack involving flirting and a hijack involving almost anything else. A material difference.

A hijack involving flirting is, in the final analysis, a clique-making activity. It isolates a group of posters and says "these are the people who I will respond to and who will respond to me. And we want to prove it, even through your thread." The fact is that the flirting between poster A and poster B rarely begins in the hijacked thread - it is a continuation. As such it is rather uncomfortable for those not interested in such fare. It can be cringy and belittling at that. Ah yes - poster A and B like eachother SO much that they want to stamp it all through THIS thread as well!

Other hijacks tend to organically grow from the topic actually being discussed. The egg hijack didn't spontaneously appear from nowhere - it was inspired by someone noting that someone else has in the past claimed a good recipe and wanting therefore to compare notes. It is not exclusitory and can be guaranteed to wither and die. I do not feel uncomfortable reading it.

I hope that I've made you see that all hijacks are not equal. If you don't agree, then please bear in mind that there are many of us who do feel this way and that we'd appreciate a little decorum.

Thanks.

pan

[Una Persson]

Originally posted by kabbes
The egg hijack didn't spontaneously appear from nowhere - it was inspired by someone noting that someone else has in the past claimed a good recipe and wanting therefore to compare notes. It is not exclusitory and can be guaranteed to wither and die. I do not feel uncomfortable reading it.

Well, I for one felt uncomfortable after reading about the "pickle juice" idea. Oh, that made me shudder. And horseradish in deviled eggs makes Baby Jesus cry.

So, I have now decided that I probably was OK in talking about the eggs. Which leads to several other moral questions as well. I mean, is talking about eggs a limited sub-genre? I started a whole thread on The UnaBoard once about whether or not to remove the little white strands (called "Rooster Cum" by George Carlin) from the eggs before cooking them. Oh course, that's my damn Board, and I'll talk about anything I damn well please on it. But we can also go into related fields as well. Such as presentation aspects of the deviled eggs. I really love the glass dishes with the hollowed-out half-egg sections, that hold your eggs so snug and securely, like handcuffs at night, and keep them from escaping as you are carrying your deviled eggs to the Great MidWestern Deviled Egg Hoe-Down.

I like deviled eggs.

[Ukulele Ike]

Originally posted by kabbes
The egg hijack didn't spontaneously appear from nowhere - it was inspired by someone noting that someone else has in the past claimed a good recipe and wanting therefore to compare notes

No, it was inspired by someone who felt like jerking a whole buncha chains simultaneously.



-- Hot Stuff, the Lil Deviled Egg

[kabbes]

Well as long as I succeeded in making you feel just a little bit better about yourself Una... ;)

And Ike? You are a bad man. Bad.

pan

[Una Persson]

Originally posted by kabbes
Well as long as I succeeded in making you feel just a little bit better about yourself Una... ;)

Well, that did, but not 1% as better as the dozen long-stemmed roses that my little Fierra sent to me at work yesterday, all the way from England! She's so dreamy... (THWACK!!! THWACK!!! THWACK!!! as Hama beats me senseless for flirtatious chatter...)

[Cartooniverse]

Originally posted by Sue Duhnym
[QUOTE] Bring Your Own Astroglide?

[Homer Simpson] MMmmmmmmmmm....Astroglide.......[/Homer Simpson]

" Second Only To Nature " :D :D

Cartooniverse

[Cartooniverse]

Originally posted by Ukulele Ike
Talking about deviled eggs is my method of flirting.

Damn. I knew I was being too subtle.

<<Cackle>> That's you, Uke. I always saw you as a more eager and forthright Egg Flirter, steadfastly muddling along, hinting, flirting and playing, whilst all the time saying inside to yourself... I think I cayenne, I think I cayenne, I think I cayenne

:p

Now, as for your query up there. While I agree that Paprika is the Holy of Holies when it comes to Eggs Avec Diable, have you ever perchance dribbled a mere hint of Tabasco, or maybe Pick-A-Peppa sauce over a nice swollen tender engorged Devilled Egg? Why, it becomes a horse of a different color.

We should meet up in Bryant Park one fine sparkling midday with a cooler filled with Devilled Eggs and some appropriate accoutrement. :)

Cartooniverse

[tiny ham]

Originally posted by kabbes

A hijack involving flirting is, in the final analysis, a clique-making activity.



Unless, kabbes, it's in a thread specifically railing against flirting, in which it becomes a joke. When I called myself a 'makeout expert' it was in direct response to the whole thing about hardygrrl being an anal sex expert. IT...WAS...JOKE.

I think everyone who was flirting was doing it, either:

a. To get Hama's goat.

or

b. To bring the nightmare of this thread to an aimiable conclusion.

I made one flirting comment after three or four people volleyed them around, and one person responded.

What a big clique I've got :rolleyes:

jarbaby

[Hamadryad]

Originally posted by jarbabyj
[BWhat a big clique I've got :rolleyes:

jarbaby [/B]

OR....maybe your huge clique of fervent admirers is classy enough to avoid MY threads like the plague. :D

[tiny ham]

Originally posted by Hamadryad
OR....maybe your huge clique of fervent admirers is classy enough to avoid MY threads like the plague. :D

jesus christ hama. I don't think I said anything in my post that would call for this reaction. And in fact, way back on page 2 I apologized to you.

Lot of good that did me I see.

jarbaby

[kabbes]

S'alright j, really. I wasn't critiquing your posts - no need to get defensive. I was responding in the abstract to Crunchy in order to debate the difference between flirty and non-flirty hijacks. My hypothesis is that there is a significant difference between such and I was just making a case for that.

I know that the flirts in this thread were ironic. Can a guy not extend from the specific to the general to debate philosophical points without causing individuals to see red? Apparently not in the pit.

Mayhap I shall just return to GD. These things are understood there.

pan

[kabbes]

Actually, I've just reread my original post and I can see how what was meant as an illustrative example (i.e. eggs naturally grow out of thread) might be interpreted as specific criticism of the non-egg flirting. It wasn't intended that way - FWIW the flirts in THIS thread actually made me laugh as opposed to the usual cringe. I should have picked my examples more carefully with a better explanation as to how I was using it/

So sorry jarbaby for suggesting that you should have realised that. I wasn't best clear.

pan

[Ceejaytee]

If you don't want quite that much heat, but you still want some, you can replace regular paprika with hot paprika. It's not quite as hot as cayenne, plus it still has that nice paprika flavor.

It's also great sprinkled on roast beef before roasting.

[Hamadryad]

Originally posted by jarbabyj
Originally posted by Hamadryad
OR....maybe your huge clique of fervent admirers is classy enough to avoid MY threads like the plague. :D

jesus christ hama. I don't think I said anything in my post that would call for this reaction. And in fact, way back on page 2 I apologized to you.

Lot of good that did me I see.

jarbaby

Perhaps you missed the HUGE GODDAMNED SMILEY which to most people would indicate that I was KIDDING.

Which I fucking WAS.

The the grand holy sake of righteous fuck, d'you think you can pull the spike out of your ass long enough to see humor from an obviously unexpected quarter? Jesus.

[tiny ham]

Originally posted by Hamadryad
Perhaps you missed the HUGE GODDAMNED SMILEY which to most people would indicate that I was KIDDING.

Which I fucking WAS.


Well, Hama, I apologize again to you.

Since I know you don't like me to start with, I took the "huge goddamn smiley" as an indication at how proud you were at calling me 'unclassy'

reading too much into it? You bet. Sorry.

no spike in my ass. As evidenced by the infamous anal sex thread...i don't do that sort of thing :D

jarbaby

[Hamadryad]

Originally posted by jarbabyj
Since I know you don't like me to start with, I took the "huge goddamn smiley" as an indication at how proud you were at calling me 'unclassy'

I'm trying to figure out how you "know [I] don't like [you] to start with," when this is patently untrue. There are a few people on here who I unilaterally dislike, but none of them are anyone in the OP *or* this thread, and definitely not you.

I'm trying to figure out why people find it necessary to say, "Even though I disagreed with you in this thread, I don't dislike you." To me, that goes without saying. If I had to dislike everyone with whom I've ever disagreed, I'd have NO friends (shaddup, y'all).

And I don't know how I could have been calling you unclassy when I specifically said that yer clique (which we all know is a well-organized cabal of agents, sworn to follow you from thread to thread and defend your honor*) was probably TOO classy to read my threads...I was implying that I am so close to actually BEING shit that they wouldn't sully their CPUs by opening one of my threads.

I'm hard to insult because I crack on myself harder than anyone else does, y'see.

Better end this post before Crunchy Frog starts cracking on my ego yet again, breaking my heart in 23 places.

*this is sarcasm and I am totally and completely kidding, which ought to be obvious but apparently I'm only to be taken 100% seriously at all times unless noted...so...FUCKING NOTED. :D

[tiny ham]

Originally posted by Hamadryad

And I don't know how I could have been calling you unclassy when I specifically said that yer clique (which we all know is a well-organized cabal of agents, sworn to follow you from thread to thread and defend your honor*) was probably TOO classy to read my threads...I was implying that I am so close to actually BEING shit that they wouldn't sully their CPUs by opening one of my threads.

Well, here's what you and i have in common. Self deprication to a fault. If I could explain why I do it, I'd be a better person.

To me you were saying THEY, THEY being the black leather german jarbaby cult were classy enough to stay out of the thread whereas jarbaby was not classy enough to stay out.

It's hard to be so hard on myself actually. It requires a lot of assumptions.

My life is like the Chris Farley Show. I just pull at my hair all the time and say "i'm so stupid! God!"

Anyway.

I made some deviled eggs this weekend and replaced half of the yolks with white beans. They taste the same and its considerably lower in fat and cholesterol. Give it a try sometime and tell me what you think :)

jarbaby

[Crunchy Frog]

Originally posted by Hamadryad
Better end this post before Crunchy Frog starts cracking on my ego yet again, breaking my heart in 23 places.

Actually, you know what happened? That bug up my ass died last night. I feel so much better today.

First off, let me say I don't know why I kept pushing the topic, when it's really not that big of a deal. And despite kabbes explanation for the hijacks, I've come to my own conclusions as to why one would be acceptable and the other not - it's Hama's thread. If she wants to talk about eggs in her thread, that's her business.

So Hama, I hope it's not to late to bury the hatchet here. I'm sorry for being so pushy and hard-headed about this. I honestly don't know why I kept pushing it. I could blame it on quitting smoking, stress at work, the hole in the ozone, alien abduction, whatever, but any of those would just be rationalizing away my behavior without really excusing it.

Anyway, I hope next time we interact on the board it's under more pleasant conditions.

[AwSnappity]

I love happy endings in the Pit. :)

[Ivorybill]

Actually, it's farm-fresh eggs that make the real difference. Store-bought just don't have the flavor.

[Jonathan Chance]

Originally posted by Anthracite

So, I have now decided that I probably was OK in talking about the eggs. Which leads to several other moral questions as well. I mean, is talking about eggs a limited sub-genre?

I like deviled eggs.

A hijack about deviled eggs, like a motion to adjourn, is always in order.

[tiny ham]

Originally posted by Jonathan Chance

A hijack about deviled eggs, like a motion to adjourn, is always in order.

And I think I can say, without fear of contradiction...

I MOVE TO ADJOURN

[Ukulele Ike]

Are you KIDDING? We've almost got this sucker onto page FOUR.

...I want to move to the country with Hamadryad and raise up our love-children. On a chicken farm.





"So many little eggies, and I'm going to eat them all before I go to sleepie."

-- Miss Edie, [i]Pink Flamingos.

[White Lightning]

Originally posted by kabbes
Actually, I've just reread my original post and I can see how what was meant as an illustrative example (i.e. eggs naturally grow out of thread) <snip>

Wait, eggs grow out of thread now???

Jesus, all those philosophers on the "chicken and the egg" thing have been going at it all wrong all these years!

[kabbes]

Oh you haven't fallen for that old yarn have you? What a yolk!

(insert other assorted very old puns here. Or actually, on second thoughts, don't)

pan

[Esprix]

"And we're the chickens! {wink}"

- Babs, "Chicken Run"

Esprix

[Hamadryad]

Originally posted by Crunchy Frog
Actually, you know what happened? That bug up my ass died last night. I feel so much better today.

You know, a friend on ICQ had read this thread, and asked me what was up your ass. I told him it was my ego, which had lodged up there and inflated like a blowfish.

If nothing else, I thought you'd enjoy the vivid image. :D

And yeah, all's good, I don't hate anyone in here, everyone in here professes not to hate me (or, if they do, they don't matter because my Huge Ego of Doom (tm, patent pending, all rights reserved, (c)1970) will annihilate them). I guess it's time for the group hugs. Y'all go right ahead. I'll be over here in the corner drinking a really unholy amount of tequila.

[White Lightning]

*ears perk*

Tequila? Now that's what I call a happy ending to a Pit thread... screw the hugs, I'm in the corner with Hama.