# An over-inflated sense of self-importance. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [May 30, 2001, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-over-inflated-sense-of-self-importance/66982 "2001-05-30T12:40:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Hamadryad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6de8d8/32.png) [@Hamadryad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hamadryad)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2001, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-over-inflated-sense-of-self-importance/66982/101 "2001-06-03T14:37:45Z")
> [@](#): > > \*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. [sub]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.[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Una\_Persson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/una_persson/32/346_2.png) [@Una\_Persson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Una_Persson)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2001, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-over-inflated-sense-of-self-importance/66982/102 "2001-06-03T14:38:56Z")
> [@](#): > > \*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! ---
**Author:** ![Turbo\_Dog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ce73a5/32.png) [@Turbo\_Dog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Turbo_Dog)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2001, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-over-inflated-sense-of-self-importance/66982/103 "2001-06-03T15:01:25Z")
Blow me Ham. I am the expert on Deviled Eggs 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![hardygrrl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a3d4f5/32.png) [@hardygrrl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hardygrrl)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2001, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-over-inflated-sense-of-self-importance/66982/104 "2001-06-03T23:22:03Z")
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.🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Crunchy\_Frog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ebca7d/32.png) [@Crunchy\_Frog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crunchy_Frog)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2001, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-over-inflated-sense-of-self-importance/66982/105 "2001-06-03T23:30:32Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![hardygrrl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a3d4f5/32.png) [@hardygrrl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hardygrrl)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2001, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-over-inflated-sense-of-self-importance/66982/106 "2001-06-03T23:51:22Z")
\ 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. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2001, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-over-inflated-sense-of-self-importance/66982/107 "2001-06-04T00:09:24Z")
Crunchy is the assclown of LOOOOOOOVVVVVEEE!!! _sorry, had to say it_ d&r ---
**Author:** ![kabbes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e99b99/32.png) [@kabbes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kabbes)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2001, 8:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-over-inflated-sense-of-self-importance/66982/108 "2001-06-04T08:40:53Z")
:: **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 ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2001, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-over-inflated-sense-of-self-importance/66982/109 "2001-06-04T12:22:57Z")
> [@](#): > > \*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. ---
**Author:** ![Hamadryad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6de8d8/32.png) [@Hamadryad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hamadryad)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2001, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-over-inflated-sense-of-self-importance/66982/110 "2001-06-04T13:56:12Z")
> [@](#): > > \*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. ---
**Author:** ![Hamadryad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6de8d8/32.png) [@Hamadryad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hamadryad)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2001, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-over-inflated-sense-of-self-importance/66982/111 "2001-06-04T13:58:58Z")
> [@](#): > > \*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!!”) ---
**Author:** ![Crunchy\_Frog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ebca7d/32.png) [@Crunchy\_Frog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crunchy_Frog)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2001, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-over-inflated-sense-of-self-importance/66982/112 "2001-06-04T22:33:31Z")
> [@](#): > > \*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: ---
**Author:** ![Esprix](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/esprix/32/7899_2.png) [@Esprix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Esprix)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2001, 6:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-over-inflated-sense-of-self-importance/66982/113 "2001-06-05T06:52:54Z")
> [@](#): > > _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 [sub]I am entitled to poke fun at myself. Nyeh.[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Hamadryad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6de8d8/32.png) [@Hamadryad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hamadryad)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2001, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-over-inflated-sense-of-self-importance/66982/114 "2001-06-05T14:06:37Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Una\_Persson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/una_persson/32/346_2.png) [@Una\_Persson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Una_Persson)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2001, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-over-inflated-sense-of-self-importance/66982/115 "2001-06-05T16:54:25Z")
I still don’t know whether or not I was supposed to talk about the eggs. 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Fenris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fenris/32/498_2.png) [@Fenris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fenris)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2001, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-over-inflated-sense-of-self-importance/66982/116 "2001-06-05T17:09:29Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Anthracite \* > \*\*I still don’t know whether or not I was supposed to talk about the eggs. 😕 \*\* **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 ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2001, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-over-inflated-sense-of-self-importance/66982/117 "2001-06-05T20:27:07Z")
Talking about deviled eggs _is_ my method of flirting. Damn. I _knew_ I was being too subtle. ---
**Author:** ![Crunchy\_Frog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ebca7d/32.png) [@Crunchy\_Frog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crunchy_Frog)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2001, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-over-inflated-sense-of-self-importance/66982/118 "2001-06-05T22:05:59Z")
> [@](#): > > \*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. ---
**Author:** ![Una\_Persson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/una_persson/32/346_2.png) [@Una\_Persson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Una_Persson)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2001, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-over-inflated-sense-of-self-importance/66982/119 "2001-06-05T22:26:56Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Crunchy Frog \* > **(snip)** So…what you’re saying is…I _wasn’t_ supposed to talk about the eggs? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2001, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-over-inflated-sense-of-self-importance/66982/120 "2001-06-05T22:29:00Z")
{jerks thumb up at preceding post} …guy doesn’t like deviled eggs. Kids today. No taste for the finer things. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-over-inflated-sense-of-self-importance/66982.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-over-inflated-sense-of-self-importance/66982.md?page=7)