(Sorry; that was clearly meant for the Frog, and not Anthracite.)
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.
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.
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 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
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.
No, it was inspired by someone who felt like jerking a whole buncha chains simultaneously.
– Hot Stuff, the Lil Deviled Egg
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
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…)
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*Originally posted by Sue Duhnym *
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[Homer Simpson] MMmmmmmmmmm…Astroglide…[/Homer Simpson]
" Second Only To Nature " 
Cartooniverse
<<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…
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
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
OR…maybe your huge clique of fervent admirers is classy enough to avoid MY threads like the plague.
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
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
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
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.
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.
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
jarbaby
I’m trying to figure out how you “know * 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.
*[sub]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[/sub]