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You probably think this thread is about you!
I’m so cool, it probably really is about me
Carly Simon influence you to start this thread?
And I opened it to see which poster someone’s bashing…
Could also be Taylor Swift. Or even Marilyn Manson. But I’m guessing it’s not Manson.
PBA, cool as in:
Constipated
Overated
Outdaded
Loser????
(No offense, its an old dis from camp, i thought of it the second i saw the word cool and couldnt just not write it)
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At what point does the charade end and we stop calling this place “Yeshiva” or yeshivish?
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Burnt Steak
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Could also be Taylor Swift. Or even Marilyn Manson. But I’m guessing it’s not Manson.
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jewishfeminist02
jewishfeminist01 + jewishfeminist02
I love Taylor Swift. But she did not inspire this thread.
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Sorry PBA, but you’re WAY outclassed in the “cool” department by yours truly.
… written in my Lear Jet on the way to Nova Scotia
Sorry PBA, but you’re WAY outclassed in the “cool” department by yours truly.
Th plane is overrated? Or made you constipated.
A Lear jet has never been to Nova Scotia. You must be a Newfie.
WIY I’m not yeshivish. But we are all jews here so should it matter?
Nuh uh! I flew my Lear jet to Nova Scotia to see the total eclipse of the sun…. Or was that Bircas HaChamah?
@WIY – Nyah nyah, smarty pants? I was being yeshivish!
I find the condescending attitudes much more troublesome than references to music. I also think that as much as most of the posters here live yeshivish lifestyles, anybody who is sincerely yeshivish would not be here at all.
WIY- How do you know who Taylor Swift is? 🙂 Maybe she’s a giyores who speaks! 🙂 come on, you can’t censor other posters like that. Why is one thing okay and another not? Taylor Swift, discworld, harry potter, savage, politics, music by different jewish composers/singers even. its all a matter of personal levels and choices and stuff. cant draw that line for others. if they’d posted a link it’d be one thing, but a name in passing? eh
Plus this place is for everyone, even if most people here were modern that would be ok, everyone has their own level, don’t make them shoot up to yours when they aren’t ready.
I worked in a very black hat yeshiva as a social studies teacher.
A kid, kind of OTD, asked me if I thought Taylor Swift was attractive. My answer was that I’m not into shidduchim with shiksas, nor women that are hipsters. Needless to say, his mother got a call home that night, and so did the rosh yeshiva.
Carly Simon, Carole King, James Taylor, etc. are among my favorites.
And for the person above using the “No True Scotsman” fallacy in reference to this thread: there are many who would say that a person who uses the internet is “no true frumme yid.” Where does the buck stop?
Burnt Steak
What matters to me and some members here (and should matter to the management) is that this is called yeshiva world and has usually been very careful in keeping things kosher as far as the content allowed. There has been a noticeable decline in the last 2 years. So maybe it is now totally ok to talk about the likes of Taylor Swift and Marilyn Manson here. It used to be different.
SaysMe
I know who she is because when she came on the scene I was still listening to non Jewish music. Even if I didnt I am sure there are people who never listened to non Jewish music who have heard the names of famous celebs.
I am very bothered by the lowered standard of this website the last year which started at least 2 years ago. I wont go on a rant but this place has gotten to the point where we are being complained about on other Jewish sites that we aren’t kosher. That should tell you something. I actually tried defending this place but my comment there didn’t make it through. The bottom line is just because you may be “worldly” and know a lot of inappropriate things does not mean you should air it here. This is not meant to be that type of place. There are people here who hopefully don’t know who Taylor Swift is and there’s no reason why anyone should have to see the name here and start googling.
You’re so frum, YWN is too secular for you.
haaaaaaa T613 +1
wiy- that was my point. People may have heard of the name even if they havent heard her sing (or eben known that she was a singer- yay me) so i don’t think it was such a big deal to just mention her name in passing. If a discussion started about some non-Jewish celeb, i’d also ask for it to be censored out. In passing, come and gone, not such a big deal imo. It’s more the threads that start about unposted news in the Jewish community that tempts me to google. And those also tend to at the best, border on loshon hora. Those are the threads i’m a lot more concerned about.
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