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AYC – good answer
AYC. I don’t find it disturbing. Why not have some fun?
Some of the jokes in the jokes thread are less humorous.
It’s good to have to use the brain cells a little proving things that are obvious.
I was thinking the same thing.
I’m in Israel and its 9:40 am.
Why are the mods up tonight, though?
My morning posts usually take over 6 hours to be approved since it’s night in the US.
welcome back
Boys tend to be more energetic than girls. They need to run around at top speed, waving sticks, shouting, jumping off high walls, swinging on the door frames.
Don’t smother them – avoid the “Don’t do that, it’s dangerous and the like unless it really is dangerous.
Boys are loads of fun!
i have no idea about tax codes, but what’s happening with popa?
you duped me, for one.
eh?
“all they do is use tax money to party”
if you point that out, then you must point out the flip side: they bring in millions of tourists – money.
Putting content aside, there is also another point to consider – medium.
Since TV viewing is passive, with stimulus being external, I think that it ruins concentration abilities. That is the case even if the content is appropriate.
(Similarly computer games. That is why I wouldn’t want my children playing them. I did, and I feel it has affected my concentration skills.)
yes, you’re right. I wasn’t thinking straight
Popa is correct. Spaces are dashes, not underscores as I incorrectly said.
DY: I’ve been breaking my head over how to do that, but unsuccessfully. Alternatively, you can use your method to delete your history and show only future posts, isn’t that so?
boredinoffice: click on your SN at the top left, where it says ‘welcome boredinoffice’. That gets you to your profile.
In the URL, replace ‘boredinoffice’ with any other name whose profile you want to view. Spaces should be underscores.
If you do decide to confront her, it may be better if the child does it, rather than the child-in-law.
The ‘profile can’t be found’ is when someone’s screenname has been changed. The profile would be under his/her original name, though you may not know what it is.
For example, The Goq’s profile (hope you don’t mind, Goq) would be under TheGoq, because that was his original one. If you try The Goq, you get ‘not found’.
I don’t know about no posts being listed. Perhaps it’s something along the same lines.
As to how you change your screen name, I wish I knew.
It was upsetting to see the tone and direction that thread took.
As far as I remember (don’t have the book in front of me) Rabbi Falk says that below the knee is not ervah and does not need to be covered ‘me’ikar hadin’. It *does* need to be covered if the minhag hamokom is to cover it. If that is the case, then one *must* wear stockings.
wot is an offline yeshiva coffee room?
two things I always need more of: chocolate & patience
yes, I’m not bored
more like over-worked
wellmeaning busybody: it’s inexplicable. what do you mean?
I’m sure clairvoyant tells the truth.
and what about kishke?
always here: seems so
thanks for the list, Wolf.
Yes, you’re right, the statistics support you.
Aries: Diana wasn’t a commoner, google it.
I don’t think your synonpsis of Charles and Diana is quite accurate.
Wolf, I think what people mean is the general feeling that royal marriages shouldn’t end in divorce as much as they have been.
You pointed out that three of the Queen’s four children divorced their first spouses in the 1990s. That is enough to give the impression of ‘a lot of recent divorces’
True, statistically, their divorce rate may be less than the average, but that’s not under discussion.
In any case, of the last, say, 5 royal (first) marriages, how many ended in divorce?
the second one broke in half 🙁
did both – one with a key (on top) and one in the shape of a key.
Shouldn’t the question be the other way – why was Yom HaShoah set up when there already was 9 BeAv? Answer that and you’ll have the answer to the OP. Why should they celebrate an arbitrary modern day creation?
(Though I do agree that those who don’t want to observe it should not do it in public)
goody613: that’s not quite the whole story.
As I heard it, the Steipler’s future wife had three things which disturbed her when she met him the first time and she discussed them with her brother, the Chazon Ish.
The first was that he couldn’t hear properly, the second that he was not neatly dressed and the third that he fell asleep.
To the first point, the Chazon Ish said ‘the time will come when the whole world will be listening to what he says’, to the second he said ‘that’s the job of his wife, to look after that.
The third thing – that he fell asleep – the Chazon Ish said indeed *wasn’t* acceptable and needed to be investigated. [It was because the Steipler didn’t want to sit on the seats in the train since he thought there might be shatnez and stood the whole night instead of sleeping)
I find royalty fascinating.
While I agree that the British Royalty isn’t what it used to be both from a power point of view and behaviour (the Queen herself is very much a lady) it is fascinating. Hopefully the younger generation will brush up its act.
No, they don’t live off taxpayers. Yes, taxpayers do pay towards them. The British are proud of their royalty.
As for your [rather idiotic] last sentence, the money is more likely to go to struggling football players.
1. “Does TRUTH always reveal itself DURING the lifetime of the person ruined by falsehood?”
I’d think not necessarily. This is an ‘alma deshikra’ – world of falsehood. Though, of course, Hashem is there behind the scenes taking note and running the show according to His script.
Eventually, the truth comes out. There is a medrash on a possuk (remember only very vaguely, have to find it) that says ‘can a person do [evil] deeds in private and I will not show him to others?’
2. “Can a person daven profusely for a yeshuah, and simply not merit it?”
There is no short, or clear answer to that. There are so many different variables. However, our job is to continue to daven. By davening we improve ourselves and become more meritorious and thus more likely to deserve the yeshuah.
CAD: I don’t think anyone needs to give credentials in a CR.
No-one would accept medical advice suggested here as anything more than that – a suggestion.
And no-one claims that advice given replace a visit to your family doctor.
Bar Shattya, are you feeling ok?
I have the same type of problem when meeting a baal simcha. I try to think of what to say beforehand.
Homeowner, it’s a losing battle.
Do you have a co-worker you could ask for help instead?
(thinking about it, you obviously don’t otherwise you would have asked them)
I go with s2021 and Wolf – perhaps look into non-fiction options.
When I was younger, I spent most of my free time reading. Now (with almost no time to read) I regret not using at least part of that time for non-fiction reading.
Do they know it disturbs you? Sometimes children can come up with very good suggestions once they understand the problem. (The advantage is that they more easily stick to their own decisions.)
Hatzlocho. I’m sure it’s not easy for you.
MII: I think we can safely assume that the first part of Wolf’s comment was an erroneous copy/paste
I’m quiet and I don’t find it easy initiating conversations with people I don’t know. (One of the reasons I like the CR is that it isn’t face-to-face). I also prefer spending time alone, rather than in crowds. I wouldn’t call myself shy, though.
Wolf: I don’t think non-usage of hand sanitisers is any indication of shyness.
m in Israel: I couldn’t have put it better. That was exactly my experience too.
Ofcourse: I second that about no wet shmattas on ceilings. I did that last year to take off a mark and regretted it.
I am more likely to skip posts in caps, since I can’t skim quickly through them – they take more effort to read.
My three-year-old son was shown a picture of a parrot and told that “if you say ‘shalom’ to it, it will say ‘shalom’ back”.
He asked ‘And if I kick it?’
he’s not going to tell you.
if you continue along those lines, they’ll probably give you a subtitle ‘Joseph’s hunter’ as a punishment