🐵 ⌨ Gamanit

Since this can potentially last up to the end of the year I think all schools should call an emergency phone conference and recommend that parents buy kosher tablets for all their kids so that school can resume via zoom or the like.

Covid-19 can certainly kill kids. There are kids that die from the flu every year. In addition, since China has so few kids we really don’t know 100% what would happen if many kids actually do get sick. For now, let’s take every reasonable precaution including keeping our kids home and hopefully we will survive this with minimal casualties.

CTLAWYER- according to most environmentalists those reusable plastic bags need to be used 10,000 times in order to make more sense environmentally vs non reusable bags (which most people reuse anyhow either as trash bags or just as bags)

Mazel Tov!! I definitely feel like I got to know you a bit from the CR. I’m glad you chose to share your good news here.

Very few people in my circles spend a lot on gowns. Personally the gown I wore to my sister’s wedding cost less than $200. My friend who spent “a lot” spent $600 and wore it to three weddings. Don’t blame your own inability to reign in your spending on other people. Gemachs in my area charge only dry cleaning fee plus minimal donation to cover the secretary.

I don’t think she’s thinking about more than her next meal and how interesting it is to watch people looking at her.

One common thread in almost all switched at birth stories is the mother almost always is insisting that this is not her baby and her concerns are not taken seriously. I’ve read several such stories and in pretty much every case the mother knew. One such mother had been protesting for days that she was sent home with the wrong baby and when no one was taking her seriously she started staying quiet and not telling anyone. As her daughter got older and it became more obvious that this child looked nothing like her other children, she was certain that this was someone else’s child and started writing letters to the daughter that was being raised by someone else and putting them in a drawer for when she would eventually hopefully meet her daughter again. She never said anything until her dying day because she didn’t want the daughter she was raising to feel “less than” her other children. Unfortunately the switch wasn’t proven until after the mother’s death.

Thank you for bringing this to our attention. How does wine made from grapes grown during shmitta need to be handled?

ZionGate- I’m a big believer in asking lots of questions prior to first meeting. Can I hear what questions you felt were too intrusive/crazy?

there are a whole bunch of car ones that are literally the worst- don’t try any of these at home:

Use hot water to quickly de-ice a windshield

To keep your brakes from sticking oil the rotors

Add some nails to each tire for better traction on ice

Put a warm wet towel on your windshield overnight to keep it warm

Keep your headlights on overnight to keep them from freezing over

Put sandpaper on your windshield wipers to assist in ice removal

Loosen your lug nuts in advance in case you end up getting a flat tire

Block the exhaust pipe with a tennis ball to keep the car warmer (this one is extremely dangerous; for anyone not aware every year there are people who die from not shoveling snow away from the exhaust pipe prior to turning the engine on)

These people at PETA are idiots. Don’t spook the horse you’re riding. Don’t they realize the more ridiculous they get the more likely they’ll end up sleeping with the fishes? Actually that’s a bit extreme. More likely they’ll just be taken as seriously as words spoken by a parrot. That’s mostly the case already now though.

Joseph- just wasted a whole bunch of time on the DOB website to verify before responding. On my block there are a whole bunch of double driveways leading to spots in front of houses (with garage if they care to use it). I found permits on file for every single one on the dept. of buildings website. I also found permits on file for other curb cuts leading to spots in front of houses (again these technically have garages; the fact that the garage is being used for storage doesn’t change it’s legality). According to NYC regulations you must assume that a curb cut is legal unless you can prove otherwise. With these old grandfathered garages you can often only find mention of it on the original C of O. If you want to look up your own block it may be worthwhile for you to verify where you may or may not park. Don’t jump to conclusions though because as you see your own “hints” are inaccurate.

Your post is full of assumptions. How are you ascertaining whether or not a curb cut is legal or not? Is it possible that you are perhaps blocking someone’s parking spot that they paid nice money to legalize? If they’re sitting by the window and waiting to make sure their driveway is clear it’s probably an active driveway. They are probably sick and tired of getting parking tickets due to not being able to park in their own driveway.

Another point; in order to pull into a driveway a driver needs enough space to turn. Would you rather take the chance of them nicking your car on the way in? I think it’s nice for them to tell you where you can safely park. I suggest that when your neighbor greets you with a smile you should return the gesture. You may very well be judging him for no reason at all.

Bump. I worked as a counselor in a day camp. The parents on the second to last day of day camp were given a letter letting them know that the only wages we as counselors would be getting is whatever tips they send in. Only half of the kids gave anything at all. I appreciated the $5 and a card and I think I may still have the card somewhere. Some people gave checks which was nice as a thought but I didn’t have a bank account yet so it made things slightly complicated (I was a young teenager at the time). My campers weren’t particularly wealthy so I didn’t expect a lot but I would have liked a letter even if they couldn’t include any money along with it. One parent actually did that (didn’t say they had no money; the mother just wrote that she appreciated all I did for her daughter that summer) and I thought it was really nice.

icemelter- animals are not skinned alive as that would decrease quality of fur, not improve it. PETA commissioned a video of an animal being skinned alive in order to have graphic footage to get people to stop buying fur products. In actuality animals are usually killed using carbon dioxide for a quick death without the animal fighting back in any way at all. They don’t want the fur getting damaged.

If you want the boys to learn krav maga make sure the girls know it first so they can defend themselves.

yitzchokm:

Who says drinking alcohol is bad for the baby? There has yet to be even one study that has found that drinking light alcohol such as wine or beer in normal amounts is harmful to babies. Women avoid alcohol in order to be on the safe side.

Where did I say anything about smoking for recreational purposes? I’m talking about using marijuana (not by smoking) for its medicinal properties such as pain relief and anti-nausea.

It seems like you’re of the opinion that women need to be “on the safe side” yet men can do what they want as long as it’s not 100% proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that what they are doing is harmful. Am I wrong? What would you say to the idea of women smoking in general?

yitzchokm – not only low counts but also damage to the genetic material. There were genetic abnormalities found as well. From what I’ve read the more abnormalities you can see on a microscope, the more actual genetic damage there is.

Agree

yitzchokm- why are you only raising the point re lung cancer? That’s not the only smoking related illness. There’s a long list of illnesses as well as other conditions which are worsened by exposure to secondhand smoke. Asthmatic people often have attacks triggered by passing someone smoking on the street.

Even worse- miscarriage and birth defect rates for babies whose fathers are smokers are more than twice the rate of babies whose fathers are non smokers. Smoking kills thousands of unborn children every year. Many men laugh it off but it’s an absolute fact that a father’s health will affect their future children’s health.

The ones I wonder about the most are the really really old ones. For example how did people live without a hammer, rope, or bucket? How did they make clothes without needle, thread or woven cloth?

From wikipedia (which may or may not have been submitted by a cr poster)

In the United States, overdose exposure to all formulations of “vitamins” (which includes multi-vitamin/mineral products) was reported by 62,562 individuals in 2004 with nearly 80% of these exposures in children under the age of 6, leading to 53 “major” life-threatening outcomes and 3 deaths (2 from vitamins D and E; 1 from polyvitaminic type formula, with iron and no fluoride).[3] This may be compared to the 19,250 people who died of unintentional poisoning of all kinds in the U.S. in the same year (2004).[4] In 2010, 71,000 exposures to various vitamins and multivitamin-mineral formulations were reported to poison control centers, which resulted in 15 major reactions but no deaths.[5]

Personally I believe that if you eat a varied diet and spend some time outdoors you shouldn’t take any vitamins (unless bloodwork shows that for some reason you’re still missing some)

keej123; sorry to be so blunt but that sounds like a lovely sales pitch for an awful lot of popcorn. If it’s real it can be described normally. For example if someone has a blocked artery the procedure to open it isn’t that everything is hidden and balloon needles work magic. Doctor explains that balloon is inserted deflated and then inflated , etc. So how exactly does this program improve neural pathways? What is it doing?