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I consider this to be a big problem. Had this happened to me, I would have been in big trouble because I cannot walk that far with my bad back and 2 artificial hips. I wonder what would have happened if I had been the passenger.
Read a book, take a nap, phone your grandmother,vacuum the carpet, set the table and surprise someone – there are plenty of things that you can do if you really want to.
I really think that this thread has run its course. The general consensus is that the OP should purchase some “shlaykus”. If people are going to get critical of other posters, then this thread (in which a fairly simple, non-halachic question was asked), then it serves no further purpose. I found nothing offensive in aries’ post yet The Goq was offended. I think it was a defence mechanism, but that is neither here nor there. I think the question has been sufficiently answered and the Mods should “shut ‘er down”.
You are all very welcome – and I still have a few of those chocolate covered peanuts left. BTW, I was totally sincere about my offer – I never promise anything that I don’t mean. I would have found room for anyone that needed a place to stay – if there were an overflow crowd, I have lots of friends with spare rooms who would have been only too happy to help out. About 15 years ago there was severe flooding along the Red River from the US to Winnipeg. It was front page news all over North America. At the time I participated in a 50+ Jewish chat room. We were overwhelmed by the offers we had to stay with people from coast to coast across the US. I never forgot the generosity of everyone and always thought that perhaps one day I would be in a position to do the same thing for others. As it happened, we were in no danger as we have a floodway that surrounds the city and it only affected those with river property outside the city limits. One thing about Yidden – regardless of our differences, when push comes to shove, we are truly “brothers” (meant equally for both genders). Luckily, it appears that you are all safe even if many of you had some flooding or had no power. Things could have been much worse. In any event, my offer still stands and if any of you should ever be in “my home town”, there is a warm bed available.
I’m with PBA on this one. I think that they should each know everything about each other – from major illness to acts of stupidity or illegality. Nowadays it is a very small world. You never know when your past can come back to haunt you. Imagine being married for several years and you bump into somebody from your past who assumes that your spouse knows everything about you. Suddenly this person starts reminiscing. “Do you remember the time that we did…….?”. A chance meeting such as this could be the start of the dissolution of a marriage. Marriage is an institution that should be based on trust. If there are too many skeltons in the closet, problems will almost certainly arise – the only question is when. While it may be painful and embarassing, it is far better to cancel a wedding than to go through a divorce years later when it will affect not only a spouse but young children, as well.
Candy, I wish them both a Refuah Shleima and I shall say their names tomorrow morning in shul. Please keep us updated on their progress. It sounds as if your father is pretty terrific guy and he is doing an amazing act of chesed.
Can a Bat Kohen do tahara?
While they may be very practical, the description doesn’t sound very glamourous. Somehow, I don’t believe I have ever seen a gentleman wearing a shayne coat on the cover of GQ.
Best Bubby: Thanks for the info. I only use foil pans when I either don’t want to wash the pan after use (for something sticky like brisket or turkey) or if I am giving the dish away and don’t want to worry about shlepping home my pan. BTW, these pans just had an OU on them.
Okay, I’ll bite. Whe the heck is a shayne coat?
I am so glad you’re all safe and sound
Though the storm blasted water around
Mother Nature’s gone crazy
She sure is not lazy
Storms and earthquakes just seem to abound.
And what have we done to enrage her?
Its not like we’ve tried to page her
It seems she’s just there
And I mean everywhere
I think we shall just have to cage her.
It all blamed upon global warming
I’ve heard it so much its alarming
I guess being nice
Will not suffice
Perhaps we should try being charming.
“there are kids that are 17 years old and can’t even complete an 8th grade math example(and their not a minority)”
patriot, I guess that you could not complete an 8th grade English example (did you mean exam or examination?) because you don’t seem to know the difference between “there”, “their” and “they’re”. You have used it incorrectly in the above sentence.
And what are you complaining about – English or mathematics? You also don’t seem to know too much about punctuation, either. (Haifa, help me out here)- I am curious about what grade you are in and how old you are.
This thread is ridiculous. Perhaps the girl should greet her date wearing a long white gown and a veil. If he likes what he sees, the date becomes a shidduch and if he doesn’t it could save a lot of time, trouble and money (and a courtship) for both parties. In some cultures the bride and groom do not meet until they reach the altar. From what I have read, these marriages work as well (in many cases, much better) as the “courtship” marriages do.
On the topic of kashrus – the other day I purchased a package of disposable aluminum cake pans which had a hechsher on them. Why would they need one?
patriot: there are several books available to teach yourself how to sell on ebay. I would suggest you try one of them. I believe that there is one in the “Dummy” series. I find that series excellent for a wide variety of topics.
It seems to me that this entire incident is being blown out of proportion. Perhaps the OP has an unusual or very pretty name. If this young man is a freshman he may be very unsure of himself. We don’t know if he has ever gone to a co-ed school before or if he knows what he should/shouldn’t say to someone of the opposite gender. Perhaps he just meant it as a compliment, plain and simple. The OP could just have thanked him, changed the topic and then said good-bye. We don’t know a lot of things here – is this a Jewish university? If it is, it is very inappropriate of the school to pair up people of the opposite sex for college orientation. If the school is not a Jewish one, the OP could have told the co-ordinators of this program that she wished to be paired with another girl. Once she accepted this “assignment”, she should have been prepared for effusive thanks from her assigned freshman. It doesn’t sound like this young man did anything so terrible – he may just have been showing his gratitude.
Same for those of us in Winnipeg. I find it so hard to look outside and there is barely a leaf moving to comprehend what you are going through. I have had MSNBC on all night.
My heart is with you. If any of you need anything, please use this thread to report in and let us know. If necessary, we will ask the mods for adresses or names to get aid to you. Also, when the transportation systems are open again, if any of you need a place to stay while repairs are being done, my home is open. I am quite sure that I am not the only one willing to house people. The important thing is that those of you in the affected area continue to let us know how you are – while you still have electricity.
Stay inside please, please, please.
When my mother A’H’ was in her 40’s, she visited her home town to attend a wedding. At the simcha she bumped into a fellow that she hadn’t seen since high school. The first thing he said to her after they had been re-introduced was, “my how you have aged.”
How is that for a “compliment”?
Although this thread goes on for pages
I haven’t done a limerick in ages.
In the upcoming storm
May you all be safe and warm
Stay indoors while the strong wind rages.
If it is safer at home to stay put
Than to venture outdoors by foot
If you must, please miss shul
Don’t be a hero or fool
The Ravs, zei hot dos gezucht.
Rochelle: I hope you told them “no starch” in the onion skins, just in the used paper towels. Shabbat Shalom.
PBA, you forgot to mention that the when serving a haggis dinner, the background music must only be that of a pipe band. If you are particularly flush, you could hire a live band to parade through your home wearing their kilts. BTW, which tartan does your family wear? (or is that too personal a question?)
Kilo, do you live on an ice floe?
The American Ophthamology Association announced (several years ago) that people should be wearing large sunglasses with complete UVA protection anytime that they are outdoors during daylight hours, as the sun is always out. As most Rabbonim recommend that you follow the advice of physicians, I cannot see how wearing sunglasses would be anything but necessary.
He just posted about how scared he was to go on his date then this thread complains about how she was dressed. Yet on a third thread he says he has had 4 dates with a “non-American”. How much longer does he expect us to swallow his stories – and they seem to be pure fiction.
Okay, MPC (oops, or is it Joseph again) – the time has come to fess up.
Ashkefardi, you are right, for excellent cholent the formula is:
Time = Ta’am
kapusta, I am honored to have my name mentioned by you. Thank you very much. There are so many erudite posters in the CR that I hesitate to mention anyone lest I leave someone out. Suffice it to say that I believe that the CR has an amazing roster of people participating in it. Many of the posts are very informative and thought provoking and many are “laugh out loud” funny. I thank you all for your input – it makes for wonderful reading.
Shabbat Shalom to the entire CR “membership”.
If you only plan to spend $100.00 for your guitar, do some research on older ones and then head to some pawn shops. You will get far more for your money there. You still won’t get a first grade guitar, but you will possibly get a decent one for learning on.
I received this one twice today. Has anyone seen it. I will delete it even though it is a lovely message because I have completely stopped participating in emails that require you to forward “X” number of copies within a specified time frame. I have enough email to deal with without having to worry about who I shall forward these messages to.
SHLUCHOT
You’re one of my 12…Shluchot — A mystical Jewish formula for good mazel and who of us can’t use
that!?
Please do not break! Just 27 words.
G’mar Chatima Tova!
G-D our Father, walk through my house & take away all my worries
& illness & please watch over & heal my family…Amen.
This prayer is so powerful.
Pass this to 12 people
A blessing is coming to you of a new job, a house, marriage,
good health, or financial comfort
The only Jets that I am a little bit interested in are the real Jets – The Winnipeg Jets – the newest, old NHL team.
Why don’t you ask her to go out for dinner and ask her to suggest a restaurant? Then, perhaps she will dress appropriately for the restaurant that you are going to. If it is a more casual place, such as Italian or just pizza she won’t have to be as dressed up as for a nice steak house. If you like her, and it sounds like you do – or would at least like to get to know her better – she deserves a second chance. And BTW, what was she wearing that you considered so casual? There are some people whose style is never fancy and to many they may always appear underdressed. If that is her only shortcoming, you should consider yourself a lucky man.
To me, a life coach sounds like a cross between a social worker and a psychologist/therapist. But, if I am not mistaken, some people who may be classified as “motivational speakers” such as the once famous, Tony Robbins (of infomercial fame) consider themselves to be life coaches, as well.
mikehall, I know that Harper is an amazing supporter of Israel and I hope that his staunch support does not cost him the next election. It seems that every time Israel retaliates for acts against them, more anti-Israel supporters emerge. What really gets my goat are the groups of so-called Jews who “stand” with the “Palestinians”. They are quite vocal around here and always manage to get good press coverage. Most of the “antis” are not the types that would read The National Post and perhaps learn something. They are more the National Enquirer types. Yet they have managed to infiltrate most Canadian universities and colleges. Most of the big universities celebrate “Israel Apartheid” week. Harper cannot do this on his own and he and his party will have big challenges to face.
I think that global warming is extending summer around here. Usually at this time of year we have temps around 18 – 20 C but for the past couple of days it has been 37 C, which is about
100 F. Yesterday we were Canada’s “hot spot”. Unbelievable. My heart goes out to the many people who don’t have AC.
ootinny, your idea of 5 frum guys is terrific. B’H’ the restaurant should do as well as the ones run by the 5 (non-frum) guys.
I am re-opening this old thread to post an excellent article that was published in The National Post, one of Canada’s national newspapers. As far as I know, the author is not Jewish.
When Arabs kill Arabs, the left falls silent
Aug. 20, 2011 |
As the news from Syria grows darker, the silence from the left in Canada grows louder.
In Syria anti-government protesters have told reporters that President Bashar al-Assad’s police are using torture in an especially perverse way. It’s not for information gathering, since they can learn who opposes them by simply photographing demonstrators in the streets. Now they torture to terrify rebels by promising them a hideous death.
The police pick up men at random, keep them a few days, then return them to their families, the many signs of torture readable on their dead bodies. It’s not enough to kill demonstrators with tanks and snipers or have gunboats bombard the port of Latakia. The people are willing to face death. The police want them to fear torture as well.
Seventy such deaths in detention have recently been documented, 40 of them in the city of Homs, a centre of anti-Assad feeling.
In the five months since the demonstrations began, the government has killed about 2,000 citizens. The official view is that the state is saving Syria from vicious gangs of criminals. State television reports that events are proceeding as they should.
Even Saudi Arabia and the Arab League have criticized Assad’s use of force. Barack Obama wants him to resign. So far, however, he remains committed to the homicidal style that kept his father’s Baath government in office for 29 years.
Last Saturday about 40 people with anti-Assad banners held a peaceful demonstration outside the embassy of Syria in Ottawa. They all appeared to be Syrians, according to the Ottawa Citizen reporter. They were talking about the monstrous government that’s ruling their homeland and the attempts by pro-Assad operatives in Canada to intimidate them.
But on that occasion, where were all the Canadian-born experts on the Middle East, those vociferous and selfrighteous moralists, who come out of the woodwork every time Israel appears to be in violation of some UN resolution or strikes back against an outrage like the killing of the bus passengers on Thursday near Eilat?
Where, during the Syrian protest, were the massed student armies from York University and Concordia and the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education? Where were the legions of academics and trade unionists who are always ready to declare what policy should be followed by the wise and the virtuous? Where, for that matter, were Dykes and Trans People for Palestine, who make such a great noise in Toronto and whose website proudly declares they support everyone’s rights?
It happens that the answers to these rhetorical questions are the same in each case: They were all at work on their next Israeli Apartheid campaign. The truth is that leftish Canadians have only one interest in the Middle East, the struggle between Palestinians and Israelis. That appears to be their entire foreign policy. They insist they are not prejudiced; they are devoted to human rights, nothing more.
But when they consider the world beyond Canada, and choose which cause deserves their energy, they usually select the Palestinians. Their chronically narrow focus on a single conflict is selfblinding. It produces a weird aberration of opinion.
When conflict appears elsewhere on the planet, whether it’s in Tibet or Sudan or Syria, our left-wing morality police go limp. They exhibit passion on one issue only. How can they be taken seriously?
In Philip Roth’s novel Deception, a Czech gentile in London asks her American Jewish lover, “Why does everyone around here hate Israel so much. Can you explain that?” Let’s grant, she says, that Israel is a terrible country. Her lover won’t grant that but she continues: “Still, there are many countries far more terrible. Yet the hostility to Israel is almost universal among the people I meet.” Why? How could that be?
He replies that it’s an article of faith among the left. They are wedded to unrealistic hopes for social justice and they resent Israel’s failure to live up to their ideals. People expect moral perfection from Israel and are appalled when Israel doesn’t deliver.
Israelis are expected to live by the highest standards and, in difficulty, “turn the other cheek.” Roth’s male character offers a shrewd point: “You criticize most harshly the people who behave best, or the least badly.”
That novel appeared 21 years ago. Since then, leftists have grown steadily angrier at Israel. Its strange destiny is to be the only open democracy in the Middle East, the only state with free speech and free judges – and to be nevertheless the favourite enemy of the Canadian left.
So abee9258, did you get your restaurant opened up yet? If so, why not mention its name – its free advertising. I hope that everything went smoothly for you and B’H’ you are busy, busy, busy.
a mamin: why don’t you invite a few couples over for either dinner or pastry and coffee, including your daughter and SIL, of course. Then, you can make the suggested announcement about everyone turning off their cell phones. Just say something casually that this evening is for good food and good conversation and that good conversation is impossible with cell phones beeping. It might not be so obvious that you are targeting your SIL.
Thanks all for the various words for floor. I suppose that the word I should use is podlika as my father came from Poland. Well it was Poland at the time he lived there – the borders were rather elastic and occasionally the same area was Russia.
I personally love Elul. I know that the New Year is coming when I hear the shofar being blown every morning.
While we are at it, could someone please tell me the Yiddish word for a floor?
MPC, the reason some of the old timers pretend to be new, is that when there is a party, they can get in line twice and then get an extra piece of cake. It seems that many people in the CR are pastry deprived, so must resort to drastic measures when there is a cake available. You will soon grow to understand and love all of us and all of our foibles. I am happy to meet you and in case you can’t figure it out by my name, I am the non-frum one around here. I think they keep me around as a mascot – or is that a hostage – I can’t remember which, but it is one or the other. Have a lovely day.
Avigail is more anglicized and closer to the English “Abigail”, which is my daughter’s name on her birth certificate. Her Hebrew name is Avigayil – of course, we just call her Abbi.
mustangrider I think you are correct. Now that I think of it, the voice is familiar. You were crowding me out with your qoo% original handbags while I was busy trying to move my stock of absolutely authentic diamond Rolex watches – the authentic ones with the 10 minute guarantee.
kapusta, I totally agree. I mean, anyone can be normal. Those of us that are quick witted and can respond to a comment with a funny remark instantly are much more fun to be with. Of course, you generally have to be with people who are equally goofy or they absolutely don’t appreciate (or often understand) quirkiness.
I adore being “different”, as my friends call me. I don’t consider any of my personality traits as “issues” and if others do, it is their problem.
Come on over everyone. I just started an enormous jar of Kirkland double dipped, milk chocolate peanuts. They are yummy, but if nobody comes to help me eat them, I will have to finish them by myself -and it is a really, really big jar – 1.25 kg.
Speak to your lawyer about this. Because I only have one child and she has 2 sons, I made a similar stipulation in my will about family jewellery. If my daughter gifts any of this jewellery to her daughters-in law and a divorce (G-d forbid) occurs, the jewellery comes back to the family. I don’t know if American law allows this type of clause, but it was allowed in Canada.
moskidoodle, do you really not know what a dictionary is?
Haifa: I feel the same way as Middle Path. I try my very best to use good grammar and proper punctuation (hey, that is alliteration). I also endeavour to use the English language in the fashion that it was intended to be used in. Sometimes however, I do slip up. Please feel free to correct me at any time. If I start getting lazy with language (more alliteration) in the CR, where I do a lot of posting, then it will spill over into my daily life. I have to write reports and letters for various committees on which I serve and certainly want them to be a proper reflection of me – a person with an excellent command of the language. So, I appoint you the official grammatacist (does such a word exist?) of my postings. I would love to appoint you as the official CR grammatacist but I don’t believe that I have the power to do so. That appointment shall have to be left to the Mods.
Interesting post because on Friday I was shopping and noticed that the cashier’s name tag said “Hadassa”. I said to her that my cousin has the same name. She immediately asked me if it was with or without an “H” at the end. I told her it was with. She said that my cousin must be Jewish. I said yes and she told me that her name – Haddassa, without the final “H” – was, of all things, an Irish name. I was surprised to say the least. I have never heard of anyone who wasn’t Jewish having this name, nor I have I ever seen it spelled without the final “H”.
I have already baked 6 dozen hamentaschen – 3 dozen with prune and 3 dozen with mohn. My second (pesachdik) freezer is full of food for the entire 8 days. I just finished making 12 dozen cabbage rolls with sweet and sour sauce – for Rosh Hashanah – next year. I think I will need a third freezer – then I can cook and bake for all the holidays for the next 5 years. In fact, my family will be able to have “Bubbie’s home style cooking” long after I am gone. I am just making sure that they will never forget me. They shall have Bubbie care packages to take home for all eternity.