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The wording of the opening posts suggests that the opening poster is drunk.
Re the moderator’s question in the opening post: A genuine rumor is on the internet. Any other rumor is just word of mouth.
Re The Goq’s first post. Funny, not finny. But no apology necessary.
Re the opening post: If your facts about the US treaty of 1994, and your assumption about President Obama, are correct (which I doubt, but never mind), then you have asked a reasonable question with an obvious answer: Because no other nation, especially Russia, can be counted on to support Jews like the US. Russia and its predecessor, the Soviet Union, have been allies of various hostile Arab nations since at least 1947. And Russia, going back to the czars, has been an enemy of the Jews throughout its history.
The only language I dislike is Phlegmish. It’s the language a lot of people speak when they wake up in the middle of the night and have not, or are unable, to clear their throats. My grandmother always spoke it before she had her morning cup of hot water.
The worst language I have ever used: *&$$#@*&^& !!#%$*&! My parents heard it and I was denied dessert for a week.
Re second post by The Goq: I looked it up, and I apologize.
To the opening poster: Aren’t you the guy/girl in another thread having trouble finding a shiduch? Maybe this is why.
Re comment by “The Goq”: You sound like a late-19th Century American gentile turning up his/her nose at the “stinking” Jews. I know people who live in Southern Arizona, and they are highly sympathetic to the plight of people with no opportunity or hope for a better life for their children in Mexico and only seek opportunity in America. If that does not sound like your own past, you do not know your past.
Who is the nudnik that decided to call this event the “Million Man …”? That phrase in the US is most closely associated with a bow-tie-wearing, Quran-quoting fake phony fraud who is a raging anti-Semite. Moreover, like the aforesaid fake phony fraud, this is not expected to have even half a million participants. In all of Eretz Yisrael, there are less than 4,000,000 men, including Muslims and non-frum Jews. Where do the promoters of this event think they are going to get 1,000,000 participants?
my style when poor people come to my door: Prada is always stylish.
The opening poster wrote something about “take out gefilte fish.” I took out a gefilte fish once, but after that I got a different shadchan.
I believe that the Dead Sea Scrolls contain all but 2 books of Tanach. Scholars consider them scientific proof that the content of Tanach was in written form before the establishment of Christianity.
Yo momma so pretty the tznius police in Meah Shearim make huh wear a sheitel on huh face.
WIY so stupid he think “yo momma” jokes just from African American culture. The jokes are basically puns that have been recast as insults and were part of English-speaking culture for more than 100 years. I remember versions of the jokes that preceded the “yo momma” versions that were the same jokes but with slightly different set-ups. And most of the jokes are no more insulting than the stories of the Wise Men of Chelm.
As for borrowing from African American culture, popular music for the last 150 years has been heavily influenced by African American culture, and in turn, popular music has heavily influenced so-called “Jewish music,” by which I mean that awful stuff recorded by guys names smellky or ichy or dorky and sold in the bookstores that sell siddurs and Talmuds
farrockgrandma got it right. All the rest is commentary – bad commentary.
Once upon a time there was a Jew who kept all the mitzvahs and he had a good parnassah and all his children stayed on the derech and his wife ….
Threads like these puzzle me. Treating a burn is a medical problem with medical solutions. Why do so many readers of YWN bring their medical problems to an anonymous group of yentas (including me), who in few cases purport to even have medical credentials, and seek advice for medical problems. Some of these responses sound right to me, some sound wrong, and some sound scary. But the scariest thing is that some people would rather seek advice from unknown, uncredentialed yentas than seek medical help for a medical problem.
And, just to add my own uncredentialled 2 cents, the soaking in cold water promptly after suffering the burn is what prevented the blistering. But be sensible – don’t take my word for it.
And funnier if you do get hurt.
The opening poster did not cover all the topics mentioned, as she omitted to explain how the other topics apply to a golfer. Maybe that is because, for golfers, the most important things are their putts.
Chestnut Ridge is about 40 miles north of Borough Park.
I fail to understand why the opening poster was afraid to answer the campus Orthodox rabbi’s question truthfully. Surely the rabbi knows that there are broad ranges of opinion on kashrus and many different ways that frum Jews observe kashus. Her devious answer, in its way, is more insulting than a truthful answer, as it implies that the rabbi lacks the ability to understand her opinion and her practice of kashrus. And, of course, it only postpones the time when the opening poster has to come clean with the rabbi, as, sooner or later, he will invite the opening poster to his home for a Shabbos or chag meal. A truthful answer, if expressed sensibly and courteously, should not be offensive to the rabbi, or any other frum Jew.
They ate the whole cow.
RGB changed his/her name to CMY. He/she wants to be subtractive rather than additive.
“Poster” writes in part: “the streets in Boro Park are a mess and very dangerous!” That’s true all year round. Plowing them is not going to help.
In her third post, keepingbusy613 writes, in part: “I know two people who went out with him and a married friend had him for a shabbos meal.”
Yes, sephardim are known for their excellent taste. I just hope the married friend left enough of him for you to marry.
Funnybone is now tied for first with gotbeer.
Schadchan should say to relevant parents: “You know, chossons/kallahs don’t grow on trees.” Alternative: “I didn’t do this for my health.”
I’d buy a pair of green pants with navy-blue whales on them.
Best answer so far: gotbeer’s
Re DASH2’s 3rd post: As for what is available on the “BBC,” could you be more specific? Otherwise, I will wind up watching old Monty Python skits.
As for your suggestion that Al Queda moved the WMD’s before the US could find them, that is idle speculation. And if they were moved, where did they go, and why were they not used in the last 10 years? And I am not sure that it was the CIA who reached an erroneous conclusion about WMD’s. I think it was their political bosses, e.g., Dick Cheney, who encouraged the CIA to interpret the raw intelligence to fit with his political schemes.
Exactly what positive effects the invasion had for the Iraqi people is hard to say. You point to their increased birth rate, but that might have happened anyway. And even if the overall impact of the invasion was positive (which I doubt), I do not think it was a wise use of my (or your, or other American taxpayers’) money, or the lives and limbs of American armed forces personnel.
“One Palestine, Complete,” by Tom Segev, an excellent history of modern Israel from 1882 (start of modern secular Zionism) to beginning of 21st Century (Gregorian years).
The US war in Iraq was undertaken to protect the US from Iraqi weapons of mass destruction. It turns out that there were no such weapons. Even if we assume that the opening poster’s assessment of the net effects of the US invasion are correct (which is doubtful), the cost of those benefits is horrendously high, and immeasurable for the US soldiers, sailors, marines and airmen/women who were injured or killed in the effort.
Beis medrash now offers more and better employment opportunities than most law schools. Especially if you wear a kippah.
To oomis: Slipping on a banana peel is funny if I don’t get hurt.
Unless you have a private jet and tons of money, commuting from Monsey to Colombia is not really practical. And if you drive, don’t park next to any drug dealers – you will get caught in the cross-fire.
Weird mouse story: Steamboat Willie, about a mouse who is a steamboat captain. The story was by a guy named Disney, and it was the beginning of a business that has become an enormous movie, news, amusement park and entertainment business. What could be weirder?
As I have said before: So many opinions … so little information. The opening poster has not revealed to us any of the following:
1. What her kid did wrong, and what efforts before the “confiscation” of shoes the camp took to bring the child into compliance with the rules. And whether the kid was punished on prior occasions for bad behavior.
2. How disruptive her child was to the other children in the camp.
3. Whether her child required medical attention following his perambulating on gravel.
4. Whether the camp still has the kid’s shoes or returned them.
The “confiscation” of shoes reminded me (and at least one other poster) of the Nazi confiscation of children’s shoes, as displayed so poignantly at the Yad Vashem museum. There is, however, a difference between confiscation by Nazis – who killed the children who owned the shoes because they were Jewish – and the confiscation by the camp counsellor, who was merely trying to make a child behave. Confiscation is a harsh world, and I question the opening poster’s judgment in using such a harsh word.
The opening poster’s complaint strikes me as part of a larger problem, i.e., parents who pay tuition – to camp, to school or to college – and think that their child does not have some obligations to abide by the rules of the institution, and are shocked when the institution disciplines their child, or gives him an unsatisfactory grade just because the kid failed to learn the subject matter. But, as I said, the opeing poster did not give us enough information to support my impression.
Mr. Mandela’s signature accomplishment was to bring democracy to South Africa without a bloodbath. The white regime that ruled South Africa under Apartheid was shamelessly oppressive. Mandela brought about a bloodless revolution that established majority rule in South Africa without a bloody purge of the white oppressors of the majority of South Africans. He established the truth of the oppression of the white regime by permitting individual whites to confess to their acts of oppression without punishing them, and with forgiveness. That is what makes him one of the greatest men in history.
If and when the State of Israel can solve its riddle of recognition of the rights of the Arabs displaced by the State of Israel, and important support of the solution will be Mr. Mandela’s method of implementing Hashem’s mitzvah of forgiveness and kindness.
In divorce, as in war, truth is the first casualty.
To the opening poster: You write: “He’s a good person to be friends with, because he is always throwing parties for a simcha (he has ten kids) or a siyum (his kids like to learn).”
I infer from your statement that you are a schnorrer and an exploitive pseudo-friend who chooses friends based on the material things – like simcha parties – they offer to their friends. You did not indicate how old your broken furniture was, nor how heavy your new neighbor is. If you honestly feel that he should pay for the broken furniture, you should ask yourself why he did not offer to pay you, and whether he is the kind of person who would be a real friend. But you figure he’ll make it up in simchas, and so you do not want to lose your meal ticket with him. Do him a favor – don’t pretend to be his friend.
Re the Goq’s first comment: Please have some rachmonos for Americans who have suffered insult and degradation since their ancestors came here as slaves. I find the shifting fashions in language confusing, inconsistent and distracting from the real issue, i.e., respect for colored people, or people of color, or Negroes, or blacks, or Blacks, or Afro-Americans, or African Americans, or African-Americans.
But your comment was funny, in its way.
If it interferes with blood flow, it is too small. If it blows off, it might be too big.
To the opening poster: Your idea is as sound as a chain letter, but at least it is not illegal.
mobico: My thoughts exactly.
akuperma: Did you honestly mean to say that goyim kill babies before birth? All goyim? Or only the ones you know? Please be a little more careful about what you pull out of your ear.
To Burnt Steak: “Petal” is a part of a flower. “Pedal” is a foot-operated device, such as a brake pedal in an automobile, or the pedals on a bicycle. And you wonder why you are not well understood?
To the Goq, re your first and second posts: If you have to explain when you are being sarcastic, you are not communicating effectively. And you should, of course, never say “of course,” because if it were so obvious, of course it would not be necessary to say it.
Re post by Toi: If Jews invented herring, I might agree with you.
Pride in being Jewish is as unsound as any other form of ethnic pride, or any pride in anything other than one’s own accomplishments. I did not survive a concentration camp, or a pogrom. I did not discover penicillin or the theory of relativity, I did not write the Mishneh Torah or the Shulchan Aruch.
I give tzedukkah – that is something to be proud of. Hashem requires me, as a Jew, to give tzedukkah – that is nothing to be proud of, unless I do it. Hashem gives me a Jewish soul – that is nothing to be proud of. Hashem requires me to put on tefillin – that is nothing to be proud of, but putting on tefillin – that’s something to be proud of.
Standards are important, and so two standards must be better than one.