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chocolate makes me feel good. it releases endorphins in the brain which make a person feel happier.
I lost mine again, sorry can’t help you
A Treatise on Bananas, Their Properties, and What Makes the Perfect Banana:
This being the definitive work into what really makes bananas the thing of beauty that they are and why we regard them as so important to our daily lifestyle
Author: The Librarian (who is NOT a monkey and gets very cross if you call him one. He is an orang-utan.)
It’s a bit more than that. The ones who are friendly are very friendly, but those who aren’t can be downright nasty. And because it’s a working class area, they are very, very low people. So when they have had one pint too many they like to break car mirrors, amongst other things.
and motze shabbos in canada is also insanely late hours. It’s called living in the North. Same is true in scandinavia and russia. and if you live in the north pole you don’t get a motze shabbos at all
segregation in the streets? I never knew, and have lived here for a few years now. Thanks for telling me, I have been sinning without knowing…
Seriously, the shop times are segregated for YESHIVA BOCHURIM and SEM GIRLS only since there are a total of about 1500 boys and girls who come to learn in gateshead and we are a small community. Yes, the goyim can be a bit rough but there have not been any major incidents, and personally, I prefer open anti-semitism to living somewhere where they say ‘equality for all, we love all kinds of people’ and then go and stab you in the back. At least here we know they don’t like us… but like I said it’s not that bad
what on earth? how do you do that?
TMB, she is asking about a specific sem. Giving a different suggestion does not answer her question.
Debbiee, I did not go to gateshead new, but many of my friends did. Also, I live in gateshead so I get to see what the girls are like. The girls I know loved it there, and gained much. There is a good hanhala also. The type of girls who go vary a little but generally they are regular frum girls, many have been through beis yaakov or similar. It’s not a teachers training sem like gateshead old so learning in-depth texts is not as heavy as in other sems. Generally, the girls go with good hashkafos and come out prepared for life. There have been one or two incidents in the past with girls but they are rare, and to be honest, you can still get that in most sems anyway.
loyal jew – no it hasn’t. as recently as 100 or so years ago some of the major gedolim and talmidei chachomim kept jobs as well as learning. Yes, the wives raised the children. But families were self-sufficient, no matter how poor they were. Parents from neither side paid support towards the couple’s income. The idea of married children living off parents’ allowances is a very new thing.
shame I was too late for this thread. Well done JMH! you have done us proud…
1) Parents absolutely need to know their children since often their view and their child’s view of what they need are different
2) There is a shidduch crisis, but it’s largely self-inflicted by a general shift in attitude towards the shidduch process
3) Highly educated girls ARE a problem – it’s not their fault that the school system sets them up geared towards careers whilst at the same time being fed idealistic views on kollel. However this is not connected to the fact that the mesivta system results in a lack of secular education. I agree with the fact that a girl who feels she is more educated than her husband cannot respect him for who he is, however I must point out that I myself completed higher education, am currently studying towards a teacher’s degree, and am married to someone who never even completed his high school exams. Does it bother me? No. Baruch Hashem he runs a successful business and I am very proud of it.
In short, it’s peoples’ thinking that needs to change.
I saw a mind running down my street just before, but it could have been mine cause I haven’t yet checked and it often goes AWOL
ready now – I really don’t think that you should be commenting on this since really this is an issue for people who are actually English and live in the UK. Personally, although some things that the previous Chief Rabbi may have said/did rubbed some of the more charedi community the wrong way, on the whole I feel that this is a position that is sorely needed. The Chief Rabbi, previous or present, is an ambassador for ALL of Jewry in the UK, not just the charedim or the modern communities, and as such is a very difficult position to fill and keep people happy. And on the whole, we have been shown to others as mentschlich people who nevertheless uphold our religion properly – a real kiddush Hashem. I hope that the new Chief Rabbi proves to be such an ambassador.
AZ – can you please give me those numbers as fact? Because every year the birth rate is different – in some years there are more girls born overall than boys, and in some years it is the other way around. Hashem would not make a birth rate that would leave some people inevitably single when we are told quite clearly that everyone’s zivug is announced in Heaven before they are born. Very often it is a bechira thing, and people don’t even realise they have missed their zivug until it is too late.
Health – then tell the girls to date at age 20 instead of focusing on gaining ‘careers’ to support husbands in kollel! There are too many girls who want to finish college before they settle down.
Plonis – please don’t insult my intelligence. I already said that I live in Gateshead and so I know who and what I am talking about – have you ever been to Gateshead? The entire community has certain standards and with exception of one or two families (who are by no means related to any choshuv rov of any sort) every single family here keeps to that standard which makes Gateshead what it is.
And again, with all due respect, the same goes for shmendrick – I know what I am talking about.
AZ – they also find out everything relevant (note the word relevant) before any meetings take place – all they need to do is meet to see if they like each other and can get on with each other. That should also tell us everything.
But we English hate the French! And because, as an alliance, the Brits and the Americans beat Germany in both world wars, does that mean we can steal German from them? We had English first!
I permanently deleted my account over a year ago. I don’t miss it. When I had it I kept much of my details private. I never put up pictures of me and my husband together, never put up pictures of my baby when she was born. My profile picture was never a personal one. I never had my relationship status on. And my pictures and profile could only be viewed by my facebook friends.
One of the cons of facebook is that if a person does put up many personal things and then something changes in their life circumstances, they have to change their whole profile to get rid of things they no longer want there. And this could mean indicating things that they would otherwise not want to tell people. For an example, I have friend who got divorced about three years ago. I realised something was wrong when she changed back to her maiden name and deleted all the pictures she had of her and her husband from her profile. And yet she did not tell anyone until a little while later. Things like this create speculation, and the more personal stuff you have on your profile, the more speculation and embarrassment you are going to invite.
Dear PBA,
Why can’t the Americans learn to speak and spell English correctly? It really bothers me. I mean, how can something that is not a book and doesn’t go in a pocket be called a pocketbook? CALL IT A WALLET FOR GOODNESS’ SAKE! Or a purse, if you are female. And said purse goes inside a HANDBAG! (Since it is a bag and you carry it in your hand…)
And the stuff I have inside my doughnuts this week was definitely not jelly. That would have been disgusting.
Sincerely,
Annoyed Authentic English Speaker
I feel, having seen this a few times over, that many girls have a very definite idea of the guy they want to marry, and when they go out with a boy they feel there must be some sort of ‘chemistry’ there. What is chemistry??? I finished chemistry when I left school! When I was dating, I had my ‘top-ten’ list (if you haven’t read Dating Secrets, go read it now!) and knew that if I liked the guy and felt I could talk to him easily, that was enough to warrant another date. The third guy I met (my husband) ticked off every single one of my top-ten points (and the book says if you can tick off five then you’re on to a good thing). We dated a total of seven times over ten days before we were engaged. If more girls would have this mentality things would be a lot easier. But a lot of girls I know are waiting for Mr Perfect with sparks in their eyes and feel they have to go out with a guy for at least a few weeks before they even think about is this who they want to marry. That’s not what dating is about! If someone, boy or girl, can get to ten dates and still not feel ready to make a commitment, there is something wrong with the way they are dating.
The Chassidim don’t seem to have a shidduch crisis, and I think that should tell us everything.
I will for once reveal a few private details. I live in Gateshead. Rav Falk’s own daughters wear skirts that reach to a couple of inches above their ankles, as well as many other women and girls from the most respected families here. The ‘long skirts’ that Rav Falk says are not tznius are those that go below the ankles and sweep the floor, as I mentioned earlier.
The only problem that I have personally with OVL is that it is very much ‘one size fits all’ and as I have said many times, it is so easy to follow those guidelines when a girl has no figure to speak of whatsoever. However, someone like me, if I were to follow the exact inch-for-inch guidelines given, would end up looking like a bin bag (I am not joking). That’s all I have to say on OVL
yes, HO, we have all been quoting some of the silliest poems verbatim. But it’s still good fun!
There you go, JMH
“Beware the Jabberwock my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that snatch
Beware the Jubjub bird and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch.”
He took his vorpal sword in hand,
Long time the manxsome foe he sought
Till rested he by the Tumtum tree
And stood awhile in thought.
And as in uffish thought he stood,
The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame
Came whiffling through the tulgy wood
And burbled as it came!
One, two! One, two! And through and through
His vorpal blade went snicker-snack,
He left it dead and with its head
He went galumphing back.
“And hast though slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arms my beamish boy!
Oh frabjous day! Caloo calay!”
He chortled in his joy.
Twas brillig and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe
All mimsy were the borogroves
And the mome raths outgrabe.
Just to put in my two pennies worth – this discussion began with talking about long skirts and denim.
Long skirts; I used to wear floor-sweeping (denim!) skirts as a teenager, but that was a phase I grew out of and from an outside point of view I can say that it really doesn’t look good on someone who feels they should be presenting herself as an ambassador for royalty. However, this is floor-sweepers I am talking about. Ankle-length is fine and many women in my community wear skirts on or just above their ankle (please don’t make any comments about ‘just because everyone does it’ – JMH knows where I live and would completely agree with me).
Denim; stonewashed/faded denim looks very, very casual and highly unrefined – as someone once pointed out to me, it looks as though that part of the outfit has been worn away, especially when it’s on the seat area. However, darker colours of denim are absolutely fine, it really depends on whether the skirt in question is a jean skirt or just a skirt that happens to be made out of denim. Jean skirts can be extremely figure-hugging…
On a final note, there is a certain trend recently where ladies and girls wear tunics with a pencil skirt underneath, or dresses that have a very straight style skirt. The problem with these is that many of these skirts and dresses are made of materials that ride up when sitting down, even if the skirt itself covers the knees perfectly when standing. And I know of many people who fall into this mistake, and one can see three inches above their knees once they sit down. Not kidding. And the other problem, tunic-wise, is that these people are buying the pencil skirt to make the tunic more tzanua! Go figure it out. Maybe instead of ranting about long skirts we should be hearing tznius talks about tunics…
Gadzooks milarkey!
Whaaaaaat?!?!?! You did WHAT?! But that was my favourite banana! I’ve had it for ten years! And you went and ATE it?!?!
Alice woke up
Ay don’t believe it!
they’re grrrrrrrrrrrrrrreat!
fly, you fools!
Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow, creeps in this petty pace from day to day, until the last syllable of recorded time. And all our yesterdays have lighted fools the way to dusty death. Out – out! brief candle. Life is but a walking shadow, a poor player who struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard of no more. It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
not sure I know what you mean, JMH. I don’t really remember that one
that was something, JMH. really thought-provoking
Ding, dong the witch is dead. Which old witch? The one that lives round the corner, you know, just a few minutes’ walk from here. Course you know her, she’s the one with the gingerbread cottage.
Ready now – don’t be naive. Of course there are streams in Judaism. I grew up in a place where a teenage boy’s youth centre had to have separate nights for boys of different mechinos as the parents did not want their children mixing with boys from another school. I am not talking about chareidi and modern schools here. I am talking about chareidi and chareidi schools. JMH can vouch for that, since he also grew up there. And until the various factions of chareidi kehillos can stop this ridiculous segregation, they have no right to look down upon those who maybe are slightly more modern yet keep kashrus and shabbos and tznius same as everyone else.
And it’s not up to you to decide whether what a person says in the CR is Apikorsus or not. Actually, Apikorsus is when someone outright denies the existence of G-d and Torah miSinai.
The men in white coats are your friends…
Wow. Just wow. JMH (I am so tempted to use your real name) that was just wow.
Yowzah!
sorry, but who are you?
mary had a little lamb, the doctor was surprised
but when macdonald had a farm he couldn’t believe his eyes!
mary had a little lamb, she ate it with mint sauce…
mary had a little lamb, she also had some beef…
and now for something completely different…