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TAOM thanks!
When you wish upon a star
It’s best to stand a little far
Since stars are hot, or so I’ve learned
And your feet might get burned.
Mary had a little lamb
She ate it with mint sauce
And then the lambs came fighting back
To get revenge, of course
Thank goodness Rapunzel got updated
Sorry, it did say short poems. Enjoy anyway!
No problem. I did enjoy it.
Thanks TAOM!
Hickory dickory dock,
The mouse has eaten my clock
The clock struck five,
The mouse didn’t survive,
Hickory dickory dock.
This is one I wrote a few years ago:
I had an adventure that was inside my head
When I woke up one morning to find myself dead.
And came upon a small table that was really a chair.
Upon it was ice cream which was served piping hot
And a bowl of string beans which were tied in a knot.
And gave a lame horse a piggy-back ride.
They really were fine, and they fitted him fair.
Next door was a shop that sold cream cakes and sand
Which were widely said to be best in the land.
And after we munched on some light of the day.
I was feeling quite bored, so we went to the fair
Which was almost invisible, and made out of hair.
At the end of the day, when the stars had all gone,
I was the last person left, the only one.
And I realised, to my great surprise and delight
It was actually still the middle of the night.
I looked out my window (not sure how I got back)
Some of us don’t choose to live in other countries. Besides, are the malls in E”Y any better? I don’t think so.
Rapunzel, Rapunzel, let down your snood
And make sure you fill it with plenty of food.
There was a girl named Grace
Who had a very weird face,
So after much urgin’
She went to the surgeon
Who flattened it out with a mace.
Primitive spelling from ancient times? No, all you mean is that the American decision to change spellings to make them easier should be accepted across the world, because no one in the world has the intelligence to spell things correctly. It’s the same with ‘lite’ and dropping the French ‘u’ out of words like colour and honour.
miritchka, if you are in a lane that can only turn in one direction, it is redundant to signal, and in England at least you do not have to signal by law. If you need to switch lanes to move into the filter lane, then of course you should signal. The whole point of signalling is so other drivers know which direction you are turning, but if the lane is clearly marked as only allowing the driver to turn in one specific direction then people already know where you are turning.
In my view, people don’t signal cause they think they don’t need to bother with such petty little things. It’s an attitude that shows selfishness and inconsiderate behaviour. The only time I don’t signal is when I am in a filter lane, which only goes one way. Even when the roads are empty, at night, and no pedestrians, I still signal.
Was going to say that the problem is you can’t spell doughnut. I know that way is easier, but so are other things easier. Still incorrect, though. Anyway, FIF beat me to it.
Chacham, people invent new colours all the time. They say that it’s a slightly different shade to this other colour and then give it a name.
How do you catch a cloud and pin it down? I’d say that was pretty impossible.
JHF – the sound of one hand clapping is the CL. The other hand makes the AP. As quoted from the Gaon Terry Pratchett.
This thread has had me laughing so hard!
Also what kind of latke would sizzle merrily? If it was me in the oil I’d be screaming at the top of my lungs for someone to come and fish me out…
ha ha jmh
Wolf – not in her case. He lives overseas and the visiting would be at my sister in law’s expense. But I agree with your point that one parent should never paint the other parent black in front of the child.
Popa – some people can be very charming in court and get their way, even if they shouldn’t.
Suffering is all in the mind. A person can have tremendous tragedies happen to them and be happy and get on with life. A person can also feel that every little thing that goes wrong is a major disaster and suffer terribly.
I recently went through a loss – it was painful and distressing and it stills hurts, but I am not suffering because I am not going to let it make me depressed. I am not quite myself yet and won’t be for some time most probably but I will not let my husband and children or my class in school be affected by what I feel.
Take a leaf out of Terry Pratchett – in his author description he says he ‘doesn’t want to get a life since he feels he is trying to lead three already’.
My sister in law was an aguna for a long time. Her ex husband refused to pay support, yet insisted on visiting rights. There are cases where the wife paints her ex out to be an evil guy and brainwashes the children into her way of thinking, however these are not as common as we think. Very often the wife withholds visiting rights because the ex is not capable of responsible fatherhood.
Actually, Family First’s new serial addresses this issue.
thank you
Mods, could you please change this person’s username. It’s far too similar to mine and I do not want to be mistaken for whatever comments this person may or may not make that others may think were written by me. Please.
PTBA it was kind of spontaneous, we went to a wedding in London which was in a hotel next to the airport, so it’s very convenient to just fly back first thing in the morning. Problem was that people who got a lift down with those who drove but wanted to be back first thing got a plane back, so there were quite a few people who needed a lift home from the airport afterwards.
Well this thread title definitely did the trick!
sheep are not very intelligent animals and where one goes, the others follow. I am not like that. I have my own opinions and my own path, which I will always follow as long as I know it’s right. I don’t like to do things ‘just because everyone else is’.
In some of the smaller cars, that middle seat is really only big enough for a young child or a very skinny person.
We once came back from the airport 3 men and 2 ladies (me and my mother in law). One of the men drove, so where did that leave us ladies? Couldn’t let my MIL sit in the back, so I did, and spent fifteen very uncomfortable minutes trying to make sure that I was still shomer negiya. Will not do that again in a hurry.
It’s funny, but here it’s the opposite – most boys stay learning for a little while and that’s what the girls want/think they want. I davka knew I needed a working guy cause although I respect the kollel lifestyle, it just isn’t for me.
Maybe try overseas shadchanim?
:):):):):):)
Nice to see someone happy here
The middle seat is not always a proper seat and someone will get squashed. It really depends on the passengers – if none of them mind being shoulder-to-cheek with someone else, or if it’s a short trip then fine.
No, not really. My opinions are my own and I am pretty strong in my beliefs.
Pninim has a lift but the mads have the key so you would probably need special permission to have your own.
As long as the experiment doesn’t kill your wife
Bookworm, Yehudis killed General Holiphornes, the top general in the Greek army. Antiochus was the king at that time. Please, please get your facts right before you post something.
My husband cooks, and he’s pretty good. On the other hand I think that I am sufficiently capable in the kitchen department, but it’s great that I can ask him to step in if I am not well, or when I have just given birth.
Rebdoniel, bear in mind though that a girl is in her best childbearing years in her 20s. Unfortunately it is today’s modern world that does not give our children the right level of maturity at such an age. I know wives my age who will insist that succos and pesach are spent with her family (the whole yom tov) and that is also wrong. The husband also has a family that he wants to see.
What many people have forgotten is that this toeiva is discussed in the torah as ‘an abomination’. It is something that should disgust us, and if Hashem uses such wording to describe this sin, then it is a bad thing. Full stop. No matter how loving the parents may be, or abusive a male and female parent may be, it is WRONG, and therefore no good can ever come of it. Mods, it’s time to stop this thread, please.
Like I said before, you don’t find hetero pride marches. That’s cause we know we’re normal, so we don’t see the need to shout about it.
That’s different. First of all, Jews as a nation, and the country of Israel are majorly persecuted just because we are Jews. No one is calling for mass genocide of homos, no one is mercilessly persecuting them for the way they behave – all religious people are saying is that it’s wrong and an abomination, but we are not systematically rounding them up and executing them, nor are we trying to bomb them in their homes. And yet they are insecure in themselves and feel the need to rally en masse in order to protest that they really are normal.
Sam2 – I strongly object to the fact that something like that, which is a twisted abomination, can be equated to something that I hold very dear. I am not getting emotional, it’s my human right to feel this way. It seems as though human rights go only one way – those who want to shove their abnormality in our faces and call it ‘their human rights’ yet we are not allowed to use our own human rights to object.
Perhaps some people really are attracted, however it is today’s society that make that majority of them think that’s the way it must be if they like someone of the same gender a little more. Believe it or not, that is pretty normal, what’s not right here is that they then use this as an excuse for depraved behaviour and spurn normal relationships. Like I said before, there is an actual, physical condition but this is extremely rare.
Besides, the fact that most of them are extremely insecure about themselves (marches, parades, bashing others for religious views and calling them homophobic etc) goes to show that deep down there is still some part of them telling them that it’s not right – even if they don’t realise this insecurity for what it actually is.
Writersoul, please look up the definition of marriage in the dictionary. It is a coming together of two very different entities (and you can’t get more different than a man or a woman) and making them into one thing. The fact that some people wish to call their partnership a marriage makes a mockery of something I hold as very special and beautiful.
And let me tell you, and others out there, that there is really no such thing as being biologically gay. Some females may have slightly more testosterone than normal (yes, it’s there in MINIMAL amounts) and some men may have a lot less than they should but that should have no bearing on the way they view themselves. It’s only because today’s society sees it as a normal thing that people think it must mean something different. There is a biological condition which means a person can be a hermaphrodite – they can be BOTH male and female physically (although usually only one side works) or they can be neither. But this is very rare and has little to do with those ‘normal’ people.
I never understood why certain people feel the need to have parades and marches to show the world why they are ‘normal’. They are clearly very insecure about themselves – conscience niggling anyone?
I don’t feel the need to shout out to everyone that I’m female and have a husband. That’s because I know that I am normal, so I don’t need to try and prove it to myself and the rest of the world.
It’s like this fuss they are all making over the film Ender’s Game, cause the author of the original book is a Mormon and very outspoken in his religious beliefs against this issue. I say well done him, carry on!
I had an ant problem a few weeks ago. I put down powder around where I thought they were coming from and they have not been seen since. Better than an exterminator
After reading some of these posts, can I respectfully ask the mods to either stop this thread or delete those posts that clearly do not belong in this kind of forum? We, as frum Jews, know that it is one of the few sins that Hashem calls an abomination (we read this on Yom Kippur in leining as part of the forbidden relationships). Jews who do not see anything wrong with it clearly do not belong in this forum.
Writersoul, for the same reason, Dickens is amazing. His chapters are long winded, but that’s only because his novels were published as a serial and they paid per word in those days. His characters are so well defined (think Micawber from David Copperfield) and you really understand them. My favourites are David Copperfield and Bleak House. I felt like I really understood the characters and got what they were about. Plus, Dickens’ novels were drawn on actual events (the court case in BH is based on a similar case that went on for years) and he paints a very real picture of what life was like in Victorian London.
Outsider – now that is genius
You know, I never really thought of it that way before. That’s astounding.