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Is it used as a tool to accomplish a task?
Syag: +1
Best onomatopoeic word EVER is susurrus.
Argh, sorry, shtiky shlo. You get next round, then. Stay with us for this round?
Any mechanical/electronic components?
Giant omnivorous quark.
Grand old quipper.
Grated onion quandary.
Girly oatmeal quadrangle.
Gallant orca quaffer.
Grueling oblong quirks.
😛
Looks like I don’t have to. 😀
Is it manmade?
Does someone else want to start?
Is it just me or are there a lot of threads on wedding music on the main page…?
Or beanie propeller hats.
Heh, you’re gonna need the extra head to keep up with us nimble young’uns. 😛
Probably not. But don’t attribute any ownership of that word to me – I renounce it entirely. 🙂 Also, totally with you about age – in fact, I rarely say my age in real life, either. 😛
Mine is Vehi Sheomdah.
Bah, technical words. Might as well memorize:
Methionylthreonylthreonylglutaminylarginyltyrosylglutamylserylleucylphenylalanylalanylglutaminylleuc yllysylglutamylarginyllysylglutamylglycylalanylphenylalanylvalylprolylphenylalanylvalylthreonylleucylgl ycylaspartylprolylglycylisoleucylglutamylglutaminylserylleucyllysylisoleucylaspartylthreonylleucylisoleu cylglutamylalanylglycylalanylaspartylalanylleucylglutamylleucylglycylisoleucylprolylphenylalanylseryla spartylprolylleucylalanylaspartylglycy…
(I would post the whole thing, but I’m afraid of crashing the site.)
I decided on a whim to check and see if what everyone is saying about college graduates is true. It isn’t. In fact, it seems that across the board, statistical sources show that the higher the level of education attained, the lower the divorce rate.
Think about it: if only for the reason I’m sure you all you naysayers take stock in – that people who attain higher education marry later/not at all – this makes sense, being that the sample size would theoretically be much smaller and generate a lower divorce rate. Which would be a function of sample size, making it inconclusive data. Which is why you should never trust statistics, and which is why I maintain that statistics are generally completely useless, and the refuge of the weak debater.
Did you just grow another head? o_0
So that’s what it means…lol that’s funny.
I takah was wondering where you were. Welcome back! 🙂
My favorite word is haecceity. It’s such a funny word. Also its counterpart quiddity. 🙂
Also sesquipedalian, for the same reason. 😀
lol. Happy birthday!
I browsed Nine West’s website…didn’t see anything I liked…
But good news! I went to DSW today and I found them! 😀
I wasn’t really joking. mermaid was obviously making the point that divorced people, specifically, will try to justify their state and will have a negative influence on your marriage. Which is ridiculous. Your case is irrelevant.
Moral of the story – don’t be friends with divorced people.
shtiky shlo, are you there?
Oh, it’s not only the fit…
but I think this might be a girl thing. 🙂
Sometimes I look around online…but you have to try shoes on before you can buy them.
Hey cinderella, did you any nice wedges while you were shopping? Something springish, maybe beige…I looked and looked before Y”T but couldn’t find anything – all too strappy or MUCH too platformy. 🙁
Of course you are entitled to your own opinion. And don’t worry, I don’t harbor any ill will toward you. I just have some pointed opinions on this subject is all. Sorry if I’m coming off a little strong. 😛
If you’ll allow me, I have one more bone to pick with you…you (and a lot of others here) talk a lot about all the demoralizing “memorization” that goes on in girls’ schools. I have two comments on this:
1. Knowledge isn’t imparted meaningfully through rote. If you feel that all you are doing in school is memorizing, then either the school is going about it all wrong, or you aren’t really interested in learning. Unfortunately, us girls have a predilection . It just seems so much easier to speed through the stuff, repeat it 20x in a sing-songy and presto! You’ve got it down pat. But then, of course, it’s never that easy. You get bogged down, the little rhymes get all mixed up in your head, and the house of cards comes tumbling down. Because that’s what you’re building – a flimsy house of paper. For the lucky ones, this comes right after the final. But either way, you’re putting a lot of meaningless, stressful effort into something that’s bound to fail you. And here’s the best part – it’s really so much easier to learn things the right way – “kasvem al luach libecha.” It’s more enjoyable, fulfilling, and takes much less time. And no, it does not take one extra ounce of glorified braininess. All it takes is dedication and presence of mind – which are perhaps even rarer commodities.
2. We girls are very big drama queens. Put us in the slightest amount of discomfort and we begin contemplating suicide. Gets us out of lots of pickles. This defense mechanism also functions as a handy excuse as well. Something is slightly inconvenient, so we exaggerate the aggravation so it becomes this unmanageable burden that we can of course excuse ourselves from. And of course, it also doesn’t help that we exacerbate the pressure by trying to cram everything in in entirely the wrong way.
All in all, our discomfort isn’t really a good reason to stop at anything. The trick is to get people to ditch the “tangible benefit” argument – it’s all rainbows from there.
Do you live in E”Y?
Do they have a Home Ec class? 😛
heh heh, I guess. :S
I started typing OneOfMany as my email login…
I’m almost positive that this is already being done in select areas.
(But not as much as I like my Cole Haans. Which you can also get at Nordstrom Rack.)
heh heh. Though I actually was knocking brand retail stores. Much cheaper to get ’em Nine West shoes at Nordstrom Rack or Marshalls. (I like Nine West too. :P)
The flux capacitor.
Nine West? Pshaw. Did you check out Nordstrom Rack?
It depends on what exactly you’re calling “falling in love.” Obviously your conception of this thing matches up with something you regard as unhealthy. Chances are the people who are supporting this concept have a different conception of it.
BalabustaInDaHouse: First, you realize that all these sem cliches that you’re spouting don’t apply to the majority of the female population, right? Because a good amount of them are actually sentient human beings? Good. Also, sem in town is a great option. I was planning on going to sem in town until someone changed my mind. But that doesn’t mean that sem in E”Y is worthless. It’s a another experience that some girls are pulled towards. That’s all. And as for money, like I said before, girls work their tucheses off the latter half of their senior year pinching together the tuition money. Everyone in my seminary did. Maybe there are some entitled little brats out there, I don’t know. But a better taynah would be, “Why aren’t they working to pay for it?” not, “Why should girls being going?”
I think a lot of people approach the sem issue from a distorted, overgeneralized perspective. They think that sem in Israel is this fad thingy that girls and their parents feel this imperative to take part of, due to peer pressure/shidduch options/whatever. But it really isn’t like that. In fact, there were less than 15 Israel-goers in my high school class of 70. The overwhelming majority chose to go to half-day seminary programs, and start college. If anything, peer pressure dictated that you stay home. And plenty of them have already gotten engaged just fine, so I suppose it didn’t have any impact on their shidduchim. This was the case with most of my friends in other schools in NY, too. The reality is just different than what people spin in their minds.
Factoring in amount of makeup applied. 😛
Was it really an April Fools’ joke?
Csar: The law of diminishing returns applies first and foremost to a girl’s makeup.
When people do that thing where they squish their hand and crack every single finger joint simultaneously. *shudders* Oh, teeth on ice is a good one. Like, ice cubes.
writersoul: Of course I’m right…and you can be the most intelligent because you agree with me. 🙂
Yay! 😀
Is it alive?
As biggest cynic, you mean?
And who said that contemporary Bais Yaakov schooling comprises of rote memorization, or is preoccupied with developing an appreciation for the complexity of Torah? I for one had an overwhelming majority of “hashkafas hachaim” type classes. And how does instituting home ec classes and the like instead of those onerous classses where you do nothing but memorize zillions of Rashis and spit back endless “mi amar el mi”s fit into your point?
Incidentally, I do think it would be a totally cool idea to teach the Nineteen Letters at high schools. Do they, at any?
I think that the backlash is an overreaction. I also think the article is an overreaction. This whole shebang is a sad commentary on how our society has declined into overreaction-ism.
I said that their solution was to introduce learning. How does that contradict?
Ditch the apostrophe.
However using txt spk is assur m’dioraisa m’shum lo sonu
lol ttly
To those of you who claim that you hated extra curriculum classes in high school and that it was a waste of time- tell me, what 15 year old is interested in learning ANYTHING. Are you telling me that you would have rather been leaning every Rashi in the Torah? How is that going to make you a model mother? I would have loved to learn cooking, sewing etc…. It would have saved me tons of $$ on alterations. As a jewish mother, you always need to add a hem, add a button etc. As for all the Rashis and Rambams I learned, I don’t remember any of them.
Did you even bother reading any of the responses on this thread before coming up with this scintillating argument?
Also, your second post contradicts your first. The reason the Bais Yaakov movement was started in the first place was to combat the problem you are addressing. And their solution was to introduce learning, not housewivery.