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Stop generalizing, both of you. It’s annoying.
Don’t forget more_2.
Is this in common use or did you make it up?
Wait, what’s wrong with boots?
Not alive, can’t move, not a technical device, no mechanical/electronic parts, not bigger or longer than a loaf of bread, not a place, used by people and also for animals, manmade/manufactured, doesn’t grow, not used for hygienic purposes, and not green.
If you want. But ONLY in the context of this story:
Once upon a time there was a kid shark named Pete. Poor Pete the Shark had to wear braces. He had seven-hour long orthodontist appointments on a daily basis, and he couldn’t eat any sour kelp or coral gummies, which made him very sad.
Yoish. Stop hijacking the thread.
Michlala. They have a website you can look at (not sure how much of it is about the sem, though).
I know. That’s why I’m bugging you guys about it. Certain errors in grammar and diction have become so widespread that even people who know better slip up – they just think that it’s standard. But this is no good.
(Okay, I’m turning off the grammarian for real now.)
Once upon a time there was a kid shark named Pete. Poor Pete the Shark had to wear braces. He had seven-hour long orthodontist appointments on a daily basis, and he couldn’t eat any sour kelp or coral gummies, which made him very sad.
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Is there a way to determine before marriage who is likely to go OTD after marriage
Not for human beings, I would think.
I think the mods are just very distracted right now.
Is it used for hygenic purposes?
Can we start over without doing the current posts thing? It was a cute idea, but the story isn’t making sense anymore.
It’s the SAT. Not the SATs, not the SAT’s.
(Sorry. I’m not usually Miss Grammarian, but this is a pet peeve of mine.)
White jeans? Why would anyone wear such a thing?
Is it manmade/manufactured?
Mr. British guy, chill…
Or was it only coincidence that that the first three jokes all revolved around dairy products and I’m really reading too much into this aren’t I.
Heh heh. I love that book.
“May the odds be ever in your favor”? No? Okay. 🙂
more_2, you’re supposed to continue from here:
“…..Wrestling three girls in need of rachamei shamayim…… “
Many topics here in the CR go off on tangents. You can request -you can’t force anything or anyone!
It’s not just off-topic, it’s specifically excluded by the OP. And these arguments have been rehashed so many times already. But knock yourself out, I guess.
yentingyenta, a degree can cost around $200,000 at the highest level.
zahavasdad, Ivy League and a lot of highly ranked colleges don’t give merit scholarships b’chlal. Scholarship endowments are distributed only as need-based aid. You’re only going to get what you qualify for.
coffee addict, she said she’s a feminist. She didn’t mention Women’s Lib. The two terms are NOT synonymous. In the words of my history professor: “You believe in equal pay? Good. You’re a feminist.” The movement has been polluted with all the Women’s Lib and girl power baloney to the point that “feminist” is a dirty word. Which was very dumb of them. But nothing that QB wrote identifies with that faction, so I’m assuming that she’s one of the good guys.
I don’t disagree with the overall gist of your post (except the point about housework – and I still have no idea what your first post was on about), but I think you are arguing from a completely different angle that doesn’t actually address the point at hand. (I guess the OP sort of lends itself to that, though.) The point is, does abuse of rights mean that the rights are undeserved? From a democratic perspective, the answer is no.
I ask not as a religious question, but rather as a sociological and political one.
I’m going to force you to stay on topic.
Yeah, don’t underestimate a teenager armed with diction and punctuation!
“Let the games begin ;)” <– that one
Good idea.
No no no, I really don’t get it. I’m actually trying to figure out if there’s something funny with Irish people and dairy products that I don’t know about. (Is that it?)
Is it used for recreational purposes?
We’re not talking cut-rate schools and decent ones. We’re talking decent ones and Ivy League. There isn’t any reason to waste your money on that price tag for certain fields, because their programs probably won’t be substantially better or more in demand. NYU, indeed a great college, isn’t Ivy League or pish-posh up there, so it isn’t as pricey. U Penn is, complete with $50,000 price tag.
I understand that.
I’m actually equating them. I think it applies here. It’s really over the top already.
And neither this book nor Mein Kampf are fiction, no matter how biased and ludicrous they are. Your meaning is getting buried by your rhetoric.
If you are going to nursing school, go for the cheaper one.
I know someone who is in U Penn for social work. Why, I don’t know.
…was your last line a reference too? 😉
Can we please stop comparing frei Jews to Hitler?
…as her entry (we’re not sure if it was supposed to be Chassidish or Oberlander) into the Funniest Purim Costume contest. She really could have used a haircut, though, and some shampoo from a hotel.
I don’t think normal men do that, and I do think that most men are normal. I also think that QB was using it as an extreme example to try to show that a system where women are completely reliant on men isn’t foolproof. I’m not sure what your point has to do with that (let’s leave Women’s Lib out of it).
more_2? Mods, for real?
I don’t have a problem with it showing that they are dumb, and I don’t think it’s done in ill-humor at all. I’m not coming from the politically correct perspective. I just think that plug-in-a-subject-and-tack-on-a-corny-punchline jokes just lose their inherent humor. Your Rosh Yeshiva joke is funny, though (I guess by the same token). 🙂
(Of course, this all has nothing to do with the fact that I still don’t get the joke.)
coffee addict, I actually thought you joking here…
why do you think there were less divorces 100 years ago, were less men abusive, or got sick of their wives less and if so why is that?
maybe they feel threatened by their wives and this wouldn’t happen if they didn’t have jobs and took care of the kids instead
as to “getting sick of their wives” I think men only get “sick of their wives” if they are attracted to something else and wouldn’t be if there was no women’s sufferage
But I guess you weren’t. Men feel threatened by their wives because they work? The only way I could see that panning out is:
a) Freud was really right about everything
b) The man has some issues.
I personally favor b. And IMHO, “getting sick of their wives” would be a manifestation of such issues. (Because no one in their right mind would see that as a healthy reaction, even if the wife were at fault…right?)
I’m not. I’m Polish, actually. 🙂
I’m going to go for “sociological and political.” The OP is contending that abuse of rights calls for abolition of said rights. This is not a democratic view. A citizen of a true democratic state has the right to use and abuse his rights as he (or she) pleases. I have no idea how you could argue otherwise (at least as long as you are including “political in the mix).
Besides that, the fact that people abuse a right does not make the right a bad thing. Case in point: divorce. Divorce is not a bad thing. People abuse it and tend to make a mess out of it, which is a bad thing. But it still remains that divorce itself is necessary and should not be abolished.
I agree that Women’s Lib – a distinct movement from first wave feminism/the suffrage movement, by the way – has yielded some less than stellar results. But your solution fails to address a lot of major political and sociological issues.
Goq, I sort of agree with you. But I also think that anything inherently insulting in this type of joke is obviated by the fact that you can usually substitute the nationality/race/sex/whatever in question with anything else and it will be the exact same joke. For instance, I’ve heard the OP’s #2 before as a blonde joke. Same goes for yo’ mama jokes.
coffee addict, you’re going off topic. “Sociological and political,” not religious, remember?
I think I’m missing something…is there something with Irish people and milk or is it just trying to show that Irish people are dumb?
Can we start a new one?
Hey, can you explain that last one to me? I’m kind of curious…
Hi! I see Goq has rolled out the Welcome Wagon for you. 🙂