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  • in reply to: learning hakaras katov from a penguin #1141572
    popa_bar_abba
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    Why doesn’t the gemara say to learn hakaras hatov from a cat, since if you give it milk, it will come back and meow every day?

    in reply to: learning hakaras katov from a penguin #1141566
    popa_bar_abba
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    Why should this be worse than learning tznius from the cat or not stealing from the ant?

    First answer my question, then I’ll answer yours.

    in reply to: learning hakaras katov from a penguin #1141563
    popa_bar_abba
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    For really, I don’t follow. The penguin is obviously not doing it for hakaras hatov, so I’m not really getting what the moral is.

    in reply to: learning hakaras katov from a penguin #1141559
    popa_bar_abba
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    Maybe it visits to get fed

    in reply to: Looks in shidduchim #1141868
    popa_bar_abba
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    Health, would you marry someone 40 years older than you?

    in reply to: To people who shidduch dated someone and broke up after 10+ times #1140580
    popa_bar_abba
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    There is a halachic school of thought that once a tenaim has been made the engagement should not be broken under any circumstances.

    Litvaks do the tenaim at the wedding.

    in reply to: Divorce is Worse than a Difficult Marriage #1143132
    popa_bar_abba
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    Do you mean and?

    Two different arguments.

    1. Poor people get divorced more, and also poor people die younger, so its correlated with the same cause, instead of one causing other.

    2. Divorce makes people poor, which makes them die younger.

    Because then getting divorced does cause a shorter life span, albeit with an intermediate step.

    Right, but then you should focus on the important factor. So that if you’re rich, then it’s ok. Or if you’re poor anyway, then it’s also ok. Like eating pizza and dying young–you only need to worry if you’re not fat anyway.

    in reply to: Divorce is Worse than a Difficult Marriage #1143129
    popa_bar_abba
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    Because perhaps children dying at 65 instead of 70 is what caused the parents to get divorced when the kids were 3.

    Very creative. Creative thinking is a very good skill in statistical analysis.

    I’m not as creative. I was thinking perhaps poor folks get divorced and die young. Or getting divorced is a risk factor for growing up poor.

    in reply to: Divorce is Worse than a Difficult Marriage #1143126
    popa_bar_abba
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    Another point the study found, that I hadn’t mentioned, was that parental divorce while the kids were still children statistically has also been shown to lead to a shorter lifespan for the children of the divorcees.

    You mean statistically correlated with. Statistics can’t show which caused the other, or what other factors caused either.

    in reply to: Divorce is Worse than a Difficult Marriage #1143124
    popa_bar_abba
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    You read it?

    in reply to: To people who shidduch dated someone and broke up after 10+ times #1140570
    popa_bar_abba
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    Speed dating wouldn’t help, as it doesn’t address the underlying issues.

    Not sure where you’re going with that. If the underlying issue was a non-crooked nose it could have helped a lot.

    Which story?

    how many stories were in my post.

    Folks having beshows effectively speed date with great results.

    that term doesn’t mean what you think it does.

    in reply to: Looks in shidduchim #1141850
    popa_bar_abba
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    Well at a basic level, the attractive ones are all insisting on normal guys, which is the problem you’re having.

    However, rest assured that the super-duper attractive ones have their own issues and won’t settle for any normal guy either, so all you need is to find the one whose psychosis complements yours.

    in reply to: Divorce is Worse than a Difficult Marriage #1143122
    popa_bar_abba
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    Steadily married men — those who remained in long-term marriages — were likely to live to age 70 and beyond; fewer than one-third of divorced men were likely to live to 70; and men who never married outlived those who remarried and significantly outlived those who divorced — but they did not live as long as married men.

    People married for at least 100 years lived the longest.

    What sort of idiotic study is this?

    in reply to: To people who shidduch dated someone and broke up after 10+ times #1140566
    popa_bar_abba
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    She had a crooked nose.

    It happened when she broke her nose on our 9th date skiing. That’s why it wasn’t an issue until then.

    Aside: the yated has been hocking about speed-dating. I fully agree that speed dating is problematic, as shown from this story.

    in reply to: Will you still come over? #1140472
    popa_bar_abba
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    CTLawyer: It’s totally your right and completely normal to spend money on stuff you like. But I’m not buying the moralizing. When you spend money on your animal’s health instead of giving it to help a sick human, you’re spending the money to make yourself happy and that’s it. If you think it’s a moral duty, that’s just gross.

    in reply to: OU kashrus is not reliable? #1214388
    popa_bar_abba
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    And in addition to that, saying this candy has an OU on the outside is deliberately misleading.

    IF it was upside down day.

    in reply to: OU kashrus is not reliable? #1214374
    popa_bar_abba
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    DY, I feel like you’re trying to make a broader point, and pin it on this example.

    Maybe your broader point is true, but isn’t applicable in this instance? You weaken your point by tying it to a particular example where it doesn’t fit well.

    in reply to: OU kashrus is not reliable? #1214354
    popa_bar_abba
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    You will find many hechsherim in McDonald’s too. Obviously you use your seichel and don’t buy a quarter pounder just because the ketchup has a hechsher on it. The issue here his one of assumption. Three ingredient panels so assume check three times.

    Yes, of course, if one notices that the hashgacha is part of the ingredient panel and that there are multiple ingredient panels, they would look at the others.

    Same as if they went into McDonalds and noticed a hashgacha on the ice cream.

    That’s all fine.

    The issue is the morons here who are assuming that obviously anyone who noticed the OU would have also noticed that it was part of an ingredient panel of which there were multiple, just because they noticed it after the fact.

    in reply to: OU kashrus is not reliable? #1214344
    popa_bar_abba
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    Would a single flavor of jolly ranchers have an ou in front or only at ingredients panel. If normally in front and this didn’t have one and you find three ingredient panels 1) What prompted to lookc at panel to begin with if normally don’t do so and 2) why read only one ingredient panel and look for ou there if that is the norm, if there are three panels.

    That’s a lot of analysis. Do your ordinarily keep track of each product like that?

    I don’t. I look all over for a hechsher until I find one. Then I eat it.

    in reply to: OU kashrus is not reliable? #1214342
    popa_bar_abba
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    No, actually I wasn’t. But feel free if that’s what works for you.

    Ok. Feel free to explain the intent of your previous post then.

    in reply to: OU kashrus is not reliable? #1214335
    popa_bar_abba
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    Ah, we’re up to insults? I’m all in.

    in reply to: OU kashrus is not reliable? #1214333
    popa_bar_abba
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    No, I did look at the package before commenting on this story.

    So I’m back to not being sure what your angle is.

    in reply to: OU kashrus is not reliable? #1214331
    popa_bar_abba
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    That’s exactly my point pops. You DON’T analyze, you just read. But when you look for the ingredients on the panel, you can’t not notice that there are three to choose from. Do you sometimes see the word SOUP and think that’s an OU too because you just picked it up and ran?

    I don’t look at the ingredients on most things I eat. So I’m not sure what your angle is on that.

    If you ordinarily DO read the ingredients on each label, then your thinking here makes sense. Be advised, you are in the minority.

    in reply to: OU kashrus is not reliable? #1214324
    popa_bar_abba
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    But the outside packaging does not have and OU. The ingredient panel for two out of three has OU and it is not possible to analyze that panel without noticing that there are two more ext to it. You would really have to be an idiot to analyze this package and think that this “package” bears an OU.

    FTFY

    I’m calling garbage. I don’t believe that when you buy something, you really analyze the packaging like that before buying it. I know I don’t–I look for a hechsher and as soon as I see one I buy it.

    in reply to: The purpose of mechila #1139814
    popa_bar_abba
    Participant

    this thred makes no sens

    in reply to: If there is 1 thing i should bring to seminary, what should it be? #1149536
    popa_bar_abba
    Participant

    A closed mind

    FTFY

    in reply to: If there is 1 thing i should bring to seminary, what should it be? #1149525
    popa_bar_abba
    Participant

    thats six

    edited

    in reply to: If there is 1 thing i should bring to seminary, what should it be? #1149523
    popa_bar_abba
    Participant

    3 in 1 shampoo and conditioner and chocolate syrup.

    in reply to: If there is 1 thing i should bring to seminary, what should it be? #1149519
    popa_bar_abba
    Participant

    Pizza

    in reply to: Bracha on chips – shehakol or haadama #1142129
    popa_bar_abba
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    OP is asking about wine chips. Otherwise he would have specified potato chips or corn or tortilla or flotilla chips or whatever. You’re all morons for not seeing that, and in particular dy and the brocha on all of you is

    in reply to: Rejecting after date #1139381
    popa_bar_abba
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    Its a 50/50 chance every time.

    Of course it isn’t. The fact that there are two choices does not make the chances 50 50 unless that is the only fact you know.

    Ceo’s of fortune 500 companies can be men or women. If you’re about to meet a ceo you don’t know, is there a 50 50 chance?

    in reply to: What do men learn? #1139128
    popa_bar_abba
    Participant

    Nistar. I can’t tell you.

    in reply to: Bracha on chips – shehakol or haadama #1142117
    popa_bar_abba
    Participant

    hagafen.

    in reply to: Will you still come over? #1140427
    popa_bar_abba
    Participant

    Nope, never come over again. It’s me or that animal

    in reply to: Are cutting boards kosher? #1138778
    popa_bar_abba
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    Nu, google around and you’ll find the machmirim also.

    And I have no idea how they apply the oil. Maybe the machine runs them through a hot bath–how should I know?

    in reply to: Are cutting boards kosher? #1138773
    popa_bar_abba
    Participant

    Maybe there’s lard in the plastc…

    plastic is made out of oil. Oil is made out of pigs.

    in reply to: Are cutting boards kosher? #1138770
    popa_bar_abba
    Participant

    1. Hagalah works on wood

    A. I don’t have a pot big enough to dip it.

    B. I don’t want to ruin the finish.

    C. Pot is assur.

    2. A davar charif needs duchka d’sakina (or heat) to extract taam (and the pressure from the board doesn’t count, there is a tshuva from R’ Yitzchak Elchonon on this…)

    I’m pretty sure we’re noheig that cutting boards are an issue. Google around.

    in reply to: Are cutting boards kosher? #1138767
    popa_bar_abba
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    I don’t think you need to be yitayningwut to not worry about block oil.

    Pretty sure yitay would agree with me on this one. This isn’t food where yitay would say you can trust the label that they put inside what they wrote because there is regulation. Block oil is not regulated.

    in reply to: Are cutting boards kosher? #1138763
    popa_bar_abba
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    Or the block oil. You are not actually putting it into your food, and it’s essentially a kosher item.

    How do you know it’s kosher? If it says rice oil then it must be rice oil? Is that how eid echod neeman b’isurin works?

    popa_bar_abba
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    – Davenning and Hakoras hatov are an interesting link. I am sure many would argue they feel grateful and that is enough. if you disagree, are you not guilty of your own first point?

    I see. So in your world, prayers invented by the shilton hakofrim are binding, but by the anshei knesses hagedola are not.

    nice.

    in reply to: Are cutting boards kosher? #1138759
    popa_bar_abba
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    1) I can’t imagine they wouldn’t add pagum chemicals to prevent the pigs’ oil from stinking worse than a cow’s stomach.

    It’s a cutting board, not a bridal veil.

    2) Even l’shitascha hat’uyah, apushatayid’s eitzah would work.

    What would I reseason it with? The block oil doesn’t have a hechsher, and there’s no eid echod.

    3) I hope your stomach is stronger than a cow’s.

    It isn’t for me. http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/coffeeroom/topic/hashgacha-pratis-2

    in reply to: Are cutting boards kosher? #1138756
    popa_bar_abba
    Participant

    So like the oil in cutting boards, it’s nosein ta’am lifgam.

    As noted above, I’m cutting hot peppers, so hot they would burn a hole in a cow’s stomach.

    in reply to: Are cutting boards kosher? #1138754
    popa_bar_abba
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    This isn’t a case where you found a rock and you’re wondering whether its really a potato. You found oil-)ou can’t just assume its kosher until you find out otherwise. I don’t agree.

    in reply to: Are cutting boards kosher? #1138752
    popa_bar_abba
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    Is sand kosher? Probably ground up lobster shells.

    in reply to: Are cutting boards kosher? #1138750
    popa_bar_abba
    Participant

    I think a better way of saying what you’re saying is that there’s a very strong rov?

    If I find a piece of meat in a sack, there’s a safeik what it is. If you found out that only kosher meat is stored in sacks and treif meat is always stored in bags, that might create a rov.

    popa_bar_abba
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    I personally find it to be a lack of Hakoras Hatov in the heigest degree when klall Yisroel -and that includes the Yeshivishe velt in Israel and Golus- refrain in saying on Shabbos the Prayer for Tzahal.

    And if you invented a new prayer for tzahal that needs to be said every day at chatzos, it would be a lack of hakaras hatov that I don’t say that either.

    Let’s start with the lack of hakaras hatov to Hashem in the fact that most people don’t daven at all.

    in reply to: Are cutting boards kosher? #1138747
    popa_bar_abba
    Participant

    GAW: So you think there’s a rov that paskens the cutting board in front of you was finished with mineral oil?

    Can you just please walk us through the kuf yud aleph analysis, for those of us a bit rusty on the rules.

    in reply to: Are cutting boards kosher? #1138744
    popa_bar_abba
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    I’m not familiar with the parameters of that.

    But I assume you’re trying to say there’s some sort of assumption that the oil is kosher, since I don’t imagine that it means you can eat random oil you find. So, why are you assuming that?

    in reply to: Scars #1138670
    popa_bar_abba
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    Look, none of these things might work, but you’ll definitively do them because otherwise you’ll think they would have.

    I put mederma on after I had stitches. I have a scar.

    in reply to: The first flowering of our redemption. #1138723
    popa_bar_abba
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    As I’ve previously noted, if the medina is the mashiach we’ve been waiting 2000 years for, it’s have been better to have just converted to Christianity back then.

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