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  • in reply to: Beshow vs. Dating #1050554
    popa_bar_abba
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    I believe it is fair to say that there are proportionally many more divorces among those that dated their spouse in the 10 month range than among those that had in the range of about 4 dates prior to engagement.

    Yes, but to attribute that to the dating process is overly simplistic. It is much more likely that it is due to societal norms in the communities which do each type of dating.

    The relevant question is whether the communities that currently do one, would have less divorces if they would switch to the other.

    Otherwise, you are just arguing that they should switch their whole community culture.

    in reply to: Mezonos Bread #1213009
    popa_bar_abba
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    thanks mod!

    in reply to: Cereal for Dinner #860725
    popa_bar_abba
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    I might be giving myself away.. However at some brissim I am the only one eating the chicken (even if it is only 7AM)

    One of my pals’ dad is a mohel (he is also one). So once he is at a bris with dad, and after the chopping, he is getting ready to leave. His dad pulls two infant diapers out of his black bag, and hands him one saying “take a diaper.”

    Friend takes, but wonders what for.

    Dad then makes himself a bagel with spread, puts it in the diaper, and closes it up, and tosses it in his bag for the road. Friend follows suit.

    in reply to: On a plane #939014
    popa_bar_abba
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    wow.

    in reply to: Mezonos Bread #1213007
    popa_bar_abba
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    correct. popa does mean hamotzi. Maybe a nice mod will fix that for us, so that people don’t do it.

    in reply to: Dor Yeshorim in Girls High School #1157941
    popa_bar_abba
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    Yes, I am an anesthesiologist, and have put in more epidurals than I have drunk bottles of beer.

    in reply to: Copying Music #860932
    popa_bar_abba
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    Pba: I was discussing from a halachic perspective.

    Oh. Ok. Yes, I am not aware of anything like a patent in halacha. I wonder if it would ever be masig gvul.

    in reply to: NASI project shidduchim??? #899761
    popa_bar_abba
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    Well, since the money is refundable, you can always just invest it for a few months, and then see what happens.

    What I would personally do, is to withdraw it right before she gets engaged.

    in reply to: Mezonos Bread #1213005
    popa_bar_abba
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    How is it that some hold one slice pizza is mezonos but two slices are hamotzi?

    You need a little bit of a background in the halachos to talk about it.

    in reply to: Copying Music #860927
    popa_bar_abba
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    And if you buy a watch and disassemble it and locate and purchase all the third-party parts the watchmaker manafactured it with, and put a second exactly duplicated watch together on your own, you have deprived the original watchmaker the revenue of had you purchased it from him, that was his “intellectual property” in knowing what parts to use where. Have you stolen from him? Why was he entitled to have you buy it from him?

    If it was patented, then you have stolen from him. And you wouldn’t even need to take it apart and copy it, since you could just look up how to do it from public documents through the patent office.

    in reply to: Why do we need animals? #861675
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    Squirrels: For shooting with airguns.

    Cats: For catching mice and rats.

    in reply to: Mezonos Bread #1213001
    popa_bar_abba
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    Whatever bread you are referring to, is probably Hamotzi according to Ashkenazim, even if you eat one crumb at 3 AM.

    If you want more than that, we need a lot more information. Why don’t you tell us the recipe.

    in reply to: On a plane #939012
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    And I already said that it all really happened.

    2cents: I’m not offended

    in reply to: Fake Diamond Jewelry #1058373
    popa_bar_abba
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    yes, I have a real problem with that. If I found out someone did that to me, it would ruin our relationship seriously.

    in reply to: Fake Diamond Jewelry #1058370
    popa_bar_abba
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    Of course it would make a difference, but your question was about giving it without telling them it was fake. It would also make a difference if it was carrot cake instead of diamonds.

    in reply to: Fake Diamond Jewelry #1058368
    popa_bar_abba
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    If anyone gave me fake jewelery without telling me, it would completely negate all the good will from the gift when I eventually found out.

    in reply to: Strategies for When Getting Pulled Over by a Cop #861086
    popa_bar_abba
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    Blackmail

    in reply to: Cereal for Dinner #860716
    popa_bar_abba
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    Eating cereal for breakfast is not healthy either. Unless it is cheerios or shredded wheat, v’chdomeh.

    Almost all cereals have added sugar, and are made with refined grains. Including the healthy sounding ones like raisin bran and cornflakes.

    popa_bar_abba
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    I say PEMDAS also.

    Perchance Embalm My Dog And Swan?

    in reply to: On a plane #939008
    popa_bar_abba
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    ?? ??? ???? ?? ???? ?????? ???? ??? ??? ?????? ??

    See, so the question is whether I even care that nobody believes me. Because, those who think I am lying, think I make up good stories. And I also like making up good stories, so that is something I like anyway.

    As it happens, this is all true.

    One of them facebook friended me, and then unfriended me after I accepted. I don’t know why.

    in reply to: Dor Yeshorim in Girls High School #1157929
    popa_bar_abba
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    musical: That was giving blood. It is a whole pint. As noted above by someone, a blood test is a small fraction of that amount.

    Really, it is not big deal. You just walk in, roll up your sleeve, watch intently as they stick it in, wonder about how dark the blood looks in the vials, and then go eat your cookies and wonder about how many calories they have and if the blood they took had calories in it. (probably it uses up calories to replace the blood, so you have free license to go to Carlos and Gabbys and fress that night.)

    in reply to: Is smoking mutar? #954564
    popa_bar_abba
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    Dayan Fisher was a heavy smoker, and when asked whether smoking was allowed, he used to take a deep puff, and then exhale slowly while saying mutttttttaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrr.

    Anyone who thinks that this is an open and shut issur, is living with their head in a pile of cigarette ashes.

    I don’t smoke anyway, so I don’t particularly care whether it is assur.

    in reply to: On a plane #939006
    popa_bar_abba
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    I forgot to mention; So you think that we were the only ones smoking pot in that clearing in the woods?

    Well, when we got there, there was another group of people already there who were leaving. And before we left, a third group showed up. This third group was carrying a bong with them. I had never seen a bong before. My buddies all thought that was very hard core of them to be shlepping a bong with them while boarding.

    And that’s my whole trip report, unless there are questions. Because I got back.

    in reply to: Dor Yeshorim in Girls High School #1157927
    popa_bar_abba
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    The first time I gave blood, I almost fainted afterwards. So then they wanted me to stay lying down for a while. But I left.

    Then, I went a second time anyway, even though I knew I almost fainted the first time. The second time, I felt really really faint. Also I hadn’t eaten much that day. So then they really were yelling at me to stay. But I left.

    in reply to: More shidduch advice #907967
    popa_bar_abba
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    If you are mainstream YU, you will not be talking very much about life goals on a second date. Talk about the same stuff as the first date.

    in reply to: On a plane #939002
    popa_bar_abba
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    All completely true.

    The first run of the day yesterday was a big mistake.

    My goggles were totally fogged up, because they had gotten full of snow while I was hiking the mile from the hostel to the mountain in the driving snow.

    And the snow on top was way too deep to board in–you just sank right in. And it was foggy and snowing. So I couldn’t see a thing.

    It took me about an hour and a half to get down on that first run. And it was not fun.

    But after that we had a blast.

    in reply to: Colored Shirts #985670
    popa_bar_abba
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    You know, I was skeptical at first, but after reading all the opinions on this thread, I am finally convinced. It is a chiyuv for a yeshiva guy to wear only colored shirts. If people in your yeshiva don’t-you should find a real yeshiva.

    in reply to: Beshow vs. Dating #1050500
    popa_bar_abba
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    Beshows are much better. You can date so many people so much faster if you just have to date them once before deciding whether or not to get married.

    Among my dating friends, the record was 250 girls. But among my beshow friends–they were hitting over 600! Most have lost count, but average 10-15 a month.

    in reply to: On a plane #938998
    popa_bar_abba
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    Oh, and at the trivia night, we called our team the Hostel Hostiles.

    in reply to: Dor Yeshorim in Girls High School #1157921
    popa_bar_abba
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    This is ridiculous! It is just a stupid little bloodtest.

    Seriously, this is why I am convinced that childbirth is really just as hard as going to the bathroom. Reading this thread, if I hadn’t had the DY test, I would have thought it was something scary or painful or traumatic. But, I have had the DY test.

    The same is true of childbirth. Women can make all the big deal they want about it, because the men can’t contradict them. But I see through it. If men gave birth, they would do it at work and then continue working (or at the TV and then continue watching, as the case may be).

    in reply to: On a plane #938997
    popa_bar_abba
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    So I was riding in a pack with my hostel buddies. We was busting all over the mountain, in a posse. And there was mad powder, they got like 2-3 feet. Check out the alyeska snow report. I think at some points we were 8 or 9, including some other ski bum that some of us knew. And the hostel’s houseparent who is also a ski bum, who I hadn’t seen the whole time until then because she stays out getting stoned, and they say has fallen off her bunk 3 times in drunken stupor (which is the third tier up).

    And then we rode into a clearing in the woods. Then, they bust out cans of beer, and pass them around. And bust out a pot pipe and pass that around. The houseparent was then advocating snowboarding while using magic mushrooms. She said that it is really cool–the snow is purple, and you are… She said she once showed up to work afterwards at the hotel kitchen and it was really weird cooking with 8 foot long arms.

    Then, last night we went to play trivia at the resort pub. But the questions were too hard, so we went outside to smoke pot instead. But I didn’t smoke any pot.

    The night before we stayed home and played drinking games, and the hostel guy came down to yell at us for making too much noise.

    We had 4 ski bums, 2 australian exchange students, 2 alaskan college kids, and a popa.

    in reply to: From Rags to Riches #860187
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    Make lots of money.

    You are asking how to make lots of money. Usually, it takes a combination of good skills (learned or natural, though learning may require other skills), hard work, and mazel.

    in reply to: Thank you Project Nasi! #862687
    popa_bar_abba
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    So you are thanking them for getting one “yes”?

    I thought we established in my troll thread about the guy who dated 200 girls that dating is not success, getting married is.

    in reply to: Hello99, DY, et al: Maskim? #860657
    popa_bar_abba
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    Seems to me the parallel case should be if your fire goes out on yontiff.

    Does anybody say that it is then muttar to light it?

    in reply to: Dor Yeshorim in Girls High School #1157906
    popa_bar_abba
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    How come they don’t do this in the boys high schools?

    DY came to my yeshiva about once every other year or so. Yeshiva gedola I mean. It wouldn’t make much sense to come in high school, since the guys won’t be dating for 7 or 8 years yet.

    in reply to: Getting out of tickets using PBA cards #1117877
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    I give them out on purim.

    in reply to: Dor Yeshorim in Girls High School #1157897
    popa_bar_abba
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    it’s no big deal. They take like 5 vials. from the arm.

    Do it now, you don’t want to be dating someone, and then having to wait for the results.

    in reply to: On a plane #938992
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    I rented one here. For 88 bucks. It doesn’t have snow tires, and I’m sliding all over the place. They don’t even pretend to plow the roads here.

    I don’t want them to know I’m jewish, in case they have any prejudices about it.

    in reply to: Divorced Girls Remarriage Prospects #860340
    popa_bar_abba
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    We have had threads about them before.

    Try Saw you at sinai, and also frumster.

    in reply to: cant get the guys to give a yes :( #859455
    popa_bar_abba
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    Each seeking the best “deal” that…poppa were able to secure for them.

    I try my best. I think everyone should get the best deal they can.

    in reply to: Controversial Topics #860199
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    The purpose is to pay homage to the Gedolim, and let all know that the only way to Olam Haba is to follow the Gedolim (specificly my Gadol, not yours. Certainly not the MO YU “professors”).

    Give me a break. MO do not follow their own “gedolim” either. It is a basic tenet of current MO philosophy that rabbis have no reason to follow other rabbis who know more torah than they do.

    in reply to: Divorced Girls Remarriage Prospects #860337
    popa_bar_abba
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    BTguy: there are many frum dating websites..

    in reply to: CoreyToTheTroll #860819
    popa_bar_abba
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    more:

    While you are undoubtedly a friend of coreythetroll, and giggling in your dorm room right now together, I will explain that what you are describing is precisely what a troll is.

    in reply to: On a plane #938989
    popa_bar_abba
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    Nearest Starbucks is 43 miles away.

    It is a cool place. Even cooler than it looks.

    in reply to: On a plane #938985
    popa_bar_abba
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    I’m totally staying on a bunk in a hostel. Google “Alyeska hostel” and you can see where I am.

    Strange little place. I didn’t tell them I’m Jewish, let alone an Orthodox rabbi. I daven in my car.

    in reply to: On a plane #938983
    popa_bar_abba
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    It is really beautiful. But I think the bears are hibernating. And I haven’t seen a moose yet.

    in reply to: On a plane #938981
    popa_bar_abba
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    The mountain is really good. It’s basically like one big bowl.

    No new snow today, but it was still pretty good.

    in reply to: if its spring break….? #860189
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    I dunno.

    I’m in Alaska.

    in reply to: On a plane #938976
    popa_bar_abba
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    The FAA prohibits Wi-Fi, and no U.S. airline offers wireless service.

    It will be very hard to convince me of that. Since I flew today on Alaskan Airlines on a connection from Chicago to Anchorage that had wifi on the plane, and I have flown on other US airlines with wifi as well.

    in reply to: CoreyToTheTroll #860796
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    I’m also a troll.

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