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Smartcar – Not very safe, a less than brilliant idea conjured up by some radical environmentalist who is no doubt safely cruising around in a Hummer and buying carbon offsets to assuage his “inner guilt” (the guilt is phony; it is only for justifying contradictory behavior to other people).
We used to have the Yugo that was also built for fuel efficiency, and its size made it dangerous to be in.
From the point of view of the people selling them, it makes sense to get yennem to cut back on energy usage because if yennem cuts back then there will be enough for ME.
What is sad is that gasoline prices reach $4/gal and suddenly people are willing to compromise on their safety. No one would have thought of buying one of these cars in the 90’s when gas was $1/gal. In fact, until recently these cars were illegal in the US.
wtrbry is the first one to be on the right track regarding my user name.
joseph is more like early 30s. Too radical, too sure of himself to be over the hill yet (please take that well, joseph) 🙂
You invite a Brit to Northern Ireland and I call you on that, but you don’t know what I mean? I’d say you’re not from Ireland.
Give it a rest, Chuck.
ROTFL
1. Open a box of Dunkin Heinz cake mix.
2. Follow directions on box
3. To reduce fat by 50%, throw out half the cake.
Quick, easy AND low fat!
LeiderLeider: I didn’t realize that you hadn’t understood my post. Sorry. Yes, I arrived at a cappella by subtracting musical instruments from music. I’m sorry, but that’s just how the left side of my brain operates. Of course I understood that the dash was supposed to be a dash (as in Le-a) but I couldn’t help but notice the equation.
Between your mathematical shortcomings and my own mathematical shortcomings, I am sure that we can be friends! I am no professor of mathematics, just someone with an underdeveloped right side of the brain (hence my tendency to view everything with the left side).
The laser is very concentrated light, so less of it strikes dust particles. Therefore, it is rare that enough light is reflected into your eyes to be able to see the beam (unless you shine it in a misty room, then you will see it). A flashlight beam is extremely unconcentrated so it is almost guaranteed that some will be sent your way.
ICOT, am I correct?
Disclaimer: I still have not looked up the gemara.
GAW – what you replied to me strengthens my statement, namely that it appears rubah d’lessa lekaman is not statistically sound. It sounds more like a rule that the assumption (as in the camel example) is acceptable. Statistically, the assumption is invalid. (This does not in any way mean that the gemara cannot say that it is valid; rather, it is valid on a premise that is not statistically accurate. But statistically accurate is generally considered an oxymoron anyway.)
Just to clarify; let’s assume there are 3 camels. One has a 90% probability and the other two have a 80% probability (each – I give an outlandish example to magnify my point). Given that an incident occurs, the probability that it was caused by the 90% animal is only 36% and the combined probability it was caused by one of the two others is 64%. Statistically, we would say it was caused by an 80% animal. The gemara logic (according to your presentation) would say it was the 90% animal.
Charlie brown said that the 90% animal was standing right there when we arrived on scene. If so, the premise of the rule is changed from my original understanding.
squeak will be fine. I’ll claim my prize using the Oorah phone number. Thank you.
brooklyn, ever heard of Big Brother (or maybe the phrase “Big Brother is watching”)? You were probably busy being born around the time Orwell wrote his famous book… but I digress. My point is that “always watching” is NOT what people want and is also NOT good for society. Always looking over your shoulder is not the way people want to live.
If you just through that out without thinking, I suggest you give it some thought. If some college professor tried to ram the idea down your throat, then you should automatically disagree (j/k). In any case, please don’t compare it to Hashem. He is infallible.
brooklyn19
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BROOKLYN19 ……….! she does not ever think about calories before putting something in her mouth! she just eats what she wants and when she wants it.
Wow, you refer to yourself in plural and in the third person. Now you just have to combine them: “They do not ever think about calories before putting something in their mouth…”
If you do, please do not make a rubber ducky for me. It would not be correct.
asdfghjkl once again shows that he does not live in Ireland. Didn’t you say that you are near Belfast? Well, AFAIK, that is part of Ulster and therefore you have no business extending invitations to noitallmr. He should be extending the invitation to YOU (if he wishes).
Because radar detectors can get you in trouble. You might end up with a ticket just for having one of those.
I have nothing to say about listing where cops hide, but I do understand the reason for listing where cameras are. No one is looking to run red lights – in fact, if you do run one the camera will not catch you. They only activate right after the light turns red (or so I’ve heard). It is possible to misjudge the yellow light, and some lights with cameras seem to have a shorter yellow. I would like to know where there is a robot waiting to catch me every time I make a mistake.
In the UK, they have speeding cameras. But the law requires that the camera be painted yellow (for easy visibility) and that the road be marked shortly before the camera (I guess they only catch unwitting tourists). The purpose is to slow people down, not to catch them. Here, the purpose is to catch them. A cop is expensive and makes mistakes. A robot is not and has a higher success ratio.
In a non-Big Brother society, it is nice to know that you can get away with making a mistake. But imagine if we had robots that caught your every infraction of the law – you would be scared to live. Suppose a tissue fell out of your pocket while you were rooting around for your keys – and a robot snapped a picture and mailed it to you with a ticket. Suppose this happened every time you jaywalked. Every time you turned your attention away from your toddler and he wandered 5 feet away from you. Etc, etc.
Bottom line – I am against the use of robots to keep people in line. And I am against the uber strict enforcement that means you can’t make a mistake.
I feel better, thanks myshadow. That’s what getting it out of your system does. I can now look at the title without mental disturbance.
I hope you mean family feud – my family at least, doesn’t have any frauds.
I agree with mdLevine (or is it e e cummings?) that one should clear the windows, but you also need to clear the other surfaces of your vehicle. When you drive, the ice/snow will fly off and hit the guy tailgating behind you! If the person is not tailgating (e.g. you are “out of town”) it will severly distract/blinden them. So it is dangerous not to, no matter where you are driving. Please brush all the snow off.
yankdownunder – I was trying to figure out why the font changes in the middle of your posts. Do you use a `backtick instead of an apostrophe? Nice effect!
ICOT – very interesting! I was quite an amateur astonomer when I was young, but I didn’t know that.
When I saw your riddle, I immediately thought of Mercury and that you had made a mistake (but I was waiting for your answer to say so, and good thing I did!). You see, I read somewhere years ago that on Mercury it appears that the Sun reverses its course in the sky every day (i.e. Mercury day) around noon time because of the refraction of light in the intense heat. I thought that you were thinking of this and that you had just assumed it could also happen at sunrise.
Do you have any idea if that scientific “fact” that I mentioned is still considered a fact? Or is my brain hampered by being old enough to remember Mariner 10?
You should realize that the shadchan who insist you go out with someone 30 years older than you is wasting your time. Ignore his/her calls going forward. But don’t extrapolate this evaluation to other shadchanim.
Yes you did 🙂
You are well on your way to becoming “intelligent”!
I thought that you already told us it is because you are 27?
charlie brown – the tactic for explaining anything to goyim is to just keep the details out of it. I simply say, “It is the custom of my family that the men do not wear rings. Only the women do”. Once or twice I had a raised eyebrow at that response and then I gently added that my family’s customs pre-date the double ring ceremony.
No one has ever asked me “why” the custom is that way. They’re not interested in why. I suppose that if goyim wanted to know the “why” behind customs they would have a difficult time living with their own religion.
I once had to explain it to a frei person, so I mentioned the reason with the egel. But only because he wouldn’t let me get away with less (he was not asking for personal enlightenment, or I would have been glad to talk).
Don’t worry, I was not born yesterday. I know what goes on these days, and I know what went on before. I was only objecting to your statement that a man should have (you actually said it’s ‘kinda necessary’) a ring while he’s working w/ other people. And to that I say, believe me, the lack of a ring will not endanger him any more than having a ring will save him.
When you get married, you can insist on your husband wearing a ring if you want. But if you want it to assuage real concerns that you have then you are just applying a bandaid to a gunshot wound. Don’t be naive.
BTW, I do not wear a ring – and I have explained to people why I don’t countless times.
The answer to the title of this thread is Music – Musical Instruments = A capella.
I apologize for my intrusion to all the left brain people for whom this thread was intended. But the title of this thread has been bothering me for days and I figure the only way to get rid of it is to get that out.
Thanks for the therapy.
brooklyn: The picture of your wife and kids on the desk usually gives it away. And with the “meeting new people” – it would be highly unusual for a one-sided flirtation to occur on first sight in a business setting. There are ethical standards about this (that are enforcable).
What people like even less is to watch two people constatly flirting with each other (married or not).
we haven’t heard from ulisis in a while. What adventures were you having in your long absence this time?
Uh oh. Time to start saying Tehillim.
Yes, 72. That is why I offered you a choice only from my famous Cyber Blend and Java Applet Coffees. Your safety is ensured by simply running the brew through a reliable virus scan.
Yes. The correct term would be “healthful” or “unhealthful”. I hate how that sounds but that does not prevent me from pointing out its correctness 😉
I agree. The shadchan who says “Oh, you’re too picky” because the single insists that the answer is no is flat out wrong.
brooklyn – your fears are misplaced. When working so closely with people it is difficult to hide ones’ personal information from them. The problems you are concerned with do exist but are not solved with a wedding band.
Intellegent: You have a penchant for replacing “i” with “e”. How do you decide when? Why isn’t it “redeculous”?
Mod, can you put my name up? Thanks.
It’s not a joke, folks. It’s grammar.
Let me try to make it seem better than it sounds:
Would you say that a shadchan should only bother calling with a shidduch when it is absolutely certain that it will work (say, that at least 5 dates will come of it)? No way. If shadchanim limited themselves so much, that would cut the dating arena to a tiny fraction of what it is. Obviously, it is worthwhile for a shadchan to have lower standards than that, in order to keep things moving (which leads to a better understanding of what each person wants, and leads to more successful shidduchim). Find out from your “experienced” shadchanim what their success ratio is. Ask them if they think that they could have succeeded without the failures.
I think everyone agrees with what I just wrote above. Now to the issue at hand.
Should a shadchan take no for an answer easily? I think not. If they did, only a tiny fraction of dates would happen. Therefore, they must push and push until they are convinced that it is not worthwhile.
That means that a person who is dating will find himself in a position of frustration many times. Both because many suggestions are not worth looking pursuing and because the shadchan doesn’t want to accept a “no” easily. Frustration is necessary in order for the process to work. I’m sorry (and so is the shadchan) that it seems like you are being harrassed, having your time wasted, and not being taken at your word. But if you agree with what I wrote you will see why it must be this way.
My advice is, if you want to minimize your frustration – give a shadchan (or more than one) a chance to get to know you. After explaining why when you say A you mean A, you begin to develop a relationship with the shadchan (hopefully it will be short-lived!) and the shadchan will learn to understand you and trust you. To someone who trusts you, “no” does mean no.
It’s a good idea to only make healthy cakes, because who has the extra money to spend on taking the cake to the doctor?
Changing your user name will not help. Changing your level of familiarity in your interaction with other posters will.
I don’t mean to get involved in this argument, but I thought it would be interesting to mention the history of men wearing wedding rings. According to sources that I’ve seen, men wearing wedding rings is a pretty new-fangled thing.
I’ve heard that it was an idea that jewelers came up with in the late 19th century so as to double their sales (this should go in the “yiddishe kop” thread). The idea picked up momentum during the Depression and by the 1940s the vast majority of weddings involved giving a ring to the man. So a man close to 100 would have been around marriagable age back then. A man close to 150 would give you a different story.
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Thanks for your response. I am aware that Israel uses the sfardy havara for the language. But why do American, usually the more modern, schools use that havara? I believe they use it at all times, to learn chumash etc. Are they trying to teach the hebrew language as opposed to Lashon Kodesh?
I can’t say for sure, but I think that the answer is yes. In my mind, MO and Zionism go hand-in-hand (someone please correct me if I’m wrong). Therefore, they have adopted Modern Hebrew as a replacement for Loshon Hakodesh.
If you want to quote actual lines from his speech, you will need to pay royalties to the King Foundation. They do not allow anyone to print or play the speech without explicit permission. Of course, if you are rich or elite, it will be easy for you to gain access to the material.
Nothing is worng CH”V. And I didn’t mean to imply that I would rather be overrun with MO girls either.
what was your user name then?
Here’s a couple that almost cross the line.
A man finds a lamp and rubs it. A genie pops out and says that he will grant the man two wishes, but he should know that whatever he gets from the wishes, his mother-in-law will get double. So the man thinks for a minute and then makes his two wishes: 1) I wish for $10 million 2) Beat me half to death
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A man decides to play a little practical joke on his MIL, who is coming to visit. He hides behind the door waiting for her to come into the house, and when she comes in he jumps out and yells, “BOO!”.
The MIL takes a step back and clutches her heart. “Oy, you scared me half to death.”
“BOO! BOO!”
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I’m pretty sure the red-haired girl existed. Peanuts is teef, and the existence of this girl adds a lot to the strip.
HELP! Another BY girl. Arghh – we are being overrun. Editor, would you consider making another website: BYWorld.com? It would bring us (soon to be) minority much relief.
I was pretty sure. But believe me, Co-op City is far worse. I remember not too long ago when someone was shot over a parking space. Meshuga! But I don’t know any frum people who live there so I assumed that you didn’t mean it.
intel: What typing program was there in 1941? Or were you just saying that it is old?
You have answered your own question. Tada. It is not the correct havara for askenazim, but it is for sefardim. They say Ketuba, Shabbat, Misvotai, etc.
Israel decided to go with the sefardic accent for Modern Hebrew so you hear that pronounciation a lot, even from Askenazim (though not in tefilla).
I have heard that theory before. Fat molecules are very large (which is why fat people are large). Therefore, anything mini is too small to have fat in it because it doesn’t fit. Pass me another bucket of donut holes, please!