squeak

I’ve met (and know) dozens. Poor popa is too busy meeting YCTniks to encounter the torahdik types. I’ve never met a YCTnik (yet they possibly exist).

Who needs kol hapoishet yad once a year when I can buy yeshuois any day of the week?

So now you’re just posting random sentences that start with the word Yichus? And recycling?

Yichus is like drinking on Purim. Only other drunks are impressed by you.

Yichus is like the Emperor’s new clothes. Years in the making and loudly advertised, but it doesn’t actually make a difference if you wear it or not.

Yichus is like a law firm. Until you make partner, its just lachatz.

Yichus is like chanifa. It feels good, but you’re better off without it.

Yichus is like a gun. It doesn’t kill people, but it somehow is still very effective at ruining lives, and you need to respect the person holding it even if you could whup him mano-a-mano.

The better question is, how did they know if people were fat before BMI was invented?

Golfer, I wrote a TIC article on that exact topic 3 years ago, baruch shekivant. If men would reject shidduchim with girls based on being too attractive we would solve both the shidduch crisis (rejecting attractive girls would reduce the pool of eligible girls by 5%-10%) and the tznius crisis (this generation of girls would do everything to mitigate their good looks, and the next generation wouldn’t have those offensive genes anymore).

The gemara explains which parts of the child come from the father vs the mother. The diaper changing is all hers.

A clever aphorism doth not truth make.

The lesson I learned is that people who have beards on their hands also have violent tempers.

Moonies daven slow.

I am not attacking Obama, relax. No one mentioned Obama except you. Your responses to me are full of strawman arguments. We can discuss Obama in another thread if you like. The Iraq war was a decision made by President Bush.

As yehudayona points out, oil prices have been anything but stable for over 40 years.

Oil prices historically were very stable up until the Yom Kippur war, and returned to stability at the end of the Iran/Iraq war. Then from around 1988 until 2003 the price of oil stayed stable and fluctuated only in the $20-$30 range. The next period of instability started with the US invasion of Iraq. It seems that oil prices have stabilized again at this point, but at 3-4x the previous threshhold (around $100 per barrel). That is a negative consequence of the Iraq invasion in my opinion.

I said there is too much money chasing no goods and I thought you’d understand. Maybe I should have worded it as there is too much money NOT chasing goods. I thought it sounded better the first way. We definitely agree that most Americans do not think there is too much money; that was my original point. There is in fact too much money, but most Americans are not seeing it because it stayed at the top. I don’t know any way to make it clearer to you that this is the type of monetary inflation I am trying to talk about. Unless you are being deliberately defensive I would have thought you and I see eye to eye on this topic.

I didn’t cling to the CPI; I gave you the GDP deflator. You have presented no data that indicates that inflation is a problem.

I think this part of our disagreement is fairly ironic. If we were discussing Global Warming and someone presented data showing that we have had much colder winters recently (and less blazing summers), you would dismiss the data as not seeing the bigger picture. Well, I contend the same to you in this argument. Bringing me CPI figures to prove that no inflation is occurring is certainly missing the big picture. To tell me that you’ve “debunked” the inflationary effects of OMO buybacks and QE by showing me CPI is as laughable as me telling you I’ve “debunked” global warming by showing you NYC weather records.

And in case anyone has the gall to say TL;DR, do you have any idea how long it takes to type all this on a phone with OA? 🙂

Charliehall,

No one is denying that by CPI standards there has been no unusual inflation. However, no one is admitting that CPI is an effective way to measure inflation. Im not going to bother listing criticisms of CPI as a measure of inflation because you can find them easily yourself. But its not in the slightest bit relevant to the point I made here.

The inflation has been caused by endless printing of new money and open market operations. When that didnt accomplish its goal, they moved on to printing money and quantitative easing. All of that money ended up in the hands of those who needed it the least, and no trickle down has occurred to date. Nor will it ever. So no surprise that the basket of goods hasnt increased by a shocking amount, since the new money was not distributed into the hands of those who would use it to compete for goods. The rich (corporations) got richer while the average person stayed the same. This is not your 1970s style inflation although it seemed like it at first.

The inflation has occurred in the stock markets and in the treasuries of companies with large investable assets. All that extra printed money is sitting in “surplus” accounts and is not being spent. It is propping up company valuations and share prices. What remains to be seen is what will happen after they pulled the plug on QE. Maybe it will even register on your sacred CPI at some point.

It means that during davening, instead of reading a Reb Elchonon they are reading Traditions.

Maybe it wasnt a good thing?

http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/coffeeroom/topic/kimchiss-seven-sons-all-died

oomis,

I thought it was clear that I was referring to the collective opinion, aka popular opinion. Not my opinion, not yours. The elite is defined by who or what “the people” are striving to get. In todays age it is learners (boys) and supporters (girls). People who disagree are simply people who were outvoted. I didnt vote for Obama, but he is still the president in this reality. I don’t know any way to make this more clear to you.

NASI thinks that they are helping girls but they don’t even know what kind of help is needed. They are like a medicine man who gives out fungicide to treat cancer. For a lot of money. About NASI I do shudder.

Ketchup chicken are slightly smaller than cornish hen and raised exclusively in the farm town of Ketchuptown, South Carolina. The chickens frequently can be seen swimming in the waters of Myrtle Beach, which is where they get their unique flavor.

WIY just returned from his first ever vacation out of New Yawk, and after breathing fresh air for a few days for the first time in his life, landed home on Planet Brooklyn.

oomis, do not deign to tell me what mindset I grew up with as you could not be more wrong. You are not older than every person in the CR, I’ll remind you. Shidduchim are obviously an emotional issue for the majority of people, so I’ll look past the personal thrust of your responses to me. As I said above, I am being as objective as possible, reporting from a fly on the wall perspective here. I have not endorsed the way things are. Are my observations incorrect? Or is it simply that you wish they were incorrect?

DaasYochid

a singular mind

Squeak, other than cynicism, I don’t think you’ve shared with us your take on the cause or definition of the “shidduch crisis”.

DaasYochid- I must thank you for mentioning that. I had not realized that the last time I shared my view was so long ago that by now it is no longer remembered. I don’t want to be thought of as nothing but a critic, so thank you for reminding me that I needed to restate them.

DY both excellent points, and I agree with you. Your second point probably explains your first, and why such girls chase “elites” even if they arent really looking for that. That is precisely what I believe is the cause of the current shidduch crisis. It may be a bitter pill to swallow compared to other explanations that characterize everyone as blameless victims, but unfortunately we are all to blame for the crisis.

oomis, I dont mean to be offensive but your retorts sound like a kid complaining about how unfair and cliquey of her classmates are. Whether its subjective or objective, right or wrong, fair or no, it is the way it is. The cool kids are the cool kids, and the elites are elite. Accept it or find a way to fix it.

BoysWork

Member

Squeak, the problem lies right in your comment. When you call a kollel boy elite and a working boy non-elite. I can show you plenty of working young men who accomplish more by being kovea itim than many, many boys sitting in kollel. Sitting in kollel DOES NOT MAKE ONE ELITE!!

You are fighting the system. That is the problem. Kollel is elite in frum society whether you like it or not. Personally, I agree with you that a man with both Torah and a worthwhile job should be regarded as equal to or better than a boy with only Torah. But you and I have been outvoted.

Change the system or adapt to it. But your current view is only going to hurt you.