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If you decide to re-gift the Ritalin, can I have it?
“If you are from the Northeast:
You don’t stay WITH your parents, you stay BY your parents.
You don’t stand IN line, you stand ON line.”
Those are New York/Twisted Yiddish things, not Northeast things.
“You don’t visit “Floor”ida and drink orange juice, you visit “Flahrida” and drink “ahringe” juice.”
That’s New York/New Jersey.
A water fountain is a bubblah (bubbler) in New England.
I think I would go batstuff crazy if someone tried to hurt my kids, or any kids.
Israel should start lobbing footballs into Gaza and the West Bank with a message on them… (footballs are also called pigskins)
Booster seats for my carpool kids.
Give them a surprised (or incredulous) look and say, “Do you REALLY think so??”
Several years ago, ABC had a story called “Stupid in America” (Google it for the link) that highlighted why the public school system is appallingly incompetent at educating students. The upshot is, if competition were allowed, and parents could use the tax money assigned to their student to send their school wherever they want, then bad schools would be shut down, bad teachers would be fired, and real learning could take place.
I (would like to) think most parents and teachers want students to do well, but there are no real consequences if they don’t. So many students are promoted even though if they’re just a warm body in a seat, teachers have to “teach to the test” and can’t employ innovation in the classroom or any real discipline, principals don’t back up teachers and don’t stand up to parents, and school board members are more worried about getting reelected than challenging parents to challenge their kids. Kids who are too lazy/unmotivated to do schoolwork can just mark time until they “graduate” and if they get tired of being poor, they just start squeezing out kids for the welfare money. This society of entitlement is a big problem – public assistance was never meant to be lived off of.
Oh, and teachers’ unions get paid to exist by teachers, who don’t have the option not to join. They are an industry unto themselves (like the testing industry – google “Todd Farley, “Making the Grade: My Misadventures in the Standardized Testing Industry”. They have done some good but they have too much power.
And yes, there are too many piddly little towns and school districts in NJ.
(let the flaming begin)
Some of these are screamingly baaaad!!!
…which is why I’m sending them to my friends 😉
If you have a doorway with 2 doors, put a sign on each door saying “please use other door” with an arrow pointing to the other sign.
“I think I good way to stop the silliness in asking for pictures if if girls would get together and use the same photo.”
PERFECT!!!!
Derech: That would be one way to solve the shidduch crisis… (ducking and running)
When I was taught Hebrew (before becoming frum) I was taught (when reading it in Hebrew) to pronounce it Torah. When I started hearing OY everywhere I thought it sounded ridiculous! (I kinda still do, actually, but I would probably say the same if I’d learned otherwise.)
RHPS is alive and kicking. I hear.
What’s the difference between koogel and kugel?
At Heathrow Airport today, an individual, later discovered to be a public school teacher, was arrested trying to board a flight while in possession of a compass, a protractor, and a graphical calculator.
Authorities believe he is a member of the notorious Al-Gebra movement.
He is being charged with carrying weapons of math instruction.
I’m tall, from side to side.
LAer, I wish someone had given me “The Out of Sync Child” when my son was 17 months instead of years later. I can’t speak for anyone else’s experience – I can only speak for my own. Sorry I didn’t make that clear.
Go to the library or try to find someone (a PT or OT) you can borrow “The Out Of Sync Child” from. It could really make a difference for him…
Yeah, in a famine I’ll still be kicking long after all the twiggys have passed on. So comforting.
He could have sensory issues. Is he a picky eater? Does he refuse to wear certain things like socks with seams or mittens? I was shocked to learn all these things can be related.
Much Gregorian chant is based on Psalms… they stole stuff from us first more than you know…
doodle jump – ROTFL!! Please don’t give us any ideas… 😉
Chayav, that was an AA reference…
Kol HaKavod observanteen. I hope your mother has a refuah shleimah.
Any other women here hate to cook?
Comet, it makes your mouth turn green
Comet, it tastes like gasoline
Comet, it makes you vomit
So try some Comet
and vomit
today!
Hi, Chayav. Thanks for sharing. Keep coming back.
Aries: a ring with a string and a ball or bell called “footsie”…. I got one for my kids more because I remembered having one, than because I thought they’d enjoy it 🙂
Wendy’s: “Where’s the beef??” (under the pickle)
And why did I come look at this when I thought it was closed?
“gee our old Lasalle ran great”
I never could figure out what that line was – thanks!
Tab soda – my mother drank that stuff, nastiest stuff ever!
I agonized over which of the internets to pick and finally settled on Star Wars.
Why don’t you take your skirts to a seamstress and ask her if there’s a way to lengthen your skirts in a cute way?
Ah, yes! The little bell that went “ding”! 🙂
Aries, my first boss after college had Prodigy, and I was completely floored. Wasn’t that put out by Compuserve?
Tums, I had a relative who loved old cars, and had a 1948 Packard (the inside seemed as big as a house) and a Model T Ford – 1932? I got to ride in the rumble seat. The side windows had a little triangle window for a vent. It just chugged along and had this great horn – aaaOOOOOOga!! It was a trip!
I almost forgot – 8-track tapes!
wmbb – I got a big kick out of that article. Anything before DOS was before my time.
APY – I was knocked out for mine. Did you have to bite on ice cubes?
Rotary phones on a short cord, no voice mail (it just rang and rang), black and white TV, 13 channels for VHF and 50something? for UHF (or maybe the other way around), record player in a huge cabinet to play 16/33/45/78s, no AC, library books with a card in a pocket that got stamped with a due date, library cards with your name typed on it, running around the neighborhood and in and out of friends’ houses for hours, hearing the bell that meant YOU had to go home, bathtub with feet and no shower head, putting a bag of ice on the thermometer in our 3rd floor apt. of an 1800s house because we were freezing, listening to the radio for school closings, paying cash for everything and when you ran out having to go to the bank between 9-3 to withdraw more with your passport book, paying a penny for a piece of candy, a dime for a phone call from a booth on the corner, having to ask for unleaded regular instead of leaded regular gas…
In Jr. High I played on my mom’s work computer when she worked as a secretary, although she still use a typewriter and correction fluid. I first used a computer in college, on an Apple IIe with two 5.25″ disks (one for the program). Dot matrix printers, form feed paper, form feed paper jamming and having to start your print job over from the beginning and wasting all that paper. Buying hard tickets for a concert that were kept in a drawer, one complete set for each performance.
How tznius is it for bochurim to be staggering drunk around the streets attracting the attention of everyone?
It would be great to have sextuplets and only be pregnant once. But then… you have six! Can you imagine what the midbar was like?
Can you put up a profile on jdate or whatever and put theyeshivaworld.com in your “interests”?
I was an only until I was a teenager. I had little experience babysitting but got stuck with it a lot and resented it. The younger ones “got away with murder” because our parents were older – I was always like, I can’t believe you got away with that! I had The Fear (of doing the wrong thing and getting in trouble) and motivation to please my elders, that the younger ones didn’t quite develop. Now I’m a BT and the “black sheep”, LOL. It actually fits me well…
So, I wonder how someone who’s more popular than smart balances that with the importance of doing mitzvos and learning?
I don’t think it has to be either/or, but it depends on your goals…
Yes.
“I spoke to a 40 year old guy and 37 year old girl last night” –
A 37 year old female is NOT a girl.
Neither before MIDDOS!!!!!!!!!!!!
Does our Charlie Hall bowl?
Matan: “Any bystander might have said the divorce was wrong, but unless you are part of the family, you would have no idea what was going on and have no right to comment”: agreed 100%.
My parents divorced when I was 2 and I am REALLY grateful for that. There was horrific abuse involved, and I’m glad they divorced before I was old enough to remember any of what happened. There were still tug-of-wars over the years where I was used as a pawn, and because of that I got married when I was an old maid by today’s standards. I was determined to break the cycle, though. It took me years to see how Hashem’s hand is in everything. I am grateful to be raising frum children and pray to HKBH to have frum grandchildren…
It’s not that I think I’m being overlooked, it’s more like, did I bring the thread to a screeching halt? LOL…
Can I kill this thread too?
What iz zis “buzz”?