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Money, money, money…
I guess it’s the same way you figure out for whom you’re going to vote. You’ll never like everything about one candidate, so you weigh the pros and cons. Which means, of course, that you have to assign weight to each pro and con to figure out which outweigh which.
I presume that’s what they do.
Going green: Well, you’re about to be majorly disappointed then…
I wish I could help, but I really don’t know anything about this bus.
Torah: Awwwww 🙂 Thanks, I seriously needed that.
I’m actually sick right now, so this isn’t going to be very good, but just as something for Torah to bounce off of and to prevent this thread from dying an ignominious death:
Eliyahu Rainden shuffled through the employee profiles again, and he always seemed to come to one- Rivky. And then he had that thought again, and he sighed.
Why had he sounded so eager to have Rivky go out with that deadbeat Bereishis? He’d been planning the whole weekend to get Mrs Norrisberg to suggest a shidduch for her with HIM, and then he has to trip up and sound so thrilled about Rivky and Bereishis. Who’s a nice guy, REALLY, he supposed, but SO WHAT?
Rhghlorisehygfrie. Not fair.
And now, he probably wouldn’t be able to do anything at all about it- Rivky would end up analyzing coffee for sweat her whole life, married to Bereishis, with his million-watt prizewinning smile grinning at her every day- while he, Eliyahu Rainden, was sitting in prison for leaking to the press all about how the government was peering into their lives, every single day.
And handing the information over to a Russian-Iranian-Israeli group deep in the jungles of Africa, run by Mohammed McDonald-Mc Veigh.
Who was passing all the information to his wife, Mrs Norrisberg.
Who was using that information in her bid to become the Most Successful Shadchan Of All Time.
Imagine, having the personal emails and telephone conversations of millions of Americans! You’d never have to worry that the references were hiding the guy’s explosive temper or the girl’s mole on her left pinky toe!
But Eliyahu Rainden wasn’t going to stand for that. He wasn’t going to let Mrs Norrisberg make that shidduch between Rivky and Bereishis.
How would he escape prosecution, though?
Hey! Why not go to Israel! With the Law of Return, there would be no problems or international scandal at all!
Derech Hamelech: Why are you favoring the position and truthfulness of one rishon or acharon over another (namely the Ramban and all the others who defended the Rambam’s opinions and all of the rabbanim more recently who have agreed with the Rambam)? Surely they would not have stated or supported such an opinion in the name of the Rambam knowing that the Rambam had recanted… Isn’t that also a form of lying (or rather selective truth)?
I always eat the crust- I just leave some actual pizza at the end in order to give it some taste.
While I’m completely dreamy-eyed about what pizza crust with Alfredo sauce would taste like, pizza is already somewhat of a calorie splurge.
My dad actually tasted the pizza dip in Israel and became completely obsessed. He found a recipe from somewhere and it was apparently not the same at all. He loves his food, but is NOT willing to trek down to Lakewood for pizza sauce, if it really is the same.
The new Apple earbuds (the ones that come with the new iPods) are FANTASTIC. They’re practically worth the price of the new iPod (though don’t tell that to my parents, as my new iPod was apparently quite expensive, and maybe I should try paying for it myself for a change, and these things don’t grow on trees, yada yada yada. Love ya guys and you’re awesome).
I would totally use headphones, but I don’t have room for them and my head is weirdly shaped so that the mini collapsible ones ALWAYS fall off.
Now, I wonder how many Maharats there are…
My halacha teacher went into a whole tirade about that when I asked him a more lomdishe type of question, he made a whole joke about how I seem to be getting ready for my maharat smicha which turned into a class discussion.
You know, school isn’t always so bad…
OOM: Hmmm… so they’ve got another throwaway token female character. Zippitydoodah.
You notice, also, that they have Legolas in it.
Movie fan pandering.
I do try not to judge movies solely on whether they’re AS GOOD as the books they are based on, but that’s not really the issue I had with them- I just hated all those disgusting monsters and battle scenes… I’m more of a light comedy type.
*ducks for cover*
I was also twelve years old…
But from what I understand, this is a bit lighter (which makes sense, as The Hobbit is about ten times lighter than LotR, both literally and figuratively), so I’ll probably check it out over the summer.
iBump: I just finished (for the third time) Les Miserables, which has 19 chapters entirely describing the full, embellished history of Napoleon’s fall at Waterloo. It also has an entire book’s worth (the whole work is divided into five volumes, each of which is divided into books, each of which is divided into chapters- yeah) of background on a character whose only contribution to the book is to give a pair of candlesticks to the main character. It’s also one of my favorite books of all time, so yeah, I can deal with 150 pages of grass.
DWBH: I was kidding. Ish.
The government could easily HAVE all of that data- however, if they were to give it to insurance companies, etc. to use, they would get the pants sued off of them. They may have it, but they can’t USE it.
It’s a bit like how people are nervous about the widespread, newly inexpensive ability to scan your genome. people are nervous that if this becomes normal, people with genes for diseases won’t be able to get medical insurance. Except that there’s a law that even if insurance companies know your disease predilections from your genotype, they can’t use it to discriminate against you in insurance costs.
They’re going to find out SO much interesting stuff from mine.
I’m, like, TOTALLY scared to death.
The new, new Hobbit trailer? Like for the second movie? No, I haven’t.
(BTW, I can’t believe there are going to be 3 movies anyway. I mean, seriously.)
I didn’t see the first movie, either. I don’t know why, but I like the books better than the movies. Maybe it’s because I watched them when I was younger. My friend (the trekkie) says I’m insane.
I’ll get back to you after I watch it, but how about what in particular?
You guys are mamash brilliant.
Just saying, though I’m sure you hear it often enough.
We went last August.
The pizza place is FAR from the tourist area and VERY expensive. There is a tourist bus, which we took, but it only went about every half hour. YOU CANNOT WALK. I have no idea what the parking’s like, but in general, it doesn’t make so much sense to drive in Niagara because most stuff is very walkable and there’s a tourist bus system (we had some kind of a deal where it was free for a limited time).
The pizza was good, though. And the cans had French on them. 🙂
The fleishig restaurant and shul are right near the falls. (We stayed in the hotel it’s at but didn’t eat there.) We usually don’t eat out when we go away (we usually raid cool supermarkets, in this case Tops in Buffalo), but we generally try to patronize the Chabad places because we use their services a lot on our trips.
We also ate at one of the kosher hot dog stands by the falls.
Just in general- THE MAID OF THE MIST IS THE BEST.
Gamanit: He didn’t do it to ME, he did it to my ten-, six- and four-year-old cousins.
I didn’t hear about it til afterward. I thought it was hysterical.
Torah: Thanks! Now, can someone please, please, PLEASE continue it? My creative juices are drained dry (I’ve been spending a week trying to imagine up semi-convincing answers to annoying finals) and I need a few good laughs.
Oh, Torah, and I really liked yours, too. It was hysterical, and I obviously borrowed a lot from it.
My cousin just married a Canadian guy (from Montreal). My younger cousins thought that the fact that he can speak French was so cool, and they kept asking him how to say stuff in French. Then my mom, who understands French, was passing by as he was doing it and realized that he was making up jibberish (like, “how are you doing” turned into “my horse is purple.”
We’ve never trusted him when he was speaking French again.
I mentioned Shaarei Arazim above, actually…
I don’t know much about it except that it’s very individualized and seems to cater to the boys’ strengths. I think it’s definitely on the more yeshivish side.
It’s VERY expensive, though… And I have no idea what the education is like.
WIY: I feel like it’s not so much “harder for a kid to go off” so much as “easier for a kid to stay on.” Of course you’ll end up with those kids who are raring at the bit to get out, but you’re more likely to see teens falling through the cracks. It’s a subtle distinction but I think an important one.
I was just reading the inshidduchim ongoing story.
If we’re going to model after that, then Rivky goes out with Bereishis. The whole thing is amazing and he’s a total mensch and Rivky is totally obsessed until in one date he turns into an emotionally manipulative psychopath.
🙂
(Yes, I know that that’s not exactly how theirs is going, but we’re going for their story x100, no?)
Actually, their running commentary on the story is even better than the story itself.
zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz……………….
zdad: Not every learning disabled kid needs a school specifically for learning disabled kids. Some do, but many kids with learning disabilities do very well with resource room assistance.
moishy, I don’t know squat about Brooklyn schools so I can’t really help you, but I hope you’re matzliach in finding someplace!
Actually, just a thought, what about Shaarei Arazim in Monsey? I have some neighbors there who seem to be very happy. (I don’t know if they have a dorm, though.)
BBMG: You’re right, but it doesn’t really matter. In any matchmaking system, the whole system is going to become very sterile and regulated as it’s governed by supply and demand. That’s why any idea to fix an age gap from the girls’ end is doomed to failure- even if they say a girl can’t date til 21, the survival instinct is going to make sure that if a girl is 19 and a shidduch is redt, she’s going to run after it. By the same token, if to a smaller extent, a guy has to start going out at the time with the maximum marketability value, whether it’s kedai for him or not.
nisht: This is NOT the place for that kind of joke…
“If Rashi’s daughter ever wore tefillin (and I’ve never seen any credible source for this) it probably would have been Rabbeinu Tam’s wife – because he held that women should wear tefillin.”
I think you mean his mother…
As a girl, I can totally see why WOW’s conceptual idea would be appealing to women. I don’t, however, agree with the way they’re handling it.
And I didn’t even go to Raninu.
🙂
Living up to my name and posting a poem- yay!
I actually love writing poems and I have a bunch of (IMHO) great ones I’d love to share, but they’re VERY attributable to me.
Actually, think about it this way- this poem is exclusively dedicated to all of my favorite CR peeps. 🙂
(It’s not my best work, cause I’m kind of writing it very extemporaneously, but considering that that’s how I always write poems, Idunno what else I’d be doing…)
i wish i could dance
like a ballerina, pointe shoes
leaping from the golden floorboards
instead of limping, wincing
as i walk
my friends around me leap, twirl
run up and down the stairs
shout behind, “hurry up!”
dance in production, jump up
and cheer
while i run after them
trying to keep up
as pain stabs my knees
and my ankles become sore
and my legs don’t listen
when i tell them to
move an jump and run
should be so simple, no?
instead i dance with my fingertips
as they leap across the keyboard
and letter by letter Art is born
and for that, at least
i don’t feel any pain at all
SOURCES, PLEASE?
I’d love to look this up- it’s a really interesting topic.
So far I think yytz is the only one who gave one- I’m planning to check it out, thanks.
Ooooooohhh…
Will be sticking around to see what happens HERE…
Ka-BOOM!
Oh, and a postscript, just bringing something up that I think is mucho important and kind of ignored-
I’m 5’1″ and I have a hard time finding cute skirts (for when courtesy dictates that I don’t wear a biz) that aren’t above my knee. My sister is 5’9″ and she has a MURDEROUS time. I have friends who are even taller and they have the same problem. I don’t live in Brooklyn or anything, so maybe this does exist in other places, but I feel like there’s a lack in general of “tall girl” skirts. The skirts seem to be made for five foot nothing people and therefore, of course it’ll be hard to find a long enough skirt.
Syag: Never worked here before… really excited!
I could give you my favorite campers from last year, though…. 🙂
Hey, guys, if you’re there, I love you to pieces and I miss you!
(Oh, right, yeah, 3 year olds can’t read. Blah.)
Thanks! 🙂
YOU’RE BACK!
Don’t let us get you down! 🙂
My friend had something like this a few years back and the first thing she did was throw out two of her skirts. She realized that no matter how much she WANTED to do something, in her case, if the michshol was in front of her every morning when she was getting dressed, it would all go out the window. She now brings a friend shopping with her to make sure all of her clothes is tzniusdig and makes sure that she doesn’t have that option anymore.
After a while, sometimes intentions aren’t enough. I can’t speak for your personal dilemma (I’m “biz lady”) but I know that when I was trying to lose weight for my cousin’s wedding, I got rid of all of my junk food. I couldn’t deal with having it all in front of me, no matter how strong-willed I decided to be about it.
DaMoshe, yes, it’s by a woman.
Shopping, Princess from Julia Blum.
“There’s a princess who lives in a faraway land, royal by blood with a scroll in her hand, with a scroll in her hand and a flame in her heart, and a castle that keeps her apart…”
And I’ve already said twice that I prefer not to say.
HaLeiVi- I’m not doubting that you have this from somewhere, but can I have a source? I’ve just never heard this before.
I’m not saying that the metric for mitzvos is how easy they are to do. It just seems like if then, why is there a mitzvah at all? Do you need a mitzvah in order to tell you to love your parents or wife and kids?
CRuzer- so far, I’m really not sure (correct me if I’m wrong) if he’s gotten a response from a single married person. (Popa kind of changes his mind about that, so I’m really not sure whether to count him :).)
Yes, but when push comes to shove, it’s easier to love your mom or your best friend than it is to love that random shnook who always bumps into you by shmoneh esrei.
🙂
Just if we are, I won’t ask if you don’t ask…
🙂
HaLeiVI: Doesn’t that seem counterproductive? The closer the person is to you, the easier it is to love him/her. Why make a halacha that is based on the easiest interpretation? Wouldn’t it be common sense in that case?
ultimateskier: BUT IT’S NOT.
Do you not do anything on Shabbos? I know I do. The only way I can see it being solitary confinement is from the technology angle, and if you can’t detach from tech for 26 hours then you’re in worse shape than I’d think.
On Shabbos, I
-read
-go to friends
-take walks
-fress my head off
-have DMCs with my family (okay, so they’re not ALWAYS so deep or meaningful- so shoot me)
-babysit
-have a whole load of fun
No, I don’t email or text or write (okay, so the last bit is a bummer) or watch TV- but I still have fun.
Is your point that people don’t see the beauty of Shabbos or that they get turned off by Shabbos? Those are two completely different things.
Anybody who is teaching about Shabbos as lists of halachos and not as a beautiful experience is doing it because it’s his job-he’s a halacha teacher. I don’t think Shabbos is as underappreciated as it may seem, and I don’t think that if it is, it’s for the reasons you think.
Shabbos is one of my favorite days of the week (arguably, my week is divided into Shabbos, Sunday, and school days, but you know what I mean)- it’s a day to detox, to forget about school at least temporarily, to focus on my family, and to just focus on the more important things in general.
DaMoshe: fhyewaoghohyygrgfrhgrhloigi OMG
That was brilliant, just saying.
If you haven’t guessed from other posts, that’s my favorite movie of all time.
Okay, new one:
“I said, hello, my friend…”
rebdoniel: have you ever considered writing a cookbook?
🙂
moishyk: Unless you’re talking to fkelly, I’ve already stated that I’ve got my reasons for not saying which it is.
PBA: Aren’t you the one who was complaining about the stink?
Pee-YEW…
Well, the LACK OF smoking is a big one for me…
A chocolate allergy would either be horrific or great because I wouldn’t have to share.
Who’s afraid of Shabbos?
For one thing, I know that I don’t isolate myself unless I’ve got a REALLY good book. (Which is a lot, so yeah, but still…) I just spent about six hours at my friend’s house yesterday. We had a lot of fun talking just like we do during the week. At least where I come from people walk a LOT.
If you’re talking about periodic GSS (not to be confused with GPS), or Get-rid-of Snapchat Syndrome, then okay, sure, but you can be in an isolation chamber and still be able to keep in touch with friends with that kind of thing. (This is me smiling in the isolation chamber!… this is me going kissy-face in the isolation chamber!… this is me upside down in the isolation chamber!) In that case, I think the trick is more trying to get people to actually get used to being in the other person’s physical presence when they communicate with others. I’ve seen people sitting in the same room and still texting each other.
I think that a lesson on the delights of IPC (no, not THAT IPC) is in order here.
I do know a whole lot of people who fulfill this to the letter because they have horrific self esteem.
But setting this aside and returning to the point, I think it applies to everyone- at least, I try to behave that way. Regardless of what YITZCHOK2 may think of me from that other thread, I do try to respect and be kind to people across the gamut. I think it’s important not only to make a kiddush Hashem but also to just be a good person. I’m not sure I could be more specific than that- it’s just a feeling. Like you need to be a decent person.
I’m getting very bad at saying what I mean today, I think…
What the mitzvah in the Torah is, I don’t know. However, it would seem that even if it’s only regarding Jewish people, it wouldn’t be only regarding frum people. The Torah never really differentiates between frum and nonfrum Jewis regarding mitzvos, to the best of my knowledge, except in regard to apikorsim. This is all to the best of my knowledge- I’d love to find out if I’m wrong :).
OOM: Like I said, I’m not a Star Trek person. This is based on what my friends said. She is a definite (rabid) Trekkie, so I figured she was quotable. That was her impression.
I don’t mean throwing it out because it’s not good- I meant throwing it out as a statement. I was honestly beyond shocked to see someone suggest that. It’s ludicrous. (Maybe I just read the wrong stuff. The problem is that I hold so many different types of opinions that I can’t just stick with one kind of thing that agrees with me.)
And if anyone had said that Pixar’s movies aren’t good, FOR ANY REASON, I would’ve known about it by now and the holder of that opinion would by now have had his/her head through the trash masher, so yeah :).