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LuL, I’m pretty sure there are dolls that look a lot like babies.
Dry ice is used for shipping things that must stay frozen (e.g meats, blood samples).
Nowadays, I believe everyone calculates this with 60-minute hours. Did people used to use seasonal hours (shorter in the winter, longer in the summer)?
That explains why I’ve never seen anybody using (so-called) hoverboards in NYC.
I’m waiting for a hoverboard that can actually hover.
Timothy McVeigh did the Oklahoma City bombing.
re No one from the right wing was impressed by this lunatic’s action!
From googling “Quebec mosque attack celebrated:”
[Soldiers of Odin]
Let me see if I get it. If somebody who commits an act of terror is a right winger or he “doesn’t have a violent organization,” he’s not a terrorist, so Timothy McVeigh was not a terrorist and neither are the lone-wolf Palestinians who attack Jewish targets. Is that what you’re saying?
What makes you say he’s a lunatic? He seems like a run of the mill white supremacist. He supported Marine Lepen and Donald Trump. He’s not being charged with terrorism simply because the government doesn’t think they can prove it beyond a reasonable doubt.
Misteryudi, why does there need to be variation in climate for life as we know it? There’s life in San Diego.
Sorry Health!, I don’t currently have access to any third graders, but there might be some CR readers who qualify. Can anybody explain how a terrorist act can not be terrorism? Apparently news it’s obvious.
I believe Ben and Jerry’s non-dairy ice cream is DE so you can’t eat it with a fleishig meal.
Health!, could you explain how a terrorist act is not terrorism? Sounds like Bill Clinton quibbling about the meaning of “is.”
Blubluh, I don’t think you’re correct about the standards of the Chief Rabbinate. My daughter is adopted. Her birth mother was Jewish. It was easier for her to get married in Israel (which needed the approval of the Chief Rabbinate) than to convince the medina she was Jewish for purposes of aliyah.
Joseph, Mormons don’t think they’re Jewish, but they call non-Mormons gentiles. So if you go to Utah, you too can be a gentile.
I once worked at a place that had a secretary who was marrying a Catholic and so was converting from some Protestant denomination to Catholicism. She told me that her maternal grandmother was Jewish. I told her that according to Jewish belief, that made her Jewish. This was about 40 years ago, so my memory of her reaction is a little hazy. I think she either said that’s interesting, or she said she had already been told. In any case, it didn’t change her plans.
Health!, I’m certainly the authority who decides whom I respect. Your boy certainly didn’t respect his predecessor.
If schools are supposed to teach manners, it seems that the Kew Forest School and the New York Military Academy failed miserably in teaching manners to their most famous student. As for me, I was taught manners at home.
The reason that they don’t assess points for camera tickets is that it’s not easy to tell who is driving. At least that’s my understanding of the way it works in NY.
While it’s true that it’s difficult for young people in Israel to buy homes, it’s also true in many parts of the United States. People are being priced out of the greater New York area and many other areas. Despite ZD’s explanation of the statistics he mentions, most people who want to live in the NY area don’t make Wall Street salaries.
To reinterpret the topic slightly, we’d be much better off without people like the president. Baalei gaava are harmful to society.
Sam Klein, if you believe Chris Christie’s spokesman, he’s not taking a job in the Trump administration, not even chief meatloaf taster. “There is absolutely no truth to the story,” Christie spokesman Brian Murray said Sunday. “In fact, the governor said at a press conference this past week and on his monthly radio program that he plans to finish his term as governor, and he dismissed the type of speculation being reported by the New York Post.”
Health!, in the words of Ronald Reagan, “There you go again.” Anyone who criticizes your boy Trump is a liberal. The Koch brothers and John McCain must be liberals.
Health, I know trying to convince you of the obvious is like spitting into the wind, but here goes. Trump rails against Islamic terror all over the world, including places that didn’t even have it (e.g. Sweden). But when an Islamophobe massacres worshippers in a mosque in Canada, he doesn’t let out a peep.
Assurnet, where do you live? When my daughter and SIL lived in Yerushalayim, they paid a fortune in rent. Now they’re in Kiryat Sefer, which is much cheaper, though not exactly cheap.
Olam Habama is Barack’s Kenyan cousin.
I noticed a Hispanic restaurant that I passed was closed. There was a sign (in Spanish) that presumably explained why they were closed. My Spanish is rudimentary at best, but I got the gist of it, and this was before I became aware of Day Without Immigrants.
I heard on the radio that a number of fancy restaurants in Manhattan were closed. I don’t think only Hispanics participated, since Trump offends all sorts of immigrants. A while ago, a lot of Yemeni bodega owners shut down to protest Trump’s executive order.
Would you go to the Oval Office or Buckingham Palace wearing a jacket with one arm out of the sleeve?
How is it kavodik to wear a “davening jacket,” which is either a cheap jacket (that looks cheap) or a jacket from an old suit whose pants wore out?
CTL, I’d venture to say that the number of bungalow colony goers from the Bronx today is minuscule. There are probably some from Queens, but the frum areas of Queens are much more pleasant in the summer than BP and Williamsburg. They actually have very nice parks near the frum areas of Queens.
It must be uninhabitable, because otherwise why would people prefer to live in shacks? Actually, I prefer Brooklyn in the summer: parking is much easier.
Winnie, if they’re extinct, they won’t be in the zoo. Maybe a stuffed one in a museum.
Just to clarify, I wasn’t suggesting dropping them off at Pinter’s, I was pointing out that there’s little demand for Soncino, so there are often volumes on the dollar table.
I know of a frum veterinarian who works for a zoo. Obviously, she’s not called upon to neuter animals.
I know someone who as a little girl said she wanted to be a fireman. She ended up marrying someone named Fireman.
rebshidduch, bungalow colonies are a uniquely NYC phenomenon. Contrary to popular belief, the area outside the Greater New York area is not third world.
Basically, Brooklyn is uninhabitable in the summer, so wives leave their husbands there, take their kids, and go to shacks in the Catskills. The husbands live on takeout food during the week, and fight traffic on the way to their families for Shabbos. Then they fight traffic on the way back to Brooklyn on Sunday.
Adult men “go out with the boys.” Adult women “go out with the girls.”
Regarding being called up as a bachur, at what age should this stop? There are unmarried men of advanced age. (I suspect this has already been discussed).
BYL, that depends on the student and on the BY. For instance, someone who has major league test anxiety would probably find it easier to get through high school than to pass a high-stakes test. Some BYs overlook not-so-great academics in order to graduate students.
In the frum world, it’s very often men and ladies. In a shul, you might have the ladies’ section or the women’s section, but the men’s section is never the gentlemen’s section.
Cherrybim, given that the Artscroll Talmud Bavli has been complete for a number of years, and Soncino didn’t do a Yerushalmi AFAIK, I don’t think they’d have much use for it.
I’ve seen Soncino gemaras on the dollar-a-book tables in front of Pinter’s in BP. There’s very little demand.
In response to those claiming it’s easy to get a GED, be aware that the process changed a few years ago, at least in New York. Most other states apparently still offer the GED. NY uses TASC, and the tests are supposed to be harder. Here’s a quote from the NYS Education Department’s website:
Sprint is shutting off Ringplus phone service as of February 11. Ringplus is trying to prevent it, but Sprint is an 800 pound gorilla.
Thanks. Given who’s in the White House, I expect to have many sleepless nights.
Health, refugees by definition are people who are trying to get away from harm. It’s obviously safer to be a Muslim in America or Canada than in Syria or Iraq.
The wall will be a boon for ladder manufacturers, not to mention the contractors who build it. For the rest of us, it will be an expense. Our tax dollars will pay for it, and if Trump tries to make Mexico pay for it by imposing a tariff on Mexican goods, we’ll pay for it again in increased costs of imported goods (and decreased exports to Mexico, which will no doubt retaliate). It also won’t do what it’s supposed to do, significantly reduce the flow of illegal immigrants.
Trump gained five pounds of hair to look younger.
He carries out (most of) his promises no matter how idiotic they are. (Note he hasn’t moved the embassy, probably not to upset his buddies in Saudi Arabia).
He’s building a wall despite all the evidence that it’s unnecessary and wasteful and will be ineffective. Texans living near the current Bush-era border fence hate it. If you google “Texas border residents bristle at Donald Trump’s talk of new wall,” you’ll find a USA Today article with a great photo of the 19′ ladders that have been used to scale the 18′ fence. The number of illegals in the U.S. has remained stable for several years. The number of illegal crossings of the Mexican border dropped 90% from 2005 to 2015. It’s much easier to enter the U.S. legally on a tourist visa and overstay the visa, as over 40% of illegals have done.
Bumping the treads is not much of a problem. Bumping the sidewalls can damage the tires.
LB: it worked well for the crocodiles, not so well for the Egyptians (unless they made suitcases out of all the dead crocodiles afterwards).
IMHO, it would have been a black day if either one of the two deplorable candidates had won. It would have been an open miracle if someone else would have won.
But why reply to a topic that’s “not for me?”
Speaking of freeze dried raspberries, I inquired of a certain kashrus organization about their granting hashgacha to a product containing them, given that raspberries are basically unusable because of bug problems. They said the processing makes it virtually impossible for there to be bugs, and besides, the freeze dried raspberries were under the hashgacha of other major national kashrus organizations.
Avi K, “open miracle?” Agagagag!
iacisrmma: Actually, CTL started by saying this isn’t a topic for him since he doesn’t get off the rack suits. I understand wolky’s reaction, even if it was a bit too harsh.
I once bought a Joseph A Bank suit and wouldn’t do so again. I like their shirts, but the suit I bought wasn’t very good.
I don’t get custom suits, but about once a decade I find a bargain on a top brand (Brooks Brothers at the original Filene’s Basement, Burberry at Syms, Hickey Freeman at Sierra Trading Post). When you buy such a suit, budget in the cost of shatnez removal — they usually have shatnez in the collar. They last a long time, but then I only wear suits on Shabbos and Yom Tov, and I don’t wear the good ones exclusively.
FWIW, I once bought a Lands’ End suit. The shatnez checker said he was impressed: it really was 100% wool. Apparently many supposedly 100% wool suits aren’t.