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Why is the TARDIS bigger on the inside?
I eat phones. Mendy Pellin showed me how to dip my iPhone in honey. Kosher honey. I really ought to try chocolate…. 🙂
How do I clean my Esrog from Sukkos so that all the icky preservatives on the peel are gone for good so I can make esrog candy???
@OOM – I was also going to recommend a sort of wild west theme. One year for a class party, my friends decorated the hall like a barn, right down to a fake stable, PLUS they had “Wanted, Dead or Alive” signs with the faculty’s faces on it!!! 😀
You could do WANTED signs for all of the girls, right?
The first time I used a Keurig, I was at the bank and I made such a huge mess…. I discovered the hard way that you’re not supposed to open the little cups first. >.< Three wasted cups later, I made myself a delicious coffee.
When I hear other peoples’ judgement of poor spellers, my cheeks turn a pinkish colour. 😉
Horses are not kosher. 😛 You wouldn’t want to make your cattle prod treife by touching it to a treife animal!
Out of curiosity, what happened in Manhattan the other day?
LOL, perhaps! 😀
Oh … my … gosh! I want one!!!
Ahem. This is the Coffee Room, after all. Ahem,
@Aaron Chaim – Shame, shame shame…. That’s naaaaahce!
I typically listen for a bit and then ask them never to call again. And if they call again, I hang up on ’em.
@Ferd – Only if you’re wearing a black and white tallis, the colors of a cow. I’ve seen some more colorful variants, like blue and white, and they weren’t being worn by “rabbits” (my term for so-called “rabbahs”).
Personally, ghj613, my suggestion is, if it helps your concentration but hurts his, perhaps you could try toning down your shockeling a little bit. He’ll see that you’re making a concerted effort to accommodate his preference.
Don’t worry, I’m on your side here.
I would want to know if I will have access to a time machine in the future.
Ah, okay. Can I get his autograph? 😛 JK.
Thank you for the explanations.
I pity the boys. What you’re saying is so true.
Just don’t show up at the beis midrash wearing black and white. That color scheme resembles that of a cow and you wouldn’t want to be confused for one!
@ayiddisheneshomaiscrying – My heart goes out to you and your son. I agree with jewishfeminist that you should tell your son that you’ll believe him no matter how far-fetched his account sounds. It could be someone close, but I’m not jumping to blame his father or anything like that. I applaud both of your boy’s parents for doing your best to help him recover from this appalling trauma.
Perhaps he was threatened with further harm if he identified the perpetrator? Bullies work that way. Just because the perpetrator is exposed and IY”H immobilized doesn’t mean he or she doesn’t have lackeys who might try to cause further harm. And lackeys could be retaliating school staff, students, or in general, friends of the perpetrator.
Off the Derech I think means that a kid has left their religious lifestyle to escape something they feel is only happening due to their religious background, or simply to rebel. (When I say religious background, I mean that there are people who had traumas in religious institutions, traumas that can unfortunately happen everywhere, but these poor kids associated the trauma with the fact that the institution or the perpetrator claimed to be religious.)
I know of a handful of kids who went off seemingly to rebel. All teenagers go through a phase where they seek attention, and perhaps they think the only way for them to get the attention they crave is to act out like this. It’s sad. Whatever happened to the good ol’ temper tantrum?
Oh, wait, only four year olds do that. Doing babyish things aren’t cool. I stand corrected. But still. I think it’s far more effective much faster. Spending years destroying your mind and body like a bum doesn’t always effectively convey, “Hey, grown-ups, I’m upset and I’d like your attention.” Sometimes, the grown-ups just never figure it out and take their own pent-up sadness and confusion to the grave.
What’s even sadder, IMHO, is that the younger siblings of OTD kids tend to follow suit because it’s “cool” to emulate their older siblings. Let’s face it, younger siblings – your older siblings are your role models, no matter how annoying they can be sometimes! Bit still, I think a lot of our contemporaries fall to that trap.
It seems to me that the pioneers of OTD-ism may have had some reason to leave our way, but the following generations of OTD kids, like their younger siblings or the little ones who witnessed them goofing off every Shabbos, are just copying them with less to no reason for their behavior.
On the other hand, what truly defines an OTD case? One major problem is that it’s human nature to label people who are different. I proudly wear denim skirts for the sake of their durability. By other peoples’ standards, am I OTD because I don’t follow their “derech” of wearing other skirts?
Wow…. I don’t like the idea of being misquoted or quoted out of context to promote an agenda. For example, I wouldn’t want the rebuttal I posted on my Government Shutdown thread to be misused by some goyish “Palestinian” trying to put down Israel.
But it is true, we do have our own online community here, but we’re on the worldwide web. We can’t control who visits this site, and there’s no guarantee that it’s always Yidden.
PS. If I’m ever mentioned anywhere, someone PLEASE let me know!! 😀
I read them. 🙂
Yeah, that was inconsiderate of him. I suppose you shouldn’t boycott the entire taxi service because of one bad apple, but if you run into that driver again, I know I would refuse to ride with him.
@ItcheSrulik – LOL. I like those little scarecrows – they’re not as irritating as the giant purple inflatable spiders and skeletons and witches.
What do internet trolls sing for zemiros on Shabbos, regardless of the meal?
Trololololololo! 😀
Um, since it involves injections, I’m going to say, flat-out, no. I won’t let anyone stick a needle into me for even a million dollars! (Well, maybe a billion….) (Well, if it’s to save me from an actual C”V life-threatening illness that I’d actually be at risk of contracting….)
@crisisoftheweek – “Everyone is so quick to label someone an Apikores.”
Unfortunately so. But, all the same, the impression I’m getting is, indeed, that this guy is just trying to appeal to the frum people he’s trying to brainwash.
Of course, I’m not going to waste my brainwaves watching his video, so please don’t consider me an authority. I’m just following my gut feeling here.
I saw someone once say, “if you eat from the tree, you too will become a m-d.”
Oh my mosh.
Btw, who is Joseph. I’ve wondered this for a very long time.
And I promise you all I’m not he.
Thanks, Wallflower. 🙂 It looks like the mods took my suggestion too – wear it in good health!
From what I understand, what is considered suicide by modern standards is seen as death from mental disease, not the same suicide as the Torah forbids. (Not saying that suicide is allowed, of course.)
But don’t quote me on this. I’m not a rabbi (or a rabbit :P).
Nice /cRc logo! 🙂 Good luck – ice cream making can be a lot of fun!
What’s a pawpaw, by the way?
These are the perks of having a subtitle. 😛
How about that? “The perks of having a subtitle”?
1) Aren’t we (Jews) not supposed to engineer these mixed plants ourselves?
2) I don’t care if someone else does it, so long as it isn’t something gross like a spinach-strawberry-rosebush.
I do like my chips with katsup, so this should be good. 🙂