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  • in reply to: The Pizza Study #1006032
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    You have to discount the people who only eat it as a meal davka because they hold you have to wash. When you take them out of the goyishe statistics, you’ll find that most yidden eat pizza as a snack.

    I had this friend in yeshiva who never ever ate lunch. He just grabbed a quick snack of pizza halfway between breakfast and supper.

    in reply to: Menace on the loose in Boro Park! #1004973
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    I’m not. I’m learning sukkah.

    So bottom line you can’t use pi tikrah as a mechitza for an eruv for the outside, since we pasken like rava and the lishna kama–yes? But see rav weissmandel re eruv in williamsburg, and rav moshe.

    And I was def at mendelsohns tonight

    in reply to: frum yeshiva open during snowstorms #1005219
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    I am being serious. Why do you need the school to salve your conscience? You have the same information the school has; if it isn’t safe, don’t send your kids

    in reply to: Beis Din vs. Sharia Courts #1004835
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    And do they have women on the council that selects the imams?

    in reply to: Beis Din vs. Sharia Courts #1004834
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    It is worth noting that in Medinat Yisrael, sharia courts operate, are binding for Muslims on personal status matters including marriage and divorce, and are paid by the Israeli government.

    Hmm. Are they required to accept testimony from apostate moslems in America?

    in reply to: frum yeshiva open during snowstorms #1005216
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    if it’s dangerous, just keep your kid home. Why does my kid need to not learn just because it’s too dangerous for you?

    in reply to: The Pizza Study #1006021
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    I like pizza. I would like some now.

    I’m in manhattan right now, but I don’t think there are any pizza shops near where I am. Sadly.

    in reply to: Binas beis yaakov #1004594
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    I hope you’ll be Modia me when the time comes.

    in reply to: LIST THE HOUSES WHO DON'T SHOVEL HERE #1005347
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    DY:

    They wouldn’t shovel at all, because when you come to take your car out, you have no reason to shovel since somebody else is going ot take that spot. And when come back, there is no reason to shovel the new spot becuase you’re only parking there once.

    That’s why nobody shovels in NY. And why nobody would shovel in other cities either if they couldn’t save spots.

    in reply to: LIST THE HOUSES WHO DON'T SHOVEL HERE #1005344
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    If there are enough spots, as you say, then who cares anyway? Why us it worth the tircha of having to move lawn chairs?

    Tragedy of the commons, v’dok.

    Because then nobody shovels the spots.

    in reply to: Vicarious Accomplishment of Women #1005072
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    Right, as well as dishwashers.

    The point being that price is not a good way to determine importance.

    in reply to: What are you doing to protect your children #1004871
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    My doctor explained it to them just fine at their annual checkup.

    How did that go exactly? Nobody but me is allowed to touch you like this?

    Funny, that’s almost the same lesson they got from the creepy guy in shul last week…

    in reply to: LIST THE HOUSES WHO DON'T SHOVEL HERE #1005342
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    I know of a crazy lady who thinks that the parking spot she shoveled out belongs to her the entire winter.

    In other cities that actually is the way it works. You put your lawn chairs and junk out in the spot you shoveled. It works, because there are enough spots on the street for everyone to be parked at the same time.

    in reply to: LIST THE HOUSES WHO DON'T SHOVEL HERE #1005339
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    So I was so curious about this, that I came to brooklyn last night to see for myself.

    And you know what? You really are a bunch of slobs. I had to park on top of a huge pile of ice, just because some lazy slob couldn’t be bothered to shovel the space where HIS car was. I know the street isn’t yours, but when you get up from a public toilet, do you just leave it unflushed because it isn’t your toilet? (Don’t answer that, I’ve been to your NY toilets in the subway also.)

    in reply to: Vicarious Accomplishment of Women #1005067
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    Yes. But that doesn’t change what I said. If there was real intrinsic worth to washing dishes and homemaking tasks, there would be no need to dress it up. And I’d be paying my cleaning lady more than ten dollars an hour.

    On the other hand,

    If teaching kids torah was important, I wouldn’t be paying my kids rebbe 10 dollars an hour.

    If raising my children was important, I wouldn’t be paying my babysitter 7 dollars an hour off the books.

    in reply to: Binas beis yaakov #1004592
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    I think Binah is frumer than Machon Raaya and Keser Chaya. I believe Machon Raaya is most academic, then Binah, then Keser Chaya.

    Are those new magazines? I’ve never seen them in the store

    in reply to: Beis Din vs. Sharia Courts #1004825
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    No. Why would there be any difference.

    Both should be subject to the same rules: no jurisdiction except as agreed to by the parties involved, and results can be overturned for public policy reasons.

    in reply to: LIST THE HOUSES WHO DON'T SHOVEL HERE #1005335
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    No department store in its right mind would mop during hours when it is open, unless it is:

    A. open 24 hours

    B. the floors get so dirty it is worth the risk

    C. something spilled

    I can’t remember the last time I was at a store or public place other than my yeshiva and saw them stam mopping during normal hours.

    But you could be right. I don’t really know enough about this.

    in reply to: LIST THE HOUSES WHO DON'T SHOVEL HERE #1005332
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    Taken off a different site… best option:

    lav davka. Maybe you didn’t display the sign well enough? Maybe it got covered in snow? Maybe the person who slipped can’t read?

    Besides, nothing like admitting outright that your sidewalk is dangerous.

    in reply to: LIST THE HOUSES WHO DON'T SHOVEL HERE #1005327
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    If you DONT Shovel , you cannot be sued as its considered an act of god (Like a tree branch falling on someone) , however if you shovel and a person falls you can be sued because you didnt shovel properly.

    However the City can give you a ticket for not shoveling

    If that is the case, I would never shovel my walk. It is absolutely worth the possibility of a ticket to not risk lawsuits.

    in reply to: Vicarious Accomplishment of Women #1005053
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    tl;dr

    in reply to: Don't Stop Arguing #1005190
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    agree with gamanit

    in reply to: LIST THE HOUSES WHO DON'T SHOVEL HERE #1005300
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    LBK: IIRC, that law only applies to an active driveway. If the driveway is blocked such that it is not usable, anyone is allowed to park there. Ayein NYC parking code.

    Also, you can tow my car, but how do you know I won’t break your windows. And you don’t know who I am. Careful when you play the power card.

    in reply to: Morons who put stuff besides jelly in sufguniyois #1004560
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    eeeeew, ooomis I am never eating your hamentashen. how could you possibly suggest putting that awful stuff inside.

    is that why they’re called hamentashen, because that’s what haman wanted us to eat?

    in reply to: LIST THE HOUSES WHO DON'T SHOVEL HERE #1005287
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    Really, I don’t get the personal anger at the people who don’t shovel the sidewalk in front of their house.

    So the city has a law stating that you need to have a sidewalk there, and you need to keep it clear. Well, that’s for the city to enforce, at its choice. The fact that you as a pedestrian gets some third party benefit from the city’s requirements has nothing to do with us.

    You don’t like the snow–you shovel it.

    in reply to: LIST THE HOUSES WHO DON'T SHOVEL HERE #1005286
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    Why is it my job to clear the public walk in front of my home? It’s enough that I provide it to you free of charge. How about I put bushes in it?

    in reply to: What exactly is the point? #1017121
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    So wait until you want to.

    Tou probably will just frustrate yourself if you date when in the back of your mind you don’t even want to get married.

    Besides, will you tell that to guys you are dating? You’d better! You’d be rightfully mad if they withheld that from you.

    in reply to: Vicarious Accomplishment of Women #1005004
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    Lo tov heyos ha’odom levado; e’eseh lo eizer

    in reply to: What exactly is the point? #1017118
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    Your neighbor’s wife won’t feel competitive to bake you better cookies if you don’t have a wife.

    That seems like reason enough to me.

    Cool, observanteen posted. Didn’t know he still read YWN.

    in reply to: LIST THE HOUSES WHO DON'T SHOVEL HERE #1005268
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    What good does posting here do? Just call 311. It’s certainly allowed, it’s not as if you’re reporting an illegal driveway (which is also OK), you’re reporting a safety hazard.

    Well, I know a posek said you could after you warn them. But who gave you permission to?

    in reply to: Kallah Shopping for Housewares in Brooklyn #1004187
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    Or shopping for warehouses

    in reply to: LIST THE HOUSES WHO DON'T SHOVEL HERE #1005267
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    Did YOUR wife slip and break her leg there?

    Did your husband end up on jail for assault with a deadly weapon and resisting arrest after the city inspectors came and he fought the poritz’s men off with a schach mat? (and a bear costume)

    in reply to: LIST THE HOUSES WHO DON'T SHOVEL HERE #1005262
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    Also, please add locations of illegal driveways.

    Then, feel free to take the snow from the unshoveled walks, and put it in front of the illegal driveways.

    I heard from a prominent posek that you are allowed to call 311 on people who don’t shovel their walk, after you warn them that you will.

    I made up that I heard from another prominent posek that you can consider the guy who called a moser, etc., etc.

    I further made up re first prominent posek that he said you edited

    in reply to: I am Rocky Zweig. Ask Me Anything #1017768
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    Gila, Rena, Deetza.

    They ended “m’heira”.

    in reply to: Rocky Zweig is too funny! #1026090
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    It means you go on that thread, which i already opened, and answer all our inane questions.

    in reply to: Rocky Zweig is too funny! #1026085
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    Let’s do a reddit style Rocky Zweig AMA. I’ll start another thread for it.

    in reply to: Frequent CR posters #1004141
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    I know a guy who got married, and during sheva brachos his wife was posting on YWN, and he saw, and they realized they both posted!

    And that they hated each other on YWN! lol

    So he broke her computer, and she broke his jaw, and they agreed to have a joint username from then on.

    in reply to: Burn advice from Yated Readers write #1005574
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    This is bizarre. I’d like to know what science says about this. Why do I need to get conflicting advice from signs hanging in doctor’s offices?

    in reply to: Refael Elisha White House Petition Answer #1004858
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    Here, however, drug companies can’t product fatal or ineffective drugs for 50 years without anyone noticing. The beauty of the free-market system is that drug companies would self-regulate (I know that’s a dirty word, but it’s the truth) to ensure their reputations aren’t harmed.

    But see Burzynski.

    Sometimes free-marketeers get as religious about it as keynesians do about regulation.

    in reply to: Refael Elisha White House Petition Answer #1004856
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    Burzynski has to ask for approval from the FDA for compassionate use. Until then, there is absolutely nothing for the FDA to do in this case.

    Brilliant deduction! I bet that’s exactly what they meant.

    in reply to: Refael Elisha White House Petition Answer #1004854
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    mewhere: You’d certainly need organizations like the FDA. Your real argument is that there should be private organizations certifying that drugs are safe and work, similar to how there are private organizations certifying that stuff is kosher or organic.

    I don’t really agree, but it’s an interesting angle.

    in reply to: Refael Elisha White House Petition Answer #1004852
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    Dash: The FDA is an arm of the White House.

    in reply to: Refael Elisha White House Petition Answer #1004846
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    nisht is correct.

    I don’t think they should have granted the request. But they should have said that they looked into it and are satisfied that the FDA’s response is correct.

    Not just “oh, that’s the FDA’s job”. The FDA works for the president, and answers to him. He appointed the head of the FDA, and can fire her. The whole point of the petition page is to call the president’s personal attention to particular issues that people care about. But he just says, “oh, not my job”.

    in reply to: BTL Advice and Planning #1004895
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    unfortunately the same is true with many yeshiva guys who go to law school off of BTLs (the not passing part)

    shtuyot.

    1. Law schools don’t fail people anymore.

    2. There is nothing in undergrad that prepares you for law school anyway. (No, you don’t need to know how to write in law school, go read any law school forum)

    in reply to: Eating Cookies In Shana Rishona #1003735
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    She did. But the neighbor’s recipe included “lard”, so obviously she was joking and T613 substituted margarine, but it just never comes out as good.

    in reply to: Working Guys #1036285
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    logician, I am profoundly insulted by your assumption that working full time means you cant learn. I know a (married) guy in his 20s who learns for an hour or 2 before davening at a 7 or 730 minyan before going to work and also has a night seder chevrusa for a few hours.

    I’m calling garbage on this.

    Does he learn for an hour before davening, or does he learn 2? Which one is it? That isn’t a small difference.

    I gander the same way you don’t know if he learns an hour or 2, you also don’t know if he shows up every day, or if he learns at night, or if he goes to maariv at all.

    I’ve never met a guy who works full time who even does daf yomi daily. Best I’ve ever found is someone who occasionally does a daf.

    in reply to: Has anyone heard of a Chuffin? #1063054
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    DY:

    I’m not asking for a recipe. If you aren’t going to make them for me, why tease?

    in reply to: Eating Cookies In Shana Rishona #1003721
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    WIY: So it’s ok for old people to not be tznius?

    in reply to: How many wives? #1003472
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    bais yaakov maidel:

    I would argue though that Hashem made the world in a way that makes sense, and that the parts fit together.

    in reply to: I hate you all, you big fat jerks #1019742
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    i hold like rebbi yehuda

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