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  • in reply to: How would you respond to Savage on Metzitzah #1027928
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    lake:

    wut?

    in reply to: How would you respond to Savage on Metzitzah #1027926
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    What is there to be educated about?

    Response: According to some of our opinions, it is a commandment which we must do. People made fun of us for thousands of years for doing bris, and we did it. We’ll outlast this frei jew also.

    in reply to: Separate Yeshivas for the Kollel Families #944857
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    “If I had the time, (and I still dream I will some day) I would like to start a school for families that are ultra-frum but do not wish to promote mediocrity in every area other than learning.”

    Veltz, let me know when you are ready to get such a school started, I will help out any way I can. BTW I think that such a school was tried in Brooklyn, (I remember ads for it) but it never got off the ground.

    I will send my kids there, but won’t support it. In fact, I won’t even pay tuition and I’ll set up a partnership blocker to shield my income from your tuition committee. I’ll just check the box on my sub. And set up a dutch sandwich.

    popa_bar_abba
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    Boruch dayan emes.

    He is missed. May he be a meilitz yosher for all of us.

    in reply to: Why daf yomi #943444
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    P. S. You may not learn during chazaras hashatz

    Popa, you can daven up the daf

    As Mod 42 notes, it is considered davening.

    in reply to: Why daf yomi #943442
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    then when would I come late?

    in reply to: Why daf yomi #943440
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    the parts that get left over can be done during Lecha Dodi.

    If we’re counting shabbos davening, you can do like all 7 blatt.

    in reply to: Brainwashing in College #943359
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    And PBA, that’s what it means to not have female rabbis – she can be the smartest person in the world, but because she’s a woman, she is lower on the totem pole than someone who went to Brooklyn College.

    I’m not sure I have the same totem pole as you. But yes, I am explicitly willing to accept that my ideology means that men will not be interested in listening to women’s scholarship and that overall it will be less respected.

    I think it still more respected than you make out. I think at least the frum women respect Dr./Rebbetzin David’s scholarship. And many men I know also so–that is, the one’s that are aware of it.

    in reply to: Why all the fancy cars? #944255
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    I just park. If the space is really small and I need to bump to get in, then I bump.

    I’ve parked and had less than an inch on either side. You can’t do that without bumping bec your car is longer diagonal than it is straight.

    I did that by a fancy car that had parked in two spots so he wouldn’t get bumped. Then I moved my car bec I was afraid he would slash my tires. So I had to bump bump bump again. I really wanted to leave a note so he’d know what I had done.

    Once upon a time I parked like that by a not fancy car, and when I came back the guy was there in his car, and he was an old frum man, and he called me over to yell at me, and I went over and said oh I’m so sorry and then we shmoozed for 2.5 hours. Really. He landed in Normandy. He told me so.

    in reply to: Why all the fancy cars? #944248
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    my favorite is the people with fancy cars who davka take up two parking spots on the street so that I won’t bump them.

    Well, the spot on each side looks pretty small, but it never hurts to try and see if I can get in…

    After all, my car is pretty small and my bumpers are all bashed up anyway.

    in reply to: One of the Causes for Weight Gain�Shadchanim #943328
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    This thread has taken a fun turn. If outrageously inappropriate. Mods: you should delete the past 10 posts.

    in reply to: Yom Hashoah, any thoughts? #944583
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    yah, where I am, they had a speech by a 9/11 researcher for Yom Hashoa.

    See, the chilonim have done the same thing with Yom Hashoa as we do with tisha b’av. They use that day to mourn all other tragedies.

    in reply to: Wife serving jury duty in NY #943559
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    Court in today’s day and age is no place for a frum Jew.

    because…

    in reply to: Macrobiotic Seminaries In Israel – is there one? #943212
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    if only more girls were concerned about issues like dis, we wouldn’t have fatties complaining that noone wants to date them.

    Which would just make the shidduch crisis worse. Which gives me a good idea.

    in reply to: Brainwashing in College #943343
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    T613T, I can’t believe you would ignore her proper title in favor of some random honorific based on her husband’s position.

    yah, she’s not called rebetzin because of her husband’s position; she’s called rebetzin because of her own position. In a weird cultural dynamic where we in fact do have female rabbis but we call them rebetzin.

    in reply to: Can a Golem Speak? #944990
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    Hath not a Golem eyes? Hath not a Golem hands,

    organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions; fed with the same

    food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases,

    heal’d by the same means, warm’d and cool’d by the same winter

    and summer, as a Christian is? If you prick us, do we not bleed? If

    you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you poison us, do we not die?

    And if you wrong us, do we not revenge? If we are like you in the

    rest, we will resemble you in that.

    in reply to: One of the Causes for Weight Gain�Shadchanim #943312
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    are there any from girls who smoke? i have yet to see one. maybe this explains the weight thing.

    That is a good point. We all know that many smokers gain a lot of weight when they quit. So there is a clearly a correlation between weight and not smoking.

    in reply to: Brainwashing in College #943340
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    I know a guy who learned for many years in yeshiva, and then went to a college or university “solely for parnassah reasons” and now spends most of his day chatting with girls on the internet.

    in reply to: Brainwashing in graduate school #943014
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    PBA: If you’re in the regular world, abortions are normal, whether you agree with it or not.

    It seems like what you’re talking about is more being out of a Jewish environment than being in an anti-Jewish brainwashing environment. To anyone else, abortion is normal. They’re not trying to convince you of everything because they think that you agree already.

    Is that what you’re saying?

    No, it isn’t what I’m saying. I am saying that professors deliberately say things like that in order to normalize them.

    If you don’t like my abortion example, then pick one that suits you. Say it is a conservative professor using an example of a police force and describes its efficiency as how well it is able to catch abortion doctors and put them in prison.

    in reply to: Brainwashing in graduate school #943007
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    Yeah, but I’m tayning that the subtlety of the brainwashing makes it more insidious and invidious and effective. (And affective).

    Imagine, that the professor gives an example of a study of doctors and how efficient they are, and, instead of her saying that it was measured in how many appendectomies they can do, she says it was measured in how many abortions they can do. She is getting you used to the idea that abortions are normal without saying it, so your mind doesn’t even object.

    See, I just even convinced you that the professor was a she. Even though most professor are a he. Or even though you have no idea if they are or aren’t. Which is accurate about me as well.

    in reply to: Not hiring divorcees #943144
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    I highly doubt this is a policy. More likely, a divorcee was not hired for other reasons, and decided this was the reason.

    in reply to: Rav Avigdor Miller ZTKLLH'H #1072374
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    Why would woman be too quick to divorce?

    Because they are married to men.

    in reply to: Smart people and the marketplace of ideas #943116
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    I’m not getting at anything. I had a cute thought, and I wrote it.

    in reply to: Hebrew books #942823
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    the teireh?

    in reply to: Popa Critiques Troll Posts #942902
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    At the seder I attended, there were lots of kids and not nearly as many adults. So we only let one of them say mahnishtanna because we didn’t want to sit through a thousand garbled yiddish translations.

    To make it up to the others who were left out, we hid extra afikomans – enough for all the kids there to find at least one. There was only one matza to hide, but plenty of hard boiled eggs (we make them for shulchanaruch anyway). And to make sure none of the kids cheated by taking an egg out of the fridge and pretending it was a hidden one, we colored the eggs with food coloring before we hid them. Everyone who found one got a prize.

    My neighbor liked the idea so much, he did the same thing in his backyard after Shabbos.

    Why didn’t you just make nedarim and shevuos that you would have to hide eggs and the kids find them and get prizes, etc? Also, didn’t this disturb your goy who does the korbonos in the backyard?

    This is really funny. But I’ll best you yet; just you wait.

    in reply to: Popa Critiques Troll Posts #942899
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    Hi, I’m a 14 year old BY girl from Berkeley, I only eat macrobiotic food. I really want to go to BJJ but I heard that all Israeli seminaries serve a lot of unhealthy food. What seminaries provide macrobiotic (or at least organic) food? Will this be a problem in shidduchim?

    Ok.

    BY girl from Berkeley is good. 14 year old adds a nice touch because it makes it the more absurd–although, we probably have lots of 14 year olds worry about seminary, so it is absurd in a good social commentary way.

    Aside: I would actually advise this girl to go to a seminary that doesn’t serve any food like the one hayaduah which all the girls who go there become fat.

    The tacked on question about shidduchim is excellent.

    Well done.

    in reply to: Popa Critiques Troll Posts #942898
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    http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/coffeeroom/topic/learning#post-345786

    pba – The poster is less than an hour old.

    Yes, but this is a personal question and a regular poster might want to separate it from her regular screen name.

    Now, had the poster asked, “I’ve always wanted to marry a learning boy, and I am going out with someone who seems to be a baal midos, I hear he’s a big masmid, and he has a wonderful personality, but someone told me that when he was learning in E.Y. he didn’t ibber meiser and took a cigarette once a month. Should I marry him?”, I would say (s)he’s definitely a troll.

    Ok, so first, I don’t know what ibber meiser means, so I don’t know if that should bother someone. I know an ibber yur is a pregnant year, so maybe ibber meiser is a pregnant meiser. But what is a meiser. I thought it might be tithe, but I would spell that maiser and also I don’t know what a pregnant tithe is. So maybe it is a miser, and the guy was not a pregnant miser. Which makes sense since it was a guy so how could be be pregnant. But at the same time, if he was really interested in having kids and a family, you would think he would figure it out anyway.

    But that aside, I’ll discuss your post.

    It appears your intention was to troll the OP by making fun of his/her troll thread, and saying that you could have trolled on the same topic more efficiently. This is a good mode of trolling, and I have used it successfully many times, including with this very thread.

    In this particular case, it is tricky though. The actual OP’s troll actually did fool some of us. But, that is because it wasn’t actually very trolly; it was a good question. Your alternative trolling would have been legitimate trolling, so it was qualitatively better and your trolling point was therefore successful.

    As to how successful, that depends on the quality of the alternative trolling you put forth. I think it was pretty good; I particularly liked the part about the pregnant miser.

    in reply to: Smart people and the marketplace of ideas #943103
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    So apparently yitay usually wins arguments.

    in reply to: Smart people and the marketplace of ideas #943097
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    writersoul: yah, that’s what I’m saying.

    in reply to: Ritalin, Focalin, Concerta, Adderal #1154677
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    I think everyone would agree if the drugs really did work well.

    My objection is that since the meds don’t work well, and since they miss the real point which is the psychological issues, it is a bad idea to resort to them only.

    yah, I’m talking even about ADHD. Maybe these chachomim should see what else is going on in the kid’s life before they diagnose ADHD. Sorotzkin talks about a case where there was insane turbulence in the kid’s life and the psychiatrist just says “ADHD!, Go on meds!’

    in reply to: Is Israel bent on losing their protection? #943479
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    Well this is funny. The chareidim are arguing that in Europe nobody learned, and the apikorsim are arguing that in Europe everybody learned.

    in reply to: The incredible Star-K #987571
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    I’m not coming with taanos on them; I don’t hire them. I’m just trying to help them do their job.

    Sure, if they are a business, then they probably are fairly within their contractual rights to their customers (the companies who hire them).

    But if they view themselves as a public service, and they view their interests as advancing public kashrus observance–I think they’re being a little shortsighted and irresponsible.

    The fact is that when they announce that they are certifying a company, and that the stuff is good without a hechsher on it, and put out lists of the stuff which includes everything, and we all know it is made in the same plants–people start using all of it. That’s just how it happens, for better or worse.

    If they think they cannot adequately administer such a situation– perhaps by ensuring there are no exceptions, or by making timely lists so that people won’t rely without a list–then fine. But if they cannot, or don’t want to, they should not allow such situations to arise.

    It’s all just about the interests they are trying to advance. If the interest is kashrus, they should care about the real results, and not just about “patturing themselves.”

    in reply to: The incredible Star-K #987569
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    In order for Sam Adams to put a Star-K on new varieties they need to get an updated certification and get their label artwork approved by the Star-K.

    I’m not telling them how to do their job. I’m just telling them to do their job.

    in reply to: Best Brand of Pickles #942676
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    I opened the small jar and the pickles themselves were kind of gross, so I threw it out. Maybe I’ll eat the bottom layer from the big jar.

    in reply to: Brainwashing as Part of Chinuch #1014318
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    I hardly think being a medical school professor qualifies you as an expert on undergraduate education.

    in reply to: Why should I go to sem? #1043549
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    Do a half year seminary.

    in reply to: How many times did you take the road test? #942807
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    Shtuyot. Question was how many times you took it before passing. I took it 4 before passing on the 5th.

    On the fifth time, I slipped the instructor a 20, and didn’t even have to turn on my car.

    in reply to: How many times did you take the road test? #942803
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    4 times.

    First time I failed for not signalling while in reverse.

    Second time I failed for pulling into a bike lane while yielding to a fire truck.

    Third time I failed for yelling too loud. See, I figured if I yelled the whole time I’d distract her and she wouldn’t notice what I did wrong. She said it was “reckless driving” though.

    Fourth time I failed for running over a squirrel.

    in reply to: Brainwashing as Part of Chinuch #1014287
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    popa: You’re assuming everyone is competent.

    At brainwashing? I sure hope not.

    in reply to: Why I won't let my kids do ????? #1186792
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    frumnot: We can certainly talk about what the basis for giving out kibbudim ought to be, and what factors should go into figuring out that.

    But I don’t think we need any precise definitions and factors to talk about whether this is wrong. It is far over whichever line you are going to draw.

    So by all means, feel free to start a thread about that, and we’ll bicker and argue as we usually do. But it isn’t going to be very relevant to this.

    DY: I don’t know if that is frumnot’s question, but I think the answer to your question is: yes.

    in reply to: Brainwashing as Part of Chinuch #1014276
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    If I was brainwashing someone, I would also make sure to brainwash them to think they weren’t brainwashed.

    in reply to: Why I won't let my kids do ????? #1186789
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    now this is nachas.

    in reply to: Popa Critiques Troll Posts #942888
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    in reply to: Why I won't let my kids do ????? #1186785
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    Popa when was the last time you got Gelilah?

    At my regular shul, there are only a few people who come during the week, so we all do all the kibbudim all the time. I do gelila quite often, and get aliyos, and do psicha. But I don’t do hagbah because it is too heavy for me.

    in reply to: Why should I go to sem? #1043529
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    GAW: That’s a really cute idea, but of course is not good advice.

    in reply to: Why should I go to sem? #1043525
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    Well, if you are thinking pre-med, you should def go to Stern so that you can try to get into Einstein which has an awesome scholarship for people who went to Stern.

    in reply to: Why I won't let my kids do ????? #1186779
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    Dude: This whole thread is satire (although intended to make a serious point, which most responders including you completely missed).

    I think I fairly didn’t expect you to get insulted after you pretty clearly asked me to call your grandfather a neb. And I don’t know how it could insult him when I haven’t any clue of anything about him except that his grandson bought the kibbudim and gave him gelila.

    But you are insulted. So, I apologize.

    in reply to: Pizza on Motzeh Yom Tov #942768
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    not everyone who enjoys a slice of pizza is “mamish” a “chazir.”

    Everyone who I know who likes pizza is.

    in reply to: Best Brand of Pickles #942669
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    And I made pickles. Lots and lots of pickles. I put in some hot peppers that I bought. I made one big jar (the wal mart size) and one small jar (the clausen size).

    I put some rye in the small one. ^—^

    And they are both covered in thick white mold. And look terrible. And I’ll wash off the mold and eat one tonight and see what happens.

    in reply to: Bnos Sara vs. Bnos Chava #942514
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    Is the info in this thread still good? Has anything changed?

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