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  • in reply to: Do you watch movies? #800583
    quark2
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    someone said something that movies give you a false sense of relationships or something. Do other people agree to that?

    Of course perfect love stories aren’t always what happens in real life, but most movie love stories aren’t perfect anyway, i think. The couple has ups and downs just like a regular couple. Unless you mean romance movies, which i never watch anyways. I think romance by definition means that everything has to be happily ever after

    in reply to: Do you watch movies? #800582
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    mammamia thats a great story. funny too (so he could come over and watch LOL)

    in reply to: Kabbalist Rabbi Elazar Abuhatzeira Stabbed To Death #792367
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    BD”E it is truly a tragedy. The neshamah should rise to atzilus.

    in reply to: Do you watch movies? #800581
    quark2
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    great idea chein. when you are forced to admit that you are wrong, instead, “take his advise” LOL

    in reply to: S(h)morgasbord. Love it. Love the word. Whats your favorite? #873459
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    here’s two more awesome words, if you like interesting words:

    Chachalaca — (kind of bird)

    Kotukutuku — (New Zealand tree)

    in reply to: kosher flavored coffee? #791622
    quark2
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    I am going to buy a cappuccino maker.

    I want cappuccino, and flavored cappuccino

    in reply to: Tikkun HaOlam #792391
    quark2
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    You are mistaken. It doesn’t say that “we should be tikkun haolam.” Its only a reason for several Takanos derabanan. They used this reason where they saw fit. We do not learn things from the reason of takanos, only the takanah itself applies to us.

    in reply to: 25-50cents an hr #794684
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    Many people go for the “fun atmosphere”, not for the money. Though its personally not my thing

    in reply to: Is Moshiach almost here? #801192
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    My Rosh Yshivah taught us that we shouldn’t orient our ovodas hashem around mashiach. We need to keep 613 regardless of whether or not he is “almost here” or not.

    in reply to: S(h)morgasbord. Love it. Love the word. Whats your favorite? #873458
    quark2
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    Ondataouaouat (native american tribe. try to pronounce it)

    in reply to: Hair showing in front/side of tichel/shaitel #791975
    quark2
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    Die – hard Chassidim are makpid on this. It has no source in the gemara, only in kabbalah

    in reply to: Why is evil striking us? #792026
    quark2
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    OMG another Satmar thread. Yikes

    in reply to: Do you watch movies? #800567
    quark2
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    The problem with this survey is that it seems like most of the people here are over 40, or more, and are out of the main “movie demographic”. Everyone is saying things like “i used to but now etc.”

    If we did this poll with younger people, like from 12 to 25, it would probably be much higher

    in reply to: Do you watch movies? #800563
    quark2
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    ‘Still looking’ you win the award for….. something, i guess.

    So anyway, how do you get your entertainment usually? Or don’t you?

    in reply to: Do you watch movies? #800561
    quark2
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    Health who is Joseph? I’m not really on here that often….

    in reply to: Do you watch movies? #800560
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    Shlishi’s comment:

    “Alot of times things arent halachily assur, but “frumkite” assur

    Movies are halachicly assur. Even if there is “only” one scene of one woman dressed totally tznius except that her shirt-sleeve only reaches just above her elbow. Considering (other than animated only films) that out of over 250,000 made I doubt there are even a handful that meet that criteria. And the vast vast vast majority are far far far worse.”

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    Shlishi i think you are wrong. Since the reason why you are going to the movie is NOT to see the not tznius woman, this would probably be classified as a case of “leka darkah achrinah”, and would therefore be halachically permissable. If you don’t know what im talking about, you should really learn the sugya in the end of Chezkas HaBatim, and you will see what i mean.

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    And like someone else said, using your logic, it would be assur to go to Walmart in the spring and summer?!?!?!?!?!?!!?!?!?

    No, the heter is like I said, it is “leka darkah achrinah”. If on your way to get entertainment you accidentally say a womans arm, there is no problem. Mutar al pee gemara, rambam, shulcnan aruch, achronim, etc. etc. etc.

    in reply to: Do you watch movies? #800559
    quark2
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    “remember no one knows who you are…… 🙂

    G-d knows who you are”

    Shlishi you completely missed the boat on that comment. I wasn’t saying that that is a reason to watch. I was saying that if you do watch, you shouldn’t stop from telling us on the internet, since no one ON THE INTERNET knows who you are, generally speaking.

    in reply to: TEXTING ON SHABBOS #815412
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    Well, according to many the reason for the issur of electricity is that it produces a spark. I am pretty sure that when using a device like a laptop computer or cell phone, no spark is produced.

    Maybe people who text on Shabbos feel this way.

    (the spark is produced by flipping a switch and completing a circuit. Cell phones don’t work that way, I think.)

    in reply to: Do you watch movies? #800521
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    “I shouldn’t say I don’t watch movies anymore..

    In the past two years, I watched 3, one was for extra credit for a class, and the other two were animated (Toys Story3 and Alice in Wonderland if you were curious).”

    What class was this? A teacher in a frum school assigned a movie for extra credit? Or was it in college?

    If you feel these questions are nosy or intrusive, please don’t answer

    in reply to: Do you watch movies? #800520
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    Ha! But to me, if someone watches movies on an airplane, that means that he doesn’t have a problem with watching movies anywhere. He might not because of people looking over his shoulder though….

    in reply to: Do you watch movies? #800515
    quark2
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    remember no one knows who you are…… 🙂

    in reply to: need for mental health facilities in our community #893569
    quark2
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    And that’s for a top manhattan doctor

    in reply to: need for mental health facilities in our community #893568
    quark2
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    $500 a week is only in very extreme cases. It’s usually more like $400, every few months

    in reply to: kosher flavored coffee? #791618
    quark2
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    no instant coffee. Only the real deal, top quality stuff for my coffee.

    BTW im more interested in knowing how to buy and make cappuccino than coffee. Though i think that the beans are the same for both, but i am not certain.

    in reply to: Physics – Relativity #790828
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    There is a famous quote attributed to Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington. When asked how it felt to be one of the three people in the world who understood the theory of relativity, Eddington replied, “who is the third?” (the first being Einstien himself.)

    Of course this story dates back to the very beginning of the discovery of special relativity, even if it is true. By now, that number has probably increased dramatically.

    Of course i myself understand all advanced theoretical physics, since i am a quark 🙂

    in reply to: Why is corn on the cob not kosher??? #1021290
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    mod 80 – “I dont know what the op was talking about.”

    The op was talking about the opinion if the KCL, one of the most respected kashrus agencies in Lakewood and the entire frum world

    in reply to: Why is corn on the cob not kosher??? #1021289
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    Hog food LOL. did you ever eat corn on the cob? its very sweet and tasty. like someone else said there are many different kinds of corn. i think the aim magazine recently ran an article on this.

    BTW hogs also drink water

    in reply to: Would You Date a Guy Who Drives a Mustang? #776841
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    Middle path I thought that you were a girl because of these words from your first post:

    “So if I were approached about a prospective shidduch for someone who drives a Mustang, I would ask why he has it over something else.”

    That sounded like you were a girl who gets approached for shidduchim. But now that you say that you aren’t I guess that it just means that you have a shidduch age daughter…

    in reply to: What a good site to learn sefer Yeshayahu? 🌐📖 #777138
    quark2
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    You mean that your family doesn’t own a tanach so you need to use a website? Or are you looking for a website that translates tanach?

    in reply to: Searching CR For Old Threads #938212
    quark2
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    Yes my comment wasn’t directed at the mods, it was directed at the owner/manager of the website.

    How do you contact the editor?

    in reply to: Searching CR For Old Threads #938209
    quark2
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    Can i make a simple suggestion? Maybe just allow us to read through the older pages via a numbers on the bottom of the coffee room page, like in google. (does it have to do with brandwith costs? Don’t be cheap on us here! At least allow 3 or 4 pages!)

    in reply to: Do you know your IQ? #1054312
    quark2
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    No i don’t nor do I see any good reason to know it for 99.9 percent of people. If you score hi it could make you arrogant, if you score low it will make you sad. And what is the point?

    Besides the test is controvertial, and I don’t know if I give it any weight. Intelligence is about more than just a bunch of trick questions about math or whatever

    quark2
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    Once I read that you are a shadchan I stopped reading because your opinion is biased (you make money when you make a shiduch). That doesn’t necesserily mean that you are wrong though…

    in reply to: "The Rav" #776221
    quark2
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    Thats interesting who do the religious zionists in Israel follow? Also i think his son in law and talmud muvhak Rabbi Lichtenstien (don’t know his first name) has a large yeshivah in Israel. Do the Israelis who learned in that yeshivah also not follow his halachah and hashkafah? Just curious

    in reply to: hat or not? #776029
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    college is mutar.

    (even if there are women in the college this is a case of lekah darkah achrinah, bava basra nun zain amud beis, like anyone who has learned the sugyah knows.)

    in reply to: Would You Date a Guy Who Drives a Mustang? #776837
    quark2
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    no reply from pac man

    in reply to: Would You Date a Guy Who Drives a Mustang? #776836
    quark2
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    middle path you got me there. You seem to know a lot about cars for a girl. A lot more than me, anyway.

    But let me ask you something. If all of those cars get the same power as the Mustang, why don’t they compete in drag races. Why do only Mustangs Camaros Challengers and other muscle cars compete?

    in reply to: Would You Date a Guy Who Drives a Mustang? #776835
    quark2
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    Pac man you must be the most yeshivish guy on the internet lol. Are you currently in yeshivah or kollel?

    BTW remember our debate over wether cars are more dangerous than dogs? Well we crunched the numbers and we found that cars are not double, not quadruple, not 10x, not even 100x, but a whopping 220 TIMES more dangerous than dogs.

    In fact, you have about a 10 times greater chance of being struck by lightning than getting killed by a dog. So dogs are quite safe

    in reply to: Would You Date a Guy Who Drives a Mustang? #776826
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    middle path

    aha, so what you are saying is that you couldn’t find a car that compares to the Mustang in its own price range, so you had to go to luxury cars that sell new for more than double its price.

    Which means that the only car that is better than the Mustang for cars in its price range is the Mazda. And I thought that the Mustang is rubbish. But it comes in second place.

    in reply to: Why do people lie? #777154
    quark2
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    I don’t get the question. People lie for hundreds of reasons. People lie because they can

    in reply to: Would You Date a Guy Who Drives a Mustang? #776821
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    middle path

    i have to totally disagree with you when you call the Mustang rubbish. Its not really the topic under discussion, but what is your idea of a car for $25,000 that isn’t ‘rubbish’?

    in reply to: Would You Date a Guy Who Drives a Mustang? #776820
    quark2
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    Well, for me, I would drive this car for its amazing performance. The looks are only an added bonus

    in reply to: Would You Date a Guy Who Drives a Mustang? #776811
    quark2
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    Even if I would make say $150,000 dollars this year and can afford a brand new luxury car, it is quite likely that I would go for the mustang first, or possibly a camaro which is very similar, before I would buy an $80,000 lexus or infinity, even though I could afford it

    in reply to: Would You Date a Guy Who Drives a Mustang? #776810
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    nystatetrooper

    I am asking because I know someone who is not married and is considering buying a mustang. And it doesn’t really matter if you think that they are cool or not since about 99% of the world does. There is a reason why it has been featured in more than 500 movies and hundreds of tv shows, probably more than any other car ever made (until Michael Bay came along in 2009 and used a yellow camaro for transformers 1).

    Anyway cool could mean many different things, maybe you don’t mean the same thing that I do when I use cool in this context, but this isn’t the place to get into that.

    Anyway, what is your idea of a “cool” car (and don’t say something like a Lamborghini, we are talking about a $25,000 dollar car here. But if you want to say a luxury sports car, go ahead, just nothing more than $100,000, aight)?

    quark2
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    to the one who brought up the problem of neutering animals, if you buy it like that it shouldn’t be a problem

    quark2
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    BTW could somebody tell me how to view other ppls profiles? I can’t seem to click on the usernames

    quark2
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    @fert fisrt of all, since when do we not have video games? I know many people, even in Lakewood (where people don’t have dogs) that have video games.

    Second of all, pets are not a waste of time/money. I posted earlier that many studies have found pets to be beneficial to ones health, to the point where they can actually ADD YEARS to your life, in some situations

    quark2
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    Take it from the people who actually own dogs. They will all tell you that dogs are the most friendly and lovable creatures imaginable.

    So are you going to be worried about that 1 dog in a million that goes crazy and hurts someone? It’s ludicrous.

    Maybe don’t let people into your home because humans have been known to go crazy and hurt people too!

    (the homicide rate in america is 30,000 or more, I think. and death caused by smoking, which is also caused by people, is over 440,000. Compare that to just 150 deaths caused by dogs. its laughable. like comparing deaths caused by 5 year olds to deaths caused by adults)

    quark2
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    Ok so let me crunch some numbers here. According to the stat that shedready said, there were 15 fatalities for 30,000,000 dogs. there were 33,000,000 deaths, for 250,000,000 cars. So lets multiply the number of dogs by 10, and the number of dog deaths by 10. That would be 150 deaths, for 300,000,000 dogs.

    CARS CAUSE MORE THAN 220 TIMES MORE DEATHS THAN DOGS.

    And you want to tell me that dogs are more dangerous?!

    quark2
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    I disagree. I think that even if the amount of dogs equaled the amount of cars, the number of people injured in car accidents would exceed the number of people injured by dogs.

    Anyway we can theorize all we want, but since it looks like neither of us know the facts, neither of us can disprove each other.

    Another thing, even if dog injuries would be more, cars may still be more dangerous, since car accidents are usually a lot more serious than a dog bite.

    I gotta go now, nice talking to you, catch ya later!

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