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“You need to daven to Hashem to do what’s best for you. Who said Hashem will give you what’s best if you don’t ask him to?”
R’ Akiva: kol ma d’ovid rachmana l’tav avid
and reb yidz: lol
The 11 best April Fools’ gags of 2015
April Fools is a wonderful and terrible day for the internet. Let’s start with the terrible part: yes, there’s a chance that you’ll be tricked by fake news and bad pranks, and that’s not really fun for anyone. But then there’s the nice part: today is the one day that companies stop taking themselves so seriously. Sure, some just use it as an opportunity to beg you for retweets of a silly image. But others put a surprising amount of thought and effort into making small pranks and videos that their customers and other viewers online will have fun with. And that’s pretty cool.
MOTOROLA’S SELFIE STICK
For April Fools’ Day, Motorola turns the much-derided selfie stick into high art. Its video is a wonderfully funny parody of the craftsmanship films that tech companies, Kickstarter campaigns, and generally hip companies like to make about their new products. And honestly, it’ll kind of make you want a hand-made selfie stick.
GOOGLE’S SMARTBOX
What are the chances something like this ends up on Kickstarter by the end of the month? A digital mailbox is a silly concept, but we wouldn’t put it past anyone. One San Francisco startup even offered a service that digitized your mail by having its employees come get your letters and then scan them and put them online. It shut down after about a year.
THINKGEEK’S STEAM MACHINE
Steam Machines haven’t exactly taken the gaming world by storm, but they’d probably sell a lot better if they looked like this and were bundled with a copy of BioShock. ThinkGeek is always one of the more fun sites to visit on April Fools’ Day because of its dedication to making up weird gadgets and apparel, but this one wins for identifying a pun and just going for it.
TESLA’S AUTONOMOUS PARKING TICKET AVOIDANCE
Tesla gets points for idea over execution. Its video isn’t anywhere as sharp as, say, Motorola’s, but the idea that autonomous cars could one day avoid parking tickets for you is interesting and sounds like it could even be possible. Why couldn’t your self-driving car just find another spot when its parking time was up? For now, you’re still stuck with parking garages (or, you know, public transit).
GOOGLE MAPS’ PAC-MAN
COM.GOOGLE
Is there a better possible use of Google’s custom top-level domain? Probably not. Just head there and try it out.
FUNNY OR DIE’S DIPS
MICROSOFT’S MS-DOS MOBILE
REDDIT’S “THE BUTTON”
Maybe it’s real. Maybe it’s fake. Who cares. Reddit put a button on its site that supposedly resets a 60-second countdown every time someone click it. What, if anything, will happen if the timer makes it all the way down? Who cares. This is arguably the best button since Lost Season 2.
NETFLIX’S BINGE WATCH WARNINGS
YOUTUBE’S “SANDSTORM” OBSESSION
Points for absurdity. If you search for a musician or a song today, YouTube will ask if you meant to search for “‘Sandstorm’ by Darude.” It also lets you pump snippets of “Sandstorm” into any video that you’re watching, making it dramatically more exciting.
b4 i saw this thread i posted here
and i couldn’t find your video
ibump:
#1 welcome back!
#2 who is the rav?
just one question: why?
but i guess the answer is “why not?!”:)
Comlink-X: 2 weeks later, im randomly scrolling down the coffee room, i decide to click on “yuma”, and now i finally get your last line!
lol
so, who here has played pac-man on their street yet?! 🙂
“We always kept our home computer in a very public place, in addition to filtering it. “
1.Great!
2.that would be why your computer would be better than a smartphone
ill post all the posts that are on the main site (including mine)
Dr. E says:
March 31, 2015 at 10:36 am
Maybe the cow could be preserved in the Bochurim Freezer for now.
kehath64 says:
March 31, 2015 at 10:50 am
Is this legit??
yosef stern says:
March 31, 2015 at 11:16 am
Baal Boose says:
March 31, 2015 at 2:07 pm
To #2.
Not legit.
One of them is a bull.
Just as the farmer is false so too the set-up.
Baal Boose says:
March 31, 2015 at 2:09 pm
kvetcher says:
March 31, 2015 at 3:20 pm
showjoe says:
March 31, 2015 at 3:25 pm
Moshe1994 says:
March 31, 2015 at 3:34 pm
@2 It looks legit to me,@4 do you consider yourself more learned than the Rav in the video?
Toras Moshe says:
March 31, 2015 at 3:38 pm
chulentboy says:
March 31, 2015 at 3:53 pm
Yeah and it looks like someone told that guy exactly what to say. It seems a little fishy.
And anyways it doesnt mean anything until there is a beis hamikdosh.
Git Meshige says:
March 31, 2015 at 5:49 pm
Git Meshige says:
March 31, 2015 at 5:50 pm
akuperma says:
March 31, 2015 at 6:11 pm
As there is currently no Beis ha-Mikdash, all the critter is good for is milk (depending on breed, most cattle in New Jersey are bred primarily for milk), and eventually for a low grade of meat (that is the fate of dairy cows when they get old). The skin will be used for leather. Some parts might be ground up for fertilizer or animal feed.
No sense getting excited now. If Meshiach can build a Beis ha-Mikdash without the assistance of the government or the rabbinate, he can find a parah adumah.
ywn shows women in their photo albums and perhaps news items, so it seems that ywn shita is to allow tzniusly dressed woman into their pictures. if you dont like that, there are plenty of other frum websites out there.
i have adblock (which i recomend you get), so i dont know which ad you are referring to, but i assume that it has a tzniusly dressed woman in it. if it dosnt then you takeh have a good point.
Most of the use of a smartphone is in public, so it is less likely used for smut than someone using their computer in private.
i dont know who your are talking about, but I know that there are plenty of kids who have smartphones and use them in private, all the time, for “shmutz”. maybe if one is a single living by them selves then a computer is as dangerous as a smartphone, although you would still have access in private places that are not at home. but for many other people, especially teens, a portable, always there, private smartphone, is far worse than a in place, perhaps supervised, public computer.
whatever the case, a person should definitely have a filter and reporting service on their device. both of them.
and I quote
Letakein Girl: why do assume that its a she?
Why do you feel that it is your responsibility to make her get rid of her smartphone
because the op obviously feels that a smart phone can be dangrous to his/her friends spiritual life. and kol yisroel arevim ze laze
chacha5: A smartphone is no worse than a computer (you can disable filters too). Are you willing to get rid of yours?
a computer is different from a smartphone. a computer can only stay in one place, which might be a public place, while a smartphone can be brought with the person to anywhere he/she wants (e.g. a private place, a place with not-so-good-friends, a place with unfiltered wi-fi). and if the computer is shared, then this persons time on the computer is limited. and a smartphone is much more personal than a pc.
the op could be talking about a young teen (boy), who has a smartphone, maybe against his parents will. im sure we can all agree that in this case, it is not a good thing for the kid to have a smartphone
chacha5:good luck. and if you cant convince your friend to throw it out, try to at least convince your friend to get a filter and reporting service, if your friend doesn’t have one
what he is doing is listing all the thread ideas that he could think of.
the italic font is the thread title
and the regular font is the first post
lol, again.
your “chap” treads are funny
np
the main point, it seems, for kiddush l’vana is HAshem renewing of the moon.
so if your on the light side of the moon, than would you be able to make kiddush l’vana?
and lets say you go to the dark side, and than back to the light side, does that count as renewing? or can you say renewing is only a din is seeing the moon, and since you can always see the moon if your on it(i suppose), it does count as renewal?
mw13: great story
SSD: this is not a serious thread.
but that point was not any less serious than my other points.
why are you asking?
yes
no
ssd: +1
lol
and kiddush levana.
and zmanim for tifella also.
and birchas haelanos.
and (probably) others which i cant think of right now.
“start with the obvious.
(A) There’s no reason to vomit after drinking cholov stam. (B) R’ Moshe Feinstein was renowned for his genius and didn’t do stupid things. (A+B=C) R’ Moshe didn’t vomit after drinking cholov stam milk. “
just saying that there is a spiritual effect that eating not kosher has on a person. im not saying that C”S is non-kosher, just that it might be comparable to one whos does not eat C”S.
i cant remember the source for my original statement, so i understand if you don’t hold by it, but it definitely came from a vaild source.
LG: i hear.
I’ll have look into it more.
golfer: im sorry, i seem to have misquoted the noam elimelech.
the noam elimelech bring down a medresh that at the yam, the b”y were not b’achdus. he says that is the reason why the malachim said “halalu uvdai avoda zara v’halau uvdai avoda zara” and the only way the yam split says the noam elimelech, was when HAshem said “daber el B”Y v’yisau“, which the noam elimelech reads to say “tell B”Y to be one group”
so fakert, this shows that even though there were 12 tunnels, HAshem considered it (at least?) enough achdus to split the sea.
golfer: i heard that that (the lack of achdus by krias yam suf) was the reason why the mealchim only started complaining by krias yam suf “eilu uyvdai avoda, v’eilu uyvdai avoda” and not before
what the Lubavitcher Rebba was saying (i think)is that HAshem dosnt anything for nothing, so therefore every single person has a mission in life that they need to fulfill. and that’s the reason HAshem put them in this world for. and this mission, is crucial for the world to survive.
i did not think of it in that way, but i here your point…
but he was still a great man
mazal tov and amen!
as i posted in a different thread:
heard from the Lubavitcher Rebba:
On your birthday, celebrate the day that HAshem decided that the world could not continue without you.
wow! continue staying strong!
CIJ:for someone whos so into music not to know…
i guess its not your type of music.
“then he flew out of the window, but my knees turned weak when he said…”
– ???
heard from the Lubavitcher Rebba:
On your birthday, celebrate the day that HAshem decided that the world could not continue without you.
amazing thought.
RIP
a man with a job well done
little froggie:+1
HAshem does evreything for our best, and included in that is: in what genaration we live, where we are location wise, where we are in life (jobs, school), ad infinitum
cij: i find toda by benny friedman a heartfelt fast song. (and im also young) every time i hear it, im like “thank you HAshem!!”
listen, i hear you rayia, but l’massea i can tell you that discworld is the whole planet.
so sometimes, we just conclude “kashia”
it is takeh a good question.
however he seems to be the first tourist on discworld. ever.
the first person who ever thought of touring on discworld. therefore he was the first tourist to ever be/step foot on discworld.
its a shver answer, i know. but thats all i can come up with
its black and blue.
the whole thing is really cool
paa: the first two books are very different than all his other books, dont pass judgment on the rest of his books from the first two. his other discworld books flow much better and everything is related.
from the other discworld books, it is clear that the discworld is the ‘planet’ that is flat, and it includes all the characters in the books (except for maybe death and the auditors, who would be in the “discworld universe”).
thx for the info everyone.
on shabbos, or during the week?
Rema711: “Shopping613 spoken by a true Einstein”
wht do you mean to say with this?
do you mean to say that she is repeating advice already written on the tread?
if so 1) she was adding on a new aspect, that beans also work. 2)you did the same thing by repeating A jew who cares advice.
or do you mean to say that her latter part (But it’s not so bad…) was obvious?
if so, she was saying that even though it would seem that a sansdisk would be a inferior chioce, it still has this pro over the ipod
so what are you trying to say?
shopping: talking about sansdisk vs ipod, im looking to get a sansdisk or ipod, can you (or anyone else) tell me the pros and cons about a sansdisk and where do get one for cheap?
the ny storm was expected to be aprox. 30″
CIJ: wow i cant relate (to talking on the phone, as opposed to txting, or to shutting it off;))
kj: its one thing to call rema a troll for his other posts, but to call him a troll for saying “just trust in Hashem”! how can you say that?
Letakein Girl: chazal say that “Any generation in which the Temple is not built, it is as if it had been destroyed in their times” (Yerushalmi, Yoma 1a)
so if you want to say that the reason why the B”M is not yet built is because of sinas chinam, than sams point, as scary as it seems, would seem to be correct.
sidi: thx!
i want moshioch to come so that every single being, including me, completely and totally recognize HASHEMS complete and total malchus over everything