a squirmy, attention-sucking interloper.
You shouldn't call my husband names like that. Even if true.
hee!
Nothin'. I just wanted you to face me so she could get behind ya.
Mal ,'The Train Job'
Spike's Bitches 43: Who am I kidding? I love to brag.
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Sparky1 - Dec 10, 2008 5:41:12 am PST #3911 of 10000
Librarian Warlord
Trudy Booth - Dec 10, 2008 5:42:43 am PST #3912 of 10000
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
Also a fair way to phrase it, Trudy.
Yours was a whole lot nicer. I often get to "I CAN'T BE NICE TO THIS IDIOT" all too quickly.
Next time I'll call you, Fred Pete.
I'm serious. Debetesse could use a break.
Also, the commenters seemed to be assuming that these were black-hat Orthodox. If there's only the one Orthodox family living in the building, then it's a fairly good chance they're not black-hat.
There seemed to be a pervading sense that unless they were black jews how would you POSSIBLY know they were Orthodox? Apparently, not only do New Yorkers not know their neighbors, we are as unaware of what a kippah, a mezuzzah, or a person CLIMBING STAIRS ON THE WEEKEND looks like.
Of course, the commentators also thought that no burgler would ever wear a disguise and that its DEEPLY paranoid to not let strangers into an apartment building.
amych - Dec 10, 2008 5:44:34 am PST #3913 of 10000
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Do those people live in the evil mirror-universe New York where there are no Jews?
beekaytee - Dec 10, 2008 5:46:45 am PST #3914 of 10000
Compassionately intolerant
You shouldn't call my husband names like that. Even if true.
Bahaha.
P.M. Marc - Dec 10, 2008 5:55:40 am PST #3915 of 10000
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Do those people live in the evil mirror-universe New York where there are no Jews?
Dude, I live in Seattle, where there are very few people who are of the people, I'm not Jewish, and *I* could probably tell you which of my co-workers are secular, Reform, Conservative, or Orthodox. (Okay, so right now the latter is "Just that one guy who plays ping-pong sometimes." But still.)
brenda m - Dec 10, 2008 5:58:34 am PST #3916 of 10000
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
The saddest part may be that the whole free-for-all obscured a legitimate question. Namely, "How can we reconcile my security needs with the religious requirements of my neighbor and his friends?"
I'm not sure there was ever a chance for that discussion to be the focus given the way the letter itself came about. I mean, would this even have been an issue without her "digust" for their lifestyle? Not the security issue, which is real, but the reason the writer couldn't just deal with it civilly in the first place.
How rational can comments be when you start from "how can I get over my abhorrence for these people crossing my path in the first place to swallow my disgust and speak to my neighbor? Or should I just have them evicted?"
hippocampus - Dec 10, 2008 6:01:48 am PST #3917 of 10000
not your mom's socks.
Squeee! I almost missed my stop with the sparkysquee! Squee!
Hil R. - Dec 10, 2008 6:05:20 am PST #3918 of 10000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
How rational can comments be when you start from "how can I get over my abhorrence for these people crossing my path in the first place to swallow my disgust and speak to my neighbor? Or should I just have them evicted?"
Very true.
SailAweigh - Dec 10, 2008 6:06:00 am PST #3919 of 10000
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
Yay, for babyfras!!! We welcome our new Buffista babylord with open tentacles!
SuziQ - Dec 10, 2008 6:34:57 am PST #3920 of 10000
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame
YAYAYAYAYAY!!! Go Sparky and DH! So happy for y'all. I love starting the morning with a squeeeeeeeeeeeeee.