River: I know you have questions. Mal: That would be why I just asked them.

'Objects In Space'


Spike's Bitches 45: That sure as hell wasn't in the brochure.  

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Polter-Cow - Aug 17, 2010 10:19:38 am PDT #28975 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

Except we didn't, really.


smonster - Aug 17, 2010 10:20:29 am PDT #28976 of 30000
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.

I don't think those bits are in the Haggadah my family uses - there are about fifteen gazillion different versions available for Reform Jews of varying political and religious inclinations.

I remember the latter but not the former. But then we skip and skim. Hi, confirmation bias!

People could justify their racial bias, because that was The Truth (and a woman's place is in a kitchen and all of that).

In the context of the paragraph and what Matt and I were talking about, the OP is talking about about discomfort itself as insufficient justification. One person's discomfort doesn't trump another's rights.

And yes, people justify their discomfort all the time, with various levels of accuracy and veracity. And that is most certainly problematic. See above re: P-C's parents.

I read a bit of Im Tirzu's site, and oh dear.


WindSparrow - Aug 17, 2010 10:26:06 am PDT #28977 of 30000
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.

Indians with Indians.

I read this as it would be ok if you were gay, you could date a baseball player.

That's probably not what they meant, but it's kinda fun to imagine the looks on their faces....


Hil R. - Aug 17, 2010 10:29:26 am PDT #28978 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

I have successfully assembled a kitchen cart! One of these: [link] And now, I've got to deal with all the little bits of styrofoam packaging that are all over my living room rug (vacuum is broken -- one more thing I need to buy), and figure out how to fix a clogged toilet. (It's one of the new water-saver ones with a weird-shaped bowl so that it's impossible to get a seal with the plunger, so trying to use the plunger just ends up splashing water everywhere. There's a weird-shaped plunger in the bathroom closet, and I tried that one, but it didn't do anything.)


Steph L. - Aug 17, 2010 10:44:23 am PDT #28979 of 30000
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe

Oh, of course that wouldn't work either. Only Gujarati women whose families are within a certain radius and come from a certain income level and belong to a certain caste will work, of course.

With brothers, right?


Hil R. - Aug 17, 2010 10:45:22 am PDT #28980 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

I fixed the toilet! Then scrubbed most of the bathroom, because all that water splashing is just ew.


Jars - Aug 17, 2010 10:48:13 am PDT #28981 of 30000

P-C, do they actually just want you to marry your sister? Will anyone else ever tick the boxes?


meara - Aug 17, 2010 10:49:38 am PDT #28982 of 30000

Don't tell my white raised Catholic sister and her black Raised muslim husband that mixing doesn't work! I'd hate to have to break them up now after so many years. And he just got a vespa, I wanna see it!


Shir - Aug 17, 2010 10:58:51 am PDT #28983 of 30000
"And that's why God Almighty gave us fire insurance and the public defender".

I'm in awe of Hil. I'm rescheduling my room cleaning to Thursday, myself.

I read a bit of Im Tirzu's site, and oh dear.

No! Don't do that! I read their forums once, trying to understand their brains. I realized two things: one, that their brains are very similar to my favorite spam: "I’m currently being held prisoner by the Russian mafia penis enlargement penis enlargement and being forced to post spam comments on blogs and forum! If you don’t approve this they will kill me". Two, that the true definition of "self hating Jew" is a leftist who reads their forums.


smonster - Aug 17, 2010 11:15:08 am PDT #28984 of 30000
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.

No! Don't do that!

Dude, I followed YOUR LINK.