Ghostlight posted:

RentACop posted:

The one who loved eating cheesy broccoli and poo poo for lunch and didn't understand why he was dutch ovening his co-workers, then discovered he was lactose intolerant, then decided to just keep on eating massive amounts of cheese because he reasoned he had a medical condition so they couldn't complain

I want to say that ended up being a fakepost though

Jeffrey of YOSPOS posted:

It certainly seemed not to be a fakepost since he posted pictures of all the cheeses in his fridge, they were numerous. I don't know if reverse image search was around back then but it seemed legit. He was literally threatened with being fired over farting and concluded that, because it was medical, the union won't let them do anything.

Ghostlight posted:

Kelp Me! posted:

I agree that finding love on the Chris-chan forums is worse than 3rd-degree hot cheese burns over your entire naked body

MY PALE GOTH SKIN posted:

I know which one I would feel less ashamed about

whoflungpoop posted:

My grandparents had a trunk full of the letters they exchanged while my grandfather was fighting in north africa and sicily in WWII.

My grandma wrote him about how my aunt had started walking and later the first words she spoke, about how she was working as a seamstress to bring in extra money, about the trades she made with various neighbors to make the rations go further, about how his mother was doing. My grandpa wrote her asking for more pictures of my aunt, about some of the guys in his unit, how the british officers at the camp they traveled to actually had a kitchen and hot food and how he had eaten roast and potatoes on a real plate with real silverware at a real table and how happy it made him to have a real meal after so many months of rations, about how much he missed her.

The letters to him were partially waterlogged and torn from being carried around two continents; the letters to her sometimes had parts literally cut out where he might have mentioned a location or something else the army censor wanted removed. They're amazing and they make me so proud of my grandparents, of the hardships they endured and the love and partnership they maintained across half a war-torn planet.

Your grandchildren will find a thumb drive full of forums posts of their grandparents insulting a retarded man.

SHY NUDIST GRRL posted:

Literal nightmares over the concept of carbs will always be too surreal for me.

big trivia FAIL posted:

Yes sweet goon, carbs::your alcoholism. A good analogy

Absurd Alhazred posted:

This isn't the situation, though. Read a forums, please.


Orthodox Jews consider operating an electrical switch as akin to lighting a fire, which is forbidden on the Sabbath and other holidays. This includes pressing buttons on an elevator.

The solution to the problem of an Orthodox Jew living up twenty flights of stairs and unable or unwilling to climb up and down on the Sabbath is to have a Sabbath Elevator: at least one elevator will just go down and up, stopping at each floor, so one can just hitch a ride without directly causing the process to start or stop.

got any sevens posted:

Thats hilarious

Kelp Me! posted:

Is it though? IMO it's actually one of the more logical customs.

FilthyImp posted:

It's such dumb rules lawyering that it betrays the intention of the law in the first place.

Though, to be honest, that whole spark of electricity = fire = work/creation is a whole dumb argument too.

Scudworth posted:

Having an elevator stop on every floor just for this situation is absolutely intentional and is creating more electricity use than if the elevator was used in a normal fashion.
Also wtf worrying about a god that could be fooled by these kinds of loopholes.

SHY NUDIST GRRL posted:

The idea is to not exert your mastery on the world to meditate on the fact that it is God's world and not man's, or something. So waiting longer for the autovator isn't too off base.

Rupert Buttermilk posted:

Oh, I know, but it's when these loopholes show up, I think 'why the gently caress do you even bother, then?'

Rupert Buttermilk posted:

Oh, I know, but it's when these loopholes show up, I think 'why the gently caress do you even bother, then?'

Rupert Buttermilk posted:

They had a maid. He would literally be in his living room, and because he couldn't ask directly (I guess this was an extension of this 'rule'?) he'd loudly state "Wow, it certainly is DARK in here" if he wanted the lights on so his maid would do it, or "I wonder how the game is going?" if he wanted his maid to turn on the tv to the baseball game.

Hogge Wild posted:

about the goons with hosed up eating habits; didn't the death march guy who wanted to walk through america and didn't get out from the park he started in have some really wonky diet?

Rupert Buttermilk posted:

I've wondered this for so long. My wife used to work for an orthodox Jewish guy, and he'd do the whole 'can't use electricity himself' when observing. They had a maid. He would literally be in his living room, and because he couldn't ask directly (I guess this was an extension of this 'rule'?) he'd loudly state "Wow, it certainly is DARK in here" if he wanted the lights on so his maid would do it, or "I wonder how the game is going?" if he wanted his maid to turn on the tv to the baseball game.

I find it really, really tough not to find the whole thing pretty loving stupid, but this feeling also extends to pretty much all other nonsensical religious 'rules'.

RagnarokAngel posted:

Yep. He proudly stated he ever only ate chicken nuggets, pizza and cheese burgers but would "figure it out" in terms of eating protein on the trail.

RagnarokAngel posted:

Jews believe God respects clever rules lawyering.

RagnarokAngel posted:

Jews believe God respects clever rules lawyering.