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BaldDwarfOnPCP posted:I have seen Snatch more times than is imaginable. BaldDwarfOnPCP posted:That is a line from Benicio del Toro in the elevator posing as a mensch.
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The Guy Ritchie film Snatch begins with a scene where a bunch of rabbis discuss theology in an elevator in the Netherlands. But of course they turn out to be British gangsters merely disguised as rabbis.
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Oct 31, 2021 19:18
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Captain DIEgiene posted:Usually it's the other way around 
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Oct 31, 2021 19:33
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Ellie Trashcakes posted:Stop bragging, we all have the internet 🙄 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89sD6StyzXk
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Oct 31, 2021 19:39
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FreudianSlippers posted:a bunch of rabbis 
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Oct 31, 2021 19:59
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Hey, be nice. Not everyone lives where the grocery stores all have a kosher section. Poor bastards probably have never even tried gefilte fish.
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Oct 31, 2021 20:15
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Domus posted:Hey, be nice. Not everyone lives where the grocery stores all have a kosher section. Are you trying to say lutefisk?  And why do you need to see our ding ding dongs, I'm confused 
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ThisIsJohnWayne posted:Are you trying to say lutefisk? Nah, that's fish jello.
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Humbug Scoolbus posted:Nah, that's fish jello. I thought that was fishsallad in gelatine
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Oct 31, 2021 20:35
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ThisIsJohnWayne posted:And why do you need to see our ding ding dongs,
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Ellie Trashcakes posted:I honestly don't know where to start with you dingdongs
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Oct 31, 2021 21:09
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FreudianSlippers posted:Is "bunch" not the correct word for a group of rabbis? As for the other guy, mensch just means an upright and admirable person. Also it's gender-neutral.
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Oct 31, 2021 21:14
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Ellie Trashcakes posted:I wanna do a calibration test on my scanning electron microscope c'mon were all full of it 
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Oct 31, 2021 21:14
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Ellie Trashcakes posted:Most rabbis don't look like that, you shmekel. They're posing as Orthodox. If you wear a hat and have a beard you're an rabbi. Which is why both cowboys and Amish are also rabbis. I don't make the rules.
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Oct 31, 2021 21:17
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FreudianSlippers posted:If you wear a hat and have a beard you're an rabbi. Which is why both cowboys and Amish are also rabbis. Do baseball caps count?
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FreudianSlippers posted:If you wear a hat and have a beard you're an rabbi. Which is why both cowboys and Amish are also rabbis. Now it's canon.
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Oct 31, 2021 21:19
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Captain DIEgiene posted:Do baseball caps count?
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corn haver posted:Only if the wearer isn't trying to hide male pattern baldness with the hat. Whoa. Rude!
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Oct 31, 2021 21:24
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Time to update the ol' resume I guess
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Oct 31, 2021 21:24
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Ellie Trashcakes posted:I note no denial on the shmekel front. That was your one opportunity to do so. I'll have you know I come from a long line of shmekel's.
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Oct 31, 2021 21:26
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quote:Brick Top : You're always gonna have problems lifting a body in one piece. Apparently the best thing to do is cut up a corpse into six pieces and pile it all together. 
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Oct 31, 2021 21:46
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Ellie Trashcakes posted:As for the other guy, mensch just means an upright and admirable person. Also it's gender-neutral.  since when? It's literally Yiddish for "man".A number of times I've wanted a gender-neutral version of "mensch", and came up short. It's as gender neutral as "guys" is. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWjggPP_0TE)
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I think the group noun for rabbis is a consideration.
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mostlygray posted:My dad was almost a priest. He quit the Novitiate because he wanted kids. He always taught me that it wasn't a "virgin birth" it was that Mary was without sin and a pure woman. That doesn't mean she didn't have sex. It just meant that she was born without sin. The stuff about Jesus being born without Joseph is speculative and pretty darn poorly translated. Also, people were unclear as to how conception worked. Miraculous births were pretty common back then due to lack of understanding. This isn't quite right. This mistranslation you're talking about isn't about Mary, but is the gospel writer's translation of a prophecy from the Old Testament. That one uses a word (like the english maiden), can refer to either a young women or a virgin. but the virgin birth is definitely in the bible. And people didn't know the exact mechanics of conception but they understood that sex was a requirement. There's a reason God sends an angel down to calm Joseph down after he finds out that his fiance is pregnant. And it's not because everyone's been translating the first book of Matthew wrong for the last two millennia.
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Hyperlynx posted:
Is it really? It seems obviously the same as the German word Mensch (mens in Dutch), which specifically means 'human'. I assume Yiddish is pretty close to German, so that would have been some semantic shift.
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Phlegmish posted:Is it really? It seems obviously the same as the German word Mensch (mens in Dutch), which specifically means 'human'. I assume Yiddish is pretty close to German, so that would have been some semantic shift. Huh... Growing up only ever heard it used for males.
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Does seem like that's more common, for whatever reason. But in principle Ellie Trashcakes is right, and it's a gender-neutral term.
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Hyperlynx posted:
 Source: Eulogy for Eileen Moss, congregant, Temple Adas Shalom Admittedly it has been somewhat uncommon in usage, but is attested to as such—a person, not a man—no later than 1968 in Leo Rosten's The Joy of Yiddish, as far back as I'm willing to go back because I have better things—i.e. masturbating, staring at a blank wall—than further prove this unfamiliar usage as more than just a novel barbarism or piece of wokery. Hyperlynx posted:Huh... Growing up only ever heard it used for males. Ellie Crabcakes has a new favorite as of 22:42 on Oct 31, 2021 |
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Huh! There you go, then. More Stuff I Can't Believe I Just Found Out.
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Lady Disdain posted:I've never seen the film and know nothing about it, so I could be wrong, but I think I've just discovered that the Bergman film is There's a Tintin book, King Ottokar's Sceptre, where a character starts talking about studying seals. As a little kid, I never heard of seals (emblems) and thought he was referring to the animal. Even though the book made it incredibly clear what they were talking about, it confused me so much I still remember it decades later.  I literally thought, "That's a weird looking seal. It looks more like a pelican."
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Hyperlynx posted:Huh! There you go, then. More Stuff I Can't Believe I Just Found Out. 🌈⭐the more you know
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I can't believe we don't have a "the more you know" smilie. I've been convinced there was one several times, I dunno if there was one at some point or if I just have mushbrains, probably the latter.
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Captain DIEgiene posted:I can't believe we don't have a "the more you know" smilie. I've been convinced there was one several times, I dunno if there was one at some point or if I just have mushbrains, probably the latter. I think people just liked to link the gif a lot.
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That's another pointer from Paula Poundstone!
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Captain DIEgiene posted:I can't believe we don't have a "the more you know" smilie. I've been convinced there was one several times, I dunno if there was one at some point or if I just have mushbrains, probably the latter. I don't know how there isn't a smilie of the "why not both" girl.
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Captain DIEgiene posted:I can't believe we don't have a "the more you know" smilie. I've been convinced there was one several times, I dunno if there was one at some point or if I just have mushbrains, probably the latter. ----------------*
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packetmantis posted:----------------* It'd have to be :----------------*: but I don't see why not. Anyway, I was thinking about the mensch thing more, about how I've never heard it used for anyone other than male, and I wonder if it's not another characteristic of Orthodox Judaism compared with the more progressive variants. I grew up orthodox, which positions itself as the only legitimate heir to Judaism itself. I only very recently found out that it's exactly as old as its political opponents are (if age is any measure of legitimacy), and actually developed as a reaction to people wanting reform.
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I am definitely goysplaining here but mensch means man. A good man, a respected man. It doesn't mean rabbi and it doesn't mean a jeweler, fucks sakes. But I misspoke when I said the people in the opening of Snatch were portraying mensch. There is a worse part in Snatch where someone is described as wishing he was Jewish. I mean, we've all been there. My mom wishes she was Jewish. Somehow.
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BaldDwarfOnPCP posted:I am definitely goysplaining here but mensch means man. Is that your considered opinion having actually read the thread?
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Hyperlynx posted:Is that your considered opinion having actually read the thread? Hmm, I read it yesterday but then got distracted by Tintin. I was trying to hit the middle ground of not saying I adore The Fiddler on the Roof but I respect Natasha Lyonne's opinion that Orthodox Judaism is misogynistic.
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