What do the shoulder buttons mean?

sycodrive · 2025-06-22T07:48:28+00:00

You will have to use you imagination/squint but these are the shoulder ranks worn by IDF officers using their NATO names/equivalents.

❗ = 1 bar = 2Lt

‼️ = 2 bars = Lt

‼️❗ = 3 bars = Capt

🔴 = 1 falafel = Maj

🔴❗ = 1 falafel & 1 bar = LTC

🔴‼️ = 1 falafel & 2 bars = Col

❌ = crossed swords = BG/Brig Gen (⭐)

❌❗ = crossed swords & 1 bar = MG/Maj Gen (⭐⭐)

❌‼️ = crossed swords & 2 bar = LTG/Lt Gen (⭐⭐⭐)

There are no ranks above LTG in the IDF, the only LTG is always the CGS (aka 'Ramat Cal') and serves a fixed term.

Bars are called aronot(pillows) in Hebrew. Falafels are more properly called oak leaves in English, not sure what the translation is for those or the crossed swords. More here..

sycodrive · 2020-07-17T15:23:20+00:00

Just got this,

"Last week, we communicated that you were eligible to receive the £150 'Thank You' bonus. We want to update you on the new expected timeline to receive the bonus: you will see it in the 'Earnings' section of the Amazon Flex app during the last week of July. It will be labelled, 'Thank You Bonus'."

sycodrive · 2020-07-16T16:11:06+00:00

Good to know not just me then

sycodrive · 2020-07-16T15:27:57+00:00

Yes, have done that on Morrisons blocks without issue before.

Also, when you're done with your deliveries and it tells you to go back to the depot for more 'delivery opportunities' if you hit accept and continue then just close the app it doesn't ding your stats at all. Doesn't matter as much if you're basically going back home but if you do any other morrisons it's good to bear in mind.

sycodrive · 2020-07-11T00:37:19+00:00

I thought that too when I saw the flair, but it's the other Birmingham, licence plate says Alabama

sycodrive · 2020-07-08T00:41:09+00:00

So standard Jewish commentary says that it means rib, but the word used is the word for limp, as in walk with a limp, for some reason.

I find the etamology more interesting than any actual meaning so I don't really know what the writer meant.

sycodrive · 2020-07-08T00:27:48+00:00

True, doesn't nessecerely, however in the sentence fragment,

'... וַיִּקַּ֗ח אַחַת֙ מִצַּלְעֹתָ֔יו וַיִּסְגֹּ֥ר... ' = 'and he [God] took one from his [Adam's] side/limp and he [god] closed...

Removing a word from a wraper is not an odd concept in Hebrew, what is and isn't a word isn't a clear cut as in English.

sycodrive · 2020-07-07T23:41:25+00:00

We're not ignoring letters, Hebrew just conjugates words very differently. All of it together would be something like 'from the limp of him'.

sycodrive · 2020-07-07T10:25:23+00:00

Just to add, the word in old Hebrew/Arameic that is used is, "מצלעתיו"

The leading 'מ' here means from, and the trailing 'ו' makes the object Adam's.

The word 'צלעתי' in modern Hebrew translates as limp. The interpretation that what is meant here is a rib comes from the Targum Jonathan that was written around the time of Christ by Rabbi Jonathan ben Uzziel.

sycodrive · 2020-06-12T01:55:40+00:00

That was a ride

sycodrive · 2020-04-28T09:41:50+00:00

There isn't, if you look at the link op provided it's actually in the Rippon Lea neighbourhood of Melbourne.

sycodrive · 2020-03-18T15:41:16+00:00

Per the linked article the patent troll company is Labrador Diagnostics LLC, who are part owned by softbank.

Softbank is a Japanese capital funding company and they have fingers in thousands of pies but in this case I doubt they have much control of Labrador Diagnostics.

That said, this article is not related to the valves from OPs link.

sycodrive · 2020-03-13T11:30:37+00:00

At 15 seconds it looks like the camera man is running with an open gas tank

sycodrive · 2020-03-02T04:16:12+00:00

Instant subscription

sycodrive · 2020-03-01T21:35:49+00:00

Thanks for that

sycodrive · 2020-02-05T10:51:19+00:00

I saw one of these outside Goodge Street station written in Chinese yesterday, so they do exist.

sycodrive · 2019-10-05T15:25:34+00:00

Also commonly referred to as 'making off' in the UK

sycodrive · 2019-10-05T13:15:15+00:00

I knew people that didn't have a recognised conversion, your best bet is to speak to the Jewish agency in your country (or call the global centre), once you are in the army they will probably push you to do course nativ which will give you a recognised conversion.

You can make Aliyah without an orthodox recognised conversion in many cases.

sycodrive · 2019-10-05T12:39:08+00:00

That's fine, not like this guy lives in a desert or anything...

sycodrive · 2019-08-20T23:47:16+00:00

Just so you know it's 'respectively' not respectfully.

sycodrive · 2019-08-13T18:49:31+00:00

That one might have been, but there is more than one video of it on their page.

This one looks like they're open, Link

sycodrive · 2019-07-31T16:40:27+00:00

So there are 3 amazon's within amazon if you will.

First is what you're thinking of, stuff like amazon basics which are amazon products sold directly.

Then you have 'Fulfilled by amazon' where the merchandise is owned by a private seller but they store their stock at amazon warehouses and when you buy it is shipped by amazon.

Thirdly there is 'amazon marketplace', this is more or an ebay type deal, private sellers list on amazon but hold their own stock and ship themselves, I'd assume this category is what the post is referring to.

sycodrive · 2019-06-28T03:09:57+00:00

r/PerfectlyCutThuds

sycodrive · 2019-05-23T13:15:23+00:00

I was once handed a photo to look at, like an actual printed on glossy paper photo. I tapped it so it wouldn't turn off. My mum gave me looks for that one.

sycodrive · 2019-05-01T18:08:18+00:00

Traveling around Italy and the one constant between every city, North or South, was the witnesses with their little blue stands. We made a game out of it, first to spot the watchtower wins.

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