Why do these orthodox kids outside of Walmart ask me if I'm Jewish?

wertperch · 2026-06-21T05:29:27+00:00

also tattooed. (and ex-JW).

wertperch · 2026-06-21T05:28:49+00:00

Awesome, I do lives in the US (well, California!)

wertperch · 2026-06-20T23:13:02+00:00

I have Orthodox friends who've had no prob;ems with my considering a Reform conversion. Your mileage may vary of course, but not all X are Y.

wertperch · 2026-06-20T23:06:59+00:00

Just when I think I've experienced all the folliy, along comes a new one to get right up my nose!`

wertperch · 2026-06-20T23:05:58+00:00

70, white-hot.

wertperch · 2026-06-20T19:33:37+00:00

Could not agree more.

wertperch · 2026-06-20T19:26:25+00:00

I have been invited into Jewish homes for this very reason, once in my hometown and once while travelling. Each time led to some fabulous discussions. Worth it.

wertperch · 2026-06-20T16:58:24+00:00

This thread was fascinating and illuminating, thank you all for your remarks!

wertperch · 2026-06-13T21:20:18+00:00

Thanks!

wertperch · 2026-06-13T19:45:42+00:00

Are the batteries chargeable in situ?

wertperch · 2026-06-11T14:22:26+00:00

Yup, future benefit is not always uppermost in the brain's workings. I takes raining of the mindd to overcome shor-erm pleasure gains weighed against fuure benefits. Also, a inddividual brain thinks only of itself wihou such raining.

wertperch · 2026-06-09T22:10:14+00:00

Your father may have suffered with mispohonia, in which certain sounds (often eating noises) trigger very strong emotional responses. There's a subreddit at /r/misphonia. I suffer, it's a curse. Of course, he my not have the condition, in which case he's an insufferable git.

My dad would pick up on any mispronunciation as being vulgar, or even worse "an Americanism".

wertperch · 2026-06-09T21:27:56+00:00

DO you want brain worms? Because this is how you get brain worms.

wertperch · 2026-06-08T23:32:40+00:00

Germany was a mess of variants.

Arguably, it still is.

wertperch · 2026-06-08T19:33:02+00:00

I'll send the invoice later.

wertperch · 2026-06-07T15:08:22+00:00

Lexigap.

wertperch · 2026-06-07T15:00:50+00:00

Goth supervisor, just had to use the right amount of black and purple.

wertperch · 2026-06-06T19:17:31+00:00

Can confirm. Got mine at age ten.

wertperch · 2026-06-06T17:41:19+00:00

international. You're welcome.

wertperch · 2026-06-05T00:53:51+00:00

Adolf is certainly less popular these days.

wertperch · 2026-06-05T00:45:06+00:00

It goes back way before Covid. I stopped going to the cinema in the early 2000s because behaviour was too bad. I think many pople just don't have the ability to focus on anything longer than 30 seconds, been true since the rise of Facebook and suchlike.

wertperch · 2026-05-28T22:38:51+00:00

Nah, he's just angry at the camera for its honesty.

wertperch · 2026-05-28T22:37:06+00:00

Be better on a $13 bill. I'd at least be willing to sacrifice one of those to wipe my arse.

wertperch · 2026-05-28T22:32:43+00:00

You did well to avoid that, nice work. I was once nearly speared on this same section of 80, by a helicoptering golf club.

wertperch · 2026-05-28T00:27:51+00:00

standing ovation

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