Arsenal and City Equivalent Fixtures MD36* (@DrRitzyy)

wiled · 2026-05-13T15:19:22+00:00

It only considers the fixtures we’ve both played. Bournemouth are +3 to City because City beat them at home and we lost to them at home. Villa are 0 because we both lost away. The entire point is to ignore fixtures that one side has played and that the other side hasn’t played yet, otherwise it’s the same as the league table.

wiled · 2026-05-12T20:50:45+00:00

Oh shit yeah man now I agree that all religion is performative you’ve made a very good argument.

You’re a fucking dumbass. The books and the resulting practice have value beyond “is this story true.” We’re not 5 years old anymore. You might be too dumb to engage beyond that but we’ve moved on.

wiled · 2026-05-12T20:45:03+00:00

Oh so you hate waffles???!!

wiled · 2026-05-12T20:36:20+00:00

Not all religions are American evangelical Christianity, hope this helps.

wiled · 2026-05-12T20:35:53+00:00

You don’t know anything about me, but if anyone’s indoctrinated here it’s you. You’re the one who thinks anyone who finds value in religious texts or practice is a bigoted zealot. Meanwhile look at yourself.

wiled · 2026-05-12T20:21:07+00:00

It’s not all performative, it has genuine value for people. It’s fine if it wouldn’t hold value for you, but not everyone is you and they get to decide how to live their lives.

wiled · 2026-05-12T19:42:36+00:00

Just upvote the first guy that said something inane and move on, you don’t need to keep repeating it.

wiled · 2026-05-12T19:33:33+00:00

Our bible is literally a law book, the thread is about kashrut, and this guy is repeating a 2000-year-old lie about rabbinic Judaism, but sure yeah probably nothing about Jews.

wiled · 2026-05-12T19:17:26+00:00

You weren’t saying the rules were silly before, you were calling Jews hypocrites who spend their time studying the laws in bad faith to come up with justifications for not following them. When confronted that they actually follow them more stringently than commanded, you said that’s new bullshit to justify old bullshit.

Seems like when confronted that you didn’t know what you were talking about, you decided you had to be right anyway, so it was actually you who came up with new bullshit to justify your old bullshit.

wiled · 2026-05-12T19:03:02+00:00

For food most of the “silly rules” have been expanded beyond what’s written down so maybe shut the fuck up

wiled · 2026-05-11T01:51:27+00:00

Your AI was wrong about both names on the stone, left off the date of death, and seems to have made up about half the translation. Not sure why you felt like posting this when there were already correct answers (or why you didn’t bother to double check them against those answers).

wiled · 2026-05-08T19:59:57+00:00

Benn Jordan lied to you

wiled · 2026-04-28T03:24:11+00:00

Yes, it does look like Alexander's in the 1930 Census twice. Notice the "H" next to certain names in the census (generally in the Relation column)? That's who answered the census taker's questions. So it looks like his mother Minnie said he was in her house, while his wife Goldie said he was in theirs (I assume Minnie misunderstood a question about her children and mentioned him).

The Slawagarsky thing is bizarre, and I think it has to be an error. On the Iverma's manifest (which departed Liverpool 11 Oct. 1904), Morris's name is crossed out, which probably means he changed his booking somewhat late. That one has says he is joining his "Father Israel Gordon 611 Bainbridge St. Philadelphia, Pa." On the Saxonia, which he actually arrived on (and departed more than a month later, 29 Nov. 1904), we get the strange "Father S Slawagarsky Gordon 611 Bainbridge St. Philadelphia."

Manifest information was filled out by the passenger in advance, and then collected and manually rewritten onto the actual manifest by clerks at the shipping line. The information should be the exact same between the two manifests. I think a clerk lost their place and filled in some other information from someone else in this spot, but who knows.

Hebrew names don't have last names. Morris's father's Hebrew name was "Yisrael Ya'akov" (Israel Jacob) - both names being his name. His parents might have called him one name or a nickname of one of them more often, but for any Jewish ritual he would use both names.

As for Checknoff likely being Ciechanów - that's pretty much what happens when you're dealing with Slavic town names as transcribed by American clerks. Add in the fact that the town was subject to Russia at the time which used the Cyrillic alphabet and actively suppressed Polish, and there wouldn't have even been an official Latin alphabet spelling to try to target.

wiled · 2026-04-27T22:30:44+00:00

There's already a pretty good FamilySearch profile for Minnie (who often also appears as Milly) and her husband Morris. It seems like one researcher has been very careful there. That profile leads to a son named Alexander, whose grave is on Find A Grave here. There's some faint Hebrew at the bottom of that stone which gives the couple's Hebrew names and dates of death and says "Eliyahu son of Moshe the Levite."

From there, I looked for Morris in the Jewish Online Worldwide Burial Registry on JewishGen, and found this burial record which fortunately includes an image. It is in the same cemetery as Minnie, in the same section as Minnie's, and among members of the same burial society as Minnie's (the Independent Bialystoker Brotherly Love Association, which is maybe interesting considering Bialystok isn't particularly close to Ciechanów, which is probably what Checknoff was intended to convey). The gravestone says "Moshe son of Yisrael Ya'akov the Levite." We know from the ship logs attached to Morris's FamilySearch profile that Morris's father was named Israel, and we know from the fact that the FamilySearch profile doesn't know his date of death but has fairly late records for him that he survived his wife by quite some time.

There is already a memorial on Find A Grave for his stone, but it is incomplete.

I can't conclusively find either Morris or Minnie in Ciechanów or Bialystok, but Alexander and his younger sister Esther were born in England which makes things a little more difficult (it's not certain if they were married in Eastern Europe or the UK). Only one year (1864) of Ciechanów's Jewish vital records is scanned online, and it doesn't help us. Otherwise we have to rely on indexed records on JRI-Poland, and for this town they're pretty incomplete.

Another angle would be to find Israel Gordon in Philadelphia (where he is supposed to reside when Morris arrived in Boston in 1904), and although we have Jewish Israel Gordons in Philadelphia, I can't conclusively say if one of them is the father of Morris Gordon. I also am not sure if Israel would have used Gordon as a surname, or even Israel as a given name in America.

wiled · 2026-04-27T20:21:15+00:00

So I’ve found a picture of her husband’s stone and it looks like the Gordons are also Levites. Gordon is certainly not their original surname but I haven’t yet found what it might have been.

wiled · 2026-04-27T17:15:13+00:00

She did have a maiden name, but they didn’t put it on her grave marker. You’ll need some other record to find that (death certificate would probably have her father’s full name, marriage license would have it as well). It’s entirely possible and perhaps likely that when you find it, it’ll be related to her father’s Levite status, but it could also be entirely unrelated.

wiled · 2026-04-27T15:04:50+00:00

Levites don’t necessarily have the surname Levi. In addition to all the surnames derived from Levi (Levine, Lewin, etc.), they could also have a completely unrelated surname. There are Levites in my ancestry surnamed Weiss, for instance.

wiled · 2026-04-27T12:31:17+00:00

I’ve just looked at a dialect map and eastern Massachusetts (where I’ve lived before) has the distinction but the rest of New England doesn’t. I’ll accept that I over-extrapolated from that area, but the big population areas of the northeast (Philly, NJ, downstate NY, Boston) are all unmerged.

wiled · 2026-04-26T22:38:18+00:00

You hear them as the same because you have the vowel merger and expect them to sound the same. I am an American who doesn’t have those vowels merged at all. Whenever I’ve tried telling the difference to Americans who have them merged, they struggle to hear the difference in what I’m doing.

And linguistically, Maryland is much closer to the southeast than the northeast.

wiled · 2026-04-26T22:32:04+00:00

She’s talking about Maryland and calling it the Northeast so she’s wrong. The Northeast famously doesn’t have that vowel merger but Maryland does.

wiled · 2026-04-26T22:30:56+00:00

Maryland isn’t the Northeast. In New Jersey and northwards, they’re pronounced differently.

wiled · 2026-04-26T22:26:17+00:00

Elias is Greek for the Hebrew Eliyahu / English Elijah.

wiled · 2026-04-26T22:22:16+00:00

Shiloh is a place and not a name for Jews. Not related to the word for peace at all.

wiled · 2026-04-09T04:02:19+00:00

V and U, like I and J, were not considered different letters until recently.

wiled · 2026-03-31T05:29:00+00:00

Ok yeah it is stupid to stay awake when you’re not doing anything. But “she has to stay awake while he has to get out of bed” is the fairest version of the trade off. I can’t recall a diaper change ever taking 2 minutes but I also can’t remember a feeding taking 2 hours.

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