Well, it does seem as though Jez is running it with a healthy bit of skepticism, now that I am starting down this insane rabbithole.

Immediately after that quote, Stein wrote:

Many of those statements were about the manner and variety of dicks he believes me to be interacting with.

No, she’s bringing the suit. But in the new suit there’s an additional witness. I think that’s what I read.

I usually just bring my ouija planchette with me and try and intuit what I should order, but sometimes it will go sideways and I’ll end up with 3 sides of ranch and an ice tea. Should I start reading the menu to see what ingredients sound good? What if I’m not as good as Foodgod!?

I see your drum store guys and... well, actually... no you’re right, drum store guys are the most pompous jackasses on the planet. I don’t care how fast you can play swiss army triplets. Just give me my new fucking snare head.

Oh yay!! A reason to talk about effing bike riders. It’s not the bike I hate, it’s the riders. “But But But we’re just like cars, you should consider us a car when you encounter us on a road” they say. To which I say when you can do the effing speed limit on said road I will consider it. Not until then!

This morning I saw a bike rider come up on the left of cars going straight, then zoom in front of a car to get into the right-side bike lane, and oh my god, what a jackass.

One of my most thrilling moments was when I lived in Cambridge, MA and witnessed a lowspeed chase between a police car and a douche on a bike that caused an accident at a traffic light when he ran the light and caused a car to swerve into pole to avoid him. I later read in the news that said douche tried to escape…

Dear Cyclists - in case you were wondering, when you are on the roads you count as a vehicle, not a pedestrian. Kindly follow the laws for vehicles. Perhaps then you’ll survive all those red lights you currently shoot through like your ass was on fire and your eyes were shut tight.

Am forced to use it as it is my husband and daughter’s actual legal last name. I kept my own last name to avoid being ridiculed by my best friend (an Israeli) until the end of days. But she still teases me for marrying a Goy.

Jokes aside, having known a few people over 100 years old, I find that part quite plausible. It’s entirely possible that everyone who knew he missed his Bar Mitzvah is long gone. He may have been embarrassed about it or just didn’t want to make a fuss, and so he never told anyone until it happened to come up recently.

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There’s no contradiction between one and the other.

I was so glad to hear that he married again and had kids, grandkids and greatgrandkids. I hope they all come to the celebration

When your religion is why you’re persecuted, it tends to become a more important part of your identity (at least that’s how it worked for some of my Holocaust-surviving family members). Sometimes of course it does have the opposite effect. ETA: And what Meg said. Being a Jew involves many facets that go beyond…

I think for some people, it’s a source of comfort. If he survived all of that horror and made it to 113 years with an attitude like that, I’m certainly not about to argue with him.

Mazel Tov!!! So many tears. My WWII Veteran, Holocaust Camp-Liberating Jewish Grandpa just died last week. He was the best, most wonderful mensch of a human I could ever be honored to know. He had his Bar Mitzvah as a 13-year-old, but was a lifelong learner and student of all things including Judaism so he had an…

Mmmm it’s not likely anybody will ever see this because I’m solidly in the greys but...please, speak for yourself and nobody else. I, too, have ADHD. And if I’m not medicated for it, no amount of exercise and healthy eating or what-fucking-ever will allow me to be as functional - cognitively - as I am when I’m on my…

Get outta here with that. Ritalin’s side effects can actually HAMPER athletic ability, especially if you are taking it when you don’t have a reason to.

So, a person with a disorder taking their meds while making sure to get the proper permissions for them with the International and National commissions is..... An advantage?