The Person Below Me

[Eluvianii he/him]

14 minutes ago, Kingsdaughter613 said:

Nope! Lightweaver/Willshaper!

I knew there had to be at least another Lightshaper on this thread. 

[Kingsdaughter613 she/her]

TPBM hates traffic.

[Nathrangking he/him]

18 minutes ago, Kingsdaughter613 said:

You really don’t, especially if you’re Ashkenazi. Not only do we not eat any food made with the 5 grains (except Matza), but we don’t eat anything that can be made into a flour like substance (rice, corn) or things that were traditionally cooked into breads (peas, beans).

Some of us restrict items that were stored in flour a hundred years ago (garlic). Some people won’t use dried herbs, or foods that can’t be peeled. Thank God I convinced my husband we were NOT following his traditions (under threat of never making our own Pesach, lol!) I know people who don’t use butter because they didn’t make it themselves!

Many also don’t eat ‘gebrokts’, which is crushed Matza used as flour. Others won’t use a lot of prepared foods and people are a lot stricter on which Kosher agencies they use for Pesach.

So we basically have 8 days of nothing but potatoes. Because potatoes were the exception to the ‘nothing that can be made into a ‘flour’’ on the grounds that European Jewry would have starved if they’d forbidden it. So potatoes, eggs, chicken, fish, meat. For eight days. And you can’t roast any meats for the Seder.

Pizza stores get MOBBED after Pesach.

Come for Shavuos. It’s a cheese extravaganza, often followed by a steak dinner. Not together, obviously.

@Eluvianii

Nope! Lightweaver/Willshaper!

They even auction off the first pie in some places.

1 minute ago, Kingsdaughter613 said:

TPBM hates traffic.

Yup. New York drivers are awful!!

The person below me loves matzah brei with maple syrup.

[Kingsdaughter613 she/her]

Just now, Nathrangking said:

They even auction off the first pie in some places.

Yup. New York drivers are awful!!

The person below me loves matzah brei with maple syrup.

Sorry, no. I grew up non-gebrokts so never really developed a taste for it.

TPBM hates not being able to draw/write on Chol HaMoed.

[Nathrangking he/him]

5 minutes ago, Kingsdaughter613 said:

Sorry, no. I grew up non-gebrokts so never really developed a taste for it.

TPBM hates not being able to draw/write on Chol HaMoed.

Hate is such a strong word. Shall we say dislikes a great deal.

The person below me tries to use a different haggadah per seder.

[Kingsdaughter613 she/her]

36 minutes ago, Nathrangking said:

Hate is such a strong word. Shall we say dislikes a great deal.

The person below me tries to use a different haggadah per seder.

Nah, I just use four. The one I had from elementary, the Abravanel one, an artscroll children’s Haggadah, and an adult Artscroll.

TPBM is not looking forward to a three day Yom Tov.

Edited March 15, 2021 by Kingsdaughter613

[Bejarden he/him]

Technically it’s not a three day yom tov it’s Shabbos then Pesach so I’m only dreading that (it’s a lot worse )

TPBM School just went on Zoom because of COVID 

Edited March 15, 2021 by Bejardin1250

[Kingsdaughter613 she/her]

4 minutes ago, Bejardin1250 said:

Technically it’s not a three day yom tov it’s Shabbos then Pesach so I’m only dreading that (it’s a lot worse )

TPBM School just went on Zoom because of COVID 

Yes, it’s even worse than a regular three day Yom Tov. (I call it 3 day regardless of if it’s before or after Shabbos.)

No, my school has been on Zoom for a year now.

TPBM knows someone in RL who has the SoScads cold problems.

[+Hoiditthroughthegrapevine he/him]

4 hours ago, Kingsdaughter613 said:

You really don’t, especially if you’re Ashkenazi. Not only do we not eat any food made with the 5 grains (except Matza), but we don’t eat anything that can be made into a flour like substance (rice, corn) or things that were traditionally cooked into breads (peas, beans).

Some of us restrict items that were stored in flour a hundred years ago (garlic). Some people won’t use dried herbs, or foods that can’t be peeled. Thank God I convinced my husband we were NOT following his traditions (under threat of never making our own Pesach, lol!) I know people who don’t use butter because they didn’t make it themselves!

Many also don’t eat ‘gebrokts’, which is crushed Matza used as flour. Others won’t use a lot of prepared foods and people are a lot stricter on which Kosher agencies they use for Pesach.

So we basically have 8 days of nothing but potatoes. Because potatoes were the exception to the ‘nothing that can be made into a ‘flour’’ on the grounds that European Jewry would have starved if they’d forbidden it. So potatoes, eggs, chicken, fish, meat. For eight days. And you can’t roast any meats for the Seder.

Pizza stores get MOBBED after Pesach.

Come for Shavuos. It’s a cheese extravaganza, often followed by a steak dinner. Not together, obviously.

Oy vey, what a schlimiel I've been!

I think I was just reading about all of the food, not necessarily the Pesach specific food, like that Koreich lamb, romaine, horseradish and matza sandwich sounded delicious!

Shavuos sounds amazing, cheese and extravaganza are two of my favorite words, and they should definitely be used together more often!

I hope you have a great Pesach.

3 hours ago, Kingsdaughter613 said:

TPBM knows someone in RL who has the SoScads cold problems.

Nope, my brother has the opposite problem though. His hands can melt a chocolate bar in like 2 seconds. No cool Hand Luke there.
I myself love the fact that I live in a world with freely available electricity, and can enjoy for a very modest remuneration the modern comfort of an Electric blanket. Not a heat medallion to be sure, but it is a little bit of certifiable earth magic.

TPBM can curl their tongue

[Kingsdaughter613 she/her]

26 minutes ago, Hoiditthroughthegrapevine said:

Oy vey, what a schlimiel I've been!

I think I was just reading about all of the food, not necessarily the Pesach specific food, like that Koreich lamb, romaine, horseradish and matza sandwich sounded delicious!

Shavuos sounds amazing, cheese and extravaganza are two of my favorite words, and they should definitely be used together more often!

I hope you have a great Pesach.

Nope, my brother has the opposite problem though. His hands can melt a chocolate bar in like 2 seconds. No cool Hand Luke there.
I myself love the fact that I live in a world with freely available electricity, and can enjoy for a very modest remuneration the modern comfort of an Electric blanket. Not a heat medallion to be sure, but it is a little bit of certifiable earth magic.

TPBM can curl their tongue

My older daughter has a TBI and has been known to get dangerously cold in 80 degree weather...

Sadly, we haven’t eaten that lamb in 2000 years. No Holy Temple means no Passover Sacrifice. Which is a shame, because it does sound good.

@Nathrangking

New York drivers aren’t terrible! Out of state drivers are terrible. They all drive so slowly! NY roads are terrible. They’re too narrow to drive properly on and there isn’t enough parking. New York policies are terrible. If it was up to the officials, no one would drive (but let’s not fix the subways, right? They had the perfect opportunity during Covid, but noooo....)

NYC drivers are actually really good drivers because we have to be skilled to deal with traffic. We just tend to be very aggressive drivers.

No, I can’t. I have a tongue tie.

TPBM has a tongue tie.

Edited March 15, 2021 by Kingsdaughter613

[Trutharchivist he/him]

I'm not sure what it is, and so, will assume I don't.

3 hours ago, Hoiditthroughthegrapevine said:

Oy vey, what a schlimiel I've been!

I think I was just reading about all of the food, not necessarily the Pesach specific food, like that Koreich lamb, romaine, horseradish and matza sandwich sounded delicious!

About Pesach: it does have interesting kinds of food sometimes - matza brei is an example - but not always. The real thing is that you can't eat most of the other things you're used to. Imagine getting to eat something very delicious for a full week - on the condition you won't be able to eat pizza during this week. The prohibitions on eating came before the great foods - except maybe the sandwich, which is a special case, but can't be eaten nowadays - and technically it made the great foods. Limitations force you be more creative - I believe Brandon said that in relation to his second law of magic. But yeah. Pesach is fun, but you wouldn't want to celebrate it if you're not used to it.

TPBM knows how much limitations can be helpful for creativity. (Yeah, not the most creative one... Next time, I'll have the limitation of not doing TPBM about something I've written in my post.)

[Bejarden he/him]

7 hours ago, Kingsdaughter613 said:

We just tend to be very aggressive drivers.

Ah I see in my language we translate that word differently... Actively trying to get everybody around them killed

Pesach food is not that bad it just takes ingenuity. I never knew before last year the many many purposes of Almounds and Potatoes you could make anything with them and it tastes great!

3 hours ago, Trutharchivist said:

TPBM knows how much limitations can be helpful for creativity. (Yeah, not the most creative one... Next time, I'll have the limitation of not doing TPBM about something I've written in my post.)

I did know that 

TPBM Can eat Gebotz on the last day of Pesach

[Kingsdaughter613 she/her]

1 hour ago, Bejardin1250 said:

Ah I see in my language we translate that word differently... Actively trying to get everybody around them killed

Pesach food is not that bad it just takes ingenuity. I never knew before last year the many many purposes of Almounds and Potatoes you could make anything with them and it tastes great!

I did know that 

TPBM Can eat Gebotz on the last day of Pesach

Driving aggressively is the only way to get anywhere in NYC. That doesn’t mean we drive dangerously. We know what we’re doing and we drive carefully and safely. But I’m not going to hit red lights for twenty blocks because some idiot at the DMV deliberately set them up to be out of sync if you’re driving at the speed limit. (Yes, they do this.)

Their are several places in NYC (the Gowanus expressway to the Brooklyn Battery comes to mind) where breaking the law is SAFER than following it. (For reference: You have to cross four lanes of traffic to get from the entry to the BB. The end of the entry ramp is too close to the entrance of the BB, so you basically have to drive in a horizontal line to get there. If you enter before you are legally allowed you have four times the distance to get across. Until they reopened the street entrance, anyone with half a brain broke the law going from the Gowanus to the BB.)

It’s the drivers that think they can drive like New Yorkers, but without the experience, that are dangerous. They don’t have the skill or know-how to know what’s safe and what isn’t. The other problem is non-aggressive drivers because we don’t know what they’re going to do or not do. Also because they drive much slower than the surrounding traffic, which is actually dangerous. Ironically, they think they’re being safe. (You should drive at the same speed the majority of drivers are driving at. That’s the safest.)

The people driving most dangerously are the bicyclists. They don’t wear helmets, don’t signal, don’t honk, don’t stop on red, don’t stay in their lane, drive the wrong way on one-way streets, and bike on the wrong side of the road. Many don’t even have proper lights or reflectors! And no one ever tickets them or calls them to task for any of this.

Pesach food can be excellent. But you really miss everything by the end of the week. Longer if you don’t have a Pesach kitchen.

I can eat Gebroktz all Yom Tov now.

TPBM knows someone who eats kitnios.

[Bejarden he/him]

Well I stand corrected 

Yes I do know a bunch of people who eat kitnoyis they say it’s mostly the same except they can have sushi...

TPBM Is going out of country in the next month

[Shard of Reading he/him]

Nope. I'm not really going to be going anywhere for a while. (I wonder why.... )

TPBM doesn't like daylight savings time.

[Random Bystander she/her]

6 minutes ago, Shard of Reading said:

Nope. I'm not really going to be going anywhere for a while. (I wonder why.... )

TPBM doesn't like daylight savings time.

Yes. Daylight savings time absolutely sucks.

TPBM has an allergy.

[Shard of Reading he/him]

10 minutes ago, Random Bystander said:

Yes. Daylight savings time absolutely sucks.

TPBM has an allergy.

Cats, and something seasonal. (It suuuuuuuucks)

TPBM thinks bunnies are the cutest animal.

[Kingsdaughter613 she/her]

1 minute ago, Shard of Reading said:

Cats, and something seasonal. (It suuuuuuuucks)

TPBM thinks bunnies are the cutest animal.

Bunnies are cute. Cutest... Baby kittens are cuter.

TPBM has owned a pet.

[Bejarden he/him]

2 cats...*sniff* One ran away the other died in a thorn bush somehow

TPBM Is terrified of dogs

[Trutharchivist he/him]

Not exactly, though I dislike dogs and sometimes fear them.

TPBM can say which animal they are like the most.

[Nathrangking he/him]

10 hours ago, Trutharchivist said:

Not exactly, though I dislike dogs and sometimes fear them.

TPBM can say which animal they are like the most.

I'm more a dog person.

The person below me thinks that Maror is a wonderful solution to clogged sinuses.

[Bejarden he/him]

I can see that happening...But I have not been through enough Pesach to have that (Though seriously how did you ever realize that)

TPBM Likes responding to these posts but has trouble writing TPBM

[Nathrangking he/him]

21 minutes ago, Bejardin1250 said:

I can see that happening...But I have not been through enough Pesach to have that (Though seriously how did you ever realize that)

TPBM Likes responding to these posts but has trouble writing TPBM

My fathers is most machmir on the Maror. We have seen its magic first hand. I don't really.

The person below me uses potatoes and parsley for karpas.

[Trutharchivist he/him]

Yep. Exactly. I eat only the potatoes, though. And for se years now we have a lot more vegetables for it - for example, we also bring cucumbers and tomatoes.

4 hours ago, Nathrangking said:

I'm more a dog person.

I'm not completely sure you understood me. I didn't ask which animal you like the most, I asked we animal you are like the most, which is to say, which animal you resemble the most, based on your personality. Should've been clearer.

TPBM did a Siyum lately. (Hopefully you understand what I mean.)

[Nathrangking he/him]

8 hours ago, Trutharchivist said:

Yep. Exactly. I eat only the potatoes, though. And for se years now we have a lot more vegetables for it - for example, we also bring cucumbers and tomatoes.

I'm not completely sure you understood me. I didn't ask which animal you like the most, I asked we animal you are like the most, which is to say, which animal you resemble the most, based on your personality. Should've been clearer.

TPBM did a Siyum lately. (Hopefully you understand what I mean.)

I did misunderstand. I don't know that there is one animal which I am most like. I have not had the opportunity recently.

The person below me has learned at least one seder of mishnayis straight through.