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13coc1 | j3434 | 1,353,162,720,000 | What is the best habit you have developed in your life ? If you do things enough they become habits. There are good habits and bad ones. Some come on purpose ... some by accident. What is your best habit ? Did it develop by accident or on purpose ? | AskReddit | jewish |
13clze | jennym123 | 1,353,158,148,000 | NOTE: Please don't let this turn into a discussion about how Israel, Palestine or any thing related to the middle east sucks. This is about family. | AskReddit | jewish |
13clxm | magicgal86 | 1,353,158,056,000 | So I was just invited over my cousins to celebrate his engagment. The catch is he sent it to my mother where I was referred to as one of the girls. Now mind you my cousin is only 3 years older than me, and I am 25. And I have been living on my own (now with my bf of six years) in a different state even from my parents for over two years. So reddit... When do you/did you get treated like an adult finally? | AskReddit | jewish |
13ci81 | canisdormit | 1,353,148,273,000 | I am at a jack n the box. I pulled into the drivethru and I waited for, and I counted, 14 mnutes at the menu. Three others even pulled in behind me. Finally someone comes on the speaker and gruffly tells me, "you can't order because we are resetting our system." Ok, thanks for letting me sit here for 14 mins and dropping my mpg down by .1
I then pull up to the window to call the complaint number and guess what? "We are closed"
so now i am waiting and thinking that i should ge back in line and order a family meal and leave.
what would be the best menu items to order? I want to order things that likely will not be passed on quickly to someone else. So like orders without one ingredient or with something not normally on that item.
I have just a few minutes. what do you suggest? | AskReddit | jewish |
13cheu | twent4 | 1,353,145,995,000 | For the most part, redditors are very good at getting their points across succinctly and eloquently, so i wonder if it's because reddit attracts such people, or because we actively reshape each other's typing habits.
And yes, the derelict apostrophe in the title is bait, but I'm sure the irony alarm post will still rise to the top. Also, i am a condescending ass. | AskReddit | jewish |
13ceaq | savvysab | 1,353,138,496,000 | I just posted in r/realasians big mistake | AskReddit | jewish |
13ca5f | Moose2418 | 1,353,131,332,000 | So during a weight training class, these students are playing tag. so the kid who is "it" starts yelling at one of the participants "bet you won't slam the door on my finger to get away from me!" needless to say, he did slam the door on him and the tip of his finger got cut off and stuck on the door. I'll try to get a picture soon, If i know how to. | AskReddit | jewish |
13f6f6 | Yui108 | 1,353,282,341,000 | Oftentimes our beliefs on God are awfully nebulous. I'm thinking this should be an interesting way to both observe the beliefs of the reddit community, and even find out about our own beliefs by putting them to paper. If you want to get specific:
* Do you believe in God?
* What are your reasons for belief or lack thereof?
* What is your conception of the God you do or do not believe in?
* What sort of data or experience (if any) might cause you to change your belief? | AskReddit | jewish |
13f3ot | libyaitalia | 1,353,279,575,000 | Where? Why do you live there? How's the life like? I'd like to see redditors from far away lands. | AskReddit | jewish |
13et1s | swishmael612 | 1,353,269,223,000 | So I've obviously been exposed to mentally-challenged people in my life, either seen them or had them as classmates.
Today I saw a mentally challenged adult in the pool. He was acting like a child, I'm guessing maybe severe autism? I truly don't know. I just thought to myself that I really don't know anything about the lives of the mentally retarded.
Point is, 90% of mentally-retarded people I've been exposed to in any way, shape or form have been people my age or younger than me (children, etc.) What are the lives of mentally-challenged adults like? Are they taken care of their whole lives? Do they have any sort of jobs? Dating life? I'm really just clueless
**EDIT**: Apparently mentally-challenged or "those with mental retardation" is more acceptable than "mentally-retarded". Sorry guys, again was not trying to hurt anyone. Now I learned something. | AskReddit | jewish |
13erre | i_Am_susej | 1,353,267,958,000 | i have literally search google, looked in all subreddits for related and still cannot find a reddit that is something along the lines of cannot be unseen kind of thing.
thanks! | AskReddit | jewish |
13epn0 | carlos_mcmexican | 1,353,265,771,000 | I already watch top gear what else is there? | AskReddit | jewish |
13elzs | mrtenorman | 1,353,261,611,000 | Has someone ever tried to mug you, but you prevented it somehow? Self defense? Talking your way out? Tell me your stories! | AskReddit | jewish |
13el11 | truebastard | 1,353,260,480,000 | Two brilliant Wall Street quantitative hedge fund types discover an equation that can uncannily predict the market and then predict random human behavior and so society as a whole. | AskReddit | jewish |
13eddv | XyphonX | 1,353,249,311,000 | Still spoken - of course it's practically impossible to learn, for instance, the Assyrian language, or Ancient Egyptian.
Also, if it wasn't clear from the title, I'm not referring to programming languages, or any kind of language that isn't spoken daily between people. (Though if you can write a book about Brainfuck in Brainfuck, I would be impressed.) | AskReddit | jewish |
13ebne | iamPause | 1,353,245,793,000 | I see these often and think that it is just a great way for serial killers to get their next random victim. So has anyone actually used them and lived to tell the tale? | AskReddit | jewish |
13e42d | myusernameranoutofsp | 1,353,225,781,000 | I hear praise for Obama and Jack Layton for appearing passionate and being good people-persons, as well as criticisms of Stephen Harper and Mitt Romney for being robotic, strategic, and socially awkward.
If that matters to you, why? Their policy platforms are available to you, so are their likelihoods on following through with what they say, and various analyses explaining how much of their policies they would be expected to accomplish during their terms in office. Their platforms would probably be the most important of those three. Since you have all that, why does the compassion matter?
Follow-up question: Good actors would portray themselves as compassionate better than people who are regularly more caring and social. If you are judging people by their mannerisms, doesn't that create an environment that invites politicians who are good actors rather than good policy-makers? | AskReddit | jewish |
13e0wc | Paul-ish | 1,353,220,090,000 | Shopping around, a sheetfed scanner can be $400-$800, whereas a flatbed scanner may cost $50-$200.
I have wanted a sheetfed scanner for a while, because I don't want to babysit the thing while it is scanning, but the cost is so prohibitive. Does anyone know why things are priced the way they are? | AskReddit | jewish |
13dvq5 | TuriGuiliano | 1,353,213,203,000 | He's a god-awful singer and hilarity will ensue. I'm thinking [Roxanne](/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=td7_ZLWPaaE). Suggestions helpful though | AskReddit | jewish |
13dm3p | uriman | 1,353,201,508,000 | Reading up on an article on China's political elite it seems like large numbers of princelings "often hold Ivy League degrees." ^[1](http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/26/business/global/family-of-wen-jiabao-holds-a-hidden-fortune-in-china.html?pagewanted=all) I know that a lot of Middle East royalty also are the same. Are they all getting in due to merit or is it connections or donations? This is different from legacy admits where your parents got in so you get a shot. I am leaning against the merit side after NYT did another story on a princeling who got into Harvard, but did terrible at Oxford and whose tutors "remained unimpressed and refused to write him recommendations." ^[2](http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/17/world/asia/bo-guaguas-parties-and-privilege-aggravate-elite-chinese-familys-fall.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0)
As far as I know, this is not as relevant for those in US politics (Clinton at Stanford/Columbia, Kerry's daughter at Yale while only 1 of 2 of Bush's daughter's went to Yale).
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13dl21 | toucher | 1,353,200,235,000 | As we all know, Walmart employees are threatening to strike on Black Friday unless working conditions improve. Of course, Walmart stands to lose a lot of money and would have difficulty hiring replacements in that amount of time. Walmart also wouldn't want to face the PR nightmare that massive layoffs before the holidays would bring. Is it possible that they might keep their employees through the profitable holiday season, then quietly lay them off once it's over? There would be some outrage, of course, but not nearly as much as if it was before the holidays- customers would likely sympathize with the employees and would be angered by the impact to their shopping. Is it pessimistic or realistic to think that Walmart will merely placate their employees while it's financially beneficial? | AskReddit | jewish |
13dk30 | Finebeard | 1,353,199,079,000 | My friend thought of a way to make lights while driving change faster. It requires two people to do. Once at the light, have the passenger hop out, press the crossing button, and hop back in. Theoretically if the light is programed to let the left hand lane to the right go first, you should be able to go before them. | AskReddit | jewish |
13h5hq | Kramili | 1,353,366,489,000 | Sometimes I just feel like everything is surreal, and that everything is made up. I just feel like there is no such thing as reality. Usually this makes me feel really hyperaware of everything and self conscious, or that i'm crazy. Tell me i'm not the only one. | AskReddit | jewish |
13gz2y | apoeticturtle | 1,353,360,871,000 | The movie I speak of is "Oz: The Great and Powerful." | AskReddit | jewish |
13gw6e | aviyoung | 1,353,358,401,000 | As the title reads, I'd like something tumblr-esque where that many pics are easily viewed and has a simple layout. Do I host on flickr and link to tumblr. Kinda lost at the moment and could use some helpful advice. Thank you to whoever reads this. | AskReddit | jewish |
13gtrj | TheSolidState | 1,353,356,361,000 | I just did some searches with bing to test it to make sure I wasn't missing something amazing, but I'm really not; at least, I don't think so. | AskReddit | jewish |
13gseb | Battletechnerd | 1,353,355,181,000 | Considering the conflict is one of the most polarized in the world, it is interesting what other people have been taught on the subject. What have you heard/been taught? What often gets left out that you find important?
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13gs40 | writer85 | 1,353,354,940,000 | I always say I'm going to start meditating, but I never get my butt to any guided meditations in my area. Does anyone know of a good piece of audio I can listen to? I'm not picky about type. | AskReddit | jewish |
13grwy | yamfood | 1,353,354,762,000 | Hi Reddit!
OK so I've had no formal training in economics beyond high school stuff and some experience in the field of investing. Having read a lot of stuff on my own since graduating university, I find the Austrian school to be much more persuasive than the Keynesian or Monetarist ideas, but this may be because of selection bias (e.g. seeing what I can understand and makes sense to me rather than what is reality).
My understanding of Austrian analysis leads me to believe that the current foundations of the American currency are unsustainable, that this will lead to a massive collapse of the world economy because America's dollar is so important to other world currencies, and that government intervention will likely only make things worse going forward.
Would anyone care to poke holes in this theory as I understand it, or explain where I might be off in my analysis?
Thanks guys!
Reddit Rules!! | AskReddit | jewish |
13gr2w | TheMasque | 1,353,353,999,000 | I'm just about to start a job in the Civil Service, during my application phases I noticed I was a little out of my depth. some food for thought:-
1) Do you shake hands with women?
2) Do you shake hands when saying goodbye?
3) Do you start formal and become more familiar once you start the days work? Should I just behave in a consistent way with my manner? I'm quite an easy-going guy. | AskReddit | jewish |
13gojm | theguywithacomputer | 1,353,351,698,000 | I see all these things about them, but I don't know where to see these things for myself | AskReddit | jewish |
13gm1l | ShevaDas | 1,353,349,413,000 | Limitations: you can't erase the date of your birth or the date of your death. Whatever day you pick will be made as if it never happened. | AskReddit | jewish |
13gkgq | YouMad | 1,353,347,947,000 | The whole concept sounds ridiculous. | AskReddit | jewish |
13gkad | dem358 | 1,353,347,790,000 | I live in Amsterdam, this city is full of mice. My family was visiting me recently and they caught 4-5 little mice when they were here, and then the mice didn't come back for a while. They left and now they are back. I am sitting on top of my couch in the living room facing the kitchen (it is an open kitchen) and watching two small mice run between the back of the fridge and the guest room (I left the door of the guest room open). I don't have any traps and I am too scared to do anything.
Exterminators are coming to take care of it on wednesday morning, but what am I supposed to do until then? I need to go to the bathroom to take a shower, but I am too scared. The house is clean, no food anywhere, even the trash can is outside. I have nothing to attract them, yet they are here. Yesterday, I saw one and panicked and called an exterminator company to catch that one mouse I saw, but the guy practically laughed at me. And now they have doubled in quantity (I think).
So, does anybody know of anything I can do? I can't set up traps, since I don't have any and the shops are closed (didn't buy them, because didn't want to find dead, bloody mice to dispose of). Do you think they would come in to the bathroom if I went in there to take a shower? I am terrified.
EDIT: Sometimes, the mouse is trying to come out from behind the fridge, and whenever I see it, I inadvertently shriek and it goes back. If I put on some movies or something for the night, do you think that would make them stay put? When they aren't busy running back and forth in unbelievable speed, they look so tiny and scared. I hope I won't form an emotional attachment to them by the time exterminators come over to kill them. Right now, my fear is still stronger than any kind of pity I feel for them. | AskReddit | jewish |
13gjas | pansymarks | 1,353,346,833,000 | I'm on a tight budget this year but would like to give my friends and family some kick ass presents.
For your information, DIY means do it yourself.
There was a girl on here that made her boyfriend a zombie survival kit. Something cool like that? Something meaningful? Ideas?! | AskReddit | jewish |
13ggzf | SoflyE99 | 1,353,344,591,000 | I've been hearing a lot about David Petraeus sex scandal in the news but was surprised to not hear much about it on reddit. So reddit, what are your thoughts about this? | AskReddit | jewish |
13gf9r | GoNavy_09 | 1,353,342,920,000 | Original post by and_how asking men the same question can be found [here](http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/13g8cv/who_thinks_mens_gift_ideas_are_always_super_lame/).
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13g9a1 | workhardorhardlywork | 1,353,335,799,000 | I stole a suitcase from a friend while we were on a line to put them on our coach bus. Ran away and fell in the driveway, which was covered in sharp stones, I got a 2 inch gash on my knee, down to the bone. I didn't hurt, so i went to get a band-aid, blood overflowed it and it dripped on to my shoes and the bus floor. I went to the security guard who i thought was our medic . he bandaged it. 2 days later, turns out he isnt our medic, and he bandaged it incorrectly. our Real medic had to peel off bandage, which had become attached to the scab, therefore reopening the cut. It became infected, and she is giving me antibiotic spray 3 times a day for a week. I don't want stitches, and medic doesn't give me them. Now, 6 months later, it hasn't healed properly,and whenever I hit it against something by mistake, i get an excruciating pain, that causes me to cry out. **TL:DR: DONT STEAL YOUR FRIENDS SUITCASE WHILE ON A SCHOOL TRIP** | AskReddit | jewish |
13fyn9 | quirkyfemme | 1,353,314,394,000 | Redditors, especially in the sciences-did you leave a PhD program with your masters? Did it work out for the best or did you have regrets? | AskReddit | jewish |
13fu1p | dmyerty | 1,353,306,766,000 | I can also see sound. Handy for identifying waveforms in audio.
EDIT: Apologies for not ending with a question mark. | AskReddit | jewish |
13fssv | crazyjoo | 1,353,305,217,000 | I've been on reddit for the better part of three years and I can't fuckin figure it out!! That stupid elusive little blue line to the left of the text when redditors quote eachother is like the fucking impossible Simpsons game on the SEGA Genesis.
I finally broke tonight and had to ask.
Anyone else have an embarrassing bit of cluelessness when it comes to our fine home here on the internets? It would sure make me feel better. | AskReddit | jewish |
13frti | barakvesh | 1,353,304,004,000 | So my girlfriend is having her bottom wisdom teeth out tomorrow and is not happy about the idea - it's her first major medical procedure and she Doesn't Like Needles. We're watching Food Network and she starts having an anxiety freakout because it's weighing on her mind. I play the role of Good Boyfriend and during a quiet moment between us we hear a poorly planned Fisher-Price commercial come on television with a blaringly loud jingle. After a moment we both make the same wtf face at the teevee, look at each other, and break out in laughter for a few minutes. The mood was a lot better after that. | AskReddit | jewish |
13fqof | peabodygreen | 1,353,302,636,000 | He was completely clueless and gave the advice in a completely off-hand, sarcastic way. Low and behold, two weeks later, he finds out she actually did it.
So reddit, what advice you given that was sarcastic and obviously not meant to be taken serious actually taken seriously?
Edit: Yes, she did it. She came to him hysterical, and he rolled his eyes and said the first thing that came to his mind. | AskReddit | jewish |
13fp8s | Tylertc13 | 1,353,300,996,000 | I'm going to college next year, and am just curious as to what the people of reddit have majors and minors in.
I'm most likely going to major in Political Science and a minor in either Philosophy or English.
As for the reasoning: I know, other than politics and maybe teaching, there isn't much I can do with those choices, but I figure, if I am going to go to college, work incredibly hard to get into said college, and spend lots of money learning there, I may as damn well enjoy what I'm learning, and I absolutely love politics and political science, as well as philosophy.
So reddit, what about you? | AskReddit | jewish |
13fmuq | TraceeLeCanadian | 1,353,298,496,000 | I'm Canadian so of course ours would be a montage of everything we love to tell ourselves about our southern neighbors...George Bush, fat people (yes Canadians are just as fat but that doesn't matter here, this is propaganda we're talking about and it doesn't have to be true) We'd have Phelps, Romney, mormons, burning abortion clinics, and short clips of Americans saying racist statements.
And of course, a few clips of fat Americans boasting about beating us in hockey. | AskReddit | jewish |
13fhh2 | FreshmanYo | 1,353,293,190,000 | My college dorm Resident Advisor (RA) is checking everyone's room for illegal items tomorrow. Anyone have any funny ideas for things i can put in my room to freak out my RA. | AskReddit | jewish |
13ffxd | Ze_Carioca | 1,353,291,720,000 | She uses the liter box sometimes but has a bad habit of peeing on plastic bags, shoes, clothes, etc. It is not a health problem but a behavioral problem. How do we get her to stop? | AskReddit | jewish |
13fean | bryantheatheist | 1,353,290,128,000 | I've tried a lot of different things, but one thing that usually works for me is writing things down a bunch of times. | AskReddit | jewish |
13fd7x | LadyNerd | 1,353,289,017,000 | I consider myself somewhat knowledgeable on the creation of Israel and the history of Palestinians as an ethnic group, and with how convoluted that tale is, I can't understand Reddit's strong position on the matter.
I don't think it's a black and white matter where Israel is LITERALLY HITLER and Palestinians are noble savages.
It's a war over land and culture, one which is sustained by outside influences who benefit from the conflict.
With tyrants and maniacs populating the world, beheading their women for not adhering to their bronze age laws, I just can't understand the out of balance hatred for Israel.
I don't know... what's your opinion? | AskReddit | jewish |
13fd5n | Mellowde | 1,353,288,936,000 | I have browsed that subreddit for close to 5 months now. I don't get it, I can't seem to find the basis of a rational thought anywhere. The only thing I can compare it to is a better read version of the tea party. I was convinced at first it was me, but I'm really starting to doubt it. Can someone help me understand? | AskReddit | jewish |
13jbjj | pansymarks | 1,353,454,456,000 | I was on the highway with my friend last winter and she was not used to driving when the roads are slippery. Why I got in a car with her? I do not know. We hit a patch of ice and did a 360 spin almost hitting an 18-wheeler. Let's hear about a time when you could have died! | AskReddit | jewish |
13j5w1 | jennynyc | 1,353,449,225,000 | Going on a road trip from Philly to North Carolina. It's about 8 hours. I have a tablet, but with no wi-fi I don't see how I can use it. Any ideas or suggestions?? | AskReddit | jewish |
13j07n | Sharra_Blackfire | 1,353,444,492,000 | Or, what's the one you most hope to achieve? | AskReddit | jewish |
13izqu | kociorro | 1,353,444,065,000 | Can anyone tell me why when you mix the [quark](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quark_%28cheese%29) (which is rather solid and brittle) with dense honey, it suddenly becomes very fluid?
O_o
I imagine that it might be just the effect of mixing these two, but the effect (the *fluidness*) is much more intense than I would expect...
Any suggestions? :) | AskReddit | jewish |
13iyqe | po_t8_toe | 1,353,443,153,000 | I used to used demonoid and thepiratebay, but both seem to be a little sketchy lately. What is another fast/easy site to download from? | AskReddit | jewish |
13ivua | Iggy613 | 1,353,440,603,000 | My daughter is about to turn 13, and wants to make a facebook page. Many of her friends at school have them, and it is an important method of communication and socialization for them. Should I let her have one, and, more importantly, should I make her friend me so I can check up on her? She's a pretty good kid, and I'm not terribly worried about finding anything awful. | AskReddit | jewish |
13irq2 | rizzon | 1,353,437,040,000 | It would work like a phone that could call time instead of another location so nothing can be sent past this date, this is the furthest back you can send information.
A simple "hello world" or something else? | AskReddit | jewish |
13ipol | jamintime | 1,353,434,933,000 | Full story:
In 2008, I lost my phone and decided to use this opportunity to switch plans and numbers. Turns out, my phone wasn't just lost, it was stolen. Somehow, after I switched account and phones, the thief used my phone to make $70 in international calls. Because the account was closed, ATT decided not to bill me directly, but instead place the debt directly with debt collectors. Once I started receiving letters from debt collectors, I contacted ATT to ask what was going on and explain my situation. After resolving the issue, the debt collectors withdrew their claim and ATT absolved me of my debt (though they never provided me with documentation).
Fast forward to 2012. I'm trying to qualify for a loan to buy a house. Although I had excellent credit in 2008 and 2010, my most recent credit report dropped 150 points. The reason was this $99 debt reported by a dept collector last month. Apparently, ATT had sold this debt to them several months ago.
Having spent the last three hours talking to representatives from all parties, it is clear ATT never resolved my debt. Instead, they resurfaced it and sold it for collection even though it was resolved four years ago. Because they didn't make an official record of it, they are not willing to admit their faux pas in writing, which is what the debt collectors require to drop their claim.
In following up with the credit agency, they said that if I pay off the debt, I am conceding the charge and it will reflect poorly in my credit score for 7 more years.
TL;DR- ATT false debt claim has led me to be unable to qualify for a home loan for over a decade. | AskReddit | jewish |
13ipm0 | Albinoredguard | 1,353,434,859,000 | When my family gets together there are always family games of BS, spoons, Spades/Hearts, poker, apples to apples, Say Anything (this year to be added by yours truely), and multiple other fun board games. This invariably leads to good times, laughter, and a couple broken chairs in the case of spoons (fun story). So is anyone else from Reddit looking forward to playing some classics with their family? | AskReddit | jewish |
13iodf | P12oof | 1,353,433,717,000 | If this day causes so much trouble, why even participate? People fight, scream, kick, stampede for a stupid sale that will save them a little money so they can get their ungrateful materialistic children/spouses gifts. The better (more expensive) the gift is the more you seem to love a person in America... Why is it this way? why can't we say forget you Friday after Thanksgiving and just not participate? companies would lose there sh*t and probably drop the all year round price of their product. (just my guess). Please leave some input on why things got so bad (materialistic) in America... Why do people associate expensive gifts with love. Why can't we all just get together and spend time with one another like Thanksgiving for me. It's the only reason i seem to dread Christmas, the stupid you need to buy a gift for someone part. lets just make it into another Thanksgiving. who's with me? What's your Opinion? | AskReddit | jewish |
13in4q | YouMad | 1,353,432,593,000 | Black Americans tend to more quickly notice and call out someone's "corniness", best word I can describe it.
An example is when I was in a sociology college class, some Russian girl was talking about how her Russian culture was so rich and great.
The black people in our class immediately saw through both her douchey cultural-pride and her implication that non-Russian cultures sucked. They groaned or duck-laughed ... which made me laugh.
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13ikjd | Lard_Baron | 1,353,430,108,000 | English translation of the Pilots’ Letter:
"We, Air Force pilots who were raised on the values of Zionism, sacrifice, and contributing to the state of Israel, have always served on the front lines, and were always willing to carry out any mission to defend and strengthen the state of Israel.
"We, veteran and active pilots alike, who have served and still serve the state of Israel for long weeks every year, are opposed to carrying out attack orders that are illegal and immoral of the type the state of Israel has been conducting in the territories.
"We, who were raised to love the state of Israel and contribute to the Zionist enterprise, refuse to take part in Air Force attacks on civilian population centers. We, for whom the Israel Defense Forces and the Air Force are an inalienable part of ourselves, refuse to continue to harm innocent civilians.
"These actions are illegal and immoral, and are a direct result of the ongoing occupation which is corrupting the Israeli society. Perpetuation of the occupation is fatally harming the security of the state of Israel and its moral strength.
"We who serve as active pilots - fighters, leaders, and instructors of the next generation of pilots -- hereby declare that we shall continue to serve in the Israel Defense Forces and the Air Force on every mission in defense of the State of Israel."
(The letter was signed by 27 Israeli Air Force Pilots) | AskReddit | jewish |
13ik7g | jokoon | 1,353,429,790,000 | Well, I have little religious education, I live in france, and first I wanted to know how many americans have read the bible from school or other, and if it would actually enlarge my general culture to read it, or if it's 99% not worth it.
I'm not siding for religion or not, just asking if it's relevant in our time to read it or it, even I'm atheist/agnostic. | AskReddit | jewish |
13id3g | dumbchuck | 1,353,422,096,000 | Corporations everywhere are counting on you! | AskReddit | jewish |
13ibjv | hobbsrambo | 1,353,420,054,000 | my hypothesis is that you spin to the right or clockwise. Can anyone explain this ? | AskReddit | jewish |
13i9l7 | dzendian | 1,353,416,876,000 | For the first time ever, I watched up Gangnam Style. What's the big deal? But the big one on my list is that I've never seen Avatar (the blue people). I've been putting it off because people are nagging me. I tend not to do the things that people nag me about. | AskReddit | jewish |
13i8wk | rapmachinenodiggidy | 1,353,415,647,000 | she hasnt had much opportunity to spar properly for the fight so i've booked time in a local gym, i can't wait and she wouldnt thank me for taking it easy on her, let sexy battle commence | AskReddit | jewish |
13hx98 | _supernovasky_ | 1,353,392,958,000 | I have always been legitimately curious as to how people in other countries feel about us here in America, what perceptions they have of us, and how aware they are of our politics. I am generally a fairly politically aware American. I follow a lot of global politics, diplomacy, and foreign relations, but I can honestly say that I really couldn't name more than 5 political parties of any other government out of all of the other countries combined. I am geographically aware and can point out most countries on a map, but I don't know much about the internal divisions of most countries.
I then wonder, do many European, Asian, Australian, and other areas citizens, especially the internet-savvy ones that would be on reddit, know all of this about my country? I often wonder how people feel about my country, if they root on certain political parties and leaders, if they know most US states, etc. How much of an effort do you make to know about the different internal workings of the United States? None at all? Some? A lot?
I have never lived in a situation where I don't live in a country that feels that it is the most powerful and influential nation on Earth. It is a source of cognitive confusion for me... and I'd love to hear stories of what its like to live in another country and perceive America as an external force.
Thanks, and I look forward to hearing your stories, opinions, and experiences! | AskReddit | jewish |
13hx25 | alsorobots | 1,353,392,652,000 | My father at the time was suffering from extensive infections and hernias associated with repairs done to his midsection after a Vietnam War combat injury that involved a huge shell going off next to him and throwing him many feet in the air. It was like an instant infusion of shrapnel to his entire body. He's had over ten major surgeries but the most horrible memory I have is coming inside after playing with a friend of mine (I was seven years old) and seeing a huge kitchen bowl full of blood he had just vomited.
I've seen horrible accidents in which people were thrown off motorcycles, but I've honestly never witnessed anything so horrific it scarred me.
What's the most horrible thing you've ever witnessed? | AskReddit | jewish |
13hx07 | tmcart91 | 1,353,392,588,000 | I am in college, about to complete a major in engineering and management, and i have been offered a job as a technical salesman. I did AFROTC for two year but I was not accepted into the summer training program and had to drop the program (for financial reasons).
I sit here two years later looking back and thinking. If i had completed the program I would be making less money, in a less desirable location, possibly doing something i didn't want to do. Thus a bad thing (not being able to complete the AF ROTC program) turned into a good thing (getting the job offer of my dreams with Johnson Controls).
Reddit, anything like this ever happen to you??? | AskReddit | jewish |
13hwrf | Pendraggon | 1,353,392,277,000 | For me it has to be using a pencil while the lead is flattened to the base of the tip so it makes a horrid screeching sound. Absolutely annoying and cringe-worthy for me. | AskReddit | jewish |
13hwi4 | tmcart91 | 1,353,391,956,000 | I currently work as a technical salesman selling HVAC systems. I was at a job site (I am not allowed to give out too specific details per my employment contract) just checking up on progress when I realized the contractors were installing what I thought to be an incorrectly sized system. I approached them about it telling them I didn't think they had the right part and I asked them to hold off installing it so I could double check with their supervisor. I then proceeded to hunt her down.
When I finally found her I told her my issue which took about 2 seconds to explain. She then proceeded to explain to me why it wasn't her problem, why she couldn't change anything, and how I shouldn't be interrupting her work (which took about ten minutes). I then asked her if she could tell me which project engineer she was working under so I could go and speak with them and get the issue cleared up. Her answer was and I quote “How the hell should I know who the project engineer is, all I do is supervise the laborers”. What I actually heard was slightly different though, it was “Who me? I just wander from room to room.” (F.Y.I. the Project Engineer hires contractors personally and they all know the supervisors.)
Reddit, what stupid things have people said in the workplace? And what would you have liked to say back to them?
edited for grammar
Edit#2: I apologize for putting "edited for grammar" in the title it was a copy paste mistake from the text to the title. | AskReddit | jewish |
13hoj4 | alsorobots | 1,353,383,498,000 | We've all seen instances in films, comic books, novels, tv shows and every other medium where a brilliant villain is introduced that truly gives the hero a run for his/her money. However, from what I've seen, the hero always gets the upper hand.
I'm curious...if you suddenly had a vendetta against your favorite fictional hero...perhaps springing from your own personality, likes and dislikes that could bring down Superman or Batman...or James Bond...or even Neo, Jesus...perhaps even Dr. Manhattan...what would your plan be? Would you figure out a way to get powers or technology ? Perhaps you'd simply use psychology to confound and defeat your nemesis, but remember, this is your most beloved hero and the obsession to kill him must reflect that.
[Supervillains](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supervillain) are a staple of modern fiction, but it's always a very personal relationship with the hero, if a bit mirrored, sometimes even directly connected.
Pick your absolute favorite fictional hero (mine's Superman).
How would you, personally endeavor to defeat that hero. What would you become, how would your personality somehow morph into the instruments of his/her destruction?
**OH and you have to use your Reddit username as the name of your super villain persona**
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13hmyo | MiddleEastern | 1,353,382,035,000 | I speak to people and even when we serious i want to laugh why? | AskReddit | jewish |
13hisv | emr1028 | 1,353,378,358,000 | Personally, I think in the future, people are going to be looking at Radiohead, [Animal Collective,](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuLdCWnuTa8&feature=youtube_gdata_player) and the Black Keys as the finest music of this era. | AskReddit | jewish |
13he3w | Klumm | 1,353,374,195,000 | So at work (Mcdonald's) A guy handed back a toy from a Happy Meal, and asked a colleague to change it, she said that's the only one we have out, so he went away. She turned to me and said "We've had this toy for three weeks" I replied to her "Don't we have Hilda the Hippo upstairs?" She took this the wrong was as her name is Hilda, and the hippo is Gloria.
I genuinely thought the Hippo's name was H-something Hippo... and forgetting her name was Hilda, she thought I was calling her fat. I felt dreadful after. | AskReddit | jewish |
13hd6f | IthinktherforeIthink | 1,353,373,393,000 | This isn't a throwaway so I won't go into detail. I also don't want to offer my story and skew the responses. Have at it! | AskReddit | jewish |
13hd61 | Gentleman_Adventurer | 1,353,373,387,000 | I would cast a vote for older, obscure kids video games. Pajama Sam and the Zoombinis get a post about once a week in r/games. | AskReddit | jewish |
13hd33 | misingnoglic | 1,353,373,317,000 | I find that this is pretty interesting, I know that in english it's obviously "To play," but in Spanish it's "To Touch" (Tocar) and in Persian it's "To Hit" (Bezan). What word is it in your language? | AskReddit | jewish |
13h9et | justAregulard00d | 1,353,369,948,000 | Or other drugs, regularly, for that matter?
Asking because I saw an officer on Friday night who was HUGELY muscular, and it wouldn't surprise me if he was on the juice. So that got me wondering... | AskReddit | jewish |
13ld6f | esonge | 1,353,540,963,000 | Heard it on the Bugs Bunny and Tweedy Show and thought I should share it and hear your responses. Remember, the worst the punchline the better. | AskReddit | jewish |
13lcur | New_Post_Evaluator | 1,353,540,627,000 | I believe it's Michael Jackson. He is not only an iconic music superstar in his home country, but his music was incredibly popular worldwide. I'd imagine you could find MJ albums in even the most remote places. | AskReddit | jewish |
13lbtv | zipzap21 | 1,353,539,596,000 | My Aunt Jane has made Cranberry Goop every year for over 50 years! | AskReddit | jewish |
13l7g6 | kevkevverson | 1,353,535,464,000 | Thought I'd try a quality-control experiment. Rather than post YOUR 'most offensive' joke, post a good one that you've seen someone else post. The idea is each joke then has a double-stamp of quality and I get my hands on some offensive beauties.
To start the ball rolling, I saw someone post something like "how do you titfuck a five-year-old? break her shoulders". Whoever you are (I can't find the post) I salute you.
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13l516 | emr1028 | 1,353,533,250,000 | The average Palin child has 46.2 chromosomes | AskReddit | jewish |
13l1pt | alphasci | 1,353,530,322,000 | Say Christopher Columbus actually reached India, rather than stumbling upon the Americas. Would the Native Americans have had prospered to be comparable to the Chinese culture? Would English and Indian persons mingled and started revolutions against the British based in India?
What if the actual geography was different; say the Atlantic ocean was only 30 miles wide, or what if all the land was based around the equator?
What if instead of the ratio between water and land being 70 x 30, was 30 x 70?
What if the first humans originated in what we know as the Midwest of the US?
I am interested to hear your theories.
edit: I forgot s's | AskReddit | jewish |
13l11g | zeshtorm | 1,353,529,726,000 | No, I'm not going to be one of those people that makes an askreddit just to tell their story. I'm all ears for yours, though. | AskReddit | jewish |
13ku0d | OferZak | 1,353,523,354,000 | Like were you at a party of jugaloos or satists, and you just met some hot chick or dude that just wanted to bang? | AskReddit | jewish |
13kkp7 | mynameisjoejoe | 1,353,514,935,000 | also, if he writes it in 32-bit won't it still work on 64-bit macs? | AskReddit | jewish |
13ket6 | gwvent | 1,353,508,408,000 | Nobody meaning on the entire planet and after a year, people would start having kids again. | AskReddit | jewish |
13kd44 | writer85 | 1,353,506,019,000 | It may be naive, but my goal in this thread is to open up a dialogue between redditors who are Israeli and redditors who are Palestinian to create a civil debate during a time when there is such chaotic violence outside of reddit. I'd like to hear personal views about the main tenets of each side's argument. Please upvote people's opinions, it does not matter if you agree or disagree, but please downvote any obviously uncivil statements. | AskReddit | jewish |
13kc29 | pumper911 | 1,353,504,388,000 | Inspired by a comment I saw yesterday where a user mentioned that you can get an employee discount with Radisson hotels if you use CARLSONF (you just have to mention the employee name and location).
What else you got Reddit? Any relatively unknown coupon codes, tricks you have, etc. | AskReddit | jewish |
13kbzk | Kosher_salt | 1,353,504,254,000 | I don't want this to become a pro-Israel or pro-Palestinian thread.
Before people get confused, I am distinguishing (as should everybody) between Hamas and the Palestinians.
You can be pro-Palestinian and anti-Hamas.
(If it helps, Hamas is on the listed of recognized Terrorist organizations in the US and elsewhere). | AskReddit | jewish |
13k5fp | parislovestory | 1,353,490,182,000 | I'm an au pair for a 7 year old boy who spends his life fake crying, whining, refusing to do anything (go to the park, library, eat new foods ect), he's also frightened for a lot of things, for example dogs and cats (despite me showing that the animal is friendly). It hit me how bad he is this morning as he cried because while putting Nutella on bread, the bread broke and he cried for 10 minutes. I don't think that's normal.
I understand he's only 7 but his 5 year old brother is more mature... I also understand it's hard for a child to grow up with nannys and au pairs rather than having parents around, his mum also getting very frustrated with his behavior but isn't sure how to correct it. | AskReddit | jewish |
13k08a | DeepBlue12 | 1,353,480,809,000 | I'm hungry. | AskReddit | jewish |
13jzjw | yaakov | 1,353,479,853,000 | This morning at 5:20am (my 7th Cake Day!), I was woken up by sirens wailing, warning of an impending missile attack (launched at my community by our friends in Gaza). Sounds [something like this](http://youtu.be/_-wETUOJDmc). Kids had been sleeping in our secure room (so we wouldn't have to move them in case of a siren) and they didn't even wake up from it. After the too-close, very loud explosion (haven't heard more about it, so I assume it landed in a nearby field), couldn't get back to sleep (unlike my alarm clock - no snooze button on the siren).
Have you been woken up in an unforgettable way? | AskReddit | jewish |
13jycg | IIIIIbarcodeIIIII | 1,353,478,189,000 | None of this vague crap.
I want bullet points, people! | AskReddit | jewish |
13jrpr | Clayburn | 1,353,470,620,000 | Go on. | AskReddit | jewish |
13joi1 | libertasmens | 1,353,467,265,000 | Basically you get to get into the head of any one person; no coercion or torture, they tell you anything and everything that you want to know. | AskReddit | jewish |
13jnok | Hunchmine | 1,353,466,401,000 | I wanted to share something with the throwers of those leaflets.
A leaflet I found ..... a leaflet ABOUT Gaza
For a long time we could have been stating Gaza is world’s largest open air prison. A concentration camp. Besieged by land, air and the sea. Unilateral limited further and further every day. Shrinking the space and air it breaths. And even that has become a danger.
We can no longer talk about a concentration camp if we talk about Gaza. Gaza where 1.7 million people are living caged, controlled beyond even their basic needs. Imposed by a blockade and every day awakening in a battle and insecurity not even knowing, what will be next. What will be, the new ways not in which to survive, but the news ways of occupation which it has invented to overcome as well.
Gaza has become an extermination camp.
With no place to run to the warmongering Zionist entity commits annihilation not with gas chambers but managed to be more lethal with more advanced killing substances.
Not like Jewish people were shaved, undressed and gassed in special designed murderous shower rooms. In Gaza, no need to undress nor to shave no remains will be left after Israel is finished with you.
One difference with the Holocaust is Palestinians in Gaza do not get looted before they get killed like in Auschwitz. But this, is merely because there is nothing left to rob but lives.
Lives, taken every day in targeted killings, extrajudicial executions by F16′s, navy ships, tanks and even with remote control like it would be some kind of a game. No eye to eye contact like in the Holocaust, the last blink in the eye of the lined up soldiers, ready to shoot the Jews lined up in a row. Shortly before they had to turn their face to the wall. Yet there is no time left anymore to turn your face in Gaza where even walls are made to fall down to kill. On your child in it’s bed.
Children, which are called human shields by Israeli occupation. As an excuse to justify there were slain civilians and children, babies and even the unborn. With the excuse “We did send you a leaflet…” , “We told you to go…“ Where do you go when you are sealed in the chains, suffocated by a siege, limited by the bullets of snipers if you even get close. There is no safe place in Gaza.
Not even the cradle of your baby is safe. For if the occupier decides to invade, it targets the “human shields” even if aged under one year in their beds. Shoot them, point blank and at short range in their hearts and their heads. (1)
When they rounded up children in the Stags of Death. Some managed to escape. Mothers, hiding their children in the toilets of the barracks. Drenched in their own waste. In fear hiding to be discovered. How world did you forget. How world can you be blind, not even a waste tank in Gaza would protect your child. Worse than the Warsaw ghetto has been ever before. (2)
Warsaw Ghetto, commemorated every year. As well as it’s 83,000 Jewish victims who died of starvation and disease. Where widespread smuggling of food and medicines into the ghetto supplemented the miserable official allotments and kept the death rate from increasing still further. And even little weapons where smuggled in. For self-defense. But Gaza not seems to have the rights for it’s defense in it’s annihilation camp. Silenced and bombed even smugglers and their goods are targets like never before.
Not only bullets, bombs or shells do kill. “Israel” learned from it’s experience with Nazi extermination tactics and only improved those to a level which would make any Nazi shine of pride. The new weapon of mass destruction for which the seeds were planted by Nazi Germany: Deprivation have even been lifted up to a level on which Nazis would not only be proud by they would have been jealous. Deprivation. The same deliberate deprivation which caused 1 in 6 Jewish people to die during World War II is now silently agreed by this world on imposed on the people of Gaza. “Israel”, became exactly that and worse than those it feared and hated once themselves.
Even when medications and food would be able to enter to keep the death rate from increasing; there does not even exist no ‘panacea’ nor ‘snack’ to prolong lives against the arsenal of biochemical and nuclear weapons of mass destruction (3) which Israel is testing on Gaza. (4) Causing death even long after they were deployed. Alongside the daily shelling and bombings which never ended. Not even a truce. Because there never has been one at all. (5)
Deliberate deprivation is the largest genocide by Israel so far after over 77 violent aggressive massacres. Genocide in a passive way which would not be noticed so fast. A silent murderer which has caused over 0,5 million Palestinians to die so far of which 0,3 million aged under 5. Deliberate deprivation knows no truce even if there has ever been one, nor during a one day holding cease-fire. Excess death also knows as avoidable mortality kills on like a clock which is ticking away the time, Israel’s deprivation of basic needs is ticking away Gaza’s lives.
Gaza where the water has been made unfit for consumption. (6) Where dams are opened by the occupier to flood people even out of their homes and empties it’s own sewerage on Gaza’s lands . Where 95% of the drinking water is causing waterborne diseases. Where you baby get’s the blue baby syndrome from drinking it’s bottle of milk. If not that way, probably your mother’s breasts will feed you depleted uranium remnants left behind. Mothers, trying to feed their children who more often already are born with birth defects due to the imposed pollution and poisoning.
Gaza where the food entering is measured by the calories. (7) “Generously” Israeli media dishes you the news of the day how many trucks entered the besieged strip. They forgot to send you the “leaflet” about the starvation policies for which it even went to Supreme Court to prevent them from leaking out. So you won’t know every single soul in Gaza get’s the calories to barely survive. Not enough to die of starvation but slowly reduce your health, immune system combined with a wide scale of numerous measurements to cause your death or at least create sickness the slow way. So it won’t be obvious you we’re killed by deprivation. So your name won’t show up on the body count. Maybe, maybe if you are lucky, you will be one of the numbers in future statistics. In which numbers and figures are compared to demographically similar circumstances and other statistical data. But hence, even if you do, there is no comparison possible to the reality which is those of Palestinians living in Gaza.
Gaza, where if you do get ill by all these external influences imposed unvoluntarily on your life, your body, that of your child, your mother, father or your brothers or sister, becomes another new mean of annihilation. You didn’t receive the ‘leaflet’ with the announcement of the new Treblinka. (8) Palestinians, being forced to collaborate with their enemy, their assassting to receive medical health, or if not, restricted by not receiving a permit to obtain likewise somewhere else. Encaged and deprived. A stamp on your application you did not comply. Your death sentence on a form.
An unseen and silenced battle against a crime of war. An ignored and appalling reality which is going on every day. Murdering people by depriving the means to keep them alive. Killing people not directly, not even remote, but just deliberate deprive them of a 12$ dialysis filter and cause their own bodies to poison themselves. Or because of a lacking syringe of no 60 cents. That is how much a life became worth in Gaza.
Gaza, where your mother with cancer can receive surgery but they can not commence. The drugs needed to prevent complications are withheld from you. Gaza, where you send your child or your husband to the pharmacy every day to check if they arrived. To find the empty shelves and you return back home in desperation watching your mother, your child forced to die. Slowly. It is no murder it is torture. Ethnic cleansing Israelis style: Starve them, shoot them, than give them cancer. (11)
Gaza, where Physicians are expected to achieve miracles with nothing. Where at some times in the past years even these surgeries which are possible had to be canceled. Because no anesthetics available to make one “sleep”. Where in 2009′s Cast Lead massacres legs were amputated without sedation because there was no more morphine. Gaza where amidst the crisis and ongoing attacks, limbs where thrown on a heap in emergency rooms. Many slaughter houses have more dignity (12)
Gaza, where stranded International physicians Like Dr. Mads Gilbert (13) in the war kissed the head of a new martyred child. Without power, without means but foremost without a “leaflet” with a prescription for this world to take care.
Gaza, where your father will be suffocating because the power went down and his life sustaining breathing machine or your baby’s incubator halts to function. 18 hours a day no power not even to sustain that which is already in danger. For a power plant does not function without the blocked fuel it needs, to light up the houses, to warm or cool the rooms, but also to sustain those who are suffering to make them suffer even more. Not only them but imagine it’s you. And imagine, how your loved ones push manual air if necessary 24 hours a day into your lungs. To keep you alive because they do not want to loose you. What are they going through. You missed that ‘leaflet’ from Gaza too?
Gaza, where water pumps are halted by lack of power. Not only stopping all to take a shower but reducing the most basic need and human right of all: water. The most important substance to survive. Slowly but steady, occupation stealing 85% of possible resource of water or at least if it is no well to bomb or pond to poison, your smuggled bottles of water do get bombed in the tunnels of Gaza along to those risking their lives to get them in get killed in the same effort.
Don’t tell me “never again” nor “Wir haben es nicht gewusst”. Czerniaków wrote in his diary entry for May 8, 1941 regarding the situation in the ghetto of Warsaw: “Children starving to death.” Even if you did not get the ‘leaflet’ from Gaza, 1.7 million people are starving, made sick, assassinated, polluted, exterminated by all means possible and even those you would not imagine at all.
While the drones replaced the birds, you missed the flyer and the cry of the children of Gaza. When all drown in darkness again and a brother even starts writing a letter to his Unborn Children (14) the propaganda make the buzz louder than all drones and all birds in this world which made your deaf for the silence. A silence without prejudices nor lies in which you would be able to hear the devastating weeping of the hearts. But the leaflet did fall on Gaza to leave while an oppressor caused you to turn blind for it even if you would read, you ears became selective, deaf and your heart seemed to be shut too. And your eyes when you turn your head on your cushion at night and pull up the blanket of ignorance some more people in Gaza sleep with an open window to prevent them get killed by implosion of a screen at the next bombing which comes unseen. Even without a leaflet.
To sleep. And you wake up while this renewal of life in Gaza means I survived. Again. Until the next time the darkness of the city really turns into death again (15) like last week. When Israel slain 27 lives in targeted assassinations. A child while walking to his school. An old man sleeping. A young man who just married two days before. And while we ‘speak’ the wounded which survived still suffer in hospitals, with no power. In any imaginable way.
WILL CONTINUE IN COMMENTS
also- I'm not in Gaza
from user on twitter @occpal | AskReddit | jewish |
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