Covid-19: We don’t talk about 1-18

I thought a Rachel used turkey. That's what our local kosher deli does (no cheese, since it's kosher).

 

That's how America's conservatives roll. Like Sarah Palin becoming an advocate for special needs children after one was born into her immediate family.

 

politicians - everywhere - don't give a crap about people's problems until they become their own problems. at that point, the problem is the most urgent issue on their agenda.

years back the Premier of Ontario (Liberal Party) had said not a word about crime until a family member got mugged. from that point on he couldn't STFU about the laws being too weak.

 

Neat.....no consequence of course...




https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/07/16/coronavirus-live-updates-us/

 

Roast beef? Really?

Corned beef. Reubens are corned beef, sauerkraut, melted swiss cheese, thousand island dressing on rye.

I don't know if I will ever be able to look at you the same again.

 

Rest easy,citizen,The Director has been notified.
It's possible no one will be looking at him in any way again!

HAIL GRIMES!

 

He's in Seattle, bro. What they know about Jews is that other cities have them.*

* OK that's not at all accurate these days, but it sure was when I was raised there. And I don't know why Reubens are a Jewish deli thing, since meat + milk. Created by the wicked bacon-eating Jews, I suppose.

 

The goyim need to nosh too.This way they don't touch the knishes.

 

Everyone's was

 

So about that Ohio shut-down I posted about yesterday.

Not so much.

My (actually a friend's) source about this is someone who works in the governor's office. Said that DeWine was planning on announcing another shut down, but then got push-back l and backed down. Which isn't hard to imagine, since he folded in 24 hours to a similar push-back when he announced a mask requirement earlier in the year. I mean, why the hell do you schedule a state-wise TV announcement then announce, basically, nothing? The man is spineless.

To quote Chrissie Hynde: "A, o, way to go Ohio."

 

True....either turkey or pastrami. If turkey you get coleslaw instead of kraut. If you are in California all bets are off as to what you get.

Ps...personally I like my Reuben with a couple slices of beef tongue added.

 

Same with my town in Illinois. I didn't know an actual Jew until high school. I think there were two other Jewish students at the time in a school with 1400 students.

We also told Polish jokes. Then when I got to Chicago and met actual Poles and Polish-Americans... Jesus. They were, to a person, incredibly cultured and intelligent and cosmopolitan. Way more so than the average denizen of my small town who might tell a Polish joke. Now of course, there are small minded Poles of below average intelligence, but I didn't meet any of them in Chicago.

 

I'm interested in knowing what localities he's condemning to death. Regardless, I think that's going to backfire on him. There will be more White folks out at the bars and without masks

I would be accused of taking work home with me

 

I vividly remember when my little brother (probably seven or eight years old) told my grandfather a Polish joke. When my grandfather replied "You know, you're Polish" it was an amazing thing.

 

I wonder how much schoolyard language is different today. That wasn't a leading comment, because I do not know. That is why I wonder.

When I was in school, the Poles, Italians, and to a lesser extent blacks were on the receiving end of the jokes. I don't remember anything about Jews. They were theoretical, as with Anne Frank. Not somebody whom you would actually meet.

 

The hilarious thing, to me, is that I felt there were fewer jewish kids in Fort Collins than in Galesburg.

 

That's not really true. There are many that do care. TBH it's usually the voters that often don't care about other people's problems until they or someone they know experience them.

 

I went to (the last three years of) elementary school with tons of Jewish kids, but that was metro DC. In HS there were Jewish kids there, but I didn't know they were Jewish until later, save one. Her surname was a dead giveaway.

Weirdly, I did first and second grade at a Seventh-Day Adventist school and third at a Catholic school.

Even more weirdly, I can count on one hand the slurs or jokes I heard in middle or HS. But what I did hear was worse- the comments (posed as JAQ) from some tech-y incels about Black ability in math and science.

 

I heard Polish jokes while in elementary school but Poles or Polish descended people was largely theoretical. Of course these were white kids telling the jokes. I can't remember ever hearing a black kid telling one.

 

If I am making a "Rachel" w/turkey I am using kimchi instead of sour kraut.

Also I never put thousand Island/russian on my Reuben, it's not needed.

 

What we got from DeWine yesterday was akin to your father telling you "this is your last chance!" when you were a kid.

Shutdowns will happen in a week or two.

 

So, how are covid things going where you guys are?

Probably better than where I am, (with some notable exceptions, obviously), as where I live we have a bunch of crooks and clowns in charge...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...halt-randox-covid-19-tests-over-safety-issues

Of course, this is probably related to the fact that one of the guys associated with this firm is one Owen Patterson. 'Of whom do you speak?', I hear you all ask... 'Owen Patterson', I reply. He of 'The badgers moved the goalposts' fame...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-24459424

It turns out that such a man, (a keen brexiteer, you'll all be surprised to discover), is apparently almost as competent with a major pandemic as with every else he touches.

 

Growing up in Detroit, Poles are everywhere. There's Poletown in Detroit, Hamtramck, which was home to a large Polish population but has been mostly Middle Eastern and now hipsters, although there's still elements of Polish people there. Hamtramck is also where Detroit City plays, so on the walk to the ground, you'll see several stores in Polish and Arabic. Along with various Middle Eastern families hanging out. Most of the descendants of Polish immigrants live elsewhere now within Metro Detroit. Part of my family came from Poland about 120 years ago or so.

On top of that, there's a sizeable Jewish community, Albanian, Greek, Macedonian, pockets of Asian communities, and not to mention a large Middle Eastern population in Detroit. Some of them being Christian Arabs, others being Muslim. I went to school with several Middle Eastern kids and went to stores with my mom that sold Middle East specific ingredients. It was normal to see women wearing burquas doing grocery shopping growing up. Shit, even my Costco sells an entire Halal lamb, it's as southeast Michigan as it gets.

The only time I heard Polish jokes was in books I read or on TV growing up. I didn't appreciate Detroit until I explored some other cities and places that weren't LA, NYC, or Chicago.