On 4/28/2024 at 11:58 AM, Rudynate said:

I worked for a kosher caterer.  Most of our jobs were at an affluent orthodox synagogue...  They had a huge main kitchen that was ultra-kosher - actually two separate kitchens - meat and dairy. But [it] was so big that they had... satellite kitchens - which were kosher enough - a single kitchen with meat on one side of the kitchen and dairy on the other.  But the satellite kitchens weren't kosher enough for Passover - during Passover, they were closed and locked - nobody could go in them.

7 hours ago, ShortCutie7 said:

@pubic_assistancein my experience “kosher-style” means that the restaurant or catering hall follows all of the basic rules of what “kosher” means except for the way the animal is killed and the presence of a mashgiach/rabbi.  A kosher-style deli would not be actually kosher but would not serve dairy, shellfish, or pork.

2 hours ago, pubic_assistance said:

Like I said before .."kosher" is a religious practice, not a fashion choice.

Either you are or you are not.

There is no kosher-esque.

1 hour ago, ShortCutie7 said:

I agree with you- I’m not the one who created the term; just saying that it is a term that restaurants and venues use.  At my own bar mitzvah, the catering hall described itself as kosher-style.  I agree that it is bullshit and have learned from orthodox people that there are no levels of kosher… a salad prepared in a non-kosher kitchen is no more kosher than bacon-wrapped shrimp with cream sauce.

Kosher-adjacent?

Nolan "The Adorable One" Arenado.

The Miami Marlins' CF is Jazz Chisolm.  I keep thinking he'd have a great preppy porn star name: Chaz Jism.

43 minutes ago, Luv2play said:

It would be interesting to see how he acts

He's not horrible.  But I'm only mildly surprised he wasn't nominated for an Oscar.

43 minutes ago, Luv2play said:

in film that did not require him to take off his clothes. 

Let's just say there was no full-frontal.  After all, this was not an IMAX film.

28 minutes ago, Luv2play said:

We all went down in the elevator together and he wished me a pleasant evening. 😋

Cock tease!

2 minutes ago, WilliamM said:

How is his RBI and runs scored total?

I'm guessing not adorable ?

1 hour ago, pubic_assistance said:

I never cared much for my family's bland middle-America cuisine...and it's always difficult when I visit to find a decent restaurant that doesn't serve that. 

That's why you should stop at a supermarket along the way and pick up a few packages of hot dogs & some buns, so the kinfolk can just stay home & grill them up. 

Bring a portable grill if they don't have one.

22 hours ago, WilliamM said:

Nolen Arenado has belted one home run this season while battling 271

And he is still usually in the St Louis line up

Horrible 

Nolan Arenado’s record-tying streak of 10 consecutive Gold Gloves ended last season, when he was not even one of three finalists for the National League award at third base. This season, though, Arenado is deriving new motivation from a surprising source — the player next to him in the St. Louis Cardinals’ infield, rookie shortstop Masyn Winn.

“To be honest, playing with him makes me want to step up my fielding,” Arenado told me on Friday. “He goes hard for everything. Not that I don’t, but after last year the way I fielded, I see him getting after it. And I’m like, yeah, man, I need to get back to that.

“He brings energy. Watch him. He’s constantly talking to the pitcher: ‘Let’s go. You got this guy. Nasty pitch!’ I’m like, man, I used to do that when I was a young player with the Rockies. I kind of slowly got away from it. Now I’m like super quiet.

“He’s constant energy. You feed off it. Some teams might think he’s talking trash. But he’s really just talking to the pitcher all the time. It’s pretty cool.”

There have been a few famous examples over the years of porn stars 'crossing over' to act in mainstream movies, but I recently came across an even more ambitious endeavor...

In 2015 Antonio Biaggi co-starred in and co-produced Chasing Pavement, an 82 minute movie available on Prime.

He appears for about 10 minutes, starting at the 21 minute mark, then again at a dinner party later, then has one final scene after that. (I zipped through it.)

Here's a brief interview:

21 minutes ago, Lucky said:

In the desert, home to so many retirees, seeing a "hot" young guy is a rarity. So enjoy Chelsea!

you just have to change your definition of 'young' to under 70.

15 minutes ago, ShortCutie7 said:

Walking around Chelsea this morning, in today’s warm weather, I saw dozens of guys I would describe as “very hot”

were they all too stupid to go inside where it's air conditioned?

On 2/11/2024 at 11:58 AM, samhexum said:

 

A lawsuit filed against Forest Hills Stadium is calling for the operators to stop holding concerts at the historic open-air venue, citing a deterioration in the quality of life for nearby residents. 

On 2/12/2024 at 12:10 AM, BenjaminNicholas said:

It would be a fucking shame to see these residents kill this and then end up with shitty urban sprawl instead.  FHS is a unique venue and one I've loved for a long, long time.

NYC judge muffles concerts at Forest Hills Stadium over noise complaints from neighbors

Supreme Court Justice Joseph Esposito agreed that the racket from the venue — and wandering concertgoers — was a legitimate nuisance for neighbors, and ordered the venue’s overseers to put a lid on it following a lawsuit filed by the Forest Hills Garden Corp., a local civic group.

32 minutes ago, WilliamM said:

Yeah, right 

I had a summer job 

 

Did you 

Yes...  being born 2 1/2 weeks later.

5 minutes ago, WilliamM said:

she died in 1962. I was freshman in college 

is that supposed to be your alibi?

8 hours ago, samhexum said:

Break up the Chisox!!!
 

TWO WINS IN A ROW!!!

THREE!!!

If the Marlins can hold on to lose the game they led 7-0 after 2, the Sox will have gone from worst to next-to-worst.

DEAR ABBY: My boyfriend is 18 years younger than I am. Our relationship hasn’t been perfect, but I love him to death. Unfortunately, I’m going through menopause and have all the side effects. Long story short, he found another girl. It was just supposed to be for sex, and he told me he wouldn’t get into another relationship or marry anyone but me. Well, he fell for her, which I warned him he was going to do.

They are both at my apartment. I’m trying to make him happy by allowing this, but he can be so mean to me, and he’s so nice to her. He tells me how nice she is, etc. I told him it’s because he hasn’t hurt her yet. He won’t have sex with me now. He claims he isn’t favoring her, but he is.

I love him so much, and don’t want to lose him. I’m in so much pain because I can’t please him in every way. I don’t know what to do. Should I allow this and try to make it work, or should I give up since it seems like he has given up on me? — CAN’T STOP CRYING

DEAR CAN’T STOP MRS. ROBINSON IDIOT: Let me get this straight. Your much younger boyfriend and his new girlfriend live in your apartment (rent-free), and he no longer makes love with you. What are you getting out of this charade besides pain?

If I thought it would help, I’d advise you to stick it out and hope his romance will blow over. But I can’t — because whatever respect and gratitude he felt for you is gone. The pain you are experiencing will end only when you find your self-respect SAWED-OFF SHOTGUN and usher the two lovebirds out the door. For your own sake, please do it soon.

DEAR ABBY: I am SUPER outgoing ANNOYING! Always have been. I can walk up to anyone and start a conversation EVEN AS THEY TRY TO RUN AWAY FROM ME. As I’ve gotten older, I’ve noticed that many people have no personality. UNLIKE YOU, CONDESCENDING BITCH? During the pandemic it became exponentially worse. Neighbors don’t speak. People look at their phones every waking minute and have lost their conversational skills. It is pathetic A WAY TO AVOID MAKING CONTACT WITH A CONDESCENDING BITCH.

I don’t know people’s backgrounds or interests just by looking at them. I’m smart, but I’m not telepathic. If people don’t know how to simply say “hi” or “good morning,” something is wrong! COVID shut things down. But if you weren’t friendly before the pandemic, how are you going to be five years from now? Humanity is doomed if we don’t interact. — FRIENDLY IN THE EAST

DEAR FRIENDLY: The COVID disruption may have contributed to what you are describing, but it had been building for at least the past 20 years. As people became more and more fixated on their electronic devices, the ability to look someone in the eye and converse withered.

If you don’t look someone in the eye and communicate in person, the ability to read social cues withers and is eventually lost. I believe this has caused much of the isolation and loneliness we are experiencing in our society. If we are going to fix this, people will have to teach themselves to unplug and reach out to the people around them. Making the time to exchange social amenities as simple as smiling and saying, “Good morning,” is an easy place to start. I’M GUESSING YOU NEVER GET INVITED TO PARTIES A SECOND TIME.

I fessed up to cheating on my expenses and got fired — is this fair? HELL YES!!!

I cheated on my expense report, and expensed a meal that was personal. I felt guilty and afraid I’d get caught, so I confessed, apologized and reimbursed the company. My boss thanked me for being honest, then fired me for stealing and is denying me unemployment benefits. Any advice for how to appeal the denial of benefits?

I applaud you for wanting to make it right, and if you were a strong performing employee who never committed any company violation or received disciplinary action I think many employers probably would not have fired you. It’s not as if “creative” expenses never happen. Reach out to your former employer and plead for leniency. Tell them that you understand their decision and losing your job over the cost of a meal was stupid, but given that you came clean when they likely never would have known, and reimbursed them, would they consider letting you to collect unemployment to help you get back on your feet, with a lesson learned. OFFER TO SUCK HIS DICK IN RETURN. HOPEFULLY HE TAKES YOU UP ON IT AND YOU CAN BLACKMAIL HIM. YOU’RE ALREADY A THIEF, SO WHY NOT, RIGHT?

I’m a small business owner forced to pay my staff $16 per hour. Can I pay my staff off the books instead and put more money in their pockets that way, rather than take out taxes?

I applaud your altruistic motive to put more money in the pockets of your employees, since I’m sure that the savings for you have nothing to do with this strategy… However, you are creating legal and financial problems for yourself and potentially your employees, too. Violating federal and state labor laws is not the answer. No one wants to deny anyone from earning a livable wage; however, there are unintended consequences that have to be considered too. Will you have to raise prices to offset your rising costs, and will that drive business down and put at risk the employment of the very people the laws were designed to help? And if you don’t pass on the rising cost, will that put the business in jeopardy? It’s hard being a small business owner and they are an engine for job creation in the economy. The only advice I can offer is to stay on the right side of the law and provide a great customer and employee experience. A MORON AND AN ASSHOLE, AND I AM FORWARDING YOUR LETTER TO YOUR STATE’S LABOR BOARD SO THEY CAN MONITOR YOU FOR SUSPICIOUS ACTIVITY.

Underground terror Creepy dungeon discovered behind door inside home for sale: ‘Something from Criminal Minds’

10 minutes ago, Welshman said:

My personal assistant is trying to convince me that the addition of onion and / or garlic to a meal is a perfectly natural thing to happen, despite me telling him that spiced tomato crisps make my mouth feel warm, therefore all these TV cooks doing it as well get on my wick!

@Rudynate Posted February 18, 2023:

I used to work for a tech company in Fremont-there were quite a few Filipino restaurants in the area where we had lunch. My favorite was a rice congee with chicken.  It was always topped with lots of sautéed garlic and onion.

On 4/26/2024 at 11:25 AM, samhexum said:

Dude, do you think anyone has noticed how horrible we are?

Break up the Chisox!!!
 

TWO WINS IN A ROW!!!

On 4/25/2024 at 8:54 PM, EZEtoGRU said:

I was at a nice Jewish Deli today in the downtown area of Ft.  Lauderdale. It’s called The Top Hat. I’ve been multiple times in the past and have always enjoyed it. Today I had the Matzo Ball Soup (Excellent!)  and a nosh plate of Mac N Cheese. Nothing on the menu suggested the Mac N Cheese would be served with some spicy kick to it…and being a Jewish Deli I certainly didn’t expect it. But it was spicy. 

Was this you (sort of)?

On 4/26/2024 at 6:36 PM, ShortCutie7 said:

What’s surprising to me is that a Jewish deli would have Mac and Cheese at all!

What’s surprising to me is that you could find a Jewish deli at all!  They are on the critically endangered list in NYC.

13 hours ago, EZEtoGRU said:

Really?  I've been to many Jewish Deli Restaurants that offered Mac & Cheese...useually as a side dish.

Have many of them been in the last decade?  (see comment above)

3 hours ago, Rudynate said:

It seems like a Jewish deli could serve mac and cheese and keep kosher.

They could always have 2 kitchens & 2 dining rooms, & serve you one dish in each.

3 hours ago, BSR said:

I used to play tennis with a Puerto Rican guy who

had the most amazing ass that I would have devoured, whether or not it was kosher... except maybe on Passover.

2 minutes ago, marylander1940 said:

Thank you @samhexum

I aim to please!