S/O what naive thing have we all done lately?

amother

↑ Dimgray

Fri, Feb 23 2024, 11:24 am

or girls saying that they have a 'crush' on another girl.

this was very common in my HS - I thought it was so weird

amother

Sage ↓

Fri, Feb 23 2024, 11:32 am

LovesHashem wrote:

Yeah that confused me greatly too. Also why gay was banned. I read it in the secret garden and wanted to use it and show off my great vocab skills.

In a poem assignment in 7th grade, I used the word gay as happy. The principal crossed off that word, and changed it to glad. I had no idea why and it didn't rhyme anymore.

We also read The Secret Garden in class that year, come to think of it.

amother

↑ Hawthorn ↓

Fri, Feb 23 2024, 11:35 am

amother Sage wrote:

What's the shaychus with Secret Garden?

CPenzias ↓

Fri, Feb 23 2024, 11:36 am

amother Hawthorn wrote:

Israeli woman walked into a Linen shop asking for 'sh*ts'. Her way of pronouncing sheets.

They pronounce beach as b***h 😆 🤣

amother

↑ Hawthorn

Fri, Feb 23 2024, 11:38 am

CPenzias wrote:

They pronounce beach as b***h 😆 🤣

Oy they really gotta practice their 'ees'

amother

↑ Hunter ↓

Fri, Feb 23 2024, 11:39 am

amother Cornsilk wrote:

Lol I had a classmate say that too
We were all stunned

I did that in 6th grade I dont want to see

Still feel dumb 30 years later and haven’t forgiven my mother for “waiting for me to ask.” This wasn’t in a chassidish school so most kids knew already but I was still living in my own world.

amother

↑ Sage

Fri, Feb 23 2024, 11:40 am

amother Hawthorn wrote:

What's the shaychus with Secret Garden?

One poster said she learned the word gay, from reading The Secret Garden, which I think she meant they used it in the book, as word for happy.

↑ fellowjew

Fri, Feb 23 2024, 11:47 am

amother Sage wrote:

We used the expression happy and gay all the time! how embarrassing.

amother

Lightyellow

Fri, Feb 23 2024, 11:53 am

I think words like gay and sx are not a problem or embarrassing to use. They have two meanings
No?

↑ CPenzias ↓

Fri, Feb 23 2024, 11:58 am

In seminary one of the British girls shouted "does anyone have a rubber?"
Everyone laughed including the teacher. Then in her most American accent she said "I mean an eraser"

amother

↑ Foxglove ↓

Fri, Feb 23 2024, 1:03 pm

amother Lightyellow wrote:

I think words like gay and sx are not a problem or embarrassing to use. They have two meanings
No?

Yes for the word sx, which is the only word for sx, but no for gay, there are a lot of words that mean "happy" so it's a word we can do without.

amother

Buttercup

Fri, Feb 23 2024, 1:15 pm

amother Hawthorn wrote:

Dh knows someone Simcha D*ck
Poor guy! Hiding

I know who he is too

↑ CPenzias ↓

Fri, Feb 23 2024, 1:24 pm

amother Hawthorn wrote:

Oy they really gotta practice their 'ees'

Nooo I love it. I love them 💗 💓
My sister in law is first generation israeli. She's awesome!

amother

↑ DarkGray

Fri, Feb 23 2024, 1:43 pm

ittsamother wrote:

I feel like lingerie stores should just not put their name on the bags... No?? So that people can actually use them...

Maybe I'm naive once again, but what's wrong with using a lingerie store bag? Should a person feel shame in using a lingerie store bag?

Amelia Bedelia ↓

Fri, Feb 23 2024, 2:01 pm

amother Foxglove wrote:

Yes for the word sx, which is the only word for sx, but no for gay, there are a lot of words that mean "happy" so it's a word we can do without.

There is another word for s*x- gender

↑ Amelia Bedelia ↓

Fri, Feb 23 2024, 2:04 pm

Bonei Olam once had a photo on their auction catalog cover depicting a child sitting in a Little Tikes Cozy Coupe with a license plate saying, I Heart

BO.

amother

↑ Foxglove ↓

Fri, Feb 23 2024, 2:10 pm

Amelia Bedelia wrote:

There is another word for s*x- gender

But nowadays people interpret that word very differently.

amother

↑ Foxglove ↓

Fri, Feb 23 2024, 2:13 pm

amother Lightpink wrote:

“Living together” vs “sleeping together”

Sem girl says “oh yeah, Shprintzy and I slept together for a year when we were in seminary”

🙈

IMO, it's a problem with the language that we don't have a good way to say that people literally slept together. Perhaps part of the reason casual just for sleep bed sharing is so taboo is because it's so difficult to talk about without creating implications.

amother

Powderblue

Fri, Feb 23 2024, 2:24 pm

amother Hawthorn wrote:

Dh knows someone Simcha D*ck
Poor guy! Hiding

Dh worked with a guy Loser Weiner.

amother

Forestgreen ↓

Fri, Feb 23 2024, 2:30 pm

Amelia Bedelia wrote:

Bonei Olam once had a photo on their auction catalog cover depicting a child sitting in a Little Tikes Cozy Coupe with a license plate saying, I Heart

BO.

What’s wrong with that?