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The Nice People Thread, No.16: A Universe of Niceness.

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  • Pyxis
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    Oooh! Is that the Rosh Hashana I've been noticing?

    I subscribe to Jacquie Lawson e-cards, and they sent me an email to say they had some brand new Rosh Hashana cards. They are animated ones, mostly, although they do have some still life ones! :D




    A good and sweet New Year sounds good to me! :D Thank you!
    (I just lurve spiders!)
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  • GDB2222
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    Indeed! Rosh (head) Ha (the) Shanah (Year).

    My Hebrew is awful, but I don't think Hebrew bothers too much with niceties like prepositions, eg 'of'.
    No reliance should be placed on the above! Absolutely none, do you hear?
  • Pyxis
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    GDB2222 wrote: »
    Indeed! Rosh (head) Ha (the) Shanah (Year).

    My Hebrew is awful, but I don't think Hebrew bothers too much with niceties like prepositions, eg 'of'.

    That's interesting!

    So is Rosh also a human head?
    Or just 'head' as in 'front of'?
    (I just lurve spiders!)
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  • GDB2222
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    I think it's both. Hebrew has a very small vocabulary compared to English. At least, that's what I was told.
    No reliance should be placed on the above! Absolutely none, do you hear?
  • Pyxis
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    When I was a child, a Jewish neighbour used to call me bubbelah! :)

    (Although is that Yiddish as opposed to Hebrew? )

    I seem to remember I went around calling people bubbelah because I thought it was a lovely word! :)
    It sounded cuddly.
    (I just lurve spiders!)
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  • chris_m
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    Pyxis wrote: »
    When I was a child, a Jewish neighbour used to call me bubbelah! :)

    (Although is that Yiddish as opposed to Hebrew? )

    I seem to remember I went around calling people bubbelah because I thought it was a lovely word! :)
    It sounded cuddly.


    And what does it actually mean?
    ;)
  • Pyxis
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    chris_m wrote: »
    And what does it actually mean?
    ;)

    Darling, or at any rate, a general term of endearment, I suppose like 'lovey' or 'duckie' or something.
    (I just lurve spiders!)
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  • PasturesNew
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    For New Year: Jewish people, unlike the great unwashed masses of Christians and assortments... don't seem to go out, get blind drunk and get photographed having piggy backs home with their 4rses hanging out of their knickers under very short skirts... all in the name of "Happy New Year"

    Why not?
  • Pyxis
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    PasturesNew wrote: »
    For New Year: Jewish people, unlike the great unwashed masses of Christians and assortments... don't seem to go out, get blind drunk and get photographed having piggy backs home with their 4rses hanging out of their knickers under very short skirts... all in the name of "Happy New Year"

    Why not?

    More sense? :D


    To be fair, there are a lot of Christians, atheists and sundry other assortments who also don't celebrate a New Year in quite that way! :rotfl:

    Take me, fr'instance.
    I just go to bed around 10pm on NYE. :D


    Plus, I haven't worn a very short skirt since, thinks, about 1972. :rotfl: :rotfl:
    (I just lurve spiders!)
    INFJ(Turbulent).
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    I'm in a clique! It's a clique of one! It's a unique clique!
    I love :eek:



  • GDB2222
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    I have kept the plastic room key from the hotel, as it says "ELITE MEMBER". I keep it in my trouser pocket, next to ... :D
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