Comment of the Week

Y. shares his fave bathroom reading material and Chaim explains the foolproof shmuck identification method.

September 6, 2011

We hereby award “Comment of the Week” to the following intriguing/funny/spot-on comments posted on Unpious this week. Feel free to recognize your own favorite in the comments below.

Der Bik: Neither the perpetrator of the abuse, nor the abuse itself, has any magical extraordinary power to assign *any* human being *any* sort of role in life.

Farchapt Innetz: Thy article made my day! I am now smitten with laughter!

Gutman Braun: Only 100-250 words for so momentous an event as a first aveira? Hardly seems fair…

Shulem Deen: [Your sin] can be something as big as skipping Rabeinu Tam’s tefilin, as little as having sex with the lights on, or as medium as having a wet dream on Yom Kippur…. Or laughing on Tisha B’av… Or learning during nittel…

Y: These days, I mostly study Ksubas in the bathroom.

J.: “You are driving? How scandalous and untzinius-dik of you! And can you give me a ride to the doctor?”

chaim: You can tell from her hairstyle that she’s a lesbian? … I can tell from your comment that you are a shmuck …

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