Comments on: Judging people based on the way they wear their yamrulkes

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By: Frum Satire

Frum Satire — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 00:50:34 +0000

Shorty as a cyclist I cannot believe I never made the comparison but no I dont think its like that.

Eric in my yeshiva going to NCSY was the ultimate sin. They said it stood for No one Can Save You.

By: Eric

Eric — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 22:38:05 +0000

FS – It brought up every NCSY and Bnei Akiva memory I had. I wasn’t supposed to go to those events, seeing as how I was in a black hat yeshiva in the 1990s, but my parents were pretty clueless (or maybe just thrilled that I thought NCSY and BA were ‘rebellious’ things to do!) and I have so many vivid memories of seeing the guys pulling down their bangs to compare whose were longest. WTF

By: shorty

shorty — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 19:43:11 +0000

So is the panelling in Kippahs like bike shorts…you see four panel shorts are really, cheapy like, because they don’t fit was well, but if you have the 8 panel shorts…woh look out…

is it the same for a Kippah??

By: Frum Satire

Frum Satire — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 03:01:15 +0000

Eric glad you liked

By: Eric

Eric — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 01:26:21 +0000

Utubefan – that exactly describes the guys I’m talking about, lol.

By: Yochanan

Yochanan — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 00:44:23 +0000

“Hesh, you didnt mention one I thought you would. That is the off to the side/back. I sport it this way sometimes, and to me it makes the same statement if you were to wear your baseball hat, crooked.”

I was just thinking that. Isn’t that a hallmark of Religious Zionists? It seems that pictures of settlers always show them. I think they want to give off a bad-ass persona. You could just imagine them saying “Eretz Yisrael HaShlema Mutha F____” (and perhaps holding a gun in a sideways “gangsta grip”).

By: utubefan

utubefan — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 23:56:51 +0000

Eric, they’re burned out Yeshivish. Annoyed with the system. Kids too frummed out, drying out their bank accounts. No air to breathe. I think.

By: Eric

Eric — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 23:15:33 +0000

“In fact yeshiva rebels commonly compared who had the longest bangs- it was pretty gay now that I think of it- but it was the closest you could come to growing your hair long.”

Holy cow, I nearly fell offa my chair reading this!

And when did it become OK for Brooklyn yeshiva guys to start wearing knit yamakas? I keep seeing this – mostly older, married guys wearing fairly big kipot srugah. It’s disconcerting to see them show up in shul with a hat, take off the hit and see knit underneath.