# Worst. Jew. Ever. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 4, 2013, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-jew-ever/667997 "2013-09-04T15:09:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2013, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-jew-ever/667997/21 "2013-09-04T19:30:46Z")
I love how the holidays are always early or late. They’re never on time! 😃 (But this year _is_ wicked early…) ---
**Author:** ![RickG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rickg/32/5174_2.png) [@RickG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickG)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2013, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-jew-ever/667997/22 "2013-09-04T19:55:48Z")
> [@IvoryTowerDenizen](#): > > I love how the holidays are always early or late. They’re never on time! 😃 > > (But this year _is_ wicked early…) The beauty (?) of a lunisolar calendar. ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2013, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-jew-ever/667997/23 "2013-09-04T21:47:59Z")
I’m so very glad that this thread isn’t about some new nasty anti-Semitic Jack Chick tract… ---
**Author:** ![cmkeller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmkeller/32/118_2.png) [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2013, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-jew-ever/667997/24 "2013-09-04T22:52:25Z")
My best wishes for a Shana Tova to all of my fellow Dopers as well. (5774, for those of you keeping count) ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2013, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-jew-ever/667997/25 "2013-09-04T23:06:56Z")
Whenever I lose track of a holiday, I blame my [misprinted calendar](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RCs2RKiLlA). Happy whatsis. ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2013, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-jew-ever/667997/26 "2013-09-04T23:07:13Z")
Happy New Year! And yeah, it’s really early this year. I didn’t realize until last week. ---
**Author:** ![stui\_magpie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stui_magpie/32/11010_2.png) [@stui\_magpie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stui_magpie)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2013, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-jew-ever/667997/27 "2013-09-04T23:12:28Z")
> [@Amateur\_Barbarian](#): > > Could be worse. > > Supposedly, Prince Charles was on something of a wanderjahr in his 20s and happened to be in Australia when everything shut down for what seemed like the tenth holiday in a row. He lost his temper with the hotel keeper, “…so what stupid Australian holiday is THIS?” The hotel keeper cleared his throat and said, “Well, you might know it by some other name but down here we just call it the Queen’s Birthday.” Poor lad could be forgiven for not knowing, considering the holiday isn’t even on her Birthday.😉 > **[Queen's Birthday 2025 in Australia](https://www.timeanddate.com/holidays/australia/queens-birthday)** > > Until her passing in 2022, Australians celebrated Queen Elizabeth II's official birthday each year. It has now been replaced by the King's Birthday, which is dedicated King Charles III. ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2013, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-jew-ever/667997/28 "2013-09-05T01:28:34Z")
> [@QuickSilver](#): > > I don’t think you understand – for most people a few hours from now would still be “good”. But I didn’t wish my parents a happy new year before they wished me a happy new year. Therefore, I forgot (which is true). And now my little brother is going to be the “good” son for another year running. My mom just called to wish me a happy new year. I was about to call. Honest. Darn. I feel your pain. ---
**Author:** ![LavenderBlue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e95f7d/32.png) [@LavenderBlue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LavenderBlue)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2013, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-jew-ever/667997/29 "2013-09-05T03:10:01Z")
> [@IvoryTowerDenizen](#): > > My mom just called to wish me a happy new year. I was about to call. Honest. Darn. > > I feel your pain. My dad called me to be a jerk about my idiot brother who wants my respect despite his failure to move out, complete any sort of college degree even after attending college for over fifteen years, find a decent paying job, embrace of rather sexist orthodox Judaism and belief that my happy 19 year old marriage to someone who isn’t Jewish is deeply offensive even though he himself is 39 and yet to sustain any sort of relationship that lasted more than a month. Screw the holidays. I don’t want anything to do with him and I resent the emotional blackmail attempt. Want to trade? Please? ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2013, 10:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-jew-ever/667997/30 "2013-09-05T10:57:45Z")
> [@RickG](#): > > It’s extra early this year. Also note that the first night of Chanukah is the evening _before_ Thanksgiving, so Thanksgiving day is the first day of Chanukah. This will apparently [never happen again](http://www.stevemorse.org/jcal/chanukah.html). Well, not quite never. From your link (interesting, thanks): “The reason Chanukah-before-Thanksgiving occurred in the past, and with decreasing frequency as time went on, is because there is a slow drift between the Hebrew Calendar and the secular (Gregorian) calendar. That drift amounts to one day every 217 years. So in about 80,000 years it will drift by one full year and we’ll be back to where we started. At that time we will once again be lighting Chanukah candles at our Thanksgiving dinner.” ---
**Author:** ![Ranger\_Jeff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranger_jeff/32/2065_2.png) [@Ranger\_Jeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranger_Jeff)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2013, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-jew-ever/667997/31 "2013-09-05T12:44:41Z")
> [@Jackmannii](#): > > The humor of this escapes me, but then again I’m really ignorant about Jewish holidays. :dubious: It’s an anti-semitic joke. There’s a difference between “funny” and “supposed to be funny”. ---
**Author:** ![Ranger\_Jeff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranger_jeff/32/2065_2.png) [@Ranger\_Jeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranger_Jeff)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2013, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-jew-ever/667997/32 "2013-09-05T12:51:02Z")
Once my brother asked me if I was still circumcised. I think it was when I told him that if God wanted me to attend High Holiday services, He wouldn’t give me anxiety attacks in crowded places. To celebrate the New Year, I’ll refrain from eating a bacon cheeseburger today. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Bravo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_bravo/32/493_2.png) [@Johnny\_Bravo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Bravo)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2013, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-jew-ever/667997/33 "2013-09-05T12:59:34Z")
> [@koeeoaddi](#): > > Shana Tova, **QuickSilver**. > > …and now go study. Well done. 😃 L’shana tova and gut yontif to all my fellow Hebrews and Shebrews! ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2013, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-jew-ever/667997/34 "2013-09-05T15:00:24Z")
> [@LavenderBlue](#): > > Screw the holidays. I don’t want anything to do with him and I resent the emotional blackmail attempt. > > Want to trade? Please? Nope. But you are now the current leader of the Worst.Jew.Ever. thread. Mazel Tov! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![LavenderBlue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e95f7d/32.png) [@LavenderBlue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LavenderBlue)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2013, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-jew-ever/667997/35 "2013-09-05T16:00:08Z")
> [@QuickSilver](#): > > Nope. But you are now the current leader of the Worst.Jew.Ever. thread. > > Mazel Tov! 😃 No, my father is. He’s mad at me because I told him that Idiot Brother should help far more around the house. IB lives with him and does not pay any rent and apparently doesn’t even help my father around the house very much. Dad was whining to me about his cleaning lady. He then said that he wished I lived closer so I could help him. That’s right me. Not the son who lives with him and apparently does minimal if any chores. No. The daughter who holds down a full time job, watches two little kids and writes professionally in her spare time. It’s not enough I clean my own home. I should go and clean up after him and my adult brother as well. He was furious when I him exactly what I thought of that notion. Sexist fuckers both of them. ---
**Author:** ![Moonlitherial](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4bbf92/32.png) [@Moonlitherial](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moonlitherial)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2013, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-jew-ever/667997/36 "2013-09-05T17:15:31Z")
> [@Ranger\_Jeff](#): > > It’s an anti-semitic joke. There’s a difference between “funny” and “supposed to be funny”. Actually I think of it more as a pro-semitic joke. One culture in the world that actually teaches their kids the skills they need to budget and handle money is not something to be ashamed of. ---
**Author:** ![clairobscur](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/839c29/32.png) [@clairobscur](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/clairobscur)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2013, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-jew-ever/667997/37 "2013-09-05T17:28:59Z")
> [@Ranger\_Jeff](#): > > It’s an anti-semitic joke. There’s a difference between “funny” and “supposed to be funny”. I had assumed it was joke about not using money and not starting a fire on this day. ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2013, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-jew-ever/667997/38 "2013-09-05T18:34:18Z")
**QuickSilver** … Dude… I know less about Judaism than anyone on this Board. I can’t say anything about that. I have seen you battle & fight for 20 straight posts to try to educate someone in The Pit with an ignorant opinion though, and I don’t remember you ever truly giving up. I can’t say if there is a God… or if there is whether he’d say you were a good Jew. But if there is a God, and he scorns you given how hard you try? Dude, then that can’t be much of a Supreme Being. “You know, Mr. Ruth? I’m not so sure you should worry about that whole Cooperstown “Hall of Fame” thing. Just between you and me? I think people will know…” ---
**Author:** ![TV\_time](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f17d59/32.png) [@TV\_time](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TV_time)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2013, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-jew-ever/667997/39 "2013-09-05T18:41:07Z")
You are not the worst Jew ever…You feel guilty about forgetting. You see…You’re feeling it. ---
**Author:** ![Ranger\_Jeff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranger_jeff/32/2065_2.png) [@Ranger\_Jeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranger_Jeff)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2013, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-jew-ever/667997/40 "2013-09-05T19:25:11Z")
> [@Ranger\_Jeff](#): > > It’s an anti-semitic joke. There’s a difference between “funny” and “supposed to be funny”. [QUOTE=Moonlitherial] Actually I think of it more as a pro-semitic joke. One culture in the world that actually teaches their kids the skills they need to budget and handle money is not something to be ashamed of. [/QUOTE] Good going, Moon. You managed to slip another anti-semitic comment in there. Helping to perpetuate the stereotypes that Jews worship money and are trained by their parents in handling money is hardly very far from the stereotypes that Jews practice shady business tactics to make money and Jews own all the banks and media. That is hardly “pro-semitic.” [QUOTE=clairobscur] I had assumed it was joke about not using money and not starting a fire on this day. [/QUOTE] No, it was a “joke” about Jews being cheap. True, observant Jews don’t handle money or start fires on the Sabbath. But that starts at sunset on Fridays and ends on sunset on Saturday. On Rosh Hashonah, we’re supposed to fast and go to temple is all. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-jew-ever/667997.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-jew-ever/667997.md?page=3)