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June 17, 2010 | 1:11 pm 
Trayf of the Week: This Guy
Posted by The Annoyed Jew
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I hear Herr Pope has the same one...
http://whatsannoyingjews.com/2010/06/17/trayf-of-the-week-this-guy/
A cured pork tramp stamp in the shape of a cross?! Clearly this guy was in the running for TotW.
But here’s what puts him over the top—it’s upside-down.
I have a strong suspicion he did this to himself. Now that’s dedication to the trayf.
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June 15, 2010 | 11:05 am
NYT Trend: Arrested Development
Posted by The Annoyed Jew
Cloudy with a chance of shpilkeshttp://whatsannoyingjews.com/2010/06/15/nyt-trend-arrested-development/
Wait, so adulthood not starting at 21 is now considered a trend by The New York Times?
That’s an insult to us Jewish mothers who have spent years ensuring that adulthood never starts for our children.
June 14, 2010 | 1:44 pm
The Karate Kid reboot
Posted by The Annoyed Jew
Nothing like some good old Jew-jitsuhttp://whatsannoyingjews.com/2010/06/14/the-karate-kid-reboot/
So The Karate Kid is the number one movie in America—and features no karate. It’s really the kung-fu kid.
Once you’ve crossed that bridge, why not actually reinvent the film with some ferocious Hebrew-style fighting. The Krav-Maga Kid—now that I would have paid a shekel or two to see.
June 11, 2010 | 12:42 pm
World Cup
Posted by The Annoyed Jew
I went to every one of my kid's games. I suffered enough.http://whatsannoyingjews.com/2010/06/11/world-cup/
Everyone I work with seems to have caught World Cup fever. They’re discussing soccer as if it’s a sport.
If soccer’s a sport, so is trying to shtup my wife. They’re both relatively pointless, exhausting exercises that put the ball in the net so infrequently that it’s more fun to just walk around in the uniform and play solo.
I’ll be farkacht if I watch a minute of this meshugga game on tv.
June 10, 2010 | 11:15 am
Madrid
Posted by The Annoyed Jew
http://whatsannoyingjews.com/2010/06/10/madrid/
In an act of political protest, a Madrid gay pride march has banned Israelis. What, with a Castillian accent, they can’t tell the difference between “flotilla” and “faygelah”?
You can’t really call ‘em “black hats,” can you?
June 9, 2010 | 10:55 am
Helen Thomas Haters
Posted by The Annoyed Jew
Let's just hope she doesn't try for Rue McClanahan's sluttiness.http://whatsannoyingjews.com/2010/06/09/helen-thomas-haters/
We shouldn’t rush to judge Helen Thomas.
If this were a sitcom, her wisecrackin’ anti-Semitism would be positively precious. After all, now that the only Golden Girl left is the “dumb blonde,” we need someone to deliver Bea Arthur’s spice or Estelle Getty’s racism.
June 7, 2010 | 1:22 pm
NYTimes on Gadgets
Posted by The Annoyed Jew
Hey -- look at Deb's kids -- they got her nose. Her real nose!http://whatsannoyingjews.com/2010/06/07/gadgets/
So in its effort to whine its way into competition with Andy Rooney, The New York Times is complaining about people being too hooked on gadgets to pay attention to their families.
Which is just how I like it.
Ever since I bought my mother an iPad, she’s been too busy looking at pictures of other people’s children to tell me how to raise mine.
June 4, 2010 | 12:32 pm
Nanny Laws
Posted by The Annoyed Jew
Nannies with rights? Inconceivable!http://whatsannoyingjews.com/2010/06/04/nanny-laws/
Let’s say you look like what Woody Allen might call a homunculus. But you’re kind of charming, stinking rich, and your wife somehow approved a live-in shiksa goddess to care for your meeskite children. New York has just created a nightmare scenario for you.
You now have to give domestics 14 days notice—which means, if you shtup the nanny today, you’ve got to keep her around for two weeks to avoid a lawsuit on top of the blackmail.
Something tells me we’re going to see an increase in nanny murders. I’m just saying…
June 3, 2010 | 12:42 pm
James Cameron
Posted by The Annoyed Jew
Then again, those creatures were speaking backwards Hebrewhttp://whatsannoyingjews.com/2010/06/03/james-cameron/
Box office king James Cameron has been rebuffed in his attempts to help BP put an end to the increasingly tragicomic oil spill. Cameron thought his experience helming Titanic, the Abyss, and deep-water IMAX docs would make him a natural for plugging the leak.
I’m glad we nipped his efforts in the bud.
Had they taken his counsel, I’m sure he would have next tried to advise Israel and Palestine based on his peaceful outcome on the planet Pandora.
June 2, 2010 | 11:46 am
Trayf of the Week?: The BP Oil Spill
Posted by The Annoyed Jew
Leviticus 11:9. Look it up.http://whatsannoyingjews.com/2010/06/02/trayf-of-the-week-oil/
I try not to get involved in the environment. I figure if a bunch of great minds—plus the maritally-challenged Al Gore—can’t solve it, they don’t need this Yid’s meddling.
But the oil spill in the gulf is out of control. Literally. I’ve heard people call it Biblical. This got me thinking. What if, through the oil and wreckage, shrimp begin to mutate and grow fins and scales?
You know how there are people who think the Holocaust was redeemed through the creation of the State of Israel? Maybe this whole messy megillah can be redeemed through making shrimp Kosher!
June 1, 2010 | 12:10 pm
The death of marriage
Posted by The Annoyed Jew
So believable at the time...http://whatsannoyingjews.com/2010/06/01/the-death-of-marriage/
I’m not much of a fan of the Gores. They crusade against things I love—litter and explicit lyrics—and do it in the most sanctimonious, soul-numbing fashion. But at least they traveled as a unit and I could dismiss them as a pair.
Now with their surprising split-up, they are going to be annoying me independently.
May 28, 2010 | 1:51 pm
Venus Williams
Posted by The Annoyed Jew
Is this a Sex and the City move tie-in?http://whatsannoyingjews.com/2010/05/28/venus-williams/
I’m not saying I’m the most fashionable person. My Yankees’ kippah is cute, but not exactly couture.
Still, I think I can spot a fashion foul—like an Amazon showing her tuchus on the tennis court.
Oy.
May 27, 2010 | 10:44 am
Casual Anti-Semitism of the Week: Virginia
Posted by The Annoyed Jew
Hans Landa's spiritual cousinhttp://whatsannoyingjews.com/2010/05/27/casual-anti-semitism-of-the-week-virginia/
So Virginia—the mother of American independence—elected a Governor who hates gays and loves the Confederacy. Some might say par for the course. But, wait, it gets better…
He’s now appointed Fred Malek to an important government position. Mr. Malek, if you’ll recall (and you probably don’t, but will from now on) was Richard Nixon’s ghetto sheriff, identifying then demoting the Jews who somehow rose to prominent positions during the Nixon administration.
I know filling out the Census is supposed to be the right thing to do—but if you live in Virginia and can quote every episode of Seinfeld, make sure you don’t wind up on Malek’s list!
May 26, 2010 | 12:18 pm
Trayf of the Week: “Traif”
Posted by The Annoyed Jew
If you're going to eat the pig, why make it so cute?http://whatsannoyingjews.com/2010/05/26/trayf-of-the-week-traif/
Williamsburg, Brooklyn—ground-zero in the battle of Old vs. New World annoyance—has given birth to the third rail of Heeby fressing: a new restaurant called “Traif.”
Ordinarily, we’d be up in arms… but we converted to Southern Baptist the moment we saw the strawberry-cinnamon glazed pork ribs on the menu.
May 25, 2010 | 10:47 am
Young Seinfelds
Posted by The Annoyed Jew
http://whatsannoyingjews.com/2010/05/05/young_seinfelds/
Yes, Jerry Seinfeld has made about a billion dollars off of Yid jokes.
No, you won’t.
This is knowledge that every Jewish parent needs to impart. It is, in fact, the responsibility of every mameh and tateh to shame little Gerald into going to medical school… or dental school… or even podiatry school. He needs a profession!
You should not be filling him with pipe dreams and putting him on YouTube.
May 24, 2010 | 12:16 pm
Lost
Posted by The Annoyed Jew
I felt more redeemed at the end of Berettahttp://whatsannoyingjews.com/2010/05/24/lost/
If you were to tell a Jew, here’s a story about a few recognizable archetypes stranded on an island he’d say - “Oh, it’s Gilligan’s Island.”
But, no, you say—it’s not funny—it’s got a lot of death and redemption and the main character’s name is Shephard. “Oh,” he’d say, “it’s a Christian parable.”
And millions of Americans are surprised… why?
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