Top tip: make sure you do all the initial qualifications (theory, pool dive etc) before you go, so that you don’t waste your precious holiday time doing classroom work or faffing about in the pool, then you can do your final qualifying dives immediately you get there (i.e. in the sea with the experienced divers).
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Thanks for that man, I live in Brighton so we have several Scuba schools almost within walking distance. I can definitely get the boring stuff out the way easily, just don’t fancy actually doing much diving in shitty British waters, trying to push past the shopping trolleys and used Jonnys
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I only had one jewish friend growing up … all the yiddish I know is from Mel Brooks films
I’ve dived in about 15 countries - but not the UK! Did all the classroom and pool stuff in London a week before heading out on holiday and was ready for the ocean on day one of holiday.
I don’t even want to think what you might see in the water off Brighton!!
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You think it’s only people in therapy? I feel like a good number of the people I know, and some of the posters on this board, paint themselves as perpetual victims of their spouses.
I, on the other hand, am the victim of Covid 19, which has prompted a 30% increase in wear-and-tear on my house, which I very much need to be female-clean in times of stress.
I’ve realized as a result of the conversation here that where I use Yiddish, it’s always to describe something unpleasant. Schlepp, schmutz, noodge, schlub.
Did my grandparents have NOTHING nice to say about anyone? (We didn’t talk about schmeckles, though I’m certainly familiar with the term.)
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May the Schwartz be with you!
I have to confess I got so frustrated with an old lady patient once that I told her she was being a yentl.
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Mid-training confession: Jinjer is fucking brilliant. For some reason the chaos and huge emotional range of their music makes me feel better regardless of my mental state. Trying to milk this real-life cheat code as long as possible.
Also, something that small should never be able to sound that monstrous.
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She’s a fantastic vocalist and they’re a pretty damn good band imo - hope she takes good care of her pipes though man … a lot of stress she puts on those cords
I’ve watched a few analyses of her technique and it looks like she’s just about flawless with it. Her clean voice is squeaky clean even after screaming, which usually means she isn’t really damaging herself with her screams. She must have the diaphragmatic strength of a world class strongman to be able to pull that off though.
Ever seen her 90’s grunge covers? 
Nope … what song(s)?
Stop being such a fucking putz! Or I’ll deck ya!
Probably the best. The dude from Suicide Silence almost ruins it though.
As the sages say, “if you cannot say anything nice about some one, say it in Yiddish.”
In reality, people just remember harsh things. You can give 99 compliments and 1 insult, and all someone will remember is the insult. Human nature, I suspect. So you remember the bad words.
To balance the scale, I bet there are some good ones English speakers use:
“nosh” – verb (or noun), snack on some light, pleasant, food
“mensch” - a truly good and honorable guy.
“Mazel Tov” – congratulations on a good thing
“zaftig” which is Old School for “thiccc”
It’s funny, American (particularly the NE) is really the only place where you will hear Yiddish — yes, it’s spoken in the Old City in Jerusalem – but it’s pretty much dead in Israel.
Considered very low class/uncouth to speak it – although it is coming back a bit.
There is another pidgin-Hebrew language called Ladino (Spanish-Hebrew instead of Middle German-Hebrew) that is a lovely, flowing, language, that is basically completely gone, post Shoa.
Schlepp isn’t always unpleasant - I say it when doing farmer walks, as in “time to schlepp some dumbbells.” But farmer walks are unpleasant in themselves. Ok, you win.
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I had no idea nosh had Yiddish origins.
It has a second, less palatable, meaning in the UK too, which I won’t get into.
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First time I watched that, I was really waiting for a second vocalist to come out of no where, but nope. Lol
And it’s not just her. Each individual band member is really good with their respective instrument. Have you tried counting the multiple time signatures of the song? I never was able to figure it out lol
Also has more than one meaning 
yea, Jinjer’s a legit good band. have you listened to Ne Obliviscaris … they have 2 vocalists … one clean, one growl but they’re fantastic if you like this kind of music.
This is one of their better known songs:
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