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My childhood group of friends have always placed bets on dumb shit. We truly are degenerate gamblers. We used to stay up playing poker home games till 7am. We would gamble away hundreds of dollars away on dice, video games, monopoly and almost anything else you can think of.  For example:

Remember A few years back we single handedly put Mitch’s bookie out of business during the stanley cup playoffs, hahaha IDIOT! or the times we’d make up games like when we was at Matts place, he lived in an apartment building and when you tune to channel 1 you’d see the video camera of the lobby so you know who’s buzzing in/coming in and out of the building. We would sit in the living room at 4am with the television tuned to channel 1 and gamble on who would be next to walk through the lobby male or female, skinny or fat, white or black. Yes, we were straight degenerates (we still are I guess).

No , this post aint a step to an intervention or a ray of light at the end of the tunnel type of vision.  The reason I’m telling ya’ll this is because I want to set up the first annual B&F Degenerates Olympics.

We will pool funds together ($40 a person?) and have a few different events that we bet on.

Lets use comments on this page as a place to brainstorm event ideas.

I will update all ideas every few days and put a list up, we will then pick 7 events to compete in.

I’ll start!

 OLYMPICS IDEAS

-Baseball game at C.H. Best - winning team gets 1 point per player

-Pizza Delivery Race - Call like 10 different pizza places and see who delivers fastest.

-Blind Mans Bluff

-Mini Putt

-Laser Tag

-Handball

-Horse race at Wegz

-Dice

 

I’d put poker on the list but I wanna give ya’ll a chance to win the Degenerate Olympics

Anyways, start posting ideas. Summer has begun and we ain’t getting any younger.

 

One Love,

Emil

 p.s. Prepare to go down clowns! BIG VACS IS BACK BABY!

Welcome to my new site, enjoy this first Blog entry. Chag Sameyach to all!

The Passover celebration begins today at sundown as Jewish communities around the world gather to tell the story of the Israelites’ exodus from Egypt.

Though the story is the same everywhere, some Passover traditions differ from one country to the next. Here are my top 5 most interesting Passover traditions from some unexpected places.

1) AFGHANISTAN: Jews living in Afghanistan created the tradition of gently whipping themselves with scallions as a symbol of the Egyptian slavedrivers’ whips used against the Israelites, says Beliefnet.com. According to the Online Database of Jewish Communities, there is currently only one Jew living in Afghanistan, and the largest population of Afghan Jews are in Queens, New York.

2) POLAND: Hasidic Jews living in Góra Kalwaria, Poland, reenact the crossing of the Red Sea in their living rooms. On the seventh day of Passover, each Jewish family pours water on the floor of their homes, hikes up their coats and says the name of the towns in the region they would pass while making their crossing, according to Beliefnet.com.

3) INDIA: A Jewish community has lived in Cochin in the Indian state of Kerala for more than 2,000 years. Its members go to shockingly great lengths to prepare for Passover, reports The Jewish Week. “Pesah work,” as it was called in Cochin, would begin immediately after Chanukah. In the Cochin community, it was believed that if a Jewish woman were to make even the slightest mistake in Passover preparation during the 100 days before the actual seder, then the lives of her husband and her children would be endangered. The pursuit of chametz was a serious business. To ensure purity, the Jews of Cochin kept special rooms in which all Passover utensils, thoroughly scrubbed, were stored. Houses would be scraped and repainted immediately after Purim. Wells would be drained and scrubbed, lest they be polluted. Each grain of rice — an essential staple even during Passover — would be examined to ensure that it was free from cracks into which polluting chametz might find its way.

4) GIBRALTAR: In the British territory of Gibraltar, the tiny island off the coast of Spain, Jews actually mix the dust of bricks into their charoset dish, a symbol of the mortar used to hold together the brick walls the Jews built in Egypt, according to Hillel.

5) ETHIOPIA: Ethiopian Jews’ history is strikingly similar to that of their Israelite ancestors. The Jewish community there underwent an exodus of their own in 1985, when Operation Moses and Joshua took almost 8,000 Jews from Sudan to a safe-haven in Israel, according to the Jewish Virtual Library. In commemoration of Passover and their own past, Ethiopian Jews break all of their dishes and make new ones to symbolize a complete break from the past and a new start, reports The Jewish Daily Forward.

As we sit here in our bubble named Thornhill, Richmond Hill and North York we don’t realize how lucky we truly are to be surrounded by our own people and not having to always watch over our shoulders for fear of anti-semitism and hate groups.  Have a great Seder and celebrate proudly our exit from Egypt.  AM ISRAEL CHAI!

-Emil