A Looong Davening

This past Shabbos has its reputation as being one of the longer Shabbos davenings. You have Hallel, Hoshanos, and Koheles all packed into the program that it can take a while.

Of course, when davening takes a while, you'll always have people, hopefully good-naturedly, cracking a comment or two on the length. When the ba'al shacharis was taking his time and singing at every possible point (and not realizing that the kehilla wasn't joining in- a sure sign that they've had enough...another potential post), the guy sitting next to me turned to me and asked if someone can tell the ba'al shacharis that he had an appointment on Monday that he really needed to keep.

What really irked me was when someone told me that Joe Schmo was also complaining about the length of the davening. This is the same Joe Schmo that with his baseball hat & coat still on and his daughter trailing behind, without fail saunters into shul to his seat at 9:45 when davening started at 8:30 and then proceeds to talk through out whatever davening time he has left.

He's complaining?!? He just GOT there!

I’m in the nude for dancing

By Robert Dex, South London Press

HUNDREDS of clubbers are descending on the country's only nude disco every Saturday night.

The craze for letting it all hang out on the dancefloor is pulling in punters to South Central in Kennington Lane.

Clubbers have to wear shoes to protect their feet in case of smashed glass but the only pants to be seen in the whole place belong to the bar staff.

Even the DJ is naked behind his decks, though fully-clothed bouncers are stationed outside to stop clothed clubbers stumbling in unawares.

Jamie Rocket, 29, who helps organise the Starkers! night, said naked clubbing was an exhilarating experience.

He said: "When people are naked they can feel inhibited or exposed but when everyone is the same that disappears.

"Some people like the way it feels, some people like being looked at and some people like the view.

"A lot of it grew out of that clubbing generation in the 1990s which had the philosophy of being free and at one with the crowd.

"All kinds of people come along, men, women, singles, couples, gay, straight. It's open to everyone."

...and just when I was wondering about...

And for any male clubbers worried about the temperatures taking its toll on their manhood, the venue boasts "excellent heating".