quiddities and agonies of the ruling class - a rolling new york times thread

Je55e, no, they just wash/starch/press. I say dry cleaning because that is the name of the place I take it.

Wow, compared to you guys I'm pretty dirty. I usually wear pants 3 or 4 days before wash, sometimes the same with t-shirts. Button-up shirts I was after one wear.

I am not proper denim care snob dude but I got a new pair of jeans and wore them for about a month straight before a wash

I like it when snob strategies overlap w/ laziness

sometimes the same with t-shirts. Button-up shirts I was after one wear.

i wash tees & knit shirts more often because knits are more absorbent and retain more odor. also, woven fabric shirts are generally less durable and washing / drying causes more damage than actual wear

Jeans should be washed like three times a year

Ideally never

Huh. I don't think I know the difference between knits and woven fabrics.

I wear my clothes a lot before washing b/c I barely sweat at all and washing/drying wears them out.

Generally, knits are stretchy and wovens are not. Knits - t-shirts, boxer briefs, socks, sweaters. Wovens - button shirts, jeans, jackets, dress pants

There are exceptions to all of those things but that's generally way to look at it. You can also look closely at a t-shirt and see the knit pattern, which looks like this but not as exaggerated, obv, unless you are wearing chunky wool t-shirts:

http://www.spin-knit-dye.com/images/Knit-Stitch-plain.gif

Then woven fabrics look like this up close:

http://fabricgraphicsmag.com/repository/5/3092/large_0307_f3_2.jpg

I'll quiz you the next time I see you.

I remember once you told me I was too nipply in knit shirts :(

carl is correct! alternately, knits = one self-interlocking yarn, woven = two separate intersecting yarns.

I remember once you told me I was too nipply in knit shirts :(

― People aren't for comparing, they are for loving. (Je55e), Friday, April 20, 2012 4:54 PM (12 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

*sigh*

I spill too much beer on my jeans to only wash them 3 times a year.

http://thoughtcatalog.com/2012/witnessing-a-change-in-williamsburg-brooklyn/

lol thoughtcatalog

comments are more fun than the article

You grew up here????!?! What a f**ken joke. This neighborhood was here before you came and brought your 100 coffee shops and bed bugs. You ruined what a neighborhood this used to be. You know nothing about being a new yorker. You name drop a few hipster shit holes and you think you own this place. This is my neighborhood, get it right.

That comment would be much better if it were from a hassidic jew

that's how i saw it in my head!

I kind of pictured it as an aging punk artist who moved here all the way back in 1995.

AARON 23 hours ago
lol, privileged white girls move to new york and meditate on how things have changed... since 2006. Lady, just because you slept with some nasty hipster types before Whole Foods moved in doesn't mean you "grew up there"

give me a break

you're as trendy and foreign as all the rest

(Aaron sounds like he could be a Jew)

this is less quid and more literal ag, but wtf with this story of rich people beating the piss out of each other at the new york athletic club

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/28/nyregion/for-new-york-athletic-club-brawl-jackets-seemed-to-be-required.html

http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/04/24/brawl-sheds-an-unwelcome-light-on-a-tony-athletic-club/

the times can't get enough!!!

http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/04/25/kids-draw-the-news-the-epic-brawl/

neither can the rest of the media:

"new york athletic club" brawl
About 56,500 results (0.23 seconds)

Word trickled out online, days later, via a single, anonymous, breathless telling of “the best fight I’ve ever seen,” a “nondiscriminatory ragematch” in a “lion’s pit” that the club prefers to call the Tap Room. That storied pub opened in 1933 with “an English tallyho, drawn by four horses and manned by liveried coachmen and footmen,” according to an article in The New York Times.

lol upper-class American Anglophilia.

http://wallstreetjackass.typepad.com/raptureready/2012/04/ny-athletic-club-fight-.html

how are guys my age members of an exclusive club
i wanna be a member of an exclusive club.

this blog post is the ur-text for all the rest i think

"this board opened in 2000 w/ an English tallyho"

they're rehearsing for the upcoming street brawls when OWS storms their "exclusive club," silly geese.

also, i bet that this club has at least one pic like this one on the walls:

http://www.barbizonart.com/boxing04lg.jpg

will bring my Xacto knife to tomorrow's march just in case

The proto-quiddities of Thought Catalog

i wanna be a member of an exclusive club.

main reason I post on 77, tbh

a “fat pudgy kid” who laid out a larger man with a blow to the head and was tackled by a crowd.

http://twitpic.com/1pq5tb/full

man that thought catalog piece, unreal

That storied pub opened in 1933 with “an English tallyho" <-- hasn't gotten enough derision in this thread.

I don't even know where to start on that one.

the english tallyho is a quote from the contemporaneous times tho

"tallyho" is more in keeping w/ lol 1933 American-ruling-classes-Anglophile-pretensions than in whatever pretenses the 2012 version hold, 'tis true.

I feel a little bit bad for these kids. Nonetheless, have at 'em, quiddities thread:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/03/business/derailed-on-the-fast-track.html?_r=2

I don't think there is anything particularly terrible in the article but it could use some context w/r/t how rough the legal market is for everyone who also didn't get an offer from dewey * leboeuf

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/06/magazine/romneys-former-bain-partner-makes-a-case-for-inequality.html

this guy otoh

those kids can go to hell if a firm was in financial trouble and they applied anyway it shows where their brains are

“A firm may look like a corporation, yes, but we’re all part of a fraternity of lawyers”

Laughing in derision at you forever, little bro.

Is that the dude who basically wanted to marry an Excel spreadsheet?

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/06/business/jean-victor-meyers-the-new-prince-of-loreal.html

“This is a very important moment for me,” Mr. Meyers, with dark, gelled hair, a black suit and an easy smile, said on a video L’Oréal beamed over the stage to persuade shareholders to approve the transition. “My first thought is of my grandmother.”