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

ha, there are so many of these assholes in manhattan

occupy

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/18/realestate/midtown-penthouse-at-one57-sells-for-new-york-record.html

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2012/05/21/business/men/men-popup.jpg
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/21/business/increasingly-men-seek-success-in-jobs-dominated-by-women.html

“I hated my job every single day of my life,” said John Cook, 55, who got a modest inheritance that allowed him to leave the company where he earned $150,000 a year as a database consultant and enter nursing school.
His starting salary will be about a third what he once earned, but database consulting does not typically earn hugs like the one Mr. Cook recently received from a girl after he took care of her premature baby sister. “It’s like, people get paid for doing this kind of stuff?” Mr. Cook said, choking up as he recounted the episode.

you've gotta be fucking kidding me re: "pink collar"

also, that dude has a wake-up call coming if he thinks nursing is all hugs

http://www.selectism.com/news/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/thomas-pink-spring-summer-2009-front2.jpg

^^ pink collar.

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/05/20/business/pink-collar-opportunities.html

tbf there's a fair amount of hugs in most database consulting; this guy might just be a dick

http://tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/16/face-time-leelee-sobieski/

This post has been revised to reflect the following correction:
Correction: May 16, 2012
Sobieski was misquoted in an earlier version of the post. She likes heels, not flats, by Givenchy, Alaia, Pierre Hardy, Nina Ricci, Balenciaga and Dries van Noten.

idk man I'm not gonna make fun of that dude

"it's like, people get paid for this stuff?" is always low hanging privilege fruit dayo, don't be ashamed

Anastasia, do you have any idea how much money I make?”
I flush, of course not. “Why should I? I don’t need to know the bottom line of your bank account, Christian.”
His eyes soften. “I know. That’s one of the things I love about you.”
I gaze at him, shocked. Love about me?
“Anastasia, I earn roughly one hundred thousand dollars an hour."
Fifty Shades Darker, p. 78.

"earn"

"roughly"

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/22/us/george-lucas-retreats-from-battle-with-neighbors.html?src=me&ref=general

poor people on the horizon!

The staunchest opponents of Lucasfilm’s expansion are now being accused of driving away the filmmaker and opening the door to a low-income housing development. That has created an atmosphere that one opponent, who asked not to be identified, saying she feared for her safety, described as “sheer terror” and likened to “Syria.”

"Syria"

quotes not really needed there, are they

http://i.imgur.com/hOYLA.jpg
Syria

lol

I thought maybe they meant syriana and it's a typo

likened to "Episode 1"

ha i think it's the right stylistic choice

otherwise i feel like the paper is getting on board w/ her sense of "what syria is like"

lucas should build this low income housing and name it "Syria"

Anastasia, do you have any idea how much money I make?”
I flush, of course not. “Why should I? I don’t need to know the bottom line of your bank account, Christian.”
His eyes soften. “I know. That’s one of the things I love about you.”
I gaze at him, shocked. Love about me?
“Anastasia, I earn roughly one hundred thousand dollars an hour."
Fifty Shades Darker, p. 78.

For some reason this reminds me of:

http://achewood.com/comic.php?date=04142003

Six hundred million dollars isn't a funny enough number.

Should've gone for seventy billion. Plausibility be damned.

A. Stanley was off to a promising start there: "One of the good things about divorce is that you get to see less of your children."

(sorry I'm late, I read the less obviously ridiculous parts of the Times first)

So the crossword?

My own erotic novel, "Entry Level," about a handsome, mysterious and domineering data entry clerk has seen disappointing sales.

she likened it to syria, not "syria"

like it's a mogwai album track or something

us papers not real comfortable with reported speech in general though i've noticed, cf 'valentine said his bullpen was "terrible"' (yes) 'valentine said his bullpen was terrible' (no)

idk exactly what this is about but i think it needs to be here

http://www.fuckedinparkslope.com/home/who-handed-out-these-hilarious-fake-menus-at-googamooga-over.html

was crying at some of these tbh

kinda think it could have been executed better

I'm also reminded of this, which, while derivative in a super corny way, nonetheless has some moments:

http://vimeo.com/35314812

it's back!

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/23/dining/easy-homemade-mayonnaise.html?hpw

“DON’T you know the mayonnaise trick?”

My friend Dori and I were standing in front of Empire Mayonnaise in Brooklyn, the city’s first and only artisanal mayonnaise shop, ogling its wares: flavors like lime pickle and, of course, bacon, when she asked me that.

ogling its wares

tbf this article contains good practical advice

The first time I tried it, I achieved the lightest, most ethereal mayonnaise I’d ever made. It tasted deeply of the good olive oil I used, seasoned with lemon and mustard. We ate it with roasted asparagus, dunking the spears two, three and four times into the tasty sauce until we swabbed the bowl clean.

And what a trick — a potential game-changer, the kind that turns homemade mayo from a special-occasion recipe into an everyday endeavor, ending our dependence on subpar, corn-syrup-filled commercial stuff.

BULLSHIT *sounds airhorn*

from http://old.cbbqa.org/recipes/Mayonnaise.html

The Hellmann's Mayonnaise ingredients label shows that it contains the following ingredients, which are listed in the quantity order in which they occur:

Soybean oil, whole eggs, vinegar, water, egg yolks, salt, sugar, lemon juice, natural flavors, calcium disodium EDTA (used to protect quality).

The Best Foods Mayonnaise ingredients label shows that it contains the following ingredients, which are listed in the quantity order in which they occur:

Soybean oil, whole eggs, vinegar, water, egg yolks, salt, sugar, lemon juice, natural flavors, calcium disodium EDTA (used to protect quality).

I mean, why would you even put corn syrup in mayo

thickening agent + preservative

EXACTLY, that's why we have to help these little artisanal shops stand up to big corn syrup whenever we can

"corn syrup" is a metonym for "shitty processed food" i guess

if they only used natural corn syrup instead of whatever this horrible "calcium disodium EDTA" is then you wouldn't even have to stir it when reopening

the bias against corn syrup in mayonnaise is ruining what could be a great product

don't worry I've started producing my own small batch corn syrup, will be aging it in whiskey barrels and opening a storefront soon

is "supermarket mayo has corn-syrup in it" the foodie version of "bubblicious is made from spider eggs"?

good plan

I really need to stop making jokes along this line at work, it probably violates some sort of ethics thingy

delicious, delicious spider eggs

Maize Syrup