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

fwiw, our two person household's income is within a gnat's eyelash of the USA median income and I feel like we are rich by any of the measures that I find meaningful. We've got enough income to ace Maslow's hierarchy of needs with flying colors and how much more do you need once you've risen that far?

an ipad cover encrusted with rubies and pearls

milo man I've had a load of wet laundry in the washer for three days because I haven't had time to fold the clothes in the dryer so I would probably hire somebody to do our laundry if we could afford it. Before we had an apartment with a washer/dryer we'd use the drop off service at the laundromat with some frequency which is kind of the same. Plus maybe your friends are doing the other woman a favor, too.

tldr: your friends = people who know how to live

I can totally understand laundry service if yr a professional and you need presentable work wear

THe guy int he article sounds like he's two steps away from buying gold on eBay

He als osounds like he's gonna lose all his money in that new investment he's thinking about

Anyway I used to wash and press my own shirts and it takes me like 10-15 minutes per shirt because I'm bad at it, also prep work like pre-soak with oxiclean to get rid of collar/ring stain, if you have a friend who's willing to do that why not let them do your underwear too

carl :( your laundry is going to smell like mildew :(

isn't it like a cliche that doctors (and lawyers) are terrible investors?

― walid foster dulles (man alive), Tuesday, February 10, 2015 8:28 PM (Yesterday)

my stepfather, a doctor who lost a small fortune investing unwisely, once rather ruefully informed me that doctors & lawyers are notoriously bad investors. his theory was that they go through life receiving constant affirmation of their wisdom & intelligence, so assume that they can follow their instincts and come out okay.

carl :( your laundry is going to smell like mildew :(

― 龜, Wednesday, February 11, 2015 1:29 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Oh yeah, I have to rewash that no question.

xp I always figured it was people with large salaries who don't need to understand business or finance in order to earn them, but your explanation makes sense too, probably both. Lawyers are also notoriously bad at math, and yes, they tend to follow their "intuitions" even where data might improve their success.

I had anxiety dreams over the safety of this man's money last night

xp You can almost forgive them. After all, data isn't what convinces juries.

i get my laundry picked up and delivered and for me it is the best money i spend

Update: I managed to get the laundry folded. There is no longer a load of towels cold-molding in our washer.

He rattled off a hectic schedule of steampunk picnics, dinners on vintage trains and burlesque shows. The group also had a taste for sideshow oddities in the style of Coney Island entertainments. Morgana had a video on her iPhone, for example, of a scaled-down Ferris wheel being ridden by taxidermied squirrels. “Isn’t that something?” she mused.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/01/travel/regilding-the-gilded-age-in-new-york.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=photo-spot-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0

It was the perfect night for a séance.

This is awesome and I had a similar idea to do this last year. I totally want to go to a seance.

I don't know how I ended up on this article but this guy starts his travelogue humblebragging about not caring about losing expensive stuff (credit cards, cash, laptops, etc.) and how it is really just evidence that he is some kind of absent-minded genuis.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/01/magazine/karl-ove-knausgaard-travels-through-america.html?action=click&contentCollection=Europe®ion=Footer&module=MoreInSection&pgtype=article

I saw there were like 3 or 4 articles on this guy, turns out he is a novelist. The NY Times says "He cries all over the place in the first three volumes of his six-part autobiographical novel". The book sounds like a monument to pointless self-indulgence and naval gazing.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/28/books/knausgaards-my-struggle-book-three-explores-fearful-past.html

um, well it's driven by him coming to terms with his abusive upbringing

“Whether he hit me or not made no difference,” Mr. Knausgaard writes. “It wasn’t the pain I was afraid of, it was him, his voice, his face, his body, the fury it emitted, that was what I was afraid of, and the terror never let up, it was there for every single day of my entire childhood.”

he's sort of a big deal

Lol I've never heard of him but after first glance at the URL thought it said Karl Rove

he's apparently the new Proust

that reviewer got malaria from him :((((

http://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2015/03/why-im-a-public-school-teacher-but-a-private-school-parent/386797/?utm_source=SFFB

featuring one of the best taglines I've ever seen

It’s not selling out; it’s buying in.

Only the NYT could set the beginning of their triumph-over-adversity story at Exeter.

And it ends at Scripps ($47K / year)

Somehow she managed to make something of herself

For Yale, Princeton and Brown, that wasn’t enough. All three turned him down.
His mother, Diana, told me that on the day he got that news, “He shut me out for the first time in 17 years. He barely looked at me. Said, ‘Don’t talk to me and don’t touch me.’ Then he disappeared to take a shower and literally drowned his sorrows for the next 45 minutes.”

what 17-year-old doesn't like to 'drown their sorrows' in the shower for 45 minutes at a time amirite

tooooo much informationnnnnnn.........

man I'm glad I don't have to apply to college again

what 17-year-old doesn't like to 'drown their sorrows' in the shower for 45 minutes at a time amirite

― bizarro gazzara, Wednesday, March 18, 2015 11:57 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

looooooooool

today i learned that rich kids do that too

For Ms. Ginn skinning and eating rats represents the survivalist instincts she likes to explore in her work. “To have these sorts of skills, it’s very empowering,” she said. “It makes me feel like I have more control over my world.”

― scott seward, Thursday, July 26, 2012 10:00 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

!

this is monumentally ridiculous

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/22/realestate/when-new-york-kids-help-find-the-family-home.html

Teens and preteens are getting involved in finding multimillion-dollar homes for their families, and in a few instances, doing everything but writing the check.

the comments are great

also:
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Fantastic.

"Katie Haggerty, a fashion designer, has worked as a real estate broker. "

like, you know

you know the drill, right?

Katie Haggerty, a fashion designer, has worked as a real estate broker. Katie Haggerty, a fashion designer, has worked as a real estate broker. Katie Haggerty, a fashion designer, has worked as a real estate broker. Katie Haggerty, a fashion designer, has worked as a real estate broker. Katie Haggerty, a fashion designer, has worked as a real estate broker. Katie Haggerty, a fashion designer, has worked as a real estate broker. Katie Haggerty, a fashion designer, has worked as a real estate broker.

Someday internet archaeologists will exhume examples of people repeating sentences and wonder why they did that. Someday internet archaeologists will exhume examples of people repeating sentences and wonder.....ah, hell

maybe more Late Stage Empire-Decline than quid-ag per se but I don't know where else to put this

WARNING: disturbingly graphic images

None of the people in those photos should count as adults.

Nope.

Maybe at least this is their way of coming to terms with that fact.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/24/nyregion/new-led-streetlights-shine-too-brightly-for-some-in-brooklyn.html

get some blinds yo!!!

Huh, trying to select text to copy results in being redirected to another page. In this case one called "Canine Fashion Paralysis." That's pretty annoying.

Anyway, those LEDs are gross. They're really cold and harsh.