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

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

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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:
Skye van Merkensteijn Skye van Merkensteijn Skye van Merkensteijn Skye van Merkensteijn Skye van Merkensteijn Skye van Merkensteijn Skye van Merkensteijn Skye van Merkensteijn

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.

http://static01.nyt.com/images/2015/03/24/nyregion/APPRAISAL2/APPRAISAL2-articleLarge.jpg

If only there was a way to stop light from coming in these windows.

That's my neighborhood. I noticed the LEDs only after I saw that piece. Still, it does make the street seem like a big holding room. Get me outta there.

Wish we'd gotten a photo of Skye van Merkensteijn in his middle-school ascot.

Oh yeah the nabe profile in Real Estate this week was Sunnyside, which i can apparently add to the Unaffordable column.

Get you some tinfoil.

Sunnyside's been unaffordable for a good while, I was looking for places there a couple years ago and...yeah, nope.

I don't love LED lights, especially because municipalities tend to really go completely OTT with them and turn once-pleasant streets into blinding nightmares. Columbus and/or Ohio State were doing this while I lived there and I remember it being a big deal when trekking up Woodruff to get Wendy's became like going through an interrogation. The basic idea of energy efficiency is totally reasonable though and TBH I'm sure in a few years it'll just be one of those things where, yeah, there's something kinda magical about old-timey photos that we don't experience anymore, but I have a feeling something similar probably went on with the demise of gas lights or candles or what have you.

The one that drives me nuts is getting CFLs for the house and accidentally getting a way too "cool" temperature. Now that is ghastly.

where should i live, dr c?

If I only knew. I'm doing okay at the Bushwick/Bed-Stuy border but it's a compromise situation considering the respective budgets and commute needs of myself and my girlfriend. Would really, really love more trees and maybe more food options, and to not live with this one horrid roommate that's been in the building for nine years, has some insanely low grandfathered-in rent, doesn't bathe, and behaves like a petulant child emperor. I think to achieve all this we'd need to double our annual income, or go back in time and lock in some great place in Lefferts Gardens like my friends used to have.

i don't buy CFLs for my house, i still use incandescents, i can't stand the fluorescent light.

Got to make sure you get the "soft white" CFLs. Except in the bathroom where harsh bright light is necessary for applying makeup and plucking chin whiskers.

Sunnyside is still cheaper than gentrifying Brooklyn neighborhoods, I think? Tho prices def have gone up over the last few years. We have a nice 1br for under 1400.

Morbs you should move to the Bronx

xps

surprised this wasn't posted yet. shocked that this is a thing: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/25/nyregion/as-manhattan-area-codes-multiply-some-still-covet-a-212.html

ime everyone just has cellphones w/whatever their area code of origin is? 408 for me.

man those people at the beginning of the article are such dweebs

Who even knows anyone's phone number. Once it's in a contact, set it and forget it. Never seen again.

idgi - 212 is for landlines! the OG mobile area code is 917

i don't set nuthin

Agonies, but without that unique NYT flavor:

Even worse, nannies “from Tibet or Nepal don’t understand the infrastructure of a building. They don’t understand that a doorman will help you with a taxi.” Many can’t use Uber, she said.

http://pagesix.com/2015/04/21/inside-posh-boot-camp-for-clueless-maids-and-nannies/

vom

lesson one in journalism for dickheads - condescension as a stylistic element

Her husband looks like a 75-year-old just waiting to happen, and that pic is from 2008.

“I’ve always pitched this theory of, if a guy comes up to a restaurant in a red Ferrari, you kind of recoil,” he said. “But if you find out that the guy owned 14 of them and he writes a blog on them, then you can appreciate it, because you can trust that there’s a depth to it.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/01/fashion/mens-style/john-mayer-watches.html?_r=0

“The watch community gets its power from being esoteric,” Mr. Mayer said. “We don’t want everybody to be involved in it.”

“That’s the best koi fish you can find,” he said dismissively, nodding toward the crude fish tattoo he got at 18. “And that,” he said, pulling up his other sleeve to show off a lovely reinterpretation he got at 32, “is the koi fish that you want.”

He lowered the sleeve. “It all represents the trip through knowledge.”

Adam Savage's podcast had an entire episode on watches - even non-bro watch guys are awful as it turns out.

These are real words that came out of a person's mouth, without laughter

“John is something of a watch-nerd icon,” said Benjamin Clymer, the 32-year-old founder of Hodinkee, which features watch news and reviews catering to next-generation aficionados. “I think, in a lot of ways, John made it O.K. to really go deep into watches and not be embarrassed about it. I can’t tell you how many guys have come up to me at events and said, ‘My wife or girlfriend thought I was crazy for caring about watches so much, until I told her John Mayer was the very same way.’ ”

In my world that a) makes it less ok and b) gets you dickpunched

Sometimes consuming goods and displaying status symbols takes real courage.

hey it all represents the trip through knowledge. let's be cool about this.

At 50 you have the koi fish you deserve.

I had never heard about this Hodinkee guy until he wrote a thing about the Apple watch but apparently he's like America's top watch blogger

I always thought that if I won the lottery I'd like to collect Swatches. I love Swatches.

I used to read this site a lot, but he gave up collecting an sold all his Swatches

this site, rather: http://swatch.allsopp.com/index.html