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

for a while he said he was so accustomed to eating “like a 14th-century noble” that he acquired gout — “far and away the most painful thing I’ve ever had.”

lcd undergout

goutsystem i mean

he's 45!

YOUNG VERY YOUNG

http://i.imgur.com/IDj8maB.png

New York Times Specifics on Plans To Fight ISWYDT

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/28/fashion/young-women-say-no-to-thongs.html

quality reporting there

i will never forget where i was the moment i learned that thongs had fallen out of fashion

RIP whale tails

Besides sales, the “feminist underwear” has inspired countless Instagram “belfies” (that’s a selfie for the behind) from Me and You customers eager to show off their feminist convictions as well as their pert posteriors.

I just had a stroke.

“Most lingerie is designed to appeal to a man,” Ms. Baylis said. “For us, that’s not even a consideration. This is underwear you wear totally for you. Maybe no one will see it, or maybe you’ll put it up on Instagram to share with everyone you know.”

. . .

“I think there’s a widespread misconception that men are into pearl thong, lace contraptions,” said Ms. Javitch of Ten Undies. “To be honest, men are into girls in T-shirts and white underwear.”

It's not about what's sexy to men (it is totally about what is sexy to men).

haha

girl i dont care what you wrap your posterior with, just as long as its pert

Also here are the totally not designed to be sexy for men white underpants that are supposed to be some kind of revolutionary cut: https://hello-beautiful-usa.com/product/hello-beautiful-panty/

FYI you wouldn't be able to walk five steps in those without them ending up crammed into your buttcrack, speaking of thongs.

Also, guess what, you can currently and have been able to buy briefs at any department store, big box discount store, or on-line retailer since thongs came on the scene in packs of five for what these people are charging for one pair. Also also if not appealing to men is really what we're talking about here, how about offering your wares in sizes above a large, or using models who fall outside the confines what is generally considered to be attractive to straight men?

God. I didn't want to think this hard about underpants today. THANKS.

http://www.jockey.com/catalog/product/elance-supersoft-brief-3-pack

Highly recommended. You can write "FEMINIST" on the ass with a sharpie.

A young generation of women is discovering a new brand of sexy in the most unlikely of places: their grandmothers’ underwear drawers.

also buying white shirts and writing stuff on them with sharpies is drastically underdone, i need to get back in that habit.

young women finally find a new brand of sexy in their undies, it was there all along@!

a brand new of sexy

Anytime I'm having a bad month, I just need to revisit this thread for laughs

But Mr. McCartney and Ms. Shevell will likely have their work cut out for them: Little has been done to the unit, which, according to the listing, has five bedrooms, five full baths and one half bath. The couple can use the apartment as a part-time residence — unlike many of the co-ops on Fifth and Park Avenues, this one permits pieds-à-terre.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/31/realestate/paul-mccartneys-15-5-million-central-park-view.html

my five bedroom summer house

To be fair, he is on record as not caring too much for money.

he's married to the mob!

"Mike Shevell and NEMF both have connections to the American Mafia according to an investigation conducted by the federal government. In a racketeering suit filed by the U.S. Attorney in 1988 Shevell was accused of making Mafia payoffs and having an eleven-year corrupt relationship with Tony Provenzano, a Genovese family mobster and former union leader who was convicted of racketeering and murder. The matter was settled with no admission of wrongdoing.[1][2] Shevell's daughter, Nancy Shevell, is an NEMF vice president. She married musician Sir Paul McCartney on October 9, 2011."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_England_Motor_Freight

jesus, you find the most disturbing images on the internet when you dig around:

http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/02022/ronnie_2022460c.jpg

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/multimedia/archive/00368/118812550_wood_368168c.jpg

Damn, Macca looking worse than I thought.

'go back'

http://www.herecomestheairplane.co/

prob better suited for why not class warfare thread but this one was handy.

here's the (apparently real) inspiration: http://www.trashday.co/

Almost 100% sure Jeff would sign up for that if it was available in Chicago.

Old-world vibe meets graphic humour: take a tour of this Bethnal Green pop art home

http://www.homesandproperty.co.uk/home-garden/homes/old-world-vibe-meets-graphic-humour-take-tour-bethnal-green-pop-art-home

Apparently the print edition included the now-absent sentence "Her father is the late... billionaire financier and tycoon, Sir James Goldsmith."

"Such eccentric ensembles aren’t reserved for weddings and red carpet occasions. At the couple’s Victorian terrace house in Jesus Green E2, Charlotte is kitted out in a dress parodying a tin of Campbell’s soup and Philip rocks a Snoopy suit. That’s just how they roll."

Jesus fuck the picture of them

fuck me, that's atrocious. what would sir jammy fishpaste think?

really wish I could meet some of these kind of ppl, ingratiate myself, and then just spend the rest of my life sponging off them, that's the life for me

This is a bit like that Selby guy with an article written around it, whatever happened to him?

http://www.wsj.com/articles/new-york-city-mayor-bill-de-blasio-is-increasingly-unpopular-with-white-voters-1433465818

when people want to cosplay but they have no interests

also re: milo's link, 9 out of 10 dentists agree

http://ny.curbed.com/archives/2015/06/05/from_bocce_to_dog_spas_nyc_rentals_with_outrageous_perks.php

A building with a recording studio is kind of badass tbh

I'd much rather have outrageous perks at home than at work.

so uh http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/08/business/media/publisher-to-put-asterisk-on-primates-of-park-avenue.html

or are we doing that elsewhere?

reading the headline i mentally substituted parentheses for asterisk and mistakenly thought the title would be changed to "primates" - like, you know, the ape lobby objected to the association

this book and the times coverage - 2 reviews and now this "news" item - is so totally "quiddities and agonies of the ruling class" it's not funny

The Big City column last Sunday, about reaction to previews of a book about wives on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, referred incorrectly to a woman who wrote a blog post for Elle magazine about life in the neighborhood. Her byline, Blair Schmaldorf, is a pseudonym, not her real name, which she will not disclose.

I am dying that they thought Blair Schmaldorf was a real name.

You mean to tell me she didn't really hobknob with the Schmockefellers?!

irl lolz at blair schmaldorf