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

i just really hope they have someone in their lives who made them feel bad about this

i can't handle this thread

according to this she had a $30/day cigarette habit for a long time, so that adds up I guess

http://observer.com/2015/12/from-awkward-teen-to-cigar-lounge-queen-how-cigarettes-brought-me-to-life/

i went to her tweet where she shares this column and all the responses are like 'omg so true, thanks for saying this'

My new crowd of women didn’t smoke, ordered Earl Grey tea at happy hour, and apportioned dinner checks precisely with a calculator.

Fuck, give me the cancer sticks.

earl grey tea is solid tho

i am in love with the wissotzky earl grey tea i bought at stop & shop last week. smells so good. have no idea what the deal is with wissotzky. probably owned by lipton.

not owned by lipton. my apologies to the wissotzky family.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wissotzky_Tea

oh yeah that's for sure good tea. I also recommend Ahmad. These are the brands they carry at my local Russian/eastern European grocer and I imagine that people who shop there probably drink more tea and have better standards for it.

a company once run by the founder of cultural Zionism, fyi.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahad_Ha%27am

according to this she had a $30/day cigarette habit for a long time,

*I* had a $30 a day cig habit on $40k a year, and i managed fine.

(caveat: thats one pack here. smokes are EXPENSIVE)

*I* had a $30 a day cig habit on $40k a year, and i managed fine.

jesus wasn't that like more than your rent?

$30 a day? God no, my rent averages $300 a week.

shit be expensive here, man.

*sad urban nod*

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/news/husbands-who-always-fly-business-class-while-wives-travel-in-economy/

that's some pretty exquisite rageclick fodder right there.

think about that movie The Wedding Singer and how it communicated the fact that Drew Barrymore's fiance was a full-on knob by the fact that he made her sit in the aisle seat. and this is 100x times worse!

Why those women are putting up with such blatant disrespect for... oh wait, money.

jfc http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/17/opinion/sunday/i-named-my-mixed-race-daughter-for-a-slave-trading-town.html?_r=0

jfc

here's a good one:

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/05/us/college-protests-alumni-donations.html

Mr. Hall, whose grandfather, father, uncles and son went to Amherst, archly calls himself “a powerhouse of nepotism.” But he has endowed a scholarship and says he welcomes students whose backgrounds are different from his.

“I get letters every year about the recipient of my scholarship fund,” he said. “The name will always be a name that is ethnically or racially — you can tell — not like Hall. And so be it. You’ve got to go with the flow to some degree.”

But, he wonders, “where did this supercorrectness thing come from?”

nytimes profile #31,564,978 of a rich white piece of shit

Scott MacConnell cherishes the memory of his years at Amherst College, where he discovered his future métier as a theatrical designer. But protests on campus over cultural and racial sensitivities last year soured his feelings.

Now Mr. MacConnell, who graduated in 1960, is expressing his discontent through his wallet. In June, he cut the college out of his will.

“As an alumnus of the college, I feel that I have been lied to, patronized and basically dismissed as an old, white bigot who is insensitive to the needs and feelings of the current college community,” Mr. MacConnell, 77, wrote in a letter to the college’s alumni fund in December, when he first warned that he was reducing his support to the college to a token five dollars.

In the category of supercorrectness, some alumni note that in March, a new director of the Women’s and Gender Center asked to be addressed as “they,” rather than “he” or “she.” “This is not a joke,” Paul Ruxin, who identified himself as “Old Curmudgeon class of ’65,” wrote to his classmates shortly before he died in April.

Another case of death by social justice. sad.

Funny, cuz alumni giving at Hampshire is breaking records every year

(its own records, we still have comically less money than Amherst)

This is not a joke, wow, well, farewell to the Old Curmudgeon Class.'

sad lol as this reminds me of:

On the morning of 23 June 1959, Boris Vian was at the Cinema Marbeuf for the screening of the film version of I will Spit on Your Graves. He had already fought with the producers over their interpretation of his work, and he publicly denounced the film, stating that he wished to have his name removed from the credits. A few minutes after the film began, he reportedly blurted out: "These guys are supposed to be American? My ass!" He then collapsed into his seat and died from sudden cardiac death en route to the hospital.[3]

― pariah newsletter (seandalai), Sunday, 9 February 2014 22:01 (2 years ago) Permalink

i had no idea that was how boris vian died

"Either that film goes or I do!"

he didn't know his ass from his aorta.

Presidential campaign edition!

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/11/us/politics/hillary-clinton-money.html?action=click&contentCollection=us&module=NextInCollection®ion=Footer&pgtype=article&version=newsevent&rref=collection%2Fnews-event%2Felection-2016

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Losing the governor’s race here in 1980 so shattered a young Bill Clinton that he couldn’t face his supporters, so he sent his wife around to thank campaign workers instead. He later gathered with close friends for dinner but quietly sulked, playing the country song “I Don’t Know Whether to Kill Myself or Go Bowling” on the jukebox.

But his wife had a more pressing concern: money. The ousted governor needed a job, the family needed a place to live, and moving out of the governor’s mansion meant losing the help they had as they raised their 9-month-old daughter, Chelsea.

The morning after the election, Hillary Clinton worked the phones from the mansion, calling wealthy friends and asking for help.

“The world changed. There was a tectonic shift,” said Thomas F. McLarty III, a friend of Mr. Clinton’s who served as his White House chief of staff.

Mr. Clinton was of little use as he fixated on voters’ rejection. And for the first time, friends said, Mrs. Clinton glimpsed fragility in the future she had moved to Arkansas to pursue. She worried about saving for Chelsea’s college, caring for her aging parents, and even possibly supporting herself should the marriage or their political dreams dissolve.

“It was up to her to just keep holding things up,” said Nancy Pietrafesa, a college friend of Mrs. Clinton’s who moved to Arkansas to work for Mr. Clinton in the 1970s.

The verbal/mental gymnastics in this article are just baffling:

Hillary Clinton’s relationship with money has long puzzled even some of her closest supporters: Despite choosing a life in government, she has appeared eager to make money, [driven to provide for her family and helping amass a fortune of more than $50 million with her husband.

Mrs. Clinton had become a partner at the Rose Law Firm in 1979, and during these lean years she balanced her work there with caring for Chelsea, who celebrated her first birthday and learned to walk in the Hillcrest house, on Midland Street. She often felt on her own as Mr. Clinton crisscrossed the state, friends said.

She increased her hours to bring in work for the firm, with business not as easy to come by now that she was no longer the governor’s wife.

http://southcarolina1670.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/great-depression-family.jpg

lol estela :)

Despite choosing a life in government, she has appeared eager to make money

amazing

i don't know where else to put this, it's kind of amazing

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/10/nyregion/metropolitan-diary-a-light-across-the-rooftops.html

Dear Diary:

Hey there at 3 a.m.
I see your light across the black rooftops.
It doesn’t beckon.
It says quite simply
I’m here.

You are also awake,
for whatever reason
the light goes on to tell me.
O.K., I am up too
For my own reasons.

So, you at 44th Street
And I at 41st,
Well we share
the dark city.
That’s something.

i'm not from new york or anything but my understanding was that it doesn't sleep?

just a couple of midtown high rise residents thinking baout things

I like to imagine that she's addressing her diary all throughout.

Your college freshman kid's basic dorm room essentials: $350 headphones and an Alexa

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/11/technology/personaltech/off-to-college-maybe-these-devices-should-go-along.html?_r=0

quid/ag for sure, but what really set my gears to grinding was the suggestion that a tablet would be a great medium for liberal arts students writing papers. god help us. also lol at the suggestion of a $55 electric kettle for making cup-o-noodles.

those are all the wirecutter's standard recommendations for wealthy bay are tech workers, which makes sense cos the wirecutter is brian chen's website

tbh even the idea that you have to have a coffee-making device of whatever sort in the dorms ticks me off. just shuffle blearily over to the dining hall and drink the swill from the machine there, you'll make friends.

Trump tells the Miami Herald it would "be fine" if American terror suspects were tried before military tribunals. gee, sounds great. also:

Trump spoke to the Herald at the Fontainebleau Hotel, steps from the shoreline and not far from streets the city of Miami Beach has spent millions of dollars elevating to fend off rising seas.

“I’m not a big believer in man-made climate change,” Trump said, despite vast scientific evidence to the contrary. “There could be some impact, but I don’t believe it’s a devastating impact.”

bonuses: some really garbled stuff on cuba and venezuela. the paper, refreshingly, points out many of the things that don't make any sense or are in conflict with reality. the cuba stuff in particular sounds like it would be a real problem for him trying to scrape up republican votes in miami, but i don't really know the ins and outs of the reparations question.

quid/ag for sure, but what really set my gears to grinding was the suggestion that a tablet would be a great medium for liberal arts students writing papers. god help us. also lol at the suggestion of a $55 electric kettle for making cup-o-noodles.

― Silence, followed by unintelligible stammering. (Doctor Casino), Thursday, August 11, 2016 9:30 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

a gooseneck kettle for ur single estate, pour-over cup-o-noodles

also a fucking breville toaster, jesus I thought that was like a yuppie-level appliance.

oops sorry for misposted trump stuff above

Those punchably awful neo-Victorian fucks are at it again. For those not willing to read what amounts to a self-righteous Yelp review padded out to the length of a Victorian serialized novel, they were denied entry to a garden attraction that does not permit visitors "in costume." Clearly, a massive human rights violation. As a friend of a friend points out, sadly Mr. Victorian did not bring his gramophone or wax cylinders, so we have to rely entirely on their account of the conversation with staff, which does not exactly have the ring of truth.

lol port townsend.