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

this doesnt really bug me tbh

'we were going to line the client's walls with empty cans, but then he thought he might like the option of eating what was in them, so we bought five thousand cans of beans.'

the dude who runs one used book shop I go to sometimes has a specialty of selling books by the foot to interior designers

I mean decorators

usually for the houses of lawyers

and when the lawyers come in themselves they usually buy science fiction apparently I don't know why

the dude who runs the shop tries to describe the plot of the girl who played with fire to me every time I go in there holy shit

I don't read trees, I smoke 'em.

Those white jacket books look even lamer than I pictured. and those silver books with that fugly font....aaaaaaaaaggggghhh

I don't like these people.

THATCHER WINE!?

such a Boulder name.

the names you give your kids when you're young and silly

But his wife was moving at a different speed — the speed of a mother who sees blood pouring out of a facial laceration onto the carpet.

Yeah, I think my blender has this setting.

I enjoy this thread a lot more now that I don't work there.

To be fair, my 2-year-old has a coffee-table gash above his right eye that may well leave a permanent scar. But that came from actually leaping full force off the couch and miscalculating his landing.

Yeah but think how much worse he would be from years of broken bones caused by slipping on magazines strewn across the floor.

http://f.cl.ly/items/0Z431T2b0q3x1U2t0G3C/Screen%20shot%202011-01-18%20at%2001.08.01.jpg

TOKYO — It is the Achilles’ heel of 3-D television: the clunky glasses that viewers must wear to see images pop out in 3-D.

But Rieko Fukushima, a researcher at Toshiba, developed a way to do away with the glasses — and at the same time is helping to crack Japan’s glass ceiling for women.

"let's do a story about women who have kids AND a career"

"sure, sure, whatever... wait, haven't we already done two this week already?"

"yeah... well OK how about the women are.... in.... uh.."

"yeah..?"

"JAPAN! they're in japan! they're japanese moms juggling career and motherhood!"

"right.. let me just look at my SEO word list.. cross reference that.. ok got it."

"what?"

"can you get 3-D TV in there somehow?"

"sure, i mean, i guess i could--"

"done" --shoots wad of paper basketball style toward trash can in the corner, which has a toy backboard mounted above it-- "AND one!"

rage: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/19/dining/19pets.html?_r=1&src=me&ref=general

That one seems pretty inoffensive. Rural people/hunters/etc. have been doing that for a long time - if some yuppies buy in as well, nothing wrong with that. Most of what we feed our animals is crap.

RAGE

Plz don't veganize your dog.

you have to love that photo though

I don't know about dogs but you def shouldn't veganize your cat. Not a bad idea to stop feeding either/both of them preservatives, though.

There is quite seriously a low- or no-carb "Catkins" diet for cats, which sounds like material for this thread until I read that if cats ate critters like they would catch in the wild (or "wild"), they'd be eating like 80% protein, 20% fat, and 0% carbs, or something like that.

i only read the first page but i didn't notice any veganizing of animals taking place?

tracer that made me lol so hard

esp. basketball-shooting sequence

I'm still trying to figure out how the fuck the cats in the pictures are 25 years old and don't look like they're half-dead.

The thing that annoys me most is the article just contributes to the unfair vilification of processed food and the perpetuates the idea that natural = better.

Most people are going to disagree with me on that. I wish I had more time to argue on the internet about it.

maybe they are mixing the blood of infants in with the organic offal

xp

bernard i am here all week

Just chiming in to say that I'm not horribly enraged by this article. The solution provided here is obviously extreme and impractical for most pet owners. However, it is certainly worth pointing out that typical off-the-shelf food for cats and dogs is horrible, it usually contains animal byproducts that really shouldn't be eaten at all. I know that most people are not willing to pay much more than bargain basement prices to feed their pets, but it is worthwhile pointing out that there are alternatives that do not contain byproducts, and that are much healthier and humane.

more humane that is...

It's ok guys, I have enough rage for all of us. Save your rage for other people.

The solution provided here is obviously extreme and impractical for most pet owners.

Eh, if it really is only $12 for a couple weeks worth of food and you can prepare a week's worth at once and store it in the fridge, it's not really that extreme or impractical.

But in all honesty, I buy the expensive dry food and occasionally give the cat a little canned food, after which he thinks I'm the coolest guy ever. So I don't know why I'd want to make him think he's going to get awesome food all the time. That's just setting up more work for me!

btw cats are obligate carnivores

btw mh and I say this in all honesty you have the outlook required to be a great parent

Plz don't veganize your dog.

Your dog is getting a lot closer to being a vegan by eating dry dog food (which uses some industrial proteins and a lot of carbs) than with this method.

If I had a small to medium-sized dog I could totally see cooking up a pot once a week and feeding him off that. Gets unwieldly with a big dog, but for a corgi or beagle or something not such a big deal.

my local Tom Thumb sells pre-packaged dog food that's like this, only it's ~$3.50 per serving (I guess it could serve a smallish dog for the entire day, though).

Jeff OTM re this story with "RAGE" and

The thing that annoys me most is the article just contributes to the unfair vilification of processed food and the perpetuates the idea that natural = better.

Most people are going to disagree with me on that. I wish I had more time to argue on the internet about it.

― Jeff, Thursday, January 20, 2011 10:56 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

Actually, I'm more "rage" than "RAGE."

Also, one of those folks was a vegan who was feeding her dog a vegan diet.

im curious to hear the defense of processed foods

me too

the defense is this, at least as i've heard it proposed by a scientist friend of mine: it's just molecules. whether you get glucose from an organic apple or from an apple-flavored microwaveable tart, it's still just glucose.

kinda misses some of the nuances (both of the argument, and of nutrition, in general), but i think that's what some ppl would suggest

and presumably the pros are: it's cheap and cheap stuff is better because there are poor people.

fwiw i think these ppl are dead wrong, but w/e

It's not so much a defense of process foods as a challenge to the unexamined notion that organic or "natural" is inherently better, and the usually equally unquestioning resistance to the green revolution.

There is a whole clusterfuck section about this in the "opinions that make you want to leave a conversation" thread.

the defense is this, at least as i've heard it proposed by a scientist friend of mine: it's just molecules. whether you get glucose from an organic apple or from an apple-flavored microwaveable tart, it's still just glucose.

kinda misses some of the nuances (both of the argument, and of nutrition, in general), but i think that's what some ppl would suggest

― ullr saves (gbx), Thursday, January 20, 2011 2:20 PM Bookmark

Well I think the point is not the glucose but rather all the stuff you're not getting from the apple tart and all the extra bad stuff you are getting.

Not to say that processed is per se worse. I mean I don't think there's much difference between eating white sugar, sugar in the raw, honey or agave nectar -- it's all pretty much pure sugar and all stuff you should eat as little of as possible.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1sbgFFtKDrI

I wish I had more time to argue on the internet about it.

You don't hear this every day!