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

Think this
http://www.artisanalpencilsharpening.com/index.html

might as well be posted in this thread as anywhere else

haha i just watched a torre video

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/19/realestate/more-parents-buying-apartments-for-their-children.html

I think poopburgers have been around in Japan since the 90s.

11.
Eilat
New York
June 17th, 2011
3:09 pm
As someone who has literally clawed herself up from humble, miserable, stressful beginnings as the daughter of a working class retail salesperson and homemaker from a fundamentalist Christian family who has given me and my siblings zero support in terms of college of big life purchases such as real estate, who has endured years in her 20's renting rooms with several roommates on the perimeter of Manhattan, who finally, in her early 30s, college educated (with a Master's degree, believe it or not), $60K in student loan debt, and 10 years' of miserable job after job finally has a respectable and stable salary (although still barely considered 'middle class' in Manhattan), who still has to split the rent (though this time with only 1 roommate) to live in the city in which I work and love, I cannot help but find the reality of someone my age or younger who has not worked as hard, who has probably never tasted the bitterness of a hard life or struggle or survival insecurity, who has probably less individual drive and intelligence and charisma, 'gifted' a Manhattan apartment rent-free from their wealthy and coddling parents and then sneer down on the rest of people like me who cannot yet afford to buy anything in Manhattan as simply and utterly UNFAIR, hurtful, disgusting, and blood-boiling. I realise that parents have every right to support their children as they see fit, and I though my nature is not to be jealous or angry, but this is the kind of stuff that creates resentment and bitter disillusionment in the American idea of supposed fairness and equality. I view these coddled children as pampered and ungrateful, and from my rough life experience, there is nothing that can convince me otherwise.
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i agree that no one w/less charisma than me should be able to own an apartment

she has literally clawed her way through life

she has a Master's degree in clawing

from a fundamentalist Crustacean family

i have literally clawed my way through life

signed,
a cat

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Eliat would have been OTM had she included "when the Revolution comes, these motherfuckers are first against the wall."

quiddities and agonies of the self-righteously unwealthy

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/19/fashion/new-yorks-core-club-a-portal-to-power.html

in how many ways can the times call people nouveau riche in one article

“You’re not going to find an unhappy person in the Core club,”

If this thread were its own board, that would be the tagline.

ILXcORe.com

heh, nothing like the times style section taking on arrivistes

“At least three members I can think of offhand were interested in buying the Mets,” said Mr. DeRitis, citing James F. McCann, the founder of 1-800-Flowers.com; Anthony Scaramucci, the manager of a $7-billion hedge fund; and Steven A. Cohen, the hedge fund mogul who is currently both a front-runner to be the Mets’ new owner and under investigation by the S.E.C. “That pretty much says it all.”

^^ lol this is the funniest/subtlest burn... like who would want to own the METS for gods sake...

will laugh when Mets & Yanks' positions are reversed in 20 years

I think that was a subplot of Back to the Future II

your nursing-home attendant will keep the news from you for the lols
xpost

will yours tell ya the Braves have moved back to Boston?

ha, nobody around here knows enough about baseball to pull that one

really wish there were a comment section for this one

Cultural “optimization” is also a part of the club’s makeup; anyway, there is an amorphous operative notion that members share what Mr. DeRitis, the cultural curator, calls a “sensibility.”

also re the beginning of this article, how is walking around in a chanel suit + birkin bag not kind of.. ostentatious

that article makes me want to kill

the story told in the article is about 100x less infuriating than how it's written

no doubt

its good because the writer and the people featured within are both horrible

so its like double

will laugh when Mets & Yanks' positions are reversed in 20 years

there's a greater chance of the Jets and the Giants (or the Nets and the Knicks) reversing position than the Mets and the Yankees. and no, that isn't just me being a sarcastic Phils Phan Phucker.

the jets & the giants and the knicks & the nets are pretty much in the same positions

new york, you mean?

the jets & the giants and the knicks & the nets are pretty much in the same positions

in a way, that's KIND of what i was getting at (as far as how the actual teams perform that is). still, NYC is largely a Giants/Knicks town; Jets are an afterthought, and the Nets weren't even an afterthought during the Jason Kidd/Kenyon Martin days.

"SHE looked like money, the woman with the sleek long legs, tanned a light toast color"

a conference dining room fitted out with state-of-the-art teleconferencing technology

Struggling to find a suitably impressive description of the cutting edge qualities of the conference room in my opinion; might as well have said the conference room comes equipped with high speed internet

I was all ready to spit bile at olivia Waldman, the "physician's assistant" in the 1.15 million dollar condo, but the psychic credit check nutter featured below has left me speechless.

I think I'm gonna change my last name to Enterprise. I think we all should.

agreed

idk if this has been posted yet but: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/19/fashion/how-divorce-lost-its-cachet.html with gems like

In another unexpected twist, some divorced women say they detect an unspoken envy. Other wives and mothers, they explained, were “battling it out” while dealing with the unceasing tasks of wifedom, motherhood and work.

“What I get from a number of married women in my community is jealousy of my new lifestyle,” Dr. Monet said. “Dating, going to yoga five times a week, having time for myself. Raising young kids with a spouse doesn’t afford you much time.”

Ms. Morrison also sees a subtle, unexpected reaction. “Among my college friends and my closest friends, I’m still the only one who’s divorced,” she said. “In a funny way, I think I may have turned into the groovy one.”

Ms. Morrison: The Groovy One

"Raising young kids with a spouse doesn’t afford you much time.”

Being a single parent, though, is all dating and yoga and alone time.

but when you have a nanny and make $100,000 it probably actually is!! that's what put this article right in the quiddities wheelhouse - quotes from people generalizing from a situation that actually only obtains for the top 1% of the population

Yes.

Uh these people don't make 100k a yr
They make a lot more

haha for real i figured there was a zero missing or something

i mean i know people who make 100k per yr and they can't afford nannies

y'know in New York i mean