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

the other week she got really resentful about a gawker post from 2007 and declared us not as funny as dorothy parker

http://www.slate.com/articles/life/roiphe/2011/10/gawker_why_can_t_it_do_nastiness_the_right_way_.html

tbf, y'all are not as funny as dorothy parker

u think so?

haha i like how she compares herself to joan didion in that actually it makes me deranged-level angry

you suck, katie roiphe

horseshoe if u ever come to nyc we can do a drive-by on roiphe where she lives in park slope

not with guns or anything, just drive by her slowly mean mugging

i'm in. i actually just want to scream at her to get some damn therapy about whatever she's mad at her mom abuot and stop writing anti-feminist claptrap. or just stop writing full stop.

wait so is Brooklyn on an island or not

also what is "the Bronx"

brooklyn is on an island bisected by a huge canal--one one side is "brownstone brooklyn" (made of brown stones) on the other side is "boerum hill"

wouldn't that mean it is now *two* islands?

east egg and west egg amirite

yes the side called boerum hill is also known as manhattan

its funnie but i guess p obv that a key to being katie roiphe is that youd never really consider whether you are, in fact, deeply terrible

tbf, y'all are not as funny as dorothy parker

― herbie mann on some gully shit (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, November 9, 2011 10:08 PM (7 minutes ago)

man its bumming me out to find out that ppl dont think gawker is as funny as dorothy parker

can we focus on how katie roiphe's not fit to get joan didion's coffee?

haha okay at some point in that rant she refers to paradise lost which reminds me that she refers to remembrance of things past in her article about how yuppie moms aren't sexy enough, except she does so in a way that suggests she's only read the first ten pages and belle waring calls her on it. i've never read proust so this is incredibly petty of me but i hate her.

sorry, this thread is supposed to be about something.

fwiw horseshoe i still am vaguely looking for a roommate (no cain); you are invited to move here and become a minor celebrity with max's backing

that is a lovely offer ty

haha

go bills

A couple weeks ago in some thread I tried to troll the bay by saying Oakland was a suburb of San Francisco and the only person who even responded was iatee dorking out on what like his definition of a 'suburb' is - and now look at this shit people can't even casually conflate two adjacent downtown Brooklyn neighborhoods w/o the thread police cracking heads - shameful

I probably just fumed silently.

the only person who even responded was iatee dorking out on what like his definition of a 'suburb' is

haha <3 iatee

go back to vermont u hippie xps

shouldve confused menlo park and berkeley

Same shit m/l

Btw a while ago on gawker max was h8ing on Vermont, he is no dororothy Parker I'll tell u that much

dororothy!

Lolol

cool ranch dororothy

Btw I am a new iPad owner I blame the iPad, also I blame it for all my horrible typing from before I owned it and before it existed

i like it it makes it sound like you and dorothy are close and you made up a weirdly long nickname for her

Oh how she laughed at the weirdly long nicknames I would make up for her, 'you're funnier than I, Dorothy Parker, am' she would say

is your ipad the reason you have been capitalizing the first word of your sentences? it is shocking, frankly.

Ha yes any unusual capitalization or punctuation is purely the iPads doing, the lil fucker

fuck not with my cousin dororothy tbh

friends of dororthy

i would never, never make fun of vermont

Would like to meet this Roiphe lady, just to find out how insufferable she is in person.

trust me, I've read the thread, she's insufferable

Just seeing "katie roiphe" and "joan didion" in the same sentence makes me grrrr

i would never, never make fun of vermont

― max, Thursday, November 10, 2011 7:50 AM (9 hours ago) Bookmark

i think u r bein disingenuous

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2011/11/11/business/Midnight1/Midnight1-articleLarge.jpg

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/11/business/some-consumers-object-to-sales-on-thanksgiving.html?_r=1&hp

i think this probably belongs in a 'first-world problems' thread rather than a 'quiddities of the ruling class thread' but i just can't get over the picture.

Man I kind of love the idea of puffy paint as a revolutionary tool (just going off picture here)

My relationship with this thread is kind of strained because every time the NY Times asks me to log in I just give up, I don't have time for that shit.

Ok this is just a "david brooks makes me want to curse in all punctuation" sort of thing really, but still... http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/11/opinion/the-inequality-map.html

Some grade A trolling there for real.

One of hoos's fave twitter stars liked that article and a dude I follow actually retweeted his praise for it. I had to hold my tongue, because... fuck.

I am not even sure what his point is.