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

re paywall: erase everything in the url after the "html" part

("bowels" article doesn't exist though; i'm guessing it's a joke)

wait, since when is baseball a "ruling class pastime"?

since George Will took a shit one morning during the 1980s and fished men at work: the craft of baseball outta the tank.

to be fair, i'm not sure how often i've seen irishes penning odes to baseball

AMONG the indignities that one may suffer when renting a Manhattan apartment — too little space for too much money, dismal natural light, tiresome flights of stairs, creepy neighbors — the lack of a dishwasher is high on many lists.

So when people make the leap from renter to owner, not having to hunch over a sinkful of dirty dishes is a must.

“It is now an inalienable right, not a privilege,” said Maria Manuche, a broker at the Corcoran Group.

no creepy neighbors anywhere outside manhattan, nosiree

http://parenting.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/04/01/naked-with-children-but-for-how-long/

tuomas.gif

another reason not to have kids btw is that you can continue hanging around yr house naked without writing a hand-wringing newspaper column about it

i read the hed thinking she had like a three year old

ah, Tuomas's soulmate blogs for the Times!!

(xpost)

Can't imagine being a boy on the verge of puberty and seeing my mom naked on the reg.

I can

AMONG the indignities that one may suffer when renting a Manhattan apartment — too little space for too much money, dismal natural light, tiresome flights of stairs, creepy neighbors — the lack of a dishwasher is high on many lists.

So when people make the leap from renter to owner, not having to hunch over a sinkful of dirty dishes is a must.

“It is now an inalienable right, not a privilege,” said Maria Manuche, a broker at the Corcoran Group.

― I DIED, Sunday, 1 April 2012 18:46 (Yesterday) Permalink

TBF, I would guess that a dishwasher is probably harder to obtain relative to income in NYC than it is in most places in the US.

since George Will took a shit one morning during the 1980s and fished men at work: the craft of baseball outta the tank.

― kurwa mać (Polish for "long life") (Eisbaer),

Always suspected him of being the kind of prankster who thought upper-decking was funny.

i wasn't going there, WmC, but now that you mention it ...

i read the hed thinking she had like a three year old

you and me both, max

also, who the hell doesn't close the bathroom door... ever? that's gross

It’s not like I haven’t struggled all my adult life with my body image. But there’s something affirming about how much my children have always loved and needed my body, from breast-feeding, to shared baths.

Tell me more about that.

I mean, if that doesn't describe the heart of the problem right there, it's at least a very creepy roadsign pointing in the right direction

I don't see the problem with changing in front of your family, or lounging around in boxers or whatever. People definitely need to close the door when using the restroom though. Probably shouldn't share a bath after age 3 or so.

the ruling class doesn't have to worry about Child Protective Services, apparently.

and yes, close the fucking bathroom door ... not just b/c yer kids shouldn't wanna see yer bits, but they also don't wanna smell yer stank.

I was pissed off when my mom would barge into my room without knocking before I was 12, I think. And definitely after that point! A dude needs some private time.

oh god those poor kids are about to have a really bad week at school

or a lot of friends asking to come over

only if she's a yummy mummy ... and something tells me she isn't.

wow, guess i need to be reading the motherlode column more regularly

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(april fool's joke, but a quidditastic one)

Rebecca Unsinn

lol those wacky Germans (nb: Unsinn = German for "nonsense").

the women in that motherlode blog are straight up weird

mommy bloggers are all weird, but the NYTimes takes it to a new level

parents are the worst, seriously, especially mothers

hey, my mom is a mother

that's for sure

i have a friend who is a "mommy blogger"

her posts are really bad at masking her depression/mental health issues and possible alcoholism

(tbf that covers a lot of all internet posting, but still)

euler, the baryshnikov of yr-mom jokes

Any time anyone blogs about anything personal everything they say has to be looked at skeptically cuz they are blogging about it imo

i have a friend who is a "mommy blogger"

her posts are really bad at masking her depression/mental health issues and possible alcoholism

(tbf that covers a lot of all internet posting, but still)

― buzza, Monday, April 2, 2012 4:04 PM (5 hours ago) Bookmark

should have eaten her placenta, smh

please mommy dont blog 'em

i am astounded by the naked household thing tho

def put some underwear on after i finished reading it

It seemed like a very needy lifestyle choice

We are a naked household because I enjoyed breastfeeding so much
hey kids remember when we used to take baths together as I wander casually down the hallway

Feel like if she's gonna raise nudist kids (which is ultimately fine with me as long as novody's being endangered) she should have worked through the angst rather before her older son turned 12.

haha well it seems less like her habits are tied to any particular philosophical position than to being really lazy

like sure its some effort to slip on a tshirt when you get out of bed but not that much effort

Then she's going to get in trouble with Uncle Sartre on Existentialmas

lol

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/slopers_creamy_river_lcaxb1lj4D0SHqo4f2K3GO
“I should not have to fight with my children every warm day on the playground just so someone can make a living!” the poster wailed. “I too was at the 9th Street Playground on Monday, and one of the vendors just handed my 4-year-old an ice cream cone. I was furious.”

truthfully, that doesn't fit here; more of a class warfare, how-dare-they hit job
we need a "harumphs and backaches of the soon-to haves - a rolling new york post thread"