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

My mom always talks about how all the housewives in her neighborhood when she grew up were drinking and/or popping pills, and her parents smoked pot, and some of the parents in the neighborhood even wife-swapped.

you could buy meth - PURE METH - at a fucking drugstore!

― the alternate vision continues his vision quest! (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, July 10, 2012 11:13 AM (1 hour ago)

pedantic point, but meth is not the same as amphetamine

pedant alert:

in 1943, Abbott Laboratories requested FDA approval of methamphetamine for treatment of narcolepsy, mild depression, postencephalitic parkinsonism, chronic alcoholism, cerebral arteriosclerosis, and hay fever, which was granted in December 1944.

Sale of the massive postwar surplus of methamphetamine in Europe, North America, and Japan stimulated civilian demand.

In the 1950s, there was a rise in the legal prescription of methamphetamine to the American public. In the 1954 edition of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, indications for methamphetamine included "narcolepsy, postencephalitic parkinsonism, alcoholism, certain depressive states, and in the treatment of obesity." Methamphetamine constituted half of the amphetamine salts for the original formulation for the diet drug Obetrol which later became Adderall. Methamphetamine was also marketed for sinus inflammation or for non-medicinal purposes as "pep pills" or "bennies".

I like cats

Otm

Bold opinion.

i would totally do cocaine if someone i knew offered me some. nobody ever offers me any!

i know!

i love how in casablanca, which is admittedly largely set in a bar, ppl just order drinks and then go to a different table and order more and more, etc. before saying racist things about the piano player. but everybody's having such a good time!

<I>they had karaoke bars in the good old days?

― click here if you want to load them all (Hurting 2), Tuesday, July 10, 2012 4:54 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
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It's 2012, I think 1986 officially counts as "the good old days."

i was just talking about something she said in the awl thing anyway. that they go to 40th birthday parties at karaoke places and get drunk and this is supposed to be an example of regressive mom behaviour or something? didn't say they did this in the old days.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/taylor-cotter/struggling-yet-not-struggling_b_1661698.html

not nyt but surprised it hasn't been posted here yet

I just posted it in the gen limbo thread

cuz she ain't no ruling class

i guess i don't really get the regression part anyway cuz most of the 30-something and 40-something parents i know who go to bars or drink or party or whatever never really stopped drinking or going to bars/parties. maybe when they had infants they did. those little bastards can slow you down.

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she's more ruling class than lena dunham, who now has to be mentioned in every single article by a female new yorker ever

"Now, two months after graduation, I seem to be one of just a handful of people that's been able to get themselves on their feet, pay their own bills and actually put together some semblance of an adult life with minimal parental assistance."

okay wait....

i should have bolded the "two months" part.

no she is a copy editor at studentadvisor.com, that site is prob not the next facebook

wait why is carrie bradshaw always referred to as carrie bradshaw but lena dunham is just lena dunham? doesn't she play a character with a different name? do people not understand that girls is not a docu

xp

and she lives in boston

there are some rich people in boston, but nobody who rules anyone

hannah something idr

wait is she complaining about having a good job and money? i'm so confused.

montana iirc xp

she's not even doing the normal complaint about good job + money aka bourgeois disenchantment

she's complaining that she hasn't suffered enough

http://gawker.com/5924881/22+year+old-is-very-upset-that-she-didnt-get-to-be-poor-for-a-while

it was the ultimate way to achieve my dreams, I realized that pursuing a volatile degree from private university was possibly one of the worst decisions I could have made.

sounds like a commercial for sports deodorant

there are some rich people in boston, but nobody who rules anyone

― iatee, Tuesday, July 10, 2012 9:40 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this is totally unfair

yeah, boston has some rulers for sure

maybe minor despots tho

boston is a 4 year summer camp for the ruling class

man why r u being so mean to boston

"Do not be too harsh on Taylor, gentle reader. Though she has a steady income, an apartment, a car, and a healthy sense of entitlement, she is right to mourn her predicament: she lives in Boston. Even Lena Fucking Dunham worship is preferable to that cruel fate."

gawker's got a point here...

oh shit i was just mean to boston too. sorry. but fuck boston.

other than the record stores. i'm cool with them.

boston sucks tbh, it's hard not to be mean

most annoyed @ her attributing her relative success to the fact that she just tried harder at everyone else at being employable and got internship after internship and had part time jobs (for the resume not bc she needed them to pay her tuition), never once mentioning, you know, luck

all im saying is come on be srs boston has some rulers, give credit where credits due

yeah i feel bad that i live so close to a city that i never want to go to.

u should feel bad, think of bostons feelings, its not like its cleveland or something, theres stuff there

have you tried lowell?

i mean sure the people might be a lil cranky and mostly frat boys but its not all bad

most annoyed @ her attributing her relative success to the fact that she just tried harder at everyone else at being employable and got internship after internship and had part time jobs (for the resume not bc she needed them to pay her tuition), never once mentioning, you know, luck

iirc this is the standard moron fairy tale of capitalism

aka "all you impoverished suckers working 120-hour weeks for 50+ years just don't want it enough"

"i guess i just did everything right. so why do i feel so bad..."

http://www.studentadvisor.com/members/982/profile_image.jpg

you guys this girl doesnt make very much money, that's why it's funny

i did everything right and now i have a job, living the dream

yeah obv but non-famous 22 year old humanities majors writing for huffpo aren't supposed to be THAT capitalist are they?? xp

all americans are capitalist when it makes them feel better about themselves

this thread is like a mousetrap for you

god i can't believe i wasn't pessimistic enough to accept the fact that thought catalog writers were gonna start getting paid by publications people actually read