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

is that after tax?

Well, if you have it shipped to Connecticut...

tax in nyc is approximatley 752% so he's actually underreporting the cost of the shirt by quite a few dollars

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2308344/Petronella-Wyatt-Its-hell-posh-poor.html

Il Pellicano hotel, Porto Ercole, Italy, where Petronella remembers a happy, expensive, holiday

After she had lived in the United States for the latter half of 2003 with Charles Bruce Berry at his home in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2004 British newspapers reported that she had had a four-year affair with the then-Conservative MP Boris Johnson.[1] The affair, which had been well hinted at in UK newspaper gossip columns, included passionate London taxi cab rides around St John's Wood during which they would ask the cab driver to insert cassette tapes of Wyatt singing Puccini.[7]

Denis Healey regretted at the close of an interview with Wyatt that there was no time left for "rumpy pumpy".[6]

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This emoticon does not accurately portray the difference in size between my two eyes upon reading "rumpy pumpy".

That is a British expression that makes me irrationally disgusted.

rumpy pumpy, my blood sausage is lumpy

rumpy pumpy vs bunga bunga

just read about pink shirt guy. i don't think any of that exchange had anything to do with the shirt, did it.

anyway, came here to post this week's "what i wore" because it's amazing, check out the photo where is is posing in front of a portrait of herself

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/14/fashion/what-amy-fine-collins-wore.html

My loose rule of thumb: if I don’t know the designer, I don’t wear the clothes.

where she is posing

Looks like an elf cosplay outfit tbh

Oh god oh god oh ewwwwwww

An earlier version of this article misquoted Amy Fine Collins in describing how being a art historian has helped train her eye. She did not say, “I like a strong line versus circus ornamentation.”

pink shirt article is deeply disturbing stuff

Okay, I finally read the pink shirt article and it is two pages about nothing. Next.

The citronella article is hilarious, I could only keep thinking "don't worry we're gonna cook and eat you anyway."

did anyone understand what the initial fight was actually about? Was it just the fact that they were trying to pull out of their spaces at the same time?

Yeah i didn't quite get it other than like, officious bunghole pushes wrong buttons.

it just seemed like there was some missing piece of the story, probably in which either he or his wife or their friend was being an asshole. I've been at an awful lot of Jersey gas stations and I've never had anything like that happen.

and the fact that there were TWO DIFFERENT DRIVERS both cursing him out

no no, must be the $200 pink shirt, sure that's it

pudendum boy shirt

Ms. Fine Collins, who says she is in her early 50s,

the neglected children of PS 58 in Carroll Gardens finally get some relief:

http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/04/17/public-money-goes-to-school-toilets-brooklyn-voters-decide/

no. no. NO. NOOOOO. NOOOOOOOO.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/19/nyregion/babys-latest-going-diaperless-at-home-or-even-in-the-park.html?src=me&_r=0

Ms. Shapiro, who is a doula, a birth and child-rearing coach, says it is practically now a job qualification to at least be able to offer diaper-free training as an option to clients. Caribou Baby, an “eco-friendly maternity, baby and lifestyle store” on the border of artsy Greenpoint and Williamsburg, has been drawing capacity crowds to its diaper-free “Meetups,” where parents exchange tips like how to get a baby to urinate on the street between parked cars.

we used to go to caribou a lot. so glad we moved and are not raising our child in that area.

lol

Ms. Shapiro, who is a doula, a birth and child-rearing coach, says it is practically now a job qualification to at least be able to offer diaper-free training as an option to clients.

haha where's yr spirituality now COACH

you know what is not fucking eco friendly? PISSING AND SHITTING IN THE STREET!

Parents are drawn to the method as a way of preserving the environment from the ravages of disposable diapers, as well as reducing the laundering of cloth diapers and preventing diaper rash. Many of them like the thought that they are rediscovering an ancient practice used in other cultures, though they tend to gloss over the fact that many of those cultures had never heard of Pampers. But mostly, they say, they like feeling more in touch with their babies’ most intimate functions.

chinese parents do that all the time

well how else are they going to get pee pee in all that coke?

i'm sorry, it's been a difficult week for everyone.

cool joke for you to make

guilty lol, sorry in retrospect

but in seriousness, do they do it because it's the old way and diapers are expensive or because they just believe in it?

i have seen, in the motherfucking city of new york, mothers and fathers holding their babies over trash cans while the lil' tykes shit away. i assume this is some "when you have a baby you'll understand" type ish but in the middle of a subway station during the summer this is most foul behavior.

well i would say it's probably just tradition. but you do end up with babies shitting in, say, a wal-mart (i've witnessed this), or on the street, or in a shopping mall

no, having a baby has not increased my understanding of this

the owner of caribou is also a big advocate of "baby wrapping" which I don't have a particular problem with (I am lazy and prefer a pre-structured carrier but w/e); however I once saw her carry her very large, then three-and-a-half-year-old son on her back in a wrap and it was a bit strange

lol poor kid

there's this whole thing about how she "apprenticed" to a woman in an "african village" to learn how to do it

people who let their kids shit & piss in the street -- especially if they're well-off white hipster douchebags -- are bloody disgusting savages who should be sterilized and have their kids taken away by Child Protective Services.

Ms. Stare watched for cues that meant her baby needed to go to the bathroom or was going to the bathroom, like a certain cry or squirming or a grimace. Then, she began associating those cues with her own noises, like “sss,” or grunting. After a while she could make those noises — the elimination communication — to the baby while holding him over the toilet or the sink for perhaps 20 seconds, and he would go to the bathroom on command or refuse if he was not ready.

So you hold your baby over the sink (IT IS NOT OKAY TO PEE IN THE SINK, DAMN) and make noises and the baby either pees, waits a little while then pees, or doesn't pee. Yeah, sounds like it totally reliably works.

people who let their kids shit & piss in the street -- especially if they're well-off white hipster douchebags -- are bloody disgusting savages who should be sterilized and have their kids taken away by Child Protective Services.

― marmite christ (Eisbaer), Friday, April 19, 2013 4:43 PM (10 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

why "especially if they're well-off white hipster douchebags"?

Commenter OTM:

I view this particular fad as the frivolity of the upper middle class who can afford to raise their own children. Try taking junior to your neighborhood day care center without diapers and see how long that lasts. Try maintaining that communication with a 6-month old child while telecommuting on your home computer.

Of course he goes on to claim that disposable diapers make parents and children lazy, so grain of salt and all.

just picturing eisbaer taking samples of baby sidewalk poop and running dna tests so he knows how outraged to be

Then, she began associating those cues with her own noises, like “sss,” or grunting

this is so creepy