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

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/18/magazine/is-it-nuts-to-give-to-the-poor-without-strings-attached.html

iirc jesus was also pretty concerned over conditions attaching to fish and loaf receipt

"Still pagan? No fish for you!"

https://medium.com/new-york-tales/d8da811ad804
what is medium's deal anyway

It's thoughtcatalog for 35-year olds?

otm

"We love each and every aspiring upstart who comes to New York to conquer the writing world or the finance world or the dancing world…"

oh you do do you?

"But when you’re from New York, the city is never a faraway place filled with Woody Allens and Notorious BIGs. It’s simply… here.

you are here when you are here. good observation. and it totally is filled with woody allens and notorious BIGs. i've been there.

"It also means living in New York is growing beyond the means of those who grew up in the city.. and that the things that make New York so amazing are rotting away." - some guy in 1892

"But growing up in New York means the city is, literally, our hometown."

this guy is like the buddha or something.

wow this other article is kinda frightening.

https://medium.com/about-work/1021c440bffa

"I’ve been thinking a lot about retention in the tech industry — not just getting more women into tech, but keeping them here. I understand, deeply, why women leave. After all, I’ve been stalked, hacked, harassed, trolled, threatened, underpaid, upward de-mobilized, hostile-workplaced, micro-aggressed, objectified, gaslighted, dominated, isolated and generally maltreated past what one’s preservation instinct should permit."

the tech industry sounds scary! after reading that, i would advise women to RUN from the tech industry. but maybe that sends the wrong message.

I been Norman Mailer'd, Maxwell Taylor'd. I been John O'Hara'd, McNamara'd. I been Rolling Stoned and Beatled till I'm blind. I been Ayn Rand'd, nearly branded, communist, 'cause I'm left-handed. That's the hand I use, well, never mind.

a faraway place filled with Woody Allens and Notorious BIGs

its the new code. did you hear? a family of woody allens moved in down the street.

Have you heard about Allentown? It's hard to keep a good man down.

see now if jesse jackson had just called it allentown he wouldn't have gotten into so much trouble.

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/culture/2013/08/the-gun-club.html

Love you Brooklyn.

that is not really quiddy or aggy but it is a pretty spectacular snapshot of brooklyn bros over 30

article Keith = http://theselby.com/galleries/keith-abrahamsson-kate-young/ ?

Keep the boys, kill the beards.

Crazy talk.

but seriously what the hell. What kind of asshole throws weights around for 8 hours every day in a residential apartment? I would make it my life's work to get these shirtbirds evicted if I were that neighbor.

seriously though.

Yeah, I thought that got glossed over - why hasn't the landlord told him to cut it out?

Wait how is that not quiddy? Not ruling class maybe, but that's pretty damn quiddy imo.

no pain, no gain, no quid, no ag

Defo quid and/or ag

qu/ag-mire

the quid of agging, there is none higher

"Quid agging my heart around..."

-Tom Petty

"Spicy Pickles"

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/25/fashion/weddings/when-you-cant-forget-the-gifts-you-didnt-get.html?ref=weddings&_r=0

Oh my gooooooooddddddd these people.

She gives a pass to one of the offenders: the 22-year-old son of Ms. Kaufman’s college sweetheart, who was barely able to support himself and brought no gift. On the day of her wedding, in fact, Ms. Kaufman and her groom ended up peeling off five $100 bills for him. “We’ve been kind of surrogate parents to him, and he needed the cash,” she said, chuckling. While she didn’t mind the lack of a gift, she was a little miffed that he never wrote a card. “That would have meant more to me,” she said.

Nothing like publicly shaming your surrogate son in the biggest paper in the country.

yeah nice work

it would such to be "Ms. Kaufman's college sweetheart's son" in this case, but most people don't know who that is. also, he got 5 hundo.

who carries hundreds around

"Crap. I shamed my surrogate son in the NYT. We lookin' at a five hundo."

who carries hundreds around

― i too went to college (silby), Sunday, August 25, 2013 11:46 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

And at your wedding, too, as opposed to I don't know on the way to the bank or to put a cash down payment on a used car.

http://gifrific.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/make-it-rain.gif

i don't believe this is a real article

In some parts of the country, people give money to the couple, so maybe she peeled off some of their gift money? Or maybe she just signed a $500 check over to him but preferred the imagery of peeling off hundos.

I like to think the Snapple lady stopped the music, clinked her glass, and made him crawl up to the bride's table at the reception, sit up like a dog, and accept each bill in his mouth.

Then gave a statement to the NYT that he was a real shit for not writing her a thank you note.

the hundred dollar bills were actually slipped in his waistband @ the bachelorette party imo

what makes these people talk to reporters about their disappointments? i really want to know.

LL I am right there with you. I mean do these people really just have zero self-awareness, or are they perfectly self-aware and are using the interview to some obscure agenda?

dude, getting in the nyt is the pinnacle for these folks. you can eat out on that for months. i guarantee this woman has ten copies of this issue in her apartment right now and is likely getting a copy framed for her office

you can eat out on that for months
i don't understand this euphemism (seriously i don't -- people will take them out to dinner because they were in the nyt? i do not live in nyc and never have, forgive my ignorance)

Yeah, it means that your story is so good that people will take you out to dinner just to hear you tell it.

It's not NYC/NYT specific. Any good story, any geographic location.