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

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.

wait what

ca otm

i can't imagine any story being that good if i didn't already want to have dinner with that person.
esp not when it's "i was an asshole in the nyt, look!"

"i was an asshole in the nyt, look!"

are you really saying you don't understand the appeal here?

i doubt they feel like they came off as an asshole

just a heads up, narcissism is kind of a big deal

something like 87% of media runs on it

i mean i kind of do but not really -- iirc i've never socialized with people who thought that public complaining about not getting presents was cool so i guess they are just alien rich people to me?

doesn't really matter what i think, i just was unclear about what "eating out on this for months" was about and i get that concept just fine.

The thought that you get something tangible out of your 15 minutes of fame is one of the more pervasive modern myths. Yes maybe one of your friends will buy you a drink the week you are in the newspaper. That's probably about it.

do tell about your 15 minutes adam dear

i bet it was a good drink!

Just the same shitty beer me and my friends always drink.

Nobody is buying anybody dinner.

And you can take that to the bank.

DISCLOSURE: That too is a figure of speech, and nobody is taking anything to the bank.

I would love to be well off enough one day to be able to take people out to dinner just to hear their dumb stories about being in the NYT, cause that's one expensive story!

i mean i kind of do but not really -- iirc i've never socialized with people who thought that public complaining about not getting presents was cool so i guess they are just alien rich people to me?

That humans crave attention should not be an alien concept to anyone who has seen or heard of humans.

I would buy someone a drink to hear a story. Any story that goes longer than a drink is probably too long. I mean, we're not Victorians, this isn't a Henry James novel, come on.

We have TV. I don't need a dinner length story.

That humans crave attention should not be an alien concept to anyone who has seen or heard of humans.

― potatoes-in-law (Je55e), Tuesday, August 27, 2013 8:12 PM (39 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

You are only saying this for the attention.

what if the drink is really big xp

stories in new york have gotten worse since they outlawed big gulps

i will buy you 64 oz long island iced tea to hear your expertly crafted novella

taking an NYT-profiled holocaust survivor out for margaritas at Dallas BBQ tonight, should be fun

DISCLOSURE: i don't feel good and had to take some daytime cold meds so i request that you kindly forgive me for making less than complete sense here

you can just delete your cookies, you don't even need to pay for the website to read this terrible person's story, much less pay for dinner

To Our Readers

Our Web site was unavailable to users in the United States for a time on Tuesday. The disruption was the result of an external attack on our domain name registrar, and we are at work on fully restoring service. We regret if this has caused you any inconvenience.
— The New York Times

is that all they do there now is get hacked by the chinese or whoever

DISCLOSURE: i don't feel good and had to take some daytime cold meds so i request that you kindly forgive me for making less than complete sense here

Lol ok sorry. There were shades of old skool jaymc, and I'm sorry I went OTT being a smartass.

wow, get your shit together nytimes

yall know the ~syrian electronic army~ did that, right

*sips port*

so syrs