THANK YOU NEW YORK TIMES
― scott seward, Friday, 11 September 2015 16:27 (nine years ago) link
oh wait it's joke nevermind
― scott seward, Friday, 11 September 2015 16:28 (nine years ago) link
Don't really buy "Oh they are ignoring the horrible realities of the Victorian age" cos the idle rich are privileged to ignore horrible realities in any age.
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 11 September 2015 16:34 (nine years ago) link
artisanal bindle bags in Williamsburg, Brooklyn
oh come on now nytimes
― marcos, Friday, 11 September 2015 16:37 (nine years ago) link
okay lol i was really trolled
― marcos, Friday, 11 September 2015 16:38 (nine years ago) link
yes, it's all a 'joke', these here bindle boyz are 'pranking' other brooklynites, identical to their own demographics and sensibilities, with their satirical business and the satirical products that they make with their own time and the satirical things that they say and do all day just for some fun at the expense of anyone who would really involve themselves in such a business for 'real', that's why they are doing this... obviously, it's satire! so satirical. the joke's on us. smao!
― help computer (sleepingbag), Friday, 11 September 2015 16:41 (nine years ago) link
I like how the first buyer talked them down from $80 to $1
― tobo73, Friday, 11 September 2015 16:47 (nine years ago) link
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Friday, September 11, 2015 11:34 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Yeah this, basically.
― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Friday, 11 September 2015 18:57 (nine years ago) link
not quite bindle-level, but I saw this stylish lady on the E train the other day with a MacBook on her lap (Air? Pro? IDK, it was silver) and a GIGANTIC black leather tote bag, and then she just sticks the MacBook in her giant tote among a bunch of other stuff, no case or sleeve or anything, and gets off the train, and it was sort of making me think about the relationship between style and absurd impracticality.
― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Friday, 11 September 2015 18:59 (nine years ago) link
This person put a laptop in her bag
what is your point
― badg, Friday, 11 September 2015 20:05 (nine years ago) link
It was an impractically huge bag with only a tote handle and she had nothing to protect her expensive laptop
― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Friday, 11 September 2015 20:11 (nine years ago) link
that's how it works now, especially with airs, people just don't do sleeves. i know. but that's how it is.
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Friday, 11 September 2015 20:14 (nine years ago) link
Also for whatever it's worth, it's really hard to find a professional looking "women's" bag that isn't a tote bag. You can, but you've got to go looking and if being fashionable is important to you, you probably will end up with a tote.
Also I stick my work laptop in my bag (sometimes a tote bag, sometimes a messenger bag) without a case. Just chuck it right the fuck in there.
― carl agatha, Friday, 11 September 2015 20:37 (nine years ago) link
¯_ツ_¯
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Friday, 11 September 2015 20:45 (nine years ago) link
er let's try that again
https://media.giphy.com/media/ALvdHigd2gBqw/giphy.gif
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Friday, 11 September 2015 20:46 (nine years ago) link
laptop sleeves are for your dad come on now man alive
― marcos, Friday, 11 September 2015 23:14 (nine years ago) link
my backpack has a BUILT-IN sleeve for my laptop because I am a classy individual
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Friday, 11 September 2015 23:20 (nine years ago) link
it's maybe quiddy to recommend at 200 buck backpack that you can only buy from a swiss website, but this thing is the best the best the besthttp://www.qwstion.com/en/bags/backpack-washed-black.htmlincludes a sleeve for laptops
― Meta Forksclove-Liebeskind (forksclovetofu), Friday, 11 September 2015 23:43 (nine years ago) link
That's not my style personally but it's a pretty sharp looking backpack for sure.
― carl agatha, Saturday, 12 September 2015 00:01 (nine years ago) link
quiddities and backpacks of the ruling class
― panettone for the painfully alone (mayor jingleberries), Saturday, 12 September 2015 00:14 (nine years ago) link
no way, that thing is the nissan cube of backpacks
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Saturday, 12 September 2015 01:24 (nine years ago) link
― marcos, Friday, September 11, 2015 4:14 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
yeah next you'll tell us your phone has a case on it
― go hang a salami I'm a canal, adam (silby), Saturday, 12 September 2015 02:05 (nine years ago) link
My bag, like most 21st century bags, has a laptop sleeve built in, thx.
― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Saturday, 12 September 2015 02:09 (nine years ago) link
i don't even have a bag, bro
― mookieproof, Saturday, 12 September 2015 02:11 (nine years ago) link
carrying a laptop around is so 2008
― go hang a salami I'm a canal, adam (silby), Saturday, 12 September 2015 02:14 (nine years ago) link
Are we sure Victorian thing is not an elaborate joke?
― One bad call from barely losing to (Alex in SF), Saturday, 12 September 2015 02:15 (nine years ago) link
Laptop bag thing is weird. My laptop is a work laptop and I abuse the fuck out of it basically or at least behave totally carelessly about it. Who cares?
― One bad call from barely losing to (Alex in SF), Saturday, 12 September 2015 02:17 (nine years ago) link
to be fair, "the tablet is my primary work device" is so 2012
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Saturday, 12 September 2015 02:17 (nine years ago) link
many time travelers from 2008 in the coffee shops of NYC
― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Saturday, 12 September 2015 02:21 (nine years ago) link
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Friday, September 11, 2015 7:17 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
having a job is so 1999
― go hang a salami I'm a canal, adam (silby), Saturday, 12 September 2015 02:22 (nine years ago) link
I guess maybe today's macbook casings are pretty strong? Several years ago I cracked a laptop screen by putting the (non-padded) bag it was in down a little too hard on a security conveyor belt and since then I've been paranoid about them.
― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Saturday, 12 September 2015 02:23 (nine years ago) link
idk I'm just fucking around, am I supposed to say when I'm doing that I really don't want to hurt anybody's feelings
― go hang a salami I'm a canal, adam (silby), Saturday, 12 September 2015 02:23 (nine years ago) link
I keep seeing ads for this in facebook and wondering wtf it is. Article itself is from last year but seems appropriate for this thread:http://nypost.com/2014/07/05/the-22-year-old-dropout-who-created-nycs-most-exclusive-credit-card/
― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Saturday, 12 September 2015 03:29 (nine years ago) link
nah that's just run-of-the-mill hucksterism
― go hang a salami I'm a canal, adam (silby), Saturday, 12 September 2015 04:19 (nine years ago) link
I mentioned it in the "not the onion" thread where I first saw the Victorians but I live in WA and my colleague who is a victorian lit prof (and lol steampunk fan) set up an in-person interview with this couple. I think he's sort of disgusted but secretly jealous of them.
Also nit-picking flaws in their system - like using the Internet, how their material goods were produced, etc - feels weird to me because it sort of implies that if these few details were ironed out then their ideology would make perfect sense. I can point out religious homophobes mixing fibers or ask libertarians who would wire their rural house for electricity but nothing is really ever going to get me to believe in a supernatural power or that businesses would act responsibly without any regulations.
― joygoat, Saturday, 12 September 2015 16:40 (nine years ago) link
i want to hate the victorians in a pomplamoose kinda way, but they don't bug me that much. can probably get a proper cup of tea at their house at least. pomplamoose would be all celestial seasonings hippie shite.
― scott seward, Saturday, 12 September 2015 18:11 (nine years ago) link
Faux-Victorians seem way worse than Poopmoose. Poopmoose are just a shitty band who exploit their fans but that's on those dopes. Attitudes behind FVs books/essays is worst retrograde bullshit. If it was just a fashion thing then I'd probably agree though, but they've gone out of their way to establish a pretty gross philosophy behind their stupid bike choices.
― One bad call from barely losing to (Alex in SF), Saturday, 12 September 2015 18:23 (nine years ago) link
Also nit-picking flaws in their system - like using the Internet, how their material goods were produced, etc - feels weird to me because it sort of implies that if these few details were ironed out then their ideology would make perfect sense.
Oh, see, no, to me those things are emphatically not details! Like, the fact that they have to suspend those key points is what makes this so problematic and fucked up... the things they're suppressing constitute precisely the sites where the rubber of little lifestyle accoutrements meets the road of a whole world of labor and class and power. Infrastructures are like that - semi-visible technological systems that literally and figuratively wire up individual objects and things to big, big political and material systems. So yeah, my concern is that people who don't think very much about things read these essays and come away less thoughtful about all of the above, because "it was simpler and better back then!" is so digestible and ready-to-be-believed.
― Gorefest Frump (Doctor Casino), Saturday, 12 September 2015 19:11 (nine years ago) link
this is basically everything awful about paula deen antebellum larping and hipster the spirit of the 1890s is alive in portland at once right?
― balls, Saturday, 12 September 2015 20:38 (nine years ago) link
nothing more 20-teens than justifying yr personal brand of disgusting savagery as "more mindful". not v victorian imo.
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Sunday, 13 September 2015 20:34 (nine years ago) link
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/04/movies/film-snob-is-that-so-wrong.html
― big WHOIS aka the nameserver (s.clover), Tuesday, 6 October 2015 02:55 (eight years ago) link
. I like my pleasures slow and difficult. I would rather watch a mediocre film from South America or Eastern Europe about the sufferings of poor people than a mediocre Hollywood comedy about the inconveniences of the affluent. I look up in admiration at models of artistic perfection, sound judgment and noble achievement, and I look down on what I take to be the stupid, cheap and cynical aspects of public discourse. I sit at my cobbler’s bench and hammer away. If the words nerd and geek can be rehabilitated — if legions of misunderstood enthusiasts can march from the margins of respectability to the heart of the mainstream — then why not snob as well?Who’s with me? Anyone? I’m really not that picky.
Who’s with me? Anyone? I’m really not that picky.
― a literal scarecrow on a quaint porch (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 6 October 2015 03:00 (eight years ago) link
I want to check his reviews of Whit Stillman and Noah Baumbach movies against that "comedy about the inconveniences of the affluent" line.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Tuesday, 6 October 2015 03:04 (eight years ago) link
a good ilx thread collectively outthinks and outwrites a piece like that by miles imo
― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Tuesday, 6 October 2015 03:11 (eight years ago) link
Yeah, in general I think Scott is a pretty knowledgeable and thoughtful film writer. I was a little surprised to see him publish a piece like that.
― intheblanks, Tuesday, 6 October 2015 03:15 (eight years ago) link
I would rather watch a mediocre film from South America or Eastern Europe about the sufferings of poor people than a mediocre Hollywood comedy about the inconveniences of the affluent.
Like, his editor should have stopped this line from getting into the piece. I actually think there's a good point to be made about the sheer number of American films (Hollywood and "independent") that are centered around the affluent...but I cringe reading Scott brag about how he gets his authentic enlightenment from watching the suffering of generic impoverished foreigners (from South America…or maybe Eastern Europe, yeah, one of those beautifully bleak places)
― intheblanks, Tuesday, 6 October 2015 03:23 (eight years ago) link
- If I'm perfectly honest, this isn't even an American film.- It's not?- No. There are no stars. No pat happy endings. No Schwarzenegger, no stickups, no terrorists. This is a tough story, a tragedy in which an innocent woman dies. Why? Because that happens!
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Tuesday, 6 October 2015 04:37 (eight years ago) link
everyone otm :(
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 6 October 2015 09:56 (eight years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CQ5tZigWEAAaFpk.png
― mookieproof, Saturday, 10 October 2015 01:35 (eight years ago) link
oh what a fascinating angle. please do go on.
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Saturday, 10 October 2015 01:59 (eight years ago) link