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

the times can't get enough!!!

http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/04/25/kids-draw-the-news-the-epic-brawl/

neither can the rest of the media:

"new york athletic club" brawl
About 56,500 results (0.23 seconds)

Word trickled out online, days later, via a single, anonymous, breathless telling of “the best fight I’ve ever seen,” a “nondiscriminatory ragematch” in a “lion’s pit” that the club prefers to call the Tap Room. That storied pub opened in 1933 with “an English tallyho, drawn by four horses and manned by liveried coachmen and footmen,” according to an article in The New York Times.

lol upper-class American Anglophilia.

http://wallstreetjackass.typepad.com/raptureready/2012/04/ny-athletic-club-fight-.html

how are guys my age members of an exclusive club
i wanna be a member of an exclusive club.

this blog post is the ur-text for all the rest i think

"this board opened in 2000 w/ an English tallyho"

they're rehearsing for the upcoming street brawls when OWS storms their "exclusive club," silly geese.

also, i bet that this club has at least one pic like this one on the walls:

http://www.barbizonart.com/boxing04lg.jpg

will bring my Xacto knife to tomorrow's march just in case

The proto-quiddities of Thought Catalog

i wanna be a member of an exclusive club.

main reason I post on 77, tbh

a “fat pudgy kid” who laid out a larger man with a blow to the head and was tackled by a crowd.

http://twitpic.com/1pq5tb/full

man that thought catalog piece, unreal

That storied pub opened in 1933 with “an English tallyho" <-- hasn't gotten enough derision in this thread.

I don't even know where to start on that one.

the english tallyho is a quote from the contemporaneous times tho

"tallyho" is more in keeping w/ lol 1933 American-ruling-classes-Anglophile-pretensions than in whatever pretenses the 2012 version hold, 'tis true.

I feel a little bit bad for these kids. Nonetheless, have at 'em, quiddities thread:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/03/business/derailed-on-the-fast-track.html?_r=2

I don't think there is anything particularly terrible in the article but it could use some context w/r/t how rough the legal market is for everyone who also didn't get an offer from dewey * leboeuf

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/06/magazine/romneys-former-bain-partner-makes-a-case-for-inequality.html

this guy otoh

those kids can go to hell if a firm was in financial trouble and they applied anyway it shows where their brains are

“A firm may look like a corporation, yes, but we’re all part of a fraternity of lawyers”

Laughing in derision at you forever, little bro.

Is that the dude who basically wanted to marry an Excel spreadsheet?

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/06/business/jean-victor-meyers-the-new-prince-of-loreal.html

“This is a very important moment for me,” Mr. Meyers, with dark, gelled hair, a black suit and an easy smile, said on a video L’Oréal beamed over the stage to persuade shareholders to approve the transition. “My first thought is of my grandmother.”

what's quiddy there?

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/06/fashion/new-yorkers-who-fit-in-2-or-3-workouts-a-day.html?hpw

Would have to take too many showers a day.

Her Web site bears the slogan: “Sweat. Breathe. Laugh,”

what's quiddy there?

ruling class - check
agony = the drama of inheritance
covered by the new york times - check

the ny times is really outstripping even the observer as the nation's foremost chronicler of the minutiae of ruling class life

About 80% of it is the Sunday Styles/whatever it's called on other days of the week section.

i guess i saw this thread as meant to detail the bothersome details and boondoggles of the rich more so than there general status reports

this is actually pretty awesome and only quiddities because they got their $500k+ passes revoked:
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-0506-golden-ticket-20120506,0,7103119.story

any rich person who didn't buy one of those when they were available is not living life to the fullest IMO

yeah that's just an interesting article

agreed

ex-gf who worked for AA would occasionally just hop on a flight to NY or wherever for a day. But her employee benefits were domestic only and getting first class required a lot of luck.

Rothstein had loved flying since his years at Brown University in Rhode Island, where he would buy a $99 weekend pass on Mohawk Air and fly to Buffalo, N.Y., just for a sandwich.

I love sandwiches.

his carbon footprint is probably the same as puffy's

I've heard of people w/ private planes hopping from rural airport to rural airport for the best burgers/etc.

$99 in the 1970s, mind you

There's something so awesome about unlimited first class flying that it is overwhelming my quid-dar right now. I don't know why that's the case when the same is not true for me of private planes. I guess I enjoy the "got over on the airlines" aspect of it.

yeah it's hard to sympathize with airlines

Elvis was master of the preferred-food commute, iirc

As for the private plane thing, I'm kind of ambivalent -- if it's a corporate jet going into major airports, that sucks. If it's a private hobbyist plane and they're jumping from one podunk field to another for a burger, it's pretty much the same as most of their flights.

Hobbyist airplane ownership has definitely dropped, but it was more of a thing post-WW2.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/08/nyregion/in-montclair-elections-cause-town-to-re-examine-itself.html

come on, at least PRETEND to evaluate the arguments

that article is straight out of central casting

The WSJ has a nice little nugget from the quiddities and agonies of yore.

http://blogs.wsj.com/totalreturn/2012/05/08/was-the-scream-inspired-by-munch%e2%80%99s-tax-return/