food stamps are awesome tho: they get u food
― ice cr?m, Tuesday, 20 October 2009 03:54 (fourteen years ago) link
tbh when i first dropped out of school and was working for %7/hr at barnes & noble i thought about going on food stamps.
― ian, Tuesday, 20 October 2009 03:56 (fourteen years ago) link
I'll come out of the closet as an ex-middle class person getting food stamps right now. I'm broke-broke and unemployed and it's a nice burden off my back to know that I eat more than ramen! anyone who is broke / barely getting by should be on them, as far as I'm concerned.
― iatee, Tuesday, 20 October 2009 04:00 (fourteen years ago) link
they give you way more money than you need tho, as a single person
― iatee, Tuesday, 20 October 2009 04:01 (fourteen years ago) link
which = I eat better than I ever did when I had money
so they give you more free food than you can eat and that is somehow not cool
― ice cr?m, Tuesday, 20 October 2009 04:02 (fourteen years ago) link
a friend of mine is on them - and she was weirded out about applying for them at first - but yeah, she said the same thing about giving you way more than you need as a single person.
― sarahel, Tuesday, 20 October 2009 04:03 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah it's $200 a month (in california at least) which is like...I dunno, you can eat very, very well on that
― iatee, Tuesday, 20 October 2009 04:05 (fourteen years ago) link
ive heard also if youre willing to pay somewhat of a premium u can also buy drugs or weapons w/them
― ice cr?m, Tuesday, 20 October 2009 04:06 (fourteen years ago) link
haha actually they make you sign something that says you promise not to trade them for drugs or weapons
― iatee, Tuesday, 20 October 2009 04:07 (fourteen years ago) link
a rule that I have obv broken many times
its the sort of ingenuity this great nation was built on
― ice cr?m, Tuesday, 20 October 2009 04:10 (fourteen years ago) link
but yeah the fact that people are so disgusted that poor, unemployed (including some white people! including some college grads!) can get $200 a month so they can eat decently...I dunno, it's just this very american 'I don't need the government to get by' attitude. don't we have better things to be disgusted about, like uh, the government giving billions of dollars to rich people? any transfer of gov't money to the bottom percentiles is a good thing, considering where that money woulda gone otherwise.
― iatee, Tuesday, 20 October 2009 04:14 (fourteen years ago) link
On Thursday, Mr. McLendon applied for food stamps in Brooklyn(...) And he is reluctant to tell his mother and stepfather, who can’t afford to help him, about his decision.
But he is totally OK with telling the NYT about it, because he'd rather have them find out when a family friend forwards them the article.
― I DIED, Tuesday, 20 October 2009 04:19 (fourteen years ago) link
i can understand people wanting to earn their keep and whatnot - thats their prerogative - but as far as im concerned if the government gave everyone $200 a/month for food regardless of need itd be a lot more worthwhile than much of what theyre doing right now - even if some chose to spend it on caviar and 8 balls
― ice cr?m, Tuesday, 20 October 2009 04:20 (fourteen years ago) link
right, there are lower-middle class people who aren't on them and thus are spending less money on food than they would otherwise - which is bad for the economy
― iatee, Tuesday, 20 October 2009 04:22 (fourteen years ago) link
in fact everyone apply for food stamps right now - coke n caviar fap @ iatees house
― ice cr?m, Tuesday, 20 October 2009 04:22 (fourteen years ago) link
remember tho: you have to trade for the coke, as most dealers do not accept food stamps
― iatee, Tuesday, 20 October 2009 04:25 (fourteen years ago) link
why is the government making stuff so hard for me
― ice cr?m, Tuesday, 20 October 2009 04:26 (fourteen years ago) link
hold on a minute
― dyao, Tuesday, 20 October 2009 04:31 (fourteen years ago) link
oh i know plenty, too, sarahel. if i see j0n pf3ffer again someday, i will punch that fucker in the gut.
― my bach penises and their contrapuntal technique (the table is the table), Tuesday, October 20, 2009 11:22 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark
dude this was one of my best friends from middle school ;_;
how the hell do you all know this same random dude????
― iatee, Tuesday, 20 October 2009 04:33 (fourteen years ago) link
L O L L
― ice cr?m, Tuesday, 20 October 2009 04:33 (fourteen years ago) link
it's okay guys if you want to clown on him as we went to different high schools and the last time I hung out with him I also kinda thought he had turned into a douche and I tried to tell him his band wasn't very good and he got all defensive
...
so
― dyao, Tuesday, 20 October 2009 04:35 (fourteen years ago) link
xp - i saw his band play once, and a friend of mine did mastering work on their album, but i think it was a different friend that said he was a douche.
― sarahel, Tuesday, 20 October 2009 04:35 (fourteen years ago) link
1- guy heckled jo3 t4ng4ri for MONTHS until he finally gave them a good review on pfork. (he told me, 'i owe jo3 t4ng4ri a steak dinner.')
2- math-core.
3- wildly heteronormative and weird about gays.
4- didn't ever credit me or thank me for helping him do interviews with TV on the Radio (in which most of the questions were mine) and The Holy Ghost Revival (again, same thing).
5- douche.
― my bach penises and their contrapuntal technique (the table is the table), Tuesday, 20 October 2009 05:00 (fourteen years ago) link
...I'm trying to remember if he wrote me about getting an AMG review. If this is the same person.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 20 October 2009 05:12 (fourteen years ago) link
I remember rocking out to KoRn at his house and watching WWF Monday Night Raw
― dyao, Tuesday, 20 October 2009 05:15 (fourteen years ago) link
I can't imagine why this guy would have issues w/ the gays
― iatee, Tuesday, 20 October 2009 05:17 (fourteen years ago) link
are you all the same person, right now?
― rad bandit (gbx), Tuesday, 20 October 2009 05:25 (fourteen years ago) link
who is this person
― rad bandit (gbx), Tuesday, 20 October 2009 05:26 (fourteen years ago) link
its is u - sry u r racist douchenozzle
― ice cr?m, Tuesday, 20 October 2009 05:28 (fourteen years ago) link
Jenna Catsos, 22, does not have a cellphone because she thinks the idea of always being reachable is “scary” and prefers to keep in touch with handwritten letters.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/23/technology/23cell.html
― I DIED, Friday, 23 October 2009 06:49 (fourteen years ago) link
i sympathize tbh - whenever someone calls me and my brain is like "i don't want to be reached right now, this is scary" but my arm just does what it wants and answers that phone, and then my mouth starts talking, and it's just like i was forced to be reached even tho the idea scares me. had no choice.
― everybody loves am0n (J0rdan S.), Friday, 23 October 2009 07:11 (fourteen years ago) link
cheers to the author for using the phrase "smug satisfaction" in no less than the SECOND paragraph.
― get killed walkin your DOGGIE (get bent), Friday, 23 October 2009 07:57 (fourteen years ago) link
the only thing i dislike about having a cell at the moment is that a "restricted" number keeps calling me and i never pick up unless i have some idea of who's on the line. pretty sure it's not a creditor, probably a telemarketer that found a cell phone loophole.
― get killed walkin your DOGGIE (get bent), Friday, 23 October 2009 08:02 (fourteen years ago) link
Ladt Catsos
― velko, Friday, 23 October 2009 08:53 (fourteen years ago) link
And even the best-laid plans falter. Jenna Catsos, 22, does not have a cellphone because she thinks the idea of always being reachable is “scary” and prefers to keep in touch with handwritten letters. While at college in rural Vermont, Ms. Catsos decided to drive to Massachusetts to surprise her father for his birthday. Halfway there, her car’s transmission broke down. She walked half a mile to the nearest gas station and called her parents from the payphone, but because they were not expecting her, they were not home. After leaving a message with the payphone number, she stood in the gas station parking lot for an hour waiting for them to call back.
“It’s situations like that when I would really love to have a phone,” she said.
Am I missing something? She DID have a phone - a payphone! If she travels across the country without an address book containing, for instance, the mobile phone numbers of her parents, she is simply a fucking idiot. Luddism has nothing to do with it.
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 23 October 2009 09:36 (fourteen years ago) link
A friend who lives on the top floor of a house in Brooklyn has a perpetually broken apartment buzzer. So Ms. Mboya makes noise to disturb the dogs who live on the first floor, who then bark and announce her arrival to her friend.
“This system works pretty well,” Ms. Mboya said, though the dogs’ owners might disagree.
Strangle. Her. Strangllllllleeeeeeee
I have a good friend who purposefully doesn't have a cell phone. She keeps the plans she makes, she is on time for things, and she calls in advance from HOME if she has a question. She keeps a planner in her bag with names & phone numbers. SHE BEHAVES LIKE A NORMAL PERSON WHO RESPECTS THE TIME AND EFFORT OF OTHERS. Jesus fuck.
― I would feel confident if I dated her because I am older than (Laurel), Friday, 23 October 2009 13:51 (fourteen years ago) link
whadda u guys think of the times new restaurant critic?
http://events.nytimes.com/2009/10/14/dining/reviews/14rest.html
http://events.nytimes.com/2009/10/21/dining/reviews/21rest.html
I'm reserving judgement but he certainly has a writerly voice, esp. for the staid old NYT, though so far he's treading a thin line between affected & effective. and that jazz about new york in the 80s was a little nostalgic-hazy IMO.
― chief rocker frankie crocker (m coleman), Friday, 23 October 2009 14:12 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm reserving judgement but he certainly has a writerly voice, esp. for the staid old NYT, though so far he's treading a thin line between affected & effective
dude did u miss the long and affected reign of mr frank bruni
― Bobby Wo (max), Friday, 23 October 2009 15:00 (fourteen years ago) link
actually i thought bruni got better as he went along. sifton seems to be TRYING REALLY HARD but hey it's a pressure-cooker job (pun intended)
― chief rocker frankie crocker (m coleman), Friday, 23 October 2009 15:04 (fourteen years ago) link
maintaining a breezy tone while conforming to the times style must be a tightrope
― chief rocker frankie crocker (m coleman), Friday, 23 October 2009 15:06 (fourteen years ago) link
I was amused/interested to learn that he is the grandson of Reinhold Niebuhr.
― o. nate, Friday, 23 October 2009 15:09 (fourteen years ago) link
ill give him a little while. i was always kind of on the fence about bruni tbh, but i felt sort of sad when he was leaving
― Bobby Wo (max), Friday, 23 October 2009 15:18 (fourteen years ago) link
"Jenna Catsos, 22, does not have a cellphone because she thinks the idea of always being reachable is “scary”"
I cosign that far, obv, but I do have an address/phone book, and don't bother dogs.
― Your Favorite Saturday Night Thing (Dr Morbius), Friday, 23 October 2009 16:34 (fourteen years ago) link
I just don't get why you can't answer the phone.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 23 October 2009 16:37 (fourteen years ago) link
She keeps the plans she makes, she is on time for thingsImagine that! I hate how cell phones have made flakiness and irresponsibility ok...if you call!
― kate78, Friday, 23 October 2009 16:51 (fourteen years ago) link
Well, the call is more like, this is just tell you that you can go get a coffee for 20 minutes because my landlady decided to show the apartment as I was leaving today...so the person who's ON TIME doesn't stand in the rain or something.
It doesn't really make it "okay" to be more than about 15 minutes late, or however much your social/cultural grace period is.
The other really nice thing about this friend is that if you're going to the same show or event, you can just say, I'm going to get there betw 9 and 9.30, and she doesn't text you back 27 times to say, "Are you still going? What are you wearing, I think I'm going to wear a dress. Are you there yet? I might be early. I'm standing by the bar now." But then lots of people who DO have cell phones and are not RETARDED don't do this either.
― I would feel confident if I dated her because I am older than (Laurel), Friday, 23 October 2009 16:55 (fourteen years ago) link
I"VE KINDA HAD IT UP TO HERE W/SAM SIFTON
― ice cr?m, Friday, 23 October 2009 16:55 (fourteen years ago) link