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

commodity fetishism

9) write-in (commodity fetishism)

and butt tattoos

what's your rate?

― kate78, Monday, July 5, 2010 5:38 PM (15 minutes ago) Bookmark

i start at $180

just enough for your very own design axe!

if this article is to be believed there is a huge market out there for ordinary household objects spraypainted in garish colors and tagged with cute & quirky bios

be on the lookout for "Best Made Rubber Plunger", a rubber plunger you'll be proud to leave your grandkids that comes in attractive Jamaican flag colors

fuck them, I'm getting buried w/ mine

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1) rich people

tbf I looked and milo was right - there are a bunch of non-hipstery companies that make good quality axes for similar prices (although for all I know, those are just fetish items for more conservative well-to-do folks). I guess if the axe is really of comparable quality and you're not just paying for the chic, I can't completely begrudge it the pastel stripes.

they would make for a good l&o murder weapon tbh

Ripped from the headlines of the NYT style section!

http://nymag.com/news/media/67010/

feels right for this thread

fell asleep just reading the headline. wake me up when d-brooks gets his septum pierced.

"When we married in 2001, my husband and I thought about having children someday. It was very important to us, though, that we first be financially stable enough to support them and give them plenty of parenting time. We were aware of our biological clocks -- who isn't? But before we knew it, we'd been happily married for eight years. I was 30, he was 32, and we still were not ready to be parents. Knowing that time was running out, we resigned ourselves to the fact that we probably would not have children."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/07/02/AR2010070204597.html?hpid=newswell

"that's cold", said the embryo.

hey eephus there is this thread too... quiddities and agonies of the ruling class, DC edition - a rolling washington post thread

In a world of loud voices and extreme positions, David Brooks manages to be both irrelevant and absolutely essential.

this is classic

in my head i'm reading that in the movie trailer guy voice btw

Essential Irrelevance: The Collected Writings of David Brooks

It's actually a great sort of faint praise quote except I don't think it's meant that way.

no way am i actually going to read that article though

At some point in my research, it occurred to me: My husband and I could create embryos, freeze them and, essentially, donate them to our future selves.

wow, you are a genius - good luck trying to keep up with the demands of a baby when you're 45 years old

Maybe some people have the energy to do it, but just thinking about it makes me cringe.

the back injuries alone will cost thousands

there have also been suggestions that babies conceived through IVF could ultimately face health risks, so good job endangering the health of your potential child to make him/her more convenient to your lifestyle

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1163580/IVF-babies-health-alert-Test-tube-children-30-cent-likely-defects-warns-watchdog.html

eep can you imagine? first ivf, then abortion - this is why they hate our freedoms

Adoption looks better and better to me as time passes.

think you're a bit over the age limit ned

if you adopt at age 17 they'll be out of the house within a year - slam-dunk

n/a actually i wouldn't reeeeally take the daily mail as scripture on this issue. or on any issue, actually.

xpost -- Brilliant!

think you're a bit over the age limit ned

One day I might find a home I can call my own.

n/a actually i wouldn't reeeeally take the daily mail as scripture on this issue. or on any issue, actually.

― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, July 6, 2010 10:45 AM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

yeah there is definitely debate on the topic but it seems like the uncertainty would be enough to discourage casual usage of IVF (ie for situations other than fertility problems)

$200 design objects and young professionals not having babies - I think this thread has been turned inward on ILX.

who do i have to fuck to get some IVF treatment around here??

sorry

“If someone says something like ‘Let’s go walk the High Line and look for people with mullets,’ you think, ‘I’ll have a better chance of having fun with this person doing this activity than the person who just says ‘Let’s go walk the High Line.’ ”

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/04/fashion/04date.html

Often, there are more men than women on dating sites.

The site is free, though to send unlimited messages to potential paramours there is a fee (the best deal is $48 for six months). Upon joining, you are asked to rate a series of date ideas, which helps the site’s algorithm determine your matches. Next, you are shown a list of members and their date suggestions. You can then send a member a message or conduct a search.

Hipster tools for Londoners, not custom, just plain/Shakeresque: http://www.labourandwait.co.uk/

some of those are actually reasonably priced but gaaaaah the whole tone there reminds me of Arabella Weir on Posh Nosh talking about her fucking strainer or whatever and saying "simple but it's lasted almost 200 years - this one was given to me by lady marchmont"

LOLTRUE^^^^^ I prefer the Dover Street Market branch, but then, I would.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v134/tracerhand/fish_hard.jpg

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/04/realestate/04habi.html

CREEPY ALERT

Mr. Chung settled on a $649,000 condominium on Smith Street in Carroll Gardens

but when it comes to furnishing:

Mr. Chung had about $5,000.

o_O

Well he certainly saved money by already having the cigar box banjo on hand.

lonely guy, thinking baout furnishings

looks like he received his design and furnishing advice from urban outfitters

I liked the finishing touch

On a metal shelf, tied with lavender satin ribbon, sits a large gift-wrapped box that contained a Hermès umbrella she gave him for his birthday.

As any fule no if you want a quality Axe you go to Granfors Bruks

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/07/business/economy/07generation.html

The daily routine seldom varied. Mr. Nicholson, 24, a graduate of Colgate University, winner of a dean’s award for academic excellence, spent his mornings searching corporate Web sites for suitable job openings. When he found one, he mailed off a résumé and cover letter — four or five a week, week after week.

Over the last five months, only one job materialized. After several interviews, the Hanover Insurance Group in nearby Worcester offered to hire him as an associate claims adjuster, at $40,000 a year. But even before the formal offer, Mr. Nicholson had decided not to take the job.

Rather than waste early years in dead-end work, he reasoned, he would hold out for a corporate position that would draw on his college training and put him, as he sees it, on the bottom rungs of a career ladder.