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

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heh, nothing like the times style section taking on arrivistes

“At least three members I can think of offhand were interested in buying the Mets,” said Mr. DeRitis, citing James F. McCann, the founder of 1-800-Flowers.com; Anthony Scaramucci, the manager of a $7-billion hedge fund; and Steven A. Cohen, the hedge fund mogul who is currently both a front-runner to be the Mets’ new owner and under investigation by the S.E.C. “That pretty much says it all.”

^^ lol this is the funniest/subtlest burn... like who would want to own the METS for gods sake...

will laugh when Mets & Yanks' positions are reversed in 20 years

I think that was a subplot of Back to the Future II

your nursing-home attendant will keep the news from you for the lols
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will yours tell ya the Braves have moved back to Boston?

ha, nobody around here knows enough about baseball to pull that one

really wish there were a comment section for this one

Cultural “optimization” is also a part of the club’s makeup; anyway, there is an amorphous operative notion that members share what Mr. DeRitis, the cultural curator, calls a “sensibility.”

also re the beginning of this article, how is walking around in a chanel suit + birkin bag not kind of.. ostentatious

that article makes me want to kill

the story told in the article is about 100x less infuriating than how it's written

no doubt

its good because the writer and the people featured within are both horrible

so its like double

will laugh when Mets & Yanks' positions are reversed in 20 years

there's a greater chance of the Jets and the Giants (or the Nets and the Knicks) reversing position than the Mets and the Yankees. and no, that isn't just me being a sarcastic Phils Phan Phucker.

the jets & the giants and the knicks & the nets are pretty much in the same positions

new york, you mean?

the jets & the giants and the knicks & the nets are pretty much in the same positions

in a way, that's KIND of what i was getting at (as far as how the actual teams perform that is). still, NYC is largely a Giants/Knicks town; Jets are an afterthought, and the Nets weren't even an afterthought during the Jason Kidd/Kenyon Martin days.

"SHE looked like money, the woman with the sleek long legs, tanned a light toast color"

a conference dining room fitted out with state-of-the-art teleconferencing technology

Struggling to find a suitably impressive description of the cutting edge qualities of the conference room in my opinion; might as well have said the conference room comes equipped with high speed internet

I was all ready to spit bile at olivia Waldman, the "physician's assistant" in the 1.15 million dollar condo, but the psychic credit check nutter featured below has left me speechless.

I think I'm gonna change my last name to Enterprise. I think we all should.

agreed

idk if this has been posted yet but: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/19/fashion/how-divorce-lost-its-cachet.html with gems like

In another unexpected twist, some divorced women say they detect an unspoken envy. Other wives and mothers, they explained, were “battling it out” while dealing with the unceasing tasks of wifedom, motherhood and work.

“What I get from a number of married women in my community is jealousy of my new lifestyle,” Dr. Monet said. “Dating, going to yoga five times a week, having time for myself. Raising young kids with a spouse doesn’t afford you much time.”

Ms. Morrison also sees a subtle, unexpected reaction. “Among my college friends and my closest friends, I’m still the only one who’s divorced,” she said. “In a funny way, I think I may have turned into the groovy one.”

Ms. Morrison: The Groovy One

"Raising young kids with a spouse doesn’t afford you much time.”

Being a single parent, though, is all dating and yoga and alone time.

but when you have a nanny and make $100,000 it probably actually is!! that's what put this article right in the quiddities wheelhouse - quotes from people generalizing from a situation that actually only obtains for the top 1% of the population

Yes.

Uh these people don't make 100k a yr
They make a lot more

haha for real i figured there was a zero missing or something

i mean i know people who make 100k per yr and they can't afford nannies

y'know in New York i mean

esp if yr living in manhattan/park slope, i'd imagine!!

xp

they key to a lasting marriage is getting a nanny for yr husband so u can goto yoga five times a week is the lesson i took from this article

also the nanny can do yr coop shift is a lesson i learned from a previous article

if you're living in bumfuck kansas and 100k buys you a decent house then quiddit away
but up here if you wanna put some cheese on that foiegras burger you better come incorrect

100k isn't nanny territory in most urban centers, i'd imagine, since if you're using one year-round they're basically an employee making something better than minimum wage. an ex of sorts worked as a nanny in chi and i think she had a very comfortable salary (for a 20something), and was working like 35hrs a week at least.

according to an article quite recently linked itt a person in the top 1% of the population earned $3,061,546 last year so yeah

idk i thought the divorce article had a legit premise ruined by the stlye section template. i mean:

- the premise appears to be broadly true, rather than something that three ppl the author knows have done
- is sociologically interesting
- potentially 'important' effects on social policy/attiutdes towards divorce in the culture &c

the fact that the article is mostly terrible ppl talking abt yoga is sorta lol, but like the style section is not interested enough in the lives of actual poor ppl to look @ why the attitudes & resulting divorce rates differ by income, or really to do any sort of deep thinking at all

not sure how we missed this one http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/18/nyregion/18coop.html

lol I don't even think I can read that.

did ththe fact that the article is mostly terrible ppl talking abt yoga is sorta lol, but like the style section is not interested enough in the lives of actual poor ppl to look @ why the attitudes & resulting divorce rates differ by income, or really to do any sort of deep thinking at all

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yeah it didnt even mention that people getting married older might have something to do w/the trend which is like the most obvious elementary observation

xp i couldn't make it past the first page but two excellent pull quotes from there alone:

“This is completely unfair. It’s all about equity, and there are so many levels of inequity here.”

The post had the deliciousness of a Candace Bushnell novel, or maybe, for connoisseurs of locavore fiction, an Amy Sohn novel.

i kinda imagine cankles reading that last quote aloud and it cracks me up

totally writing a locavore novel before the market gets oversaturated

there are some ppl that i genuinely wld not feel bad if they were murdered

“I’m a punk rocker at heart, so rules are tough for me,” Mr. Delon said. “Sometimes I ask myself if the co-op is really worth it.”

“I’m a punk rocker at heart, so rules are tough for me,” Mr. Delon said. “Sometimes I ask myself if the co-op is really worth it.”

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DAMN YOU!

lol

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