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

can we focus on how katie roiphe's not fit to get joan didion's coffee?

haha okay at some point in that rant she refers to paradise lost which reminds me that she refers to remembrance of things past in her article about how yuppie moms aren't sexy enough, except she does so in a way that suggests she's only read the first ten pages and belle waring calls her on it. i've never read proust so this is incredibly petty of me but i hate her.

sorry, this thread is supposed to be about something.

fwiw horseshoe i still am vaguely looking for a roommate (no cain); you are invited to move here and become a minor celebrity with max's backing

that is a lovely offer ty

haha

go bills

A couple weeks ago in some thread I tried to troll the bay by saying Oakland was a suburb of San Francisco and the only person who even responded was iatee dorking out on what like his definition of a 'suburb' is - and now look at this shit people can't even casually conflate two adjacent downtown Brooklyn neighborhoods w/o the thread police cracking heads - shameful

I probably just fumed silently.

the only person who even responded was iatee dorking out on what like his definition of a 'suburb' is

haha <3 iatee

go back to vermont u hippie xps

shouldve confused menlo park and berkeley

Same shit m/l

Btw a while ago on gawker max was h8ing on Vermont, he is no dororothy Parker I'll tell u that much

dororothy!

Lolol

cool ranch dororothy

Btw I am a new iPad owner I blame the iPad, also I blame it for all my horrible typing from before I owned it and before it existed

i like it it makes it sound like you and dorothy are close and you made up a weirdly long nickname for her

Oh how she laughed at the weirdly long nicknames I would make up for her, 'you're funnier than I, Dorothy Parker, am' she would say

is your ipad the reason you have been capitalizing the first word of your sentences? it is shocking, frankly.

Ha yes any unusual capitalization or punctuation is purely the iPads doing, the lil fucker

fuck not with my cousin dororothy tbh

friends of dororthy

i would never, never make fun of vermont

Would like to meet this Roiphe lady, just to find out how insufferable she is in person.

trust me, I've read the thread, she's insufferable

Just seeing "katie roiphe" and "joan didion" in the same sentence makes me grrrr

i would never, never make fun of vermont

― max, Thursday, November 10, 2011 7:50 AM (9 hours ago) Bookmark

i think u r bein disingenuous

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2011/11/11/business/Midnight1/Midnight1-articleLarge.jpg

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/11/business/some-consumers-object-to-sales-on-thanksgiving.html?_r=1&hp

i think this probably belongs in a 'first-world problems' thread rather than a 'quiddities of the ruling class thread' but i just can't get over the picture.

Man I kind of love the idea of puffy paint as a revolutionary tool (just going off picture here)

My relationship with this thread is kind of strained because every time the NY Times asks me to log in I just give up, I don't have time for that shit.

Ok this is just a "david brooks makes me want to curse in all punctuation" sort of thing really, but still... http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/11/opinion/the-inequality-map.html

Some grade A trolling there for real.

One of hoos's fave twitter stars liked that article and a dude I follow actually retweeted his praise for it. I had to hold my tongue, because... fuck.

I am not even sure what his point is.

He's trying to conflate all types of differences with economic inequality and class disparity in the hopes of making class warfare look like a sports rivalry, imo.

It's a bad look

trolling on a deadline imo

"Isn't it funny how we can discriminate against the rich, but we can't discriminate against Jews? Personally, I love everybody equally, but I'm just pointing out the double standard here..."

Otm

It would be uncouth to wear a Baptist or Catholic or Jewish jersey to signal that people of your faith are closer to God.

I guess people who don't live in the Bible belt really think this? I don't remember. I've been back in Tennessee nearly two years now and am reacclimated to daily reminders via T-shirt, bumper sticker, and obnoxious business marquees how much awesomer some people's gods are than other people's.

Nobody anywhere thinks anything like David Brooks says they do.

A fair point.

FASCIST HAIR fascist hair FASCIST HAIR fascist hair FASCIST HAIR fascist hair FASCIST HAIR fascist hair FASCIST HAIR fascist hair

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/17/fashion/a-haircut-returns-from-the-1930s.html

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lol

i go to that barbershop, my barber calls my haircut "the gatsby," gonna tell him to think up a good fascist name for it next time

i remember jaxon in some thread referring to his haircut as the hitler youth like two years ago or something

I think I had this haircut in 9th grade

the hairstyles in those photographs are all different haircuts? idgi

I was just thinking the same.

I think they share a commonality of short sides/longer top with the top combed or slicked back

I have this haircut.

also calling the sartorialist for a quote abt a hairstyle is really just super lazy reporting, even by NYT style standards!

“I think it goes along with a newly restored romance for tailoring, the cut and craftsmanship you see with this current heritage trend,” said Scott Schuman, a photographer who has captured men with the hairstyle in London, Paris and New York for his blog, the Sartorialist.

*fart noise*