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

Yeah, fuck the chalkboard backsplash because it elevates trend over actual functionality.

Chalkboard trend in general is a pretty useless thing but sure, they look good. Nobody seems to be putting much more usable whiteboards in their houses.

secret shame: I always wanted a chalkboard fridge :/

the company founded by my great-grandfather can help you with that.

http://www.sheffieldbronze.com/new-products/

Chalkboard and table-tennis paints are special because there's a grit involved which is what causes the chalk to adhere or the ping pong balls to bounce and not slide.

I walk by a ton of great old card catalogs every day at work and always think how much I want one before immediately realizing how useless they would be. It's not like I have a ton of 3x5 object crying out to be stored somewhere.

index cards with the names of yr enemies?

they hold random stuff. tape. batteries. pennies. whatevs. they're like a better organized junk drawer.

Or 24 of them.

I keep the preserved body parts of my enemies in my card catalog

^lard catalog

File under D for Dick

I like that blog because I'm an eternal rural 7th grader when it comes to home decor, as in I never seem to pick up on trends until it's too late and they are totally passe and I really want a giant letter on my wall because I think it looks cool but I can't without looking like a total herb, so fuck your antique sign letter. (I still really want a terrarium, though.)

― carl agatha, Friday, February 10, 2012 5:44 AM (7 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

^this is me when it comes to pretty much everything

a great place to store index cards filled with your jokes, gags, boners, and one-liners!

File under "b" for "boner."

catalog of old cassettes, sex toys and beads, imo. hours of enjoyment.

you store your boners on index cards?

to bone (verb)

1. print and bind every ilx thread
2. place on bookshelf
3. use card catalog to index them
4. win

omg brownie

unique definition of win there

ilx is the greatest novel ever written

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ilx is the greatest novel ever written

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ilx is the greatest novel ever written

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ilx is the greatest novel ever written

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Champagne Supernova is the greatest song ever written.
― Ally, Monday, July 9, 2001 12:00 AM (10 years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnjNXn0uLHA

http://travel.nytimes.com/2012/02/12/travel/whatever-happened-to-first-class.html

o so THAT'S what happened to it

I dont ever recall seeing a first class section in any domestic flights here even in the expensive Qantas-only days. It was business, and coach. First was for long haul and Ive only ever seen it on my Emirates flight to the UK in 98 (and they allowed smoking there then!)

my God, that article.

someone in the comments section hit it on the nose - first class is better than ever. it's just now called 'private flights'.

hahaha otm

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/15/nyregion/foreign-parents-in-new-york-prefer-public-schools.html?_r=1&hp

who are we supposed to laugh at?

Yeah actually it sounds like those parents have much more reasonable expectations of what a school should be like than typical NYC *ruling class* parents. And ultimately having affluent families in public schools tends to be good for everyone, as long as there are enough seats in good schools, which, if there aren't, is really the city's fault and not the foreign-born affluent or w/e.

Sad laughter at the affluent parents who have left the public schools to rot as their kids go to ridiculously-priced academies

the only caveat is that those parents probably live in expensive neighborhoods, ergo the school is well-funded (unless NYC has different education funding laws)

O_o that some private schools give a choice between sushi and macrobiotic lunches

I think the schools I went to have better food now but when I was a kid the lunch choices were usually pretty bad

xpost yes and no -- afaik basic school funding per-pupil is not different by neighborhood within city limits (if I'm not mistaken), but there are other ways in which the affluence of the neighborhood will bring money into the school. The school's mentioned in the article are definitely some of the best and most affluent (and often, I think, requiring lotteries because there's so much demand).

That's going to be true anywhere though, and I still think it's better for everyone on the whole to have more affluent families in the public schools and to avoid a strict two-tiered system.

i would pick sushi btw

sushi in the cafeteria sounds bad, since I'd eat it every day and get mercury poisoning

pizza boats!

have no mercury in them. only pizza boats.

I think it's encouraging, actually, that there are considerable numbers of parents who can afford private schools but would prefer schools that do not teach their kids to be entitled little shits.

dont know how these parents expect their kids to be successful w/o proper entitled little shit training

the school my kids go to is not a public school but in a lot of ways its sort of an idealized vision of what public schools could be. but maybe its just not possible. i dunno.

fuck your juice box we poppin perrier

pizza boats!

― Little GTFO (contenderizer), Tuesday, February 14, 2012 3:38 PM (16 minutes ago) Bookmark

I have never heard this term before but I knew immediately to what type of pizza it was referring to as soon as I read it

http://www.roadfood.com/insider/photos/1869.jpg
^real school pizza

our pizza boats came in white cardboard boxes with holes in them

i too recall this

http://i.imgur.com/vTU95.jpg