Cars are still essential to drivers of all ages
this is just stupid
― Nicholas Pokémon (silby), Saturday, 24 March 2012 02:13 (twelve years ago) link
If you want to be a driver, of a car, a car is essential. OTOH if you need to get from place to place, it's a different story.
― Marilyn Hagerty: the terroir of tiny town (Abbbottt), Saturday, 24 March 2012 04:46 (twelve years ago) link
I, for example, drive a steamroller.
― Marilyn Hagerty: the terroir of tiny town (Abbbottt), Saturday, 24 March 2012 04:47 (twelve years ago) link
I'm a zamboni man myself
― Nicholas Pokémon (silby), Saturday, 24 March 2012 04:48 (twelve years ago) link
That's why I drove a tank.
― carl agatha, Saturday, 24 March 2012 12:21 (twelve years ago) link
this is kinda quiddity-ish ... it doesn't occur to anyone here that maybe the young 'uns aren't into cars b/c they have no money (no job, students loans, etc).
― kurwa mać (Polish for "long life") (Eisbaer), Friday, March 23, 2012 7:33 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
we already talked about this in the cars an america thread but even people w/ money can think it's a stupid use of that money.
― iatee, Saturday, 24 March 2012 13:33 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/27/nyregion/private-schools-mine-parents-data-and-wallets.html
― s.clover, Tuesday, 27 March 2012 15:45 (twelve years ago) link
Perhaps the greatest quiddity/agony headline of all time:
http://parenting.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/03/25/i-regret-eating-my-placenta/
"I Regret Eating My Placenta"
― i don't believe in zimmerman (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 27 March 2012 15:50 (twelve years ago) link
also, lol:
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― i don't believe in zimmerman (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 27 March 2012 15:52 (twelve years ago) link
prestigious, $21,000-a-year Upper East Side preschool
― buzza, Tuesday, 27 March 2012 15:56 (twelve years ago) link
"Maybe it was sheer coincidence that I went nuts right after I started taking my placental pills"
― Lil T the Bowed Jet (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 27 March 2012 15:56 (twelve years ago) link
"went"
― i don't believe in zimmerman (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 27 March 2012 16:00 (twelve years ago) link
holy shit buzza is actually quoting the lede of sterling's story
ffffffffffuuu
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 27 March 2012 16:04 (twelve years ago) link
"Say, for example, a parent sits on the board of the Museum of Modern Art."
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 27 March 2012 16:05 (twelve years ago) link
"They put their apartment on the market the next week and moved to Larchmont, in Westchester County."
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 27 March 2012 16:08 (twelve years ago) link
wauuu
― i don't believe in zimmerman (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 27 March 2012 16:10 (twelve years ago) link
21k/yr for preschool from an editor at Elle seemed a stretch but a quick google search shows her hubby is an investment banker so everything's as it should be
― buzza, Tuesday, 27 March 2012 16:12 (twelve years ago) link
I liked the placenta-eating remorse article.
― carl agatha, Tuesday, 27 March 2012 16:14 (twelve years ago) link
"I Regret Eating My Placebo"
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 27 March 2012 16:17 (twelve years ago) link
same root word, I believe!
― i don't believe in zimmerman (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 27 March 2012 16:18 (twelve years ago) link
I Regret Living in Placentia, CA Where There Are No Prestigious Preschools
― buzza, Tuesday, 27 March 2012 16:23 (twelve years ago) link
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, March 27, 2012 4:17 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Haha yeah, exactly.
― carl agatha, Tuesday, 27 March 2012 16:24 (twelve years ago) link
Last summer, Mr. Martin and his team temporarily transformed part of the G.M. lobby into a loftlike space reminiscent of a coffee shop in Austin or Seattle, with graffiti on the walls and skateboards and throw pillows scattered around.
― 1staethyr, Tuesday, 27 March 2012 16:25 (twelve years ago) link
Is that really what coffee shops in Austin and Seattle are like?
― i don't believe in zimmerman (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 27 March 2012 16:25 (twelve years ago) link
Skateboards scattered around sounds like an OSHA claim waiting to happen.
― Nicholas Pokémon (silby), Tuesday, 27 March 2012 16:26 (twelve years ago) link
it is just.... how do these people live with themselves
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 27 March 2012 16:27 (twelve years ago) link
can’t speak for seattle, but in austin coffee shops you can’t move for fear of tripping over a skateboard/throw pillow
xp
― 1staethyr, Tuesday, 27 March 2012 16:27 (twelve years ago) link
http://lemon-beagles.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/poochie2.jpg
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 27 March 2012 16:28 (twelve years ago) link
Ms. Combe, for instance, says that while she makes a good salary and her husband has a job in finance, they cannot afford such a large lump-sum donation. She declined to identify the school, but said the meeting, which took place two years ago, was an epiphany.“It just made clear everything that was making me uncomfortable about New York City private schools,” she said.
“It just made clear everything that was making me uncomfortable about New York City private schools,” she said.
really the essence of quiddities here - "my husband, a managing director at Credit Suisse, and I are horrified by our $21k annual tuition preschool's focus on financial gain!"
― I DIED, Tuesday, 27 March 2012 16:29 (twelve years ago) link
"we should use that gringe music that they like. gringe. that's a thing, right?"
― s.clover, Tuesday, 27 March 2012 16:29 (twelve years ago) link
Tuition, more than $40,000 at some schools, typically covers only 80 percent of the cost of educating a student.
waht
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 27 March 2012 16:32 (twelve years ago) link
when u trip on a skateboard there is a throw pillow to cushion yr fall so its cool just like in seattle or austin
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 27 March 2012 16:45 (twelve years ago) link
The five-year strategic vision that Scratch has developed for Chevrolet, kept quiet until now, stretches beyond marketing to a rethinking of the company’s corporate culture. The strategy is to infuse General Motors with the same insights that made MTV reality shows like “Jersey Shore” and “Teen Mom” breakout hits.
more car crashes
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 27 March 2012 16:47 (twelve years ago) link
Mr. Martin has recruited what he calls “insurgents,” young Chevrolet employees who are willing to change things from the inside and report to him on skeptical executives.
snitches
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 27 March 2012 16:48 (twelve years ago) link
ha theres a terrible idea in nearly every paragraph
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 27 March 2012 16:50 (twelve years ago) link
Placenta Lady has bestsellers titled Body Drama and Diet Drama. Can we block Sarah Jessica Parker from buying the rights?
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 27 March 2012 16:54 (twelve years ago) link
On a recent Tuesday morning in the General Motors Technical Center, which was designed by Eero Saarinen, a couple of car executives huddled around a “persona board” in the color and trim laboratory. They studied a collage loaded with images of hip products like headphones created by Dr. Dre, a tablet computer and a chunky watch. The board inspired new Chevrolet colors, like “techno pink,” “lemonade” and “denim,” aimed at “a 23-year-old who shops at H&M and Target and listens to Wale with Beats headphones,” said Rebecca Waldmeir, a color and trim designer for Chevrolet.
how do you not just die right there
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 27 March 2012 16:56 (twelve years ago) link
"Dear God, I so miss California. In parts of Flori-duh they eat the baby and raise the placenta."
― nickn, Tuesday, 27 March 2012 16:57 (twelve years ago) link
also I don't think that person is buying him/herself a new car?
― i don't believe in zimmerman (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 27 March 2012 16:58 (twelve years ago) link
If you painted a car "denim" I think it would just curl up into a tiny car-ball and slink away in shame.
― s.clover, Tuesday, 27 March 2012 17:00 (twelve years ago) link
wau
http://vimeo.com/38118512
― ralphs vons williams (get bent), Tuesday, 27 March 2012 17:01 (twelve years ago) link
I'll only eat factory farm placenta.
― Jeff, Tuesday, 27 March 2012 17:02 (twelve years ago) link
ed hardy "techno pink" watch:
http://zales.imageg.net/graphics/product_images/pZALE1-11679695t400.jpg
― ralphs vons williams (get bent), Tuesday, 27 March 2012 17:03 (twelve years ago) link
http://farm1.staticflickr.com/88/240566140_8c66cce9ff.jpg
― nickn, Tuesday, 27 March 2012 17:13 (twelve years ago) link
you can check out all these innovative new colors here. "techno pink," in this case, means "basically off-white."
― techno pink (reddening), Tuesday, 27 March 2012 17:34 (twelve years ago) link
the "jalapeno" color is not very jalapeno-colored
― ralphs vons williams (get bent), Tuesday, 27 March 2012 17:37 (twelve years ago) link
'salsa red'
― i think this is serious (elmo argonaut), Tuesday, 27 March 2012 17:39 (twelve years ago) link
where's mole black?
― ralphs vons williams (get bent), Tuesday, 27 March 2012 17:40 (twelve years ago) link
thank you, quiddities thread, for this feast of bullshit.
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 27 March 2012 17:40 (twelve years ago) link
U WANT CAR W/ATTITUDE U WANT BEATS BY DRE THIS CAR HAS FLARED NOSTRILS
http://i.imgur.com/Pm9Jq.png
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 27 March 2012 17:44 (twelve years ago) link