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

yeah obv but non-famous 22 year old humanities majors writing for huffpo aren't supposed to be THAT capitalist are they?? xp

all americans are capitalist when it makes them feel better about themselves

this thread is like a mousetrap for you

god i can't believe i wasn't pessimistic enough to accept the fact that thought catalog writers were gonna start getting paid by publications people actually read

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this thread ilx is like a mousetrap for you

agree that determination is the main determinant of yr station in life tho

http://www.themarinaexperiment.com/wp-content/uploads/blind-leading-the-blind11.jpg

that piece did nothing for me, i think maybe im finally tiring of rubbernecking blog posts of the entitled as faithfully aggregated by this thread, rip maybe i should blog abt it

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"On the coast of Rhode Island in 1978, the Winter family lives in a decaying farmhouse within view of the Atlantic Ocean. When family patriarch Jim Winter inexplicably commits suicide one January morning, his wife, Helen, teenage daughter, Joyce, and fisherman son, Dale, are left to pick up the pieces. Like the man whose life insurance is worth more than his life, Helen Winter knows that cashing in on the value of their oceanfront property would be both the salvation and destruction of the Winters, who have farmed this seaside land for three centuries. Cousin Ludlow Winter gives her a job in his real estate office, but he also pressures her to sell more and more of the farm. Neighbor Fran Kennedy befriends her, but also seems to be eyeing her antiques. Her sister-in-law, Loretta, wants to turn the Winter land over to the Audubon Society. Meanwhile, Joyce tries to make sense of her father’s suicide and a generation of family secrets all while trying to preserve her Swamp Yankee heritage, which is threatened by greedy developers and outsiders who have no understanding of this land the Winters call home. Her best friend, Camille, a Narragansett Indian, is on a journey of her own to untangle her heritage. As a storm threatens to overtake the farm, the journeys of these women will collide with hurricane force."

I fucking hate people who hate on Boston for no good reason. You've probably never even spent a significant amount of time here. People do this all the gd time and it's really fucking annoying. Sure it's no fancypants NY or whatever but it has some pretty good points if you give it a chance.

p. sure it's largely because of boston sports fans

(not that new york's are better by any means)

Whatever the reason it happens frequently and it's tiresome. I'll admit that I didn't love it immediately upon moving here but it's seriously grown on me over time and I just think people make snap judgement based on . . . I don't really even know what they're based on but they're mostly wrong.

yankees fans > sox fans any day and yankees fans are pretty incorrigible

dude, i lived in philly for 12 years. i've heard it all. i don't really hate boston. i just never go there. and i got new york sports on t.v. growing up. if i had been raised closer to hartford i would have grown up liking boston more. i like cambridge.

i mean i guess boston is more hated than philly? maybe its a tie. philly sports fans probably hated more.

native bostonians who stick to fenway are probably much better though (xp)

people hate the idea of philly sports fans but people don't hate on philly that much

or i liked the record stores in cambridge the last time i was there...which was probably like 6 years ago. i liked the harvard coop and newbury comics when i was a kid. that was about it.

tbf i h8 boston and im from there and was only defending it in jest, also i am a boston sports fan - but i mean hating on places is all just in good fun there are so many variables to what yr experience will be etc and so on

Those are mostly all still pretty good :)

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JS you suck.

I just think it gets hated on unfairly especially by people who live in an overcrowded shithole of a city, that's all.

alo boston sports fans are the best people are just confused abt what constitutes quality sports fandom, well except for people from boston

i can definitely say from experience that having a baby in boston was a WAY better experience than having one in philly. if you have to choose between the two, choose boston.

i don't really care for boston

like people use booing santa as an example of philly fans being horrible when its clearly amazing

x-post - You live in LA.

what some people call an overcrowded shithole of a city other people call 'a city'

I'm from NY and I love it. I'm just giving you a hard time because I genuinely don't understand what people don't like about Boston.

I like boston I just said it doesn't have any tier 1 american ruling class anymore

like people use booing santa as an example of philly fans being horrible when its clearly amazing

thank u for understanding

i resent that when half my friends fled nyc for a cheaper city, they went to boston instead of philly

I like Philly!

TBH I wonder if it's really that much cheaper here now. I mean it prob still is but I don't think by that much.

I will say that when I moved here from NYC cost was certainly a factor.

i grew up in connecticut and i never want to go there ever. except for pizza in new haven maybe. talk about shithole cities.

I like boston I just said it doesn't have any tier 1 american ruling class anymore

― iatee, Tuesday, July 10, 2012 10:45 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this is so unfair

Oh man, I keep hearing about this New Haven pizza. I've got to do that someday.

while living in waheights, i commuted to work for a year to greenwich next door to a yacht club. talk about some minor despots

when i was younger i would defend connecticut a bit to people like hey! its not ALL flat and boring that's just how it looks from the highway! but now i don't care at all. good riddance. some pretty woods and shoreline. big deal. the rest of new england kinda slays it every which way.

worth dying for:

http://www.modernapizza.com/

philly is ok

had some last summer. could have lived in that place if they had let me. worked for pizza. never gone home.

i liked living in philly cuz it fulfilled my shabby drunkard/record collector needs but i never really cared if people didn't like it or whatever. people in philly don't really care. they've got what they need. some cheesesteaks. the iggles. they're good.

gee uh philly sports fans vs. new york sports fans, new haven pizza, great thread you guys listen I've got this question i need answered about tipping

how much should you tip yr sidewalk pooper

Sohn, a lean, young looking 36-year-old with attractive dimples, is equally invested in making an effort to look hot for her husband, rather than giving in to matronly frumpiness like so many of the women in her 11215 zip code (the "Park Slobbers"). Today she wears a transparent T-shirt, a pencil skirt and a pair of neon-orange thong Birkenstocks, equal parts—ironically—yuppie and hippie. "My husband and I laugh, 'Look at that saggy, sad mom. What happened to her?' " She pauses, embarrassed at her nasty revelation, to backtrack. "It's mainly the expressions on their faces. They got what they wanted, the Holy Grail, the kids and the real estate. Why do they look so unhappy?"

o shit we are being sonned by hurting

sports fans everywhere suck, except for my team. and jets fans, who are even worse

I hate Boston because the trains stop at midnight and bars close at 2. And because I only liked it because of Jonathan Richman, and all the places he sang about are gone. Except the government center, I guess, but the joke of that is that it's SO UGLY.