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

^^^ now this is an agony and a quiddity

haha!

i'd start a new one. Quiddities the Younger.

this thread is a monster, ilx approved topic

We Hate it When Our Friends Have Strong Feelings About Kickstarter

i started a new thread last night. but people can just use this one if they feel like it. i just have to change my settings or something. cuz if i miss stuff there is no way i can look at the whole thread. i mean i probably could but it would take a while.

use bookmarks!

everyone!

What's the new thread?

this one:

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

i'll try the bookmark thing. i just wonder about people who try and read a thread like this. can they read the whole thing? i'm thinking of future historians...

wont someone think of the future historians

i was thinking same thing re: scott. wanted to join in on the ragging of vamp kid sis but had to load up about 6,000 posts to get to the start.

yeah how do you know if you want to bookmark something if you are just clicking on a conversation in progress? having said that i really should have been using bookmarks all this time. i'm so friggin' slow.

ppl just bookmark willy nilly afaict

knowing what to bookmark is indeed more art than science

serious business here

LONG ILX THREADS HATE THIS ONE SIMPLE TRICK:

1. Click on the Permalink of the message right after the cutoff.

2. The URL will now contain something like "bookmarkedmessageid=3669956"

3. Change that number to something smaller and you will be jumped back to an earlier point in the thread without loading the whole thing.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/19/jobs/sharing-too-much-information-in-the-workplace.html

"Granted, as a card-carrying baby boomer, I have an opinion on this topic that might be more than a little skewed, but I honestly can’t recall a time when I’ve walked away from a conversation with someone of my generation or even a decade or two younger and thought, “Whoa, did you really say that?” Mostly I see this happening with young people who seem to have lost all sense of boundaries and decorum."

^poll, btw

awesome illustration

crushed to death by blab eggs

The voice balloons terminate somewhere beyond the back of his throat, apparently. Perhaps they're some kind of symbiote.

hipster pot belly any everything

what's "sending out begum"?

and what kind of 20-something talks about triple bypass surgery?

imagined that read "bogum", like an old person catch-all for any newfangled technology 20-somethings are apt to talk about

sending out resume

don't think that article really fits the thread topic imho

baby boomers by FAR the blabbiest people i ever come in contact with. i can't tell you how many boomer people come into my store - complete strangers - and regale me for an hour or more about everything cool they have ever said and done and anything else they can think of in stream-of-consciousness style. with little or no prodding from me. i don't even day anything! and they just go and go and go and go. probably the most annoying generation in the history of the world.

but yeah generational politics different from quiddities.

i don't even "say" anything. not day anything.

I can anecdotally confirm that, I had to physically restrain my mother from telling people her life story in at least two antique shops between home and Beulah, MI.

plus i love how the person who wrote that doesn't even have a real job:

Peggy Klaus is an author, executive coach and leader of corporate training programs.

i kinda thought it did
"how dare these office drones share their personal lives with me"

"your drinking/fucking-in-restroom anecdote is below my pay grade"

yeah but more oldmanyellingatcloud than anything, no?

my dad is kind of that way, darn boomers

a lot of the boomer dudes who come in my store are looking for validation that they were once cool. they want me to actually TELL them that they are very very cool. which is why i have to hear about record collections that haven't existed for 30 years. then they make it worse and tell me how much they love "the spotify".

but my ranting belongs on the boomer hate thread. sorry.

do you ever tell them theyre cool tho, just to try, 'wow great record collection/story you are cool'

then maybe they leave, no

then they bask.

and think of more cool stories.

and tell me that i'm too young to remember records.

...as you sit in a record store

i remember records

I remember newspapers

i remember dial tones

I remember trains