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

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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

i remember planes trains and automobiles
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kc2g-1jZSdY

“Eataly has became the equivalent of an Italian piazza, where both the richest and the poorest feel comfortable,” he said. “You can get a $5 gelato or a $100 meal.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/29/dining/eataly-exceeds-revenue-predictions.html

Eataly is a shitshow most days

probably because of all the poorest people eating $5 gelato

truly the lowest forms of life

I remember trying to figure out if Eataly was a thing worth going to the last time I was visiting NY and I couldn't figure out from the website which of its sub-establishments served actual meals. Also it seemed likely to be a shitshow.

I like the idea of eataly and walk around sometimes, also I use their bathroom a lot

also can someone decide whether or not we are locking this thread and going w/ the other one

The one time I went to Eataly it did seem like kind of a shitshow -- I walked around a bit but felt pressed by the crowds, then ate some gelato and an espresso at a very cramped and uncomfortable counter

I find it hard to be bitter about places w/ clean, easy-access bathrooms in manhattan

NYC is kind of like that in general anyway -- most things that are any good and well known are also mobbed all the time, and if you hate crowds the way I do, the crowdedness completely overwhelms the good things about the experience

that is a pretty limited definition of 'any good'

i havent been to eataly the store really except to go up to the rooftop restaurant which was pretty good i thought, good fried mushrooms

I didn't even know there was a rooftop restaurant

how many italian restaurants are contained in that place, sheesh

like 5!

eataly should build housing so you can live in eataly