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

worst enormous tech company ceo 2013

this might be the wrong thread but this has to go somewhere
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/26/booming/no-nachos-for-you-general-zod-were-on-weight-watchers.html

where's the piece abt those bros going on a catered motorcycle trip

I kind of like that article actually.

The WW one, not the catered road trip one.

yeah WW article is good

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/feelingbidder_bNie678FebHbCaXhiDKnaN

excellent find

http://www.nypost.com/rw/nypost/2013/06/30/news/web_photos/30.2n007.ArtSuit1--300x300.jpg

someone in the gawker comments posted a pdf of some PR fluff about the wife's art

I was left wishing they'd been soaked for $100k

google her art it's v bad

A highly relevant article

ugh, rong thread...

dunno if this fits exactly but i couldn't find the MN thread. this is pretty absurd:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/06/fashion/the-dating-scene-hip-with-a-bit-of-minnesota-nice.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

Minnesota/Minnesotans C or D

it's in site new answers!

thank god

this isn't quiddities but i need to complain about this ridiculous mistake in the story about tim burke of deadspin http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/22/sports/deadspins-tim-burke-waits-to-turn-offbeat-moments-into-gifs.html

the story starts off with this scene

At 2:44 p.m. on a recent Sunday, Tim Burke took a moment from monitoring numerous N.F.L. games for the sports Web site Deadspin to post something that had nothing to do with football: a smidgen of a clip from an English rugby match he also happened to be following.

He stitched together still-frame images captured from the broadcast into a short, continuous loop that showed a player built like a cement mixer strong-arming an opponent to the ground by the unfortunate man’s throat.

it then links to the post of the gif -- supposedly written on a sunday while tim burke watches the NFL -- which says the following in its very first sentence!

You're likely doing your patriotic duty and watching college football today

college football of course is played on saturday, and the post was written on 10/12 -- also a saturday!

this took me less than 20 seconds to "fact check" and i wasn't even really trying

any time this thread is bumped i end up staring @ the womans khakis in the orig post for like 20 mins

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/08/giving/her-name-is-famous-but-shes-not-about-nothing.html?pagewanted=all&_r=1&

I do genuinely think her charity sounds good, but just lol @ the Times -- "This wealthy celebrity's wife is DIFFERENT. She runs a CHARITY."

p much the complete definition of a quid and an ag

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2013/11/18/131118fa_fact_levy

ya miscarriages are TOTALLY rich people problems!!!

fp

what the fuck

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/17/magazine/switzerlands-proposal-to-pay-people-for-being-alive.html?_r=0&pagewanted=all

smh universal guaranteed income is about as un ruling class as you can get

haha, universal welfare? maybe for RICH people

oh i thought this was the main nytimes thread

haha

meow

basic income is a v interesting idea tho, be curious to read something on what economists thinkvthe inflationary etc impact would be of everyone getting a same sized check every month

'pay people to be alive' a v. ruling class (and reactionary american) way of phrasing it tho

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/14/fashion/chef-run-service-teaches-nannies-recipes-that-skip-the-microwave.html?_r=1&

Like other 5-year-olds, Erela Yashiv likes pizza and cupcakes and detests food that contains “green specks” of vegetables.

But her mother, Stephanie Johnson, 46, who lives in TriBeCa and runs a cosmetics-case and travel-accessories line, wanted her daughter to adopt a more refined and global palate, whether it’s a gluten-free kale salad or falafel made from organic chickpeas.

As working parents, she and her husband, Dan Yashiv, 42, a music producer, do not have time to prepare such fare. And their nanny, from Wisconsin, does not always know the difference between quinoa and couscous.

she sometimes does

stupid fucking nanny

How long does it take to make a kale salad? Even if you have to pick all the bits of gluten out by hand?

Wisconsin, whaddaya gonna do? (xp)

all the things labeled gluten free these days, its good to know these eggs abide by my diet

blind nanny, real sad, can't see the pictures on the box at the store that show all the sighted nannies what couscous and quinoa look like

That article is hilarious.

were they actually saying 'marc&mark' out loud or do you suppose marc&mark paid the times extra to get their trade name in there

lol

“We were too basic with her food in the beginning, so we want marc&mark to help us explore more sophisticated food that has some diversity and flavor,” she said. “I don’t want her growing up not liking curry because she never had it.”

'we fucked up so bad, thank god this service is available to help us reverse our monstrous parenting decisions'

Holy shit, grocery store chain from Texas does well in Idaho, too!

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/17/business/whole-foods-finds-success-in-smaller-cities.html?hp&_r=0

And it hasn't even opened up in Brooklyn yet!!!!!

not sure that's quid/ag so much as classic NYTimes condescension to non-coastal American cities.

Yeah wasn't sure where to put it. The irony of course is that Whole Foods is based in one of the most non-coastal American cities. So, like, why wouldn't it work in Idaho? One of the nicest Whole Foods I've been to was in Omaha.

Because Times editors still live under the delusion that "organic" is some kind of fancy citified thing that only elites know about?

tbf, the whole foods exec quoted seems to fuel that idea

I dunno, the piece seemed to be coming, like, a decade late? It'd be like a Times piece on IKEA opening up in St. Louis.

Boise is still a city and not rural iirc, so it would in fact be "citified"

I mean, unless you're talking top ten US cities or smith

i want a whl fds

iirc your part of the country is like doubly-hippie compared to who fds ppl

I may be misjudging based on the Vermont wedding I went to that had blueberries from next door and pulled pork grilled by a guy who raised the pigs. He also played guitar at the wedding.