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

She spells parents “payrents”

she must be saving a lot of money by not eating any food

i bet her name is Paisley

or Paysley

Jennifer, her parents were Friends fans.

wait, nvmd, she eats, it's just that it isn't a one-time monthly charge she can pass off to her parents and thus doesn't fit the budget

Can someone explain to me what you possibly get from a $210/mo gym? I pay $60/mo for a NYSC membership and I can go to any club in the area, take a variety of classes if I want, always get the equipment I need, and some locations have nice pools and basketball courts. WTF is worth more than 3x that amount? Do you get a personal masseuse?

why even list out the moviepass? it's $10 a month... you make $25 an hour.... if you're not going to enumerate all other miscellaneous expenses.... >_< i mean obviously this is the least of the problems here but it's just weird

has to be a lot of personal trainer stuff and maybe it's a "gym" that also includes a lot more spa-like luxuries?

Probably doesn’t have a bunch of old dudes glaring at her

https://www.newsgirlabouttowns.com/2013/11/11/i-quit-the-gym/

Apparently you get a lounge at some of them

Equinox is a gym for fancy rich people. They have Kiehl's shampoo in the showers and a fancy lounge and cafe. It has more of a spa feel than a gym feel. I got a membership through a job a few jobs ago. I wouldn't pay for it out of pocket!

The water is rough, and we wish we hadn't taken out the dingy. I would've much rather been on the big boat. All the rosé is gone by the time we raft up.

I’m surprised this passage from the diary of a first class passenger on the titanic made it past the editor

basically, that piece is the move

Equinox is pretty nice but not nice enough over the cost of NYSC or NYHRC.

Actually, I take that back, if I lived close to an Equinox I would shell out for it.

why even list out the moviepass? it's $10 a month... you make $25 an hour.... if you're not going to enumerate all other miscellaneous expenses.... >_< i mean obviously this is the least of the problems here but it's just weird

― This is a total Jeff Porcaro. (Doctor Casino)

She's trying to show how thrifty she is. I'm surprised she didn't also say "Sometimes I eat beans and rice."

the trick is that if you're affluent enough you don't see going out to eat or even having drinks as part of your "entertainment" budget. that's just your normal food budget

so dinner with your coworker and whatever is the same as eating a packet of ramen

That whole thing reads like a sad parody. Also $25/hr for whatever a marketing intern for HR consulting is, is pretty good.

she seems a bit parasitic at age 21, sure, but think of the valuable contributions she'll soon make to society as a HR marketing consultant

yeah 25/hr is nothing to sneeze at...

xp shit I'm 29 and still use my parents' netflix accounts etc...also I have no income right now

I guess I'm starting to think maybe that piece was made up by someone in order to troll rich interns

Can someone explain to me what you possibly get from a $210/mo gym? I pay $60/mo for a NYSC membership and I can go to any club in the area, take a variety of classes if I want, always get the equipment I need, and some locations have nice pools and basketball courts. WTF is worth more than 3x that amount? Do you get a personal masseuse?

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/20/fashion/weddings/two-unhip-conservative-vegans-in-new-york-marry.html

ohhhh-oh
i'm conservative
vegan and conservative
i'm a whiny shit in new yorrrrrrk

Ms. Porter, who is against abortion rights, was moved.

(cont.) “I couldn’t believe how inconsistent my belief systems were. I opened the refrigerator and saw milk in there, and I was disgusted,” she said.

lol bg

The groom in this couple is not only a conservative vegan, he's a conservative vegan from a sufficiently religious family that his parents wouldn't show up to see him marry a Catholic.

lmao owned

Jeet's threadin' again

1. Let's talk about what a cesspool of corruption the New York Times op-ed page has become under James Bennet.

— Jeet Heer (@HeerJeet) November 22, 2018

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/24/realestate/staging-a-duet-in-a-one-bedroom-apartment.html

The duo arrived late in the summer, with a rent in the low $4,000s and their parents on the lease. The amenity fee was waived.

there it is, saved for very close to the end - the nyt is such a tease

i love that they just have to be walking distance from Juilliard

i think my favourite part is the caption under the picture of their dolls-house-sized living room which reads 'The apartment came with big windows, a kitchen peninsula with seating, and a surprisingly large bathroom'

YES BUT IT COSTS FOUR THOUSAND DOLLARS A MONTH

also the caption omits the kicker from the same line in the story itself, which admits they bisected the living room to make a second bedroom

That reads like such an advertisement for The Max.

In the winter, they brave the wind whipping from the Hudson as they walk to school. “It is not the best scenic route,” Ms. Pineda said. “But we dancers love walking because we love to find any way to work out and warm up.”

(Not the New Yorker but) they're squeezing some real crocodile tears out of me here:

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2019/sep/19/american-airlines-aairpass-golden-ticket

i read the first part of that and i was like 'lol there's no fucking way i'm ever gonna feel sorry for a bear stearns exec who spent a quarter of a million dollars on an infinite amount of an indefensible form of travel and then another $150k to add a second traveller'

“It took away my mobility. It took away my hobby. I thought that I could go to Sweden for the weekend in July and pick up flowers when I was 70.”

“And now?” I ask.

“I can’t do that, can I?”

Ugh I just read that whole thing.

I wonder what % of AirPass purchasers were women. And if they tried to pull any of the entitled shit that guy did.

waaaaahhhh i can't go pick flowers on the other side of the world using a form of transport that will all but guarantee there won't BE any flowers there by the time my grandkids are my age waaaaahhhhh

i mean if i'd made a few mill working for gordon gekko in the 80s i could see this happening to me. at a much lower price point, moviepass demonstrated how quickly i might reorient my entire lifestyle if something normally expensive became effectively free. that piece is a slog though - i remember reading one of the exposes a few years back, finding it fascinating, and also it not taking half an hour.

xxp I mean tbf this prick was legitimately, literally "entitled" to that ticket and anybody who has ever had to deal w/ American Airlines knows they are straight sinister

the question is were there any women who felt empowered enough to preserve this same absurd entitlement

no good guys here

Idk the whole piece is literally “man relies on airline employees more than his own family and is shocked when the airline realises its a business”. Not only the thing with the flights, but phoning agents up to talk for hours on end?!

idk, I mean here’s a guy who worked his way up from the bottom of the wallet business his dad bought and now he’s lost everything

The entitled thing I mean is the shot like booking an extra seat under a falw name so he didn’t have to suffer the insult of a seat mate. In first class.

Shit not shot

I mean he was clearly gaming the system, two courts affirmed this, and now he and his family are handwringing that he was robbed of his identity, meaning of his life, etc. also he can obviously go to the Netherlands for flowers on his birthday by buying a ticket, duh. He hasn’t been banned from flying.

finally got around to reading this and yikes