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

Yeah I was gonna go with Potomac tbh

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/08/in-the-hamptons-the-rich-are-buying-up-quarantine-mansions

pretty sure Quarantine Mansions is a J.G. Ballard book

I had a Times Pick comment on a Bret Stephens column yesterday lol.

Already dreading NYT lifestyle articles on micro schools rich people form with their friends: Wilson renovated a hardware store that had recently gone out of business downtown. “I loved that my children would learn in a space like that,” he said. “Tools feel so metaphoric now.”

— Dean Bakopoulos (@DeanBakopoulos) August 3, 2020

excellent thread

^^good stuff

oh my god

did you see the spinoff account?

https://twitter.com/zebra_and?s=21

What the world needs now is: tools

excellent

http://i.imgur.com/9H1tCk8.png

Oh my god. They finally did it.https://t.co/JqYN12iGPt pic.twitter.com/Hkp2mpCNy2

— David Yanofsky (@YAN0) August 14, 2020

That's how he would have wanted us to remember him

Love that "EXCLUSIVE" above the headline

https://www.theringer.com/2020/8/18/21372181/nytimes-typo-twitter-account-copy-editing

I need to come up with a new joke, but good of me to quite literally rewrite your tweets for you, yet again. pic.twitter.com/oa3qBPYiSA

— Typos of the New York Times (@nyttypos) August 20, 2020

"I was recently told by a waitress at a fine hotel that I couldn’t have fresh ground pepper because of coronavirus. Really?” — Tyler Brûlé https://t.co/MsoSVG5JVB

— Kyle Chayka (@chaykak) August 27, 2020

is he related to dr. steve brûlé?

cousin of irn brûlé

i would expect no less from a publication called monocle. all quiddities and agonies, all the time?

that guy is the worrrrrrst

MIT from Hawaii. Yale from Barbados. Students are renting houses with friends in far-flung locales to do college remotely.

That story from @TaylorLorenz and more, in today's @nytimes Coronavirus Schools Briefing, from me and @AJNierenberg https://t.co/MU57j6YRXM

— Adam Pasick (@Adampasick) August 28, 2020

that photo seems overexposed somehow

to be fair though

this seems... pretty cool? i was expecting it to be all super privileged kids but there's also non-affluent students doing it bc it's cheaper than campus housing. assuming they really are sticking to their bubble this seems like a neat way to have a social college experience https://t.co/o8horNumk7

— anna!! (@M_asinMerry) August 28, 2020

loads of former students who are still in school are doing this right now, we all follow each other on social media (after classes are over)

similarly, i expected this to be real "eat the rich" stuff but honestly i find it difficult to object to what these people are doing https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2020/08/27/covid-school-abroad/ and if my kids (6 months and 2 years) were older, i would probably do it myself tbqfh given i have the passport.

regardless of the underlying story, presenting the schooling crisis with a headlining picture of a group of a dozen white kids having a hang session sitting on shag carpeting and divans in front of a picture window and a fireplace (with a HOPE sign on the mantelpiece!) is very NYT

yeah the photos in both those articles are very much designed to trigger this thread.

now for some style section drama

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/07/fashion/weddings/between-reps-at-the-gym-a-strong-connection.html (note correction)

then

https://nypost.com/2020/08/29/i-found-out-my-ex-cheated-on-me-from-his-wedding-announcement/

extremely unsurprising.

this is a gem from the times article:

“I couldn’t believe we are both the executive mind-set. That reinforced a compatibility.”

heh, i was just about to post the same quote!

After she said yes, he asked her children if he had their permission, and if he could marry them as well.

👁️

He will, as soon as they're old enough to work out at the gym by themselves

wait he met both of them at the gym?
also

(Robert told The Post: “Nikyta and I were separated and both consented to a mutual and amicable divorce. This is all very surprising to me and I was unaware that there was ever an issue. I’m happy with my family and I wish Nikyta the best.”)

he sounds bad

Imagine being the new wife and seeing your near future laid out in black and white in the New York Post

She's fine with it, they're MBTI compatible. She'll use this as a story in her business leadership book - like accepting a new job before telling your current boss that you're looking etc.

Sorry I guess as an ENTP I was unable to grasp her point of view

This feels very NYT ruling class

Tonight someone testifying against the use of UWS hotels as emergency shelter asked that Community Board 7 also consider the perspective of those who were "up on their luck."

— Will Thomas (@willthomas_usa) September 2, 2020

truly the people that are never talked about

say what you want about punching down but it's definitely easier than the alternative

https://nyti.ms/2EOo47G

I nominate "up on their luck" as the title of the next nyt quid/ag thread

Dr. Anthony Fauci warned us last week that Covid-19 is likely to be hanging over our lives well into 2021. He’s right, of course. We need to accept this reality and take steps to meet it rather than deny his message.

Many Americans are resistant to this possibility. They’re hoping to restart postponed sports seasons, attend schools more easily, enjoy rescheduled vacations and participate in delayed parties and gatherings.

They may also be hoping to restart being able to afford three meals a day you fucking psycho

It is completely understandable that many are tiring of restrictions due to Covid-19. Unfortunately, their resolve is weakening right when we need it to harden. This could cost us dearly.

i.e. it will be lumpenAmerica's fault if the worm starts heading north again

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/11/squash-lacrosse-niche-sports-ivy-league-admissions/616474/

god

One Greenwich parent told me she believes that, far from being a glide path to the Ivies, lacrosse had actually hurt her older son’s college prospects. As team captain and a straight A student with stellar test scores, he would have been a credible applicant to NYU or Columbia—but these schools lack varsity-lacrosse programs, and he’d fallen in love with his sport. “There were eight or 10 strong academic schools we couldn’t even look at, because they didn’t have varsity lacrosse,” she said.

Her kid just completed his freshman year at a not-so-fancy college in the South, and, according to his mom, he’s happy enough. But she feels bitter, and wonders if her younger boy should quit club lacrosse. “The guys who get recruited to the Ivies—it turns out these guys are beasts,” she said. “I saw them at showcases. They were like stallions.”

this is truly a quid-ag motherlode

“To have that opportunity lost …” His voice trailed off, before he picked up again, mournfully: “The kid who would have gone to Yale now goes to Georgetown. The kid who would have gone to Georgetown now goes to Loyola. On and on. And then eventually you get down to Wentworth. And then you just don’t play college sports.”

“Sorry, but there’s no way in hell,” said the water-polo mom from Stamford. “What parent wants to have a child who’s going to be playing for a bottom-tier school with bottom-tier academics in the armpit of the United States? I want to be polite. But there’s no way in hell.”

some amazing stuff going on in the wording choices in these parents, just amazing

"What parent wants to have a child who’s going to be playing for a bottom-tier school with bottom-tier academics in the armpit of the United States?" Indeed, who would want such a child?

Such a child is no stallion, that's for sure

what a savage

insane article, but those photoshop illustrations are fantastic (especially the lacrosse one on top)