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

Maybe I'm being too forgiving, idk, but it was a strange time. It wasn't like we could be like "Hey everyone, we're leaving next month, having a party to say goodbye."

The number of people I know who have effectively ended their friendships with many people because they had kids during the pandemic is larger than the people I know who moved.

wait who are the friendship enders? the kid-havers or the non-kid havers?

i wonder if we'll get that one sorted

ime new parents are desperate for social contact.. it’s only later that we become lame

it's not that my friends became "lame" it's more than they no longer had the energy to be a friend because they were tapped out from caring for their offspring

it's def not a judgement of coolness or not so much as a lack of resources; ime they only truly come back once the kids are late high school afaict (from experience)

When we first had kids it’s not like I didn’t want to see my old friends, but it just took way more energy and logistics and planning to do anything social other than just roll across the street to the playground (even that required packing a bag). So it was hard to link up with no kid friends who were still more in the zone or just texting me on a whim to come to a bar in an hour. Less that way now.

I'm simply pointing out that in many cases, I see friends who don't have kids but live on the other side of the country more often than I see friends with kids who live across town.

I'm not being judgmental, just merely stating a fact— and also registering how irrationally hurt and pissed off it makes me when my friends have kids, because it often seems like them saying, "yeah, all those relationships we built for years, bye bye now."

Just know that your newly parental friends would most likely love nothing more than to go out for a drink with you. (They could really, really use a drink.) Not trying to solicit sympathy for the breeders, but they miss you too.

I know. They shouldn't have had kids, then.

It seems like a fun idea at the time ...

i like hanging out with my kid more than i like hanging out with most of my friends fwiw

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CONSUME

here's the latest

Now here’s the plannn

tbf, that is my epitaph

Eat, Watch, Read & More
And Bingo was his name-O

I swear before when I opened that image it was an entirely different imgur, a screenshot of a post from somewhere by a guy saying he was affluent and had top tier health insurance and still had to deal with all kinds of fucked up shit, and that we should have universal healthcare, and it was a 100% OTM post and not quid-aggy at all so I was very confused. Still not sure what happened.

"On a chilly Tuesday afternoon this month, James Marsh stopped by a Chipotle near his suburban Chicago home to grab something to eat.

It had been a while since Mr. Marsh had been to Chipotle — he estimated he goes five times a year — and he stopped cold when he saw the prices.

“I had been getting my usual, a steak burrito, which had been maybe in the mid-$8 range,” said Mr. Marsh, who trades stock options at his home in Hinsdale, Ill. “Now it was more than $9.”"

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/21/business/fast-food-prices-inflation.html

Marsh lives in a $1.1m house and got $16,000 in forgivable PPP loans for his one-person business

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— Holly Michels (@hollykmichels) February 15, 2022

via https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/04/realestate/home-buying-regret.html

a century from now, if humankind and schooling are still around, this will be reproduced in a sidebar of a high school history textbook chapter titled "Prelude to Revolution," like a Thomas Nast cartoon of Boss Tweed.

"house poor" = not being able to go to Rome for three days because "hungry fpr pasta" JFC they are trolling everyone.

Man, having trouble finding a house in my "budget," guess I'll just up my budget by 55%.

This can’t be real

Have Fun Being House Poor

Hungry for pasta was hungry 4 ass’ little brother

"Went to Rome cause I was hungry for pasta" is like a rejected lyric from Watch the Throne

Went to Rome cause I was hungry for pasta
Up against the wall when the workers said basta

Don’t let Kanye start rapping about pasta puttanesca.

Oh to be a childless Amazon executive

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmW_L2jKRTY

https://www.washingtonpost.com/food/2022/02/17/restaurant-service-problems-pandemic/

excellent example of "I know it would sound like I was an asshole if I complained about this but..."

"No flutes for us" would be a good title for this thread

I definitely agree with one part of that: QR code menus are the work of Satan.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/25/realestate/new-yorkers-return-nyc-pandemic.html

For Andrew Joseph, the unexpected challenge of rural living was summed up in a single word: beavers. Mr. Joseph was enchanted by baby beavers swimming in the brook on his four-acre property in the town of Saugerties, N.Y., where he and his partner, Paul Pearson, have been sheltering since March 2020.

“I quickly learned that they’re horrible, nasty creatures that wreak havoc and destruction,” said Mr. Joseph, the head of a Manhattan public relations firm who still maintains a home in Harlem.

what a fucking idiot

“I quickly learned that they’re horrible, nasty creatures that wreak havoc and destruction,”

he said of wealthy New Yorkers buying up property in rural areas upstate, before returning to the subject of beavers

nice

But some days I say I don’t know if I can do this again,” said Rebekah Rosler, a New York transplant to Fairfield, Conn.,

are you fucking kidding me

Oh I know who that is, lol. She runs a very large FB group for transplants where many people overdramatize the quiddities and agonies of leaving NYC in protracted monologues. I assume the article mentions that.

“Everybody has lots and lots of feelings,” said Rebekah Rosler, 42, the founder of a Facebook group called “Into the Unknown,” which she conceived in the spring of 2020 for “those of us who have decided or are considering — willingly or otherwise — to join the exodus from NYC to greener pastures.”

fairfield being the "unknown" for people who move from NYC is something

“I quickly learned that they’re horrible, nasty creatures that wreak havoc and destruction,”

he said of wealthy New Yorkers buying up property in rural areas upstate, before returning to the subject of beavers

― Guayaquil (eephus!), Friday, February 25, 2022 11:52 AM (twenty-five minutes ago)

I was going to make a game-recognize-game joke about public relations but this is better

I mean, can you even GET authentic Babylonian flrzkigribl at 3 AM in Fairfield?

Rubes; don't even know the correct temperature for an Americano. Out there in the sticks, might as well be in fucking Iowa or some shit.

you have to go all the way to westport for flrzkigribl

not simply living in saugerties but sheltering there

Disgusting savages

I camerties, I saugerties, I shelteredeties

if you're gonna complain about living in saugerties, at least have the courtesy to make some basement tapes

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