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

omg, this is terrific: ever since I moved and gained like 10 pounds I've been all bummed that all my old shirts look a little, umm, pronounced around the center -- little did I know that I was just CUTTING FUCKING EDGE

I'm so breaking out all the tight t-shirts I stopped wearing and having this article screen-printed on them

whaaa that article is insane even by style section standards

let's not question it, dude, the newspaper of record is saying it was cool and stylish of me to eat too many Cheez-Its

as long as you're not a woman, it's okay ...I want the NYT style section to say it's cool for me to eat too many Cheez-Its.

isn't "style" NYT code for "gay?"

Well the article sez it isn't going to happen so I would give up that dream.

a dream of eating Cheez-Its deferred ...

A Snack Of One's Own

to be honest though I think a better analysis of what they're looking at is this: there are now lots of guys around here old enough to be developing guts who still wear t-shirts most of the time. (unlike older guys whose guts are under tucked-in shirts.) I suggest a business-section tie-in article about the big market opportunity in designing gut-accommodating clothes for skinny guys with sticky-outie bellies who are around 30 and still mostly wearing what they did when they were younger.

xxp If a skinny woman gets elected president though you might be able to get a little junk just to be contrary. We all know how hipsters love to be contrarians.

let us not forget the oh-so-edifying Sloane Crosley article about how white girls with big asses were "in"

Oh I had forgotten about that article. When was that? Are they still in? sarahel you might be able to eat Cheet-Os after all.

i would like to be "in" white girls w/big asses HELLO

Yes, but you aren't a Style of the Times writer so who cares what you think.

judging by NYC subway fashion this season, I'd say asses are "out" and legs are "in"

What a relief! I was worried that in order to be stylish and cool, all women had to adopt the practices of that kooky breatharian lady ...

parents are assholes: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/19/dining/19soft.html?hpw

“There used to be this image that was wholesome and cool,” Mr. Semanko said. But these days, in Tacoma, there is a guy in an old mail van with no shirt on, smoking a cigarette, he said. “I heard one kid complain that the guy actually burped on him. That’s creepy to people.”

Ms. Reiley didn’t mind buying him a treat, occasionally. But the truck — called Here’s Frosty — parks outside her door on most sunny days around 4:30 p.m. and wakes her son from his nap. “Then he’s up, plastered against the window, yelling: ‘Music truck! Music truck!’ ” Ms. Reiley said. “Sometimes he grabs his little bank and says, ‘I have money.’ ”

That's cute as hell.

Ice cream is one of only two ways that I can get dairy into my kid and totally indulge him whenever the opportunity presents itself. Unfortunately, our ice cream guy speeds down the streets and is notoriously difficult to catch. We are mostly certain that he is a drug dealer.

“I fall into the camp of parents who are irate,” Ms. Sell said. She has equal disdain for Mister Softee and the ice cream pop vendor outside the park, but since they are licensed, there is not much she can do about them.

“I feel kind of bad about having developed this attitude,” she said. “I want Katherine to have the full childhood experience and all. But it’s really predatory for them — two of them — to be right inside the playground like this.”

Jesus christ lady

more evidence that someone at the NYT really wishes they wrote for the Onion.

for the record mister softee is one of the things i've missed most fiercely since leaving NYC

i can accept that some kids can put up quite a tantrum but isn't dealing with that behavior part of your responsibility as a parent?

god forbid people who sell frosty treats set up in locations full of their target customers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLNc5Kk3YKc

wait'll they see what's for lunch in the schools! oh, how they'll long for mister softee...

also i'm not sure where this romanticized image of ice cream vendors of yore comes from, the occupation has had its share of unsanitary conditions, shady creeps and druggy teens since always??

http://frostyfreds.com/images/frostyfred1.jpg

but people still take their kids to Taco Bell ...

I think the parents in that article only serve organic gluten free tacos prepared by the nanny/housekeeper.

i totally agree with these parents

yall think this is fun and games until u live in a family neighborhood and u hear the mfing jingle btw 2pm and 6pm every day

for the sake of argument, how is this different from parents being pissed about companies like mcdonald's advertising during saturday morning cartoons (something that i can understand, personally)?

just "tradition"?

yeah if i was a parent in a neighb frequented by these ding dongs i would probably get mad pretty quickly, unless i was trying to kill my children slowly w/ trans fat and shit

http://gawker.com/5341401/ice-cream-man+hating-food-nazi-sells-fried-candy-bars-in-her-brooklyn-restaurant

i dunno, i don't these parents as reprehensible as people highlighted in other NYT stories above; they seem pretty reasonable

don't find these parents, obv

i agree

I don't find them "reprehensible" ... I just find them delusional.

why?

ice cream men, fuckin vultures i tell you

xp - because they want to impose an unrealistic level of control over their environment and their children.

look at them, out in public spaces, on hot days, with their cold refreshing treats

won't anybody think of the children??

eh it doesn't seem 'unrealistic' to me but i don't really care enough to get in an argument about it.

I think it's unrealistic to try and prevent kids that want ice cream from getting ice cream.

ha ha

i can't make a sweeping generalization about all the concerned parents in this article because they seem to each have their own reasons, but taking the fight to city hall because your kid gets upset when you deny him ice creams is all sorts of nonsense

xpost yes that

I mean, it's kinda like those fundamentalist parents that complain about their kids being exposed to nudity and sex, and demand that society/culture do everything in its power to do so.