"Hello, Miss? Can I have a moment of your time? Are you wearing a dress right now? No? OK, thank you!"
― BIG HOOBA aka the stankdriver (Phil D.), Thursday, 21 July 2011 17:27 (twelve years ago) link
lol
― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 21 July 2011 18:02 (twelve years ago) link
quote from Kristi Schiller supposedly:“oil is hovering at $100 and I am a 'shiny' girl – as oil escalates I will only get flashier, eventually the ring I will wear will come with its own welding cap”
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Thursday, 21 July 2011 18:49 (twelve years ago) link
my friend Angie told me she likes to wear dresses when she's going to get drunk because there's no un/zipping involved. I declined to ask whether this was about peeing or sex.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Thursday, 21 July 2011 18:54 (twelve years ago) link
Personally I can say that it makes peeing a hell of a lot easier, but you can still accidentally tuck your hem into your underpants or something. If you wear underpants.
― it's not that print journalists don't have a sense of humour, it's just (Laurel), Thursday, 21 July 2011 19:08 (twelve years ago) link
well THAT'S a problem with a built-in solution
― j., Thursday, 21 July 2011 19:31 (twelve years ago) link
“Dresses are almost always looser and less constricting than pants or a skirt,” said Ms. May, 27.
― didn't even have to use my akai (Hurting 2), Thursday, 21 July 2011 19:39 (twelve years ago) link
Bruce Springsteen struck a similar chord, crooning “in the cool of the evening light/The girls in their summer clothes/Pass me by,”
That line doesn't even have the word "dresses" in it!
― didn't even have to use my akai (Hurting 2), Thursday, 21 July 2011 19:40 (twelve years ago) link
Yes, that's where I was going with that.
― it's not that print journalists don't have a sense of humour, it's just (Laurel), Thursday, 21 July 2011 19:42 (twelve years ago) link
lol, when i saw the treehouse piece this morning i KNEW someone would beat me to posting it here
― generous doler out of lollies (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 21 July 2011 21:44 (twelve years ago) link
The treehouse piece delivers right out of the gate with the caption on the photo: Dan Burnham spent nearly $248,000 on playhouses (“adorable and worth every penny”) near Santa Barbara, Calif.
Adorable and worth every penny.
But if I try hard enough, I can make my law school loans appear more manageable by reminding myself that they are nowhere near as much as Dan Burnham's treehouse.
― ilx poster and keen dairy observer (Jenny), Friday, 22 July 2011 00:37 (twelve years ago) link
OMG, I came here to post about the treehouse piece! What's funny is that I was reading that section and came across this photo essay on a treehouse with heater, shower, etc. Then I realized it wasn't a treehouse but a real house, yet the treehouse piece was so ridiculous I was fully willing to believe it was about a treehouse with all mod cons.
Loved the line of reasoning from the former Playboy model (and now blogger), married to the oil exec in Houston. Something like, "they're only young once, and childhood flies by so quickly ..." Yes! That's why you don't build them six figure treehouses!
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 22 July 2011 00:55 (twelve years ago) link
I just realized that even when I was broke I would not wear clothes like that.
― YO MAMA. (Mount Cleaners), Friday, 22 July 2011 01:25 (twelve years ago) link
The tossed off "former playboy model turned blogger" line was actually my favorite thing in the whole piece -- as though playboy model were a career, and she had made a career change.
― didn't even have to use my akai (Hurting 2), Friday, 22 July 2011 01:54 (twelve years ago) link
as though blogger were a career, you mean
― mookieproof, Friday, 22 July 2011 01:59 (twelve years ago) link
snap
― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Friday, 22 July 2011 08:20 (twelve years ago) link
actually I think my favorite line from that piece is the totally self-defeating
"The list goes on."
As if trying to top the playhouse piece, just up is a trend story about wealthy families chartering private planes to shuttle their kids to summer camp.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 25 July 2011 11:48 (twelve years ago) link
the ending kind of makes it
But some parents have already tired of this private-plane status infiltrating the simpler world of summer camp. Nancy Chemtob, a divorce lawyer, made several summer trips to Maine in the past decade, where her children attended camp. She once managed to get on a charter plane from the airport in East Hampton, N.Y., for $750 (her husband had hung a sign in the airport seeking a ride). After listening to enough banter among parents about “who is flying, who is flying private, who they can get a lift home with,” she decided she “was done with Maine and the planes and all of the people.”“It’s a crazy world out there,” she added. She now sends her children to camp in Europe.
“It’s a crazy world out there,” she added. She now sends her children to camp in Europe.
― flop's son (dayo), Monday, 25 July 2011 11:57 (twelve years ago) link
What happened to the character-building bus journey from Port Authority to summer camp?
― natalie imbroglio (suzy), Monday, 25 July 2011 12:00 (twelve years ago) link
lmaoooo
― ice cr?m, Monday, 25 July 2011 12:10 (twelve years ago) link
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― mookieproof, Thursday, July 21, 2011 9:59 PM Bookmark
Actually I meant both, I just didn't phrase it well.
― didn't even have to use my akai (Hurting 2), Monday, 25 July 2011 12:15 (twelve years ago) link
u guys are gonna need a new quiddities thread soon. I missed this treehouse thing but am not gonna load 3600 posts.
― you call it trollin' i call it steamrollin' (Dr Morbius), Monday, 25 July 2011 13:31 (twelve years ago) link
― ice cr?m, Monday, July 25, 2011 8:10 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark
Seriously. This is incredible.
― ladies love draculas like children love stray dogs (ENBB), Monday, 25 July 2011 13:36 (twelve years ago) link
so I saw the print copy today and this is a FRONT PAGE STORY
― iatee, Monday, 25 July 2011 21:02 (twelve years ago) link
It's win-win for the times. Rich people are narcissistic and enjoy reading stories about themselves, poor people (ie the rest of us) are masochistic and enjoy reading stories about rich people.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 25 July 2011 21:21 (twelve years ago) link
this has to be the best ending to any newspaper article... ever?
― J0rdan S., Monday, 25 July 2011 22:28 (twelve years ago) link
i mean legitimately, newspaper articles aren't usually ones for a big bang at the end, but that's the shit right there
― J0rdan S., Monday, 25 July 2011 22:29 (twelve years ago) link
at this point you could argue that the nyt must be self-aware w/ this stuff and is trying to kindle a class war
― iatee, Monday, 25 July 2011 22:41 (twelve years ago) link
how do i dl class war to my kindle
― ice cr?m, Tuesday, 26 July 2011 01:11 (twelve years ago) link
if you have a kindle, you're in the war
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 26 July 2011 01:12 (twelve years ago) link
phew
― ice cr?m, Tuesday, 26 July 2011 01:24 (twelve years ago) link
o wait i dont have one
― ice cr?m, Tuesday, 26 July 2011 01:28 (twelve years ago) link
*shoots u w/ agonies*
― davon cuul II (m bison), Tuesday, 26 July 2011 01:30 (twelve years ago) link
seriously, serious fuck the megarich. this isnt the thread to say this probably but like half of my life i am in contact with exceedingly wealthy people – not just 'well off' but like scrooge mcduck loaded- and let me tell you that even if they are decent, nice, whatever, they are so completely out of the fucking loop on everything that they just passively make those around them feel like shit all the time with the kind of attitudes in these articles. the moderately wealthy people i know are at least somewhat of this planet and so, you know, mixed bag of awesome/shitty/whatever roughly in proportion to the normal workaday population. but my god, the class war can't come soon enough for my money b/c the vanderbilts and carnegies and morgans of today are just ... ugh ... excruciatingly awful
― remy bean, Tuesday, 26 July 2011 02:08 (twelve years ago) link
im gonna b cynical and also hamfisted and say many ppl will not class revolt bc they are deluded into believing they too can become rich plutocrats when their big break comes
― davon cuul II (m bison), Tuesday, 26 July 2011 02:15 (twelve years ago) link
all it takes to forestall the call to arms is a state lottery
― remy bean, Tuesday, 26 July 2011 02:17 (twelve years ago) link
i am already a rich plutocrat so
― ice cr?m, Tuesday, 26 July 2011 02:17 (twelve years ago) link
I'm already warring with u bitch, read yr threads
― davon cuul II (m bison), Tuesday, 26 July 2011 02:18 (twelve years ago) link
my queen is a welfare queen, and my people will fight for her with shillelaghs and wadded-up rejection letters from the unemployment office
― remy bean, Tuesday, 26 July 2011 02:20 (twelve years ago) link
http://johnbatchelorshow.com/dispatches/images/plutocrat.jpg
bring it, bitch
― Lamp, Tuesday, 26 July 2011 02:22 (twelve years ago) link
we won't fight hard b/c we've gotta catch the early train to our jobs at the DMV in the morning
― remy bean, Tuesday, 26 July 2011 02:24 (twelve years ago) link
ya I'm gonna do some warring as a hobby after school in the evenings
― davon cuul II (m bison), Tuesday, 26 July 2011 02:26 (twelve years ago) link
― J0rdan S., Monday, July 25, 2011 6:28 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
― J0rdan S., Monday, July 25, 2011 6:29 PM (4 hours ago)
OTM
― can afford a drug lifestyle ----► (k3vin k.), Tuesday, 26 July 2011 02:40 (twelve years ago) link
i read that article at work today and immediately thought of this thread
FRONT PAGE
― iatee, Tuesday, 26 July 2011 02:41 (twelve years ago) link
but really who can blame them, such a slow news week
― davon cuul II (m bison), Monday, July 25, 2011 10:18 PM (22 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
well i never
― ice cr?m, Tuesday, 26 July 2011 02:41 (twelve years ago) link
*straps up*
― can afford a drug lifestyle ----► (k3vin k.), Tuesday, 26 July 2011 02:42 (twelve years ago) link
i am a poor plutocrat
― my Sonicare toothbrush (difficult listening hour), Tuesday, 26 July 2011 02:53 (twelve years ago) link