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

spin class is pretty rough, imo

(white people problems)

I go to spin class w/ my gf sometimes

spinning to techno cotton eyed joe remix living the life

WE'RE COMING UP ON A HILL NOW PEOPLE

lol I came back from meetings and thread has gone exactly where I wanted to take it at 5.01PM after Tracer's post.

I was gonna say, feels like all the profiled kids have parents they can call on "those months" when they CAN'T MAKE RENT.

"Damn, looks like it's one of those months again!"

"I should probably try to get out of the Madewell store sooner next time."

what is it like to live in new york

Actually p sure spinning instructors from the UWS don't wear Madewell but I don't know what they do wear so

Do the people at the nyt know about this thread?

Wait. I mean, do the people who write these articles at the nyt know about it.

There's always the possibility that they read ilx and most all their Style and Real Estate content is just trolling us.

were sort of an unpaid focus group for them, make sure theyre hitting their intended targets etc

I often get that feeling Laurel.

what is a spinning instructor

Is the prerequisite a class on carding, and is it a prerequisite for weaving? If you get an A, can you take an honors class in distaff use?

Oh, wait...not that type of spinning. Sorry.

http://img523.imageshack.us/img523/5431/spinners2ta0.gif

Jeff, Jesse, and I took a spin class once and a guy spread his gym issued towel over the handlebars and spat phlegm into it throughout the entire class.

That's how we do spin class in Chicago.

*barf*

I have done a 180 and agree w you guys about the multiple jobs article.. it is thee classic set up - a real issue refracted down through this narrow slice of demography.

For context, that guy was an exceptionally attractive, upbeat, toned olive-skinned. Upbeat, as in, he said a lot of "Woooo! Yeah!!!" and he sometimes added, "Hork!"

you sit on it and do the spinning i guess?

lol you gave me awesome t-shirt idea: stationary cycle with caption "Sit on it and spin"

Mr. Fierro describes himself as “MacGyver.” He might have to transport some furniture, “read and synthesize documents, find obscure bits of information on Google and give presentations in Spanish, all in one day,” he says.

um, so, he has to read, use the internets, and talk about stuff (because if you are fluent enough to present in spanish it's really just presenting, point). and he sometimes moves furniture. on the same day even? this doesn't really sound all that difficult or unusual? most people use google? "synthesize" documents -> don't put this on your resume

i feel kind of bad though, probably they were told by parents/teachers at college to follow your dreams and not worry a thing about racking up $100K+ in debt for a liberal arts degree, so long as you're doing what you love. um...

In Las Cruces, my best male friend taught a spinning (fake bike) class, and one of my best female friends taught a spinning (lol wool) class, and keeping the idea of "spin" straight was impossible.

feel like they could combine the two and have something there

I really want to somehow connect the pinata store in this thread with the "human pinata" quote in the madoff thread but I'm drawing a blank.

eh, i regret writing that the instant i wrote it. nevermind.

I'm going to start using that angle more often

"WHADDYOU MEAN I CANNT HAVE ANOZZER DRINK? DO YOU KNOW I WORK FOR ZUH NEW YORK TIMESSSS?"

her editor is going to be spending his/her time making calls to get her into a free show? yeah. a-ha.

tbf, editors will call in nyt ticket holds. but mostly photo editors. mostly writers follow up on their own so they don't run into a "not on the list" situation

Laurel fwiw the category of people in New York who rely on their parents to help them out of a tight spot now and then is i think much, much larger than what we're presented with here. i mean, dishwashers, livery cab drivers, nannies.. if they can't make ends meet they might also lean on their parents. of course they might get a "hell no" but maybe not. anyway just wanted to say that's not so damning, necessarily.

Well, no, I suppose that's true. You can just take it as "the kind of person who calls their parents for help with the rent instead of moving out of a $1500 studio on the Upper West Side."

I dunno there are plenty of people going broke for their manhattan apt who don't have parents they can go to for rent. just as there are plenty of poor people in the country paying the loans / gas bills for an SUV (or whatever). there are lots of bad financial decisions that people make, they just need to be framed as bad decisions.

There's nothing wrong with having a family/financial support system and using it to maintain a pricey apartment, or having it and not using it and living with tight finances, but having available, accessible family support and crying poor is tiresome.

(many disclaimers about understanding the complexities of family relationships and how not everybody who could call on their family for money can reasonably do so for a whole host of reasons)

Right, what Jenny said. Similarly, it's tiresome for a person with varied career/job options open to complain about how hard it is to make a living doing exactly what they want.

He went to his apartment to change for that evening’s victory party. He re-emerged in his conservative finery, dressed as Clark Kent to do Superman’s work. Ralph Lauren suit, wide tie, Church’s brogues. Is it true that his Turnbull & Asser shirts are custom-tailored?

“Off-the-rack doesn’t fit me,” Mr. Ellner said. “I have long arms.”

Wait what is that from?

profile article about gay rights activist- it's the last line. The "long arms" thing is a *do you see?* about his social connections etc. but the fashion spread prose is stomach-turning and nyt does that shit all the time.

"Is it true...?"

could it be, oh my god

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/03/nyregion/the-stolen-stroller-an-urban-bourgeois-problem.html

I don't know from strollers but I feel like the fancier ones would be U-lockable somewhere. These people live in Brooklyn, what do they think is keeping all those bicycles from disappearing?

I called the New York Police Department’s public information office and asked a spokesman whether there was any numerical or anecdotal information indicating that this might be part of a trend.

He suggested that I put my “very unusual request” in an e-mail, but warned, “Your answer will probably be ‘we can’t accommodate you.’ ”

Undaunted, she called it a trend.

Also:

“Well, did you leave it outside?” it seemed beside the point. It’s not as though I had left a tennis bracelet languishing on the stoop.

I'm pretty OK with victim blaming in this case.

eh its all a lil too self aware for my tastes

yeah same criticism I had but this was good

They are often left outside, especially when the alternative is usually dragging them up and down a flight of stairs.

the self awareness of is really the most ugly component of the article imho

Did you know if you leave shit unattended in plain sight it'll get swiped? Amazing.

In a "not so quiet" part of Brooklyn, no less.