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

buying dogs while drunk is shitty behavior but maybe outside the scope of this thread? aside from it being a fake trend and overstating it as a "scourge"

i mean businesses having policies about intoxicated patrons is not quite newsworthy in itself. but puppies! now there's an angle

i did appreciate the mention of john mayer's yorkiepoo, however

can't remember where I read it but I remember that in japan there are usually a lot of pet stores near hostess bars

reason being that when salarimen would go to the hostess bars they would often bring gifts, like a $400 puppy, and give them to the girls

the next morning the girls would bring the puppies back to the pet stores and sell them to the store for $300

good racket imo

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/07/fashion/watches-are-rediscovered-by-the-cellphone-generation.html

“The men’s-wear set has recently rediscovered the joy of proper mechanical timepieces,” Mr. Williams said. “Right now there is no clearer indication of cool than wearing a watch. If it was your grandfather’s bubbleback Rolex, even better.”

can't believe my asshole grandfather doomed me to a life of uncoolness by not having a a bubbleback Rolex ;_;

“In certain circles,” Mr. Thoreson said, “if you don’t have a substantial timepiece with some pedigree, you feel like you’re missing out on something.”

http://www.bubblebackclub.com/

“A cool machine that is all moving parts has got to be intrinsically interesting to someone born into this generation, because there’s just nothing like that in their life.”

guys: watches, they're a hip new thing

you wear them on your wrist

it's tough, living in a world without moving parts

*jumps on hoverboard*

*eats holographic ice cream cone*

why should u buy from me? please research my ebay id chinbubblebackclub, am a platinum level power seller in ebay, it is always in my best interest to offer some very collectable vintage rolexes for all collectors with a very reasonable price tag, being a collector myself, watches needed to be screen through by my quality filters before i will call a buy, and with my vast experiences as an international buyer, i am fully aware of all the concerns u may have buying online, as well as the ways and tactics to get the watch to u safely, therefore, be sure each transaction with me will be a pleasant one, i will take care of your interest as what i would like to be treated when am a buyer.

Malaysia??: my country is a very lovely country and i am also a very serious and honourable person, am working as a stockbroker, watches is mainly my hobby, pls do not back out because u have had heard something bad, lets face it, bad people exist everywhere, what u need to do is to work with the right person, hence u can be rest assured i do not take people for a ride, am here to make friends!!!

bubble back club sounds obscene

Chinbubble Backclub sounds like a character in a Discworld novel.

bubble back club sounds obscene

It sounds way too fun a name for something as banal as ritzy watches.

xxxxp: The person who gave me my dauchund mix Pepper actually did get him at a bar. I suspect it was more of a "a regular brings in a litter of puppies in a box" kind of deal, though.

I sometimes wear my grandfather's bubbleback Rolex watch. It's classy.

The follow-up to "Saved by the Cops" (what a stupid title) is crazy:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/09/nyregion/suspect-in-robbery-of-band-members-claims-stolen-memory.html?_r=1&src=rechp

(...)

had never heard of 'georgetown' brooklyn before, apparently it's an ugly little planned subdivision of bergen beach

and yeah he's full of shit

ha i mean the guy is full of shit w/r/t the "memory loss" thing but if were looking for reasons why the members of PMER were targeted:

He said the tenant wanted to know if Mr. Marshall could get some cocaine or Ecstasy in time for a party that night. Mr. Marshall said he told them he doubted it. The victims have consistently given a different account: two of them were eating sandwiches outside when Mr. Marshall approached and mumbled something about Ecstasy — “just, like, talking to himself,” one musician, Ian Harris, 18, said — before drifting away.

Mr. Harris added a minor twist of his own when he conceded that he was recently arrested for possession of Ecstasy in Pennsylvania, a fact he had shared with Mr. Marshall during the conversation, but he said he never sought any drugs from him. The police have said the robbery did not appear to be drug-related.

its cool of the NYT to do the follow up and get "the other side of the story" such as it is, tho

Yeah, sort of less "other side" and more just "this is a weird-ass story, let's run with it"

well in this case the "other side" is "a weird ass story"

the details about the guys grandmother being a CO made me think that maybe the reporter wanted to do a "this is how the other half lives" bit but then it turned out the guy was kinda nuts

lol i spent 10 mins browsing ebay for vintage rolexes earlier this week :-\

I had this vintage Swatch watch from the 80s I used to like to wear. The graphics looked like Saved by the Bell or some shit. I miss that thing.

lol i spent 10 mins browsing ebay for vintage rolexes earlier this week :-\

― gr8080+ (gr8080), Saturday, July 9, 2011 3:40 PM Bookmark

I have to admit that article just made me want a vintage dress watch.

i'm always 2 days ahead of the nyt when it comes to trends

my expensive watch really used to be my grandfathers, he left it to me when he died, its too nice to ever wear so it sits in a box in my sock drawer

some buds of mine have been "into" watches for a while now. buying knockoffs from eBay and stuff, drawers full of the things

"I got watches I ain't seen in months"

I can't really imagine being "into" them in the sense of having more than two or three, but I'm beginning to see the usefulness of having the time on your wrist instead of in your pocket. Plus they say it "projects an air of reliability"

the problem for me with watches is that the ones i like are too expensive for me to wear.

also i have the wrists of a little girl.

i have to wear a watch.

but since i can't have nice things, i just get cheapo digitals from target. i've actually got two identical ones that i keep lying around the house since i frequently misplace/recover them

haha i just re-watched the BBC hitchhiker's guide and i remember douglas adams's distinct disdain for digital watches

XD

i have mine on military time

but do you have the face of the watch on the inside of your wrist?

only if i'm running

h8 watches on me

being into watches is such a financial industry thing, good job catching up to these bold trendsetters other materialistic people profiled in the nytimes

i mean fine have a watch nbd jus dont be all I HAVE A WATCH cause be serious many many people have watches

watches are just really shitty phones

will anyone wear a watch 50 years from now? like will it last as a style thing? I'm guessing no, but random things do stick around as cultural vestigial organs

Steven Alan, a designer who carries a curated selection of vintage watches in three of his boutiques, compared it to the techno-lust for McIntosh stereos with vacuum tubes. “Having some analog component in your life is refreshing,” he said. “I’ve noticed there are a lot of people shooting with film recently. People like that return to things that are very tactile.”

feeel the film do u feel it

I like to touch the tubes of my stereo and feel the, uh, tube-rations

do 12 year old kids still wear watches? do they even know what they are?

The funny thing is that I actually have my grandfather's McIntosh stereo. It's in storage and in need of repair, and I need to buy new speakers for it as well. Meanwhile I've just gotten by with my computer and decent monitor speakers, especially since I live in a small place.

I mean didn't people always like having cool old stuff from their grandparents though? I don't really think that's some reaction against Our Digitized Age.