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

“Dresses are almost always looser and less constricting than pants or a skirt,” said Ms. May, 27.

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!

well THAT'S a problem with a built-in solution

Yes, that's where I was going with that.

lol, when i saw the treehouse piece this morning i KNEW someone would beat me to posting it here

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.

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!

I just realized that even when I was broke I would not wear clothes like that.

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.

as though blogger were a career, you mean

snap

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.

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.

What happened to the character-building bus journey from Port Authority to summer camp?

“It’s a crazy world out there,” she added. She now sends her children to camp in Europe.

lmaoooo

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), Thursday, July 21, 2011 9:54 PM Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

as though blogger were a career, you mean

― mookieproof, Thursday, July 21, 2011 9:59 PM Bookmark

Actually I meant both, I just didn't phrase it well.

u guys are gonna need a new quiddities thread soon. I missed this treehouse thing but am not gonna load 3600 posts.

“It’s a crazy world out there,” she added. She now sends her children to camp in Europe.

lmaoooo

― ice cr?m, Monday, July 25, 2011 8:10 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

Seriously. This is incredible.

so I saw the print copy today and this is a FRONT PAGE STORY

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.

“It’s a crazy world out there,” she added. She now sends her children to camp in Europe.

this has to be the best ending to any newspaper article... ever?

i mean legitimately, newspaper articles aren't usually ones for a big bang at the end, but that's the shit right there

at this point you could argue that the nyt must be self-aware w/ this stuff and is trying to kindle a class war

how do i dl class war to my kindle

if you have a kindle, you're in the war

phew

o wait i dont have one

*shoots u w/ agonies*

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

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

all it takes to forestall the call to arms is a state lottery

i am already a rich plutocrat so

I'm already warring with u bitch, read yr threads

my queen is a welfare queen, and my people will fight for her with shillelaghs and wadded-up rejection letters from the unemployment office

http://johnbatchelorshow.com/dispatches/images/plutocrat.jpg

bring it, bitch

we won't fight hard b/c we've gotta catch the early train to our jobs at the DMV in the morning

ya I'm gonna do some warring as a hobby after school in the evenings

“It’s a crazy world out there,” she added. She now sends her children to camp in Europe.

this has to be the best ending to any newspaper article... ever?

― J0rdan S., Monday, July 25, 2011 6:28 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

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, July 25, 2011 6:29 PM (4 hours ago)

OTM

i read that article at work today and immediately thought of this thread

FRONT PAGE

but really who can blame them, such a slow news week

I'm already warring with u bitch, read yr threads

― davon cuul II (m bison), Monday, July 25, 2011 10:18 PM (22 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

well i never

*straps up*

i am a poor plutocrat

I'll fight on the side of the rich if one of you plutocrats takes care of my student loans. thx.

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

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), Monday, July 25, 2011 10:15 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

http://www.washburn.edu/sobu/broach/strive.jpg

bingo

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/28/fashion/dress-codes-in-new-york-clubs-will-this-get-me-in.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss&pagewanted=all

An injunction against flannel, shorts and other typical brunch fashions helps convey the message that the sparklers-and-champagne bacchanal known as the Day and Night Brunch, which until June was held at the Plaza, is for socialites and financiers, not hotel guests in search of French toast, said Daniel Koch, who runs the weekly party with his twin brother, Derek.

“You get guys in from L.A., they think a brunch is a brunch,” Mr. Koch said. “We have to say, ‘Look, dude, this isn’t what you think it is.’ You can’t rock a T-shirt here unless you’re a rock star.”

(How does one dress for a brunch that resembles a Russian oligarch’s stag party? Ladies should consider brightly colored dresses or skirts and avoid cleavage-baring blouses. “You don’t want that in your face at brunch,” said Mr. Koch, who now holds his brunch at different locations each week, including the Hamptons and St.-Tropez. Guys “need an edge; wear a bow tie or, if you have to, go out and buy a $400 pair of sunglasses.”)

New Yorkers fleeing the city in summer may think they’ve earned a vacation from judgment, but they’re wrong — particularly at South Pointe, a hot new dance club in Southampton, N.Y.

“We cater to the ‘authentic’ Hamptons crowd,” said Ben Grieff, an owner, “people who are actually from the Hamptons, not just people who drive out here to see a big D.J.” (Mr. Grieff clarified: “From the Hamptons” refers to people whose parents had a summer home there as a child, not to duck farmers.)