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

“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.)

You don’t want that in your face at brunch,”

speak for yourself amirite

ok, all rich new yorkers must be killed immediately

'ugh, DUCK FARMERS'

“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.”

Can I just

i really do not understand what a bow tie connotes anymore

i means u fancy

i just got my first bow-tie yesterday. it looks good with my unemployment t-shirt

Guys “need an edge; wear a bow tie or, if you have to, go out and buy a $400 pair of sunglasses.”

Gonna show up an an unironed dress shirt, those expensive jeans with the fucked up designs on the back pockets, and some $400 sunglasses

ny name is Louis farrakhan and I am here to brunch with you

Is Sirota an ILXOR?

http://www.salon.com/news/david_sirota/2011/07/28/blankfein_goldman_sachs_profile/index.html

ny name is Louis farrakhan and I am here to brunch with you

love this btw

to think the times expects ppl to pay for this kind of nonsense. kind of revolting.

There are other things in the paper, y'know

like mets scores

delete all the shit after the html in the url

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/02/arts/music/unusual-sounds-at-mostly-mozart-preview-at-avery-fisher.html
^wow

I leave it to reviewers during the season to describe specific ways in which Stravinsky’s Neo-Classicism (actually, as much neo-Baroque as anything else) may relate to Mozart’s Classicism. And I hesitate to delve further into details of the performances, because I was thoroughly distracted throughout.

The man seated directly behind me was connected to a portable medical device, presumably an oxygen cart to aid his breathing, that emitted a steady ticking. Hard to describe, it was really more a faint, dull metallic clank in a relentless rhythm that seemed somehow resistant to all the many other rhythms emanating from the stage.

I have no idea how many people heard it: 4 or 5 immediately around, 15 or 20 in the vicinity? And I have no idea how I would have reacted if not for a worrying experience of my own last year. As it was, I found it impossible to ignore.