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

he would probably go like this http://images.cheezburger.com/completestore/2011/1/7/35625c0e-c05a-4cb4-bee8-5bf59fc9b46a.gif

tbh didnt hitler himself basically have this haircut?

― max, Thursday, November 17, 2011 3:04 PM

his was more of a hitler haircut

ill have a "hitler old" please

a "hitler reacts" if you will

"what'll it be, jugend or fuhrer?"

"Hitler, Diet Hitler or Hitler Classic?"

lol ENBB/Laurel swing kids/newsies were the first movies to come to mind

i haven't had my hair cut by someone else in about five years, strongly recommend everyone boycott Big Barba

i cut my hair for years and have only had it done by pros for the last few #iamthe1%

Won't this article sufficiently end popularity for this style?

my hair is much too thick to do this

― yo zuccotti (J0rdan S.), Thursday, November 17, 2011 2:24 PM (1 hour ago)

dude, david lynch!

http://www.newyorker.com/images/2010/03/08/p465/100308_r19378_p465.jpg

man why don't you just marry him already dayo sheesh

haha

you shut your mouth

me and clint together 4ever

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/05/sports/vegans-muscle-their-way-into-bodybuilding.html

"(For a midafternoon snack, Sitko sometimes eats 10 bananas.)"

as far as trendpiece people go, vegan bodybuilders don't seem particularly horrible

Stanozolol is totes vegan.

He ... wrote a book about vegan bodybuilding that discusses how he went from 120 pounds as a teenage vegan to 195 pounds today. "In those days, that meant a dozen tofu dogs a day, six Clif Bars, refried beans, whatever I could eat was calories," he said. "It worked, but it was tough on my stomach. It wasn’t healthy."

"It was tough on my stomach" must be the understatement of the week. You wouldn't want to use the restroom after that guy, that's for sure.

two demographic groups
both hyperfocused on food intake
united at last

liked the bit about being shunned for being a vegan; maybe weightlifting is just a way to pig out on meat

I have known a couple of competitive body builders and "healthy" is not a word I would use to describe them. I wonder what the body building vegans' supplement regime looks like?

im a vegan bodybuilder FYI
the body I'm building is kinda fat tho

it's okay you just gotta cut or drink alcohol for the veins to show

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204124204577150611736387598.html?mod=WSJ_hpp_editorsPicks_2

Can a Foodie and Mr. Bland Be Happy?

When Kimberly Charles came back from a business trip to Italy last fall, she brought a five-ounce, $500 white truffle home with her. She showed it to her boyfriend, k*ll*an MacGeraghty, and described how she would make fettuccine with butter-and-Robiolo cheese sauce and carefully shave the truffle on top.

Mr. MacGeraghty didn't share her enthusiasm. "It smells like bat-wing dust," he told her. "I was a bit crestfallen," says Ms. Charles, 48, the owner of a marketing firm in San Francisco.

Sharing meals is one of the most enjoyable things couples do together, a regularly scheduled time to relax, have an intimate conversation and recharge the relationship. But when one person is an adventurous eater and the other has simpler tastes, meal times are often divisive.

Foodies can be exciting dinner partners, turning everyone around them on to new ingredients, wines and cuisines. But to people who don't share their passion, foodies also can seem intimidating, judgmental, even snobby. Meanwhile, non-foodies—folks who know what they like to eat and see no reason to venture further—can come across as timid, stubborn or, I hate to say it, boring.

...

am inclined to think that being a fussy eater should be in DSM-5 but otoh nothing is more disgusting, savage than this:

A former sommelier who judges wine competitions, Ms. Charles can question the chef for 20 minutes before ordering at a restaurant.

I mean at least she's a pro so it's sort of talking shop for her, like asking the guitarist about his rig or something.

A lot of this stuff sounds very princess-and-the-pea though.

Or prince, obv.

is there a way of being a "foodie" that doesn't involve paying obscene amounts of money for food, or is that just one of the requirements for being "exciting"

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/08/magazine/electoral-politics-and-reality-tv.html

A dumbass horse race is the FUN way to pick the Leader of the Free World!

not sure if this guy is clemenza pretending to be American.

She has set some rules: No Indian food. No fish. No fajitas (she hates the way they smell). And she doesn't want to be nagged to try new things. "He needs to let me be my boring self," she says.

wow

Outside of the expensive truffle crap, that seems less like foodies vs. people with bland taste, but more like regular eating people vs. people who just sustain themselves on air.

is there a way of being a "foodie" that doesn't involve paying obscene amounts of money for food, or is that just one of the requirements for being "exciting"

― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, January 10, 2012 6:47 AM Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

There is! There's a whole subculture of it -- *foodies* who shun that sort of thing and only go to cheap but exotic out-of-the-way places (I think this was originally the concept behind Chowhound). Of course while this can have its own pretension, it's WAY less annoying than the $500 truffle brand of foodie-ism.

My father-in-law, when his family still lived in Jersey, used to insist on driving everyone an hour and a half to a tiny, not very well known Indian place in Jackson Heights -- it was really good but there was also this whole thing about how he had "discovered" it, like he had found a place that Robert Sietsema hadn't gotten to yet, wasn't in Zagat, wasn't even discussed on the message boards, and that was a big deal.

there's also the foodie-ism that's about home-making everything from scratch

Foodies can be exciting dinner partners, turning everyone around them on to new ingredients, wines and cuisines.

reading a weirdly defensive tone in this quote -- 'some people think foodies are snobs but they are all culturally-stunted, simple-minded boors, even if you happen to love one of them'

Outside of the expensive truffle crap, that seems less like foodies vs. people with bland taste, but more like regular eating people vs. people who just sustain themselves on air.

Yeh, it starts off with a couple examples of obnoxious foodie-ism, but mostly the "non-foodies" seem like simps, and proud of it. F U "I eat mostly pasta or chicken" lady. And Mr. I wash down wine with lite beer.

can't wait for the follow-up piece about fashion-forward phenoms exasperated by their 't-shirt & jeans' boyfriends

All these people should just get divorced.

I sometimes troll self-professed foodies. Actually, if they mention Michael Pollan during the course of a meal, I always troll them.

I will start talking about making ketchup and macaroni casseroles.

A former sommelier who judges wine competitions, Ms. Charles can question the chef for 20 minutes before ordering at a restaurant

LOL I would LOVE to have seen this woman come into my dad's old restaurants and try this on him. Growing up in the restaurant business and with a chef dad I appreciate good food and a nice dining experience. I also like food science and learning about different types etc. However, self-professed foodies (or at least the majority of the ones I've encountered) annoy the hell out of me and make me IA.

If you have to have a deep understanding of every menu item and dish/drink combination before ordering, then maybe you need to come back to the restaurant a few times. Or just figure out how to make a decision.

He says he feels a little frustrated on those rare evenings when she gets a bit tipsy and goes to bed early

yeah she sounds like a real connoisseur

I am willing to pander to this newly-identified dating problem with my new self-help ebooks, "dating a yelper: a survival guide" and "how to love someone who doesn't love food"

Hard ain't it hard ain't it hard

true story: once, my GF went to a Seattle restaurant (Tilth, I think?) where she had a terrible, terrible, dish. The chef, Maria Hines, – newly laureled by James Beard – heard her say it wasn't tasty, and came out and yelled at her for having a bad palatte.

eh, my dad is a big oenophile and a lot of the time hell talk to the sommelier for 10 or so minutes before ordering and it doesnt really seem annoying or whatever? like just a couple guys talking about something they care about. sounds almost like dudes talking about football or whatever

I guess it's not always that bad but I think that quizzing a chef (especially if he's working and presumably busy?) for 20 mins. is a little ridiculous. Sometimes people need to get over themselves and just trust.

sounds like he's justifying the sommelier's existence