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

eternal rural 7th grader

this caused serious lols for some reason

well its the kind of blog that can create equal amounts of amusement and pangs of self-recognition. like jeff foxworthy used to say: if you see a link to this blog on your facebook or on the internet...you might own an empty birdcage.

fwiw i have several small moss terrariums in old sugar dispensers, guess i'm fucked

would like to see photos of yr terrariums, Elmo - are these like restaurant sugar dispensers?

yea, they are p cute

my sister and I continued the discussion on facebook as we have a lot of mod design items between us.

Fuck your Stendig calendar
Fuck your George Nelson Ball clock
Fuck your Eames Hang it All
Fuck your Utensilo
Fuck your Heller plates

and so on.

But obviously those are all totally awesome objects.

elmo, what did you do to prepare the moss? I would like to make some terrariums in antique beakers that I have come to own, but I don't even know where to start.

Love this. Especially "Fuck your bookshelf with the books arranged by color."

i didn't really prepare the moss tbh -- just foraged for some & lifted it with a butter knife and plopped it in there onto of some soil & drainage materials. my first attempt, really. xpost

i worked at a salvation army for a year or two and there was a woman who would come by and buy irregularly shaped jars and containers. She told me one day that she liked to fill them with water and food coloring so that they would brighten her house (trailer?) up. I thought that was simultaneously beautiful and astonishingly sad.

i really want to do a meme tumblr parody of fynct called fuckyourweeksoldtakeoutcontainers thats just pictures of really messy apartments but i couldnt think of where to get enough pictures for it to really work

i mean my house only has so many unwashed dishes piled around

I can hook u up

want a picture of my roommate's bag o' used condoms?

I'm down with FYNCT because that kind of tasteful design, all proper designer pieces and flair is boring as shit.

absolutely agree

I went through them and tried to picture myself living in each of the pictures

How was that egg chair? Looks comfy

i think maybe i would like that card catalog in my home

i had that card catalog in my home
it was okay

want card catalog!
chalkboard backsplash makes me ia: it wd get filthy! and leaning over stove to write on it is just impractical. hmph.

Yeah, fuck the chalkboard backsplash because it elevates trend over actual functionality.

Chalkboard trend in general is a pretty useless thing but sure, they look good. Nobody seems to be putting much more usable whiteboards in their houses.

secret shame: I always wanted a chalkboard fridge :/

the company founded by my great-grandfather can help you with that.

http://www.sheffieldbronze.com/new-products/

Chalkboard and table-tennis paints are special because there's a grit involved which is what causes the chalk to adhere or the ping pong balls to bounce and not slide.

I walk by a ton of great old card catalogs every day at work and always think how much I want one before immediately realizing how useless they would be. It's not like I have a ton of 3x5 object crying out to be stored somewhere.

index cards with the names of yr enemies?

they hold random stuff. tape. batteries. pennies. whatevs. they're like a better organized junk drawer.

Or 24 of them.

I keep the preserved body parts of my enemies in my card catalog

^lard catalog

File under D for Dick

I like that blog because I'm an eternal rural 7th grader when it comes to home decor, as in I never seem to pick up on trends until it's too late and they are totally passe and I really want a giant letter on my wall because I think it looks cool but I can't without looking like a total herb, so fuck your antique sign letter. (I still really want a terrarium, though.)

― carl agatha, Friday, February 10, 2012 5:44 AM (7 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

^this is me when it comes to pretty much everything

a great place to store index cards filled with your jokes, gags, boners, and one-liners!

File under "b" for "boner."

catalog of old cassettes, sex toys and beads, imo. hours of enjoyment.

you store your boners on index cards?

to bone (verb)

1. print and bind every ilx thread
2. place on bookshelf
3. use card catalog to index them
4. win

omg brownie

unique definition of win there

ilx is the greatest novel ever written

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ilx is the greatest novel ever written

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ilx is the greatest novel ever written

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ilx is the greatest novel ever written

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Champagne Supernova is the greatest song ever written.
― Ally, Monday, July 9, 2001 12:00 AM (10 years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnjNXn0uLHA

http://travel.nytimes.com/2012/02/12/travel/whatever-happened-to-first-class.html

o so THAT'S what happened to it

I dont ever recall seeing a first class section in any domestic flights here even in the expensive Qantas-only days. It was business, and coach. First was for long haul and Ive only ever seen it on my Emirates flight to the UK in 98 (and they allowed smoking there then!)

my God, that article.

someone in the comments section hit it on the nose - first class is better than ever. it's just now called 'private flights'.

hahaha otm

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/15/nyregion/foreign-parents-in-new-york-prefer-public-schools.html?_r=1&hp