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

http://www.npr.org/2012/04/01/149804404/n-y-preschool-starts-dna-testing-for-admission?ps=cprs

(april fool's joke, but a quidditastic one)

Rebecca Unsinn

lol those wacky Germans (nb: Unsinn = German for "nonsense").

the women in that motherlode blog are straight up weird

mommy bloggers are all weird, but the NYTimes takes it to a new level

parents are the worst, seriously, especially mothers

hey, my mom is a mother

that's for sure

i have a friend who is a "mommy blogger"

her posts are really bad at masking her depression/mental health issues and possible alcoholism

(tbf that covers a lot of all internet posting, but still)

euler, the baryshnikov of yr-mom jokes

Any time anyone blogs about anything personal everything they say has to be looked at skeptically cuz they are blogging about it imo

i have a friend who is a "mommy blogger"

her posts are really bad at masking her depression/mental health issues and possible alcoholism

(tbf that covers a lot of all internet posting, but still)

― buzza, Monday, April 2, 2012 4:04 PM (5 hours ago) Bookmark

should have eaten her placenta, smh

please mommy dont blog 'em

i am astounded by the naked household thing tho

def put some underwear on after i finished reading it

It seemed like a very needy lifestyle choice

We are a naked household because I enjoyed breastfeeding so much
hey kids remember when we used to take baths together as I wander casually down the hallway

Feel like if she's gonna raise nudist kids (which is ultimately fine with me as long as novody's being endangered) she should have worked through the angst rather before her older son turned 12.

haha well it seems less like her habits are tied to any particular philosophical position than to being really lazy

like sure its some effort to slip on a tshirt when you get out of bed but not that much effort

Then she's going to get in trouble with Uncle Sartre on Existentialmas

lol

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/slopers_creamy_river_lcaxb1lj4D0SHqo4f2K3GO
“I should not have to fight with my children every warm day on the playground just so someone can make a living!” the poster wailed. “I too was at the 9th Street Playground on Monday, and one of the vendors just handed my 4-year-old an ice cream cone. I was furious.”

truthfully, that doesn't fit here; more of a class warfare, how-dare-they hit job
we need a "harumphs and backaches of the soon-to haves - a rolling new york post thread"

i swear to god that has been a quid-ag already

like more than once! a year a go at least!

the Park Slope Parents board freaked out that quotes from its posters (attributed by name) made the papers. supposed to be private listserv. they sent out a big email today about the "recent security breach." I was wondering what it was all about. lmao.

news corp hacking obv.

I don't understand why they aren't just buying their kids ice cream.

iirc it's because they hate their kids

news corp hacking obv.

hahaha

i don't have kids, but goddamn the relentless jingle of the brooklyn ice cream trucks drive me insane

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xU5lQsV0L6s&ob=av3e

parents should keep their freezers well stocked with ice cream and popsicles imo

I don't understand why they aren't just buying their kids ice cream.

― beachville, Tuesday, April 3, 2012 4:50 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Because eating ice cream sometimes makes kids OBEEEEEEEESE!!! “Nobody wants to be a crank, but one in three kids are going to be obese or diabetic by high school.”

This one is my favorite: “I should not have to fight with my children every warm day on the playground just so someone can make a living!”

Your need to earn an income is interfering with my need to have no conflict in my life!!!

Because eating ice cream sometimes makes kids OBEEEEEEEESE!!!

'god hates fats' - some park sloper

My parents managed to not allow me to have any sweets at all between the ages of 4 and maybe 7. For the record, this was on some bizarre advice from a dentist after I had tooth decay problems (I don't think any modern dentist would give this advice), but regardless, my parents managed to have this rule for me without serious conflict.

Your need to earn an income is interfering with my need to have no conflict in my life!!!

^my favorite need

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/01/magazine/puberty-before-age-10-a-new-normal.html?ref=magazine&pagewanted=all

Interesting article about early onset of puberty for girls and also sorta about the extremes that some mom's are going to halt that.

Tracee — pretty and well-put-together, wearing a burnt orange blouse that matched her necklace and her bag

not a quiddity, but definitely an agony of anyone who has to figure out how to react to that

buzza otm, though -- the writing in this is weird

She had a thick, enviable blond-streaked ponytail and big feet, like a puppy’s.

Going with the idea that puppies grow into their foot size?

seriously was expecting an April 1 date on that article

I feel really awkward for these kids but cases like this make me feel queasy because either it's a one-off for each of these kids and the cause will never be known, or some day we'll be able to point to a specific thing and they'll have the "oh, I was one of those bpa kids" thing in their story and we'll sigh collective shame as a society because we set it up for it to happen.

destroy capitalism

(Kinesiologists believe that weak muscles indicate illness, and that a patient’s muscles will test as weaker when he or she is holding a substance that contributes to health problems.)

alternative medicine is a cancer. shout condemnation from the mountaintops.

I have never even heard of such a thing. Holding vials of a substance while testing..... wtf

Important to note: not a doctor.

"kinesiologists" are not only not doctors, they don't even need a masters' degree or a professional license, apparently