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

cuz she ain't no ruling class

i guess i don't really get the regression part anyway cuz most of the 30-something and 40-something parents i know who go to bars or drink or party or whatever never really stopped drinking or going to bars/parties. maybe when they had infants they did. those little bastards can slow you down.

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she's more ruling class than lena dunham, who now has to be mentioned in every single article by a female new yorker ever

"Now, two months after graduation, I seem to be one of just a handful of people that's been able to get themselves on their feet, pay their own bills and actually put together some semblance of an adult life with minimal parental assistance."

okay wait....

i should have bolded the "two months" part.

no she is a copy editor at studentadvisor.com, that site is prob not the next facebook

wait why is carrie bradshaw always referred to as carrie bradshaw but lena dunham is just lena dunham? doesn't she play a character with a different name? do people not understand that girls is not a docu

xp

and she lives in boston

there are some rich people in boston, but nobody who rules anyone

hannah something idr

wait is she complaining about having a good job and money? i'm so confused.

montana iirc xp

she's not even doing the normal complaint about good job + money aka bourgeois disenchantment

she's complaining that she hasn't suffered enough

http://gawker.com/5924881/22+year+old-is-very-upset-that-she-didnt-get-to-be-poor-for-a-while

it was the ultimate way to achieve my dreams, I realized that pursuing a volatile degree from private university was possibly one of the worst decisions I could have made.

sounds like a commercial for sports deodorant

there are some rich people in boston, but nobody who rules anyone

― iatee, Tuesday, July 10, 2012 9:40 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this is totally unfair

yeah, boston has some rulers for sure

maybe minor despots tho

boston is a 4 year summer camp for the ruling class

man why r u being so mean to boston

"Do not be too harsh on Taylor, gentle reader. Though she has a steady income, an apartment, a car, and a healthy sense of entitlement, she is right to mourn her predicament: she lives in Boston. Even Lena Fucking Dunham worship is preferable to that cruel fate."

gawker's got a point here...

oh shit i was just mean to boston too. sorry. but fuck boston.

other than the record stores. i'm cool with them.

boston sucks tbh, it's hard not to be mean

most annoyed @ her attributing her relative success to the fact that she just tried harder at everyone else at being employable and got internship after internship and had part time jobs (for the resume not bc she needed them to pay her tuition), never once mentioning, you know, luck

all im saying is come on be srs boston has some rulers, give credit where credits due

yeah i feel bad that i live so close to a city that i never want to go to.

u should feel bad, think of bostons feelings, its not like its cleveland or something, theres stuff there

have you tried lowell?

i mean sure the people might be a lil cranky and mostly frat boys but its not all bad

most annoyed @ her attributing her relative success to the fact that she just tried harder at everyone else at being employable and got internship after internship and had part time jobs (for the resume not bc she needed them to pay her tuition), never once mentioning, you know, luck

iirc this is the standard moron fairy tale of capitalism

aka "all you impoverished suckers working 120-hour weeks for 50+ years just don't want it enough"

"i guess i just did everything right. so why do i feel so bad..."

http://www.studentadvisor.com/members/982/profile_image.jpg

you guys this girl doesnt make very much money, that's why it's funny

i did everything right and now i have a job, living the dream

yeah obv but non-famous 22 year old humanities majors writing for huffpo aren't supposed to be THAT capitalist are they?? xp

all americans are capitalist when it makes them feel better about themselves

this thread is like a mousetrap for you

god i can't believe i wasn't pessimistic enough to accept the fact that thought catalog writers were gonna start getting paid by publications people actually read

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this thread ilx is like a mousetrap for you

agree that determination is the main determinant of yr station in life tho

http://www.themarinaexperiment.com/wp-content/uploads/blind-leading-the-blind11.jpg

that piece did nothing for me, i think maybe im finally tiring of rubbernecking blog posts of the entitled as faithfully aggregated by this thread, rip maybe i should blog abt it

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"On the coast of Rhode Island in 1978, the Winter family lives in a decaying farmhouse within view of the Atlantic Ocean. When family patriarch Jim Winter inexplicably commits suicide one January morning, his wife, Helen, teenage daughter, Joyce, and fisherman son, Dale, are left to pick up the pieces. Like the man whose life insurance is worth more than his life, Helen Winter knows that cashing in on the value of their oceanfront property would be both the salvation and destruction of the Winters, who have farmed this seaside land for three centuries. Cousin Ludlow Winter gives her a job in his real estate office, but he also pressures her to sell more and more of the farm. Neighbor Fran Kennedy befriends her, but also seems to be eyeing her antiques. Her sister-in-law, Loretta, wants to turn the Winter land over to the Audubon Society. Meanwhile, Joyce tries to make sense of her father’s suicide and a generation of family secrets all while trying to preserve her Swamp Yankee heritage, which is threatened by greedy developers and outsiders who have no understanding of this land the Winters call home. Her best friend, Camille, a Narragansett Indian, is on a journey of her own to untangle her heritage. As a storm threatens to overtake the farm, the journeys of these women will collide with hurricane force."

I fucking hate people who hate on Boston for no good reason. You've probably never even spent a significant amount of time here. People do this all the gd time and it's really fucking annoying. Sure it's no fancypants NY or whatever but it has some pretty good points if you give it a chance.

p. sure it's largely because of boston sports fans

(not that new york's are better by any means)

Whatever the reason it happens frequently and it's tiresome. I'll admit that I didn't love it immediately upon moving here but it's seriously grown on me over time and I just think people make snap judgement based on . . . I don't really even know what they're based on but they're mostly wrong.

yankees fans > sox fans any day and yankees fans are pretty incorrigible