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

;_;

older manhattan residents trekking to brooklyn looking confused excited and out of place is a real and kinda funny thing tho, you just want to say to them you know its not really any better right

You're a bore and rube if you haven't eaten where everybody has eaten

Ironically, saying something like this makes you about as boring (and boorish) as they come. And also a rube.

boorish, rubbish

hate the game not the player xp

I dunno what it says about me that at least half of my favorite places to eat are a) dark and b) small

wrong thread

Modern life has become a three- and often four- or five-meal-a-day restaurant habit. There is the breakfast meeting. At one time, egg-white-only breakfast meetings were a behaviour limited to fat cats - but fat-cat rituals are what we all emulate. So now it's unthinkable for the rest of us to begin a day without a breakfast meeting (the most important meeting of the day). We are all would-be entrepreneurs, or creative collaborators, or producers of you-name-it, trying to woo potential partners over porridge.

what the hell is this guy talking about

"yeah so this taqueria is like a super exclusive place, it's wicked hard to get a table but i know the owner so it's cool yeah there he is YO WHAT UP DAWG HOW U DOIN" *daps*

if i had to have breakfast meetings id prob write columns that read like suicide notes too

the more i think about this piece, the better it gets, especially when read in the voice of grandpa simpson.

im imagining it written in the locked bathroom of a restaurant michael wolfe couldnt get a reservation to, the staff are banging on the door saying the restaurant is full try coming back after 1030

spinoff thread idea: people who should be carpet bombed

that entire article is hilarious and the best unintentional self-parody of the year

there are, I understand, four levels of the McNally rating system, with his old girlfriends at the bottom and Jude Law at the top

I refuse to believe he didn't write this as to mean that Jude Law is fucking his old girlfriends

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/10/opinion/sunday/living-with-less-a-lot-less.html?smid=pl-share

member of the ruling class had a quiddity, solves it, wants to help u solve ur quiddities too

I agree with the premise but could it have been more annoyingly delivered

all u need is a babe a laptop and tons of money is p otm

my babe folds into my wall in my studio

My circumstances are unusual (not everyone gets an Internet windfall before turning 30),

fyi I'm kind of a big deal

"the black turbocharged Volvo...with a remote starter!" is really where the lols began to set in, imo

u can travel all u want as long as u buy carbon offsets

how much are asshole offsets

and just in case you missed it the firt time, once more with feeling: I’m lucky, obviously; not everyone gets a windfall from a tech start-up sale.

"show of hands: who here has an internet windfall"

You should figure out how to stop living in a house, and instead jet around the world with your girlfriend, selling companies from your laptop. It's pretty sweet.

I gave an old lute I haven't played in years to a friend. This is fun. Now I'm almost done, and it is really true that less is more.

pshh, she'd never see u if u had no lute.

step 1: find beautiful lady
step 2: ?
step 3: success + tiny house

loooooooool hunt3r

Members of every socioeconomic bracket can and do deluge themselves with products.

not sure you totally understand socioeconomics :(

HALP I AM DROWNING IN LUTES

http://i.imgur.com/92KbgfX.jpg

so minimalist i even sold all my colors

A compulsive entrepreneur, I worked all the time and started new companies from an office that fit in my solar backpack.

my solar backpack.

my solar backpack.

finally i told olga, i don't need the burden of a girl all the time, it's more efficient to rent one when i really need one. do svidaniya.

this guy had it all and he gave it up to live in a hip loft

now its just me and my fleshlight under this bridge starting companies

my solar fleshlight

bragging about not having any CDs comes across pretty weird to anyone under 30

bragging about solar backpacks comes across as loool

I realized I needed to downsize my life

I got rid of my 8-track player, all of my laserdisks, 10,000 floppy disks

I realized that my floppy disks weren't even making me happy anymore

his girlfriend was all 'ugh and he wears a solar backpack' to her friends behind his back

"I remember when you used to drive a turbocharged Volvo"

I bet his fold-out tables and beds cost more than all the furniture in my house.

"I remember when you used to drive a turbocharged Volvo"

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, March 11, 2013 7:36 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

now he's stuck with a solar-powered vulva

its funny how he keeps getting these big places and then filling them w roommates cause they seem too big, maybe you just dont like roommates bruh

he makes it sound like he bought them and had them installed