You're probably bound to grow up that self-centered if your name is MeMe.
― sussing out the Slick Hustler (I DIED), Tuesday, 16 June 2009 18:23 (fourteen years ago) link
i like that you can read her name (in all small letters) as "meme." i also think it would be funny to force feed her doritos.
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 16 June 2009 18:26 (fourteen years ago) link
Ms. Roth’s message is hardly outlandish: There is an obesity epidemic, and there are probably better ways to celebrate a child’s birth than sending a passel of kids into sugar shock in the middle of math class.
agreed. every third grader should bring in their mom on their birthday so they can reenact the birth. it's educational.
― Mr. Que, Tuesday, 16 June 2009 18:28 (fourteen years ago) link
'MeMe Jr. was a C-section, so we're going to cut her out of this sleeping bag to show how she was born."
― baleen, the krill queen (Abbott), Tuesday, 16 June 2009 18:32 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2009/may/24/meme-roth-obesity-nutrition
"Every picture of Angelina Jolie shows her children eating a bag of Cheetos. How dare the richest, most educated people who have access to everything do this to their kids?"
lol what fucking planet are you on exactly?
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 16 June 2009 18:34 (fourteen years ago) link
tru lols @ angelina being the 'most educated'
― giovanni & ribsy (elmo argonaut), Tuesday, 16 June 2009 18:49 (fourteen years ago) link
Right, I say. So how about lunch?
She squirms visibly. "You're taking me where I don't want to go ... What works for me doesn't work for a lot of people."
Well, you've said that, I insist, so taking that into account: lunch? Roth hesitates. "I discovered when I was in college that I work best when I get a workout in and eat after that. Sometimes I'll delay when I eat until I get a workout in. But I don't let a whole day go by without running four miles."
OK, I go on, but supposing you couldn't work out until four o'clock in the afternoon - would you not eat until after that?
"I might."
I look at my watch. It's 3.30pm. Alarm bells start to ring in my head. How about today, I ask. Have you eaten at all today?
Roth is a little quiet.
"No," she says.
There is a pause.
"But I feel great!"
― a wicket consists of three stumps and two balls (kingkongvsgodzilla), Tuesday, 16 June 2009 18:52 (fourteen years ago) link
All I will add is that I'm happy for her children that this article has appeared in the Times so that years later they will have something to show their therapists.
― Garri$on Kilo (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 16 June 2009 18:56 (fourteen years ago) link
I generally don't like journalistic ambushes but have to hand it to the reporter on this one, this is cracking
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Tuesday, 16 June 2009 19:00 (fourteen years ago) link
maybe she's a breatharian
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 16 June 2009 20:19 (fourteen years ago) link
Is anyone saying that that woman clearly has an eating disorder? And is inflicting it on her children, and trying to inflict it on everyone else's?
― But not someone who should be dead anyway (Laurel), Tuesday, 16 June 2009 20:29 (fourteen years ago) link
I mean making yourself pay for a meal by running 4 miles is really fucking disordered eating. And possibly masochism.
http://ww1.prweb.com/prfiles/2007/05/09/525442/MeMeRothSouthBeachBathingSuitRun.jpg
― a wicket consists of three stumps and two balls (kingkongvsgodzilla), Tuesday, 16 June 2009 20:43 (fourteen years ago) link
if you can imagine the mere size of the meal she consumes after a 4mi run, yeah the eating disorder is pretty apparent
but this is how she "finds she works best" and god forbid we judge her for her mechanical compulsion to maximum efficiency
― giovanni & ribsy (elmo argonaut), Tuesday, 16 June 2009 20:55 (fourteen years ago) link
"i find that my mind is sharper and my predatory instincts heightened when my stomach is digesting its own lining. as an outspoken crazy food pundit, i find this strategy works best for me. and for my brand."
― giovanni & ribsy (elmo argonaut), Tuesday, 16 June 2009 20:59 (fourteen years ago) link
she doesn't look very toned for a runner.
― ultimate sushi baller move (get bent), Tuesday, 16 June 2009 22:01 (fourteen years ago) link
the doughnuts her children were once given in gym,
tbf junk food in gym class is pretty bullshit
― Chubby Checker Psycho (Pancakes Hackman), Tuesday, 16 June 2009 22:31 (fourteen years ago) link
competitive eating is a legit athletic activity
― velko, Tuesday, 16 June 2009 22:47 (fourteen years ago) link
She's attractive, in a Lois Lane-meets-Ann Coulter way
― Can't stop the dancing chickens (dyao), Wednesday, 17 June 2009 02:31 (fourteen years ago) link
Is it considered healthy for a woman to have visible ribs?
― My vagina has a dress code. (milo z), Wednesday, 17 June 2009 02:49 (fourteen years ago) link
it is considered wealthy to look like you don't really work
― kamerad, Wednesday, 17 June 2009 03:03 (fourteen years ago) link
MeMe Roth, a publicist
― \\00// (SeekAltRoute), Wednesday, 17 June 2009 03:12 (fourteen years ago) link
MeMe Roth, a publicist...
she doesn't look very toned for a runner
why because her body is eating itself
― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Wednesday, 17 June 2009 04:05 (fourteen years ago) link
barbara ehrenreich on the nouveau poor v. the already poor:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/14/opinion/14ehrenreich.html?_r=2&pagewanted=all
― Garbanzo (get bent), Thursday, 18 June 2009 05:03 (fourteen years ago) link
phrase "recession porn" in first paragraph = tl;dr/going to vom.
― ian, Thursday, 18 June 2009 05:04 (fourteen years ago) link
They're blonde, they're in the Hamptons and they have a website.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 20 June 2009 13:35 (fourteen years ago) link
"flouncy summer evening" and "Range Rover" in one sentence = stopped reading
― fistula pumping action (sarahel), Saturday, 20 June 2009 22:53 (fourteen years ago) link
started reading
― some dudes are bigger than others (s1ocki), Saturday, 20 June 2009 22:53 (fourteen years ago) link
that article was CONFOUNDING imo
― johnny crunch, Saturday, 20 June 2009 23:53 (fourteen years ago) link
I had to quit after that one chick wet herself naming a couple of designers.
― My vagina has a dress code. (milo z), Saturday, 20 June 2009 23:54 (fourteen years ago) link
this is the best example of the stuff in this thread i've seen yet:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/14/magazine/14food-t-000.html?_r=1&scp=3&sq=chicken%20meatball&st=cse
unbelievable. dude moaning about having to shop at trader joe's and not being able to afford $14 bottles of milk anymore. god "cooking with dexter" is the most insufferable column in the paper.
― some dudes are bigger than others (s1ocki), Sunday, 21 June 2009 17:04 (fourteen years ago) link
I feel that article Ned posted didn't emphasize enough that the woman covering the Hamptons was, in fact, from Nebraska
― fidelol gastrofl (hmmmm), Sunday, 21 June 2009 17:30 (fourteen years ago) link
everyone in new york is from nebraska - it's a given
― some dudes are bigger than others (s1ocki), Sunday, 21 June 2009 17:33 (fourteen years ago) link
The Onion headline could be something like: Sustainable Knitting Store Unsustainable
― Garri$on Kilo (Hurting 2), Tuesday, June 9, 2009 8:04 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
from the article i just linked to
Buying sustainably raised beef and sustainably squeezed milk and sustainably hatched poultry is a way of life that, these days, I just can’t sustain.
― some dudes are bigger than others (s1ocki), Sunday, 21 June 2009 17:43 (fourteen years ago) link
omg cooking with dexter
― harbl, Sunday, 21 June 2009 17:46 (fourteen years ago) link
i was thinking "this guy doesn't know how to cook" until i saw he is some kind of recipe guy
― harbl, Sunday, 21 June 2009 17:47 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/22/us/22smartphones.html
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2009/06/22/us/22smart.xlarge1.jpg
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 22 June 2009 09:52 (fourteen years ago) link
Very few companies have policies on smartphone use in meetings, which leaves it up to employees to feel their way across uncertain terrain.
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 22 June 2009 09:57 (fourteen years ago) link
This was horrible. He made it sound like Trader Joes was the absolute worst option available to him and the food was cheap and nasty -- he should write another column when his pay gets cut to the point when he has to shop at Aldi.
― Sir William of Joel (Nicole), Monday, 22 June 2009 10:41 (fourteen years ago) link
― some dudes are bigger than others (s1ocki), Sunday, June 21, 2009 12:04 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark
i dont understand how this even gets printed - ive never read this column before so idk what it's like but if this guys editor i get this column and go "yeah so what's the point" - this shit is why newspapers are dying - not only was this column printed on millions of papers but they paid two people to do a photo illustration which was also printed on millions of papers! to let us know that some jerk off can't afford organic cow milk or what the fuck ever anymore! - you have to be so wrapped up in yourself and yet so out of touch to write that column and then think that it's an acceptable piece of work
― whiney g. gordon liddy (J0rdan S.), Monday, 22 June 2009 11:13 (fourteen years ago) link
that smart phones article... they should honestly just blow up the new york times. just the whole building. did they ever write a "kids are texting during class! what do we do?" article or is that also coming?
― whiney g. gordon liddy (J0rdan S.), Monday, 22 June 2009 11:17 (fourteen years ago) link
i can't even mindlessly highlight text when im reading articles on the web site cuz then a window pops up giving me the dictionary definition of "the"
― whiney g. gordon liddy (J0rdan S.), Monday, 22 June 2009 11:19 (fourteen years ago) link
hahahaha ^ - i am so busted - have this exact problem
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 22 June 2009 11:21 (fourteen years ago) link
Your search for to invite peril. In Hollywood, both the Creative Artists Agency and United Talent Agency ban BlackBerry use at meetings. Tom Golisano, a billionaire and power broker in New York St returned 0 results. Find more information about this topic at Answers.com.
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 22 June 2009 11:32 (fourteen years ago) link
If you're that concerned about freshness, you can skip the Starbucks and bottled juices. I'm not knocking either, but both can easily be replaced by something fresher and cheaper.
― I DIED (u s steel), Monday, 22 June 2009 11:34 (fourteen years ago) link
Also, how can you run four miles a day without weight training? I can't run two miles several times a week without working on my quads, otherwise my knees will tear up.
― I DIED (u s steel), Monday, 22 June 2009 11:38 (fourteen years ago) link
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2007/07/23/business/23wells-190.jpg
"We might have made $35 chicken soup, but we couldn’t quite face the prospect of a long-simmering stockpot on a Tuesday night. We get tired early these days."
― The 400 LOLs (dyao), Monday, 22 June 2009 12:10 (fourteen years ago) link
― whiney g. gordon liddy (J0rdan S.), Monday, June 22, 2009 7:19 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
― Tracer Hand, Monday, June 22, 2009 7:21 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
me too :/
― some dudes are bigger than others (s1ocki), Monday, 22 June 2009 13:48 (fourteen years ago) link
― Sir William of Joel (Nicole), Monday, June 22, 2009 6:41 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
seriously. what i wouldn't give for a trader joe's!