then the couple who had been talking realized the error of their ways and became law professors
― it was very clear that it's a sarcastic song (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 29 January 2013 17:40 (eleven years ago) link
society needs more quite tall men
― congratulations (n/a), Tuesday, 29 January 2013 17:40 (eleven years ago) link
xxp Oh me too, that shit is better than any other, more illicit kind of fantasy. I'm working seriously on turning from that kind of person to one who is entertained by human variety/expression in public and let me say it is HARD FUCKING WORK.
― lets just remember to blame the patriarchy for (in orbit), Tuesday, 29 January 2013 17:43 (eleven years ago) link
Although the woman yelling this morning about how we were all bound for hell and God would judge us on not having taken her advice and the opportunity to get saved had a strangely compelling delivery style.
― lets just remember to blame the patriarchy for (in orbit), Tuesday, 29 January 2013 17:44 (eleven years ago) link
"barking doggerel" has been a phrase that's haunted me ever since I read it
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Tuesday, 29 January 2013 17:44 (eleven years ago) link
is that the official NYT term for rapping?
― Moodles, Tuesday, 29 January 2013 17:46 (eleven years ago) link
i love eavesdropping on other peoples weird conversations on the streetcar
― future crimes (Lamp), Tuesday, 29 January 2013 17:47 (eleven years ago) link
often times theyre not even that weird, just poorly expressed or disjointed so they are easier to spin into something weirder than they actually are, also if the book you're reading is any good its p easy to tune most of the ambient noise of public transit out and kinda just focus on that although im not doing anything as creative as calling all modern woman sluts in the times or w/e so
― future crimes (Lamp), Tuesday, 29 January 2013 17:49 (eleven years ago) link
Once on the C train a man was drumming loudly on the shared bench seat (and they're hollow so basically big drums) and I asked him to stop, clumsily because I was nervous to say anything, so I stupidly said something about how everyone would probably appreciate it if he stopped and he was like, you bitch, if you want me to stop have the guts to say so. Man, those were a rough few years on the C.
― lets just remember to blame the patriarchy for (in orbit), Tuesday, 29 January 2013 18:06 (eleven years ago) link
C train is a bad scene, no joke.
― space phwoar (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 29 January 2013 18:07 (eleven years ago) link
people who make noise / make a scene on the subway are just attempting to get reactions, so reacting never really solves the problem
― iatee, Tuesday, 29 January 2013 18:10 (eleven years ago) link
C train is less rough these days, or maybe I just notice less or get targeted less than when I was so wide-eyed. Still happens, though.
― lets just remember to blame the patriarchy for (in orbit), Tuesday, 29 January 2013 18:23 (eleven years ago) link
this is why god made ipods
― it was very clear that it's a sarcastic song (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 29 January 2013 18:23 (eleven years ago) link
I share the last car of the A train with the same amateur preacher a few times a week. suuucks. everyone just tries to look away.C train rules. you can look out the front window!
― lou reed scott walker monks niagra (chinavision!), Tuesday, 29 January 2013 18:32 (eleven years ago) link
Truth! That's the good part.
― lets just remember to blame the patriarchy for (in orbit), Tuesday, 29 January 2013 18:37 (eleven years ago) link
I share the last car of the A train with the same amateur preacher a few times a week
is it the (african?) guy who exhorts you to love jesus christ 'with OLLL of your mind and OLLL of your body and OLLL of your spirit' or else 'you WILL. go. to hell'?
because that guy is awesome
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 29 January 2013 19:21 (eleven years ago) link
The woman this morning helpfully described hell as being like Trinidad or Jamaica or Europe--places you've never been but that doesn't mean they don't exist. It's a big world full of islands and places; have you been to ALL of them? Of course not; likewise you shouldn't doubt the existence of hell any more than those places in the world.
― lets just remember to blame the patriarchy for (in orbit), Tuesday, 29 January 2013 19:24 (eleven years ago) link
makes u think
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 29 January 2013 19:25 (eleven years ago) link
the existence of hell is what i'm counting on at this point.
― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 29 January 2013 19:32 (eleven years ago) link
If it's like Europe I'm pretty much unconcerned at this point.
― lets just remember to blame the patriarchy for (in orbit), Tuesday, 29 January 2013 19:41 (eleven years ago) link
Is there a dedicated NYC subway thread btw? I always want to post about the current round of terrible, inescapable movie posters or w/e but don't know where it would be on-topic.
― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 29 January 2013 20:37 (eleven years ago) link
i could totally get behind that thread
― scream blahula scream (govern yourself accordingly), Tuesday, 29 January 2013 20:38 (eleven years ago) link
Subways are for sleeping: NYC Transit survival thread
Holla
― lets just remember to blame the patriarchy for (in orbit), Tuesday, 29 January 2013 20:39 (eleven years ago) link
I think there is another thread for ads even
― iatee, Tuesday, 29 January 2013 20:41 (eleven years ago) link
― future crimes (Lamp), Tuesday, January 29, 2013 12:47 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
weird streetcar
― zero dark (s1ocki), Wednesday, 30 January 2013 15:48 (eleven years ago) link
ok this is pretty good http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/shouts/2013/02/hacked-new-york-times-articles.html
― s.clover, Tuesday, 5 February 2013 04:27 (eleven years ago) link
bwaahahahaha
When Chris Finch gave up his six-figure job as a commercial-real-estate broker in Manhattan, feeling an inchoate itch for “something real, where I could get dirt under my fingernails,” he never thought it would lead to a brick-walled workshop on a grimy industrial street, hard by the Brooklyn side of the bridge. That’s where the twenty-eight-year-old now spends his days, and many of his nights, turning out the artisanal syrups and bitters that bartenders from Greenpoint to Harlem say have become essential tools of their trade. The rise of Mojo Mixological—named after Finch’s eleven-year-old Labrador—is just the latest “success” story in a borough that is rapidly losing its essence as it continues to ignore the lessons of the Stalinist two-stage theory of revolution. “The thing is, I’m rotting from within,” Finch said recently, with a haunted look in his eyes, as he paused for a smoke break on the workshop’s bare concrete patio.
Not sure how accurate these are as a sendup of present-day Chinese communist sloganeering, but the detournement of Q&A is always good for a chuckle.
― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 5 February 2013 04:40 (eleven years ago) link
I'm fond of this:
Mr. Wynn, thirty-two, is a hegemonist.
― s.clover, Tuesday, 5 February 2013 04:45 (eleven years ago) link
and the doorman, a worker
― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 5 February 2013 04:58 (eleven years ago) link
Not NYT, just a quid/ag of the ruling class: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324445904578284090209676324.html
― carl agatha, Monday, 11 February 2013 21:44 (eleven years ago) link
1,300-square-foot his-and-hers closets for husband-and-wife clients
hahaha what is this even about
― fueled by satanism, violence, and sodomy (elmo argonaut), Monday, 11 February 2013 21:47 (eleven years ago) link
Ms. Charlton of Clos-ette says a new feature she's including in recent designs is a "virtual styling tool" consisting of computer screens and iPads set up in the closet so people can work remotely with a stylist who has a visual inventory of their clothes to scroll through.
LOL
http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m7y4w5rKQQ1qczd7uo1_500.png
― fueled by satanism, violence, and sodomy (elmo argonaut), Monday, 11 February 2013 21:51 (eleven years ago) link
hahaha
― carl agatha, Monday, 11 February 2013 21:52 (eleven years ago) link
clueless so ahead of its time
― that Django got me Nuages (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 11 February 2013 22:38 (eleven years ago) link
Small, but relevant:
Brooklyn Mom Kindly Looks To Listserv For Gluten-Free, Dairy-Free, Possibly Sugar-Free Personal Chef For Her 4-Year-Old
― Je55e, Tuesday, 12 February 2013 00:28 (eleven years ago) link
RIP childhood.
― Jeff, Tuesday, 12 February 2013 00:41 (eleven years ago) link
how is everyone coping in the post-url-shortening trick era
― iatee, Tuesday, 12 February 2013 19:06 (eleven years ago) link
Just do the same trick but hit yr browser's stop button after the article content has loaded but before the popup appears.
― Dan I., Tuesday, 12 February 2013 19:11 (eleven years ago) link
does this bookmarklet still work? http://euri.ca/2011/03/21/get-around-new-york-times-20-article-limit/
― 1staethyr, Tuesday, 12 February 2013 19:33 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/12/nyregion/paying-top-dollar-for-condos-and-leaving-them-empty.html?hpw&_r=0
Have almost certainly seen this exact story done by the Times before, but this one is worth it for perfectly crafted one-sentence paragraphs, like:
“For the record,” she said, after stepping off an elevator shared with a man in a suit and a woman with an enthusiastic bichon frisé, “I have never seen those people before.”
and
Our next-door neighbors were absolutely lovely, and we saw them maybe once a year,” said a former resident at 25 Columbus Circle, the south tower of the Time Warner Center, who spoke on the condition of anonymity. “Most people don’t actually live there.”
― space phwoar (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 12 February 2013 19:53 (eleven years ago) link
my bookmarklet (don't remember where i got it) seems to have stopped working. not sure if the issue is it's no longer deleting the right cookies, or that deleting cookies is no longer enough. developing...
― caek, Tuesday, 12 February 2013 19:58 (eleven years ago) link
does INCOGNITO MODE still work??
― 乒乓, Tuesday, 12 February 2013 19:59 (eleven years ago) link
afaik the bookmarklets work by just getting hiding the pop-up, not by deleting cookies?
― 1staethyr, Tuesday, 12 February 2013 20:02 (eleven years ago) link
presumably incognito mode and deleting cookies should both still work
― 1staethyr, Tuesday, 12 February 2013 20:04 (eleven years ago) link
There's a crime novel in that Times story.
― 誤訳侮辱, Tuesday, 12 February 2013 20:40 (eleven years ago) link
THE MAN WHO WASN'T AROUND MUCH
― space phwoar (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 12 February 2013 20:56 (eleven years ago) link
who spoke on the condition of anonymity.
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Tuesday, 12 February 2013 21:09 (eleven years ago) link
The dream is over:
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/17/fashion/creating-hipsturbia-in-the-suburbs-of-new-york.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&hp
― Moodles, Saturday, 16 February 2013 21:13 (eleven years ago) link
bum bum BE dum, dum dum de dum dum
― Doctor Casino, Saturday, 16 February 2013 22:05 (eleven years ago) link
"Even a two-bedroom duplex in Carroll Gardens with a garden for the little ones can run $5,500 a month."
cool borough
― buzza, Saturday, 16 February 2013 22:08 (eleven years ago) link