why can't we not have both
― singular wolf erotica producer (Hadrian VIII), Monday, 20 July 2020 17:57 (three years ago) link
a clear majority of high net worth individuals are at least as worried about the future as average people.
Yes. They are extremely worried that their investment portfolios may lose substantial value, thus threatening to drag their future lifestyle down to the level of those with only moderately high net worth. If they can't make that half-million dollar donation to a top Ivy League school, there's not much hope their children will do any better than getting into Syracuse or Duke.
― the unappreciated charisma of cows (Aimless), Monday, 20 July 2020 18:04 (three years ago) link
my god pic.twitter.com/mCHdo0j6vJ— Matthew Gertz (@MattGertz) July 24, 2020
lol they've already removed that quote in the second graf
― mookieproof, Friday, 24 July 2020 21:18 (three years ago) link
Why does anyone ever agree to appear in these articles?
― Virginia Plain, Saturday, 25 July 2020 03:34 (three years ago) link
Because they are sick freaks with a lust for attention, I assume.
― all cats are beautiful (silby), Saturday, 25 July 2020 05:20 (three years ago) link
Guy who says he used to go to afternoon tea at the St. Regis but can’t now because of Black Lives Matter Plaza says @MayorBowser betrayed him so he’s leaving D.C. This whole read is... something else. https://t.co/uXD2fZvIFT— Martin Austermuhle (@maustermuhle) July 25, 2020
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Saturday, 25 July 2020 23:45 (three years ago) link
What an enormous self entitled prick.
The whole thing is enraging but this paragraph maybe takes the cake.
Real city people have no bandwidth to lay down dead in the street or start fires as part of a “protest.” Look at our day: after our miserable commute to work, we have long days in the office, followed by happy hour, client dinners, drinks, maybe a fundraiser or two or having cigars at Shelly’s—and that doesn’t include going to the gym, picking up dry cleaning, seeing our actual friends or spouse, and that miserable commute back home. Quite honestly, we don’t have time for your cause—of which there are so many, so very many causes, so much so that even a city as liberal DC just does not care.
― American Fear of Scampos (Ed), Sunday, 26 July 2020 00:03 (three years ago) link
I'm not clicking on this article but there's no way that paragraph is real, somebody is taking the piss.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Sunday, 26 July 2020 00:18 (three years ago) link
That guy’s twitter is exactly what you’d think
― sound of scampo talk to me (El Tomboto), Sunday, 26 July 2020 00:21 (three years ago) link
He's real, regular Fox News guest and runs a lobbying firm for the energy industry. His Twitter is a piece of work, guillotine would be too kind.
― blue light or electric light (the table is the table), Sunday, 26 July 2020 00:24 (three years ago) link
Sorry xpost
― blue light or electric light (the table is the table), Sunday, 26 July 2020 00:25 (three years ago) link
I’ve witnessed the birth of entire neighborhoods: Shaw, 14th Street, The Atlas District, Navy Yard, Ivy City, The Wharf.
Um dude u must be really old because most of those neighborhoods date from the 18th century
― Please, Hammurabi, don't hurt 'em (Ye Mad Puffin), Sunday, 26 July 2020 00:28 (three years ago) link
erm 19th mostly but still
― Please, Hammurabi, don't hurt 'em (Ye Mad Puffin), Sunday, 26 July 2020 00:29 (three years ago) link
I presume he’s moved to West Virginia so I hope he gets eaten by a bear.
― American Fear of Scampos (Ed), Sunday, 26 July 2020 00:30 (three years ago) link
she told me she was from “Brook-LAN?”
― singular wolf erotica producer (Hadrian VIII), Sunday, 26 July 2020 00:50 (three years ago) link
His Twitter is a piece of work, guillotine would be too kind.
We always talk guillotine, but we never talk dull guillotine.
― Donald Trump Also Sucks, Of Course (milo z), Sunday, 26 July 2020 01:03 (three years ago) link
Just 20 pounds of dull steel repeatedly dropped until it either cuts through, breaks his neck or he has a heart attack.
Real city ppl don’t have arduous commutes their jobs. . . in the city. Dude clearly a suburbanite from Gaithersburg.
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Tuesday, 28 July 2020 18:59 (three years ago) link
I saw that article, read one sentence of it, said to myself, 'guillotines,' then clicked out of it
― blue light or electric light (the table is the table), Monday, July 20, 2020 12:21 PM (one week ago) bookmarkflaglink
this. every time i open this thread. i don't know why i keep coming back.
― budo jeru, Tuesday, 28 July 2020 19:02 (three years ago) link
I think it's because I like thinking of guillotines
― blue light or electric light (the table is the table), Wednesday, 29 July 2020 11:31 (three years ago) link
― Boring, Maryland, Wednesday, 29 July 2020 12:55 (three years ago) link
Yeah I was gonna go with Potomac tbh
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Wednesday, 29 July 2020 13:09 (three years ago) link
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/08/in-the-hamptons-the-rich-are-buying-up-quarantine-mansions
― Donald Trump Also Sucks, Of Course (milo z), Thursday, 6 August 2020 17:45 (three years ago) link
pretty sure Quarantine Mansions is a J.G. Ballard book
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Thursday, 6 August 2020 18:19 (three years ago) link
I had a Times Pick comment on a Bret Stephens column yesterday lol.
― blue light or electric light (the table is the table), Thursday, 6 August 2020 21:52 (three years ago) link
Already dreading NYT lifestyle articles on micro schools rich people form with their friends: Wilson renovated a hardware store that had recently gone out of business downtown. “I loved that my children would learn in a space like that,” he said. “Tools feel so metaphoric now.”— Dean Bakopoulos (@DeanBakopoulos) August 3, 2020
excellent thread
― Donald Trump Also Sucks, Of Course (milo z), Friday, 7 August 2020 19:01 (three years ago) link
^^good stuff
― DJI, Friday, 7 August 2020 19:08 (three years ago) link
oh my god
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Friday, 7 August 2020 19:50 (three years ago) link
did you see the spinoff account?https://twitter.com/zebra_and?s=21
What the world needs now is: tools
― how bout them transparent dangling carrots (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 7 August 2020 20:36 (three years ago) link
excellent
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 7 August 2020 22:40 (three years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/9H1tCk8.png
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 13 August 2020 17:08 (three years ago) link
Oh my god. They finally did it.https://t.co/JqYN12iGPt pic.twitter.com/Hkp2mpCNy2— David Yanofsky (@YAN0) August 14, 2020
― Donald Trump Also Sucks, Of Course (milo z), Sunday, 16 August 2020 01:27 (three years ago) link
That's how he would have wanted us to remember him
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Sunday, 16 August 2020 01:55 (three years ago) link
Love that "EXCLUSIVE" above the headline
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Monday, 17 August 2020 13:54 (three years ago) link
https://www.theringer.com/2020/8/18/21372181/nytimes-typo-twitter-account-copy-editing
I need to come up with a new joke, but good of me to quite literally rewrite your tweets for you, yet again. pic.twitter.com/oa3qBPYiSA— Typos of the New York Times (@nyttypos) August 20, 2020
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 21 August 2020 13:49 (three years ago) link
"I was recently told by a waitress at a fine hotel that I couldn’t have fresh ground pepper because of coronavirus. Really?” — Tyler Brûlé https://t.co/MsoSVG5JVB— Kyle Chayka (@chaykak) August 27, 2020
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 27 August 2020 19:17 (three years ago) link
is he related to dr. steve brûlé?
― contorted filbert (harbl), Thursday, 27 August 2020 19:19 (three years ago) link
cousin of irn brûlé
― mookieproof, Thursday, 27 August 2020 19:27 (three years ago) link
i would expect no less from a publication called monocle. all quiddities and agonies, all the time?
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Thursday, 27 August 2020 20:25 (three years ago) link
that guy is the worrrrrrst
― maura, Friday, 28 August 2020 15:02 (three years ago) link
MIT from Hawaii. Yale from Barbados. Students are renting houses with friends in far-flung locales to do college remotely.That story from @TaylorLorenz and more, in today's @nytimes Coronavirus Schools Briefing, from me and @AJNierenberg https://t.co/MU57j6YRXM— Adam Pasick (@Adampasick) August 28, 2020
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 28 August 2020 17:29 (three years ago) link
that photo seems overexposed somehow
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 28 August 2020 17:31 (three years ago) link
to be fair though
this seems... pretty cool? i was expecting it to be all super privileged kids but there's also non-affluent students doing it bc it's cheaper than campus housing. assuming they really are sticking to their bubble this seems like a neat way to have a social college experience https://t.co/o8horNumk7— anna!! (@M_asinMerry) August 28, 2020
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 28 August 2020 17:49 (three years ago) link
loads of former students who are still in school are doing this right now, we all follow each other on social media (after classes are over)
― healthy cocaine off perfect butts (the table is the table), Friday, 28 August 2020 18:08 (three years ago) link
similarly, i expected this to be real "eat the rich" stuff but honestly i find it difficult to object to what these people are doing https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2020/08/27/covid-school-abroad/ and if my kids (6 months and 2 years) were older, i would probably do it myself tbqfh given i have the passport.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 28 August 2020 18:39 (three years ago) link
regardless of the underlying story, presenting the schooling crisis with a headlining picture of a group of a dozen white kids having a hang session sitting on shag carpeting and divans in front of a picture window and a fireplace (with a HOPE sign on the mantelpiece!) is very NYT
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 28 August 2020 18:43 (three years ago) link
yeah the photos in both those articles are very much designed to trigger this thread.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 28 August 2020 18:46 (three years ago) link
now for some style section drama
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/07/fashion/weddings/between-reps-at-the-gym-a-strong-connection.html (note correction)
then
https://nypost.com/2020/08/29/i-found-out-my-ex-cheated-on-me-from-his-wedding-announcement/
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 31 August 2020 16:21 (three years ago) link
extremely unsurprising.this is a gem from the times article:“I couldn’t believe we are both the executive mind-set. That reinforced a compatibility.”
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Monday, 31 August 2020 16:51 (three years ago) link