did you see the spinoff account?https://twitter.com/zebra_and?s=21
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Friday, 7 August 2020 19:50 (three years ago) link
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
heh, i was just about to post the same quote!
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 31 August 2020 16:57 (three years ago) link
After she said yes, he asked her children if he had their permission, and if he could marry them as well.
👁️
― JoeStork, Monday, 31 August 2020 17:01 (three years ago) link
He will, as soon as they're old enough to work out at the gym by themselves
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Monday, 31 August 2020 17:47 (three years ago) link
wait he met both of them at the gym?also
(Robert told The Post: “Nikyta and I were separated and both consented to a mutual and amicable divorce. This is all very surprising to me and I was unaware that there was ever an issue. I’m happy with my family and I wish Nikyta the best.”)
he sounds bad
― contorted filbert (harbl), Tuesday, 1 September 2020 01:35 (three years ago) link
Imagine being the new wife and seeing your near future laid out in black and white in the New York Post
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Tuesday, 1 September 2020 01:45 (three years ago) link
She's fine with it, they're MBTI compatible. She'll use this as a story in her business leadership book - like accepting a new job before telling your current boss that you're looking etc.
― Donald Trump Also Sucks, Of Course (milo z), Tuesday, 1 September 2020 01:46 (three years ago) link
Sorry I guess as an ENTP I was unable to grasp her point of view
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Tuesday, 1 September 2020 01:49 (three years ago) link
This feels very NYT ruling class
Tonight someone testifying against the use of UWS hotels as emergency shelter asked that Community Board 7 also consider the perspective of those who were "up on their luck."— Will Thomas (@willthomas_usa) September 2, 2020
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 2 September 2020 03:02 (three years ago) link
truly the people that are never talked about
― Wayne Grotski (symsymsym), Thursday, 3 September 2020 00:01 (three years ago) link
say what you want about punching down but it's definitely easier than the alternative
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 3 September 2020 06:03 (three years ago) link
https://nyti.ms/2EOo47G
― error prone wolf syndicate (Hadrian VIII), Monday, 7 September 2020 13:25 (three years ago) link
I nominate "up on their luck" as the title of the next nyt quid/ag thread
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Monday, 7 September 2020 15:27 (three years ago) link
Dr. Anthony Fauci warned us last week that Covid-19 is likely to be hanging over our lives well into 2021. He’s right, of course. We need to accept this reality and take steps to meet it rather than deny his message.Many Americans are resistant to this possibility. They’re hoping to restart postponed sports seasons, attend schools more easily, enjoy rescheduled vacations and participate in delayed parties and gatherings.
Many Americans are resistant to this possibility. They’re hoping to restart postponed sports seasons, attend schools more easily, enjoy rescheduled vacations and participate in delayed parties and gatherings.
They may also be hoping to restart being able to afford three meals a day you fucking psycho
It is completely understandable that many are tiring of restrictions due to Covid-19. Unfortunately, their resolve is weakening right when we need it to harden. This could cost us dearly.
i.e. it will be lumpenAmerica's fault if the worm starts heading north again
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 16 September 2020 21:40 (three years ago) link
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/11/squash-lacrosse-niche-sports-ivy-league-admissions/616474/
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 19 October 2020 04:28 (three years ago) link
god
One Greenwich parent told me she believes that, far from being a glide path to the Ivies, lacrosse had actually hurt her older son’s college prospects. As team captain and a straight A student with stellar test scores, he would have been a credible applicant to NYU or Columbia—but these schools lack varsity-lacrosse programs, and he’d fallen in love with his sport. “There were eight or 10 strong academic schools we couldn’t even look at, because they didn’t have varsity lacrosse,” she said.
Her kid just completed his freshman year at a not-so-fancy college in the South, and, according to his mom, he’s happy enough. But she feels bitter, and wonders if her younger boy should quit club lacrosse. “The guys who get recruited to the Ivies—it turns out these guys are beasts,” she said. “I saw them at showcases. They were like stallions.”
― micah, Monday, 19 October 2020 07:07 (three years ago) link
this is truly a quid-ag motherlode
“To have that opportunity lost …” His voice trailed off, before he picked up again, mournfully: “The kid who would have gone to Yale now goes to Georgetown. The kid who would have gone to Georgetown now goes to Loyola. On and on. And then eventually you get down to Wentworth. And then you just don’t play college sports.”
“Sorry, but there’s no way in hell,” said the water-polo mom from Stamford. “What parent wants to have a child who’s going to be playing for a bottom-tier school with bottom-tier academics in the armpit of the United States? I want to be polite. But there’s no way in hell.”
― error prone wolf syndicate (Hadrian VIII), Monday, 19 October 2020 13:42 (three years ago) link
some amazing stuff going on in the wording choices in these parents, just amazing
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Monday, 19 October 2020 13:54 (three years ago) link
"What parent wants to have a child who’s going to be playing for a bottom-tier school with bottom-tier academics in the armpit of the United States?" Indeed, who would want such a child?
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Monday, 19 October 2020 13:55 (three years ago) link
Such a child is no stallion, that's for sure
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Monday, 19 October 2020 13:56 (three years ago) link
what a savage
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 19 October 2020 14:34 (three years ago) link
insane article, but those photoshop illustrations are fantastic (especially the lacrosse one on top)
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Monday, 19 October 2020 15:14 (three years ago) link
Gah, the horror of settling for Georgetown
― they see me lollin' (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 19 October 2020 15:15 (three years ago) link
I have a hard time understanding what this whole college sports machine is and what it's doing. With stuff like D-1A football, I understand the cynical (and correct) explanation -- it's big money entertainment. But what the fuck is the point of college lacrosse, let alone college squash? From the college's perspective, why are they so avidly looking for top student fencers or water polo players? What's the big deal about that?
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Monday, 19 October 2020 15:28 (three years ago) link
donor money
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 19 October 2020 15:53 (three years ago) link
https://news.virginia.edu/content/university-virginia-s-mcarthur-squash-center-celebrate-debut-grand-opening-festival
yeah. i mean some crappy school in the south now has a rich kid from greenwich just because they have a lacrosse program
my dad used to teach at a small catholic college in pennsylvania that was absolutely convinced it needed division iii football to attract (non-football-playing) students. it may have been correct, i dunno, but it's a phenomenon i understand much less than building top-flight division i programs in obscure rich-people sports
― mookieproof, Monday, 19 October 2020 16:02 (three years ago) link
It almost seems like college amenities are swallowing colleges, like they're just becoming four-year resorts with some education options included.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Monday, 19 October 2020 16:17 (three years ago) link
basically except CONNECTIONS dontchaknow
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 19 October 2020 16:40 (three years ago) link