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

divorce is shitty and makes otherwise dece ppl go straight transactional- or worse. hard to rate assholedom on that factor. sharing it with the world? nagl imo, but it's the current style afaict. like txt acronyms.

I dunno, I'd argue that it's easy to rate assholism that way bc ppl who aren't assholes know that it's nagl to shit on ppl in the newspaper no matter how much they may want to. Ted is an asshole.

I sometimes think, Wow, I could have been an astronaut in 12 years

Dream on, twatcakes.

People who are bitter over strawman I COULDA BEEN A CONTENDER bs are the worst. Beat yourSELF up over missed opportunities sure but dont drag others down with you.

I think I am with quincie though. The guy sounds douchey but I don't actually disagree with his point. It's not unreasonable to ask the no working spouse to do a little more around the house. And if the genders were reversed the guy would be referred to as a loser, bum, man child, etc. I mean I know a couple that is kind of the gender reversed version of this - she's a high powered career woman and he does this sort of part time nonprofit work while not really pulling his weight around the house, and that's what we call him.

No I agree there. if you're going to be a stay at home parent, thats the idea - so you can keep the house and kids. I'd happily do so if it was me.

I think I am with quincie though. The guy sounds douchey but I don't actually disagree with his point. It's not unreasonable to ask the no working spouse to do a little more around the house.

You don't actually disagree with one of his points (same here, she should pick up the slack at home). It's the other stuff he says that pushes him into mega-douchedom.

Yeah thats what I took issue with. The whole "but what about MY insane never gonna happen aspirations I wouldnt have done even if I'd had all the time in the world"

I mean thats just mid life crisis 101.

this story sounds like the plot of a late 1980s/early 1990s woody allen film.

Even with the reduced schedule, the stresses of life in a two-career household put an overwhelming strain on her marriage. There were ugly fights with her husband about laundry and over who would step in when the nanny was out sick.

went into h8 mode after this

It's hard for me to comprehend a marriage where there are multiple times when NEITHER person is willing to just volunteer do the laundry or step in when the nanny is sick. How do you not see "make my spouse's life easier and better" as part of your job in a marriage?

when THEY SHOULD BE MAKING MY LIFE EASIER FOR ONCE

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/08/fashion/smoking-is-back-without-the-stigma.html

"Vapor water might not be smoke, but it still emits a smell and a plume which I found very distracting particularly in a dark movie theater."

Goldin Martinez, who works security at Jimmy, the rooftop bar at the James New York Hotel in SoHo, among other places, recalled a recent run-in with a patron he mistakenly singled out for smoking. He’s still annoyed over the encounter. “It gives the place a bad image,” he said. “People think, ‘What’s up with the staff here?’”

Still, the mistake happens enough that e-smokers have developed a kind of hand gesture to ward off the cigarette police. The e-smoker will “put the cigarette to their forehead,” Mr. Birnbaum said. “You realize either the person is a psycho or they’re smoking an e-cigarette.”

And then there is the splashiest and most active entrant, a Facebook page that showcases pictures and reports of unacceptable behavior. The second word in its title is “Spotter”; the first is unfit for polite society when used in such derogatory fashion.

what the fuck is wrong with this absurd newspaper?

the gentility is really the last good thing it has going.

like the insistence on referring to Kanye as like "Mr. West"

NYT style and usage guide undoubtedly the work of assholes

the love that dare not speak its name

In New York, The Times

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/11/realestate/a-getaway-apartment-in-your-own-building.html

WTF YOU HAVE 6500 SQUARE FEET

oh I cannot finish that article, I'm too mad

on the other hand that photo is A+

Yeah I won't lie if I had money and was left to my own devices, our apartment would look something like that. Also I'm hoping to have giant round glasses as an old lady.

I couldn't get past this: "It’s almost a whimsical purchase."

Buying/renting a whole other apartment in your building so you can have "a writing or an art studio, an office, a man-cave or an escape hatch." Whimsy!

Mr. Gershon said he had tried working at home. “But then I’d hear the phones,” he said. “Or I’d get distracted by the view of the river.”

But only 9 of the rooms have a river view.

lol

” In one co-op on East End Avenue, he came across “side-by-side maids’ rooms combined and made into a private gym for a resident, with a shower and a wine cellar.”

ffffuuuu

Love these parts:

Mr. Gershon said he had tried working at home. “But then I’d hear the phones,” he said. “Or I’d get distracted by the view of the river.”

For years, Anne Adams, an author, rented an office 20 minutes’ walk from her two-bedroom duplex in a Park Slope co-op. “I loved it,” she said. “But it wasn’t convenient. If the weather was inclement I would find reasons not to go.”

So when the garden apartment in her building became available, the pieces fell nicely into place. “It’s great to have a place that’s separate from where you brush your teeth,”

xp

was she working in her bathroom?!

this guy doesn't even need a writing retreat because he is a writer, he wants one because he's 'reached a point in his life where he wants to write' and 'has a book in mind'

Mr. Gershon said he had tried working at home. “But then I’d hear the phones,” he said. “Or I’d get distracted by the view of the river.”

there, officer, that's the man that robbed me of my sanity. take him away.

we were going to use the extra space for THIS, but then we we're sure if that would make sense so we thought about doing THAT with it, it's just so hard to get things right

i am so furious all of the sudden

extra apartment FOR STORAGE

*rage*

It's maybe a sign of how long I've been living in New York that paying outrageously for storage doesn't even blip my radar. It's the 6500 sq ft apartment that ISN'T BIG ENOUGH for the guy who isn't even a writer.

I lived in a 4000 sq ft factory for a year with 6 other people and a lot of rats and their luxury apartment is half again as big for one elderly couple.

AND SO TACKY. TACKY PEOPLE DON'T DESERVE NICE THINGS.

I have 700 sq ft and it's too much, there's this whole big area I don't know what to do with.

If I had ten times as much space I'd just fill it with styrofoam or something

i just go to my record/book store when i have something good i want to write. everyone should have one of those.

scott I'm sorry I never made it up to greenfield to see your store when I was in Northampton, I would come hang out in your store and write for sure

i was actually thinking recently if i had a zillion dollars i wouldn't care about planes or cars or vacations in exotic climes or any of that rich stuff. the ONE thing i would splurge on: big indoor pool. that, to me, seems like the height of decadent luxury. swimming in a big heated pool in the winter. i kinda don't like swimming outside or with other people around. my parents came to visit and they stayed in a hotel nearby and me and my dad and the kids swam in the small hotel pool all by ourselves and it was soooooooo relaxing and great.

the store is pretty sound-proof and its really quiet outside at night. so, if focus is something you want, the store is good for that. the back room has a couch and i swear its like an isolation chamber in there at night. no windows. great for thinking. you can't hear anything at all.

don't you feel like it's awfully close to the toilet and the cash register tho

fuck these people

i need a tantrum/daydreaming room

http://www.metalguitarist.org/forum/attachments/guitar-parts-accessories-sale-trade-wanted/3575d1298493162-seymour-duncan-livewire-metal-angry_dome.jpg

ha!

You knew that was coming shurely:)

:D