a lot of the stuff people include in the 'cost of living' in nyc is just keeping up with the joneses type shit.
The cost of the major expenses - housing and food - is not.
― C.K. Dexter Holland, Tuesday, 20 December 2011 20:17 (twelve years ago) link
ooh u have to eat u bougie fuck
― Cooper Chucklebutt, Tuesday, 20 December 2011 20:19 (twelve years ago) link
you can eat as cheap in ny as anywhere
― iatee, Tuesday, 20 December 2011 20:27 (twelve years ago) link
i want to throw up on this paragraph:
During the reception, Mr. Friedlander asked his guests to please recycle their cups, “because we’re really in a serious situation with climate change.” There was no guest list in the formal sense; the reception was open to anyone who wished to attend. Friends came, and friends of friends, whom the couple had never met. Before the ceremony in the Brooklyn bookstore, Ms. Schmidt walked into the Starbucks at Main and Front Streets and told strangers they were welcome to drop by.
― remy bean in exile, Tuesday, 20 December 2011 20:30 (twelve years ago) link
They did not want their wedding “to be just about us,” the groom told me
at this point, I stopped reading and started laughing hearitly
― OH NOES, Tuesday, 20 December 2011 20:32 (twelve years ago) link
gah stupid typos
man if I were sitting in a starbucks and someone invited me to their wedding I would totally go
― Cooper Chucklebutt, Tuesday, 20 December 2011 22:53 (twelve years ago) link
what if they didnt want it to be about u
― awesome to have a clever englishman zinging yr enemies (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 20 December 2011 22:56 (twelve years ago) link
Easiest argument against "Manhattan is 3x more expensive than <X>" is median incomes - IIRC from an old argument with gabbneb, median income in Manhattan proper is still only $60k or something like that, and lower if you include areas with (relatively) easy access to Manhattan. vs $42k national median, etc.
― milo z, Tuesday, 20 December 2011 22:56 (twelve years ago) link
all weddings are abt me thats just how it is
― Cooper Chucklebutt, Tuesday, 20 December 2011 22:56 (twelve years ago) link
what if you had to tell them what you were committed to
― nice catch cuauhtemoc blanco niño (dayo), Tuesday, 20 December 2011 22:58 (twelve years ago) link
i am commited to doing the macarena with somebody's grandma in a hotel bar after too much shrimp cocktail
― remy bean in exile, Tuesday, 20 December 2011 22:59 (twelve years ago) link
I would tell them that I was committed to punching them in the face
― OH NOES, Tuesday, 20 December 2011 23:00 (twelve years ago) link
Ms. Schmidt, who once served as the creative director of Moomah, the children’s cafe in Tribeca that caters to parents in denial about some of the distasteful aesthetics of child-rearing, made the cards in her favored style of heavy stock, neutral paper and quaint typefaces. Through her company, Screech Owl Design, Ms. Schmidt makes beautiful, twee paper products that would seem to demand an existence inside a Miranda July snow globe. Synergistically, Powerhouse is among the many places where Ms. Schmidt’s work is sold.
oh my god the author of this piece DESPISES them
Beyond any of that, though, the wedding was probably the first in the city to be held as a kind of TED conference. After the ceremony, in which chants were chanted and vows, written by the couple’s friends, were exchanged, guests sat down to a series of talks, with PowerPoint presentations, on subjects of interest to the couple — ecological efficiency, neuroscience, holistic healing. Those who did not care to listen wandered about eating dumplings and popcorn, which made up the entire nuptial meal.
like seriously, she wants to see them flayed
― OH NOES, Tuesday, 20 December 2011 23:01 (twelve years ago) link
holy shit that is the best ending paragraph ever
― OH NOES, Tuesday, 20 December 2011 23:03 (twelve years ago) link
i wonder how many people there said "oh my god. soooo good" when they ate the popcorn
― nuhnuhnuh, Tuesday, 20 December 2011 23:04 (twelve years ago) link
Those are not especially useful statistics, at least for purposes of this argument, as there is extreme variation from the median. There are many lower-income areas of the city in which people could not afford to live absent public housing or rent control laws.
― C.K. Dexter Holland, Tuesday, 20 December 2011 23:04 (twelve years ago) link
"the popcorn really brings out the notes of fennel and cardamon in the shrimp"
― OH NOES, Tuesday, 20 December 2011 23:05 (twelve years ago) link
commitment life: to see you flayed on your wedding day
― nice catch cuauhtemoc blanco niño (dayo), Tuesday, 20 December 2011 23:06 (twelve years ago) link
ecological efficience: scienceneuroscience: scienceholistic healing: horseshit
― remy bean in exile, Tuesday, 20 December 2011 23:06 (twelve years ago) link
http://sofiainvitationsblog.com/2011/11/18/real-couples-wedding-jacqueline-schmidt-and-david-friedlander/
― awesome to have a clever englishman zinging yr enemies (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 20 December 2011 23:08 (twelve years ago) link
"liz lemon is influential upon us"
― nuhnuhnuh, Tuesday, 20 December 2011 23:08 (twelve years ago) link
Those who did not care to listen wandered about eating dumplings and popcorn, which made up the entire nuptial meal.
This mental image is just hilarious, bemused bored people ambling aimlessly around munching on popcorn and wondering why the hell someone is having a Powerpoint presentation during their wedding.
― OH NOES, Tuesday, 20 December 2011 23:08 (twelve years ago) link
http://sofiainvitationsblog.files.wordpress.com/2011/11/all-you-need-is-love.jpg
put a bird on it
― remy bean in exile, Tuesday, 20 December 2011 23:09 (twelve years ago) link
quaint typefaces
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QbnYPrXx8H8
― awesome to have a clever englishman zinging yr enemies (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 20 December 2011 23:10 (twelve years ago) link
I really don't see how this couple could have made this entire enterprise any more about themselves without making everyone wear masks of their faces
― OH NOES, Tuesday, 20 December 2011 23:10 (twelve years ago) link
I can imagine a horrible wedding like this in nearly every decade of the 20th century. and an article to correspond.
The '90s iteration would be all hobo style, with baja sweaters, henna tattoos, white guy dreads, tribal drumming, maybe brick-oven pizzas on a grill served beside samosa with weedy chutney
The '70s version would be better. Held on somebody's indoor/outdoor patio, involving crystals, essential oils, and readings of free-verse poetry followed by a bead-making party.
― remy bean in exile, Tuesday, 20 December 2011 23:16 (twelve years ago) link
yeah, those would be fun in their own way, though, i imagine.
but this one is pushing it
― dell, Tuesday, 20 December 2011 23:19 (twelve years ago) link
also i would like to go on record as saying that TED is ass
― dell, Tuesday, 20 December 2011 23:22 (twelve years ago) link
come on everyone loves powerpoint
― nuhnuhnuh, Tuesday, 20 December 2011 23:23 (twelve years ago) link
omg I didn't even read the captions on the pics: LISTEN UP David Friedlander spoke at his wedding, where there were lectures instead of a meal.
― OH NOES, Tuesday, 20 December 2011 23:24 (twelve years ago) link
lol
― dell, Tuesday, 20 December 2011 23:25 (twelve years ago) link
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/42/Chris_Anderson_2007.jpg/800px-Chris_Anderson_2007.jpg
get your frogbuttons off of my eyeballs you shit
merry xmas, have a nice blood
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2011/12/18/nyregion/18BIGCITY1/18BIGCITY1-popup.jpg
^^^ this is the picture that caption came from
― OH NOES, Tuesday, 20 December 2011 23:26 (twelve years ago) link
ALLOW FOR THE UNKNOWN AND AMAZING
UNKOWN actually
― Dranke, the German Drake Impersonator (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 20 December 2011 23:32 (twelve years ago) link
WHAT YOU CAN DO?
isn't there a german word for presenting ideas that are otherwise reasonable if not for being rendered in off-puttingly smug ways?
― dell, Tuesday, 20 December 2011 23:35 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Fahrvergnugen-a.png
― Dranke, the German Drake Impersonator (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 20 December 2011 23:38 (twelve years ago) link
lol obv I didn't notice the typo
― OH NOES, Tuesday, 20 December 2011 23:40 (twelve years ago) link
xp yeh. my guess was going to be dellscheiß or dellschmerz
― dell, Tuesday, 20 December 2011 23:40 (twelve years ago) link
should give a TED talk on how to tie a tie
― nice catch cuauhtemoc blanco niño (dayo), Wednesday, 21 December 2011 00:16 (twelve years ago) link
years and years and a few years ago i had a job interview straight outta college but had almost never worn a tie in my life before (yes i led a very sheltered life but not in any glamorous way) anyhow, i was waiting for my roommate to get home b/c i knew that he knew all about that stuff... but the minutes passed, and he never showed up. i ended up going to the 7-11 down the street where i went most nights anyway (insert "markers" reference here) to buy snackfood. the store was owned by a pun alert -thai family- and the guy tried to do it for me, but the end result was so pitiable that i ended up waiting up until 4am or so when my roommate finally came home.
anyway i got the job. it was some ridiculous temp job working for some horrible pr firm.
moral of the story is, yeah you should.
― dell, Wednesday, 21 December 2011 00:28 (twelve years ago) link
i have to resort to google every time i need to tie a tie
― 1staethyr, Wednesday, 21 December 2011 00:30 (twelve years ago) link
perhaps you don't interact w/ these people but there are *millions* of middle class people in the nyc metro area who don't live in the projects or depend on rent control
http://www.thepostgame.com/blog/dish/201112/nfl-stars-environmentally-friendly-palace
wow your eight bedroom, six-car garage, lagoon-shaped swimming pool castle has *energy-saving lighting*
― iatee, Wednesday, 21 December 2011 00:34 (twelve years ago) link
Tom Brady's 22,000-square foot palace near Los Angeles is nearing completion, and it will make almost any environmentalist smile.
*smiles*
― nuhnuhnuh, Wednesday, 21 December 2011 00:39 (twelve years ago) link
absolutely cannot understand the appeal of living in a mansion
― nice catch cuauhtemoc blanco niño (dayo), Wednesday, 21 December 2011 00:41 (twelve years ago) link
that's the rictus inducing neurotoxins in the cement fumes
― awesome to have a clever englishman zinging yr enemies (nakhchivan), Wednesday, 21 December 2011 00:42 (twelve years ago) link
the ring is actually a bowling ball
― OH NOES, Sunday, 25 December 2011 00:57 (twelve years ago) link
hide the ring inside yr butthole #protip
― Cooper Chucklebutt, Sunday, 25 December 2011 00:57 (twelve years ago) link
that's actually how Bobby Brown proposed to Whitney Houston
― OH NOES, Sunday, 25 December 2011 00:58 (twelve years ago) link
encase the wedding ring inside a bowling ball
― nice catch cuauhtemoc blanco niño (dayo), Sunday, 25 December 2011 01:04 (twelve years ago) link
Throw the engagement ring into a room, scream "IF YOU WANT TO MARRY ME, GO FETCH THE RING!"
If the woman goes into the room, announce "I forgot to mention, inside this room, there are BEES!!!!!" as you lock the door.
Shout "BEEEEEEEEEEESSSS"
Tru <3 foreva
― C-L, Sunday, 25 December 2011 01:06 (twelve years ago) link
romance^
― Cooper Chucklebutt, Sunday, 25 December 2011 01:07 (twelve years ago) link
we are so going to put that woman out of business
― OH NOES, Sunday, 25 December 2011 01:09 (twelve years ago) link
don't you mean bees-ness
― nice catch cuauhtemoc blanco niño (dayo), Sunday, 25 December 2011 01:10 (twelve years ago) link
ILX Sandbox Proposal Idea and Honey Mfg Co.
― C-L, Sunday, 25 December 2011 01:10 (twelve years ago) link
how to go about asking this life-altering question memorably
oh, for crying out loud. eat leaden death, for you are unmasked as space aliens.
― Aimless, Sunday, 25 December 2011 01:15 (twelve years ago) link
― OH NOES, Saturday, December 24, 2011 7:58 PM (20 minutes ago) Bookmark Permalink
when whitney went to blow cocaine into bobbys butt there it was, she crey
― Cooper Chucklebutt, Sunday, 25 December 2011 01:20 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.facebook.com/people/Alison-Bamert/100001882422852
― nice catch cuauhtemoc blanco niño (dayo), Sunday, 25 December 2011 02:20 (twelve years ago) link
planners promise to help plot a scenario for the key moment and assist in its execution, with just the right helicopter, hot-air balloon or gondola, and along with it the proper locale and musical accompaniment
http://faculty.fullerton.edu/cmcconnell/H101A/Shark&Helicopter.bmp
― illegal crew member (C.K. Dexter Holland), Sunday, 25 December 2011 14:33 (twelve years ago) link
the ring is inside the shark
― sarahel, Monday, 26 December 2011 18:53 (twelve years ago) link