My point was that the figures are impacted substantially by government assistance, among other factors.
― C.K. Dexter Holland, Wednesday, 21 December 2011 01:08 (twelve years ago) link
What iatee said, but also public housing and rent control exist, and people who live in Manhattan and the NYC metro area are using them and surviving. 'Extreme variations from the median' doesn't mean that the median isn't representative of the people who live there.
It's unrepresentative in the sense that if people had to actually pay full value for their housing, their salaries would have to be increased, or they would have to move. Either way, median salary would be (possibly substantially) higher.
― C.K. Dexter Holland, Wednesday, 21 December 2011 01:11 (twelve years ago) link
There are also a fair number of young people in Manhattan whose salaries are subsidized by other sources including parents, under the table income, illegal activity, etc., without which they cold not make it here.
― C.K. Dexter Holland, Wednesday, 21 December 2011 01:14 (twelve years ago) link
Not that that isn't true other places as well, but both the degree and dollar figures involved may be much greater in NYC.
― C.K. Dexter Holland, Wednesday, 21 December 2011 01:15 (twelve years ago) link
my argument was "middle class people can live in new york" not "middle class people can live in the most expensive part of new york"
― iatee, Wednesday, 21 December 2011 01:21 (twelve years ago) link
C.K. Dexter Holland, will you come back to the real ILX once that's back up?
― nice catch cuauhtemoc blanco niño (dayo), Wednesday, 21 December 2011 01:22 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HH_9lU7UBHY#t=0m33s
― C.K. Dexter Holland, Wednesday, 21 December 2011 01:24 (twelve years ago) link
Damn embedding - try 0:33 in.
― C.K. Dexter Holland, Wednesday, 21 December 2011 01:25 (twelve years ago) link
Maybe this is the real ilx! Ever think bout that? xp
― Carnitas, Wednesday, 21 December 2011 02:16 (twelve years ago) link
ilx, just realness
― monomaniatee (t. silaviver), Wednesday, 21 December 2011 02:33 (twelve years ago) link
Mr. Hill gave a talk about the importance of personal downsizing, which was largely a talk about his life. Having made a lot of money in Internet businesses, Mr. Hill said, he first bought a big house and car and then got rid of possessions and traveled the world with only two bags, before moving into a trailer in Baja California, Mexico, and then into a cousin's garage in Maui, Hawaii. He found that he was quite happy.
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 21 December 2011 02:43 (twelve years ago) link
Mr. Hill then gave a talk on the importance of identifying the most promising dumpsters within easy walking distance of one's cousin's garage and demonstrated how to prevent a shopping cart wheel from "going crazy".
― Aimless, Wednesday, 21 December 2011 02:52 (twelve years ago) link
absolutely cannot understand the appeal of living in a mansion
― nice catch cuauhtemoc blanco niño (dayo), Tuesday, December 20, 2011 7:41 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Permalink
i can understand not giving a fuck abt some contempo monstrosity, but man living in an old sprawling victorian palace would be so baller
― Cooper Chucklebutt, Wednesday, 21 December 2011 03:17 (twelve years ago) link
*locks cooper chucklebutt up in a shuttered off remote wing of his sprawling victorian palace*
― nice catch cuauhtemoc blanco niño (dayo), Wednesday, 21 December 2011 03:19 (twelve years ago) link
I feel like it would feel baller for 5 days, but then just start feeling like the shining
― iatee, Wednesday, 21 December 2011 03:21 (twelve years ago) link
the shining is so baller (insane variant)
― Cooper Chucklebutt, Wednesday, 21 December 2011 03:22 (twelve years ago) link
w/ fu
― R.I.P.iest (Hungry4Ban) (є(٥_ ٥)э), Wednesday, 21 December 2011 03:25 (twelve years ago) link
ilx is like a decrepid victorian mansion that has been used as a hunting retreat and school and a sanitorium and the ghosts of its different incarnations skulk around trying to relate to each other
― awesome to have a clever englishman zinging yr enemies (nakhchivan), Wednesday, 21 December 2011 03:27 (twelve years ago) link
amo, amas, amat
BANG! BANG!
(has photo taken with foot placed carefully on the carcass of a schoolchild)
(chortles and has a coughling fit, wherein bright red blood stains his handkerchief)
― Aimless, Wednesday, 21 December 2011 03:41 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSYBRxr04BM
― Dranke, the German Drake Impersonator (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 21 December 2011 05:00 (twelve years ago) link
just killed ten minutes looking for pictures of julie as she looks today. no luck.
― Dranke, the German Drake Impersonator (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 21 December 2011 05:10 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.observer.com/2001/04/25yearold-broker-lee-munson-is-swaggering-relic-of-the-boom/
― iatee, Friday, 23 December 2011 23:43 (twelve years ago) link
(from 4/02/01)
― iatee, Friday, 23 December 2011 23:46 (twelve years ago) link
Last year, Mr. Munson said, he made more than $350,000.Hehas $100,000 in the bank and says that by the time he’s 40, he will be worth $28 million.
math
― Cooper Chucklebutt, Saturday, 24 December 2011 07:25 (twelve years ago) link
That story reads like "Random Guest at Coke Party Interviewed"
― Hurting, Saturday, 24 December 2011 22:34 (twelve years ago) link
THE marriage game has no shortage of matchmakers, wedding planners, fashion stylists, floral designers and other referees.
Now joining their ranks is a group of consultants called proposal planners, who advise men, and sometimes women, who want to propose but are flummoxed about how to go about asking this life-altering question memorably.
For a fee, proposal 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.
Sarah Pease, the owner of Brilliant Event Planning in New York, was focused solely on weddings and parties until 2008, when a friend proposed with an engagement ring at the bottom of a bucket of Kentucky Fried Chicken. She then became a proposal planner as well.
Ms. Pease typically charges $500 for devising a plan; having her handle the whole operation can run $12,000, she said, plus any fees to those providing the transportation and site.
― mookieproof, Saturday, 24 December 2011 23:21 (twelve years ago) link
here's how you plan yr proposal:
1. buy a ring2. ask yr partner to marry you
if your partner loves you, I guarantee you the proposal will be memorable
― OH NOES, Saturday, 24 December 2011 23:26 (twelve years ago) link
3. helicopter
― Cooper Chucklebutt, Saturday, 24 December 2011 23:26 (twelve years ago) link
4. kfc
― Cooper Chucklebutt, Saturday, 24 December 2011 23:27 (twelve years ago) link
my partner threw up later that night
should have read the signs tbh
― mookieproof, Saturday, 24 December 2011 23:27 (twelve years ago) link
is this paragraph intentionally or accidentally bitchy
― OH NOES, Saturday, 24 December 2011 23:28 (twelve years ago) link
How does the idea of putting a ring in the bottom of a bucket of Kentucky Fried Chicken even happen, though? Like the only thing I can imagine being a worse idea is throwing the ring at the woman and screaming "DO YOU WANT TO GET MARRIED?"
― C-L, Sunday, 25 December 2011 00:49 (twelve years ago) link
How is that worse?
― sean doily, Sunday, 25 December 2011 00:53 (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