In'eresting... thanks for the trust-fund baby info.
Wash: So, two days in a hospital? That's awful. Don't you just hate doctors? Simon: Hey. Wash: I mean, present company excluded. Jayne: Let's not be excluding people. That'd be rude.
'Ariel'
Natter 68: Bork Bork Bork
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
tommyrot - Apr 21, 2011 7:10:41 am PDT #4484 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
tommyrot - Apr 21, 2011 7:11:14 am PDT #4485 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Tommyrot, there was a totally fascinating essay on the Atlantic website last week, from a psychologist who practice is entirely made up of the wealthy. It was sufficiently daunting to make me happy that I am not, in fact, really rich.
Huh. Do you have the link?
le nubian - Apr 21, 2011 7:12:59 am PDT #4486 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
tommyrot - Apr 21, 2011 7:14:40 am PDT #4487 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
?mong other things, the wealthy spend a lot of effort making sure they and their children are not kidnapped. Like, that sort of thing happens a lot. Way more than we hear about in the press.
I suppose most of the wealthy also have training in case someone enters their dreams and tries to extract or incept stuff....
tommyrot - Apr 21, 2011 7:14:56 am PDT #4488 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
here it is:
Thanks!
flea - Apr 21, 2011 7:16:37 am PDT #4489 of 30001
information libertarian
I went to a private prep school that cost $20K a year in the late 1980s - Ivanka Trump later went there. (My mother taught there so I went free.) Some scholarship kids, some filthy rich kids. By their 30s I think most people figure out that their lives are not like everyone's lives, but as teenagers there's a lot of taking for granted that everyone goes skiing in Europe or vacations on the best Caribbean islands (I was once told that Aruba was passe, Anguilla was where it was at) and gets several hundred dollars a week allowance (which, in the 1980s, was prefect for buying cocaine!) Later I knew well a great-grandson of FDR, who was very down to earth, but definitely came from Old Money, whioch sometimes embarrassed him, and yet slipped out, like when I mentioned where my grandparents lived and he assumed I know about yachting. His last name is Roosevelt, so it's not like he could hide it, and while he was incredibly hardworking and smart, I think the mere knowledge that you'll always have a financial and social safety net by virtue of your family makes a big difference in one's life.
le nubian - Apr 21, 2011 7:16:55 am PDT #4490 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
billytea - Apr 21, 2011 7:17:29 am PDT #4491 of 30001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Overrated.
Ha! That is exactly how I thought of museums when I was a kid.
Tom Scola - Apr 21, 2011 7:18:43 am PDT #4492 of 30001
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Don't lie, billytea, you still do.
billytea - Apr 21, 2011 7:21:47 am PDT #4493 of 30001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Don't lie, billytea, you still do.
Well sure, that's how I still think museums should be. That's how I think my workplace should be.