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By EM on Ending Wedding Gifts
This is a good time to (re)read Ann Friedman's Parties We Should Have Instead of Weddings, which includes the Graduation Shower and many other excellent ideas.
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By triplea on Rich People Magazine, Summer Edition
This is hilarious, I had to talk to to this company for work. It's hard to stop yourself from laughing when talking about renting an island for $40k-$100k a night. You know it's not really that expensive because it can accommodate up to 30 people! /drowns
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By ellabella on Just In Case We Die It's All Settled OK Ciao!
Hahahaha Me: Okay, I can head up from NYC to Boston for the weekend. Should I take the $5 Chinatown bus (remember those 3 buses that flipped last year), the $45 Greyhound, or the $112 Amtrak. [Hoping Mom will offer to pay for Amtrak] Mom: Oh $5 for the Chinatown bus! What a great deal! [Successfully visit without any hiccups. Two weeks later] Mom: So I told [family friends] you took the Chinatown bus and they were HORRIFIED I didn't pay for you to take a safer option! Hahahaha [The So-and-So's] are so uptight!
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By jfruh on Have You Ever Noticed There Aren't a Ton of Poor People in The New York Times
It’s not just that the Times doesn’t cover “poverty.” It’s that the Times covers “poverty” specificly as “poverty,” whereas it covers “wealth” as “the default state of affairs, not remarkable in any way.” Basically when poor people appear in the paper it's almost always in the context of "Here are some poor people, let's discuss their poor people problems," and that discussion is generally not bad! But with rich people, it's almost always "Here are some New Yorkers who are newsworthy/feature article-worthy for various interesting reasons" and you have to sort of read between the lines to realize they're wealthy. Never will I forget the Times article about wealthy Manhattanites suddenly discovering that the local public schools in their wealthy neighborhoods were actually pretty good, which featured a quote from one of said parents that went “Like most people, I assumed my children would go to private schools.” LIKE MOST PEOPLE.
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By Logan Sachon on So Like Here's My Business Card With My Contact Info Or Whatever Cool
Last time someone asked me for a card, I tore off a corner of my notebook paper and wrote THE BILLFOLD DOT COM on it. networking!
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By probs on One Day at a Time
Congrats on being popular, guys! Can I sit at your lunch table?
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By stuffisthings on Google Island
@BornSecular You're thinking of the Wikipedia Triangle, where you think you're going on a short trip and next thing you know it's six weeks later and you're an expert on 18th century fashion accessories.
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By stuffisthings on Google Island
(The island of St. Yahoo was fully submerged by global warming in 2003 without anyone noticing, but it still has a seat at the UN for some reason.)
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By stuffisthings on Google Island
Or the Facebook Archipelago, which is like attending a wedding during Spring Break in Cancun where everyone is handing you their baby pictures and trying to get you to buy Starbucks gift cards and your grandparents are there for some reason and look, there's that weird guy from high school who got fat shouting about Benghazi.
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By limenotapple on Open Thread
There were a couple threads this week that made me wonder what age people are who visit this site. I know a lot of people wouldn't want to post, but maybe Mike could do a survey or something and post the results in aggregate? That seems like it would be very interesting to see!