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Bad economy make young spoiled trophy wife sad, sex-deprived, vacation deprived

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by Double Down, Jan 28, 2009.

  1. slappy4428

    slappy4428 Active Member

    True dat
     
  2. TheSportsPredictor

    TheSportsPredictor Well-Known Member

    Fuck every one of them.
     
  3. You can't afford it, TSP.
     
  4. writing irish

    writing irish Active Member

    I hope that record of this incidental absurdity survives our civilization's chaotic demise. It would be a Rosetta Stone of Fail that would help future historians make sense of it all.
     
  5. slappy4428

    slappy4428 Active Member

    Nice...
     
  6. Bubbler

    Bubbler Well-Known Member

    WE might be the Rosetta Stone of Fail here at SJ. I'm OK with that.
     
  7. slappy4428

    slappy4428 Active Member

    Wait. Since the school you cover is the definition of fail would that make you the official writer of the Rosetta Stone of Fail?
     
  8. Who cares? They're not blondes!
     
  9. 2muchcoffeeman

    2muchcoffeeman Well-Known Member

    Times: Uh, about that ...
    <blockquote>Laney Crowell, one of the women who started the blog, said in the article that it was “very tongue in cheek;” she has since described it as a satire that embellishes true experiences for effect. Had the nature of the blog been made clear at the outset, the article would have described it accordingly, not as a support group. </blockquote>http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/25/nyregion/25ed-note.html


    And also ...
    <blockquote>Sitting in a West Village coffee shop near her apartment, cofounder Laney Crowell, clad in jeans, snow boots and black pullover, says that what the Times described as a “support group” of about 30 women is actually a full-blown parody — and it’s at least partly fictionalized. There is no real support community, no regular meetings and the blog is written by Crowell and her lawyer sidekick Megan Petrus, who concoct entries out of a mixture of their own experiences, stories of people who email the site, and anecdotes of girls they meet socially. They don’t fact check the emails, or the gossip, and the posts are embellished and exaggerated for added laughs. At times, details are plucked from thin air to give the stories a satirical edge.

    “That isn’t my life,” says Crowell of her snotty, gold-digging online “character.” The 27-year-old fameball doesn’t personally know anyone with a boyfriend-backed credit card or a slashed Bergdorf Goodman allowance. And despite DABA posts that imply otherwise, she says her own market-depressed relationship with a corporate real estate investor ran more toward Netflix at home than no-limit nights on the town. Asked by a Newsweek photographer about the best Wall Street bars to shoot in, she couldn’t name a single one—although maybe she’ll discover them now. Last month, Crowell was canned from the online fashion channel StyleCaster because DABA-fever had become a distraction. “At this time it was deemed best for Laney to pursue her opportunity while we bring on new talent that can focus all of their time and energy” on their work, read the company statement.</blockquote>http://blog.newsweek.com/blogs/popvox/archive/2009/02/24/found-a-dating-a-banker-anonymous-founder-talks-about-the-site-and-the-problems-with-the-ny-times-story.aspx
     
  10. cranberry

    cranberry Well-Known Member

    It's all just "content." In this case a blog version of "The Real Housewives of OC/NYC/Atlanta" that was picked up by the NYTimes. It's a cottage industry for entitled wannabes who don't really want to work for a living.
     
  11. Ace

    Ace Well-Known Member

    Bankers used to get hotter girlfriends when they had jobs and bonuses.
     
  12. PeteyPirate

    PeteyPirate Guest

    Re: Bad economy make young spoiled trophy wife sad, sex-deprived, vacation depri

    The economy is making it harder for everyone to date.

    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/24/AR2009022403925.html?hpid=topnews

    Of course ...

     
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