New York Times

[Sneakeater]

Here's a lede I never would have expected to read in The Times when I was in, say, high school.

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After Melissa, a 35-year-old event planner living in Chicago, masturbates, she sometimes studies a chart that resembles the output of a heart rate monitor or that of a seismograph capturing an earthquake.

OTOH, just about everything I knew about women's lingerie in high school I learned from ads in the Sunday Magazine.

Edited February 9, 2024 by Sneakeater

[Orik]

"Nine days out of ten," says Melissa, the chart says "Poppers"

[Sneakeater]

They need a term for this?

[Sneakeater]

I mean, haven't people been doing this like forever?

[Sneakeater]

I mean, like, "playing the field" isn't fancy enough?

[small h]

2 hours ago, Sneakeater said:

They need a term for this?

Yes, like they need a term for self-portrait or menage a trois or lip-synch, because I didn't just list three terms that work fine.

[backyardchef]

On 2/10/2024 at 3:42 PM, Sneakeater said:

I mean, like, "playing the field" isn't fancy enough?

Depends on how much drip and rizz you got

[splinky]

1 hour ago, backyardchef said:

Depends on how much drip and rizz you got

it's 2024, why are people still having sex?

[small h]

2 hours ago, splinky said:

it's 2024, why are people still having sex?

The orgasmatron hasn't yet been invented.

[AaronS]

that article is amazing.

I just realized I’ve seen the more woman a couple hundred times.

[Sneakeater]

The LL Cool J piece made me realize how sorry I am The Times dropped its rule that people be referred to as "Mr." or "Ms. X" and not by first names.

They repeatedly refer to LL Cool J as "LL".  How much cooler would it have been to say "Mr. Cool J"?

Edited September 3, 2024 by Sneakeater

[Mitchell101]

1 hour ago, Sneakeater said:

The LL Cool J piece made me realize how sorry I am The Times dropped its rule that people be referred to as "Mr." or "Ms. X" and not by first names.

They repeatedly refer to LL Cool J as "LL".  How much cooler would it have been to say "Mr. Cool J"?

Or how about Mr. Flav instead of Flava. 😄

Edited September 3, 2024 by Mitchell101

[relbbaddoof]

I miss most of all being referred to as Herr Professor Doctor Relbbaddoof.

The titles ring so beautifully off the oafish name.

[backyardchef]

13 hours ago, relbbaddoof said:

I miss most of all being referred to as Herr Professor Doctor Relbbaddoof.

The titles ring so beautifully off the oafish name.

Mellifluous

[maison rustique]

On 9/3/2024 at 5:40 PM, Sneakeater said:

The LL Cool J piece made me realize how sorry I am The Times dropped its rule that people be referred to as "Mr." or "Ms. X" and not by first names.

They repeatedly refer to LL Cool J as "LL".  How much cooler would it have been to say "Mr. Cool J"?

I'm reminded of a piece in the Wall Street Journal many years ago that referred to Meat Loaf as Mr. Loaf.

[hollywood]

What's going on at the Times? Krugman leaves. Coy leaves. Now Blow.

[sourbroughten]

3 hours ago, hollywood said:

What's going on at the Times? Krugman leaves. Coy leaves. Now Blow.

https://www.cjr.org/analysis/paul-krugman-leaving-new-york-times-heavy-hand-editing-less-frequent-columns-newsletter.php

[small h]

6 hours ago, hollywood said:

What's going on at the Times? Krugman leaves. Coy leaves. Now Blow.

Probably the same thing that's going on at the Washington Post. 

[StephanieL]

Blow is going to Harvard: Charles Blow named inaugural recipient of Langston Hughes Fellowship — Harvard Gazette.

I read that Pamela Paul's column is gone too.

Edited February 6, 2025 by StephanieL

[small h]

27 minutes ago, StephanieL said:

I read that Pamela Paul's column is gone too.

And not a moment too soon.

[backyardchef]

34 minutes ago, small h said:

And not a moment too soon.

She and brett....two human trashbags full of unworthy entitlement. 

[cinghiale]

15 hours ago, backyardchef said:

She and brett....two human trashbags full of unworthy entitlement. 

Douthat > Stephens in the trashbag category. Hands down. But Hewitt and Thiessen at the Wapo beat both of them.

Edited February 7, 2025 by cinghiale

[backyardchef]

1 hour ago, cinghiale said:

Douthat > Stephens in the trashbag category. Hands down. But Hewitt and Thiessen at the Wapo beat both of them.

Honestlly...I douthat is true about Stephens. Harhar. Differently disgusting. There's no shortage of garbagebag people over there, Davie Brooks comes to mind. They love to garbage pick. 

[hollywood]

4 hours ago, cinghiale said:

Douthat > Stephens in the trashbag category. Hands down. But Hewitt and Thiessen at the Wapo beat both of them.

I think Hewitt quit Wapo.

[backyardchef]

1 hour ago, hollywood said:

I think Hewitt quit Wapo.

Yeah he wasn't allowed to be an unchecked factotum.