I would have had the same reaction that you did- I was in my 20s in the 90s, and couldn’t stand Hootie &the Blowfish. But I think TV shows generally try to get extremely popular and recognizable acts for these types of plotlines/episodes. Notably, Hootie’s album Cracked Rear View is the apparently the 16th…

Your uncle sounds intense. Back in the 70s, no one had the guts to shave it all off, because everyone wanted to at least look like they had long hair, even if a Gallagher aesthetic was the result. Not even ultra-cool Telly Savalas was able to make it a mainstream look.

Great post, but the challenge is deciding exactly when that point is. Should he accept balding gracefully if his hairline were an inch lower on his forehead? A half inch?

The description does look sort of ridiculous on the page, but actually makes sense. It takes a lot of guys 2-3 days to grow noticeable stubble after shaving, and chances are that had to work within that time period before the audition. Hence the “resistance to shaving” because if his audition was a day or so after his…

Seconded, great comment. The difference in my case was one of my parents decided not to take the high road, and it had real effects.

I agree that on its own, it’s not class warfare, and there is a saying in evidence law: A brick is not a wall. I think the lack of dishwasher, fixtures, separate entrance - together in their totality - are evidence of the building management saying a big “Eff You” to their low-income residents.

I don’t use instagram and I ask this question genuinely, as someone who knows very little about it. Why would someone use Instagram when there is Facebook (and less significantly, Twitter)? Can’t everything that a person does on instagram be done on Facebook? Is Instagram just easier or better in someway for sharing…

I don’t use instagram and I ask this question genuinely, as someone who knows very little about it. Why would someone use Instagram when there is Facebook (and less significantly, Twitter)? Can’t everything that a person does on instagram be done on Facebook? Is Instagram just easier or better in some way for sharing…

Of course I don’t think they are legally entitled to dishwashers or light fixtures. My main point is that the lack of dishwasher and fixtures is actually all part of the same ball of wax as the other deficiencies listed -and that this building has zero hesitation and no moral compunction about making the “poor-side”…

But that reason is bogus. The real reason is that they want to spend as little as possible on the poor’s apartments.

I am not disagreeing with you that those things that you listed are the most important issues. My main point is that the lack of dishwasher and fixtures is actually all part of the same ball of wax as those deficiencies that you listed -and that this building has zero hesitation and no moral compunction about making…

Not necessarily true! Many people still seem to buy into the myth that dishwashers are less efficient and green than handwashing. But this excert from the California Energy Commission site explains why this is probably not the case :

Nice new term I learned for today! I did kind of shoot that statement about dishwashers off the cuff, but it appears to be pretty much on the mark. This link appears to show that dishwashers are in around 2/3 of US homes, and predominantly in newer, more recently constructed residences. I would note however the other…

No, Britta, that’s NOT the point, and that’s why I think you’re wrong on this. Who cares what someone else across town or across the state is paying? It’s irrelevant to this discussion, which is centered on THIS building, and THESE residents.

If these things are just luxuries that are not a big deal, as your position seems to be, why NOT equip the low income units with them? Unless you’re just trying to make the point that these people don’t deserve these items in their low income subsidized homes. Is that the bottom line? That the poor people getting this…

But that isn’t really relevant to the point I’m that I am making. The fact that these greedy owners/property managers would be easily able to equip the low income units with dishwashers - but deliberately choose not to- is akin to class warfare as far as I’m concerned. I understand the limiting/ barring use of the gym…

That doorman was an asshole. I hope you told your story to your boss to pass it along to her friend who lived there. Doormen make hundreds of dollars a year in tips during the holidays, and if I lived in a building where a doorman treated visitors like that, he’d get a stern talking to from me and a reduced tip that…

It is in some parts of the U.S., often newer buildings that have the kitchen space for them. And I would say in houses they are generally pretty standard.

“Bootstraps! They made their fuckin’ beds, amirite? That single mother can always work harder, if she wants the finer things in life - she doesn’t need to rely on some quasi-governmental handout.”

I myself used to have a small kitchen, but I still liked being able to use the portable dishwasher as extra counterspace. But to each his own.