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Cobble, I realize the article paints with a broad brush, but I know a lot of investment bankers and a few hedge fund managers, and those descriptions do not apply to any of the people I know. None of the people I know are nasty, selfish, arrogant or snobbish, nor do they cut themselves off from “ordinary people” (or the little people as the Queen of the Palace called them). I wouldn’t describe any of them as anything like their portrayals in the article.
Definitely more of a chowhound than foodie destination, kens. We had eggplant salad, dumpling soup, assorted meat on skewers (I know, we can get that anywhere) and a meat/vegetable/noodle dish for which I can’t remember the name. (In honor of arkady, ending a sentence with a rpeposition is something up with which I shall not put.)
Does your friend have a rec for high quality Uighur food in Brooklyn? What were your Brighton (Russian/Ukraine etc. recs for food without the nightclub craziness)?
Incidentally, I was trying to research the difference betwen Uighur and Uzbeki food afterwards, and, while the various links I found to each one make no reference to the other, and maintain very difference senses of regional identity, the food descriptions are largely the same.
“They are, it turns out, a nasty bunch of people who are only getting nastier.”
“The investment bankers and hedge-fund managers who make up most of the new rich elite don’t have much contact with ordinary people. They assume their wealth is entirely the result of their own brilliance. And they cut themselves off from normal life.
It is an industry that mints billionaires and also breeds arrogance, selfishness and snobbishness.”
it’s crazy seeing little kids at the store in the morning buying soda, chips, and candy breakfasts. no wonder so many of them are unteachable! i’d be bouncing off the walls too all day if i had that breakfast.
Cobble, I realize the article paints with a broad brush, but I know a lot of investment bankers and a few hedge fund managers, and those descriptions do not apply to any of the people I know. None of the people I know are nasty, selfish, arrogant or snobbish, nor do they cut themselves off from “ordinary people” (or the little people as the Queen of the Palace called them). I wouldn’t describe any of them as anything like their portrayals in the article.
I haven’t met any investment bankers and hedge-fund managers I liked.
Mornin’ all.
Definitely more of a chowhound than foodie destination, kens. We had eggplant salad, dumpling soup, assorted meat on skewers (I know, we can get that anywhere) and a meat/vegetable/noodle dish for which I can’t remember the name. (In honor of arkady, ending a sentence with a rpeposition is something up with which I shall not put.)
Does your friend have a rec for high quality Uighur food in Brooklyn? What were your Brighton (Russian/Ukraine etc. recs for food without the nightclub craziness)?
Incidentally, I was trying to research the difference betwen Uighur and Uzbeki food afterwards, and, while the various links I found to each one make no reference to the other, and maintain very difference senses of regional identity, the food descriptions are largely the same.
“They are, it turns out, a nasty bunch of people who are only getting nastier.”
“The investment bankers and hedge-fund managers who make up most of the new rich elite don’t have much contact with ordinary people. They assume their wealth is entirely the result of their own brilliance. And they cut themselves off from normal life.
It is an industry that mints billionaires and also breeds arrogance, selfishness and snobbishness.”
Hmm, no humility. No good.
the parents eat the same crap. it will be like 8am and some kid will throw down, kid you no, like eight 25 cent bags of chips.
*rob*
“interesting little column on bloomberg.com on mean rich people”
Pete, I assume you’re discussed prominently in the article???
The parents are just stupid.
interesting little column on bloomberg.com on mean rich people.
http://bk.ly/tOX
it’s crazy seeing little kids at the store in the morning buying soda, chips, and candy breakfasts. no wonder so many of them are unteachable! i’d be bouncing off the walls too all day if i had that breakfast.
*rob*