The Haters Guide to the Williams-Sonoma Catalog

[GenuineRisk]

Originally Posted by Danzig

how do companies that make useless, amazingly expensive crap stay in business?

As Chris Rock said, if the poor ever find out just how rich the rich really are, the poor are going to get very angry.

[dellinger63]

http://nypost.com/2014/12/11/tom-for...doesnt-matter/

Fantastic stocking stuffer!

[Arletta]

I hear their peppermint bark is to die for.

[GenuineRisk]

Originally Posted by Arletta

I hear their peppermint bark is to die for.

I've heard that to- and even Drew agrees. From the article:

"Copy: "Artisan (Ed. note: Of course) candymakers layer creamy white chocolate over dark Guittard chocolate and then top it with crisp, homemade peppermint candy bits."

Drew Says: Those $30 tins of peppermint bark represent 90 percent of all W-S holiday sales, so it makes sense that they would do a Marvel-style rollout of sequels and spinoffs: Peppermint bark cups, and peppermint bark cookies, and peppermint bark cakelets, and peppermint bark-coated beef roasts, etc. Soon we'll have a peppermint bark origin story. Very dark. Very gritty. I worry about franchise dilution. It used to be about the BARK, man. Anyway, you can make peppermint bark at home with four ingredients, but why do that when you can have an ARTISAN CANDYMAKER do it instead? Let me tell you something: If my kid went through college and then told me he wanted to follow his dream of being an artisanal candymaker named Williamsburg Wonka, I would beat his *ss. No remorse. We don't need this many people trying to elevate candy.

But for real, I'd eat the f*ck out of all these items."

[trackrat59]

Originally Posted by GenuineRisk

As Chris Rock said, if the poor ever find out just how rich the rich really are, the poor are going to get very angry.

[geeker2]

Originally Posted by GenuineRisk

As Chris Rock said, if the poor ever find out just how rich the rich really are, the poor are going to get very angry.

He's is only worth $50 MM plus.......

I guess that is poverty...Ni%%er please.

[Danzig]

Originally Posted by geeker2

He's is only worth $50 MM plus.......

I guess that is poverty...Ni%%er please.

Then I guess he knows what he is talking about

[GenuineRisk]

Originally Posted by Danzig

Then I guess he knows what he is talking about

His whole interview with Frank Rich is pretty good:

http://www.vulture.com/2014/11/chris...versation.html

[Danzig]

Originally Posted by GenuineRisk

His whole interview with Frank Rich is pretty good:

http://www.vulture.com/2014/11/chris...versation.html

i saw the line before about obama getting elected not being black progress, but white progress. i'd imagine that's true.
what gets me most about race discussions....
well, we're all the same race. just different shades of color. and those shades are all due to evolution...

http://phys.org/news97857326.html

one of the uncomfortable truths i guess that makes some reject evolution as being a hoax, or untrue. hard to claim superiority when one finds out he shares the same genetic code as the 'different' guy he has decided to hate for no good reason.

http://www.nhm.ac.uk/nature-online/l...olution/where/

there was an article that discussed that chinese scientists thought that the chinese had come from a separate line of early humans. nope, we all share the same genetic markers, codes, we all came from a common ancestor.

[GenuineRisk]

Originally Posted by Danzig

i saw the line before about obama getting elected not being black progress, but white progress. i'd imagine that's true.
what gets me most about race discussions....
well, we're all the same race. just different shades of color. and those shades are all due to evolution...

http://phys.org/news97857326.html

one of the uncomfortable truths i guess that makes some reject evolution as being a hoax, or untrue. hard to claim superiority when one finds out he shares the same genetic code as the 'different' guy he has decided to hate for no good reason.

http://www.nhm.ac.uk/nature-online/l...olution/where/

there was an article that discussed that chinese scientists thought that the chinese had come from a separate line of early humans. nope, we all share the same genetic markers, codes, we all came from a common ancestor.

One of the books I recorded on anthropology this year talked about that, too- it put the term "race" in quotes because anthropologists don't recognize "race" as an accurate way to classify. Ethnicity can be somewhat more useful as a term because then culture factors in and we're all products of culture. As the book put it, so, at what point does a skin tone go from being "white" to "black"? Humans come in every shade from very pale to very dark. Race certainly gets used as justification for social stratification, though.

[Danzig]

Originally Posted by GenuineRisk

One of the books I recorded on anthropology this year talked about that, too- it put the term "race" in quotes because anthropologists don't recognize "race" as an accurate way to classify. Ethnicity can be somewhat more useful as a term because then culture factors in and we're all products of culture. As the book put it, so, at what point does a skin tone go from being "white" to "black"? Humans come in every shade from very pale to very dark. Race certainly gets used as justification for social stratification, though.

yeah, i was talking to my dog about it on the way to work this morning.

no, seriously, i just looked at her and said 'why do humans insist on categorizing everything?'
she had no answer.
but yeah, everything i've read says we are all one 'race'. the human race.
tony and i went to concealed carry class Saturday. in the race box, i put 'h'.

on no.
i just realized, they'll think i'm hispanic. crap.
lol

[geeker2]

Originally Posted by Danzig

Then I guess he knows what he is talking about

Exactly !

[Danzig]

Originally Posted by geeker2

Exactly !

[GenuineRisk]

Originally Posted by geeker2

Exactly !

Seeing as how he grew up poor working class in Bed-Stuy, rather than inheriting millions from his family, he's in a pretty good position to speak from both sides of the issue.

[geeker2]

Originally Posted by GenuineRisk

Seeing as how he grew up poor working class in Bed-Stuy, rather than inheriting millions from his family, he's in a pretty good position to speak from both sides of the issue.

He better not leave is Millions to his kids because they will have a lot explaining to do

[Danzig]

Originally Posted by geeker2

He better not leave is Millions to his kids because they will have a lot explaining to do

no one is against people inheriting their parents money.
on the other hand, i have an issue with folks like mitt romney paying a far lower percentage of their income in taxes than i do on mine.