The audio references grate but I think the writer has a point....

I can't make out any point that the writer might have.

The ramblings of a peasant with some money, and no idea how to enjoy it.  

I think he is saying I should leave my better than cinema quality home cinema ( not hard these days with a basic projector and a hifi), and better than "Starbucks quality" coffee and better than live music and pop out for a night at the movies.  

I think the author will find that may will do both if it is available.  I still spend an evening out.  I also enjoy an evening in.  I am not part of his earning class however, but my friends are so I can live vicariously.  Have I accumulated too much stuff, probably, but it's in my genes.  I am also learning however that once you have owned something you value it less.  It's called the been there done that mindset.  Once you have owned, let's say a statement amp, you would be happy enough to get buy with a nice Nait.

i wonder what sort of stereo or house Bear Grylles has.

Sounds like a condemnation of the "bunker" crowd authored by someone in a bunker. The group she describes sound like yuppies from the 80s and the author refers to growing up in the 80s, so I'm guessing she probably still has an axe to grind. You'd think she'd have a clearer opinion by now.

Answered my own question.  Did someone mention the bunker class.

http://www.dailypost.co.uk/new...plans-580000-5136374

It's a reasonably amusing little article that will chime with a lot of the Indy's (diminished) readership I'm sure. Anyway, I like Fallow & Ball. 

 Has anyone else noticed that the " Hipster" youth movement that has spread everywhere is the first which doesn't have any definable soundtrack .    

They are too busy buying stupid trousers to listen to music. 

Overly and overtly smug. Isn't a author's purpose to draw an audience into a topic? This writing alienated me, but I'm getting older and more curmudgeonly by the second. How dare she mention vinyl!

Probably best to take it in the spirit of slightly frothy weekend journalism, Randy.

Cheers, Chris

Frothy? She did make mention of a shiraz. Perhaps a freshly drawn pint would have suited my interests better.

I don't find the audio references grating. Who cares about that? What I do find grating, however is the tone, which is both self-satisfied and not nearly as clever as it thinks it is.

It's another example of the snark imported from mediia outlets like Vice that now affects the broadsheets. Because nobody wants to pay for journalism any more, the papers hire hacks to churn out crap like this, because it's cheap and quick. It's getting a bit boring to be honest.

I read it again. I think the point is that people who have more money have nicer houses. Not sure why that warrants a column.

Kevin-W posted:

I don't find the audio references grating. Who cares about that? What I do find grating, however is the tone, which is both self-satisfied and not nearly as clever as it thinks it is.

It's another example of the snark imported from mediia outlets like Vice that now affects the broadsheets. Because nobody wants to pay for journalism any more, the papers hire hacks to churn out crap like this, because it's cheap and quick. It's getting a bit boring to be honest.

I read it...

I think.

Or did I?

How is it possible to feel emptier after consuming something I now wonder?

G

I find his pointless palaver ironic in light of the statistically provable fact that the real middle class in Western society is shrinking at an alarming rate.

And I agree with what others have said; namely that the point of the article is that there is none...they must have run out of 'Man Bites Dog' stories.

gonzo with a big capital G.

The only conclusion I can draw from this is that she had just caned her last bottle of Shiraz, and was faced with the dilemma of nipping out for a couple more, or banging out some copy in time for a very imminent deadline. Unfortunately, she chose the latter.

Aren't Farrow and Ball a comedy act?

steve

Paper Plane posted:

Aren't Farrow and Ball a comedy act?

steve

Popular in th 70's & 80's. Too many coloured jokes finished them off though.

G

No whitewash then!