The Haters Guide to the Williams-Sonoma Catalog

[GenuineRisk]

Since y'all enjoyed 2013's so much, I figured I'd post the link to the 2014:

http://theconcourse.deadspin.com/the...log-1667452305

Fun fact: the author of this, Drew Magary, is the one who wrote the interview article with the Duck Dynasty guys that created such a flap, pardon the pun. He also writes "Why Your Favorite Football Team Sucks" every fall, which I highly recommend, for fans and non-fans alike, as no team is spared.

[Danzig]

Originally Posted by GenuineRisk

Since y'all enjoyed 2013's so much, I figured I'd post the link to the 2014:

http://theconcourse.deadspin.com/the...log-1667452305

Fun fact: the author of this, Drew Magary, is the one who wrote the interview article with the Duck Dynasty guys that created such a flap, pardon the pun. He also writes "Why Your Favorite Football Team Sucks" every fall, which I highly recommend, for fans and non-fans alike, as no team is spared.

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

[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."

[my miss storm cat]

Originally Posted by Danzig

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

Their placemats and things like fruit bowls are really nice (and yes, the peppermint bark is good!)

[Danzig]

Originally Posted by my miss storm cat

Their placemats and things like fruit bowls are really nice (and yes, the peppermint bark is good!)

i'm sure they are. and i'm sure you can get fruit bowls and placemats that are nice without that price!

it's like when i went to a charity auction, and someone had donated a $350 purse.
i would never spend that kind of money on a purse. mine i got on sale for about $12 fights gravity and holds my stuff in place just as well as that one!

[dellinger63]

Originally Posted by Danzig

mine i got on sale for about $12 fights gravity and holds my stuff in place just as well as that one!

I heard the same thing from a lady using a black hefty trash bag as carry-on luggage.

[GenuineRisk]

Originally Posted by Danzig

i'm sure they are. and i'm sure you can get fruit bowls and placemats that are nice without that price!

it's like when i went to a charity auction, and someone had donated a $350 purse.
i would never spend that kind of money on a purse. mine i got on sale for about $12 fights gravity and holds my stuff in place just as well as that one!

The ones that get me are the expensive ones that have the company's logo as part of the design. So, I am to pay you for the privilege of advertising your brand for you? No thanks.

[Danzig]

Originally Posted by GenuineRisk

The ones that get me are the expensive ones that have the company's logo as part of the design. So, I am to pay you for the privilege of advertising your brand for you? No thanks.

yeah, it should be the other way, right? lol
I'm just one of those people who will looks at necessities as just that, not something to break the bank on. I like something that looks decent, holds everything, and will last a bit. serviceable I think is the word. I buy name brand tennis shoes-but not the high end name brand shoes! and I love getting stuff on sale.
I'm...frugal. we own chevy and Hyundai, not Cadillac and lexus! that way, if I want to drive to cali for two weeks, I can. not be broke with a lexus in the driveway that I can't do a road trip in.

[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.

[geeker2]

Originally Posted by Danzig

Then I guess he knows what he is talking about

Exactly !

[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

[Danzig]

Originally Posted by geeker2

Exactly !