Maria von Trapp's hipster great grandson got married, and the NYT wedding details are hysterically awful

[EricMontreal22]

Posted: 6/23/16 at 11:02pm

This is the funniest thing I've read in a long while.  Sigh.

The blog I first found it on (I thought it came from the Onion or something...) with pointed commentary http://postgradproblems.com/this-hipster-marriage-announcement-from-the-new-york-times-is-the-most-insufferable-yet/


 

[EricMontreal22]

Posted: 6/23/16 at 11:03pm

And the original NYT piece with photos...  http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/19/fashion/weddings/nathaniel-peters-barbara-jane-sloan-wedding-sound-of-music.html?_r=0&module=Slide&region=SlideShowTopBar&version=SlideCard-10&action=Click&contentCollection=Weddings&slideshowTitle=A+Day+Filled+With+More+Than+a+Few+of+Their+Favorite+Things&currentSlide=10&entrySlide=1&pgtype=imageslideshow

[HorseTears]

Posted: 6/24/16 at 6:17am

JESUS.  I could barely finish it.  What an insufferable twat.  

[artscallion]

Posted: 6/24/16 at 8:56am

How can this be real? How can they be so self-unaware?

[madbrian]

Posted: 6/24/16 at 9:04am

artscallion said: "How can this be real? How can they be so self-unaware?"

Are you talking about these hipsters, or the people of Britain?

[artscallion]

Posted: 6/24/16 at 9:17am

Haha! Well, both. At least with the Britain situation, I can hope it inspires a Texit.

With these hipsters there's not much hope of anything but ukulele lessons on their honeymoon..

[darquegk]

Posted: 6/24/16 at 9:40am

God, it's like reading "The Secret History" all over again. At least they had the good sense to kill Bunny before Chapter 1 even began...

[Kad]

Posted: 6/24/16 at 10:40am

These don't seem like real people. They seem like characters in a written-by-committee young adult romance novel. And if I learned anything from those romances, it means one of these two will die tragically young and the other will have to learn to love again.

 

[EricMontreal22]

Posted: 6/24/16 at 12:45pm

I admit if it wasn't the NYT, I would think it was the Onion. It seems telling that they and their quoted friends all describe and define each other by what they wear and read and nothing else. "Oh yeah I can tell you about my good friend the groom. He's the kinda guy who wears orange shoelaces and a bow tie when crashing his funky car on his way to Trader Joe's"

makes me almost wish that Geirg and Maria hadn't escaped the Nazis. (Too soon?)

[WhizzerMarvin]

Posted: 6/24/16 at 1:08pm

I love the commentary from that first blogger. It just kept getting more and more absurd that by the end I had a serious case of the giggles. 

[Jane2]

Posted: 6/24/16 at 1:56pm

Not a pretention fan!

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 6/24/16 at 2:14pm

Oh, man that was amazing. And that does sound like a movie from 2001. I'm waiting for her to get elbow cancer or something like that and he travels by foot (with a donkey by his side) across Europe to find the one mystical tree in the world that he read about in a storybook that houses the elixir to cure her.

[madbrian]

Posted: 6/24/16 at 2:18pm

I didn't know Nicholas Sparks wrote engagement announcements.

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 6/24/16 at 2:20pm

That's too ridiculous for even Nicholas Sparks.

[Kad]

Posted: 6/24/16 at 2:59pm

I refuse to believe these two have done anything more intimate than hold hands.

[EricMontreal22]

Posted: 6/24/16 at 3:00pm

Jordan Catalano said: "Oh, man that was amazing. And that does sound like a movie from 2001. I'm waiting for her to get elbow cancer or something like that and he travels by foot (with a donkey by his side) across Europe to find the one mystical tree in the world that he read about in a storybook that houses the elixir to cure her.

 

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It could be called "Friends with Breadifits!"

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 6/24/16 at 3:28pm

And like the article points out, it would have to be directed by Wes Anderson.

[gypsy101]

Posted: 6/25/16 at 4:27am

"I’d like to take you down to the Public Garden and have a picnic and read from P.G. Wodehouse."

Literally who would say that ever in any version of history

[Jane2]

Posted: 6/25/16 at 8:17am

Seriously, people can live however they like. These two just seem a little creepy to me, but they don't impact my life at all. 

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 6/25/16 at 8:49am

They are evil and must be destroyed. 

[hork]

Posted: 6/25/16 at 12:00pm

This blog writer is way more obnoxious than the couple. Oh no, they're quirky and intellectual and the guy probably can't throw a football, haha! Douchebag.

Updated On: 6/25/16 at 12:00 PM

[EricMontreal22]

Posted: 6/25/16 at 12:13pm

Don't you go and make me feel bad for mocking rich entitled people again.  Grrr.

[darquegk]

Posted: 6/25/16 at 12:48pm

Well, if "Whiteness" becomes an Olympic sport this year, we've got the American team picked.

[TotallyEffed]

Posted: 6/25/16 at 1:10pm

This seemed like a joke piece written by Daniel Handler, the man behind Lemony Snicket.

[EricMontreal22]

Posted: 6/25/16 at 2:23pm

Jane2 said: "Seriously, people can live however they like. These two just seem a little creepy to me, but they don't impact my life at all. 

 

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Nor mine, I hope.  But they are worthy of the New York Times, apparently, so I think they are worthy of being called out for being terrible, obnoxious people.  Your mileage may vary :P