Love of gold?

They might. It harkens back to them being genteel gentlemen of the landed gentry.

White people don’t call each other colonizers, but gentrifier is at 17.

That coach is claiming to be all about football; unless you get possession or yardage based on the standing for the anthem, he’s full of it.

All good things, they say, never last.

if my images got lost the joke got lost with them :(

I wouldn’t trust it either!

I went with Mecha-Shiva:

If your scam involves “wire transfer” then your mark needs to be pretty well-off. This is only a story because of their affluence and the casual nature that some wealthy people have with their money. Remember Mitt Romney making an off-the-cuff $10k bet?

Many countries have an official language: for example in France the official language is French. Government forms are produced in French, etc.

+1 for “home skillet”

I’ve had to explain to people that I pay a lot for a very exclusive club called “my house”, and I like spending time there vs yelling at randos in some loud-ass dive bar.

I also use the alarm clock. I’ve had at least one DST incident with both my work iPhone and personal Android, and won’t trust either when I HAVE to get up.

“My dreams are all dead and buried;

I’m 6' and pretty overweight; that said, my OG Mazda 6 has treated me well (2003 base model lol), and is parked in the driveway right now.

That last sentence is the whole thing.

Matching that bag with those boots? For shame, Suicide Bomber Barbie, for shame.

So much this. I had a great time with Winter Soldier; consider that whole highway fight scene (and beyond). Then I saw the second Avengers movie where right at the beginning they had the slo-mo of all the Avengers jumping through stuff in the forest, just terrible.