You want to know if someone is actually a real, battle-tested Floridian, or just some soft transplant who moved to Naples because they liked the golf courses? It all comes down to the green anole. 🤯
Every true-grit Florida kid knows exactly what these little micro-dinosaurs are. You might remember them from *Jurassic Park* as the Compsognathus—the tiny, vicious "Compys" that hunted in packs. In the rest of the civilized world, children play with Legos or iPads. In Florida, our youth are dropped into the backyard shrubbery to hunt, track, and capture live prehistoric reptiles with their bare hands.
But catching one isn't the flex. The real rite of passage—the absolute gauntlet of Florida childhood—is successfully convincing that pissed-off little lizard to latch its razor-sharp, microscopic teeth directly onto your earlobe so you can proudly sport a pair of living, breathing reptile earrings.
Any carpetbagger twat from New York can get one to stick to their left ear. But getting a perfectly symmetrical pair of thrashing dinosaur earrings while keeping a completely straight face? That is the ultimate test of psychological warfare. It’s the official prerequisites course for life down here.
You don’t get to graduate to wrestling alligators, dodging bull sharks, or navigating a local boat ramp until you’ve willingly let two angry lawn dragons chew on your cartilage for half an afternoon.
If you didn’t walk into your mother's kitchen throbbing on the ears with two green lizards dangling from your head like a low-budget tribal chieftain, you’re not a local. You're just a tourist who stayed too long. 🦎👂🇺🇸
They’re bringing back the ball chiller
Imagine a startup that uses social media to build something the public actually wants
At a very minimum, the sharp spike in attention that this startup is receiving should be a CLEAR notification to the big 3 that they’re missing the mark
Don’t you ever let anyone attack you or your family’s heritage and name.
Fuck them.
You stand proud for who you are and what your parents accomplished.
Idea: Government needs to subsidize manufacturing companies to require all factories to be built using massive stone and sheetmetal art deco industrialist supremacy american gold age designs
OOOHHH HECK YEAHHH!!! ✈️ Tomorrow, @BreezeAirways turns five at TPA, so to start the birthday party early, we’re giving away TWO roundtrip tickets to ✨ANYWHERE✨ they fly nonstop from TPA! 🥳
If you win, YOU get to pick where you go! 👀
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Mario Nawfal is now pushing the idea that I am leading.
This operation to build two 300ft. tall Lewis and Clark statues is being led by myself, and that image he shared is my design.
@AtelierMissor_ quoted me that price.
We’re going to make this happen!
🇺🇸🇫🇷 An idea to create a Lewis & Clark “Argonath,” like the one from Lord of the Rings, has drawn the attention of French foundry Atelier Missor.
They say they could build them for $50 million each, 300 ft tall, at the head of the Mississippi River.
This would be absolutely incredible…
Source: @AtelierMissor_, @buster_mega45
I have been quiet long enough.
This is perhaps the most important thread on X ever published.
And the most powerful and impactful comic book you will ever read.
If you want to understand the reverse carry trade, bookmark this.
Oil, Yen, Japan, and an all-star cast.
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