#ostentatious

[grits-gal-raised-in-the-south]

Meghan Markle Sussex wants YOU to know she's "UHNW" 💰💰💰

I personally know a few families with billions in generational wealth. I imagine they wouldn't be caught dead associating with rich people who market themselves as "UHNW" for something as ridiculous as a NANNY/ PR post!! Old money is not the least bit opposed to placing want ads in the local help section.

[authorafterhours]

In fics, I've read different ideas of what Hannibal would do for Will's tableau, or if he would even have one and I adore them all. But how would Will display Hannibal, I wonder?

[catgirlweed]

favorite word?

I had to think about this for hours before deciding, but my favourite word is definitely iconic. I'm always saying that. Everything's iconic to me

[transport-methodology-101]

A pre-WWII Maybach and the lengthened 2004 Maybach 72 ultra luxurious grandeur.

Asking $800,000 (not counting luxury tax plus sales tax) for an extended gussied Mercedes “S” was too much and it ceased production at the end of 2011. T’was roughly double the original cost of a standard Maybach 62. Being an aftermarket conversion, it wasn’t officially designated “72”.

Standard pre-conversion 62’s came with a sportier “S”6.0 V12 Sportier 62 churning out 604 horsepower and 738 lb-ft of torque getting average 10 mpg.

Trivia:- Yes, it’s a stretched Maybach 62. Which is itself a stretched 57, which is itself a stretched Merc S-Class. So it’s slightly longer than most people cared to possess it.

[yesterdaysprint]

Lord Chesterfield’s Advice to His Son, On Men and Manners: or, A New System of Education, Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield, 1815

[doublethinkcrimes]

ostentatious

/ os · ten · tey · shuhs /

(adj.) expensive or showy in a way that is intended to impress other people

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[vanishingsydney]

"Model.House" c.1886. Substantial late Victorian era terrace house.  One problem. The Model didn't catch on. Haven't seen another one with a facade that ornately embellished anywhere else in the Inner West. Ostentatiousness in this part of town has never really been a thing. Newtown.