Sort-of memes that are cracking you up at the moment

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False dichotomy

False dichotomy

How so?

Correction-never mind.

False dichotomy

Exactly this.

Insulate britain have a point. SUV drivers are a cancer.

Is this old? It just made me LOL

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Did LOL!

Saw that yesterday, very good!

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https://youtu.be/ZqpGy59jUgU

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Squid Game or just Cash?

As an originalist, I think that should be confined to those car parks adjacent to popular dog-walking areas such as woods and parks. Maybe some radicals are going multi-storey, but I'm old enough to have come to the conclusion that such things are always greater in the expectation than the experience.

Would reply Grandpa but I'm not sure anything after 1989 is relevant.

She came in through the bedroom window
I want to tell you
Run for your life
Because
You won't see me

I think he got confused with The Beatles. Similar spelling, but very different.

Uncanny resemblance

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Ha ha ha!

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Just under 1000 tonnes of gold at today's price. I'd hardly call that a mountain, it's about the amount held in reserve by the Swiss central bank, amounting to 51m³ of solid gold. The room I'm sitting it has a volume of almost exactly 51m³

You haven’t accounted for the increased price of gold since publication.

The Hobbit came out in 1937. The US Gold Reserve Act of 1934 raised and fixed the price of gold at $35/oz. Today, the same ounce ≈ $1286, a 36x increase. Perhaps not a literal mountain, at least not by our (Hu)Man standards, but significantly more than your initial estimation.

You haven’t accounted for the increased price of gold since publication.

The date of publication of Smaug's net worth is not the date of publication of the book, but the recent date on which Forbes estimated it as being behind 14 US private citizens. $51bn in 1937 is more than half the entire GDP of the USA ($93bn). It's likely that the US citizen with the highest net worth in 1937 was John D Rockefeller at around $1.4bn, with Andrew Mellon and Henry Ford being the other contenders.

The problem with the meme is that it significantly underestimates the amount of gold Smaug is sitting on. At around 20m long, it would surely take at least 1000m³ of gold to make him look like he was sitting on a significant pile, which would be valued today at a trillion dollars, and about 15% of the entire quantity of gold known to exist above ground.
"An entire mountain full of almost nothing but solid gold" would have to be at least 1000 times as much as that, and about 12 times the world's aggregate GDP.