My school (UK, 1980s) offered Mandarin as an extracurricular course. I signed up, showed up… and was the only student. One-on-one classes the rest of the year :)
(Just don’t try grilling me in Mandarin now, though.)
I’m fairly sure this is less “pro-Russia” and more “anti-large-new-devastated-member-causing-Poland-to-get-a-far-smaller-slice-of-the-EU-funds-pie”.
While Law & Justice’s [sic] tendencies overlap with Putin’s a lot, IIRC they’ve been consistently anti-Russia, especially as it’s a personal beef now since the party boss’s brother was killed in the Smolensk air disaster, which he seems to blame on Putin.
Why would anyone not like Russia or North Korea? They’re led by great guys, lovely guys. So strong! The haircuts. The uniforms!
Only started with Reddit last year, left when the country it’s based in started to threaten the country I’m in and a bunch of others, too.
I’ve got nothing against their kind per se, but do they have to shove it down our throats?
TFA:
Authorities have said the agents were looking for the Milford High School teenager’s father
Arrested Development wiki on the Milford School:
Children should be neither seen nor heard.
Every time the Milford school is mentioned in the show, there’s a shot of Milford alumnus Buster Bluth exercising the skill he learnt there of avoiding being seen.
I’m in the middle of an AD rewatch, noticed the school’s name and made a quick, crappy joke on that.
Obviously the situation is actually horrible for the kid in the article and in no way his fault.
“Oh, but he won’t do that to me .”
Should have paid more attention in school
Exporting (Trump’s idea of) American free speech around the world!
Me neither.
I click on a YouTube link and it opens in FreeTube, no ads.
Every now and then, videos won’t play because of some change by Google, usually it’s just a day or so until FreeTube releases an update that works again.