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.)

Not Kirk?

There was also the flag of the defunct Republic of VIetnam

https://vietnguyen.info/2021/theres-a-reason-the-south-vietnamese-flag-flew-during-the-capitol-riot

The depth of anti-communist feeling in the Vietnamese community, which includes many military veterans and former government officials, meant that it has always leaned strongly Republican. While Asian Americans as a whole voted 2 to 1 for Joe Biden over Trump, Vietnamese Americans supported Trump over Biden, 57 percent to 41 percent. A deep animus toward China, amplified by misinformation in Vietnamese-language media, bolsters the support for a president they see as tougher on foreign policy. This dovetailed with their anticommunism.

How did they feel about the constable being a changeling?

You’ve got to remember that these are just simple farmers. These are people of the land. The common clay of the new West. You know… Bajorans.

Personally:

• https://freetubeapp.io/ (to watch)
• https://libredirect.github.io/ (to redirect YT links to FreeTube

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.

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smolensk_air_disaster

That day is closer than you think…

Ooh, 'ark 'er with the bona fides on polari.

PS some polari-inflected comedy sketches, the infamous Julian and Sandy from Round the Horne.

• https://archive.org/details/julian-and-sandy

Next: Bashir and Garak talking Polari.

“I lent 'im me finest tweed but never again. He tore up me 'Arris.”

What a cant!

Relax, I said cant.

needs more spinning

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.

Everyone’s complaining about AI taking jobs away from real human beings.

But surely using an AI-generated image here would have prevented his suffering.

US-born, UK-raised, there in '87. TIL there are people (Trek fans, even!) who didn’t know about this!

By the time I got to “GREAT shoulder massages” and “prefers silence”, I wondered “Wait… is Tuvok a Milford man?”

What?? Clearly Gene only had science fiction on his mind!

The one time I read something that explained Irish spelling in a way I could understand it, the point was that it was devised by monks who were 100% absolutely into classical Latin and Greek orthography.

And Patricia Tallman is there!