China gifted Germany two pandas who live in the Berlin zoo. They cost us around 2 million euros a year in upkeep iirc.
Now that's a gift with a baggage.
After reading the article, I don't think it's as bad as the title makes it out to be.
The EU has more oversight in London than in Frankfurt, which is a positive imo.
Plus, France and Germany agreed to a lower percentage requirement to move into the EU (yet to be determined). So it's not that much of an animosity between the two biggest countries in the EU.
She's "totally badass" without ever having a reason to do anything. No strong convictions or stakes, just action.
I really hoped the film would switch perspective midway and follow the Berlin dude. It would be special, having such an elaborate introduction and then forgetting the character atomic blonde completely, but it would have made a better film imo.
We also use two different alphabets. Lower case and upper case. Upper case is basically Latin script optimised for stone carving, lower case was developed for ink writing (I think in the Carolingian era). Now we use both at the same time without batting an eye.
Add cursive in the mix and we also have 78 letters instead of 26.
White washing means washing (aka painting) your house with a chalk wash. It covers up the dirt and makes the wall look all clean again. In this sense it's also used figuratively.
Haha "superior" western equipment is vulnerable, you see?! One Hi-MARS almost down, the others will follow. Russian rugged equipment is better and will soon win against puny, diva, only-works-in-ideal-conditions wstern materiel.
A gifted football is hardly a batch of shame.
China gifted Germany two pandas who live in the Berlin zoo. They cost us around 2 million euros a year in upkeep iirc. Now that's a gift with a baggage.