You're very fortunate. Sinophobia is 'baked into the cake' 
as it were where I live. Chinese people are depicted as childlike, unscrupulous and brainwashed all at once as though they are 'programmed' by the CCP (CPC) to be spies for the country or rabid nationalists while still being shielded from the rest of the world behind the Great Firewall. Any basic normal day-to-day stuff, if done by a Chinese person, is instantly suspicious. Posting cute panda videos? It's an insidious SoFt PoWeR pUsh. Buying infant formula? It's China flexing its economic might to deprive western babies of nutrition. Highly coordinated dance? It's brutal training to quash individualism (unless ofc its shenyun in which case it's 4000 years of esoteric tradition and majesty...). Chinese people cannot exist or act in the west without being seen through the lense of the yellow peril.
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blight was banned for 17 hours for posting the word beanis repeatedly in the comm
amazing bit and I'm so peeved i didn't think of jt first
im going to get a second opinion asking a bodega kitty
Awesome thank you!
I play casually (pokepocket and tcg mobile) and am connected to people who play competitive both locally and in JPN. I'm only recently interested in trading for profit because my brother suggested he'd buy some starter kits for his kids, and then put some cards aside as an investment. I said yeah sure go ahead but you need to know who to sell to, how to sell and when, so I'm looking into it on his behalf.
it will usually have a usable trainer
By this do you mean Trainer cards (like item/pkmn/stadium) card?
Also if i ever finessed anything you wouldn't find me admitting to it here
I'm curious about this, is it worthwhile?
Their criminal vendetta against free enterprise by eradicating opium, our nation defining tossing tea leaves into a harbour. They are both made from plants, see
typing the first letter of characters for an abbreviation isn't american laziness, Chinese speakers frequently do it too, and it's an easy way of typing common words with Pinyin input, for e.g. typing XHS brings up a list of words including tomato (xihongshi), vibrant red (xian hongse) and Xinhua news agency (xinhua she)
Oh afterwards they basically confirmed they're 1000% racist cos they went and gloated to their beehaw chums that they triggered the Chinese bot army
Yeah, I'd learn pinyin first then tones, because tones kind of sit 'on top' of the base sounds of the language. It's possible to speak toneless Mandarin and still be basically understood by context. But you can't really speak with just pitch. I'll @you if I ever get my act together and make the post! There's quite a few Mandarin speakers and learners on HB so hopefully we can pool our brains together to help new learners get over the rough early game (??? is that a saying or am I just making shit up???)
how about eat tbeann