AstroStelar
To my knowledge the Kyle Rittenhouse trial was like that too, as in the prosecutors messing up big time.
The two allotropes of phosphorus
Bedankt, Rutte...
So there's three things going on:
- Rutte's broken English means he didn't understand the nuances of "daddy" versus "papa" in Dutch, which doesn't carry the submissive undertones as much as the former.
- In the Netherlands he's known for his very casual and informal personality ("he's the world leader that cycles to work!"). Dutch business culture is more relaxed, so here it works, but internationally it doesn't.
- He's always been like this much of a bootlicker with Trump, even back during his first term. He really wants to be on good terms with the United States, so when Trump is in charge he always kisses the ring.
You weren't kidding...
In Dutch we have "wappie" which means the same thing
Woah, you actually live in Alaska?
The "Phoney War" was the first months of the Second World War
RepFine
Sounded familiar, so I checked and it's from 4 years ago.
Faced with these serious allegations, Cuomo at first attempted a bizarre defence. “I’m not perverted, I’m just Italian,” is how Fox News characterised it, which was amusingly accurate. Cuomo suggested that the fact that some women had perceived sexual abuse might be attributed to differing “generational or cultural perspectives”. In a video statement, he proceeded to show lots of photographs of him kissing people in public – a gesture, he said, that is intended to show “warmth”. He further admitted that he sometimes calls people “sweetheart”, as if that were his greatest fault.
I also found this in the search results: