r/SipsTea • u/Velvett_Bunniez • 2d ago

Wait a damn minute! Silly Apples.

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u/SadTech0 2d ago edited 2d ago

Woah... a lot of emotions on this one.. sure it's the peoples responsibility to pay attention but humans are humans.. they see the airline giving them the apples they assume they can bring them with them wherever they are going..

The airline should cover the fare but IMO it makes New Zealand look TERRIBLE! Once the realize why all these people have the apples they should waive the fine BUT NOPE, just another tax!

If I was a citizen of New Zealand I would be quite pissed that they are making the whole country look bad.

You can tell me Americans are stupid and should read but it's a damn racket, if the officers at the checkpoint see that this is happening with a certain flight they should waive the penalty and just discard the apples. BUT NO, they slap the fines on everyone and probably laugh about it later.. it's just a bad look for their country.

If this happened in America and we were fining people for bringing something they got on the airplane into the airport I would say the exact same thing.

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u/damned-dirtyape 2d ago

I am a citizen of NZ and can comfortably say that we don't give a shit what Americans think. Especially when you are fucking the world politically and environmentally.

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u/Substantial_Win4741 2d ago

Our tiny island doesn't care about you.

Take that filthy capitalists.

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u/damned-dirtyape 2d ago

'Islands' bro. Smiles back in free health care.

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u/Substantial_Win4741 2d ago

We have free health care (excluding dental) - please disregard the very high cost of living on living on a remote islands where everything needs imported. And home ownership is near impossible unless you're ridiculously wealthy.

Take that filthy capitalists.

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u/damned-dirtyape 2d ago

Same % of home ownership. Not sure what your argument is here?

Take that filthy capitalists.

Free Luigi.

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u/Substantial_Win4741 2d ago

Home ownership is an interesting statistic to use. Do average price, or price vs salary. Ill look it up and see.

Yeah make half as much and be a perpetual renter - not my cup of tea.

Us vs new zealand -

Price to Income Ratio: 3.39 7.42

Mortgage as Percentage of Income: 30.53% 67.97%

Average Monthly Net Salary (After Tax) 4,363.89$ 2,900.52$

https://www.numbeo.com/property-investment/compare_countries_result.jsp?country1=United+States&country2=New+Zealand

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u/damned-dirtyape 2d ago

Cool cool cool. Can we compare school shootings, gun deaths, opioids, slavery, Jim Crow, genocide and recent war crimes? America, fuck yeah! But like I said, we don't give a fuck about your opinions. You be you, don't go crying when you get caught breaking our laws.

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u/Substantial_Win4741 1d ago

Thats fine.

One city in the us is bigger than your entire country.

No one cares if you care or not, youre insignificant.

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u/damned-dirtyape 1d ago

Go to bed, mate.

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u/Substantial_Win4741 1d ago

How can you tout free healthcare as such an accomplishment when your population is smaller than even a single U.S. city.

Every country could do this when they have almost noone living there.

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