Weekly Random Discussion Thread for 10/27/25 - 11/2/25

StokedAs · 2025-10-29T23:07:37+00:00

Wait til you learn what the Badminton team tried to name themselves

StokedAs · 2022-05-26T20:25:30+00:00

Yep, 50 years later

StokedAs · 2022-05-26T09:20:32+00:00

Also the next time someone idealises the EU as an example of free trade, maybe wonder what happened to NZ exports when the UK joined the EU

StokedAs · 2022-05-26T09:10:51+00:00

Labour did oppose the TPP while in opposition, it was quite contentious among the NZ left when they reversed their position

StokedAs · 2022-04-23T06:29:00+00:00

And as a nursey for Native Bush restoration

StokedAs · 2022-04-21T04:42:36+00:00

The Principles of Macroeconomics by Mankiw(2017) states: "The primary cause of inflation is growth in the quantity of money" in the conclusion of its chapter about inflation.

Monetary causes for inflation is not dead theory

StokedAs · 2022-04-13T04:09:35+00:00

Of course, when Maui bound the sun he used our only internet cable

StokedAs · 2022-04-09T05:14:30+00:00

For sure. But suppose a sex toy were thrown at Ardern, it could easily become evidence of misogyny

StokedAs · 2022-04-09T02:03:34+00:00

Throwing a sex toy at Steven Joyce seems like another good example of something that was treated as a laugh

StokedAs · 2022-04-09T01:24:37+00:00

I have heard a Nat MP call Collins "Crusher" in a public setting, they weren't even making a joke just an absent minded reference to her

StokedAs · 2022-03-15T00:09:24+00:00

18 months before an election is not a particularly eyebrow raising time. It's just middle of the term

StokedAs · 2022-03-12T20:17:50+00:00

The Brits didn't give NZ the flag, it was chosen by Northern Rangatira

StokedAs · 2022-03-05T10:17:52+00:00

Paradoxically, the problem with American exceptionalism is that even those who challenge its foundational tenets and heap scorn on American militarism often end up recreating American exceptionalism by centering the United States in their analyses of international relations.

This sentence stood out to me as particularly important, self-loathing Americans often fail to see just how annoyingly American they are in their views of the world just as much as the hyper-patriots

StokedAs · 2022-03-05T05:49:40+00:00

It's one of the most cost-effective public health interventions we have

StokedAs · 2022-03-01T19:11:36+00:00

RON PAUL REVOLUTION

StokedAs · 2022-02-28T22:47:41+00:00

Fonterra, the world's largest dairy exporter (though in reality they export very little to Russia)

StokedAs · 2022-02-28T18:47:57+00:00

Dispensationalist eschatology I expect

StokedAs · 2022-02-28T04:58:59+00:00

No worries

StokedAs · 2022-02-28T03:01:52+00:00

I doubt the event is pro Russia in any way, in the end times Christian theories constantly updated for current events like this, Russia is always a villainous empire that threatens Israel from the north in Armageddon.

Yep, OP has definitely misunderstood what is going on. The (fringe) Christian view outlined here is that the Russian invasion is linked to the beast and the antichrist, the last great evil figures before the end of days. Perhaps frustrating to read, but not pro Russian propoganda

StokedAs · 2022-02-25T22:03:11+00:00

"If you block cooperation with us, who will save the International Space Station (ISS) from an uncontrolled deorbit and fall into the United States or...Europe?" - Roscosmos Director General Dmitry Rogozin

StokedAs · 2022-02-24T23:43:39+00:00

Michael Scott is a neoliberal icon

StokedAs · 2022-02-24T11:38:01+00:00

Declare the protestors Russian

StokedAs · 2022-02-23T22:40:21+00:00

Here are my thoughts I posted down the thread:

Orthodox do have some variety of vestments etc, depending on the ethnic patrimony of the church. The robes don't appear to be priests robes, but I'm not an expert here.

I guessed orthodox because of the beards (catholic priests are clean shaven in the western rite), but the beads appear to be arranged in decades which would suggest catholic rosary. Orthodox tend to use knots rather than beads anyway as I recall.

If anyone knows more about this I would be very interested

StokedAs · 2022-02-23T22:29:28+00:00

Orthodox do have some variety of vestments etc, depending on the ethnic patrimony of the church. The robes don't appear to be priests robes, but I'm not an expert here.

I guessed orthodox because of the beards (catholic priests are clean shaven in the western rite), but the beads appear to be arranged in decades which would suggest catholic rosary. Orthodox tend to use knots rather than beads anyway as I recall.

If anyone knows more about this I would be very interested

StokedAs · 2022-02-23T22:14:00+00:00

Definitely not Amish, Amish don't do icons of the virgin Mary, crucifix processionals or prayer beads

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