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i wonder why because Hamilton is a big place and it needs skyscrapers to like make it look big-ger so yes Hamilton needs skyscrapers right?

r/argentina_out is a sub dedicated to ranting fun memes and football we do weekly rant-offs and i post pretty much everyday want to crash out about school/work right there memes you think we would like post it none is stopping you also we do not hate on Argentina or anything to come from them except their football so wdya think want to rant crash out or just have fun go on and join r/argentina_out this will be great as we passed 10 visitors so what are you doing join the fun

guys at the 2026 world cup Argentina went in as favourites but came out as the most annoying RACIST SADDEST team in the tournament like bro you score on England then pull off whatever the hell putting your hands to your ears is doing can i mention this is the same guy that SANG A RACIST SONG ABOUT FRANCE like why also Martinez and that glove celebration like what are you GAY or something but now messi everyone was just glazing him for scoring 3 goals against ALGERIA AUSTRIA EGYPT CAPE VERDE like bro these are the most generic teams ever well except for Salah he is good but bro is getting glazed for scoring against some randomass team and he should of been sent off in the first game right for that illigal tackle also against algeria we had egypt and england complianing about argentina refs and racistim hopefully this team gets kicked out right?

Look, I love football. I love the World Cup. But I do not love being corporate-robbed by the clown at the drive-thru window. We need to have a serious conversation about this "limited-edition" FIFA World Cup Meal, because the value logic has completely left the building.

First of all, let’s talk about the absolute audacity of the pricing. They are out here charging premium, hard-earned cash for a "special event meal". You pull up to the window thinking you're getting some rare, elite-tier football fuel. You open the bag and what do you find? It is literally just a standard, regular Big Mac or a 10-piece nugget combo. There is nothing special about the food! It's the exact same structurally compromised burger that looks like it was aggressively sat on by a manager before being chucked into the bag.

But oh, wait, they gave it a shiny gold sauce packet! Wow, incredible. Groundbreaking culinary innovation. You pay a massive premium just so your dipping sauce has a FIFA logo on the foil lid.

And don't even get me started on the main attraction: the collectible cups. They hype these things up like they are solid gold trophies carved by ancient artisans. You're expecting a massive, high-quality cup to drink your frozen Coke out of while watching Messi or Harry Kane. What do you actually get? A tiny, pitiful plastic cup that feels like it was mass-produced on an assembly line in five seconds. It's so small you can barely fit a standard can of liquid in it. If you get a duplicate of Grimace or David Beckham, your whole kitchen cabinet is just hostage to useless plastic.

Honestly, the whole promotion is a total shamble. I used to think the Pak'nSave Stickman was the ultimate test of economic survival, but paying extortionate prices for regular nuggets just to collect a plastic cup that will inevitably melt in the dishwasher is the real joke.

Please, McDonald's, drop the marketing movie-trailer hype. If I wanted to get ripped off for a piece of cheap plastic, I would have just ordered something off Temu.

Look, I get it. Tui T. Sutherland’s mum is a Kiwi. She’s named after a bird. National pride, yay team. But New Zealand fanbases need to collectively calm down, because the behaviour has officially crossed into madness.

Over in the USA—where she actually lives—half the school boards are having an absolute meltdown trying to ban her books because God forbid a dragon is gay. The US is out here treating Wings of Fire like contraband, meanwhile, NZ has gone in the complete opposite direction.

Kiwi libraries and bookstores aren't just stocking them; they are actively building load-bearing walls out of The Hybrid Prince. Every single household in this country apparently needs forty different stenciled-edge variants of a story about colourful, traumatised reptiles.

Honestly, it all makes sense now. I used to wonder why IKEA finally decided to open a mega-store in Auckland. It wasn't for the flat-pack beds or the meatballs. It’s because the Swedish executives looked at the sheer volume of Wings of Fire paperbacks in New Zealand households and realized the entire country is experiencing a severe, structural shortage of Billy Bookcases. IKEA didn't expand here for the economy; they came to rescue Kiwi floorboards from collapsing under the weight of Arc 4.

But the absolute peak of this insanity? The fan content.

I checked YouTube and my feed is full of these horrific, low-effort fan-made music videos of dragons doing absolutely nothing while terrible music blasts in the background. It is mental. Look at football fans. We have boundaries. None of us are out here making a YouTube video of Harry Kane scoring a penalty with NANANANANANANANNA VINDALOOO spammed across the screen in bright pink Comic Sans. We have respect for the game! But a FanWing? They will take a poorly cropped JPEG of a NightWing, slap a generic pop song over it, and treat it like it's high art.

And what are these videos even romanticising?! What is this blud?! Have any of you actually looked at the plot of these books? Someone needs to call in a literal SWAT team to this universe immediately. You cannot have a "wholesome middle-grade book" that features robbery, assault, actual child abuse, racism, kidnapping, and whatever dark magic is actively forcing child dragons to fight to the death. The sheer volume of cold-blooded murder in this series is insane. It's basically a fantasy true-crime documentary, but because it has scales, Kiwi parents are just chucking it at 10-year-olds like it's The Very Hungry Caterpillar.

Also, can we talk about the names? Why is every character named after a random dictionary word? "Oh yes, look at this brave warrior, his name is Qibli." What even is that? It sounds like a generic brand of yogurt you buy at Countdown because it's on clearance. You've got dragons named after weather patterns, kitchen spices, and basic geometry. It’s like the author just stared at a random assortment of nouns in her house and decided, "Yep, that's a main character."

And it never ends. It is literally 2026. We are on Book 16. Sixteen! Why are there three different "arcs"? This isn't a book series anymore, it's a corporate assembly line. At this rate, by 2030, my grandkids are going to be reading Wings of Fire Book 47: The Tax-Evasion of the MudWings.

We like to claim NZ is "top 5 in the world" for culture, but bro, for what?! Look at other countries. Canada has... actually, I don’t even know what Canada has. But the UK has David Walliams! At least his books have variety—you've got Gangsta Granny, The Boy in the Dress, and Billionaire Boy. Plus, the UK has actual culture: Tesco smugglers carrying shanks and teenagers permanently smoking weed outside the Lego shop. Australia has Yorak Hunt and a proud population of bogans.

What do WE have? We have nothing but the Pak'nSave Stickman, ram raids, the Goodnight Kiwi, and this weird-ass obsession with fictional dragons. Imagine if Colombia started reading this stuff. They only have James Rodríguez and gay white men with too many piercings and tattoos, and even they wouldn't obsess over reptiles like this.

You know what, JMA (or whatever corporate publisher is running this circus), if you are reading this: f**k it. Move to Pukekohe. Commute to your job on the City Rail Link (if you even have a job) along with the rest of us, and experience real life instead of writing Book 17. Except joke's on you, because it’s the Auckland rail network, so the trains will be cancelled anyway. Have fun sitting on a damp rail replacement bus on State Highway 1 for three hours while staring out the window at the Drury development projects, questioning every life choice that led you to making YouTube videos about fictional lizards.

Please, I am begging you all, read another book. Or at least learn how to edit a video.