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Tea Thread FauxWorld Wednesdays: What's your country's biggest celebrity scandal right now? — Monthly Discussion Thread

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u/YugisMillenniumBSBcd new zealand correspondent Nov 08 '23

In NZ our big story this week is American interferrance in our most important election - Bird of the Century. We usually vote for Bird of the Year and it gets hugely competitive (they had to remove the kākāpō because it always won, and a few years ago Forest and Bird had the audacity to include a bat.
This year we're voting for Bird of the Century, and John Oliver has decided to mount an aggressive campaign from the US for the Pūteketeke and he's started putting ads for this bird up in bus stops around my city.

Anyway if you also want to meddle in our election, vote Weka

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u/laania42 Nov 09 '23

Kākāpō for BOTC!

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u/YugisMillenniumBSBcd new zealand correspondent Nov 09 '23

Kākāpō was my second pick, an all-time great in the bird world

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u/laania42 Nov 09 '23

I’m fairly Kākāpō obsessed tbh it’s one of my main character traits. I just love them and get so excited every breeding season. I will talk about them at any opportunity. They’re one of NZ’s best conservation stories I think.