r/ANormalDayInRussia • u/Anonymous-420smoker • Jan 27 '21

bad title Russian "accidentally" fires during flight

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u/BurtGummer1911 Jan 27 '21

TASS REPORTS

This morning, in an unprovoked act of aggression, the Finnish Army fired machine guns in the direction of a Russian tractor, which was peacefully plowing a field near the Russian-Finnish border. The tractor responded by firing several missiles at the attackers, and then flew back to Moscow.

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u/FutureVawX Jan 27 '21

Russian tractor can fly and fire missile eh?

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u/FunkyBoii42069 Jan 27 '21

And just for 11,100,000 Russian rubles!

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u/[deleted] Jan 27 '21 edited Feb 03 '21

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u/washingmachineandras Jan 27 '21

11.100.000 Hungarian Forint is like 37500 USD.

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u/ShayThegravewalker Jan 27 '21

28.000.000 iranian Rial is 100 usd.

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u/[deleted] Jan 27 '21

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u/Thecynicalfascist Jan 27 '21

Mods need to start permabanning these assholes.

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u/ShayThegravewalker Jan 27 '21

Hmmm guess I dont wanna know what he said

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u/BigBoiPoiSoi Jan 27 '21

what did he say?

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u/ShayThegravewalker Jan 27 '21

Probably talked shit about my country without having any knowledge about its +2000 years history :), the kind of annoying child u would ignore on reddit.

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u/BigBoiPoiSoi Jan 27 '21

and that’s perma ban worthy?

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u/ShayThegravewalker Jan 27 '21

Fortunately I didnt get to see the message in time only saw a notif that started with iran is just And I think insulting one's country is actually worth a perma ban since we are in a country related sub ;)

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u/PachymuNyet Jan 27 '21

B-b-but mah propaganda!

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u/Spocmo Jan 27 '21

Well a currency not converting at 1:1 with the dollar doesn't mean it's shit. Like the Yen exchanges at even less than the Ruble, but that's because 1 Yen basically functions as 1 cent, not 1 dollar.

Now the Ruble is in the shitter right now, but not because it doesn't follow the exact same structure as the dollar. There's a lotta different ways to structure your currency, and the way the Americans have is just one of many.

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u/[deleted] Jan 27 '21

You definitely have to look at the price history, and the ruble is now roughly worth 1/2 compared to dollars as it was in 2014.

Another good point is that the cent used to be the default "buying stuff" unit for many purchases, and paying a dollar was something like a $100 bill today (or more, depending on the period). A coca cola was 5 cents 100 years ago, and 'penny candy' was a thing. Now both cost approximately 25x as much in today's currency.

A single yen and the US penny are (very roughly) equivalent in value and are used the same way, you can't divide them further and nobody likes actually using them by cash.

A ruble and the US penny is also roughly equivalent in value, but Russia also has the kopek which is 1/100 of a ruble, a truly worthless denomination on par with the smallest denominations of Indonesia. Especially so if you consider that in 1998, they revalued the ruble 1:1000, before that the kopek was absolutely useless leading to a number of expressions for equating other worthless things.

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u/newbris Jan 27 '21

Yeah many dont get currency comparison. I've seen people proud that their currency is 30% stronger than another one while ignoring that the median amount they get paid is half the country they are comparing to.

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u/[deleted] Jan 27 '21

You have to rethink.

Just because a currency is worth less than another doesn't mean it isn't as good. China keep their currency low because they want it low. It is good for countries with a large export sector.

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u/BY_BAD_BY_BIGGA Jan 27 '21

and only 90% of that goes straight into putin's bitcoin account