If you curse at them, they will come?
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i worry when av bolds the part about the camels
we know he's into insect porn.. now camels?Originally posted by av98m:Oh I LOVE this campaign!!
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absofreakinglutely agree!!! Why keep blaming the people around them and dump the kids all over the place when the main caregivers are supposed to be parents?! sheesh. Expect to produce a baby, put them into a machine called 'THE EDUCATION SYSTEM' and have them come out cookie cut pretty? WAKE UP and take some responsibility, folks!Originally posted by av98m:Hanor. And these will usually be the idiots who have NO kids, or expect MOE to raise their kids for them. Many parents these days are too lazy or cannot be bothered to actually teach their children anything.
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about using Singapore style humour and our Singlish profanities in ads in order to attract tourists, I'm not sure that's going to work cos hokkien's not something that everyone understands and not everyone has access to the Coxford dictionary wheras the Aussie one's in English. Save for Malaysians and a handful of ang mors, even the actual hokkien speaking hokkiens like Taiwanese and Penangites (yes even them!) can't really grasp Singapore humour..
that said, it is a nice idea.. hehe.. and I will try to Singaporeanize my Aussie friends.. keke.. to hear the ang mors curse in Hokkien like a Singporean in Melbourne is pretty funny, I have to admit -
Of course there are. The complete saying goes, "If you drink and drive, you're a bloody idiot. If you make it home, you're a bloody legend".Originally posted by Croaking_Toad:Still there are people who drink and drive watttttttt!!!!!!! -
Originally posted by elindra:
this is a fucking embarssment to me ... my goverment throwing out stereotypes.....
Trust the Australians to come up with something like this
[b]If you curse at them, they will come?
By Paul Tait
Thu Feb 23, 9:59 AM ET
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia launched a new A$180 million ($133 million) advertising campaign Thursday which seeks to attract international tourists by swearing at them.
"Where the bloody hell are you?" asks the new campaign launched by Australian Tourism Minister Fran Bailey.
Bailey said the campaign will target potential tourists in China, Japan, India, the United States, Germany and Britain and would be rolled out in the next few weeks.
It echoes the hugely successful "Put another shrimp on the barbie" tourism campaign of the 1980s, which featured singlet-wearing comedian Paul Hogan and which lured an estimated 250,000 American tourists to Australia.
The new campaign, which can be seen on Tourism Australia's Web site (www.wherethebloodyhellareyou.com), features a series of Australian backdrops.
It begins with characters saying: "We've poured you a beer and we've had the camels shampooed, we've saved you a spot on the beach ... and we've got the sharks out of the pool."
A bikini-clad woman then asks: "So where the bloody hell are you?."
Bailey and Prime Minister John Howard both defended the campaign against complaints about the use of the word "bloody," a mild profanity used to express annoyance.
"It's a colloquialism, it's not a word that is seen quite in the same category as other words that nobody ought to use in public or on the media or in advertisements," Howard said.
"I think the style of the advertisement is anything but offensive but is in fact in context and I think it's a very effective ad," he told reporters in Sydney.
Howard complained last month about the decline of good manners in Australian society, blaming the drop in standards on increasing vulgarity on television.
Bailey said the campaign had been tested in some of Australia's key markets and had been successful, although she gave no details.
"This is presenting Australia as we are. We're plain-speaking, we're friendly. It's using the vernacular," Bailey told reporters.
While the "shrimp on the barbie" campaign attracted thousands of tourists, its crassness caused many Australians to cringe.
It was followed in 1995 by a A$100 million ($74 million) campaign -- then Australia's biggest single marketing and advertising campaign -- which sought to convince the world Australia also had culture.
Bailey said Australia's tourism industry was worth A$73 billion and employed 500,000 Australians.
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and the little known last line "of course, u might just end up bloody."Originally posted by Gedanken:Of course there are. The complete saying goes, "If you drink and drive, you're a bloody idiot. If you make it home, you're a bloody legend". -
Oh, but you have to read the fine print after the little-known last line, which says:Originally posted by ShrodingersCat:and the little known last line "of course, u might just end up bloody."
"however, if you make it home on a regular basis, you must be bloody Gentlerock!" -
when u said bloody gentlerock.. was it literal?
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CHOY! Aiyoh.....early on a weekend morning curse me like that....Originally posted by ShrodingersCat:when u said bloody gentlerock.. was it literal?
hurhurhurhurhur
Sounds like an experienced tax collector.. squeezing blood out of a rock...
"Tax collector" comes understandably as a refreshing compliment, as many others have commented that my nick sounds gayish....
Might have some truth in it, 'cos when I registered for a backpacker's website using the same nick, all I got were messages from men asking me if I wanted to travel to Thailand together.
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if i curse at the idiots who come to my office, will the GO AWAY?
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Originally posted by gentlerock:Speaking of state-run nannies.....
A few years ago, the MP for this area came around to give one of his feel-good factor, meet-the-people talks, after which there was a Q&A session.
The funniest part was when the MP couldn't answer a lot of questions saying "Sorry I don't live in this area, but I could find out for you". One lady in the audience (looks like a lawyer type) then stood up and asked "Sir, it seems that you don't know anything....so what is this session for?".
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no no no....I just pictured in my mind a whole line of camels being shampooed macham like car wash liddat and it was damned funny.Originally posted by the Bear:i worry when av bolds the part about the camels
we know he's into insect porn.. now camels?
I rode camels when I was in Perth for a holiday, at the camel farm. It was fun! I've always liked camels.
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To think I always joked about AV being in the closet ....Bear is even meaner
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when u said CHOY for some reason... I thought it was CHOYA.. must be because hahah keep seeing the word CHOYA around hereOriginally posted by gentlerock:CHOY! Aiyoh.....early on a weekend morning curse me like that....
"Tax collector" comes understandably as a refreshing compliment, as many others have commented that my nick sounds gayish....
Might have some truth in it, 'cos when I registered for a backpacker's website using the same nick, all I got were messages from men asking me if I wanted to travel to Thailand together.
yeah gentle rock.. the combination of more 'feminine' softness and HARDness wor... ahemahem -
Hmmm... think the more u try to explain yourself... the worse it gets wor....but its ok.. maybe u like them cos of the HUMPS!Originally posted by av98m:It was fun! I've always liked camels. -
Humps or the act of Hump.....ing *runs n hides*Originally posted by ShrodingersCat:Hmmm... think the more u try to explain yourself... the worse it gets wor....but its ok.. maybe u like them cos of the HUMPS! -
Well, he can have his humps. I'm happy just admiring the cameltoe.Originally posted by ShrodingersCat:Hmmm... think the more u try to explain yourself... the worse it gets wor....but its ok.. maybe u like them cos of the HUMPS! -
hurhurhurhur nottinottiOriginally posted by gentlerock:Well, he can have his humps. I'm happy just admiring the cameltoe. -
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Since camels are rare and thus don't come cheap, and both of us seem to like different parts of it.... um....wanna camel pool? (ie. share a camel).Originally posted by av98m:
PS: I promise I'll be good and will only look at its toes. -
*kanchos gentlerock*Originally posted by gentlerock:Since camels are rare and thus don't come cheap, and both of us seem to like different parts of it.... um....wanna camel pool? (ie. share a camel).
PS: I promise I'll be good and will only look at its toes. -
I'm right about the closet bitOriginally posted by av98m:*kanchos gentlerock* 
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it had to happen somewhere
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Bloody hell! UK censors risque Aussie ads
Thu Mar 9, 2006 11:12 AM GMT12
CANBERRA (Reuters) - The country that gave the world such risque comic acts as Benny Hill, the Two Ronnies and Little Britain has banned Australia's new "bloody hell" tourism ads from television because they are too rude.
Australian Tourism Minister Fran Bailey said Britain had banned the television ads, which end with a bikini-clad woman on a beach asking "so where the bloody hell are you?", although the ads would still screen in cinemas and appear in print.
"The regulators have clearly misplaced their sense of humour -- and this from a country that brought us Benny Hill, (the) Two Ronnies and Little Britain," Bailey said in a statement on Thursday.
She said she had written to Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, Tessa Jowell, to have the television ban overturned. Meanwhile, censored ads would run in their place.
But Tourism Australia was unfazed by the TV ban, welcoming it as unexpected publicity for the campaign.
"It's a bit of a PR dream," Tourism Australia managing director Scott Morrison told Australian Broadcasting Corp. radio.
"This is a great opportunity to really promote the campaign. We'll be driving people to the Internet like there's no tomorrow," he said. The ads are the centrepiece of a A$180 million (76 million pounds) campaign to lure tourists to Australia. The campaign, which is already running in the United States and New Zealand, will also target China, Japan, India and Germany as well as Britain.
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Discovery Travel & Living is running the advertisement now. There's a spoof of it on YouTube.
Honestly I think it (the original) is a brilliant one. It shows all the beautiful sides of Oz.