'Bloody' tourism ads banned

[SlickHolden]

Love that arse shake

[Mr. Jinx]

Hey on ACA they had a old old ad with Paul Hogan, And he ask some dude where are we or what is this place and he said it's bloody something, So the bloody word has been used before. Anyway it was cool Hogan said i only ask twit!. So they are off to pom land again with fresh evidence they want it back on the TV.

You might laugh but ???? What does that mean I have lost my Dictionary

A figure of speech in which a word or phrase literally denoting one kind of object or idea is used in place of another to suggest a likeness between them. Example: He was drowning in money.

godbless define: searches in google!

[SlickHolden]

Bloody Aussie slang

[fpv_gtho]

its not slang its officially part of the English language

[SlickHolden]

its not slang its officially part of the English language

No no the drilling and pie hopping On SBS with the gay men

[Mr. Jinx]

Bloody Aussie slang

haha, often graphical!

[Matra et Alpine]

Either the worls has it in for the Aussies ..... or (as I suspect) the ad agency is working double hard to get "banned" to generate more publicity than the ads ever would have themselves ......

Have a beer on Australia? No thanks, says Canada


Just days after the Broadcasting Advertising Clearance Centre lifted its ban on the ad, which centres on the slightly risque phrase "bloody hell", Australian Tourism Minister Fran Bailey said Canadian regulators had now lost their sense of humour.
"Buying a mate a beer is about as Australian as you can get. But the Canadian regulator has banned the shot because implied unbranded alcohol consumption (a part-empty beer glass) is unacceptable," Bailey said in a statement.
While Canada doesn't appear to have a problem with the word "bloody", it has also prevented the ad from being broadcast during two family programmes because of the word "hell".
The ads begin 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".

The furore over the British TV ban provided an unexpected windfall of free publicity for Tourism Australia, which said it had created "an on-line traffic jam" around the A$180 million (74 million pound) campaign.
Bailey hopes the "astonishing" Canadian decision to ban part of the ad would earn Australia more free publicity.
"What this decision shows is that Canada lags behind Americans, Brits and even Germans in the sense of humour stakes," Bailey said.
The campaign is already running in the United States and New Zealand as well as Britain and will also target China, Japan, India and Germany. The full advertisement can be seen at www.wherethebloodyhellareyou.com.

[SlickHolden]

The world is out to get us
Is it the Com Games???

[Mr. Jinx]

Haha, bloody candians! Don't know how to have a farkin laugh

[fpv_gtho]

The campaign is already running in the United States and New Zealand as well as Britain and will also target China, Japan, India and Germany. The full advertisement can be seen at www.wherethebloodyhellareyou.com.

Wonder what most NZer's think when they see the ad

Didnt think we needed a $180m ad campaign to get more across the Tasman

[IBrake4Rainbows]

You'd be surprised.

Most of the time it's the other way around - NZ doesn't send tourists to Aus, they send residents

[fpv_gtho]

Well im sure everyone knows about all the welfare related jokes to do with NZ immigration

[IBrake4Rainbows]

I remember seeing a cartoon which went as follows;

Two Bums are sitting on a Gold Coast beach, one says to the other, after reading an article in the paper; 'Howards Getting Clark (NZ PM) to pay our dole, mate'

The Other Bum, Shocked, screams 'NOT IN f%^%ING KIWI DOLLARS!'.

[Mr. Jinx]

Hey, the NZders bag us too. They says that if all the dumb poeple of NZ left to Australia, both nation's average IQ would increase.

[SlickHolden]

I remember seeing a cartoon which went as follows;

Two Bums are sitting on a Gold Coast beach, one says to the other, after reading an article in the paper; 'Howards Getting Clark (NZ PM) to pay our dole, mate'

The Other Bum, Shocked, screams 'NOT IN f%^%ING KIWI DOLLARS!'.

LOL that's a good one