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Leftists didn’t think much of Australia’s most recent tourism promotion. It seems to have worked, however:
The controversial “So where the bloody hell are you?’ travel campaign has been credited with netting Australia an extra $1.8 billion tourism dollars last year.
In the year since the controversial advertising campaign, starring Lara Bingle, was launched, tourist spending topped $14 billion.
Tourism slogans devised by our leftoid pals would be interesting: “Visit Australia - Share Our Shame”; “Get Me Out of Here”; “Not Many Zionists”; “Condemned by the United Nations!”, and so on. Actually, that last one would probably work quite well.
“If our critters don’t kill you, our plants will”
Posted by Some0Seppo on 2007 03 08 at 10:03 AM • permalink“Welcome to Australia - keep your meat covered.”
Posted by Don Charleone on 2007 03 08 at 10:06 AM • permalinkBehold the wonder that is beautiful downtown Geothermia. The Morlocks await you….
No thappy? Paddle your zero-pollution rowboat to Australia! Lefty politics required for entry. Other restrictions may apply.
Posted by Spectre765 on 2007 03 08 at 10:40 AM • permalinkCute ad, but I’m not sure it would tempt me to come to Australia. The copy says that this enormous sea beast has been on a ``strict plankton diet,’’ and my guess is that she’s hungry and irritable, and what tourist really wants to put himself in the way of that?
BTW I had a look at the men’s-magazine photo of Lara Bingle. I don’t think she’s a C cup; more likely an E.
Posted by Sonetka's Mom on 2007 03 08 at 10:52 AM • permalinkBring back the Qantas koala and have it say “Sorry”, sez I.
Posted by Paul Zrimsek on 2007 03 08 at 11:58 AM • permalinkAustralia, Muslim even before Islam was invented!
Posted by joe bagadonuts on 2007 03 08 at 11:59 AM • permalinkHmmmm.
“Welcome to Australia - keep your meat covered.”
Frankly we could use a slogan like that around here along the New Jersey Shore.
We get a lot of New York City idiots that like to parade around in skimpy swimwear. The girls I have no issue with as I like to girl-watch. Having guys walking around in skimpy thongs makes me want to puke.
Posted by memomachine on 2007 03 08 at 12:49 PM • permalinkHmmm.
Or how about:
“Australia is a land of endless vineyards. So come on over and turn our excellent Cabernet Sauvignons into piss!”
or
“Australia! The land where we know how to tell uppity foreigners to bugger the hell off!”
hehehe
Posted by memomachine on 2007 03 08 at 12:55 PM • permalink>>Shouldn’t that be:
>>Leftists didn’t think much of Australia’s most recent tourism promotion. So it should be no surprise that it worked:
>Really, shouldn’t it be:
>Leftists didn’t think much of Australia or the rest of the Western World for that matter.
No, it’s still too wordy. How about this:
Leftists don’t think much.
Quick! See it before the 4” deluge caused by AL Gores mansion submerges the continent.
http://www.livescience.com/environment/050317_global_warming.html
Will anyone notice? Other than Barnicles.
Posted by hollingshead on 2007 03 08 at 03:46 PM • permalinkLeftists didn’t think much of Australia’s most recent tourism promotion.
Leftists don’t think much of tourism, period. Unless it’s them doing it. But then, they call it “travel”. Tourism is tacky; travel broadens the mind. Even Leftists in New Zealand hate tourism and would love to see it taxed/legislated out of existence.
The bottom line is not that Lara’s ad was crass and tacky, but that TOURISM is crass and tacky, from the Leftist viewpoint. (But “Travel” isn’t - just ask Al Gore!)
Posted by AlburyShifton on 2007 03 08 at 04:04 PM • permalink#30
Leftists don’t think much of tourism, period. Unless it’s them doing it. But then, they call it “travel”
I never realised it, but you are absolutely right. I met a foreigner of bedraggled hippy appearance carrying a backpack. I asked her how long she’d been on holidays backpacking, and she actually corrected me and pointed out she was a “traveller”, not on holidays.
I asked her whether she was “travelling” with her “backpack”...
I never realised it, but you are absolutely right. I met a foreigner of bedraggled hippy appearance carrying a backpack. I asked her how long she’d been on holidays backpacking, and she actually corrected me and pointed out she was a “traveller”, not on holidays.
It’s all in the mind set. Working class plebs, “aspirational Australians”, go on cruises and do other touristy stuff. The would-be cultural elites, like our old friend David Williamson, “travel”.
Then there’s Leunig, who lets God do all the travelling, by visiting Mike in his own back paddock.
Posted by AlburyShifton on 2007 03 08 at 08:58 PM • permalinkHere’s an unexpected angle discovered by a Slate correspondent.
“Bollocks, mate. A bunch of Disneyland bollocks, that is. You wanna experience real aboriginal culture? Try cashing a welfare check and going on the piss for two weeks. Get into a punch up, huff some petrol, pass out in the Todd River. Maybe steal a car and drive it bush, use it as a house until your next welfare check arrives. That’s aboriginal culture, mate, not some spear-chucking, Garden of Eden horseshit.”Posted by Angela Bell on 2007 03 08 at 09:02 PM • permalinkDear Mr Blair,
I have edited your post, so that it now covers all future postings. Your blog is no longer necessary except to chat about cricket, wine and cars.
Leftists didn’t think much.
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 03 08 at 10:28 PM • permalink“If our critters don’t kill you, our plants will”
Except for “Some of the sheep.”
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 03 08 at 10:52 PM • permalink
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