Posted on 03/09/2006 8:36:45 PM PST by Aussie Dasher
BRITAIN'S ban on the word "bloody" in Australia's new tourism campaign showed that the nation was "slightly humourless", federal Health Minister Tony Abbott said.
Britain's Broadcast Advertising Clearance Centre has objected to Tourism Australia's $180 million campaign, which features the tag line: "So where the bloody hell are you?".
Mr Abbott said he thought the British should have a laugh.
"I think it is slightly humourless on the part of the poms," he said Sydney.
"Nevertheless, I can understand how some people of a more fastidious disposition possibly would like a different slogan."
Asked of he liked it personally, Mr Abbott replied: "I am not in the business of advertising".
He said the furore surrounding the campaign made him think of former Prime Minister Billy Hughes' efforts to explain democracy to a group of shearers.
"He was trying to say that democracy is one man, one vote, and the shearers were scratching their heads," Mr Abbott said.
"Eventually Billy exploded with rage and said 'look, look, one bloody man, one bloody vote ... and the shearers said 'why didn't you say in the first place'."
Humourless bastards...
OH Man that silly
Hey AD I kinda expect that prude but not UK LOL!
Maybe they try be PC here
"Alternatively, they could be just your typical whinging, pain-in-the-ass pommy bastards!"
Bloody 'eck, you should bleeding express what you really think. ;-)
Maybe I live under a rock... what is a "pom"?
A "Pom" is someone of English birth or immediate heritage.
"Crack tubes!" *fffffttt!!!* "Now I call upon Bruce to officially welcome Mr. Baldwin to the philosophy faculty."
"I'd like to welcome the Pommy bastard to God's own Earth, and remind him that we don't like stuck-up sticky-beaks here."
"Hear, hear! Well spoken, Bruce!"
What's this...NO mention of Rule 1?
No poofters.
That's Rule 1. Got it in one!
Just where did the name Pommies come from?
There is a theory it stems from the earliest days of European settlement in Australia.
Being a pommy penal colony, the prisoners wore "Prisoner of Her Majesty" or "POHM" on their back.
I like Rule 4.
Aha. Thanks for clearing that up. I was thinking "pomfret", and couldn't figure out how that would apply to the British...
Bloody lot of codswallop, that, my Dasher.
FY BLoody Info, Mate. Dates from THe Great War, Tommy Atkins was always asking the Frogs for "Pommes Frites," or chips with everything. So the Anzacs took to calling them Bloody Pommies, or Poms.
Now don't get your bloody knickers in a knot, wasn't I bloody there? I bloody well was.
That's not even considered profanity here in the States. Like "shag" or "bugger".
Given that the Poms have exported billboards proclaiming 'FCUK' to the world, buggered if I know why they're carrying on about "bloody".
Dopey bastards!
I said it was a theory. How the bloody hell would I know why Poms are called Poms?
Have a look at this:
http://www.tourism.australia.com/Marketing.asp?sub=0413
We call them Limeys.
Just like we're called Yanks. (Even though some of us resent that term - we prefer "Johnny Reb")
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