BS: 'So where the bloody hell are you?'

Subject: BS: 'So where the bloody hell are you?'
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 23 Feb 06 - 04:08 PM

The geniuses in charge of Australia have decided that

"So where the bloody hell are you?"

will be the theme of the new overseas Australian Tourist Advertising campaign.

Yes, it is VERY 'colloquial Australian normal speech' - but won't it upset our foreign market?

!!!!!!!!!!!!

Subject: RE: BS: 'So where the bloody hell are you?'
From: lady penelope
Date: 23 Feb 06 - 04:11 PM

Seems highly pertinent considering most people's concept of geography.........   :o)

Subject: RE: BS: 'So where the bloody hell are you?'
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 23 Feb 06 - 04:13 PM

We're Australians - not the Fukawari!!!!

Subject: RE: BS: 'So where the bloody hell are you?'
From: Rapparee
Date: 23 Feb 06 - 04:32 PM

I'm in my office right now.

Subject: RE: BS: 'So where the bloody hell are you?'
From: artbrooks
Date: 23 Feb 06 - 04:36 PM

Not the sort of genteel language that I have come to expect from our friends from Oz...but then I only have our fellow Mudcatters to use for comparison. Perhaps the Australian government hired some Madison Avenue ad agency.

Subject: RE: BS: 'So where the bloody hell are you?'
From: Wesley S
Date: 23 Feb 06 - 04:41 PM

"So who the Bloody Hell wants to know" ???

Subject: RE: BS: 'So where the bloody hell are you?'
From: Kaleea
Date: 23 Feb 06 - 04:45 PM

MADison ave is certainly stupid enough, but this seems like the workings of personages of the young persuasion who have little sense of propriety. "So where are going for your holiday/vacation, mate?" seems a more appropriate Q for the masses.

Subject: RE: BS: 'So where the bloody hell are you?'
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 23 Feb 06 - 04:51 PM

As I said, it IS colloquial Aussie - said to friends. Even Little Johnny agrees with that... but... then we call best friends 'bastard' too...

Subject: RE: BS: 'So where the bloody hell are you?'
From: John O'L
Date: 23 Feb 06 - 05:10 PM

Sounds like the national equivalent of the New South WOW campaign.

And what the bloody hell was that about?

Subject: RE: BS: 'So where the bloody hell are you?'
From: GUEST,Geographer
Date: 23 Feb 06 - 05:17 PM

Australia...where the bloody 'ells that?    cobber!

Subject: RE: BS: 'So where the bloody hell are you?'
From: John O'L
Date: 23 Feb 06 - 05:24 PM

Down under

Subject: RE: BS: 'So where the bloody hell are you?'
From: gnu
Date: 23 Feb 06 - 05:33 PM

I agree, Robin. A bit over the top, really. However... it bloody well will get a lot of unpaid for advertising. Beats, "The biggest crocs in the world! Not to mention, the most deadly snakes and spiders! You're all right, though, mate. You're all right."

Subject: RE: BS: 'So where the bloody hell are you?'
From: robomatic
Date: 23 Feb 06 - 05:35 PM

This 'ere's the wattle, the emblem of our land,
You can stick it in a bottle, you can 'old it in your 'hand!

Australia, Australia, Australia, Australia we love you!
Amen!

Crack the tubes, Bruce!

Subject: RE: BS: 'So where the bloody hell are you?'
From: Joybell
Date: 23 Feb 06 - 05:39 PM

Sounds like a bunch of four-year-olds practicing naughty words. Worse - it's aggressive too. Cheers, Joy

Subject: RE: BS: 'So where the bloody hell are you?'
From: autolycus
Date: 23 Feb 06 - 06:32 PM

The rattle in the swill bucket just got louder.

Ivor

Subject: RE: BS: 'So where the bloody hell are you?'
From: JennyO
Date: 23 Feb 06 - 09:45 PM

I heard little Johnnie say he thinks that seeing an attractive young lady on the beach saying 'So where the bloody hell are you?' is perfectly acceptable (couldn't find the actual quote anywhere). I haven't seen the whole ad yet, but it's definitely a hark back to the days of Paul Hogan's 'put another shrimp on the barbie'. The trouble with that one was always that we don't call them shrimps, we call them prawns.

This bit I like:

"We've poured you a beer and we've had the camels shampooed, we've saved you a spot on the beach. We've even got the sharks out of the pool."

Apparently it's then followed by a blonde, bikini-clad woman emerging from the surf asking: "So where the bloody hell are you?"

I sorta question the bit about the camels though. They don't figure very prominently around here. And in all the years I've lived here, I've NEVER seen a chain of camels being led along the beach!


Bloody 'ell!!

Subject: RE: BS: 'So where the bloody hell are you?'
From: Little Hawk
Date: 23 Feb 06 - 10:16 PM

I think it's great. Classic Australian yobbos doing what they do best. "Bloody 'ell!"

Subject: RE: BS: 'So where the bloody hell are you?'
From: Den
Date: 23 Feb 06 - 10:18 PM

Where the bloody hell are the camels? That's it I'm going to the Gobi desert.

Subject: RE: BS: 'So where the bloody hell are you?'
From: JennyO
Date: 24 Feb 06 - 01:09 AM

Did you see my link, Den?

Anyway, I believe there are camels somewhere in the outback. Dunno for sure cos I haven't seen 'em. Definitely none on the beach tho.

Subject: RE: BS: 'So where the bloody hell are you?'
From: John O'L
Date: 24 Feb 06 - 01:35 AM

I'd guess that someone's just started up a service taking tourists for twilight camel rides along beaches.

Someone in Tourism Australia recently had an unemployed brother-in-law perhaps...?

Subject: RE: BS: 'So where the bloody hell are you?'
From: MBSLynne
Date: 24 Feb 06 - 02:09 AM

As an Aussie ex-pat seeing the way the English view the Australians, I think it's brilliant. We have here a nation of people who LIKED and found funny Sir Thingy Patterson, the minister for culture or whatever he was. Australia is trendy these days and that's the way people like to see Australians. I think it will go down a storm here

Love Lynne

Subject: RE: BS: 'So where the bloody hell are you?'
From: John O'L
Date: 24 Feb 06 - 03:08 AM

I liked Sir Les too.

(Cultural Attache For The Yarts, I think he was.)

Subject: RE: BS: 'So where the bloody hell are you?'
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 24 Feb 06 - 03:19 AM

Cultural Attache For The Yartz, please!

Subject: RE: BS: 'So where the bloody hell are you?'
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 24 Feb 06 - 04:15 AM

And cheese.

eric

Subject: RE: BS: 'So where the bloody hell are you?'
From: David C. Carter
Date: 24 Feb 06 - 04:36 AM

"Australia is down under".Down under what!
Les had a great "taste" in ties,and the rest!
His father explaining the sex act to him still creases me up.
I think they'll bloody well lap it up!....the add that is...

David

Subject: RE: BS: 'So where the bloody hell are you?'
From: gnomad
Date: 24 Feb 06 - 05:08 AM

I think this is being taken too seriously, it's only an advert. Add's frequently play on caricatures, and this is just another one.

I have not seen the advert in question, but it sounds effective. Some nice scenery, an effective message (we're doing everything to make you welcome) and a bit of "come hither". If one or two of the Mary Whitehouse persuasion are put off by a couple of mild obscenities it is a shame, but they can always stay home, where they will hear far worse in any street containing schoolkids.

I bet the British adds when we do the Olympics will be far more cringe-inducing.

Subject: RE: BS: 'So where the bloody hell are you?'
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 24 Feb 06 - 05:10 AM

There are 'wild' camels living in the outback - "Camels are scattered through the arid interior of Australia with an estimate of 50% in Western Australia, 25% in the Northern Territory, and 25% in western Queensland and northern South Australia. Camels were first introduced into Australia from the Canary Islands in 1840. Subsequently an estimated 12,000 camels were imported and ultimately released into the wild when road and rail transport resumed the camel's role as a means of carrying freight" - from the Camels Australia Export website.

This means there are twice as many camels in Oz as there are wild in the Gobi Desert, so you'll have a wasted trip Den.

And if Australia is so desperate for visitors, we have a convict ship moored off Portland that can be made seaworthy in a jiffy and plenty more candidates on shore..... : )

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: 'So where the bloody hell are you?'
From: David C. Carter
Date: 24 Feb 06 - 05:47 AM

Liz the Squeak informs us, that Camels are scattered through the arid interior.So that's where the bloody hell they are!
I'm sure you're spot on about British adds for the Olympics.Glad I'm out of there.The French are still sick about not getting them.

Subject: RE: BS: 'So where the bloody hell are you?'
From: gnomad
Date: 24 Feb 06 - 05:53 AM

No, on second thoughts, it's ME that is taking it too seriously. Think I'd better ask Matron for one of my pills.

Better yet I will go see Mr Butler for a pint of his best giggle-juice.

Subject: RE: BS: 'So where the bloody hell are you?'
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 24 Feb 06 - 05:59 AM

You're spot on there Gnomad.... the ads for just getting us the Olympics were horrific enough... lots of expensive plastic banners and metal street signs exorting us to 'make a difference'... it would have made a bigger difference if you'd spent the however many thousands on advertising the damn bid, on repairing the drains in the two main shopping streets in the borough!

And as for the tube train carriages..... the fabric seat covers are vile and the carriage itself is just crying out for grafitti... and I bet it cost more than was spent upgrading the signals.

Where's me soapbox??

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: 'So where the bloody hell are you?'
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 24 Feb 06 - 08:54 AM

There used to be a Irish beggar at one of the London train terminals whose technique was to shout out "Give us some money, you English bastards" - I think that might have been there Bob Geldof got the idea.

I think this is a similar approach.

Next one would be "If you don't come to see us, we know where you live and we're coming to see you..."

Makes a change anyway. If I had the fare I might be tempted. Most hoiday ads make me cringe.

Subject: RE: BS: 'So where the bloody hell are you?'
From: freda underhill
Date: 24 Feb 06 - 10:24 AM

Cable Beach, Broome is one of the most beautiful beaches in the world. it is remote,vast, (22 miles long) has white sands, clear blue ocean, beautiful skies, and has camel rides at sunset.. ..

Subject: RE: BS: 'So where the bloody hell are you?'
From: JennyO
Date: 24 Feb 06 - 10:40 AM

Hey, that's the same photo that was in my link! So that's where they got it! Goes to show I've never been to Broome - or any other part of Western Australia.

Subject: RE: BS: 'So where the bloody hell are you?'
From: sian, west wales
Date: 24 Feb 06 - 11:07 AM

Well, I've just sent that Telegraph link to the Cultural Tourism Co-ordinator at the Wales Tourist Board and demanded a Welsh equivalent!

I shudder to think ...

siân

Subject: RE: BS: 'So where the bloody hell are you?'
From: Donuel
Date: 24 Feb 06 - 11:53 AM

they need to sex the pitch up a bit with a catchy tune and sound bite.


yoo hoo dance with a Roo
dance with a Roo my darlin
yoo hoo dance with a Roo
what the hell yer no Roo
who do ya think yer foolin
so who the bloody hell are you
Ehh mate she's my mate
where the hell you goin?

Australia ; the enchanted land of animals and adultry
come
see for yourself.

Subject: RE: BS: 'So where the bloody hell are you?'
From: Grab
Date: 24 Feb 06 - 01:38 PM

Now they've got the camels, could they rename Oz the Gobby Desert...?

Subject: RE: BS: 'So where the bloody hell are you?'
From: nutty
Date: 24 Feb 06 - 01:51 PM

All the tourists are in Japan ... aren't they.

That's what it seemed like when I visited.

Hundreds of Japanese school children all dressed alike, carrying identical bags and taking hundreds of identical photos with identical cameras.

Subject: RE: BS: 'So where the bloody hell are you?'
From: Joybell
Date: 24 Feb 06 - 04:30 PM

And do you know who brought the camels? (and their handlers)
George Coppin!!! That's who!! Musician, singer, fiddler, comedian, Mr Theatre himself!
There! Now it's a music thread!

Coppin donated camels to the Burke and Wills expedition. If they had been better tied up, one fateful night in the middle of the desert, the expedition might have made it back instead of perishing. The camels wisely beat it back South to Adelaide. Cheers, Joy

Subject: RE: BS: 'So where the bloody hell are you?'
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 24 Feb 06 - 06:15 PM

MvGrath,

maybe the next one might be

"We'll send Bazza Mackenzie back!"

Subject: RE: BS: 'So where the bloody hell are you?'
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 24 Feb 06 - 06:22 PM

And by the way - Australia exports camels to Arabian countries for use in racing. And now that the use of young boys as jockeys has been banned, the camels are ridden by radio controlled robots!

Subject: RE: BS: 'So where the bloody hell are you?'
From: GUEST,dianavan
Date: 25 Feb 06 - 06:06 PM

I'd be more upset by the camels than by the language.

Don't you have laws against false advertising?

Subject: RE: BS: 'So where the bloody hell are you?'
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 25 Feb 06 - 06:53 PM

Yes, very strong ones. So everything in the ad must exist somewhere. I'm still looking for the girl, been looking for years...

Subject: RE: BS: 'So where the bloody hell are you?'
From: John O'L
Date: 25 Feb 06 - 07:07 PM

Australian advertising laws are actually very weak. There are lies in advertising everywhere.

Subject: RE: BS: 'So where the bloody hell are you?'
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 09 Mar 06 - 04:47 PM

There is lots of fuss here now that the british TV censor has refused to allow this on British TV cause of the 'naughty word'. They may still be seen in Movie Houses.

Haven't heard any feed back from the USA or anywhere else.

Anybody seen them yet?

Funnily enough, there is an adv for another company/product that parodies this campaign - the mother chastises her child for using the word, then is seen to use much more in a 'car park rage' incident - so subsequently gives no comment when her child says the breakfast cereal is 'bloody good'.

Amusing is that the 'great Aussie Adjective' was invented in Great Britian...

Subject: RE: BS: 'So where the bloody hell are you?'
From: GUEST,sandra
Date: 09 Mar 06 - 09:15 PM

I cant beleive the English have changed the words. I was born in England came out to Oz in 1972. Bloody is part of the Englsh every day word. Its surprising how much its used. Im still using the bloody word today. And where did i get it from England haha.

England must be turing into such a prude. And Enland is the Lnad of Benny hill & Two Ronnies e.t.c e.t.c

I think its a bloody great add. & yes ive been on the camels on the Beach up the sunshine coast. Great day out.

Sandra

Subject: RE: BS: 'So where the bloody hell are you?'
From: John O'L
Date: 10 Mar 06 - 04:10 AM

Bloody pommies

Subject: RE: BS: 'So where the bloody hell are you?'
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 10 Mar 06 - 01:32 PM

I did a search on Cable Beach to see what other photos are out there. It is a beautiful place, and here's a photo with a girl (apparently demonstrating a tuck used in cheerleading).

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: 'So where the bloody hell are you?'
From: lady penelope
Date: 10 Mar 06 - 05:08 PM

Where the bloody hell am I? Second glass of wine on the left and then straight on till morning........

Subject: RE: BS: 'So where the bloody hell are you?'
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 10 Mar 06 - 07:28 PM

Aussie Media is now making a big fuss about hypnosis, example form Little Britain and many other shows being screened.

Subject: RE: BS: 'So where the bloody hell are you?'
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 10 Mar 06 - 07:50 PM

"hypnosis"? "hypnosis"! WHAT?

Bloody spellchecker - it should have been hypocrisy!!!