A warning from downunder

Zip · 23 Feb 2006 at 23:18

Zefan said:
OH DEAR that ad is AWFUL.

Why does she say in a textbook Aussie accent "Where the bladdy hell are" and then switches to queens english with "You". WTF?

The Australian accent is a mixture of you and ya, people from different parts of the country vary in what they say and how they say it.

But that whole campain is too staged for my liking :mad:

They should play on the UK and USA way of words and just say 90% of all Australians wear thongs.
The country would be full of people then

Zip · 23 Feb 2006 at 23:24

lucasade1 said:
Isn't Her Majesty still head of State there?

Yep the she is our queen.

But pome is dirrected at the country itself

Zip · 23 Feb 2006 at 23:25

Zefan said:
Where do I sign?

You see how well my marketing works

In Australia thongs is what we call for flip flops

Zip · 23 Feb 2006 at 23:47

Dj_Jestar said:
Good advert, except the "Where the bloody hell are you?" doesn't quite fit.. if it were just "Where the hell are you?" it would fit. Or if they got a more cliche/stereotype Aussie to say it, it might be better

They want bloody in there because its a very highly used australian word, so they have sqeazed it in there.

you've seen too many movies with paul hogan in them tbh

Zip · 24 Feb 2006 at 11:07

Insanity said:
I find that surprising, or maybe its just Melbourne thats full of Greek people.

Melbourn has the highest greek population of any city outside of greece

They arnt tourists they are what people call "****"

Zip · 9 Mar 2006 at 14:22

Kyzia said:
Bit of a resurrection of this thread I know... but I thought the OP in particular might be interested to read this...!!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/4789650.stm

It might actually make the add sound a little more normal with the word cut out

Bloody has to be used right or i sounds out of place imo

I think they spend 5 or 6 million dollars on this add and finding what would be the best way to get attension to australia