Australian Ad Ban Story
Apparently the UK TV censors said this Australian ad was too rude for TV (it will still show at the cinema):
"Where the bloody hell are you?"
Can't see what the problem is myself - looks like a very nice ad and when it ended, I wanted to go there!
Will Australians start boycotting British products, torching our embassy in Canberra and trample each other to death over it? Sounds like they are quite tickled by the fuss and looking forward to the massive publicity censorship inevitably produces.
Good on 'em!
Australian Ad Ban Story
Apparently the UK TV censors said this Australian ad was too rude for TV (it will still show at the cinema):
"Where the bloody hell are you?"
Can't see what the problem is myself - looks like a very nice ad and when it ended, I wanted to go there!
Will Australians start boycotting British products, torching our embassy in Canberra and trample each other to death over it? Sounds like they are quite tickled by the fuss and looking forward to the massive publicity censorship inevitably produces.
Good on 'em!
Just because they swear in Oz they can't come over to the UK cursing like tinkers. :lol:
Invevitably, since the US unveiling of this rather good ad, the bloody American Family Association have denounced it and are supposedly going to bloody report it to the bloody FCC.
They don't like the word "bloody" and are afraid of the damage it will cause their children :roll:
AFA Boycotts Australia
"Bloody hell, Harry!"
They going to ban that as well?????
Debs x smile
This week, I have been forcibly listening to new music as I needed to work on a radio station automation system (basically so I can teach DJs to use it). The library is almost all indy or complete amateur stuff as that is the base that the station caters to.
Anyway, I liked this one song so I looked up the band from New York City (Morningwood - great name!) and they look a bit more mainstream. They had a video too for the song so I checked that out.
The lead singer looks like she puts her finger up at one point and it's fuzzed out in the video but when the band are dressed up as British-style punks earlier in the video, she gets away with flicking the 'V' (**ck off) signs.
So maybe if you spot this on MTV, you can see some American woman probably having a good laugh at getting that one past the Puritans.
I remember , back in the Radio Luxembourg days that they played a trad jazz version of Nancy Grey. They would go on about it not being banned anywhere, not even on Aunty BBC. One verse was modified to say,
"Where have you been all the day Billy boy, Billy Boy
Where have you been all the day, charming Billy
I've been having it away, with my charming Nancy Grey,
Will nancy........"
It was pretty amazing that Aunty BBC missed it.