An open thread for personal stuff, continuing from here.
As usual for these threads: no trolls, no MRAs, no I’m-not-really-an-MRA-buts, don’t be mean.
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We Hunted The Mammoth
I quite like that song.
I don’t think it’s the right song for the advert though.
Why did they use a New Zealand opera singer in an Australia tourism ad?
Bloody hell, have you lot claimed her too?
I didn’t even bother turning the sound on for that ad; it was so ridiculous anyway. Over-the-top slow-mo romanticising of … eating lunch in a dried-out paddock and plucking chickens and carrying dead rabbits around? Seriously? That’s a holiday?
Did I see the wrong one? I heard a Nick Cave Murder Ballad… combine that with the dead animals, I can’t see how that would make people want to go there. Did they also make Wolf Creek?
That’s the one I saw, Kim! I didn’t turn the sound on (wouldn’t know a Nick Cave song if I tripped over it) but it specifies that in the article at the link. Yet this is the thing winning awards? Ugh.
🙂 Precious black cats. They’re the best.
Dracarys makes a really cute nerd!
My thoughts about that advertisement: I already live in a bone-dry wine country, and my hands are complaining about it. How about some place damper?
No, she wasn’t in the ad.
That’s one of the “conventional” things that happens when promoting the Barossa as a good cultural thing. She’s done a couple of tours like that. One concert here, another in the Hunter Valley NSW, don’t know about other wine areas. We also have jazz, opera and other performers doing this stuff from time to time – sometimes around the Adelaide Festival of Arts.
I’m glad I wasn’t the only one who didn’t like that ad. I can’t believe tourism promoters have sold tickets on that basis.
I can see how it could win awards as a bit of film making – just not as an ad. I’m wondering who their target market is meant to be.
http://www.geeksaresexy.net/2013/06/30/grumpy-vader-tattoo/
That tattoo’s the best, gilshalos! XD
So, this was funny…
I’m a not-very-active-but-still-member of the Church of Sweden. Apparently, in one part of the country, the church used an… unfortunate font when inviting the church members to a Christmas celebration. They wanted to write “Welcome to a Christmas celebration in [name of town]”, but the font made it look like they had written “Welcome to a Christmas celebration in the pussy”.
After having been told this, they went out with a new message which read “Unfortunately, the font used in our invitation to this year’s Christmas celebration made it look as if we invited you to a celebration in the pussy, when actually it was supposed to be in [name of town], However, to be fair, without pussy there wouldn’t be a baby Jesus to celebrate.” TRUE!
I’ve got a couple of thoughts about that. One is that piccies of lush green vineyards are ten a penny all over the world. Showing that you can have lush green growth alongside summer-parched Aussie farmland is a way of preventing people feeling let down in some way if they come here in summer or the festival season, early autumn, and “it’s not green like they advertised it”. The other is that one thing that international cycling enthusiasts see is South Aussie countryside in midsummer when the Tour Downunder is held, so the view of summer as hot and dry is consistent.
If you want it damper (and cooler), go a bit further south to the Fleurieu Peninsula or way down to Coonawarra and the other Limestone Coast regions in the south east rather than to the Barossa. If you want it frosty cold and a bit damp go to the Clare Valley in winter, though I don’t recommend it in mid summer – it’s just barely south of the lower Flinders Ranges – not good country for those who don’t like their summers hot and dry. South Australia’s got 18 separate wine regions so there’s plenty of choice – unless you’re looking for snow and frost.
The best way to think of Adelaide and most of the crop/vine growing regions is as being “more Mediterranean than the Mediterranean”.
Dvärghundspossen:
Please provide at least the town’s name 🙂
It wasn’t the name of a town, it was the nickname of the church (not the Church of Sweden)
Link: http://www.dn.se/nyheter/sverige/kyrka-bjod-till-intim-julfest/
Thanks! Apparently I had it messed up a bit. 🙂 Okay, so the church was Philadelphia church, which is nicknamed “Fillan”, and it may look (depending on your font) similar to “fittan”…
Tangentially related, IDK if you’ve heard this about Pajala in Finnish-speaking part of Norrbotten (from Wikipedia):
The short name form translates as “place of pussy” (perhaps “Fittby” as residential area?), long form as “place-of-pussy mire”
I’ve read Niemi’s book in Finnish translation. It’s cool.
I’ve read that book too, and liked it. The explanation given by the author was that it some kind of reference to female fertility, on account of the many children born there.
Also I like the the name Njutånger, a place in Northern Sweden, loosely translated as pleasure-regret (not etymologically related)
We used to live next to a neighbourhood called “Pungpinan”, which in modern Swedish means “pain in the balls”. In older Swedish it means “sharp wind blowing over a couple of hills”, but yeah.
Dvarg, that’s hilarious!
For our crafters.
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Dapper Laughs has been cancelled after 50k signed the petition for it to be!