Painful advertising

I sometimes view other cultures with a cynical Nationialistic pride (every other country is retarded apart from the English....). Often quite incorrectly, but i still do it. It's a habit.

One such occasion was this morning, while i was watching TV. I have to admit that the TV adverts that i've seen so far in Australia haven't been as unremittingly painful as the ones in the UK. There are a few amusing ones and most of the ads are simple, to the point and make sense.
This advert came on for the new Panasonic Lumix TZ10.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4H_MXLWbbdE

The tagline of the advert; "don't get your holidays mixed up". At the end there is selection of photos - Cancun, Mexico; Munich, Germany and Tokyo, Japan. This sort of makes sense as the setting is most likely Japanese, the couple are being serenaded by a Mecixican Mariachi band, while being served food by a lady wearing a Bavarian-stlyed clothes (the German part) and a group of coassack dancers are dancing.
What seems confusing and makes the advert seem wrong is that the Bavarian clothed lady speaks French to the couple, but there is no mention of the couple going to France or even Belgium or Luxembourg. Bavarian Lady should really be speaking German. It seems oddly out of place despite the general theme of the advert.
Did the advert makers get it wrong and think that German people actually speak French?
There is no mention of the couple going to Russia either, but i took that to be just some moving pictures to illustrate the point a bit more. If the cossacks were dancing the Macarena then the whole thing would have been more believable.

Comments

A new experience

It felt like I did a lot of travelling today. I'm in Moscow now. In total it was about 8.5 hours. But I had gone forward by 3 hours, and spent a few hours waiting for a delayed plane after being searched like a terrorist, and all the contents of my backpack unpacked and gone through with a fine tooth comb, and comments about sandals that I had in my backpack as being "too heavy". I have no idea what that meant, and at the time I probably didn't help the searching by Lisbon airport security by replying a sarcastic "uhhh,....yeah". I had a pencil case with me, and the guy doing the searching took every single pen and pencil out, and examined them all! I'm really not sure what he was looking for, as I could have used them as instruments of pain infliction but he allowed me to keep them all. I evetually boarded my flight to Maldova which was hugely delayed for no specific reason, so I got to Maldova and had to get on a bus from the plane, go to the transit a

When starchy, unboiled vegetables are harder than steel.

Around a year ago I bought a knife set made by an American company called Füri. They were nice knives I thought. Notice the "were". They're no longer nice knives. Below is an email that I wrote to them a few weeks ago. An email that they as yet, haven't answered. So I thought I'd post my letter online. The email was entitled "Füri-ous at knife breaking". I hope they understood the pun of their company's name. Hi Füri, Just over a year ago (March or April 2012), I purchased a 9cm (3.5 inch) Pairing knife. It was in a set along with an 20cm Cook's Knife. I decided to buy Füri brand knives as I was looking for some good quality kitchen knives; knives that enhance my enjoyment of cooking. However, last week I was cutting through a potato (chopping it into cubes for a soup) with the 9cm Pairing Knife, when the knife just snapped! I've attached some pictures. A clean break in the knife - no twisting or bending. A clean bre

Where's the Mysterious Trumpet Player this week?

Time for this monthly update. I went to Jervis Bay this weekend which was pretty good. I'll write another blog post about it. The end of winter has finally come I think, and the return of warm/hot weather is coming. I can feel it. You can "smell summer" in the evenings. I attribute the "smell of summer" quote to my sister...although she was referring to freshly cut cucumber skins...and it was probably more than 15 years ago. Anyway, mmmm, the fresh smell of summer :) It's actually a bit scary how the months have gone so quickly and it is now August. This blog is over a year old now. I had no celebration as I forgot. I should have some sort of party soon. Maybe design a logo for this blog. I have previously written about The Mysterious Trumpet Player (it is actually a trombone...) that practices his br ass instrument in increasingly ingenious and secluded places. A few days ago, a colleague and I were walking back from lunch and could hear

You'll find me about 11,000 miles away.

Search This Blog