Thursday July 10th, 2008. 9:14 am by frog
Maybe New Zealand’s clean green image is not such a good thing after all.
Each week the ABC pits two of Australia’s advertising agencies against each other in a challenge to sell the unsellable. This week the brief was to build support for invading New Zealand. Follow the link and check out the ad on the right.
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July 10th, 2008 at 9:37 am
LOL
True, too….
July 10th, 2008 at 10:34 am
Funny as..
mind you we could defend ourselves
by a) up the defence budget_ which would stuff any tax cuts
b) following USA into illegal wars
- so we could get help when asked
July 10th, 2008 at 11:14 am
Kind of amusing; kind of incredibly creepy. It made me feel sad thinking of the many other equally fine places around the world who do get flying visits from boys in fighter planes dropping death from the sky.
July 10th, 2008 at 12:40 pm
Of course the Aussies don’t need to invade, since they own most of the country anyway, without the need to actually govern or occupy it
And there is most likely a willing seller for any other resources they may want.
July 10th, 2008 at 1:09 pm
They could do it though, and it would settle the question posed in other threads, of just what NZ should be, once and for all.
Hell, half the US thinks NZ is part of Australia even now… while the rest think that Australia is where the governor of California got his accent.
… but jingyang is right. It would be totally redundant. Sort of like the US invading Texas… which might not be a bad idea come to think of it
respectfully
BJ
July 10th, 2008 at 1:13 pm
Hilarious! I for one would like to take this opportunity in advance to welcome our new Australian masters, in return I simply ask to be appointed Territorial Governor.
July 10th, 2008 at 6:42 pm
kinda funny given we call australia the west island
July 10th, 2008 at 6:46 pm
well, they and some NZers are prone to calling us the ‘6th state’ (maybe 7th? cant be bothered finding out - stuff them!
)
July 10th, 2008 at 6:56 pm
“b) following USA into illegal wars”
We did follow them; you have forgotten that Helen Clark sent Army Engineers to Iraq back in 2003, albeit some months after the invasion. Just because we didn’t send troops doesn’t mean that we didn’t follow them.
July 10th, 2008 at 7:09 pm
Was that under any UN auspices by that time though? If so - that particular action is ‘legal’.
July 10th, 2008 at 10:27 pm
What are they on about? - we gifted it to them ages ago.
July 11th, 2008 at 1:13 am
Do we get a day off to celebrate the victory too?
July 11th, 2008 at 10:27 am
Hey at least we would now be able to win the rugby world cup and the cricket world cup.
couldn’t any country in the world invade NZ, just stick their soldiers on some 747’s and land them at Auckland Airport.
We sent the engineers into Iraq after the UN made it legal, I really don’t know how the UN can make an illegal war legal though.
Also I guess we were in Afganistan Illegally as well, this time with combat troops.
July 11th, 2008 at 10:33 am
“don’t know how the UN can make an illegal war legal though.”
they didn’t, but peacekeeping forces are fine.
July 11th, 2008 at 11:04 am
well when the un force was formed they made all the troops in iraq legally allowed to be their.
July 11th, 2008 at 12:52 pm
There hasn’t been a UN force in Iraq since UNIMOG in 1991, which was supervising the Iran-Iraq ceasefire.