Yes, but the invitation to press the button and the banner were in English, not
Flemish or that strange version of French they speak up there. :-)
Very odd.
Simpsons references are utterly lost on me. Clearly I'm not the target audience.
Australian football is a strange game indeed and VERY popular with women due to
the body shape it creates - tall with broad shoulders and small bums seems to
be a preferred shape. A friend who has played several codes of football claims
that it requires the highest level of fitness of all, and that Rugby League is
the most brutal (no helmets, no armour, little padding if any and full contact
- 'thud').
Most of the British settlers were not convicts - they were simply used as cheap
labour and were rarely more than one third of the early population. And many
weren't 'English' either - many convicts were Irish, effectively 'political
prisoners' (aka terrorists).
Andrew Fildes
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On 26/01/2013, at 9:14 AM, Nathan Wajsman wrote:
> Perhaps as someone who has lived both in Belgium and the Netherlands, I can
> enlighten you. The point of the commercial was to re-enact an episode of The
> Simpsons (the one where Homer falls out of the back of the ambulance near the
> Springfield gorge). The American footballers are there just to add some
> weirdness. Most Europeans are vaguely aware of the NFL and somewhat amused
> that a sport where you rarely kick the ball is called "football". So that bit
> is just to make the ad more exotic. When I lived in the US, I sometimes
> watched Australian "football" on ESPN. Equally weird, but the women liked it
> because the players were well built and lightly clad. A true sport for a
> place populated by English convicts ;-)
>
> Cheers,
> Nathan
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> Nathan Wajsman
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> On Jan 25, 2013, at 10:56 PM, Andrew Fildes wrote:
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>> Why was it in English?
>> What are American footballers doing in there?
>> Is it a channel that specialises in...violent American TV drama?
>> Yes, your television IS violent.
>> Perhaps that's the point? :-)
>> Andrew Fildes
>> afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> www.soultheft.com
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>> On 26/01/2013, at 5:57 AM, Tina Manley wrote:
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>>> PESO:
>>>
>>> Unusual ads from Belgium and the Netherlands:
>>>
>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=316AzLYfAzw&list=PLSTz8jpJdr5pkXfNu3IQAOYIQjjTY0DMj
>>>
>>> Click on the sequel to see Netherlands.
>>>
>>> And we think our television is violent!!
>>>
>>> Tina
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