INDIAN TV PROMO FEATURES WEEPY AUSSIE GAME
December 7th 2007 07:18
INDIAN BROADCASTER SENDS UP ‘WEEPY’ AUSSIE CRICKETERS
It’s just not cricket and surely those pesky Indians have gone too far and overstepped the mark by not respecting the innate superiority of white western cricket players, or to be more precise, white western AUSSIE cricket players.
Indian TV broadcaster ESPN STAR has launched a promotion for its coverage of the forthcoming Australian-Indian cricket test, and obviously it thinks its promotion is funny. Even witty!
The online promotion ad features sexist, racist and every other ist, caricatures of noble Aussie hero cricketers Brett Lee and Andrew Symons actually weeping tears into a cup accompanied by the headline, ‘Play The Weepy Aussies Game’ followed by strange India-speak with the words Australia Mein and Australia Mangta Hai, whatever the bloody hell that might mean, but it’s a dead cert to be a sub continental insult.
Click the play button on the ESPN STAR’S promotional site and this text appears:
“The Indian team is gonna leave the Aussies teary-eyed. Have some fun in the meantime: Use the cup to catch the Aussie tears as they fall. You have 30 secs.
Good luck &
turn on the speaker.”
It’s enough to make a decent Aussie pop a pappadum.
DISCLAIMER: Actually Aussie-based MediaBlab applauds ESPN STAR’S promotion and the broadcaster has certainly entered into the spirit of the game.
It’s just not cricket and surely those pesky Indians have gone too far and overstepped the mark by not respecting the innate superiority of white western cricket players, or to be more precise, white western AUSSIE cricket players.
Indian TV broadcaster ESPN STAR has launched a promotion for its coverage of the forthcoming Australian-Indian cricket test, and obviously it thinks its promotion is funny. Even witty!
The online promotion ad features sexist, racist and every other ist, caricatures of noble Aussie hero cricketers Brett Lee and Andrew Symons actually weeping tears into a cup accompanied by the headline, ‘Play The Weepy Aussies Game’ followed by strange India-speak with the words Australia Mein and Australia Mangta Hai, whatever the bloody hell that might mean, but it’s a dead cert to be a sub continental insult.
“The Indian team is gonna leave the Aussies teary-eyed. Have some fun in the meantime: Use the cup to catch the Aussie tears as they fall. You have 30 secs.
Good luck &
turn on the speaker.”
It’s enough to make a decent Aussie pop a pappadum.
DISCLAIMER: Actually Aussie-based MediaBlab applauds ESPN STAR’S promotion and the broadcaster has certainly entered into the spirit of the game.
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