A couple of weeks ago I was confronted by an unusually puerile full-page advertisement in the local paper. I say “unusually” because it goes without saying that a lot of advertising, on TV especially, could most charitably be described as less than cerebral. But this took infantilism in advertising to a new low.
The text was written as if intended for pre-schoolers. But rather than try to convey the tone of this nonsensical doggerel with a mere excerpt, I’ll reproduce it in its entirety:
IMAGINE AOTEAROA WITHOUT GOOD WATER
What a stink as place that would be.
Trout would be grumpy.
Boating no fun.
And dirty ducks a sad sight to see.
Mean as manus wouldn’t be mean.
Showers a complete waste of time.
Bathrooms would be just rooms.
Togs just undies.
And our awa, all filthy with slime.
That’s why we’ve got a plan,
‘cos we’re water’s biggest fan.
So let’s make it better than fine.
The accompanying illustrations, crudely drawn comic-style, showed a pipe belching noxious-looking waste into a river, a duck swimming through sludge and a horrified child bather coated in muck, all eye-catchingly presented in full colour.
It finished with the inspirational slogan “Better Water is Better for Everyone”, complete with a Maori translation for the benefit of the many readers who don’t understand English.
You may have figured out by now that it was a government ad promoting the Three Waters project, and I now note that TV viewers are being bombarded with an animated version.
The commercial can be viewed here (the government has prevented it from being embedded).
SeaShell said:
KEEP AN EYE ON WORDPRESS. WORDPRESS MAY BE CENSORING READERS. I AM NOT A BLOGGER, I AM A READER. FOR DAYS I HAVE HAD MY ACCOUNT DEACTIVATED, AND HAVE HAD TO KEEP CHANGING PASSWORDS. KEEP AN EYE OUT FOR OTHER FELLOW BLOGGERS AND READERS. WE ARE ALL FACING DEATH, AND WE DO NOT NEED TO DELIEVER SUGAR COATED MESSAGES.
I GUESS THEY DO NOT LIKE ALEX JONES THE WAY I DO, BUT WE DO NEED TO GIVE OUR EARS TO THOSE DESPENSING WITH THE TRUTH, AND NOT TO THOSE TRYING TO KILL US.
JUST TO GIVE YOU A HEADS UP.
Waikanae watchers said:
Thanks. There is certainly a co-ordinated major campaign being orchestrated by and on behalf of Big Pharma in regard to the Experimental Medical Treatments they are pushing onto populations with big censorship, the likes of which we’ve not seen before. Issues that are fairly specific to NZ under the Jacinda government (like failed government housing, eco-poisoning with 1080, racial separatism) are less likely to be pushed by Big Tech and Big Pharma in America.
Roger Dewhurst said:
There were 57,753 live births recorded in NZ in 2020.
Thus there were 43,315 foetuses alive at any point in time.
The New England Journal of Medicine, a respected journal, published a report of a study in which 82% of pregnant women aborted after receiving a Covid 19 vaccination jab.
If that percentage applies here that would mean 35,518 aborted foetuses.
35,518 deaths pushes the Christchurch massacre into irrelevancy.
Hipkins proposes to vaccinate the entire population within one year.
Does that make him this country’s foremost abortonist?
If the New England percentage applies here and we have tens of thousands of abortions as a consequence should we commend Hipkins, Ardern and Bromfield for solving our housing problem or put them in prison for the rest of their lives? I suggest that the latter would be the preferred choice of society at large.