I'm glad you arrived O.K. terrorist scare aside. Bummer about the movies on the plane but hey what are you going to do. It feels weird writing this when we just finished talking on the skype machine but I just found this article on SMH that I thought might interest you - and seems to be causing such a commotion over in states I bet your asked about it.
So I know you don't watch the cricket and probably didn't see this KFC ad but it has apparently been causing the biggest ruckus in the states and is another cause for Australian's to be seen as racist from the American view point. This is the article.
When I was reading it, before I saw the ad, I was thinking oh crap another 'black face' on hey hey it's Saturday scenario, where we're seen as bad as the idiots who allowed that skit to go to air. I got really upset that your stepping out into the world that thinks where your coming from is racist. When I watched the video I really didn't get the racist comments about it that some people were talking about.
It was about an Australian Cricket fan sitting amongst the opposition (The West Indies) who were being loud and he was feeling a bit inundated - imagine sitting on the QLD side at the State of Origin! So to quieten the opposition's fans he produces a thing of KFC chicken and the VO announces "KFC's crowd pleaser. How sensitive and insecure do you have to be to think that is racist? Or is Australian's banter with sports oppositions at the cricket really that bad?
Now KFC always has cricket ads on during the season - they are always bad, they are always boring, but they are always on. They don't normally directly involve the opposition or their fans but I do remember the ads involving the Barmy Army during the ashes AGES ago but no one thought that was racist? I wonder what it is abot the West Indies being the brunt of a cricket ad that has American's up in a huff? I found out also that the West Indies cricket team are actually SPONSORED by KFC which throws another spanner (justificaiton) into the wheel. It was only America that said we were acting racist - the West Indies didn't seem to be too upset.
Anyway I hope you convince the entire country that we're not racist but maybe they were being a little bit too sensitve and are commenting on an environment and sense of humor they don't really understand!
Here is the video.
Oh and in other news in the first day you were out of this country; a Japenese Whaling boat and one of the Sea Sheperd (I think the one they named after Steve Irwin) have collided and the Australian Government are going gun-hoe to find out what happened. And a manly man has been arrested for taking inappropriate photos of young boys at the Beach!
Speaking of Manly I think I'm going to go and work at Hugo's Manly on the weekends to save some cash before I come over. Evan rang me and said that I can have/do what ever shifts I want which is dope, almost as dope as Evan is.
Hope you get some sleep tonight on that crazy strip of yours. Make me a video of what it's like .
Love you more than eucalyptus n aloe tissues when I have a cold.
Mxxx
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