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June 15, 2004

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Just like the TV advertisements and posters, Hong Kong's paternalistic Government insists on warning the citizenry against all sorts of evil in the most random of places. I was perusing my water bill in search of the due date when I came across the following:

Good Parenting Good Children
Stop Dometic Violence by Seeking Early Assistance
Care For our Elders and Protect them Against Abuse
Don't be Scared to Report Sexual Violence Incidents
Treasure Your Life and Never Give Up
All worthy sentiments. I am just not sure that the water bill is the best place for them. It's a bit hard to "treasure your life" when you're faced with a bill. But I am thankful: JC and PB will be reminded to care for their elders and stop abusing them. And I would dearly like to see some research into how many suicides have been prevented by the catchy "treasure your life and never give up" slogan.

If the HK Government started treating its population as semi-intelligent adults rather than 5 year old kids these ads might be more effective.

 posted by Simon on 06.15.04 at 10:27 AM in the




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Comments:

heh. those slogans sound really familiar. and similar in context too. how about this one, literally translated: "speak mandarin if your chinese". originally in chinese: hua ren hua yu.

and they had it translated a tad differently into english. racist twats.

 posted by: the evil letter b on 06.15.04 at 12:07 PM [permalink]




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