Daily Archives: 4/27/2007
Ontario Opposition ‘flicking mad’
| 4/27/2007 | Posted by Patti under Canadian News |
The Ontario government’s decision to run an environmental awareness ad aimed at young people playing on their all to often use of the phrase “f*ck off” or “go f*ck yourself” has angered the opposition parties. Personally, I think if that is the worse they can come up with, it’s going to be a really boring election this fall.
The ads replace the offending word with ‘FLICK’ in reference to encouraging young people to turn energy burning lights off…. a lament I’ve heard kids told since I was one of them. If this campaign can get through to kids and they have some fun with it, then the opposition parties need to take the broom handle out of their derriers.
While the opposition parties are railing against the language, the fact is that kids are smart enough to know it is a play on words and not necessarily the government condoning the use of the original language. A lot of kids will appreciate the ad meeting them on their level rather than a ‘preaching’ level.
Who knows, maybe it could become popular enough to replace the cruder language with this… yeah right, dream on Patti.
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