The message is clear - Don't get busted eating anything but Lamb this Australia Day.

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― Reviewer: Sir Potomus (Washington, DC) - See all my reviews (ex machina), Monday, 24 January 2005 16:09 (twenty-one years ago)

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― Reviewer: Sir Potomus (Washington, DC) - See all my reviews (ex machina), Monday, 24 January 2005 16:09 (twenty-one years ago)

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― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 24 January 2005 16:10 (twenty-one years ago)

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― Reviewer: Sir Potomus (Washington, DC) - See all my reviews (ex machina), Monday, 24 January 2005 16:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Of course, this is an ad campaign using an ex-footy player "comedian" and is meant to be kinda funny. Theyve done "we love our lamb" ads for years.

Apparently some vegetarian groups are complaining about the ads, haha.

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 00:50 (twenty-one years ago)

so I guess you'd better buy your lamb early, lest you go to the grocery and they be sold out?

― MY FAVOURITE LIGHTER IS CHEESEBURGER (trigonalmayhem), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 00:54 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't eat lamb.

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 00:55 (twenty-one years ago)

i have to admit, i cracked up when i saw that ad the other night

― gem (trisk), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 00:55 (twenty-one years ago)

I liked the one with the goth girlfriend brought home for tea, better.

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 00:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Lamb is ick.

I've been unaustralian for years.

― papa november (papa november), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 00:57 (twenty-one years ago)

i only ever eat lamb when i'm visiting my olds and mum does a lamb roast. chops are revolting.

i don't think i ever saw a goth girlfriend one.

― gem (trisk), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 00:58 (twenty-one years ago)

I saw the advert last night.

Fuckin' brilliant. He should be PM.

― Sasha (sgh), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 01:02 (twenty-one years ago)

i made the best lam roast the other day, all marinated in garlic, rosemary and lemon juice, with roast veggies in garlic... nummynum. Im going to make shepards pie with the leftovers.

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 01:03 (twenty-one years ago)

i loved the bit in the ad where he talks about longhaired potsmoking hippies or whatever. it's abundantly clear it's satirical, i'm not sure what there is to be offended about for vegetarians.

― gem (trisk), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 01:05 (twenty-one years ago)

I should move to Australia.

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 01:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Someone wrote to the Age complaining that to say eating meat on Aus day was unaustralian was offensive, or something.

I thought the point was eat lamb, not meat - and it is so obviously having fun!

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 01:13 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah i read someone put in a complaint to the advertising board as well. they rejected it saying it was clearly poking fun. that guy's deadpan delivery is bloody funny i reckon. i wish people weren't so uptight sometimes.

― gem (trisk), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 01:14 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2005/01/18/1105810912426.html?oneclick=true

here tis

― gem (trisk), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 01:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Hahaha I had never seen the ad! Reading that, I'm grinning. God its like complaining about CNNNN or something.

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 01:20 (twenty-one years ago)

does souvlaki count?

― the surface noise (slight return) (electricsound), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 01:28 (twenty-one years ago)

You guys seem to be forgetting something: 9/11.

― mayahee, mayahoo, mayaha, mayahaha (deangulberry), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 01:31 (twenty-one years ago)

souvlaki only counts if it is consumed after 2am and you get garlic sauce all down the front of you. otherwise it's unaustralian too.

― gem (trisk), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 01:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Get one new joke, dean.

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 01:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Mmm now I want a souv from the takeaway across from Windsor station. But its like, 35 degrees out, fucked if I'm going out til well after 2 or 3.

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 01:35 (twenty-one years ago)

late lunch

― the surface noise (slight return) (electricsound), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 01:40 (twenty-one years ago)

I have a total love/hate relationship with this ad. On the one hand, I'm accused of making these kind of rants from time to time. On the other, I'm sick of people giving me shit for being a vegetarian.

― Michael Stuchbery (Mikey Bidness), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 03:10 (twenty-one years ago)

but don't you think it's actually poking fun at people who give others shit for being vego? not at vegos themselves?

― gem (trisk), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 03:11 (twenty-one years ago)

I remember the days when all we had to worry about was Lamb. That was pre-9/11, of course.

― mayahee, mayahoo, mayaha, mayahaha (deangulberry), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 03:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Woah, hey, you're right. I love this ad.

― Michael Stuchbery (Mikey Bidness), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 03:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Thing is, Lamb is shit. Its big selling point in the 80s was that it was cheaper than beef. Those lamb ads (a dinner with Tom Cruise! Aw, no, I can't. Mum's cooking a lamb roast!) were strokes of genius.

Now, lamb costs a bloody bomb, so what's the point?

― edward o (edwardo), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 04:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Lamb's nicer than beef.

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 04:25 (twenty-one years ago)

And these ads are clearly not to be taken seriously, and I won't be eating lamb tomorrow because it's too fucking hot.

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 04:25 (twenty-one years ago)

It is ridiculously expensive yeah. $15 a kg? Sod that for a joke. I was shoppin with my mum in Canberra and she picked up a lamb leg that was $10 a kg and said "ooh no thats way to expensive" !!?? I dont know where she shops for her meat but I wish it was $10 here.

Lamb chops are boring, and cutlets have no meat on them, but I does love me roast.

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 05:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah but Trayce, beef is about that price too. Priced a rump steak recently?

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 05:34 (twenty-one years ago)

You guys are lucky anyway. All lamb up here tastes like mutton cause theres no decent pasture for the sheepies to feed on. Lamb in Victoria is worlds apart from what passes for lamb in QLD.

― papa november (papa november), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 05:37 (twenty-one years ago)

We had beef in Vanuatu, where they're fed on incredibly lush grass. Fuck it was nice. And they have fish that tastes like chicken.

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 05:38 (twenty-one years ago)

If you shop carefully a lot of beef is $10 or less a kg - only the fancy fillet and porterhouse is $15-$20... I tend to buy roasts or chuck steak on special and make stews anyway.

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 05:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Ah okay

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 05:41 (twenty-one years ago)

When I wasn't a vegetarian I much preferred eating lamb cutlets to any steak. Just thinking about it now makes me hungry, actually.

― Andrew (enneff), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 05:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Until a few weeks ago, I'd never had a pork chop in my life. I've since decided pork chops are the best thing ever.

― papa november (papa november), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 05:57 (twenty-one years ago)

And these ads are clearly not to be taken seriously, and I won't be eating lamb tomorrow because it's too fucking hot.

-- Autumn Almanac (ada...), January 25th, 2005.

You know where the airport is, and if you don't, I'll show you.

― Sasha (sgh), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 06:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Curiously, I'm on my way there right now, but for other reasons.

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 06:30 (twenty-one years ago)

haha i can see that airport phrase being adopted into the aussie vernacular

― gem (trisk), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 06:52 (twenty-one years ago)

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