Old-fashioned Advertisements

[Forest Cat]

I used to drive past this sign on my way to the ski fields. Yass is the name of a town.

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No way, that's too good. And ski fields? As a skier I'm intrigued, you guys have fields of skis? Cross-country or downhill?

 

[Luca]

I used to drive past this sign on my way to the ski fields. Yass is the name of a town.

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These Australian signs are making me laugh really hard. I've always thought Aussies have a great sense of humor lol

 

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Cross-country or downhill?

Both of course. Our alpine region straddles the border between Victoria and New South Wales. We've even got a big mountain called Kosciuszko.

Our ski season is usually quite short, from late July to early September.

 

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[Luca]

Here's one that I found lol

 

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Here's one that I found lol

There's a lot of Australian ads that I can't post in here, we have a different attitude to language than most other countries.

 

[Luca]

There's a lot of Australian ads that I can't post in here, we have a different attitude to language than most other countries.

That's one of the reasons I love Australians lol

 

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[Luca]

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I don't know whether it's adorable or creepy!

 

[Forest Cat]

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I pick the cat. The other one looks like a big eater and I don't want to clean up after him.

So a ski field in Australia is a place where people go skiing, I thought it was something else. Haven't heard "ski fields" before.

 

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So a ski field in Australia is a place where people go skiing, I thought it was something else. Haven't heard "ski fields" before.

Probably because you get snow in your whole country, we only get it in a few small regions. This is Mt Buller in winter:

 

[Forest Cat]

Probably because you get snow in your whole country, we only get it in a few small regions. This is Mt Buller in winter:

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Wow, that looks really nice. I'm guessing it's full of huge snow spiders and snow crocodiles but it looks really nice.

 

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Wow, that looks really nice. I'm guessing it's full of huge snow spiders and snow crocodiles but it looks really nice.

Our trees don't drop their leaves either, so it looks kind of freaky to most foreigners.

 

[Forest Cat]

This is an old ad for a health spa in Latvia. But if you don't know that, it makes you wonder what happened to that poor woman.

 

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[Princess Viola]

Feel like 'woman with gun' is something missing from modern car advertising.

 

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[AGXStarseed]

There's a TV advert I remember from when I was younger, with it been an advert for an alcoholic drink and was made using claymation if I remember rightly; it been shown as part of a "funniest adverts from around the world"-style show.

The advert showed a trio of Meerkats (or Mongooses, I can't remember it fully) walking through the desert before finding the alcohol in question (some of it in a barrel) and drinking a lot. Later, the three are sleeping but one has hiccups - with the other two immediately springing up and looking around as soon as he does it.
When they realize it's the third one hiccuping however, they go back to sleep - albeit with their friend upside down in the barrel.

Don't know if anyone else remembers it, but I remember watching it with my Dad and both of us found it particularly funny.