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		Ad aimed at increasing Alberta tourism uses picture of a British beach. "There's no attempt to make people think that this is Alberta". Wait...what? (canada.com)		106
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Flab

2009-04-23 2:09:24 PM

"I know it's a Kia ad, and we decided to show you a Lamborghini. But there's no attempt at deception. Honest!"

Walker

2009-04-23 2:36:01 PM

Rev.K

2009-04-23 2:36:17 PM

FTA:

"There's no attempt to make people think that this is Alberta," said Tom Olsen, director of media relations for Alberta Premier Ed Stelmach. "There's no attempt to mislead. That picture just fit the mood and tone of what we were trying to do."

Jesus Christ these assholes are f*cking retarded.

CitizenTed

2009-04-23 3:21:16 PM

Marketing Scum: is there any low they won't sink to and then lie about it?

darkyn

2009-04-23 3:27:23 PM

I was expecting this to be another "clip art gone bad" story but to hear that they intentionally chose a photo from England puts it into moran territory.

jake_lex

2009-04-23 3:28:49 PM

I would have just gone with a pic of the beaches in Rio if you're gonna play that game.

Though the thought of women from Alberta in "dental floss" bikinis might have backfired.

/unwarranted cheap shot on Canadian women
//i'm so sorry

GooberMcFly

2009-04-23 3:32:32 PM

Why couldn't they have used pics from one of Alberta's own ocean-front beaches?

Snarfangel

2009-04-23 4:05:05 PM

jake_lex: I would have just gone with a pic of the beaches in Rio if you're gonna play that game.

I was thinking of somewhere a bit farther south.
[image from goworldtravel.com too old to be available]

SoothinglyDeranged

2009-04-23 4:09:18 PM

almost gone almost gone almost gone...

isaaczeke

2009-04-23 4:59:44 PM

They should have just taken some of the girls on 17th avenue in Calgary and put them in bikinis on top of Sulphur mountain. That'd be prettier than any British beach.

beve

2009-04-23 5:24:11 PM

Wait, we have beaches in Britain?

Russ1642

2009-04-23 5:26:48 PM

GooberMcFly: Why couldn't they have used pics from one of Alberta's own ocean-front beaches?

Tourists are never going to look at a globe anyways.

rodeofrog

2009-04-23 5:28:49 PM

I wonder how much money the people made who put this together.

Please post scenic pics of Alberta. I will check back later.

EdNortonsTwin

2009-04-23 5:28:52 PM

The real question is - why are they using an Australian beach?

phlegmmo

2009-04-23 5:30:40 PM

Come to San Francisco and enjoy the night life!

Renart

2009-04-23 5:30:49 PM

Too bad this wasn't Saskatchewan. Then we could have made "sand in your Regina" jokes.

Jument

2009-04-23 5:31:55 PM

"There's no attempt to make people think that this is Alberta," said Tom Olsen, director of media relations for Alberta Premier Ed Stelmach. "There's no attempt to mislead. That picture just fit the mood and tone of what we were trying to do."

Wow. I don't understand how anyone could say these words without bursting out in laughter and saying "*snort* *smirk* I can't do it ok ok ok yeah you got me".

Pants full of macaroni!!

2009-04-23 5:31:57 PM

The kind of advertisers who give advertising a bad name.

/been to Alberta
//the Canadian Rockies are spectacular - pictures don't do them justice

Ethelbert

2009-04-23 5:33:13 PM

EdNortonsTwin: The real question is - why are they using an Australian beach?

? notunderstanding

A Dark Evil Omen

2009-04-23 5:35:01 PM

Ah, Alberta: Canada's Florida and Texas all rolled up into one steaming ball of stupidity and failure.

VvonderJesus

2009-04-23 5:35:24 PM

rodeofrog: I wonder how much money the people made who put this together.

Please post scenic pics of Alberta. I will check back later.

[image from ecoworldly.com too old to be available]

spleef420

2009-04-23 5:35:51 PM

I don't like leaving my own country, Doug. And I especially don't like leaving it for anything less than warm, sandy beaches and drinks with little umbrellas in them.

We've got sandy beaches.

Yeah? Well who the fark wants to see 'em?

Russ1642

2009-04-23 5:38:03 PM

rodeofrog: I wonder how much money the people made who put this together.

Please post scenic pics of Alberta. I will check back later.

emersonbiggins

2009-04-23 5:38:15 PM

link (new window)

little big man

2009-04-23 5:38:19 PM

Not that bad - it's not like they showed the pyramids of Giza. Why the fark didn't they use some shots from Banff? Screw the beaches!

Midnight_Sun

2009-04-23 5:38:19 PM

VvonderJesus:

I chuckled

The_Fuzz

2009-04-23 5:40:16 PM

So we have some of the most beautiful scenery on Earth in the mountains, and they choose to use a picture from the BC coast? Really?

The more these incompetent politicians do, the more it looks like they are actively TRYING to not get re-elected. Unfortunately they are the defacto govt. her, sorta like North Korea. They could dump toxic waste in every Albertan's back yard, and they would STILL get reelected, with a majority.

sunsawed

2009-04-23 5:41:43 PM

I love the beaches in Alberta! Vacation there every year.

Handsome B. Wonderful

2009-04-23 5:42:24 PM

Alberta Premier Ed Stelmach then added, "What's an ocean, is that like a big slough?"

The_Fuzz

2009-04-23 5:44:32 PM

rodeofrog: I wonder how much money the people made who put this together.

Please post scenic pics of Alberta. I will check back later.

Found one!

Uriel

2009-04-23 5:48:03 PM

"Alberta: Too ugly to photograph"

Prunes Please

2009-04-23 5:48:05 PM

I love Alberta for its exotic architecture:
[image from travel.nationalgeographic.com too old to be available]

altinos

2009-04-23 5:49:16 PM

Beautiful ~~Zug Island~~ Alberta!

Juc

2009-04-23 5:50:13 PM

The_Fuzz: So we have some of the most beautiful scenery on Earth in the mountains, and they choose to use a picture from the BC coast? Really?

The more these incompetent politicians do, the more it looks like they are actively TRYING to not get re-elected. Unfortunately they are the defacto govt. her, sorta like North Korea. They could dump toxic waste in every Albertan's back yard, and they would STILL get reelected, with a majority.

England not BC, the little beach shown in the picture is a foreigner.

CanadianCommie

2009-04-23 5:51:21 PM

the Alberta government spent $25 million to show us pictures of a completely different place.

It's sad, really.

At least the Flames are making it interesting in the Flames/Blackhawks series.

the_sidewinder

2009-04-23 5:54:03 PM

CanadianCommie: the Alberta government spent $25 million to show us pictures of a completely different place.

It's sad, really.

At least the Flames are making it interesting in the Flames/Blackhawks series.

Only if they don't screw up like they did in the first two games

The_Fuzz

2009-04-23 5:56:01 PM

Juc: The_Fuzz: So we have some of the most beautiful scenery on Earth in the mountains, and they choose to use a picture from the BC coast? Really?

The more these incompetent politicians do, the more it looks like they are actively TRYING to not get re-elected. Unfortunately they are the defacto govt. her, sorta like North Korea. They could dump toxic waste in every Albertan's back yard, and they would STILL get reelected, with a majority.

England not BC, the little beach shown in the picture is a foreigner.

Ya, I realized that after I hit submit. I've had to much coffee, and as I was reading the headline super speedy like, I saw "british" and assumed the next word was "Columbia". Because at least that is still in Canada and would have made a smidgen more sense.

/Didn't read the article 'till after, either
//see the error of my ways

patcarew

2009-04-23 5:56:05 PM

What an Alberta might look like:

___________________________________________________________._____

CanadianCommie

2009-04-23 5:58:25 PM

the_sidewinder: Only if they don't screw up like they did in the first two games

I did read something about the Blackhawks though, that hasbeen true all year.

Once they get into a 'zone', they're almost impossible to keep off the scoreboard. The Flames haven't been playing badly, it's just that the Blackhawks have been playing better when it mattered (in those first few games anyways).

After 2 uneventful sweeps and 3 other series' threatening to go down quickly it's been fun to see at least one series threatening to get to game 7.

Phil Moskowitz

2009-04-23 6:00:09 PM

CitizenTed: Marketing Scum: is there any low they won't sink to and then lie about it?

No, they're one level below used car salemen for me. Talking to marketers actually makes my skin crawl. The one marketer at 3M I had to interface with on telecom project was named Chip, and he was a farking Chip.

Human waste, all of them.

manwithdaplan

2009-04-23 6:00:38 PM

I dunno, could be Lake Athabasca...which is only good for a beach for 3 weeks in July-August.

We have to do something to fool the tourists. Enough come over the border from the States with snow skis on their roof rack in July to make you wonder what anybody will believe....

whereisian

2009-04-23 6:01:04 PM

Tenkin

2009-04-23 6:01:27 PM

It's brilliant, really.

Step 1: Spend $25 million on ad campaign to attract more tourism.
Step 2: Make sure everyone knows the beach is a foreign beach.
Step 3: Gets millions more worth of free advertisement in the form of "news stories"
Step 4: Profit!

/Either genius or really stupid...
//No "???" step. Fark South Park.

bluehubcap

2009-04-23 6:02:03 PM

What's interesting is that they chose a to use beach scene at all (even an English one). Alberta is kind of land-locked, so unles it was supposed to represent a lake, then the marketing folks for Alberta Tourism are smoking some of BC's finest bud.

Mr_Ectomy

2009-04-23 6:02:13 PM

[image from beentheresawthat.com too old to be available]

a much nicer pic from Alberta

Ashrams

2009-04-23 6:03:08 PM

Next time I have a party I will tell all the guys to bring beer cause there will be a jacuzzi full of single chicks.

Lydyzze

2009-04-23 6:03:46 PM

patcarew: What an Alberta might look like:

___________________________________________________________._____

/hot like Alberta's prairies on a sultry summer day
//lives in Alberta

CanadianCommie

2009-04-23 6:06:26 PM

Mr_Ectomy: a much nicer pic from Alberta

I love going to the mountains.

Lake Louise in particular. The view from in front of the big hotel there looks exactly like the postcard. EXACTLY. Never seen the water so clean, pure and I felt bad even thinking about jumping in (I didn't).

Kierkegaard's Pseudonym

2009-04-23 6:06:47 PM

It's beautiful satire, if you ask me.

The girl is smiling -- almost mockingly -- at the attempt to convince her to visit Alberta.

Psumek

2009-04-23 6:07:07 PM

Marketers not understanding what they are selling? Weird.

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