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by mpress | November 16, 2007 at 07:56 am
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What is there really to say? The Brits are losing it? A skinhead is fun? Let me book the next flight to London I can't wait to hang out with some skinheads...
An advert depicting a tattooed skinhead urinating into a china teacup is being used to promote tourism to London.The image is part of a new Eurostar campaign aimed solely at the Belgian market.
Posters have gone up on billboards in Antwerp, Brussels, Liege and Ghent to promote the new high-speed train connection to the English capital.
The company says the advert is great for British tourism.
“It’s fun, it’s supposed to show how cosmopolitan London is. Yes, I really think it says London is cosmopolitan,” insisted a spokeswoman for Eurostar.
Lesley Retallack added: “You could walk down Camden market and you can see someone like that.
“It just captures your imagination, stops you, makes you think. People get it.”
Source: SKY
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at 08:13 on November 16th, 2007
OK so I'm not Belgian, but I have no idea how this advert is supposed to make me want to visit the UK.
at 14:02 on November 17th, 2007
mpress, Looks more like an Anti-British advert for the Skinheads of the 60/70s, a passing youth fad, like mods and rockers.
But an advert for Camden market yes, where you will see a collection of out of the ordinary folk looking for outlandish fashion items from the past to the future.
It won’t do much for British tourism or the company that designed the advert, but it will show our 60s past and get publicized in every newspaper.
at 06:54 on March 10th, 2009
liam a passing fad really? didnt hear about the skinhead rusurgence of the late 70s early 80s or how about it was international in the nineties with skinhead in almost every country? a passing trend my hairy ass. oh and by the way skinheads are fun. and im not talking about neo nazi racists