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尊敬的各位廣管局的大人均鑒：
picture credit: helmut newton上圖乃一代大師聖羅蘭傑作，刊於1975年《時尚》雜誌。
希望你們能夠明白，手裡拿支煙，對於那個年代時髦的人來説，是裝束的一部分。
所以你們用電腦軟件硬生生地把電影海報的那支煙變成了一支筆是讓人不可接受，並且極爲反智，扭曲歷史事實的。人民不是愚鈍的，我們有菇九這樣的好朋友，會告訴我們事情的真相——那個被你們變走的就是一支香煙！法國原裝海報上就是這麽拍的。
身為經濟合作與發展組織的成員國之一，你們在此問題上反應過度。此舉有倒退嫌疑。
其實你們既然這麽喜歡管，不如把《哈·波》一併列爲三級片，不適宜兒童觀看好了。以後每晚12點以前電視也不要播放《阿森一族》了，因爲片中每一個人都很黃！
這個辦法是否行之有效，你們可以召開組織一個大型研討會，然後寫完一份報告書遞交專職委員會。委員會小組長收到報告後不用看，直接扔進垃圾筒就行了。這樣才秉承貴政府的行事風格，真正實現效率最大化，讓納稅人的錢用得其所！
耑此，順頌
時祺
沒有工作仍舊納稅不領政府津貼市民
4 comments:
I am talking off the top of my head now. I think in some way it is about job security and over compensation.
Bureaucrats in the government are scared to death they will be accused of not doing enough, so they tend to over do and over govern while often times the best practice is not doing anything at all. Now the public. Look at how many hours two income families are putting in at work and how much time they are spending with their kids actually raising them themselves. I am not here to fault them for working long hours because it is probably a necessity or a choice people consciously make, just stating that as a matter of fact. So I think some just over compensate whenever they can so as to alleviate their guilt of not teaching or spending enough time with their kids, look at the Cadbury's Portrait (eyebrows jiving) TV spot, people can get so afraid that they go and complain because their kids are going to turn bad because of that commercial.
Regarding the controversy arising from the Photoshopping out of the cigarette. I can understand the threat of a cigarette especially to the young and stupid. But I think they should simply run another poster instead of changing it. I am pretty sure it can be done.
i think you do have a point! and a good one, too!
having talked to my friends who work at various govt depts, they saw a trend of over-doing things since the new govt came in (in sheepland). they're always creating some extra "work" to make themselves look busy. even if it was something as stupid as filling out 5 different forms to get a stack of documents xeroxed...
i really don't understand what's so wrong with the eyebrows jiving ad. maybe some parents are just too busy and important to talk to their children for 5 minutes in a week or a month come to that. i hope they do text to their children if they do get uber busy though, it'll make the distance smaller (fingers crossed).
photoshopping out the ciggie was what BAHK did, the BSA (bullsh*t authority of sheepland) psed a pen to replace the ciggie. i don't know what they want, but it just looked so unnatural & unnecessary. we've long seen the original french version of it and people have been talking about it... i guess this then comes back to the first point that you raised. i'm running in circles again.
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it's the same over here if not worse. and regarding the PS out the cigarette... it's not just a mere case of bad education to the young and stupid, but it's also a violation of the law (yes, there's a law in hk saying, i can't remember the exact wording, that any possibility to promote smoking via the public media is a violation to the law. geez...
i vaguely remember those regulations... yet the tobacco companies are so powerful and profitable.
i also remember when the french govt put up a tobacco tariff, the sales didn't go down but in fact increased by a very significant amount. no matter how high the price you charge, the smokers will consume anyway.
but on banning smoking in pubs and public areas, i'm pro that. i really hate to dine in a restaurant where someone right next to you is fuming up.
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