Yanks are just too bloody sensitive.

**Cujo** · 07-01-2010, 04:34 PM

I've always thought Americans were a bit sensitive when it comes to PC stuff (racism etc).
They also seem to assume that what applies in the U.S. applies everywhere.
The stereotype of AA's eating fried Chicken doesn't apply here you idiots, there are no AAs or WAs in this ad and it's not meant for you.

KFC has been slammed over an Aussie cricket-themed ad, which many have perceived as racist.

LOS ANGELES - Kentucky Fried Chicken's head office in the US has apologised for "any misinterpretation" caused by a controversial Australian cricket ad as furious debate raged in the American media about whether it was racist.
The commercial, featuring a white Australian cricket fan offering fried chicken to West Indies supporters, has been pulled from the air in Australia.
"KFC Australia is removing the television advertisement that was being run in conjunction with the Australian cricket season," the chicken fast food giant announced in a statement.
"We apologise for any misinterpretation of the ad as it was not meant to offend anyone."
The Australian TV commercial was picked up by the US media, including the New York Daily News and Baltimore Sun, and drew heated debate, with some Americans accusing Australians of being racist because it perpetuates a stereotype that African Americans eat a lot of fried chicken.
The ad is one in a series where a cricket lover quietens people around him by giving them KFC to eat so he can enjoy the game.

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The New York Daily News staged a poll on its website asking if the ad was offensive.
The vote was almost split, with 51 per choosing "No, it's just lighthearted and fun" while 42 per cent selected "Yes, it plays on stereotypes".
Six per cent voted "I'm not sure".
Readers inundated the newspaper websites with emotional posts.
"This was blatantly racist," one reader commented on the NY Daily News website.
Another wrote: "Yeah, coming from the same people who almost singlehandedly wiped out the whole race of aborogines (sic). You people are the worst. I've had friends who visited Australia and they told me how it is over there".
Australians, upset at the American response, bombarded US news websites and blogs to defend the ad and attempt to explain Australian humour.
"Oh dear," an Australian wrote on the Baltimore Sun site.
"Another shining example of how some Americans can be absolutely clueless about anything further away than the tip of their own nose."
The furore began in the US after the ad was , attracting thousands of comments and sparking members of the public to post their own video responses.

KFC pulls controversial cricket ad - World - NZ Herald News

**Wayne Kerr** · 07-01-2010, 04:39 PM

F'n jesus h christ ... and f'k me with rag man's bugle ... black fellas eat a lot of chicken ???

quo vadimus

**The Fresh Prince** · 07-01-2010, 04:41 PM

Originally Posted by Dug

The vote was almost split, with 51 per choosing "No, it's just lighthearted and fun" while 42 per cent selected "Yes, it plays on stereotypes". Six per cent voted "I'm not sure"

Why do people bother voting if they're not sure? and where's the other 1%?

Was that a cut version of the ad coz there weren't any black people in it.

**dirtydog** · 07-01-2010, 04:52 PM

Whats wrong if African Americans eat a lot of chicken? Thais eat a lot of rice, Brits eat a lot of potatoes, Irish people live on potatoes and mud.

**dirtydog** · 07-01-2010, 04:54 PM

Originally Posted by Dug

while 42 per cent selected "Yes, it plays on stereotypes".

So it can now be stated as fact that 42 percent of Americans are moronic imbeciles who shouldn't be allowed out of their home state let alone be given a passport, glad we sorted that one out.

**Norton** · 07-01-2010, 04:54 PM

Originally Posted by Dug

featuring a white Australian cricket fan offering fried chicken to West Indies supporters

I didn't see a fan offering anyone chicken. Even had I, I would say fuck off to anyone objecting to it.

**dirtydog** · 07-01-2010, 04:57 PM

And no mentioning of the Japanese and whale meat in the same sentence please, nor Chinese and endangered animal penises, wouldn't want to be considered as racial sterotyping.

**slackula** · 07-01-2010, 04:58 PM

Originally Posted by dirtydog

Irish people live on potatoes and in mud huts.

ftfy.

**Norton** · 07-01-2010, 04:59 PM

Yum, Kentucky Fried Whale Penis.

**baldrick** · 07-01-2010, 05:15 PM

its pretty easy to understand.

if it is not the retards from department of homeland security doing the racial profiling then it is bad.

**aging one** · 07-01-2010, 05:16 PM

Originally Posted by dirtydog

So it can now be stated as fact that 42 percent of Americans are moronic imbeciles who shouldn't be allowed out of their home state let alone be given a passport, glad we sorted that one out.

That figure seems low to me. Plus as I recall less than 15% of Americans have a passport. We are really not that much more stupid than anybody else. We just tend to talk too much and get caught out. Funny I am an American but have only lived there about 20 of my 57 years.

watterinja · 07-01-2010, 05:37 PM

Originally Posted by aging one

We are really not that much more stupid than anybody else.

**nidhogg** · 07-01-2010, 06:16 PM

Originally Posted by Dug

The commercial, featuring a white Australian cricket fan offering fried chicken to West Indies supporters, has been pulled from the air in Australia.

The Australian TV commercial was picked up by the US media, including the New York Daily News and Baltimore Sun, and drew heated debate, with some Americans accusing Australians of being racist because it perpetuates a stereotype that African Americans eat a lot of fried chicken.

The overt racism here is the PC morons who seem to think that any "black fellah" must be of negro descent, or, more annoyingly that the rest of us can't tell the difference between a West Indian and an african american.

Dumbasses.

**dirtydog** · 07-01-2010, 06:16 PM

^^^The UK learnt a long time ago that you can't win a war against the people, ie the IRA, the USA still hasn't learnt that little fact and is now a country living in terror waiting for the next attrocity to happen, Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan just to name a few that Americans could have learnt their lesson from, sadly they didn't.

**Norton** · 07-01-2010, 06:26 PM

Originally Posted by dirtydog

Iraq, Afghanistan

Guess the Brits forgot about the lesson learned with the IRA.

**hillbilly** · 07-01-2010, 06:42 PM

True us Yanks may be sensitive.

What is also ironic is that the Brits that I have worked with and known for over the last 10 years here in Thailand have had one main underlying claim. To many damn foreign people living in the UK...

p.s. I was the only Yank working with the hiso Brits here in BKK at this place of business...

**slackula** · 07-01-2010, 07:00 PM

Originally Posted by Norton

Guess the Brits forgot about the lesson learned with the IRA.

What lesson was that?

**Norton** · 07-01-2010, 07:05 PM

Originally Posted by dirtydog

UK learnt a long time ago that you can't win a war against the people, ie the IRA

Originally Posted by slackula

What lesson was that?

Dat one^^

**noelbino** · 07-01-2010, 07:13 PM

Originally Posted by dirtydog

Originally Posted by Dug

while 42 per cent selected "Yes, it plays on stereotypes".

So it can now be stated as fact that 42 percent of Americans are moronic imbeciles who shouldn't be allowed out of their home state let alone be given a passport, glad we sorted that one out.

U.S. Americans should be brain transplanted or de-tounged at birth.

**blackgang** · 07-01-2010, 07:22 PM

Originally Posted by Dug

and drew heated debate, with some Americans accusing Australians of being racist because it perpetuates a stereotype that African Americans eat a lot of fried chicken.

Darkies do love fried chicken, But not KFC, They prefers PopEye, but they is mo partial to Watermelon tho.

**Humbert** · 07-01-2010, 08:01 PM

Originally Posted by aging one

Plus as I recall less than 15% of Americans have a passport

The state department estimates that 27% of American citizens hold passports.

**crazy dog** · 08-01-2010, 11:04 AM

In my local Thai pub a black American came in, dressed in his hip hop gear, and started to complain about the 'racist' black doll on the bar, one of those folk figures you see everywhere and nothing to do with real people. Owner just told him to fuck off, and he did still yelling about how offended he felt. That's one good thing about living here, in the UK or I assume the US, idiots looking for something to be offended by can take innocent business people to court-here they just get the right response.

**jizzybloke** · 08-01-2010, 11:13 AM

Its on here right near the beginning,

Racist, bollocks!

**rawlins** · 08-01-2010, 11:21 AM

I've got Gollywogs on my wall. Should I get rid of them?

**crazy dog** · 08-01-2010, 11:23 AM

Originally Posted by rawlins

I've got Gollywogs on my wall. Should I get rid of them?

well, they got rid of them on the jam jars.

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