South Africa Bans Santa Letter Ad
<div class="IPBDescription">Way to traumatise a nation's children...</div> I did a search, but I came up with nothing, so don't flame if this has been posted before.
I found this on <a href='http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/3307695.stm' target='_blank'>bbc.co.uk</a> (well actually I found it on somethingawful.com and then checked bbc to see if it was really true....).
The basic gist of it for those too lazy to click the link is that the South African government has banned an advert encouraging children to send their letters to santa to an address provided by the post office. Apparently it might "break the fragile spirits of the already disillusioned youth of South Africa" if they didn't recieve what they want.
I know many of you... ahem.. "dislike" <a href='http://www.somethingawful.com/' target='_blank'>somethingawful.com</a>, but I really couldn't put my opinions much better than this guy does (you might have to scroll down to find it).
If the mods feel that this belongs in the discussion forums then by all means, move it.
I found this on <a href='http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/3307695.stm' target='_blank'>bbc.co.uk</a> (well actually I found it on somethingawful.com and then checked bbc to see if it was really true....).
The basic gist of it for those too lazy to click the link is that the South African government has banned an advert encouraging children to send their letters to santa to an address provided by the post office. Apparently it might "break the fragile spirits of the already disillusioned youth of South Africa" if they didn't recieve what they want.
I know many of you... ahem.. "dislike" <a href='http://www.somethingawful.com/' target='_blank'>somethingawful.com</a>, but I really couldn't put my opinions much better than this guy does (you might have to scroll down to find it).
If the mods feel that this belongs in the discussion forums then by all means, move it.
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but intersting nonetheless
do you think children really would be tramutized?
I written letters to santa and stayed up to try and catch him, and I turned out okay <!--emo&::siege::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/siege.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='siege.gif'><!--endemo-->
but intersting nonetheless
do you think children really would be tramutized?
I written letters to santa and stayed up to try and catch him, and I turned out okay <!--emo&::siege::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/siege.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='siege.gif'><!--endemo--> <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
What I really meant was that the South African government is claiming that the children will be "traumatised" if they don't receive exactly what they ask for, but don't stop to consider that banning this ad is as good as saying "Sorry, there is no Santa, but now you won't be traumatised."
Johanesburg is also the carjacking capital of the world
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Really? I thought it was somewhere in Brazil.
sad people...
Sigh... I guess this is more of the same old "government officials being stupid"
South Africa was the site of the first heart transplant in the world.
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white. We aren't talking about god here. There isn't any controversy on that subject.
But honestly I think that it is incredibly stupid to not let children mail letters to Santa <!--emo&???--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/confused.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='confused.gif'><!--endemo--> . Its about getting into the spirit of Christmas. Parents normally look at the letters that there children are going to mail to santa so many of the presents on those lists could easily be bought. I meen even if the kids asked for an incredibly hightech robot (like i did for the first 8 years of my life) the parents could buy them little robots that could throw balls and such (like my parents did) to try and get the children what they wanted. By not allowing children to mail there letters all they are doing is wrecking the incredible power of a childs belief.
I agree. Christmas is meant to be a Christian celebration but everyone seems to be forgetting about that, they just want the presents and a reason to party (I really hate working during these party nights, too much to do).
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Dislike SA?
No, I love SomethingAwful and about 90% of their articles.
This question severely discriminates against the other races of the world.
BAN teh question!!!
Banning talking to the commercialised face of Christmas (Santa) is just silly.
eh ?