Danish Mother Seeking

[Liep]

i'd hit liep, that bastard never introduced me to his sister

VisitDenmark, then.

[katmai]

i'd hit liep, that bastard never introduced me to his sister

VisitDenmark, then.

that was never part of the agreement!

[Josquius]

So it was really the Danish tourist board?

Yes, unfortunately.....

....
WTF.
I could understand it as a ad for something (condoms, abstinence, some sort of communications service to help you keep in touch) but the Danish tourist board?
'Visit Denmark. Our women are easy whilst our child support service sucks. You can imprengate them then bugger off back home risk free!'
Damn I'm sure the women of Denmark are happy about this!

[Viking]

....
WTF.
I could understand it as a ad for something (condoms, abstinence, some sort of communications service to help you keep in touch) but the Danish tourist board?
'Visit Denmark. Our women are easy whilst our child support service sucks. You can imprengate them then bugger off back home risk free!'
Damn I'm sure the women of Denmark are happy about this!

Don't tell me this didn't make you consider going on vacation to denmark!

[saskganesh]

wow. this seems ill conceived.  perhaps it will birth a new era of tourism, pregnant with possibilities.

[Josquius]

Don't tell me this didn't make you consider going on vacation to denmark!

I'm thinking of moving there post uni so....that would be awkward.

[Malthus]

Journalist: Why do you chose to sell Denmark as a country where drunk women has unprotective sex with random tourists?

Tourist organization woman: That's not a story I can recognize. We're telling a good and sweet story about a mature, responsible woman who lives in a free society and takes the consequence of her actions. And that she uses a modern and a social media.

And this was done with tax payer money.

WTF? 

Is there an English link?

This just might be the dumbest tourist ad campaign I've ever heard of.

Worse than the proposal in the U.S.? You know, because too few tourists come to the U.S., every visitor should pay 10$? That will be used for tourism advertismenets?
http://www.house.gov/apps/list/press/ma10_delahunt/travelbill09.html

That's not an ad campaign. 

I mean, what's the message of this Danish campaigh? "Our women are easy and don't use birth control"? 

[Caliga]

The 'our women are easy' part is quite compelling a reason to visit Denmark.

The 'you have a kid with a random stranger who thinks all Americans are JR Ewing and therefore wants a buttload of child support' part is not so compelling a reason to visit Denmark. 

The Danes need to do a bit more research about AmeriKKKa.  DO OVER, EPIC FAIL

[Liep]

The Danes need to do a bit more research about AmeriKKKa.  DO OVER, EPIC FAIL

We're quite contempt with our view of America, though I do agree that this is a huge fail.

[Valmy]

We're quite contempt with our view of America

Freudian slip?

[Caliga]

I assume he meant to type 'content'.

[Liep]

Oops.

[jimmy olsen]

The campaign has been ended. 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8258473.stm

Denmark pulls 'promiscuous' video

A video promoting tourism in Denmark has been removed from YouTube after complaints it promoted promiscuity.

The three-minute clip shows a young blonde woman, trying to find a man whom she had a one night stand with, who fathered her child "August".

VisitDenmark's manager, Dorte Kiilerich said the film was supposed to be a "nice and sweet story of a woman".

But Denmark's Economy Minister, Lene Espersen, said it "was not a very well-thought-out picture of the country".

In the advert, the woman says - in English - that she was "trying to find August's father".

"We met one night a year and a half ago when you were on vacation here in Denmark.

"We met... and then decided to have a drink and, yeah, it's really embarrassing but it's more or less what I remember.

"I don't remember where you're from or even your name."

'Tasteless'

Critics says the video implied that along with traditional tourism, Denmark was a place to go to have unprotected sex with strangers.

One Danish newspaper, Ekstra Bladet, labelled it "grotesque" and a "waste of taxpayers' money".

The video also prompted a slew of angry comments, with one user saying it was a "tasteless, tactless way of attracting attention".

Ms Kiilerich said she regretted any offence the video may have caused, but the intent had been to tell "a nice and sweet story about a grown-up woman who lives in a free society and accepts the consequences of her actions".

The YouTube clip received more than 800,000 hits and although the official video has been removed, copies have been spreading across YouTube.

It has also spawned numerous parodies, with men from across the world saying they were "not bimbos" and trying to find the mother of their child.

[Jaron]

Scandanavian culture promotes promiscuity.

[Malthus]

The campaign has been ended. 

Heh, hard to imagine how anyone thought it was a great idea in the first place.  Though it did admittedly get attention.