If someone says, I'm going to...!" and puts their hand out saying, "You pick up the tab", of course I object.
Be it the Queen or whoever, to me they are just a person like you or me, and I don't think they deserve anything more than you or I get.
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If someone says, I'm going to...!" and puts their hand out saying, "You pick up the tab", of course I object.
Be it the Queen or whoever, to me they are just a person like you or me, and I don't think they deserve anything more than you or I get.
Excellent point Waldo, yes I went to the Pompei exhibition because I SAW IT ADVERTISED, I was also extremely disappointed. Not going to the 'Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs', going here instead, to see the real thing :D, also because I saw it advertised.Quote:
Originally Posted by Waldo
Tongue in cheek, Grumpy ;)Quote:
I wasn't comparing people/art
However, if Nelson Mandela did come here, he would deserve to be treated as a head of state, since he actually was one.
My objection though, and it is a minor one, is based purely on the principal of this type of spending, not on the amount or the personality.
I was too, that paying public were treated like cattle and were raced through the exhibition. An exhibition I saw many years ago in Brisbane about Dali - I spent 2 hours looking at one painting. :shrug:Quote:
Originally Posted by Grumpy John
I was going to say that, yes without advertising you would not have known the exhibition was on, and that hopefully we don't rely on advertising to make people aware Australia exists... but then I remembered we are talking about Oprah Winfrey's audience, so yes I take your point :DQuote:
Excellent point Waldo, yes I went to the Pompei exhibition because I SAW IT ADVERTISED
But i have photo shopped a tool belt and Domino onto her so i figure its ok:)Quote:
Originally Posted by Grumpy John
Apparently these are big sellers in Europe :D, my son brought one back for me.Quote:
Originally Posted by silentC
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So far everything seems to have been positive with Oprah's visit. She has a good impression and her guests seem to be enjoying themselves.
Whatever your personal thoughts about the lady this is probably going to be better for the tourism industry than anything that has happened in the country so far - save perhaps the Olympics.
I wonder if Eddy will get a photo of her in a filthy Magpie jumper:?
Age Green guide had an article on her.
Cheers,
Jim
I'm so glad you mentioned the olympics. As a matter of fact, the Auditor General found in 2003 that the net cost to the public purse of the games was somewhere between $1.7 and 2.4 billion. That's after extra income tax revenue etc was taken into account. Far from making us money, it cost us billions. We're left with infrastructure that nobody uses and that costs millions to maintain, and the tourist bubble that was supposed to follow never happened. In fact growth of tourism into NSW was less than for the country as a whole in the years that followed. So as a financial growth strategy, it was a marked failure. That's not to say we shouldn't have done it, but let's not muddy the waters by claiming it boosted the economy, because it clearly did not.Quote:
Whatever your personal thoughts about the lady this is probably going to be better for the tourism industry than anything that has happened in the country so far - save perhaps the Olympics.
Oprah Watch - She is now at Healesville Sanctuary. I suppose as I type this, some lucky Koala will be getting a nice ol feel :wink::)
And I couldn’t believe when I heard that women with sleeping bags and thermoses are already camping at Fed Square in Melbourne.
Am I seeing the dangling of the prawn in the pond - just to see who will rise to it? :oQuote:
Originally Posted by Lignum
It's all just a ploy to spam his new web site.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bob38S
I feel so used :D