Watching Oprah Winfrey announce to her 300-strong audience that she is taking them all on a trip to Australia is terrifying, hilarious and a strong lesson in building suspense. Beware, there is a lot of screaming.
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Sorry, I won’t be at home then. Whatever the day might be. I’ll have to be out. I’m hoping for some Australian minor celebrity to take me to America. It looks temporarily safe.
Me too. I’m outa here…
Damn. knew that bunker would come in handy one of these days. Better get vaccinated against American Hysteria just in case…
Damn. Knew that bunker would come in handy one of these days. Better get me and the kids vaccinated against American Hysteria just in case.
I am afraid, very afraid, where is Tone ‘boats boats boats’ when you need him.
There should be a viewer warning on this clip. I haven’t watched it but there’s no need having once, inadvertently, been privy to seeing an Oprah audience in mass jubilation. It’s a debilitating and gut-wrenching experience, something to which no civilised Aussie should ever be subjected. Add dehumanising to that description.
Sydney in December will be THE place not to be seen. I’m now visualising tumble weeds blowing down Martin Place.
Damn- all those dumb-arse yanks who think we are next door to Germany. Latest crap is that the government will be footing at least some of the bill, which also sucks quite big time. Did you see the members of the audience in the tape above. Wonder what their total IQ is, what their total income is, and how much of it they will spend here, whilst driving those involved in hosting them insane with their stupid phuquing questions like in the middle of Pitt St, “hey man, have you seen any kangaroos”?
Morons.
Daemon,
I WANT them to think we’re adjacent to Germany but this may let the cat out of the geographical bag.
Will we be whinging and mocking if it does in fact create a tourism boom?
Dearest Jeremy, if we are in the sector which profits financially from the wonderful influx of these “tourists”, then yes we will enjoy it and we will not be whingeing and mocking. If however, we are not part of that “demographic”, then we will be staying out of the way as far as possible, and if we happen to meet a group of 15 of them in the street, we will learn to say “no spikka de english, solly”, and move on, on our appointed rounds.
In many respects Jeremy, it is like unto the current problem in Queensland, where retailers are gnashing their teeth and slashing their wrists, because after all the years they spent trying to get the go-ahead to open on Sundays and public holidays, and getting that allowance, now they are going to have to pay their staff… Oh my god, Mercy me, the poor retailers, and the poor darlings in the hospitality industry who will be hoping against hope to get some of the 300 Oprah fans into their establishment.
One can only hope, Jeremy, that you live up to your name and are able to advise us in advance of just how this lot is going to go down.
Yours, in the cards-as ever
Nostradamus
Jeremy, you have made an important point - because it is not just these 300 women we must think about but the thousands, nay millions, who may follow on their recommendation. Indifference or hiding, as some above have suggested, are not enough - we need to be actively rude to them - throw eggs at them on the steps of the Opera House and ensure their trip is as disappointing as possible - only then will Australia’s shores be safe once again.
Qantas has a lot to answer for….
Horribly, I noted there was a chap in the audience. I’m sure this bodes ill.
There was a report this afternoon that they will be going to Cairms, so perhaps a few of them will become food for reptiles. One lives in hope.
I wonder how many will need to get their first passports? It would certainly broaden this group’s horizons.
I also wonder just how much leavening that would provide when they return home?
Perhaps we need to accept them gratefully not just for the possibility of the money they could bring us, but the wider viewpoint they would return home with (hopefully).
Look, man, a new cargo cult !
Why is everyone (except Alethea) being so horrible? All I saw was people being really really happy. It’s this kind of cold-hearted cynicism that makes the world so scary. These people may be from America, but they’re individuals. You don’t know their stories. And while I’m very far from being in the ‘tourism’ industry, the tour operators aren’t all going to sit on their dollars, so if this does provide a boost, then the benefit will be widely felt.