AFAIK once you don’t insult the poster directly you shuld be good to go.
Americans and christians as a group get a lot of shite thrown at them in GD so I think you can insult the Irish as a group without too much of a problem.
Fuji’s probably just a narky Cork fecker pee’d off with the snow and cold 
I kid, I swear Fuji
So specifically, what did your “straight lines” comment mean?
In this thread you’ve done a lot of hinting and indulging in rhetorical obtuseness rather than direct argument.
So, directly, Fear Itself, what did you actually mean by that comment?
Speaking as an Irish person IMO you’re good to go with the Irish stuff. It’s generally meant without malice. Our two countries have quite close ties due to the amount of Irish decendants in the US (10x the population of my little Island)
These are pics from Dublin BTW
http://www.nhtt.com/getfile/d77deaa7-28ff-4ddf-8e35-57d1bc0e538f/stpaddysm-1-.aspx
It meant there was a gaping hole for merry riposte. It was meant to be ambiguous. Some people cannot abide ambiguity. Pity.
I wan’t saying that I was offended by those stupid St. Patrick’s Day Sale ads - I was just trying to point out the motes in some people’s eyes, is all.
An accurate assessment. It’s not supposed to be this cold for this long in bloody Ireland!
You’re not really big on self-awareness, are you?
Sir, I may have to Pit you for that scurrilous contumely.
Correct, your initial lines of reasoning as to why you thought this ad has racial undertones has been cleared up. But, strangely, you’ve kept trumpeting that the ad has racial undertones.
Based on what?
Based on a crowd of blacks not having enough white supervision, apparently.
Have at it.
Based on the historic and current racial tension in Australia, and the marketing value of appealing to such feelings in an environment that does not find it as outrageous as many do elsewhere.
I want to know about the ad, specifically. What is it about the ad that makes you think it has racial undertones? Initially, you thought it was because the ad wasn’t clearly portraying a lone supporter of one team (who happened to be white) sitting amongst the supporters of the other team (who happened to be black). You stuck with this argument for multiple pages, but finally dropped it.
With that aspect of the ad cleared up for you, what is it about the ad (specifically, the ad) that makes you think it is playing up to “racial tension” in the country it’s being shown?
Yes there are racial tensions in Australia. It is possible an advertiser would want to pick up on those. But what you completely and utterly fail to understand is that use of a West Indian cricket crowd is a singularly bad way to exploit that, and the reason you fail to understand that is that you have absolutely no knowledge whatsoever of the dynamics of international cricket, as proven repeatedly in this thread.
Specifically, the “awkward” comment and the “awkward” facial expressions. That is consistent with racial anxiety. Even if there are more than one explanation, I believe advertisers in OZ are not above exploiting racial tension, especially when they know they are less likely to be called on it in that market, and they construct plausible deniability with the fan rivalry explanation.
Sounds like an opinion. Why is yours superior to mine?
There is no racial anxiety towards any group that could be mistaken for one of the West Indian fans in the ad. You do realise that not all brown people look the same, right?
He displays greater knowledge of context, hence more expertise.
And before anyone says it, this is soooo not an appeal to authority.
Because I am speaking from a position of some knowledge whereas you are speaking from whatever position you can pull things from your butt. Makes my opinion superior to yours.
You don’t know a thing about the dynamics involved in international cricket and its fan base, and as a result you don’t realize how staggeringly unlikely what you are suggesting is.
I’d have a modicum of respect for your opinion if you were trying to claim that the ad was accidentally racist; but to suggest a deliberate policy on behalf of KFC Australia is, for want of a better term, fucked up.
I tell you what - go look at KFC Australia’s advertising history. I would imagine if they are appealing to racists this wouldn’t be the first or last time. Find me a history of prior ads that, to a reasonable person, would include this kind of racist intent you see and dinner for you and your partner is on me. I’ll even allow you a year from now to develop a pattern into the future.
This “debate” has been reduce to duelling opinions, which is fitting because that is how it was constructed in the OP, so we should not be surprised that it hasn’t progressed much. Until one of you produces the keys to the Vault of Ultimate Knowledge, and reveals the utterly uncontrovertible intent of the advertiser, I don’t see the likelihood of agreement.
You disagree with me; I get it. Apparently that is very upsetting to many of you.
Sounds like a personal problem.
…and entirely consistent with a fan that’s ended up seated in a stand full of the opposing team’s supporters, while he’s sitting there in his team’s uniform feeling out of place… awkward.