6 months and $282,000 and they come up with .......

WELCOME TO SCOTLAND

Scotland reveals stunningly dull new sloganArticle from: Font size: Decrease Increase Email article: Email Print article: Print By staff writers

November 29, 2007 08:50am
AFTER spending six months and $282,000 on a new slogan, Scottish tourism officials have come up with ... "Welcome to Scotland".

The slogan, which was revealed on Tuesday, will replace airport signs proclaiming Scotland "the best small country in the world", the Times newspaper reported.

The slogan will also printed on the posters in Gaelic as "Failte gu Alba".

The posters include a series of images depicting life in Scotland, including a boy looking at an exhibit at Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum in Glasgow, a man in a raincoat walking in Edinburgh and a picture taken from a high altitude of Inverness.

The campaign has been criticised for lacking emotion.

"It feels governmental, corporate and static," Anita Califano, a senior consultant with 2012 London Olympics logo creator Wolff Olins, told The Times.

"It all fails to convey the spirit of the place, the emotion. If the purpose of branding is to create an emotional connection, they're not doing that."

I could have given em HOOTS MON!! for half that.

****** off if you're English

"Not as shitty as Wales"

"the true celts and better whisky are across the channel"

One stereotype this story blows sky high about the Scots is that old chestnut about them never ever ever 'wasting' money....

"It must be your round."

horace wrote:"the true celts and better whisky are across the channel"

In France ??!

Merlin wrote:

horace wrote:"the true celts and better whisky are across the channel"

In France ??!

The North Channel, obviously . . . FFS.

tac wrote:

Merlin wrote:

horace wrote:"the true celts and better whisky are across the channel"

In France ??!

The North Channel, obviously . . . FFS.

The North Channel is seldom referred to as such ... 'cept in geography lessons upto Grade 5.
The term "Channel" in daily-speak (even up in Scotland) refers to the stretch of water separating England from France.

Hence my faked 'surprise' .......... FFS.

That'll be 20 guineas for the lesson.

OK, next time you spank off thinking of me and eowyn you don't need to send the cheque.

tac wrote:OK, next time you spank off thinking of me and eowyn you don't need to send the cheque.

Oh but I must, I must ... I insist !!!!

Invader Zim wrote:"Not quite as shitty as Wales"

Fixed.

embee wrote:The slogan will also printed on the posters in Gaelic as "Failte gu Alba".

Sounds like the Scottish tourist gurus want to do something rude to Jessica. Huzzah.

embee wrote:****** off if you're English

you know i've not had that said to me once since I moved here.

Generally its the knuckledraggers and internet keyboard warriors who like to post that shit.

Got to laugh at the posting in Gaelic too. That'll piss off most of the population here since its only spoken in the Highlands, which the central belt regards as being inhabited by people with 2 heads.

It should be "In a big country dreams stay with you"

"Oh give ME the map!"

I'm guessing 'Take a look up our kilts' was not considered very seriously.