what exactly is The Jakarta Post attempting to convey with this advertisement?

what exactly are they thinking?

This one is equally as bad..I fear Indonesian Rugby Players are being viewed as gaylords!



Very homosexual placement of head and groin area!

Well I'd go as so far as to say that whilst it isn't Saatchi and Saatchi, they do attempt to stumble a point across by using the aircraft cabin interior to denote travel, with the possible implication of travelling to the other side of the world, thus one assumes the caption.

i was thinking more of the symbolic rather than the literal ...

You've lost me a bit. Is the aircraft cabin not symbolic of travel?
Agreed with my poor grasp of these things I would have said "See the world from another side", to convey a sense of balance rather than location, but people like that twat pitchfork do this for a living you know.

ok, here's one take: the advertisement says: "i am a wealthy, sophisticated jetsetter Indonesian who can read english. if you want to be like me, you have to read The Jakarta Post. people will then think you are a wealthy, sophisticated jetsetter who can read english."

Anyone (with a few notable exceptions) can read english, from experience not that many can actually understand it.
Take a look at some of the ramblings here for example.

An example of which is...

I also made a vegetarian version, with tempe and tofu chunks for myself and others. Get over it.

Verbatim, a la Riccardo in a fanny wobble. Suggest you take it up with him. He was the best they had ever had.

I can only say it certainly aint no Garuda plane. Probably bought the plane or paid for the ticket with corruption money.

Does Okusi still have an ear-ad on the masthead of the Post's online edition? Or does Okusi no longer advertise in wank mags?

Nah, he has started catching them young though

no longer on the masthead, but lower down ... okusi would advertise in wank mags if that's where its clients eyeballs were directed ...

After what I've seen today you had better use lots of pictures to get the point across, you sure do have some thick fuckers as customers.

they may be thick, but they are smart enough to choose a gun consultant to handle their corporate legal matters.

Elaborate and I'll tell you if the flannel is worthy of me saying "wow" -

Only shifty dodgy cunts need that sort of help in business.

At least we don't have to argue about the actual subject matter though.

fortunately, i am not in need of your approval, capt.



indeed. most of my clients don't need much help with their business. only with setting up the legal structures that enable them to do their business, without being screwed by the kleptocrats.

Suffice to say the one's that bring in iron carrying help which is exactly what you implied are dodgy as fuck.

As always they always have a choice to either do business within reasonable constraints or fuck off home.

For most of them, the only reason they are in Indo is that they can be as dodgy as fuck, there is Bangladesh of course, but they wouldn't be able to drink themselves to death or pork the locals as and when they felt like it.

Know what I mean Harry?

you've been drinking, haven't you old man?

Stone cold sober.

As well you know.



Let's rephrase it a bit....



Doesn't quite have the same edge does it?
The assumption being that a "gun consultant" whatever that may be (Normally pretty simple, put the round thing in the hole and pull the trigger until a hole appears in something or someone else, not always true, but the bigger the thing/ the faster it pops out, then the bigger the hole) - provides help in making holes/threatening to make holes in things that could be an issue with "corporate legal matters"

Whereas the interior design consultant is likely to just rag-roll someone.

Thus my comment that "gun consultant" is either worthless flannel or someone who possibly faciliates things that wouldn't otherwise be possible.

Unfortunately it implied a very Tommy S sort of business approach, one which I personally wouldn't want to be associated with.

But hey, perhaps that's life in the Jakarta fast lane.

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I enjoyed that post, more off the same!

"Enjoyed" implies past tense, thus I'm done, which I am not.
I'm just waiting for Wyatt Earp and his posse to come back and draw a line in the sand dude.

I can deal with molesting teachers, and gatecrashing employment "consultants", fucking tourists who can't be arsed to get their Lonely Bastard guide to Indonesia phrase book out, I can even deal with Pitchfork, but I can't deal with those sorts of business "principles".



Now I'm going to have a drink.

I must confess I'm worried about having a 25,000 rp contract put out on me now.

ummm, yeah, whatever ...


the latter, capt, the latter.