Public Address | OurTube | The Edmund Hillary 'Kiwi Kids' Weetbix ad https://publicaddress.net/system/ourtube/ en-us Copyright (c) 2026 Public Address Tze Ming Mok https://publicaddress.net/system/ourtube/the-edmund-hillary-kiwi-kids-weetbix-ad/?p=7074#post7074 https://publicaddress.net/system/ourtube/the-edmund-hillary-kiwi-kids-weetbix-ad/?p=7074#post7074

What bugged me was the stereotypical Englishmen – Hilary was on a British expedition, and flew the Union Flag!

He sure did. I thought I'd leave the English to be bugged by that!

]]> Fri, 09 Feb 2007 12:10:53 +1300 Graeme Edgeler https://publicaddress.net/system/ourtube/the-edmund-hillary-kiwi-kids-weetbix-ad/?p=7067#post7067 https://publicaddress.net/system/ourtube/the-edmund-hillary-kiwi-kids-weetbix-ad/?p=7067#post7067 That's your problem with it?

What bugged me was the stereotypical Englishmen – Hilary was on a British expedition, and flew the Union Flag!

]]> Fri, 09 Feb 2007 09:07:16 +1300 Rose Gordon https://publicaddress.net/system/ourtube/the-edmund-hillary-kiwi-kids-weetbix-ad/?p=7064#post7064 https://publicaddress.net/system/ourtube/the-edmund-hillary-kiwi-kids-weetbix-ad/?p=7064#post7064 . . . some of us are always going to be wishing better times for that generically brown kid symbolising the sidekick tag-along of the postcolonial partnership.


Yes, indeed.

]]> Fri, 09 Feb 2007 02:12:25 +1300 Tze Ming Mok https://publicaddress.net/system/ourtube/the-edmund-hillary-kiwi-kids-weetbix-ad/?p=7063#post7063 https://publicaddress.net/system/ourtube/the-edmund-hillary-kiwi-kids-weetbix-ad/?p=7063#post7063 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQJIDI6HMX8

The sound is a bit crap, but you probably remember all the dialogue anyway. "Where I come from Tenzing, there's no such word as asumpowtcha!"

Any Nepali speakers able to verify that?

When my dad was a kid in Malaysia, his Indian schoolteachers always made the usual unsubtle postcolonising…

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