I personally don't want the WELLYWOOD sign...

**Blackflagged** · 23rd May 2011, 13:19

Firewood some would say. But there wolly`s also

**Fatt Max** · 23rd May 2011, 13:39

Does anyone really give a fuckywood..?

**oneofsix** · 23rd May 2011, 13:45

saying something but saying nothing or no shit sherlock
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/5041...rketing-expert
Yes the sign will say something but unlike the giant carrot it will say 'the people that run this airport are unimaginative rip off artists' A giant Wellington sign would be better than Wellywood.
I vote for Fat Max sign 1 for NZ flavour, or sign 5 cause it really says something

**avgas** · 23rd May 2011, 14:40

Its quite sad ain't it.
Next they will be throwing gang signs down there and saying "Wellyside nigga!"

**oneofsix** · 23rd May 2011, 14:50

http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post...Wellywood-sign
A beer bounty is being offered to whoever destroys the Wellywood sign once it is put up.
Blenheim brewery Moa will reward "successful acts of disobedience" with 15 cases of beer.

Is the product good enough to warrant the risk? Or is it a bonus

**Elysium** · 23rd May 2011, 15:20

Just joined the Facebook page 'Wellingtonians Against the Wellywood Sign' Some good ideas on there.

**Maha** · 23rd May 2011, 18:17

All talk and no action?...well done Wellington..100 protesters turned out tonight...

Do you think the Wellington Airport will take any notice of a social networking site like FB over this?

**davebullet** · 23rd May 2011, 18:37

I haven't read the other 5 pages... but wait till we get a decent gale (you won't have to wait too long). That bloody sign will get picked up and chucked around like a rag doll. Mark my words. I hope it doesn't decapitate some poor bastard along the way.

**Woodman** · 23rd May 2011, 21:48

Why would you put a sign up that makes us all look like tryhard fuckups?? especially considering its our capital city. What a joke.

Whoever signs off on this needs to be rogered with someting that splinters.

Great to see that there are protests already.

**Maha** · 24th May 2011, 06:48

The protest organiser must feel so dejected with the turnout last night?

To vote on a social networking site like FB proves futile (as it does on similar sites) if you dont get out there and actually stand up for what you beleive to be right.

The sign is going up, guess Wellingtonians shall just have to get used to it (for five years at least)
Yes it will look tacky and a little desperate, and I agree, it should be there.

NOTE: Over 9,000 votes were 'yes' on that same poll.

**James Deuce** · 24th May 2011, 06:58

Originally Posted by Maha

NOTE: Over 9,000 votes were 'yes' on that same poll.

NOTE: The voting supporters of the sign are still out-numbered 2 to 1.

NOTE TO SIR MICHAEL FOWLER: Most people gave up on Irish jokes about 30 years ago. Trying to save yourself by saying, "It wasn't meant to be derogatory" because he was referring to the Irish "trait" of opposing authority ignores the provenance of how that "trait" developed, ignores NZ's extensive Irish population who came here mostly via the transport system of justice imposed on a starving people and still makes you look like an idiotic and irrelevant old duffer.

NOTE TO STEVE FITZGERALD: We realise you're Australian and therefore devoid of taste and restraint, however just because you're losing the popular vote doesn't mean you can insult your opposition without firing them up even more. Trying to discredit a "mob" is like urinating on a forest fire. Don't put the sign up, mmmkay?

**oneofsix** · 24th May 2011, 07:14

Originally Posted by davebullet

I haven't read the other 5 pages... but wait till we get a decent gale (you won't have to wait too long). That bloody sign will get picked up and chucked around like a rag doll. Mark my words. I hope it doesn't decapitate some poor bastard along the way.

As long as the airport company and there stupid PR/marketing company get stuck with the cleanup bill and not the ratepayers

**James Deuce** · 24th May 2011, 07:17

Originally Posted by oneofsix

As long as the airport company and there stupid PR/marketing company get stuck with the cleanup bill and not the ratepayers

Pffft. The airport company will be looking for some way to stick the cost of erection, maintenance and destruction (if it ever does get pulled down in a managed fashion) to the ratepayers, let alone any clean-up bill.

**oneofsix** · 24th May 2011, 07:20

Originally Posted by Maha

All talk and no action?...well done Wellington..100 protesters turned out tonight...

Do you think the Wellington Airport will take any notice of a social networking site like FB over this?

For a conservative city like Wellington, on a winter Monday night, without a co-ordinated action, 100 people isn't a bad start. About 10 times what I would have expected. Considering most NZers, as often demonstrated here, take the attitude of 'Oh its doomed, they are going to do it anyhow so why should I bother'. Sometimes fell NZ is the country fill of Neals from the Young Ones.