Website offers customers a chance to to send anti-whaling postcards to a random address in Japan

Wouldn’t be a huge profit. But very very insulting and bad. Pestering random addresses with nothing more than spam? Are they insane? This is not going to win any converts, especially written in a foreign language.

And since when was it “our whales”?

Could we send messages in romaji saying something like “kujira ga oishii! Tabetai!”?

True. The anti-whaling crowd is shooting itself in the foot.

New Zealand’s actions appeared reasonable and humane, whereas the Japanese fleet looked kind of lame. Greenpeace behaved responsibly. The Japanese government looked petty when they didn’t want to ask for help from the Esperanza.

But Sea Shephrd’s actions did untold PR damage and might have pushed a lot of people who were on the fence toward the pro-whaling side.

The repeated use of the phrases “our whales” and “our oceans” are probably meant to mean everyone’s, but sound exclusionary, as though the Japanese fleet were stealing something that belonged, usually, to Australia and New Zealand.

This postcard thing is just stupid. Irritating. Pestering people who probably have nothing to do with whaling and asking them to stop doing something they’re not doing and can’t stop is not going to help anything, especially when it’s not even in Japanese.

This is mimicking the Guardian‘s 2004 stunt, when they gave their readers the home phone numbers of people in swing states and had them call and pester people to vote for Kerry. They were surpirsed that people in Ohio didn’t appreciate getting a call from some random Brit telling them how to vote.

This postcard stunt will be thoroughly ignored by all but one or two people, who will think, “WTF is up New Zealanders?” and develop the idea that they’re a bunch of condescending jerks, which is a shame, because some people in NZ are not involved with this project.

Wow that idea is just totaly wow i cant even start lol its just wtf?! lol