Westnet say they are number one in customer service and they may well be fantastic, but whoever approved the term “Humanology” must have been unaware that the agency was completely taking the piss. This is confirmed by the fact that agency guys also gave them a blatant example of what used to known as a “goatse” as a logo. The title of this web page is “Experience true Humanology.” Errk. Jeezus they really worked over the client with this one. They’ll still be laughing in West Perth. PF who only discovered TWOP yesterday pointed this out to me. Thanks PF you have a lot of archive viewing to get through.
Please confine your comments to the graphic design rather than the company itself if youse will be so kind.
The Worst of Perth 
his nipple appears to be having a conversation with his stomach
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Pleased to see my monthly fee isn’t being frittered away on fancy furniture.
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They appear to have a “No Birds” policy to save you money.
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No, no fancy furniture.
Just fancy pool tables, fancy Xbox, fancy Wii, fancy LCD TVs, fancy fridges and those annoying fancy office plants.
But no fancy furniture. We couldn’t afford that.
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Hey, it’s not as bad as “Unworry”, thanks to the HBF ads.
Other pet peeve in this direction – “incentivize.” A large poster in my work staffroom tells me that some stock has been “incentivized” (eurghh) for staff, meaning that we’re expected to sell more of it.
But “Unworry” takes the cake. When I become Generalisimo of Australia, I’m going to outlaw insurance altogether.
While I’m on the subject, WTF is with that twee music that accompanies HBF ads (and many others). Twee is the new black. Take your Frankie and stick it up your aerse!
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It’s the voice over in those HBF ads that does it for me. That Samuel Johnson sounding dude talking all about opening your window to the doctor like he’s your next door neighbour or something. Cunt.
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I thought it was Samuel.
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He has got the most hideous voice. Must have turned thousands away from HJ’s to McDonalds.
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absolutely nothing could turn me on to mcdonalds.
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Not even Cookster?
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You can fuck me if I’m wrong, but isn’t it this cunt?
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I think you have HBF and Samuel Johnson confused with SGIO and Angus Sampson?
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Oh, yeah he does that style of retarded voice too. Is a simple Gary Shannon VO too fucking difficult a concept for these people?
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They have unique voices which people recognise and I guess it works. Angus Sampson and Samuel Johnson seem to voice half the ads in this country at the moment. At first it was refreshing, nowadays it’s just the norm.
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Speaking of westnet – has anyone ever noticed the similarity between the westnet logo and the image from one of the original “shock” websites [WARNING – POSSIBLY (actually, likely DEFINATELY) OFFENSIVE MATERIAL] goatse.cx (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goatse.cx)?
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Um, yes. TLA did, in the post.
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umm.. speed reading isn’t all it’s cracked up to be :(
I saw Westnet, thought of goatse, got excited and jumped the gun…
as you were.
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That’s all right. If you rush to make an arse joke, and skim over the content, you’ll fit right in here.
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or better still intentionally ignore content and comment away. Many others do that with some wonderful contributions.
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You can’t over emphasise a goatse, so no problems.
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One of the numerous definitions of “Humanology ‘ is the scientific study of human potential.
If these guys act like a normal telco then they are sure to completely fuck over any positive human potential within their organisation.
Their M.O. is good though. Real people answering the calls instead of super annoying voice detection machines.
Just sounds mega wanky. Surely there had to be a better way to get their message across?
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A bit of insider info…
When they revealed the logo to several off the senior staff before launch, management had no idea it resembled the infamous symbol. One staff member had to take aside one of the managers and actually show him, as they had no clue. By then it was too late to change it.
Also notice how Freedom’s logo is pretty much half the Westnet logo – their logo came out after Westnet, I wonder how much Freedom must of paid for what probably took 5 minutes work to crop the logo in half and change the colours of the fingers.
Anyway, since iiNet owns Westnet now, they don’t really give a shit about Westnet, it’s gone to the dumps.
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You don’t happen to know the agency?
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What… You want a class action from Bree Maddox AND some random ad agency?
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: D
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There’s some guy on Perth radio that does that sort of retarded voice in ads too.
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Can someone from ANZ explain to me their current “cock & balls / titty fuck” logo?
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it’s Antonia Kidman
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I thought it was Toni Pearen.
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I was in that meeting with all the other supervisors/senior staff and remember when the logo was just about to be launched. I remember that day very well, and the person who had to take management aside and inform them of the great new logo.
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GOATSE! Wow, its been a while since I have heard that word, thanks for the mental flashback…
Right up there with Tubgirl, and Penis Bird!
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The agency begins with an M. 11 letters. Based in Subi.
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I can’t believe they landed them with humanology, setting aside the logo.
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Ahh,Marketforce – one of the elder statesmane of Advertising Agencies.
http://www.marketforce.com.au/
Who are responsible for THIS ad:
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UGH THAT MAKES MY SKIN CRAWL. Loathe that faux-accented vowelry. almost as bad as this (embed disabled) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4nCx3lb1f8
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Is that them too. That is a creepy, baffling and terrible ad.
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Still trawling the archives; up to page 56. From memory there’s a somewhat worst Westnet/goatse billboard on display, visible from Mitchell Fwy thru Glendalough.
It’s definitely a goatse, it’s even got the thumbs in (as is the case with hello.jpg). Apparently it was supposed to be ‘we give you the world’ or somesuch. The world wide rectum.
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cutnpaste from the Westnet website:
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Man ‘sprays fox urine at protesters’
Thursday, 21 January 2010
Page 1
A US man has been charged with assault after allegedly spraying protestors with fox urine.
The 36-year-old man, from the eastern state of Maine, was arrested by police after the incident outside a restaurant on Sunday night, the Associated Press reports.
The group had been protesting what they alleged to be labour violations at the restaurant, The Front Room.
The man did not work at the restaurant but lived above it, police said.
Restaurant owner Harding Lee Smith, who is the subject of a lawsuit regarding alleged wage violations, told the Portland Daily Sun newspaper the man may have sprayed the urine as a reaction to the protests.
Fox urine is sometimes used in the US as a garden repellent to keep animals away. ”
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how do they collect the fox urine??
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how do you think i feel? i had to market that shit!
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Shit??
We’re talking piss here.
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It looks like marketforce will need closer examination. That fart gathering child with a glass jar may just be the tip of the willy for this company.
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really!? they did that one as well? I think that beats the bogan KFC cricket bogan surfer bogan man as the most annoying advert doing the rounds
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You mean the racist ads making fun of fried chicken eating fat african americans from the caribbean? I don’t mind them.
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My favourite Westnet advert is from a few years back when they were advertised “HiBIS”(Higher Bandwidth Incentive Scheme aka Broadband Connect), which was a government scheme for people in the country to get broadband at a discount rate. The ad showed people holding up a huge sign for Westnet above the CBD bar at Rydges. The voiceover said something along the lines of “We don’t need to advertise because our customers do all our advertising for us”, which I guess was due to their large growth in customer numbers due to word of mouth and very little advertising.
So… the problem I have with this is that 1, it was a scheme for regional people that was advertised using schemes from the bloody centre of Perth City, and 2, it was an ADVERTISEMENT saying that they don’t need to ADVERTISE!?! WTF Westnet?
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I saw the headquarters goatse next to the freeway today.
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Ex-headquarters. That’s now their data centre. They rent out the offices to a real estate agency or something. Westnet is now run out of the iiNet building in Subiaco, and they still have call centre staff in Central Park
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there’s also a goatse on a building near the corner of aberdeen & parker streets in northbridge… for the dedicated, hardcore goatse spotters
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Betty’s back door, Pfortner ?
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What were they thinking? no it’s on Cyber Shop, almost immediately opposite Betty’s. Dare you to draw some fingers on Betty’s Back Door though.
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