Many of us have heard the deprecating characterizations of many countries. Like Putin described the UK as an “insignificant little Island”, and Russia has been characterized as a “mob run gas station” or Trump calling El Salvador, Haiti and African countries as “shithole countries”.
Let’s flip things around for a bit of fun. After a heavy night of drinking with your country’s head of tourism, you have one shot to give your best self-depricating characterization of your country for a new border sign.
I’ll go first:
Welcome to Canada - Enjoy world class sexual assault in sport – Come and play!
Good luck finding us on a world map. We’re famous for two things: an adaptation of a British guy’s books, and constantly trying to convince people that we do not want to fuck sheep while one of our banks goes and makes an ad campaign with a sheep that the internet decides is sexy.
Welcome to New Zealand, just off the coast of best sporting nation in the world
I kneel, this is excellent ragebait.
You guys would have been fine if somebody had taught the bank about the Streisand effect.
A sheep named Buck, no less. Careful not to typo it!
I can’t fathom the design meetings and nobody bringing this up.
Incidentally, I moved to Auckland at the beginning of 2026, and I was startled by how many maps I started to see that didn’t include New Zealand. There’s an episode of Bluey where it seems intentional–they’re doing a world map puzzle, and while Australia is there, they leave off the bottom-right puzzle piece that would’ve included NZ.
To quote Kill Bill, “My name is Buck…”
“…and I like to party!”
TV edit was just awful.
Did they replace the Pussy Wagon with the Vengabus? Did they give Buck an extra finger on his left hand so the tattoo could say party?
Pussy Wagon is changed to Party Wagon. Don’t recall any tattoo or finger edits!
If they’d done those, at least people would have laughed.
I don’t know if that’s slogany enough for a “welcome to” sign. Also feel free to mention the country.
Also you remind me of a self deprecating joke a guy from Wales and Malta told me some time ago: How do you know a guy is from Malta? He’s shagging a sheep. How do you know the sheep is from Wales? She pushes back while his hands are behind his head.
Hey, don’t sell yourselves short… you’ve got the Haka and Flight of the Concords too
I wasn’t sure what country until you mentioned the bank. I heard about that all the way over here in Canada :)