The Aussie internet promptly exploded over the weekend at a photo of what was ostensibly an official piece of Northern Territory tourism merchandise: a range of products bearing the slogan ‘CU in the NT’. Which, obviously, looks like a huge C-bomb on the merchandise.
THE LATEST MARKETING WEAPON FOR THE TERRITORY HAS BEEN REVEALED pic.twitter.com/hyoGCFVUG6
— The NT News (@TheNTNews) November 5, 2016
The name of the company distributing the shirts is NT Official, which has somewhat confused a number of people and outlets into thinking that a range of shirts with the word CUNT on them are actually official products of the NT Government. Mumbrella, for example, reported that the shirt was from “the good folk at NT Tourism”, and many online gave props to the territory’s tourism body for it’s bloody solid humour and willingness to drop that classic word that’ll get you booted out of a pub in any other country on the planet.
But, unfortunately, it’s just a sketchily named private company. “Definitely not an official product,” a spokesperson for Tourism NT told PEDESTRIAN.TV. I mean, we coulda told you that from just looking at the website. But there’s the official word.
That said, the shirt’s still pretty funny. You won’t have the cover of saying “B-but, the government made it!” when your mum rouses on you for wearing it, but so it is. Pick one up HERE.
Photo: NT Official.
