"...I thought I would ask if they would put up a notice "sponsored by Brandalism" and paint pandas white to look like chalk horses...

they said don't be stupid you wouldn't then be able to tell them apart from polar bears..."

Which shows what kind of morons we're dealing with.
May I direct the attention of those here assembled to the "Technology" link from this URL:

http://www.fiat.co.uk/NewPanda/Site/Flash_Content.htm

...which features, somewhat obviously, a polar-bear in the colours of a panda.

How is it I am able to distinguish the two?

Ah yes....possession of brain-cells and a rudimentary education.

Plus the fact that one is round-faced, reasonably dengerous and has a shite car named after it, while the other is pointy-nosed, fucking dangerous and desperately needs to be let loose in the offices of whichever "advertising" agency thought this idea up.

Mind you.....we could always send a panda along with an AK-47. In my dictionary it says:

Panda (noun) Large Mammal. Eats, shoots and leaves.

.....I'll get me coat.