httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6r-kNct630

Picking up a thread on the Bohemia Forums, Tim Edwards at PC gamer writes:

Here’s an upload of a video from a recent ITV documentary into Colonel Gaddhafi’s support of the IRA. It contains shocking footage of a helicopter being shot down using weapons allegedly supplied by that baddie.

Except. Umm. It’s actually ArmA 2.

Words. Fail. What. How. For goodness sake. UK media, can you stop being shit please.

What appears to have happened is that this video, uploaded to Youtube in March, was taken to be actual footage of an 1988 IRA attack on a British Army helicopter. As opposed to animated footage from Bohemia Interactive Studio’s ArmA 2 tactical shooter game.

If you filter out the clatter of mass facepalming, you can probably hear the plaintive yelps of a researcher being kicked.

ITV documentary can’t tell the difference between gaming and reality; mistakes Arma 2 for secret IRA film (PC Gamer)

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RudGbfJ9y3Y&feature=related

Some Norristalgia

Go to 4.05.

Jack Jones writes:

David Norris on Late Late in 1985 saying no real gay characters in Glenroe, David as a quiz host who knew. Also an interesting reference in this clip to the only gay ad Guinness ever made it (Arthur’s Gay?) never aired. Wonder is it on You-Tube? Enjoy.

 

UK artist Steve Payne has been doing things to 19th century paintings of Russian generals.

George Dawe was an English portrait artist who painted 329 portraits of Russian generals active during Napoleon’s invasion of Russia for the Military Gallery of the Winter Palace, Saint Petersburg, Russia.

I’m using digital copies of these paintings as a basis for my own work which involves incorporating my friends, family and even some celebrities into the paintings using photoshop.

We wish we were his friends. Bodger can really work an epaulette.

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Adam Gelton sez:

“This is one of these attention seeking (private, family) houses which is forever adorned with over-elaborate decorations pertaining to the relevant pointless consumer “holidays”. It seems they decided to add Arthur’s day to the list when the Dublin bunting was being taken down. Snapped it in my locality. Millbrook, D13.”

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