View Full Version : HMS Belfast airbrushed from 2012 poster
papa_smurf
11-10-11, 08:41 AM
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-15673648
London 2012 organisers have apologised for airbrushing the historic World War II ship HMS Belfast from an official poster depicting the capital's skyline.
Games organisers said it was "a simple mistake in the advertising production process" for London 2012 Festival.
:doh:
Herr-Berbunch
11-10-11, 09:11 AM
...a simple mistake in the advertising production process...
My arse! It was deliberately airbrushed as Coe & Co wouldn't have wanted anything 'military'. No way on earth can it be an accident. I'm only surprised that they haven't gotten rid of the Tower of London, too. :nope:
joegrundman
11-10-11, 09:59 AM
yeah it happens all the time. i'm always accidentally airbrushing stuff out of pictures. always seems to happen to my mother-in-law for some reason. it's a simple mistake. Can happen to anyone:D
Dread Knot
11-10-11, 10:15 AM
An honest mistake. They were planning to Photoshop it back in the Thames at some point, I'm sure. Covered with psychedelic colors and peace symbols so as not to spook the tourists into thinking there was still a war on. ;)
Osmium Steele
11-10-11, 10:47 AM
Did it appear for a few minutes at the de-gaussing station near the Norfolk Naval Station? :hmmm:
papa_smurf
11-10-11, 10:50 AM
They should of airbrushed the Houses of Parliament instead, no need to advertise that place in the current state of things:D.
Lord_magerius
11-10-11, 10:57 AM
People are really over-reacting to this, yes ok HMS Belfast is a very important piece of our history and it shouldn't have been airbrushed out. There are far more important things to get angry about in this country rather than something stupid like that, sure it's annoying that it has happened but, I can find other things of greater importance to get annoyed at. The economy, the tory idiots who are running this country etc... :hmmm:
People are really over-reacting to this, yes ok HMS Belfast is a very important piece of our history and it shouldn't have been airbrushed out. There are far more important things to get angry about in this country rather than something stupid like that, sure it's annoying that it has happened but, I can find other things of greater importance to get annoyed at. The economy, the tory idiots who are running this country etc... :hmmm:
^This.
Well, on the other hand, it IS Nov. 11th tomorrow, and that is a bit of an insult given the day.
I don't think there's an over-reaction, it's not like it's completely drowned out the rest of the news. So... I say let it be noticed.
Tribesman
11-10-11, 11:43 AM
On a brighter note, at least the airbrushed poster isn't nearly as bad as most of the rest the pile of excrement they are calling posters.
My arse! It was deliberately airbrushed as Coe & Co wouldn't have wanted anything 'military'. No way on earth can it be an accident. I'm only surprised that they haven't gotten rid of the Tower of London, too
Yet the mascots come in Yeoman Warder of the tower and Guardsman versions:hmmm:
Herr-Berbunch
11-10-11, 11:59 AM
Yet the mascots come in Yeoman Warder of the tower and Guardsman versions:hmmm:
Yep, that's hypocracy, double-standards, or just plain old incompetence. Whichever way, it's just one of what I'm sure will be many. :nope:
Jimbuna
11-10-11, 12:25 PM
Well, on the other hand, it IS Nov. 11th tomorrow, and that is a bit of an insult given the day.
I don't think there's an over-reaction, it's not like it's completely drowned out the rest of the news. So... I say let it be noticed.
Agreed :yep:
As much as I love the Belfast...I wish it was the Warspite moored there instead...so much history and it ended in a Cornish cove... :nope:
Jimbuna
11-10-11, 01:14 PM
Yes...a sad end indeed:
Although there were proposals to retain her as a museum ship, the Admiralty approved Warspite's scrapping in July 1946. On 19 April 1947, Warspite departed Portsmouth for scrapping at Faslane, on the River Clyde. On the way, she encountered a severe storm and the hawser of the tug Bustler parted, whilst the other tug Melinda III slipped her tow. In storm force conditions Warspite dropped one of her huge anchors in Mount's Bay, which did not hold, and the storm drove her onto Mount Mopus Ledge near Cudden Point. Later refloating herself she went hard aground a few yards away in Prussia Cove. Her skeleton crew of seven was saved by the Penlee Lifeboat W. & S. There were several attempts to refloat her but the hull was badly damaged and Warspite was partially scrapped where she lay.
An attempt to refloat her in 1950, buoyed by 24 compressors pumping air into her tanks, and watched by a large crowd, the press and the BBC, failed. There was insufficient water to float her clear of the reef in a rising south westerly gale. The salvage boat Barnet, standing guard overnight under the Warspite’s bows was holed in the engine room, towed off and eventually drifted ashore at Long Rock, a few miles to the west. By August the battleship was finally beached off St Michael's Mount and after further salvage another attempt was made to refloat her in November. The Falmouth tug Masterman spent the night on the Hogus Rocks after failing to tow Warspite; and her sister tug Tradesman had 60 foot of wire wrapped around her propeller when trying to haul Masterman off the rocks. Aided by her compressor and two jet engines from an experimental aircraft the hulk was finally moved 130 feet closer to shore and by the summer of 1955 she disappeared from view.
At least the Grand Old Lady refused to go quietly into the night, that much I can be glad of. :yep:
Jimbuna
11-10-11, 01:20 PM
I wonder how deep the water is...I should imagine if there is much left she will be a divers haven.
My arse! It was deliberately airbrushed as Coe & Co wouldn't have wanted anything 'military'. No way on earth can it be an accident. I'm only surprised that they haven't gotten rid of the Tower of London, too. :nope:
I need not add any more. :up:
They should of airbrushed the Houses of Parliament instead, no need to advertise that place in the current state of things:D.:har::up:
nikimcbee
11-10-11, 02:48 PM
My arse! It was deliberately airbrushed as Coe & Co wouldn't have wanted anything 'military'. No way on earth can it be an accident. I'm only surprised that they haven't gotten rid of the Tower of London, too. :nope:
+1:nope: Whoops, sorry. I don't buy that answer for a second. Probably one of those "anti-military types" holding the air-brush, or the person's boss. We get this every once in awhile with the pt-boat. We love the boat, hate the guns.:nope: Usually some city bureaucrate.
I wonder how deep the water is...I should imagine if there is much left she will be a divers haven.
She was picked pretty clean, not much left but bits of debris down there in about 8m of water.
Tribesman
11-10-11, 03:29 PM
This really is good, that particular part of the festival that poster is about had its publicity launch at Horseguards, among the venues it is using and advertising are the naval college, the buildings which were once the admiralty and a square named after a big naval battle.
frau kaleun
11-10-11, 04:59 PM
This really is good, that particular part of the festival that poster is about had its publicity launch at Horseguards, among the venues it is using and advertising are the naval college, the buildings which were once the admiralty and a square named after a big naval battle.
They're airbrushing Nelson off the Column as we speak. :O:
Tribesman
11-10-11, 05:53 PM
They're airbrushing Nelson off the Column as we speak.
They are airbrushing the column itself, it is far too phallic for a sensitive modern public.
ajrimmer42
11-10-11, 05:55 PM
how is it possible to accidentally erase a warship? :haha:
Jimbuna
11-10-11, 06:28 PM
She was picked pretty clean, not much left but bits of debris down there in about 8m of water.
Ah right, rgr that :-?
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