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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-15673648

Surprised elf isn't already ranting about this one. How exactly is deliberately airbrushing out a ship "a simple mistake"?


 
Posted : 10/11/2011 1:54 pm
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[i]The ship served in both World War II and the Korean War and has been moored near Tower Bridge since 1971 and was very upset at being airbrushed out of the pretty poster[/i]


 
Posted : 10/11/2011 1:57 pm
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Don't see the big deal myself. The image looks better without it.


 
Posted : 10/11/2011 1:58 pm
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[i]Martyn Heighton, from National Historic Ships, said it was like "airbrushing out the Houses of Parliament".[/i]

Dear Martyn. Have you ever kissed a girl?


 
Posted : 10/11/2011 1:59 pm
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on ont thethames is a bit briwn th other very blue
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Posted : 10/11/2011 1:59 pm
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on ont thethames is a bit briwn th other very blue

I saw the credits for east enders the other day, surely that's been photoshoped, looks like East-end-on-Med!

On the OP, not too fussed, I can see why they did it, infact I'd go as far as to say they should have left it out.


 
Posted : 10/11/2011 2:01 pm
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The image looks better without it.

The image would look better if they airbrushed out everything but the river and Tower Bridge (and replaced with some lovely green fields and rolling hills). Hardly the point is it?


 
Posted : 10/11/2011 2:02 pm
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I reckon I could work out to within 3 days when that photo was taken... how sad is that?


 
Posted : 10/11/2011 2:02 pm
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Every time I see that bloody awful typeface I start twitching. Unforgivable!


 
Posted : 10/11/2011 2:06 pm
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on ont thethames is a bit briwn th other very blue

In English??


 
Posted : 10/11/2011 2:08 pm
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Hardly the point is it?

Yep.

The main purpose of that image is to look good and provide some context to the area in which the festival is taking place, if the Belfast had been left in it would have created a visual pinch point in the river (with the pier on the opposite bank), lessening the effect.

It's not intended to be a documentary piece on the area just a pretty background for a poster with a horrible typeface on it.

[edit] Beaten to typeface review by Binners.


 
Posted : 10/11/2011 2:10 pm
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There. I has put it back in.

[IMG] [/IMG]


 
Posted : 10/11/2011 2:13 pm
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Is there a possibility, given that the olympics are being marketed worldwide, that some of the intended 'consumers' could have been on the business end of HMS Belfast?


 
Posted : 10/11/2011 2:13 pm
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And if they'd taken it when that big f-off trawler was moored next to it, it would have looked even more odd.
In other news a cat was mistreated in Kent.


 
Posted : 10/11/2011 2:13 pm
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Nice. Although a picture of London would be even more improved by some photos from the recent poo thread.


 
Posted : 10/11/2011 2:14 pm
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A cat was mistreated in Kent?

Have the national press been informed?


 
Posted : 10/11/2011 2:16 pm
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that ship could be part of the celebrations around the Olympics

what the flip has this [s]floating museum[/s] battleship got to do with the Olympic Games?

Other than being dull, grey and wet ... a bit like next summer's weather will be


 
Posted : 10/11/2011 2:16 pm
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on ont thethames is a bit briwn th other very blue

In English??

It is not to my usual typo standards but really its not that hard to work out.
If that fails try the picture and see what difference you note based on some of the key words above you can decipher


 
Posted : 10/11/2011 2:31 pm
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So.... about this cat? What's happened? Is it something that could work me up into an frothing, apoplectic, self-righteous, indignant frenzy?

Tell me more...


 
Posted : 10/11/2011 2:34 pm
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I don't think you're taking this seriously binners.
If I had my way, people like you would be tortured to death for your lack of empathy.


 
Posted : 10/11/2011 2:37 pm
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iirc most pussy can do that to you Binners

torturing to death is too good for you I would let the swans deal with this kind of outrage


 
Posted : 10/11/2011 2:37 pm
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@binners.. I agree.
I don't live in the UK, so I don't get to see the propaganda.
I thought Junkyard had PS it on (no offence JY)


 
Posted : 10/11/2011 3:09 pm

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