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River_Rat_459
05-28-2012, 13:15
FAIL!


Halo UNSC Logo Mistakenly Used for United Nations in BBC Broadcast
by Max Eddy | 2:00 pm, May 28th, 2012

Look: We all make mistakes, but that doesn’t make them any less amusing. This time, someone in the BBC’s research department must have been running pretty fast and loose with the Google image search because he or she pulled this logo of the United Nations Space Command from Halo instead of the actual United Nations logo for a broadcast on violence in Syria.

The BBC report from last Thursday focuses on criticism from Amnesty International leveled against the U.N. security council — which, coincidentally — would be “U.N.S.C..” This really does appear to be just be a case of poor common sense in Googling. Searching for United Nations Security Council pulls up pictures of delegates at curved tables and the official website. “UNSC,” on the other hand is all Halo.

While accidents do happen, it’s notable that nearly all of the images returned for a search of UNSC contain pictures of fantastical spaceships. One would think that would set off some alarm bells, unless this is a very, very clever prank perpetrated by someone disinterested in job security. I suppose we’ll never know.

http://static02.mediaite.com/geekosystem/uploads/2012/05/BBC-logo-whoops.jpg


http://youtu.be/qY2cE_FpOaY

SOURCE: http://www.geekosystem.com/halo-logo-bbc/

MaximusR3
05-28-2012, 13:25
didn't they also use game footage from ArmA 2 in a documentary piece on terrorism a while back? Sounds to me like they've got a gamers with a sense of humor working behind the scenes lol

jxspyder
05-28-2012, 15:03
I say it was a prank. Hilarity.

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HAVOK
05-28-2012, 15:22
Utterly fantastic! My plot to have gamers infiltrate the world's media is coming along beautifully.....LOL

roaland
05-28-2012, 15:48
Utterly fantastic! My plot to have gamers infiltrate the world's media is coming along beautifully.....LOL

hahaha why didn't i think of this haha brilliant idea i say lol

obtainedpilot
05-28-2012, 15:51
That's totally awesome haha so does that mean the un totally got p0wned?

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iamthesgt
05-28-2012, 21:56
I would rather have a bunch of gamers sitting on the UN instead of the loons that are there...this is absolutely hilarious!

bulletmagnet
05-29-2012, 02:34
Is it Fail or Win? I can't decide. But it is still brilliant!
And the ARMA thing is actually true.

Rickety Rob
05-29-2012, 04:52
Ahahaha! I see Halo is on everyone's minds now

Indiobeltran
05-29-2012, 22:27
haha very funny :croc:

comanche_warior
05-30-2012, 11:42
Now the government cant come up with their own logos oy vey.

Rickety Rob
05-31-2012, 06:33
HALO! HALO! HALO! HALO! HALO! lol. It's on my mind lol

obtainedpilot
06-03-2012, 03:46
Maybe they thought it was for the united.nations security counsel lmao

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