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Russia's Gazprom Signs Deal with Nigerian NNPC, Unfortunate Naming Ensues

Russia's energy giant Gazprom has signed a $2.5bn (£1.53bn) deal with Nigeria's state operated NNPC, to invest in a new joint venture. The new firm, to be called Nigaz, is set to build refineries, pipelines and gas power stations in Nigeria.

Seriously?

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Air France Flight 447 or Oceanic Flight 815?

Does this screenshot look familiar? Apparently not to a Bolivian TV station or Dutch radio station who thought these pics from ABC's LOST were actual pictures from the Air France Flight 447 tragedy earlier this month. C'mon guys.



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Archdiocese Youth Commission Logo FAIL

On some occasions, logos are more than marks of failure or malfeasance; sometimes they unintentionally illustrate the foibles or folly of a company or institution all too vividly. Take the Archdiocesan Youth Commission logo, designed three decades before the sex abuse scandal broke out in the Catholic Church. The unfortunate pictorial relationship between the priest and the child, given our collective awareness in 2009, suggests a much too ironic interpretation. It’s a challenge to see what this positive/negative image once suggested, a guardian protecting the innocent, since the benevolence of its subject matter is no longer black and white. When a good design signifies bad deeds, the result is, well, a really unfortunate logo.

Jesus.


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Nationals FAIL

Somebody had to have been fired over this.

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