Game Of Thrones Sigils For Different Countries

All emblems should depict the official leader and national animal of each country.

Afghanistan




Australia





Canada





China

 

 

 

France

 

Germany

 

 

 



Iceland

 

 

 

Ireland

 

 

 

Italy

 

 

 

Japan

 

 

 

 

 

Mexico

 

 

 

 

North Korea

 

 

 

 

Russia

 

 

 

 

Sweden

 

 

 

 

UK

 

 

 

 

USA

 



 

Ridiculously Famous People That You Can't Name

Fame is a fickle fiend. Many CEOs, film stars, musicians, athletes and politicians are household names to people from all around the world, who will probably never meet them in their lifetime. Others embody 15 minutes of fame, spiking into the public eye for a moment before vanishing again never to be heard of again from the oceanic mass of ephemeral internet content. 

Below is a list of people whose names we *really should know* by now, given their level of global awareness and/or recognisability of them having existed.

No Googling, checking your DVD shelf, asking mum or any other modes of cheating; you should all recognise these faces instantly. Just test your basic knowledge of what their actual names are.

 

 

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1. WHO ARE THAT?
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The events of September 11th 2001 were a defining moment of our generation. An attack that had a ripple effect worldwide regarding international relations, travel and national security regulations, iconic footage of the collapsing Twin Towers is recognisable the world over.

 

Just shy of 3,000 civilians were killed from the September 11 attack. Every news station across the globe looped the story, as more scenes emerged and developments unfolded. 

 

 

Five terrorists hijacked American Airlines Flight 11and crashed it into the North Tower.

Five terrorists hijacked United Airlines Flight 175 and crashed it into the South Tower.
Five terrorists hijacked American Airlines Flight 77 and crashed it into the Pentagon.

Four terrorist hijacked United Airlines Flight 93 and crashed it into ground.

The event became the most significant of our times.

Can you name any single one of the 19 terrorists responsible for September 11?

 

 

 

 

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2. WHO ARE THAT?

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His video Gangnam Style surpassed 1 billion hits on YouTube, with his follow-up track Gentleman clocking up 100 million views far quicker than any other song ever before it.

Under the stage name Psy, this man has been appointed a Goodwill Ambassador for UNICEF and did a global tour of the USA, Europe, Asia, Oceania and South America, performing at numerous events and concerts. He has 2.4 billion views currently on his YouTube channel and an internationally recognisable style.

What is Psy's real name?




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3. WHO ARE THAT?

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The painting Whistler's Mother currently hangs in Paris at the Musée d'Orsay, considered by many as a classic American portrait from the Victorian era.

The painting makes for the plot of the Mr Bean movie and has been referenced in numerous episodes of The Simpsons. Revered as an American Mona Lisa, it has been valued at $30 million.

What is Whistler's Mother's actual name?




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4. WHO ARE THAT?

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The Lord Of The Rings film series is one of the most revered and successful of all time. All three movies feature in the Top 20 most highly rated on imdb, collected 17 Oscar wins and together have grossed almost $3 billion.

 

 

 

One of the lead protagonists in the series is Aragorn, who gets a considerable chunk of screen time throughout the series before being crowned king. His face was splashed across $200 million worth of advertising, posters, products and action figurines.

 

 

The films screened in the cinemas of 70 countries worldwide and are arguably considered the greatest film series of all time.

Can you name the actor who plays Aragorn?

 

 

 

 

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5. WHO ARE THAT?

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The Tiananmen Square Massacre of 1989 was a widely publicised event following student protests against Chinese government reforms of the time. Up to 100,000 students marched through the streets to protest the Communist Party in April, before a hunger strike began in May, to catch international attention of a visit from Soviet leader Gorbachev at the Square. Now with 300,000 protesters involved, Western journalists remained on in China to cover the protests after Gorbachev had departed. The Chinese government felt under pressure to respond.

Declaring martial law, China's military moved in to the area with tanks and assault rifles and began a forceful removal. The ensuing conflict resulted in the deaths of hundreds, if not thousands, of unarmed citizens and garnered international attention and criticism.

 

The most iconic image of this event is that of Tank Man, a lone protester who walked out in front of a line of oncoming tanks and refused to move out of the way. It was printed on the front page of every European newspaper at the time, and whenever a list of the most important events of the 20th Century is compiled, Tank Man will inevitably be on that list.

 

Tank Man was included in Time magazine's  1998 article of the 100 Most Important People Of The 20th Century and has been arguably identified in a Sunday Express article.
Do you know the name of Tank Man?

 

 

 

 

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6. WHO ARE THAT?

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Michael Jackson only ever knew international fame within his lifetime. His meteoric rise to success from early childhood, followed by constant media coverage from his professional to private life and then untimely death, make him the most famous person on the planet of the last 50 years.

Following a marriage to Debbie Rowe that saw the birth of Prince and Paris, and a short marriage with Lisa Marie Presley, Michael Jackson had an anonymous surrogate mother carry his third child Prince Michael II, aka Blanket. 

An entire South Park episode was devoted to the relationship between Michael Jackson and Blanket. Magazines, tabloids and websites across the world followed the mysterious biological maternal identity of the child, with various speculations. It has been, however, confirmed that the identity of the woman who carried and bore Michael Jackson's third child was a Mexican nurse, hand-picked for the task.

Can you name the mother of Michael Jackson's son Blanket?

 

 

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7. WHO ARE THAT?

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Columbia Pictures was a film company founded in 1924 by two brothers, Harry and Jack Cohn, after buying out their previous third partner. A logo of a Torch Lady was chosen, the female personification of America, appearing at the start of every production.

 

 

The logo underwent several touch-ups over the 1930s, with several different models arguably used as the iconic Torch Lady, before the current logo we know today being photographed in 1992 and used as official logo from 1993 until the present.

 

 

The Torch Lady has graced the opening credits of about 350 films in the past 20 years, including The Shawshank Redemption, Bad Boys series, Men In Black series, Spice World, Casino Royale, Gattaca, Superbad and recently Zero Dark Thirty and Django Unchained.
Can you name the woman who modelled for the Columbia logo?

 

 

 

 

 

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7. WHO ARE THAT?

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In June 1985, the face of an orphan girl appeared on the front cover of National Geographic magazine, highlighting the plight of Afghani refugees into Pakistan following Soviet bombing.

With piercing green eyes staring straight out at the viewer, the photograph of Afghan Girl became an iconic image of refugees and dubbed National Geographic's "most recognisable" cover photograph. It took almost 20 years before the photographer was able to locate the girl again, followed by a documentary team, and have her identity finally revealed to the world.

What is the name of Afghan Girl?

Govern-Mental Man (parody of 'Gentleman' by Psy)

GOVERN-MENTAL MAN

click to download mp3 from soundcloud.
 

 

(Holla, Kim Jung-Un!)
D.P.R.K. is on it, son
(All for Kim Jung-Un!)
What’s crackin’, Dennis Rod-uh-mon?
(Baller, Kim Jung-Un!)
Army, starry flag and war today

(Follow Kim Jung-Un!)
Prestrike, we like Third Reich party, yay

Bitch, we are North Korea!

The common people in their hundreds all clamour and cheer
 Jung-un is the best, the state will state loud and nuclear
No-one on the planet can be half as grandiose as we are

HERO OR TANK? Nice critique, dyslexia!

 

 *execution-style gunshots montage*

 

 

Slime ball, crime lord, tyrant

Spiteful, vile and violent
I-I-I-I I’m a rather Govern-Mental man

China?

North Ireland?
Fire a nuke cuz we resent Japan

Prime it

Align it

Try an intercontinental span

 

 (Holla, Kim Jung-Un!)
Yeah, we are gonna launch a bomb

(Squalor in our slums!)
Our Supreme Leader’s number one
(Starving on bare crumbs!)
Hungry tummies, empty bellies ache

(Dollars, Won and funds)
All the money militaries take

 

Bitch, we are North Korea!

Law enforcement, walls and borders, hunger, di-a-rrhoea

We sleep on steel and wood, rooms are bare
None freer

March in Pyongyang
Or South Hwanghae (ha!) if you’re lucky
No fear
Vogue mag photoshop my new career?

 

Slime ball, crime lord, tyrant

Spiteful, vile and violent

I’m slavedriver of my

Northern Oriental clan

Spying?

Defying?

Liar! Dragged off in a rental van

Rivals

With rifles

My stock-piles compliment Iran

 

I’m a nuclear threat!
Every tank and jet!

When my father died… we cried!
Though our land’s in debt

You’ll be shaking yet
We’re the DMZ’s… best side!
(Best side! Best side!
Best side! Side-side-side)

I-I-I-I I’m a rather Govern-Mental man

Fire
Refire

Fighters, execute my vengeful plan!
Fire

Refire

Light up, give those US men a tan!

Not a Presidential fan
A rather Govern-Mental man

Times My Rantings Have Won An Internet

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1. 95% OF FACEBOOK RESPONSES FAIL BASIC MATH PROBLEM
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This one wrecked me. This honestly smacked my brain like freezing molten stupid and clung to every cell, caking it in confounded disbelief. I would have considered this as something Year 5 students would get as an average homework question. And yet, here were fully grown adults in 2012, following millions of years of evolutionary brain development and cognitive problem solving education, failing to get the correct answer in 90-95% of the responses posted.

As you can see in red, there were thousands of these responses, and I felt it was my duty after scrolling past dozens and dozens of completely disparate answers to provide a simple colour-coded representation of each 4x4, 3x3, 2x2 and 1x1 square visible in the image.

 

Of course, numerous people then responded with a guffaw at how 'orange rectangles aren't squares' and the dozens of incorrect answers continued flooding with little regard for the fact that every answer around them was different so double-checking may have been something to consider.

Consider my faith in humanity kicked whilst down, whipped off the racetrack and shot into a coffin.

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2. PEOPLE SALIVATING OVER 45 º PARKING HAVE POOR SPACIAL PLANNING
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The original image here was lauded by online citizens for the ease which it would bring public parking. Just stop for a second and think of how hard it is to find a park currently in the city with 90º spots. They are like that for a reason. Sure, there may be more time convenience in reversing out from a 45º spot, but the amount of time you'd spend circling a parking lot with a whopping 10% fewer spots available would not be worth it at all, costing the same to waste more space.

 



 

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3. CARBON TAX RANT PUTS NAYSAYERS IN THEIR PLACE
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To digress before I begin, back in high school I marched against Australian involvement in the US war against Iraq; not because Iraq wasn't due for an international intervention for Saddam Hussein's atrocious history, but because the reason given for this invasion was a fabricated crock of shit. If George W Bush had told the public *any other fucking obvious reason* I daresay I would have been in support of the move. However, an obviously exposed lie that was perpetually denied even when aired for all to see just lost all grounds of association in my mind.

Australia did not collapse into a pit of despair when John Howard introduced the GST... however, when one enters an election saying that if people will vote for you, you will not introduce a tax, and then you get elected, and you introduce that tax... that is a dick move. That is a lie. You should just flat out be fired for that shit. False advertising or whatnot. I am not opposed to the GST if you present a solid fiscal argument for it as one of your policies. I AM opposed to bringing it in after you've promised your voters you won't. There is a difference.

ANYWAY, the Labor government introducing a Carbon Tax is one such example. This was a postelection initiative that copped a lot of flak from the public and corporations alike. Look how much pollution India and China put out, they said, not really taking into account that as a nation of only 22 million, our pollution output per capita was the. highest. in. the. world. by. heaps.
But the *main* opposition to this policy? The same people who supported Bush's lie with complete lack of evidence were now claiming that climate change arguments were a lie, with vast stacks of evidence to the contrary.

Really, now? Just take this brief rant into consideration and reconsider if human impact on the environment is not going to be a thing now or in coming years without some government initiatives in place right bloody now to keep a check on this kind of thing.

 

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4. PWNING A POPULAR ONLINE GRAPH OF WORLD'S MOST EXPENSIVE LIQUIDS
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I had seen the original graph several times across various websites and social media, and thought "Well, what about perfume? Wouldn't that have a really high cent-to-ml ratio?"

A few seconds of Googling later and I found I had blasted the original graph off its tits and so didn't even bother investigating any further liquid substances for their prices, as I had already won an internet with such a shattering victory that it was sad to think humanity had disseminated the first image in the first place without a second thought.

 

 

 

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5. WORDS WITH FRIENDS HIGH SCORE IS UTTER BULLSHIT
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A friend initially posted this to me on Facebook, knowing that I like me some wordplay and anagrams and such. It was about 9pm when I looked at it and straight away smelled a rat, so spent the next 7 hours on an exponentially frustration-filled effort to debunk the image using irrefutable logical deduction, which ended in a rather sleep-deprived raging caps-lock-filled expletive response, as I had to get up for work at 6am that morning. Apologies, Henry. Apologies.
I tidied up the layout of my response after seeing the same image on 9gag today:

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6. DANIEL ASSANGE'S RATHER LAX ONLINE PRIVACY SETTINGS
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Remember back when Julian Assange was the silver-haired Kony of the mediascape, with a daily update on his outlandishly terroristic Wikileaks behaviour appearing in every tabloid?

The US military was red-faced over leaked footage of a civilian helicopter strike and numerous senators and groups were calling for Assange's execution due to thousands of private government cables from embassies all around the world being leaked to the general public online.

And then, there was his son, casually chilling on Facebook with a rather open profile setting at the time considering he was someone whose father had international agencies baying for blood.

 

 

I pointed out this fact on Twitter and within the day, Daniel Assange had tweeted back a response. After a few initially narky retorts back and forth, I shared my Barenaked Ladies "One Week" parody song which he liked and retweeted. I was coming more from an angle of bemusement at the fact that if any bounty hunter or extremist had wished to pose harm to Assange's family in retaliation for Wikileaks, even someone like me with zero knowledge of hacking information would be able to narrow down a small triangle of real estate to target his son due to lax online privacy settings.

(Daniel Assange closed his twitter and Facebook accounts shortly afterwards.)