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[DeepEnigma]

It's easy to take the internet's vast wealth of information at face value - but things are not always as they seem. Nobody knows this to be true more than Pakistani politician Khurram Nawaz Gandapur.

After seeing a video of a plane narrowly missing a tanker on a runway, he was duly impressed and took to Twitter to lavish praise on the person responsible.

In fact, he was keen to give plaudits to the pilot's 'presence of mind' - only to find out the skillful feat was in fact footage from the video game Grand Theft Auto V.

The (presumably red-faced) Awami Tehreek Secretary General wrote: "Narrow escape of an aircraft which could have ended in a great disaster. Miraculous save by the pilot's presence of mind."

Understandably, the politician later deleted his tweet, but he was relentlessly trolled by people who rightfully found it hilarious.

The video doesn't really look remotely real if you're used to seeing video games but maybe to the untrained eye it could be an easy mistake to make. Maybe.

It's not the first time that the country's politicians have been the victim of technology related blunders.

A live-stream of a political press conference in Pakistan was given quite the makeover after the person streaming it left a cat filter on - with one politician left resplendent in adorable whiskers and pink ears.

The video of regional minister Shaukat Yousafzai speaking to journalists was streamed on Facebook Live and quickly went viral after people spotted the mistake.

Comments flooded in from Facebook users, with one person very helpfully posting: "Remove the filter, the man has been turned into a cat."

Source: LadBible

 

[EverydayBeast]

Fortunately that disaster didn’t happen lol tho nothing more clueless

 

[AlteredForms]

Who said current generation graphics aren't life-like?

 

[MMaRsu]

dat presence

 

[Mista]

The video actually doesn’t have real life graphics nor animations. As an aircraft engineer, what happened isn’t possible in real life. It’s hard to do with an 330, let alone 380.

 

[Pejo]

Wasn't it also Pakistan that was recently in the news when some sort of political panel was broadcasted with the cat ears instagram filter to the public?
*edit* yep

Pakistani Politician Shows Off Bold, New Look

Shaukat Yousafzai, a once-dignified politician, was broadcast to the world Friday with cat ears and whiskers.

www.vice.com

 

[DeepEnigma]

Wasn't it also Pakistan that was recently in the news when some sort of political panel was broadcasted with the cat ears instagram filter to the public?

Yeah, it is in the article, lol.

It's not the first time that the country's politicians have been the victim of technology related blunders.

A live-stream of a political press conference in Pakistan was given quite the makeover after the person streaming it left a cat filter on - with one politician left resplendent in adorable whiskers and pink ears.

The video of regional minister Shaukat Yousafzai speaking to journalists was streamed on Facebook Live and quickly went viral after people spotted the mistake.

Comments flooded in from Facebook users, with one person very helpfully posting: "Remove the filter, the man has been turned into a cat.

However, the conference continued streaming with the filter still on.

The video was deleted from the official Facebook page of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Party minutes after the conference ended, but by that time screenshots were already doing the rounds all over social media, with people asking, 'Who let the cats out?'

It's quite difficult to appear important and serious while sporting a pair of ears and a set of whiskers, but in screengrabs it looks as though Yousafzai just about manages it, don't you think?

 

[scalman]

What year is it?

 

[DeepEnigma]

What year is it?

Year of the clown!

 

[Fbh]

BTW is USA GAF safe?
I heard there's some sort of conflict in you country and the President is in an all out war with the vice president and both are blowing up cities using their high tech robots as this very clearly real footage shows:

 

[Pejo]

BTW is USA GAF safe?
I heard there's some sort of conflict in you country and the President is in an all out war with the vice president and both are blowing up cities using their high tech robots as this very clearly real footage shows:

Stay safe USA-GAF. Chilling.

 

[DeepEnigma]

BTW is USA GAF safe?
I heard there's some sort of conflict in you country and the President is in an all out war with the vice president and both are blowing up cities using their high tech robots as this very clearly real footage shows:

Don't worry, we have a Hulk!

 

[TeamGhobad]

c'mon the graphics aren't that good

 

[Kenpachii]

Real life footage

GTA 5 footage:

I would say, gta 5 > real life.

 

[Fbh]

Don't worry, we have a Hulk!

Oh I see.

Silly of me to forget about the Hulk after just recently watching my favorite real life documentary: Avengers

 

[Kazza]

Better keep this guy away from PCs. If he sees a Civ 6 clip he might think that Gandhi is back from the dead and on a nuclear warpath. It could cause an international incident.

 

[dalekjay]

There's a Brazilian politician that went on parliament camera (which is saved for eternity) to warn the world about the Nibiru Planet which is coming fast towards us.

And he´s of course against weed, and im here just want to know who dealer and which drugs is provided to those politicians