Boaty McBoatface

[slimjim]

So here in UK we are building a new polar exploration vessel



and the Natural Environment Research Council decided to ask the public to suggest possible names with a public vote to find the most popular.... I bet they won't do it again as there were many very silly suggestions which by the look of it tapped into the inner child in us all as the top of the poll, with around 124,000 votes was RRS Boaty McBoatface, among many other suggestions were :

RRS It's Bloody Cold Here; RRS Usain Boat; RRS Boatimus Prime; RRS I Like Big Boats & I Cannot Lie; RRS Ice Ice Baby; RRS Big Metal FloatyThingy-Thing; RRS Obi-Boat-Kenobi; RRS Boatasaurus Rex; RRS Boat Marley and The Whalers; RRS Clifford the Big Red Boat; RRS Chill.I.Am; RRS BippityBoppirtyFloatyBoaty; RRS Hank The Angry Drunken Dwarf; RRS Mötorboat; RRS Millennium Falcon; RRS Icey Smashy-Smash and RRS Boatback Mountain

Sadly none of these were chosen, they went for the 4th place in the poll - the RRS David Attenborough although showing that they have taken it well and have a sense of humour one of the remote controlled submersible craft WILL be named Boaty McBoatface :rofl:



Although The Yellow Submarine would be an obvious choice

 

[dargelos]

I thought the name on the mock up had a certain ring to it.

 

[gb2000ie]

And the moral of the story is that the public are idiots! Remind me, why do we trust them to elect our governments?

I have to say, I just love RRS Icey Smashy-Smash.

Seriously though, I can't think of a more worthy Brit to name an exploration ship after.

B.

 

[c750dt]

LMAO. They poll the public and everyone's like oh, just call it Boaty McBoatface.

Why tell the people they can pick the name if they really can't? It's not like any harm would come of naming the boat Boaty McBoatface.

 

[slimjim]

And the moral of the story is that the public are idiots! Remind me, why do we trust them to elect our governments?
I have to say, I just love RRS Icey Smashy-Smash.
B.

Well there was that recent public vote to decide where Justin Bieber should tour - and the winner by a huge margin was Nth Korea!!

I'm torn between Boatimus Prime and Big Metal FloatyThingy-Thing :rofl::thumbs up:

 

[c750dt]

Boatback Mountain makes me giggle. Oh also, remember this poll with Mountain Dew? LMAO @ Fapple. https://anon.to/J5Ya8F

 

[heyisthis4real]

yyyeesss

 

[slimjim]

Just been listening to a report about it on the BBC - there were over 7000 names suggested!!

 

[james1981]

Hey so I"m usually a stodgy and sciency kind of person and really like David Attenborough. It certainly is a prestigious honour to name a ship after him and to have a ship named after him.

However, think about the name Boaty McBoatface. That kind of name would get lots of people really interested in the ship, what it is doing, what it is all about. Gee wiz, they might actually learn something... from Boaty McBoatface! I actually think the entire thing is a stroke of genius. They really should have went with the public name. Parents would have taken their kids to see Boaty McBoatface; kids would be delighted to visit Boaty McBoatface; British scientists would be happy to explain what Boaty McBoatface is up to.

Also, the ship does look like a Boaty McBoatface, to be perfectly honest. The submarine looks cartoonist too.

 

[brmstn69]

Hey so I"m usually a stodgy and sciency kind of person and really like David Attenborough. It certainly is a prestigious honour to name a ship after him and to have a ship named after him.

However, think about the name Boaty McBoatface. That kind of name would get lots of people really interested in the ship, what it is doing, what it is all about. Gee wiz, they might actually learn something... from Boaty McBoatface! I actually think the entire thing is a stroke of genius. They really should have went with the public name. Parents would have taken their kids to see Boaty McBoatface; kids would be delighted to visit Boaty McBoatface; British scientists would be happy to explain what Boaty McBoatface is up to.

Also, the ship does look like a Boaty McBoatface, to be perfectly honest. The submarine looks cartoonist too.

You actually hit on something there... Imagine an animated educational children's program...

"The Adventures Of Boaty McBoatface"

Not to mention a potential crossover with "Sponge Bob Squarepants" for sweeps week...

 

[gb2000ie]

Hey so I"m usually a stodgy and sciency kind of person and really like David Attenborough. It certainly is a prestigious honour to name a ship after him and to have a ship named after him.

However, think about the name Boaty McBoatface. That kind of name would get lots of people really interested in the ship, what it is doing, what it is all about. Gee wiz, they might actually learn something... from Boaty McBoatface! I actually think the entire thing is a stroke of genius. They really should have went with the public name. Parents would have taken their kids to see Boaty McBoatface; kids would be delighted to visit Boaty McBoatface; British scientists would be happy to explain what Boaty McBoatface is up to.

Also, the ship does look like a Boaty McBoatface, to be perfectly honest. The submarine looks cartoonist too.

You're on to something there. This could have been turned into a big boost for polularising science.

I guess the counter-arument is that it makes a mockery of a very serious, and very expensive, scientific instrument.

I'm not sure the dusty halls of government beaurocracy are ready to fund a Boaty McBoatface, but it would have been fun if they had been!

B.

 

[slimjim]

Well if the heads of departments at NERC had just decided amongst themselves to name the boat "Arctic Explorer" or something similar almost no-one would have known anything about it, or the research work it is planned to be used for whereas now it's been all over the media. And as the name has been chosen, and co-incidentely today happens to be David Attenborough's 90th birthday, the story is featured again in some of todays Sunday paper. I read that there were over 124,000 votes for Boaty McBoatface.

There is now a new on-line petition to rename Sir David Attenborough......yeah you guessed correctly - to Boaty McBoatface:rofl:

 

[gb2000ie]

There is now a new on-line petition to rename Sir David Attenborough......yeah you guessed correctly - to Boaty McBoatface:rofl:[/COLOR][/FONT][/I][/B]

LOL - surely "whisperer McWhisperson" would be more appropriate, given his very distinctive delivery.

B.

 

[dargelos]

In time of war the ship would change to a military role under the command of the Royal Navy.
How silly would Boaty McBoatface sound then?
No more silly, to British ears, than the American Navy ship USS Ponce.

 

[gb2000ie]

In time of war the ship would change to a military role under the command of the Royal Navy.
How silly would Boaty McBoatface sound then?
No more silly, to British ears, than the American Navy ship USS Ponce.

I dunno - I'd quite like to see the Queen pinning a medal to a Captain for bravery while commanding the HMS Boaty McBoatface!

B.

 

[buffpaul]

no matter the name, cant swim.

 

[netdick]

I was a yes, but I don't mind the actual name. I think it's a great mark of respect to the man! 2. X-Men 2 (2003)