A £200 million research vessel to be named "Boaty McBoatface" by the voting public

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A £200 million research vessel to be named "Boaty McBoatface" by the voting public Anonymous 03/21/16 (Mon) 00:41:58 No.345193

A £200 million research vessel to be named "Boaty McBoatface" by the voting public

https://archive.is/jsNf2

>An open vote has been set up to name the next Royal Research Ship (RRS), with the public allowed to come up and vote for new names of the vessel.

>The £200 million (€256 million) ship is due to take to the seas and explore the Arctic and Antarctic from 2019, but the current front-runner for the vessel's name is already gathering a lot of attention: RRS Boaty McBoatface.

>If the name sticks, Boaty will replace the RRS James Clark Ross and RRS Ernest Shackleton in their researching purposes.

>Other names in the running include RRS David Attenborough (currently running in third favourite), while other funny titles include the RRS Ice Ice Baby, and the RRS Usain Boat.

>You can vote for the boat's name from the broken link in the archive link

>voting

>democracy

kek

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Anonymous 03/21/16 (Mon) 00:45:19 No.345198

>>345193

Surprised the SS Adolf Hitler didn't win. /pol/ is getting complacent.

Anonymous 03/21/16 (Mon) 01:06:02 No.345210

>online vote gets spammed by tards who aren't me

>definitive proof memocracy doesn't work

>big meaty cocks slapping my face

Anonymous 03/21/16 (Mon) 01:12:40 No.345216

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Anonymous 03/21/16 (Mon) 01:30:49 No.345231

>>345198

That's way too blatant. Needs to be more subtle, like the SS Officer, or the SS Interrogator.

Anonymous 03/21/16 (Mon) 04:56:58 No.345412

>the general public is fucking stupid

COLOUR ME SURPRISED

tbh I kek'd

Anonymous 03/21/16 (Mon) 05:07:36 No.345417

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lel

Anonymous 03/21/16 (Mon) 05:09:17 No.345420

>>345193

lol

Anonymous 03/21/16 (Mon) 05:12:21 No.345422

Someone needs to spam another name to the top of the list, it's clear what is currently there is some kind of youtube/reddit humor thing and it disgusts me

Anonymous 03/21/16 (Mon) 06:20:30 No.345443

>>345231

>SS Officer

kek

Anonymous 03/21/16 (Mon) 06:44:19 No.345473

>>345422

>>345231

Tell /pol/ and /cow/ about it.

I'm sure they'd jump on the opportunity.

Anonymous 03/21/16 (Mon) 08:49:18 No.345517

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Millenials must be gassed.

Anonymous 03/21/16 (Mon) 09:30:16 No.345526

>>345422

you dont think boaty mcboatface is kind of funny? The other "funny" names are dogshit but i would drunkenly ram boaty mcboatface into a couples rowboat any day

Anonymous 03/21/16 (Mon) 09:33:42 No.345528

>>345526

I actually kinda dig it but maybe it should be RRS Turd Ferguson

Anonymous 03/21/16 (Mon) 12:00:05 No.345582

>>345517

What year were you born fam? Don't lie.

Anonymous 03/21/16 (Mon) 12:08:28 No.345587

I'd prefer a play on words than some lazy, normalfag shit. Something degenerate like Good Ship Mollydrop would be funny. Or SS Dindu.

Anonymous 03/21/16 (Mon) 12:31:29 No.345610

This is pretty much exactly how bad all English writing is across the entertainment industry.

Anonymous 03/21/16 (Mon) 12:41:50 No.345628

Personally, I think Icey McIcechest works better, but w/e

:)

Anonymous 03/21/16 (Mon) 12:49:20 No.345636

>>345193

They also said the name wouldn't be guaranteed even if it won.

Anonymous 03/21/16 (Mon) 13:37:16 No.345658

It's like David Gaider solely named that ship.

Anonymous 03/21/16 (Mon) 13:44:51 No.345662

>>345193

Democracy is the idea that a large collection of immature idiots can make a decision better than a small team of vetted and competent professionals.

Anonymous 03/21/16 (Mon) 14:39:31 No.345701

This is pretty clever, really.

It's silly humour, classically enjoyed by the British since Spike and Monty.

It's non offensive, increasing chances of wider public support.

It's not a clever joke but it is a fucking humiliating name for a ship, which I enjoy very much.

All in all, 10/10. I would have preferred something like "RRS Titanic" or "RRS ARE ARE ESS" or even "RRS Pol Pot" but we can't have everything.

Anonymous 03/21/16 (Mon) 14:52:44 No.345719

>>345662

And fascism is the idea that a competent professional artist or neurosurgeon is going to be able to make competent decisions about economics and entrepreneurship because "they've got a large IQ and are the same race as me lol."

Anonymous 03/21/16 (Mon) 15:00:26 No.345728

>>345719

Actually, I support a republic. At least there, the idiots can only make decisions on slightly less idiotic and much more committed people doing the decision-making for them.

Anonymous 03/21/16 (Mon) 15:16:32 No.345746

>>345719

Very intelligent men are smart enough to know they need the help of other, very intelligent men to run complicated operations.

Anonymous 03/21/16 (Mon) 16:54:20 No.345828

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>this catastrophe of a "vote"

this is why you don't let retards have any input into a serious scientific venture

Anonymous 03/21/16 (Mon) 17:04:41 No.345837

>>345828

For time man of the year or new mountain dew flavors however, it's quite appropriate!

:D

Anonymous 03/21/16 (Mon) 17:08:53 No.345840

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>>345828

yes. science. very serious!

Anonymous 03/21/16 (Mon) 17:28:49 No.345850

>>345193

Democracy

Anonymous 03/21/16 (Mon) 19:14:06 No.345918

>>345840

Sure, science is very important, I'd argue anon. Kinda hard to have things like CS:GO or Mountain Dew w/o it heh.

:D

Anonymous 03/21/16 (Mon) 19:15:30 No.345920

>>345837

That's different.

>how do i market my mediocre product to the drooling masses?

>let's put up a vote and let the drooling masses pick the most marketable name for us

Anonymous 03/21/16 (Mon) 19:21:15 No.345924

>>345920

Yeah, I'm joking anyway anon. In measured doses this kind of stunt is OK (eg, the ISS American treadmill), but for something as the name of a nation's premiere research vessel it's a silly idea.

Anonymous 03/21/16 (Mon) 19:49:31 No.345957

>>345526

No, boaty mcboatface is the kind of thing "quirky" 20-something morbidly obese women on tumblr and retarded 12 year olds on youtube think is hi-larious.

I guess if you were shitfaced it would be kind of funny, maybe.

Anonymous 03/21/16 (Mon) 20:21:44 No.345982

There are people here who actually defend fascism.

But it doesn't work faggots, it goes agaunst human nature, don't come to me with silly excuses, if it were to happen modern day, would you be happy with having less freedoms than you already do and to be utterly crushed under a boot if you were to speak against the system(way more than today)?. It's like you are compliant masochists.

Anonymous 03/21/16 (Mon) 21:51:41 No.346110

>>345701

Agree, better than the Africuck Usain Bolt BLACK COCK one.

Anonymous 03/21/16 (Mon) 22:13:17 No.346123

>>345957

You are taking this way too seriously, have some fun in your life man, not everything has to he offensive.

Anonymous 03/21/16 (Mon) 22:20:03 No.346130

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>Endeavor (1764)

>Discovery (1875)

>Meteor (1925)

>Albatross (1947)

>Boaty McBoatface (present day)

Anonymous 03/21/16 (Mon) 22:20:44 No.346132

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the general public is genius

Anonymous 03/22/16 (Tue) 07:07:19 No.346569

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>>345193

What a lazy, shitty normalfag tier name.

Personally I would vote for RRS Robert Falcon Scott, just for good luck :^)

Anonymous 03/22/16 (Tue) 09:06:36 No.346691

>>346130

welcome to the 21st century

what does dignity mean again?

Anonymous 03/22/16 (Tue) 09:26:13 No.346708

It will not be allowed.

You can't just register any puerile ,"random" ,teenage attempt at humour.

Anonymous 03/22/16 (Tue) 09:46:24 No.346719

>>346708

I don't see why Boaty McBoatface would be rejected by the IMO. NERC might reject it but I see no reason it wouldn't be allowed in maritime law.

Anonymous 03/22/16 (Tue) 10:11:37 No.346736

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Yes, please. This will be the biggest achievement in shitpost history.

Anonymous 03/22/16 (Tue) 10:12:04 No.346737

>>346130

>>346691

Don't blame the general public solely for this outcome. It is cuck's revenge. Democracy is taken from you. Sugar tax is piled upon you. Then when you're given some token democratic gesture just to keep you placated and busy, like being able to name a research boat… you get your keks by calling it RRS Tittyboatface.

It's kind of like when the nazis occupied the channel islands and some construction worker embedded a little "V for Victory" into the pavement. You know you can't make a serious impact, so you just do lame cynical shit.