Nice that the Brits still have that marvelous sense of humour.
How about RRS Royal Research Ship.
This.
Reminds me of online polls that do nothing to ensure one vote per unique visitor or even one vote per page visit. A moonbat at another board I frequent insisted on using one such poll as evidence of a growing Truth Movement.
What insane “Truth” did he think was having growing support?
Hearing this on the news as I was getting dressed today really made my day. Every time I think about it, I smile. Clearly I’m easily amused, but c’mon, this is funny!
A press conference to discuss the decision will be held in the Butthead Memorial Auditorium. Damn, we shouldn’t have let the students name that one.
H.M.S Brass Monkey was robbed.
Regards,
Shodan
About 5 years ago, the City of Austin decided to rename the Solid Waste Services (trash and recycling collection) department. They conducted an online poll.
The city chose to go with “Austin Resource Recovery” instead.
A lesson well learned by Greenpeace years ago, when they had a “Name The Whale” contest, having no doubt that something beautiful and meaningful would result.
The runaway winner: “Mister Splashy Pants”.
I’m grinning like a loon at ‘RRS Boaty McBoatface’. I hope NERC has the good grace not to use its veto.
This reminds me of the time Mountain Dew asked the internet to name its new flavor.
It’s named for Sir Nigel “Boaty” McBoatface, leader of the ill-fated Pestilence Island expedition of 1868.
The notion that 9/11 was an inside job.
'Course, all that the poll did was show loons have way too much time on their hands.
Our power company has a peregrine falcon nest, with cameras. Names are solicited each year and I don’t know who, for sure, has the final say. This comes after what happened one year when it was a drawing, with names submitted by employees.
If you were a noble bird like a peregrine falcon, would you like to be shackled with the name Beaky McFeatherton?
Polar My Finger
Best beloved and I were talking about that this morning…it has been decided that one of the felines shall now be known as Catty McCatface.
The naming website is back up! The poetry of RRS Boaty McBoatface aside, I find myself partial to RRS Boat Marley & the Whalers, RRS Hull Be Back, and my personal favorite at the moment, RRS Bippityboppity Floatilyboatily.
This whole faradiddle about the boat reminded me of a bath tub toy one of my boys had. The boat had two Weeble-like figures that rode in it - a Mickey Mouse and a Minnie Mouse. We called it the Mickey Minnie Floaty Boaty.
On these various polls I wonder if they make the cardinal error of showing other people’s selections?
If they have a trending top 10 list or whatever then even if we ignore bots, what we most encourage is the tendency for the stupidest follower-est idjits to “like” whatever’s in the lead when they look at the list.
Which very quickly makes whatever random selection was in first when the story went viral the runaway winner. Followers don’t enjoy voting for #12. This is how Trump will end up as Prez if we’re not real careful & a lot lucky.
The right way to do a vote like that is to make the list of existing suggestions appear in a different random order on each page view. With no indication of which are popular and which are one-vote wonders. Give people the choice to add their own or pick an existing one. And put the input box for fresh suggestions at the top, not the bottom.
Great idea, Mr Killjoy McKilljoyson.