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R.M.S. Boaty McBoatface: What You Get When You Let the Internet Decide
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2016-03-21 20:19:28
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>A proposal by a British government agency to let the Internet suggest a name for a $287 million polar research ship probably seemed like a good idea at the time.
>Now, the agency is the latest group to see what happens when web users are asked to unleash their creative energy: R.R.S. Boaty McBoatface is a clear front-runner.
>People quickly disregarded the more dignified names suggested by the Natural Environment Research Council — Shackleton, Endeavour, Falcon. Instead the contest became the latest in the Internet’s long, storied history to end up with social media users gleefully offering ridiculous names to government-funded projects.
>The initiatives are often hilarious but don’t often succeed. Remember when Slovak lawmakers overrode the public’s vote in 2012 to rename a pedestrian bridge after the actor Chuck Norris? Or the debacle in Austin, Tex., a year earlier, when people unsuccessfully tried to name the city’s waste management service after Limp Bizkit’s frontman, Fred Durst?
>Corporations have also tried the tactic, and the penalty for trying to play with the Internet tends to be meaner: Mountain Dew learned the hard way when 4 Chan took control of a vote to name a new flavor, and the joke was on Taylor Swift and VH1 when the Internet chose a school for the deaf as a concert location.
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>We have James Hand, a public relations professional and former BBC employee, to thank (blame?) for this latest episode. Mr. Hand became a bit of an overnight sensation when he submitted the name Boaty McBoatface after seeing reports of the competition last week. Then he watched his creation spin completely out of control.
>“The storm that has been created has got legs of its own,” Mr. Hand told the BBC on Monday, and added that he had submitted Boaty McBoatface in another competition. (For what it’s worth, Mr. Hand voted for the name R.R.S. David Attenborough.)
>The research council would not comment on whether it would override the Internet’s suggestion, but Alison Robinson, a spokeswoman, said in an email that the group was “delighted by the enthusiasm and creativity” of people vying for names like Boaty McBoatface. The ship is scheduled to set sail in 2019.
>“We’ve had thousands of suggestions made on the website since we officially launched; many of them reflect the importance of the ship’s scientific role by celebrating great British explorers and scientists,” Ms. Robinson said. “We are pleased that people are embracing the idea in a spirit of fun.”
>Sure they are.
>The poll closes April 16 — that is, if the Natural Environment Research Council can ever get the crashed polling website back online again.
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>>31168
I can't picture any name better than R.M.S. Boaty McBoatface.
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lel
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honestly though, RRS David Attenborough would be a great name
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I still wish they put euronymous on the tailfin
http://thequietus.com/articles/08346-oystein-aarseth-euronymous-mayhem-norwegian-airlines
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>>31180
R.M.S. Richard Matthew Stallman.
Because it's recursive! Get it?
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>>31192
Great perhaps, but Boaty McBoatface would be better
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It is a very boaty looking boat.
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They should pick a name to fit the demographics of 2019 UK, like A.S. Ahkbar
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>>31168
>4 Chan
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>>31168
This was spammed all over /b/, why I am not surprised.
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>>31201
Boaty Miller...
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>>31206
4chan isn't behind this. If we were, it's be the R.M.S Jews Did 9/11.
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>>31198
Just like GNU.
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>>31168
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ik0cqxJElqA
Nothing changes in thousands of years.
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>>31201
I dunno, with these modern-looking foreign "boats" coming in I have a feeling they're secretly trucks pushing the truck agenda.
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Reminds me of the whole Union Flagann thing.
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>>31235
all my keks
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>>31168
What's special about this boat?
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>>31180
RMS Waste of Money
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>>31235
This.
Boaty McBoatface is a reddit-tier normalfag name.
Makes me cringe every time I see the news story. It absolutely reeks of trying too hard to be funny and failing, which is the exact kind of smell Reddit and Facebook grandmas have.
Actually the name is probably below that. It sounds like a name Hillary Clinton would come up with to try and appeal to teenagers. What a disgusting fucking disgrace. I hope it sinks.
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>>33091
Yeah you showed them. Maybe you should think of a cool and edgy name like "niggers aint human" or "Gas all kikes my mom wont let me play 16+ games"
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>>33091
Exactly. When will normalfags learn that if something doesn't give me that special spine tingle I get when I'm being edgy by spouting the same memetic taboos I've been saying for the past several years over and over, it isn't funny at all!
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HMS Big Shipinnit was the best submission i saw
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What about.
!The R.M.S Boat!
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>>33091
Can only keep them edges sharp for so long.
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WE DID IT REDDIT
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>>33128
I have a chalice of fermented piss to celebrate with. DRINK WITH ME FRIENDS!
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BLAS DE LEZO is the best option... because he humillited British army
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>>34495
Spaniard trolling at it's best. It's rising.
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Blas de Lezo sucks
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>>34938
You suck.
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