i cant believe they have a contests to name the boat and "Boaty McBoatface" wins and now they wont let it keep the name.
what a waste of time and money to create the contests if they are just going to pick their own name anyways
Right what happened was we had a ship created and then a contest was made to come up with a name for it. As a prank someone suggested the name boaty mcboatface which cought on as a joke. It did win the contest but it wasn't going to be called that eventually. Thank goodness.
Right what happened was we had a ship created and then a contest was made to come up with a name for it. As a prank someone suggested the name boaty mcboatface which cought on as a joke. It did win the contest but it wasn't going to be called that eventually. Thank goodness.
Right what happened was we had a ship created and then a contest was made to come up with a name for it. As a prank someone suggested the name boaty mcboatface which cought on as a joke. It did win the contest but it wasn't going to be called that eventually. Thank goodness.
Why not?
i would love to serve on the RSS Boaty McBoatface
It was our government who had the last word and these are *holes. Believe me.
Right what happened was we had a ship created and then a contest was made to come up with a name for it. As a prank someone suggested the name boaty mcboatface which cought on as a joke. It did win the contest but it wasn't going to be called that eventually. Thank goodness.
Why not?
i would love to serve on the RSS Boaty McBoatface
It was our government who had the last word and these are *holes. Believe me.
it didn't just win it had 4 times as many votes as second place
Right what happened was we had a ship created and then a contest was made to come up with a name for it. As a prank someone suggested the name boaty mcboatface which cought on as a joke. It did win the contest but it wasn't going to be called that eventually. Thank goodness.
Why not?
i would love to serve on the RSS Boaty McBoatface
It was our government who had the last word and these are *holes. Believe me.
it didn't just win it had 4 times as many votes as second place
It was an embarrassing idea by our stupid government they didn't think a name like that get through so in the end they have the power to change the name. It's in a long list of stupid things our government has done and won't be the last.
It was an embarrassing idea by our stupid government they didn't think a name like that get through so in the end they have the power to change the name. It's in a long list of stupid things our government has done and won't be the last.
But there was no harm in leaving the name. It's silly, so what. The anger is over the change and the lying about a contest- I bet if they had left it there would be little complaining about a cute, silly name. But announcing a contest you had no plan on letting people pick the winner of the way you advertised it- its wrong. Contests aren't always won by who YOU want to win - live with the outcome, don't be a bad sport and call it all off because your not winning the contest
Sorta reminiscent of the brouhaha back in the 80s over the choice of mascot at UC Santa Cruz. The student body had chosen via referendum the banana slug, while the university president thought that inappropriate and wanted the sea lion. Fortunately, the students eventually prevailed.
i cant believe they have a contests to name the boat and "Boaty McBoatface" wins and now they wont let it keep the name.
what a waste of time and money to create the contests if they are just going to pick their own name anyways
Sorta reminiscent of the brouhaha back in the 80s over the choice of mascot at UC Santa Cruz. The student body had chosen via referendum the banana slug, while the university president thought that inappropriate and wanted the sea lion. Fortunately, the students eventually prevailed.
Right what happened was we had a ship created and then a contest was made to come up with a name for it. As a prank someone suggested the name boaty mcboatface which cought on as a joke. It did win the contest but it wasn't going to be called that eventually. Thank goodness.
Sorta reminiscent of the brouhaha back in the 80s over the choice of mascot at UC Santa Cruz. The student body had chosen via referendum the banana slug, while the university president thought that inappropriate and wanted the sea lion. Fortunately, the students eventually prevailed.
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what a waste of time and money to create the contests if they are just going to pick their own name anyways
They didn't get a name they like - So they negate the contest.
GO BOATY!
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it is not offensive to anyone or anything and just makes people smile at the name.
Why not?
i would love to serve on the RSS Boaty McBoatface
Live life to the full
Love you Davo Rest in paradise
it didn't just win it had 4 times as many votes as second place
that is a tough one
it will sound funny and people will smile about people dying because Boaty McBoatface is funny
it will always be knows as Boaty McBoatface now anyways no matter what it says on the side
Live life to the full
Love you Davo Rest in paradise
Indeed it shall - I would never think different of it at this point
But there was no harm in leaving the name. It's silly, so what. The anger is over the change and the lying about a contest- I bet if they had left it there would be little complaining about a cute, silly name. But announcing a contest you had no plan on letting people pick the winner of the way you advertised it- its wrong. Contests aren't always won by who YOU want to win - live with the outcome, don't be a bad sport and call it all off because your not winning the contest
Why do a contest then cheat the winners out of the win? Not like it's called the S.S **** or something, it's harmless :roll:
Totally agree
Mands xxx
I was wondering what i was going to see when i opened this thread being the title, i was quite pleasantly surprised
Well, its certainly unique.