General / Off-Topic Behold – the RRS Boaty McBoatface

David T-Rex

David T-Rex
Sometimes I hate the country and the people in it then something like this comes along and restores my faith in the world.

A £200 million Royal Research Ship, at the forefront of British naval engineering, deserves a proud, strong name to match the might of the vessel.

Behold – the RRS Boaty McBoatface. This could be the reality as the joke name leads an open online vote to name the new ship, having picked up more than 15,000 votes.
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http://metro.co.uk/2016/03/20/boaty...ne-poll-for-name-of-new-research-ship-5763140
 

jamesviago

jamesviago
that is awesome. i hope they have the courage to go ahead and name it that. it may seem flippant, but it will give the sailors a smile every day, and the people they serve, and it will maintain a viral cult following. there will be websites dedicated to following the ship, she will probably have a twitter feed and all. it's a marketing and publicity coup, they should take advantage of it.
 

David T-Rex

David T-Rex
jamesviago said:
that is awesome. i hope they have the courage to go ahead and name it that. it may seem flippant, but it will give the sailors a smile every day, and the people they serve, and it will maintain a viral cult following. there will be websites dedicated to following the ship, she will probably have a twitter feed and all. it's a marketing and publicity coup, they should take advantage of it.
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The fact its gone viral will help promote the work they are doing - there are already a number of spoof accounts on Twiiter.

(For those that want to follow me https://twitter.com/davidtrexUK)
 
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