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Post by roidhun on Aug 19, 2023 4:18:23 GMT
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Post by CharlesX on Aug 19, 2023 6:16:28 GMT
(shrugs at roidhun 's cold glare) I didn't participate in this original poll, but honestly I reckoned at the time there has to be an alternative between a name that's too pompous and a name that's - well, Boaty McBoatface. I still do, which is why I voted "some other". That's me, Perot '92, Perot '96. I kind of get why roidhun is annoyed the government promised they'd name the boat whatever the people suggested - then reneged when it turned out that was a name they didn't like. Edit: Reading on the choices at the time, the public's number two choice was "RRS Poppy-Mai – named after a 16-month-old girl with incurable cancer –", so it's fitting you bring up Keir Starmer because like him, that name would have been dull and bland but pretty fitting. |
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Post by roidhun on Aug 19, 2023 7:57:06 GMT
(shrugs at roidhun 's cold glare) I didn't participate in this original poll, but honestly I reckoned at the time there has to be an alternative between a name that's too pompous and a name that's - well, Boaty McBoatface. I still do, which is why I voted "some other". That's me, Perot '92, Perot '96. I kind of get why roidhun is annoyed the government promised they'd name the boat whatever the people suggested - then reneged when it turned out that was a name they didn't like. Edit: Reading on the choices at the time, the public's number two choice was "RRS Poppy-Mai – named after a 16-month-old girl with incurable cancer –", so it's fitting you bring up Keir Starmer because like him, that name would have been dull and bland but pretty fitting. Well, it seems clear to me now that either I never noticed the proposal to name the ship after this little girl at the time, or I did but I've since managed to forget all about it up until now. It certainly would have been a noble enough gesture that even I wouldn't have complained about it, if only because of the horrible guilt I would deservedly have felt afterwards. HMS Poppy-Mai... yes, I could have gotten behind that if it had happened. But naming it after a (seriously overrated, IMHO) celebrity conservationist and documentary maker and alleged so-called "national treasure"? One whose claims of feeling unworthy of the honour being awarded to him during interviews with the media gave me, at least, a distinct i mpression that he at least might merely be saying things that he felt it was expected of him that he should say, with little if any real sincerity behind them? I think its entirely possible, at least, that deep down he arrogantly does feel deserving of the honour being awarded to him. Even the mere possibility that I even just might be right about any of that means that the anger over all this that I built up at the time hasn't abated one whit in the years since then! And before anybody reading this thinks to ask me this question, I'll save you the trouble: I'm ashamed to have to admit that, yes, when I consider myself aggrieved and provoked enough, I can be a champion grudge-holder! It runs in my family, I'm sorry to say.  Edit: Sincere apologies to anybody reading this who may by now have been left feeling that he's in danger of drowning in italicized text. I'l try to do better in the future.  |
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Post by schlendrian on Aug 19, 2023 8:26:04 GMT
As this is rather central to the question: Was there a promise being made? Because most sources I just checked talk about "suggestion" or "asking for inspiration".
You are right that at least going for RRS Poppy-Mai would have been a nice gesture - or perhaps RRS Blood of the Zombies?
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Post by terrysalt on Aug 19, 2023 10:05:14 GMT
I would be willing to accept a compromise of Boaty McAttenboroughface.
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Post by CharlesX on Aug 19, 2023 10:13:14 GMT
I would be willing to accept a compromise of Boaty McAttenboroughface. Why not Boaty McAttenboroughPoppy-Maiface? No takers? |
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Post by terrysalt on Aug 19, 2023 10:47:18 GMT
I would be willing to accept a compromise of Boaty McAttenboroughface. Why not Boaty McAttenboroughPoppy-Maiface? No takers? Poppy McAttenboroughface and that's my final offer. |
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Post by CharlesX on Aug 19, 2023 10:48:43 GMT
Why not Boaty McAttenboroughPoppy-Maiface? No takers? Poppy McAttenboroughface and that's my final offer. Done! * shakes hand * |
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Post by a moderator on Aug 19, 2023 13:10:54 GMT
Nothing in the forum rules forbids creating a poll like this. However, it is on far too tangential a topic to belong in the 'Individual gamebooks' section.
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roidhun
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Post by roidhun on Aug 19, 2023 15:09:20 GMT
Nothing in the forum rules forbids creating a poll like this. However, it is on far too tangential a topic to belong in the 'Individual gamebooks' section. In which case it must logically belong... where, exactly? |
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Post by a moderator on Aug 19, 2023 16:00:10 GMT
Nothing in the forum rules forbids creating a poll like this. However, it is on far too tangential a topic to belong in the 'Individual gamebooks' section. In which case it must logically belong... where, exactly? General chat. Which is why I moved it there. |
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roidhun
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Post by roidhun on Aug 19, 2023 16:21:03 GMT
Ah, yes, of course! Thanks!
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Post by thealmightymudworm on Aug 19, 2023 17:45:07 GMT
I can't honestly say I cared very much about what the boat was actually named but I did enjoy the episode a lot. Restored a little bit of my pride in being British.
It was a real rookie error. You can ask the public for suggestions; you can ask them to vote for an option from a list, but if you run the two together without a break to remove the 'Twerkmeister and the Bumcheeks'-style suggestions you have only yourself to blame.
It gave us a week or so of countless newsreaders gravely intoning the phrase 'Boaty McBoatface' as though this was vital issue without being allowed to giggle. It reminded me of the sterling job that Moira Stuart did with the Chesterfield by-election:
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Post by CharlesX on Aug 19, 2023 19:29:36 GMT
I like the voting so far, 6 votes for Boaty McBoatface, 2 votes for basically for naming it in sympathy with a terminally ill little girl - and none for the government's preferred option of a barely talented presenter  . |
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Post by bloodbeasthandler on Aug 20, 2023 13:40:32 GMT
If you give the internet a free choice, please don't be surprised by the answer... A Couple Asked The Internet To Name Their Child, And The Winning Name Was Cthulhu All-Spark
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Post by CharlesX on Sept 24, 2023 18:05:30 GMT
You know what this reminds me of?
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