#Boaty mcboatface

[charlesoberonn]

There’re a lot of possible etymologies for Robin Hood but my favorite is that ‘Robin’ is a play on words on ‘robbing’ and ‘Hood’ is a nickname for a highwayman or a bandit. Because it means that "Robin Hood” would be the medieval equivalent of “Stealing McStealface”.

[bedpolls]

Boaty McBoatyface from the British Natural Environment Research Council

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[secret-diary-of-an-fa]

First of all, I fancy myself a Knight of the Thimble, but that might be more a vocation than an occupation. Secondly: I have never been more proud of the country in which I was born. The sheer breadth and diversity of the piss-taking on display here is what it truly means to be British. I would also like to point out that THIS BULLSHIT is by no means an isolated incident. A few years ago, the British public were asked to vote on the name of a new polar research ship. There was to be a ceremony with members of the royal family when the name was chosen. Can anyone guess what name my glorious fucking countrymen voted for? I'll tell you: they voted, OVERWHELMINGLY for 'Boaty McBoatface'. Not only was this a wilfully stupid name, chosen purely to screw with the serious scientific researchers associated with the boat and, indeed, the entire royal family... but it was also a homage to a previous very silly name, in which the same insane British public had elected to name an adopted owl 'Hooty McOwlface'. Because, y'know, owls... boats... that whole connection? Obviously, the British public were vetoed by the humourless bastards who run the country and actually make decisions and the ship was named the Sir David Attenborough. However, they did name one of the autonomous subs deployed by the vessel Boaty McBoatface, because if they hadn't done something with the name, my fellow Britons might legitimately have flipped their shit. Which means that right now, even as I write this, there's some very important ecological research being done by a bright yellow submarine with a very, very stupid name.

None of this, however, is as funny as 'proprietor of midgest'.

Tag yourself I’m ‘sampler of drugs’

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Goatymcgoatface

[mood2you]

Oosty McPostface

[aume]

I do not want my gravestone claim to fame to read, “I helped name Boaty McBoatface.”

I’m working on it…

[resonanteye]

Every time I see some moral panic article about how some alarming % of teens admit to vaping or smoking or doing drugs or whatever, I think about that time in 9th grade when school handed us a survey on substance use, told us we had to fill it out, and me and a half dozen friends reported that we’d been habitual users of heroin, cocaine, and acid since the age of 9.

[theoriginalsimonb]

Sir David Attenborough - the ship that was nearly named Boaty McBoatface

[duchess-of-lara]

The then Duke & Duchess of Cambridge attended the naming ceremony for The RSS Sir David Attenborough on September 26, 2019 in Birkenhead, England.

[fairyspheres]

every so often, reddit makes me laugh

[truly-sincerely]

Snakehead Snakehead Snakehead

Continuing my "what does MI6 know" train of thought, because I need a B-plot for the mid-season. I've been doing master studies (watching the show and writing down timestamps for when, how often, and why they cut away from Alex)

With Jones assuming Blunt's role in the Department I can't see her traveling personally to Bangkok as she does in Snakehead, so I need at least one person to stay in London to riff with her and two in Bangkok for ground game stuff, but there's only Crawley and Smithers left.

I think Jones is savvy enough to know she needs a foil like she was a foil for Blunt, so I'm gonna have her bring in Wolf because we already know him and we know he's not afraid to tell her she's damned.

"But Cin, would Wolf even want a desk job?" He'll take it if he wants any fucking screen time. Also, this way I can set it up so I can mail him and the rest of K-team to Australia in ep8 so they can do the finale assault with Alex. You all want Wolf and Yassen to meet, I know you do.

Okay, so what's Wolf's name? I've got two options, I think. Since I'm not really using Fox, I can name him Ben Daniels (I think Horowitz mixed up Fox and Wolf in later books anyway so there's precedent) OR I can say his last name really is *drum roll*... Wolfe. Hilarious.

[superbeans89]

I can only see this going well. Any Irish folk on here keen to submit the most unhinged shit ever?

[herleaf]

[colorsinautumn]

Just saw a boat named Cougar Slayer.

[mimithealpaca]

"i wanna draw shippy art, so give me a ship!" #2