#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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[silverbridge-harbor]

Please, Mr. McBoatface was my father. Call me Mildred

[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’

[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…

[theoriginalsimonb]

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

[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.

[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.

[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

[jltonnere]

The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants

Takeaways from 20 years later (fuck I'm old).

The girls' friendship is still goals and I resent this book for giving me unrealistic expectations about friendship and pants.

These pants must be utterly disgusting if the girls were aggressively sweating in them all summer and they cannot be washed.

Why are all the romances upsettingly large age gaps and how did I never notice before? Bridget and Eric is obvious of course, but Lena and Kostos? Effie and her summer fling? Noo 14/17 and 15/18 is absolutely almost as bad as 15/19.

Bridget definitely has bipolar disorder we just weren't allowed to say it in 2003 I guess.

Eric's monologue to Bridget is so much worse then I remembered. Like you know she's 15 and still say "you've been in my bed every night?" STRAIGHT TO JAIL.

Bridget's and Lena's constant statements about boys their age and older men sexualizing them all the time are so upsetting but also realistic, why are men disgusting?

Carmen's dad was really On Some Shit to not tell her he was engaged and had a whole new family. And like did Lydia just not? Ask to meet her fiance's daughter at any point? Truly wild.

The Tibby/ Bailey story is every bit as devastating as it was when I was a teen, maybe more, this one still wrecks me.

Some of the writing in this is so poetic and captures the magic of that age and I can understand why these books made an impression and why they have stayed with me for so long.

[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.