@@SamauraiRippeROr was it just an example of the continued dumbing down of Britain, taking us closer to American “intelligence”? And humour-wise, we can do so much better
@michaeljohn1978 There will always be a percentage of people for whom that will be true, no matter the context. However I would truly despair if the intelligent, hardworking ones had no sense of humour themselves.
Snowplough/gritting macines have been named Salt Disney, Blizzard of Oz; Yes Sir, Ice Can Boogie and my personal favourite Gritsy Bitsy Teeny Weeny Yellow Anti-Slip Machiney
Just wait it doesn't end there, a council somewhere wanted the public to name the new ice gritter for the roads, it seems they didn't learn their lesson as the winner was "Gary gritter"
This story broke here in Sweden at around the same time that the new express trains between Sweden's capital and second largest city was getting launched and the first train needed a name. The vast majority of votes quite predictably went to "Trainy McTrainface". The train company used the situation for PR and officially named the train exactly that "Because WE listen!" - so every time I get on board the train with that moronic name I grind my teeth and think "Darn Britons!"
I think a rash of copycat names rippled across the world, infecting all similar public naming competitions - Ferry McFerryFace in Sydney springs to mind! 😉⛴
We may be a small country but our dry sense of humour, poking fun at authority, self deprecating attitude and general level of silliness is unrivaled. Long may it continue. 🇬🇧
If the person they actually named the vessel after had been anyone other than Sir David Attenborough, there would have been outrage. That's the reverence with which he is regarded in the UK. People went yeah, OK. We've had a good laugh at the expense of the suits in charge and it would have been fuckin' awesome to have had a ship sailing around with that name, but it is David Attenborough, so fair enough".
I don't like him. Can't stand it when he watches animals die and claims it's nature. Despite the fact humans are still part of nature, and have the power to save a animal. And if that animal is lucky enough to have a human in a position to save it then it should be saved.
@@topcat807 This is always a moral quandary. But the educational value of his programmes in terms of raising consciousness about the natural world would have been diminished had it not shown the grim realities. ("Grim" at least for the prey, not necessarily the predator.)
@topcat807 It is nature, it hinted for food by another animal as part of the food chain. Plus if its too weak to survive in the wild, it will have to live in captivity if that's even possible. Some animals do not survive in captivity.
a few years ago my local ferry company announced a public vote to name the new ferry, included in the notice was "NO we wont be accepting Ferry McFerryface so dont even ask" they still got flooded with insane suggestions and shut down the poll.
Another gem I heard recently.... during the Wapping protests in the 80/90s by the journalists, the Police decided that they weren’t allowed to shout ‘scab’ at anyone going in to work, or they’d be arrested. The crowd split into two, with one side shouting ‘Sssss’ and the other side shouting ‘cab’ immediately after. Brilliant!
Another good one is the South Yorkshire Police Operations Complex built in the late 1990s. The police were asked to put forward a name for the new quarter mile road leading up to it, and as a joke they suggested the name "Letsby Avenue" (try saying it). Fortunately the council had a sense of humour as well, and Letsby Avenue S9 1XY is on all maps.
The mobile catering units used by the Met (to provide hot cuppas and sarnies for coppers and techs working roadblocks or crime scenes at half-past-christ in the morning in the rain) went by the callsign TEAPOT-1 and TEAPOT-2. Sadly, I think TEAPOT-2 was only in service for a very brief period, and TEAPOT-1 was finally shut down in (I believe) 2018-2019.
The Police station in St. Ives (Cambs, not Cornwall) is on a road that mysteriously changes its name to Broad Leas about half way down. Its name before that changeover? Pig Lane.
Something similar happened in norway a while ago, during talks of merging the 2 northernmost counties, a newspaper held an informal naming poll. The winner, by far, was Mordor.
So true. I remember some years ago on Team Rock radio, the DJ kept playing a song that many listeners didn't think was rock, and so should not be played on the radio. The DJ was not happy. He really wasn't. He was clearly extremely irritated by the amount of grief he was getting. So he gave the listeners an ultimatum. A choice between hearing that same song again, or hearing something from S Club 7. The metalheads voted and S Club 7 got played on Team Rock Radio. It was a great day, and that DJ learned a lesson.
In a Scandinavian country they did a national tv programme where they asked the children to try and save electricity in their house and it instantly showed a reduction in electricity demand on the nation's national grid. They tried this with British kids and they all ran round plugging in appliances and turning them on. Thankfully this was a small scale experiment and not on national tv. 🤣
The story i heard was that in the 1970s the then PM saw one of the Scandinavian PMs went on tv asking the populace to help save electricity with a large gauge on screen and watched it drop. When the British pm said he'd like to try the same his advisors pointed out that the British were more likely to turn on every light inn the house to see the gauge spin up, just out of sheer bloody mindedness. The advisor was probably right!
My friend and I were caught putting a glass bottle into a non recycling bin by a group of Germans who screamed at us from a nearby balcony. At dead of night we tiptoed, giggling, to the bin and put that bottle inside. I should add that we are two middle aged, middle class law abiding women, but we’re also British……
Life long expat of British origin here. The UK still has its moments that make me proud. Rage against the machine getting to Christmas number one in protest over whatever Simon cowells thing was, is perfect example of that. Seem to be fewer examples lately. Hope my beautiful country of birth gets back on its feet soon.
I believe the de facto UK Xmas number one 2024 was the song about pensioners freezing because the Labour govt has taken away their winter fuel allowance. The po-faced gits at the BBC refused to play it on the radio.
In recent times they have learned to not give us the opportunity to choose or take the piss. Protesting against this is also now a criminal offence. Killjoys!
Sir David Attenborough does have great track record for supporting out there humour. While he was head of the BBC he was approach by a bunch of young comedians with a pitch for a series without an actual proposal. He should have shown them the door for a nothing burger, they hadn't even talked amongst themselves about what they were going to say - but he said ok, why not? So, Monty Python was born.
My favourite was Manchester City asking for nominations to name the new stand & Colin Bell was a massive winner until they realised it would of been referred to the bell end 🤣🤣🤣only the brits eh lol
I was thinking about that while listening to Friday's storm raging outside. Scottish Twitter's finest hour - it ended up trending worldwide causing much confusion to non-Scots!
I can shed some light on this - as I knew the team at NERC personally (who were very professional), and who managed this exercise. This was part of a much wider 'stakeholder engagement' programme to engage the UK public in a greater appreciation of environmental science. The building of the new RRS research ship was seen as a great opportunity to hold a poll for suggestions of names for the ship - it was never a binding vote or competition, or an exercise 'in democracy'. Like all public initiatives, there is the expectation for people to respond appropriately, however there is always the recognition that there will be wildcard suggestions and people taking the opportunity to 'have fun', and for some to troll any public poll, and/or produce a ridiculous result. (Therefore, in my view are risky and require delicate handling, and clear guidelines and caveats from the outset). In this instance where the website poll was promoted through social media, it attracted many great suggestions + many fun ones including 'Boaty'. It was purely the Brit quirky sense of humour that stoked the voting, hence the outcome - and once it escalated on social media the Press and TV/Radio Broadcasters around the world picked up on it. FYI the Sir David Attenborough was the no.2 in the poll and recognised as the winning 'sensible' suggestion. This was endorsed by the Minster (Rt Hon Jo Johnson MP) responsible for the Government Department that funded Science and Research including NERC. Martin Donnelly, who you see on the video, was a senior civil servant. He was being absolutely correct here saying that it was a poll for suggestions. That's very different (legally) from a public competition, which has different guidelines and constraints - so he was right to correct the MP asking the question. What you didn't see was the separate Parliamentary Committee of the CEO of NERC and Department Head explaining and clarifying the whole exercise, and providing the reassurance that common sense did prevail throughout the handling of the response. Given this 'public engagement' exercise was humorously subverted by the 'Boaty' suggestion the committee (comprised of MPs) saw and understood it for the humorous outcome it generated (i.e. the laughs, publicity, and high no. of votes and shares on social media), but undertook the process so as to clarify the position, as it was a government funded body - to ensure full accountability and transparency. Needless to say the impact and humour in which the whole exercise was handled ensured that the public were kept 'onboard' by assigning 'Boaty' to a very cool and sophisticated piece of marine kit (a robotic submersible), while maintaining the integrity of naming the research ship in line with the heritage of the predecessor RRS ships going back to RRS Discovery of 1901, sailed by Ernest Shackleton to the Antarctic. ...And as a side note, the publicity resulted in reaching 230 million people globally!
They played a blinder in naming it after Sir David Attenborough, if they had tried to call it something like "The arctic explorer", there would have been outrage, but when it is an international treasure like Sir David, we all sort of said OK fair enough, we cant argue with that name... 😂😂
Could have called it ‘the Professor David Bellamy ‘, a genuine scientist for😂ced out of the public eye when he showed ❤he nonsense spouted by non qualified people like At😂tenborough were talking BS.
Shropshire County Council have a web page listing the name of all their road gritters, including Grit the Road Jack Snowcial Distancing David Plowie Gritter Thunberg and more
The swedish had a similar contest in 2017 to name a new train. The winner with 49% of the votes was Trainy McTrainface, and unlike the british they actually went with it. Two other trains were named also, one got the name Estelle which is the name of the swedish princess, and the other one was named Glenn as it is a popular name in Gothenburg.
Had the poll been for a train in the UK, they would have probably gone with it as well. But the train driver doesn’t have to use the name of the train in an emergency, he’d use the running number, like a planes flight number. On a ship, if you have to make a call, you need to use the ships name. Especially in a distress call! You don’t want everyone laughing at you whilst you’re requesting help. A ships name has to be professional… unfortunately! 😂
@@MichaelJones-mk5vq It was the year after the Boaty McBoatface situation, which the Swedes were well aware of, I guess. So it would have been in direct response to that. :)
The exquisite humour of this episode in the UK context is the reverence in which the Royal Navy (the Senior Service) was traditionally held. Inter-Service rivalry may also have something to do with it. When a retired Admiral was drafted in to talk on national radio about why it wasn't a good idea to call an expensive research ship 'Boaty McBoatface' I was doubled up with laughter.
@@raycope2086 It was an Emma Goldman quote. She was a famous anarchist. Twain copied it. The first record of him saying or writing it, was 5 years after Goodman said it.
Years ago I had a summer job in a factory that did dairy products like yoghurts and mousse, cream, stuff like that. The factory was knocked down and a housing estate built. The main road was Pasture Rise.
The man is almost a god. I sometimes think he might just go on forever. When his time eventually comes (may it be decades yet), I wouldn't be surprised if the reaction is similar to when we lost the Queen.
Keep going Sir Dave. My first memories of the natural world are you in khaki shorts in a jungle in the 1950s and then going on to bothering Armadillos, which I thought were a brilliant improvement on our humble hedgehog. Later educating us from the top of a massive pile of guano. You then led BBC2 to produce brilliant programming like Civilisation, Horizon, Monty Python and a whole ethos of quality output. Followed by a very smart move away from the conventional executive career path back into natural history programming to help BBC natural history teams deliver breathtaking programs. May your genome continue to grant you at least another ten years and some influence over the great and the breeding as well as the rest of us who enable them ❤❤❤🎉
In Bristol, there's a local phrase for thanking a bus driver which is "Cheers, drive!", and it's become so established in Bristol that there's now a street called Cheers Drive.
We also say that in Hull to bus or taxi drivers, I've been called that as well by a customer but I'm neither, I work at a 24 hour petrol station and I sold him some beer. Cheers Drive!
Ferry McFerryface was the name chosen for a Sydney Harbour ferry by popular vote. Unfortunately the name did not make it past the Minister for Transport.
British sense of humour. He really didn't want to say Boaty McBoatface. We're really pleased it was named after David. David does have a very good sense of humour. David Attenborough is well known in the UK for his excellent wildlife programs, but he also does a lot of other things. Him and his brother Richard were brought up in Leicester. We are very proud of both of them
I remember the former First Sea Lord “Lord West of Spithead” going against its naming on the grounds that it wasn’t a boat but a ship and “you couldn’t call it shippy McShipFace as the name could have caused a number of unfortunate spoonerisms”. You may find Lord West interesting as he’s quite the character.
@@brianmurray8247 The submersible is, but the RRS it was carried by is a ship. The definitions get technical, but if one of the Admiralty says RRS Sir David Attenborough is a ship not a boat, I'm not going to argue with him.
Technically you're describing a malapropism rather than a Spoonerism. 'Malapropisms and spoonerisms are both humorous linguistic errors and literary devices. However, there is a key difference: Malapropisms confuse similar-sounding words. Spoonerisms mix up the initial sounds of multiple words within a phrase.'
I work for the organisation that decided to open the vote to the public to name the boat. Us minions in said organisation preferred ‘Fuck it’s cold’. And us minions also loved how the whole thing backfired, watching our senior management running round in circles farting 😂
Never, just never, ask the British public to name something.....,... Since then, if the public are asked about what anything should be called someone will riff on the name Boaty McBoatface in some way relevant to whatever the new thing is.
Absolutely - I think one of the things that made it so popular is that it's a just a brilliant original kind of jokey formulation that has a great ring to it and is also easily copyable/transferable. A perfect combination that's actually pretty rare!
The new Queensferry Crossing had similar issues, but they gave us a sanitised shortlist we had to vote on what it should be called. However, I have heard it is called Kevin by many (after Kevin Bridges).
I was working at the national oceanography centre in southampton a couple of years ago and stumbled across boaty. Had my picture taken with it, like it was a celebrity 😂
Jedi is an official religion here now after the compulsory National Census, like when we got Rage against the Machine to number 1 for Christmas lol. We're a country full off piff-takers heheh.
@@geoffpoole483 Agree - though nearly 400,000 stated it as their religion in the survey. This compares to Anglican church goers at just shy of 700,000.
James Blunt (you've probably heard his biggest hit, "You're Beautiful") promised to legally change his name to whatever the public voted for if his 2004 album 'Back to Bedlam' got to number 1 in the charts again on its 20th anniversary. The name that won the poll? Blunty McBluntface. Sadly the album didn't quite get enough sales to hit #1, so he didn't have to go through with it. (Whether he actually would've done it or not is another story...)
He could've legally changed his name for a few months as a laugh. Changing all account details is a hassle, but it'd be fun. I recommend any adult UK resident tries it at least once. A deed poll is completely free, and your name only officially changes once you've changed your name on things like a driving license and household bills. The deed poll is just a signed letter of intent, witnessed by a professional.
@@vallejomach6721 Almost all football fans (especially the fanatics) under 30 would know though, especially those who invest their time and money to watch football at Wembley.
FWIW, one of Canada's provinces was nearly renamed "Bob" after a public poll... BTW, I've seen a flag flown at a sports event that was plain blue except for words in white saying "Flaggy McFlagface" :)
The reaaoning was that the ship would sail in dangerous waters, and if the worst happened, announcing the death toll on the Boaty McBoatface disaster might be upsetting for families. The televised anguish of Widow McWidowface might be too much to bear...
You _must_ now do a reaction to all the Scottish gritter lorries, brought out every year in the snowy/icy weather. All of them have funny - often quite clever - names, and you can track their positions live on a map if that floats your boat(y McBoatface 😉)
imagine reading a list of the ice breaker fleet and seeing "boaty mcboatface" it would have been glorious and make people curious who otherwise wouldn't be in scientific research.
Macauley Culkin didn’t have a middle name so he asked his fans what middle name he should adopt. They suggested “Macauley Culkin” so he changed his name by deed poll to Macauley Macauley Culkin Culkin. I want the American illustrator Molly Bang to have the same idea so that she ill be Molly Molly Bang Bang.
I used to see that ship every day on my way to work..In Cammell Lairds shipyard, Birkenhead. I even went up Birkenhead Priory steeple to see it properly, always hoping they would go with the British public 😢😢 But they didn't they called it the Sir David Attenborough 😅😅❤❤
Piss Taking should be a national sport officially recognised at the Olympics, it has reached an art form in Britain. Lets bring comedy back to the world.
The man answering the questions in the first clip; he's a civil servant, not a politician. (In "Yes Minister" terms, he's Sir Humphrey Appleby rather than Jim Hacker MP.)
I thought it was funny, but cried with laughter when they got some plummy aristo Lord of the Admiralty on the radio who very seriously said “The name Boaty Mc Boatface is entirely inappropriate for this cutting edge feat of maritime engineering”…and then went on at length to explain all the technical reasons why it was not a boat at all, it was, in fact, a ship. He then earned the undying love of the nation by continuing, “so it should, considering everything I just said, rightly be called Shippy McShipface”.
This reminds me of a time when the UK Government tried to stop a Peace march finishing in Hyde Park in London because it would disturb hedgehogs breeding time (or some such related nonsense). A famous comedy programme then suggested on its show that the public support the hedgehogs by sending tubs of live worms to 10 Downing Street to be passed on to the said hedgehogs. On TV they gave full instructions as to worm care to keep them alive during the post and then gave the full address to send them to.
it is true - there are protected hedgehogs in Hyde Park, and construction projects there have to implement especially extensive and thorough morning checks on their machinery to make sure none has crawled into the warm spaces to nest. No-one objects. 🦔
If "Boaty McBoat face" pulled into Port anywhere in the world it would command local attention, people would want to get photographs next to it!! it would be great publicity, the sir David Attenborough great as he is, just doesn't cut it, they really missed a trick, they should have gone with what the Public wanted.
Yes but the concern was that if there was a tragedy and lives where lost, they didn't want to headlines to have any comical element in them that would detract from the seriousness of the event
We have a long and proud history of things like this... When the new Wembley Stadium was built, the winner of the poll for naming the bridge was German footballer Dietmar Hamman (the last player to score a goal against England in the old Wembley, sadly not used), and in the last census 1% of the UK population gave their religion as Jedi.... So proud to be a Brit 🙂
Football team Forrest Green Rovers asked the public to suggest a name for their new stadium. The majority voted for 'Kevin' they didn't go for it. Although Forest Green is a environmental conscious club, so Kevin was rythming slang for Kevin keegan- vegan
It's a good thing they are such champs at humour given the ways things have been going for them politically the last decade and the way their cricket teams have started the year...
The 'reality TV' generation has a lot to answer for. Ever since shows such as the X Factor gave the public a say on voting for or against talent acts, the Great British Public has come to expect a right to have a say in important affairs - often just to disrupt the anticipated result just to stick it to the establishment! Must be one reason that Brexit came down on the Leave side, or why Nigel Farage and Boris Johnson retain support despite proving themselves worthy of being sat in a corner and made to keep quiet...🤪
The only other thing to add is that by the time they changed the name back, Jeremy Vine or ‘Smuggy McSmug face’ said that, ‘It was a far more sensible decision to make’ that he said on the Radio and I immediately sat up right and went, ‘No it wasn’t!’
The person answering the question is a civil servant and the person asking it is a politician. In the US this would be a member of government department / quango answering questions before Congress.
I remember arguing with my mum because she was banging angrily on about how “pathetic” the public were whereas I found it bloody hilarious (she was a Daily Mail reader at the time 🤮).
Apparently there was a poll amongst USAF pilots to name a new stealth aircraft, can you guess what they picked...Stealthy Mc Stealthface of course. Sadly rejected by USAF command
I voted for the Big Metal Floaty Thingy Thing. It's descriptive, profound, and rolls off the tongue. And it is wrong that the ship wasn't named Boaty Mc Boatface. We paid for it, and we wanted it called that name, as it makes us all very happy
Christmas 2009 the people decided to mess with the music industry by making Killing In The Name Of number 1 in the UK charts. Source BBC - Rock band Rage Against the Machine have won the most competitive battle in years for the Christmas number one. The band's single, Killing In The Name, sold 500,000 downloads beating X Factor winner Joe McElderry's The Climb by 50,000 copies to clinch the top spot. Their success followed a Facebook campaign designed to prevent another X Factor number one
I’ll give you another example of the British national attitude to this sort of officialness. We hold a census every 10 years and it goes out to pretty much everyone the government has an address for. In it, there is a question for your religion which has some default options (C of E, catholic, Jewish, Muslim, Hindu, Other and so on) and that if you answered “other” it would ask you to specify. If enough people answered (for Other) “Jedi” it would have to be included as an official option in the next census a decade later. Enough people did (I certainly did my part), and apparently it will be!
When is the next census? Anyone know? It doesn’t seem that long since the last one but my concept of time has been buggered since the millennium (which I swear was only a decade ago or something).
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I'm an ancient Briton - a retired senior public servant and I voted for Boaty Mc Boatface. One of our finest moments as a nation.
Then thank you for keeping the national tradition of humour alive to pass on to later generations. We need it in current times and those to come.
@@SamauraiRippeROr was it just an example of the continued dumbing down of Britain, taking us closer to American “intelligence”? And humour-wise, we can do so much better
@michaeljohn1978 There will always be a percentage of people for whom that will be true, no matter the context. However I would truly despair if the intelligent, hardworking ones had no sense of humour themselves.
@@michaeljohn1978”humour-wise”?? At least you had the grace to include the ‘u’ and avoid a ‘z’.
@ Well, yes, because I’m British so spell things properly. Up to a point
Snowplough/gritting macines have been named Salt Disney, Blizzard of Oz; Yes Sir, Ice Can Boogie and my personal favourite Gritsy Bitsy Teeny Weeny Yellow Anti-Slip Machiney
My fave name for one of the gritters round here is Snow Be Gone Kenobi
Traffic Scotland has a government website where you can see where all the gritters are. I like "Gritty Gritty Bang Bang"
We have food bin collection lorries in my area called "Dame Foodie Dench" and "Binderella" 😏
Gritney Spears
My local council have just gone through this. I suggested "Salt Tuah (grit on that thang)" but it was, sadly, rejected.
Just wait it doesn't end there, a council somewhere wanted the public to name the new ice gritter for the roads, it seems they didn't learn their lesson as the winner was "Gary gritter"
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My favourite is "Control Salt Delete"
The Scottish ones all have great names and you can track them online
@RenaissanceEarCandy Haven’t heard that one before!
Gary Gritter only does minor roads though
This story broke here in Sweden at around the same time that the new express trains between Sweden's capital and second largest city was getting launched and the first train needed a name. The vast majority of votes quite predictably went to "Trainy McTrainface". The train company used the situation for PR and officially named the train exactly that "Because WE listen!" - so every time I get on board the train with that moronic name I grind my teeth and think "Darn Britons!"
Brilliant 😅 wish we still had the balls for that kind of humour. Very important in life, and stick in the memory.
You're welcome ;-)
I think a rash of copycat names rippled across the world, infecting all similar public naming competitions - Ferry McFerryFace in Sydney springs to mind! 😉⛴
Stop grinding your teeth, it's not good for them or you. Laugh a little; I hear Sweden has much bigger problems to grind teeth about.
You love us though❤
We may be a small country but our dry sense of humour, poking fun at authority, self deprecating attitude and general level of silliness is unrivaled. Long may it continue. 🇬🇧
Actually, Boaty McBoatface is an example of Britain's wet sense of humour.
@ Excellent ! 🤣
Were a small country. Not in 2025. Anything that was unique about us is well past the point of recovery in 2025
If the person they actually named the vessel after had been anyone other than Sir David Attenborough, there would have been outrage. That's the reverence with which he is regarded in the UK. People went yeah, OK. We've had a good laugh at the expense of the suits in charge and it would have been fuckin' awesome to have had a ship sailing around with that name, but it is David Attenborough, so fair enough".
tbf ... if attenborough had a vote, he would probably have voted for it
I believe that one of the Ship's Boats was named Boaty McBoatface because it is too good a name to waste.
I don't like him. Can't stand it when he watches animals die and claims it's nature. Despite the fact humans are still part of nature, and have the power to save a animal. And if that animal is lucky enough to have a human in a position to save it then it should be saved.
@@topcat807 This is always a moral quandary. But the educational value of his programmes in terms of raising consciousness about the natural world would have been diminished had it not shown the grim realities. ("Grim" at least for the prey, not necessarily the predator.)
@topcat807 It is nature, it hinted for food by another animal as part of the food chain. Plus if its too weak to survive in the wild, it will have to live in captivity if that's even possible. Some animals do not survive in captivity.
a few years ago my local ferry company announced a public vote to name the new ferry, included in the notice was "NO we wont be accepting Ferry McFerryface so dont even ask"
they still got flooded with insane suggestions and shut down the poll.
Should have called it Bryan.
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Too obvious! 😂😂😂😂
Britain: Undefeated champion of Sarcasm and also Piss Taking.
Another gem I heard recently.... during the Wapping protests in the 80/90s by the journalists, the Police decided that they weren’t allowed to shout ‘scab’ at anyone going in to work, or they’d be arrested. The crowd split into two, with one side shouting ‘Sssss’ and the other side shouting ‘cab’ immediately after. Brilliant!
It was actually quite a genius move to call it after Sir David because no one can actually begrudge that name, even if it didn't win :-)
Another good one is the South Yorkshire Police Operations Complex built in the late 1990s. The police were asked to put forward a name for the new quarter mile road leading up to it, and as a joke they suggested the name "Letsby Avenue" (try saying it). Fortunately the council had a sense of humour as well, and Letsby Avenue S9 1XY is on all maps.
If *only* they could have got another 998 buildings in that quarter mile, with the police last...
The mobile catering units used by the Met (to provide hot cuppas and sarnies for coppers and techs working roadblocks or crime scenes at half-past-christ in the morning in the rain) went by the callsign TEAPOT-1 and TEAPOT-2.
Sadly, I think TEAPOT-2 was only in service for a very brief period, and TEAPOT-1 was finally shut down in (I believe) 2018-2019.
@@ala5530that would explain where this ex copper got the name for his channel... youtube.com/@teapotone?si=eZq9Lxti2eEmlxLj
The Police station in St. Ives (Cambs, not Cornwall) is on a road that mysteriously changes its name to Broad Leas about half way down. Its name before that changeover? Pig Lane.
@@SuspenduAuGaffa 🤣
"call it childish.... blah blah"
No, it IS childish, that's why it's funny! 😂
During the spice girls heyday they polled the public on where they should hold a concert. Baghdad was the winner, back when Baghdad was a war zone.
Brilliant …. British humour
Something similar happened in norway a while ago, during talks of merging the 2 northernmost counties, a newspaper held an informal naming poll. The winner, by far, was Mordor.
I lived in Norway for four years. Mordor would be a totally appropriate name.
@alisongreen7576 second place was helvete, which means hell
I live in the part of England that Tolkien could see the glow of when he was a boy, which gave him the idea for mordor, the black country !
If the area had included Lofoten, do you think “Stor hestekuk” would have won?
@@blackcountryme Interesting
RSS Big Metal Floaty Thingy Thing was my favourite. 🤣
"what iceberg?" Got me
Don't give us that choice, we'll just take the piss.
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So true. I remember some years ago on Team Rock radio, the DJ kept playing a song that many listeners didn't think was rock, and so should not be played on the radio. The DJ was not happy. He really wasn't. He was clearly extremely irritated by the amount of grief he was getting. So he gave the listeners an ultimatum. A choice between hearing that same song again, or hearing something from S Club 7. The metalheads voted and S Club 7 got played on Team Rock Radio. It was a great day, and that DJ learned a lesson.
In a Scandinavian country they did a national tv programme where they asked the children to try and save electricity in their house and it instantly showed a reduction in electricity demand on the nation's national grid. They tried this with British kids and they all ran round plugging in appliances and turning them on. Thankfully this was a small scale experiment and not on national tv. 🤣
The story i heard was that in the 1970s the then PM saw one of the Scandinavian PMs went on tv asking the populace to help save electricity with a large gauge on screen and watched it drop. When the British pm said he'd like to try the same his advisors pointed out that the British were more likely to turn on every light inn the house to see the gauge spin up, just out of sheer bloody mindedness. The advisor was probably right!
My friend and I were caught putting a glass bottle into a non recycling bin by a group of Germans who screamed at us from a nearby balcony. At dead of night we tiptoed, giggling, to the bin and put that bottle inside. I should add that we are two middle aged, middle class law abiding women, but we’re also British……
Life long expat of British origin here. The UK still has its moments that make me proud. Rage against the machine getting to Christmas number one in protest over whatever Simon cowells thing was, is perfect example of that.
Seem to be fewer examples lately. Hope my beautiful country of birth gets back on its feet soon.
I believe the de facto UK Xmas number one 2024 was the song about pensioners freezing because the Labour govt has taken away their winter fuel allowance. The po-faced gits at the BBC refused to play it on the radio.
Mad World from Donnie Darko also won Christmas No.1 to beat X Factor. 50-1 at the bookies thanks guys, paid for Christmas 😂
@@stevend2537 😆 Well done!
In recent times they have learned to not give us the opportunity to choose or take the piss. Protesting against this is also now a criminal offence. Killjoys!
@ That’s brilliant, I didn’t know.
Sir David Attenborough does have great track record for supporting out there humour. While he was head of the BBC he was approach by a bunch of young comedians with a pitch for a series without an actual proposal. He should have shown them the door for a nothing burger, they hadn't even talked amongst themselves about what they were going to say - but he said ok, why not? So, Monty Python was born.
I believe an RAF anti-submarine patrol Poseidon aircraft has been dubbed "Itsy-bitsy teeny-weeny light grey anti-sub machiney".
Brilliant!
There's also a gritting lorry in Doncaster called "Gritsy Bitsy Teeny Weeny Yellow Anti-slip Machiney". Also brilliant
My favourite was Manchester City asking for nominations to name the new stand & Colin Bell was a massive winner until they realised it would of been referred to the bell end 🤣🤣🤣only the brits eh lol
We have The Bell End at Maidenhead United (named after Bell Street, the road the turnstile is situated on)
@ lol brilliant, I didn’t know that so thanks for letting me know 🤣
@@spencerluton7721 we're called BellEnders. 🤣
@ we’re called that but only cos we support Bristol City & nothing else lol
🤣🤣🤣🤣
A while back there was an extreme weather condition over Scotland which was named Hurricane Bawbag.
I was thinking about that while listening to Friday's storm raging outside. Scottish Twitter's finest hour - it ended up trending worldwide causing much confusion to non-Scots!
And the following year the met office started naming storms, I wonder why 🤣
I love that Hurricane Bawbag has a Wikipedia page 😂
big metal floaty thingy thing... pure British!
I can shed some light on this - as I knew the team at NERC personally (who were very professional), and who managed this exercise.
This was part of a much wider 'stakeholder engagement' programme to engage the UK public in a greater appreciation of environmental science. The building of the new RRS research ship was seen as a great opportunity to hold a poll for suggestions of names for the ship - it was never a binding vote or competition, or an exercise 'in democracy'.
Like all public initiatives, there is the expectation for people to respond appropriately, however there is always the recognition that there will be wildcard suggestions and people taking the opportunity to 'have fun', and for some to troll any public poll, and/or produce a ridiculous result. (Therefore, in my view are risky and require delicate handling, and clear guidelines and caveats from the outset).
In this instance where the website poll was promoted through social media, it attracted many great suggestions + many fun ones including 'Boaty'. It was purely the Brit quirky sense of humour that stoked the voting, hence the outcome - and once it escalated on social media the Press and TV/Radio Broadcasters around the world picked up on it. FYI the Sir David Attenborough was the no.2 in the poll and recognised as the winning 'sensible' suggestion. This was endorsed by the Minster (Rt Hon Jo Johnson MP) responsible for the Government Department that funded Science and Research including NERC. Martin Donnelly, who you see on the video, was a senior civil servant. He was being absolutely correct here saying that it was a poll for suggestions. That's very different (legally) from a public competition, which has different guidelines and constraints - so he was right to correct the MP asking the question.
What you didn't see was the separate Parliamentary Committee of the CEO of NERC and Department Head explaining and clarifying the whole exercise, and providing the reassurance that common sense did prevail throughout the handling of the response. Given this 'public engagement' exercise was humorously subverted by the 'Boaty' suggestion the committee (comprised of MPs) saw and understood it for the humorous outcome it generated (i.e. the laughs, publicity, and high no. of votes and shares on social media), but undertook the process so as to clarify the position, as it was a government funded body - to ensure full accountability and transparency. Needless to say the impact and humour in which the whole exercise was handled ensured that the public were kept 'onboard' by assigning 'Boaty' to a very cool and sophisticated piece of marine kit (a robotic submersible), while maintaining the integrity of naming the research ship in line with the heritage of the predecessor RRS ships going back to RRS Discovery of 1901, sailed by Ernest Shackleton to the Antarctic. ...And as a side note, the publicity resulted in reaching 230 million people globally!
UK Space Command is headquartered in a building called Protego, however Spacey McSpace Base was the most popular suggestion.
I can now see King Boomer's next child (assuming there is one) being called Boomer McBoomerFace after consulting his subscribers.
They played a blinder in naming it after Sir David Attenborough, if they had tried to call it something like "The arctic explorer", there would have been outrage, but when it is an international treasure like Sir David, we all sort of said OK fair enough, we cant argue with that name... 😂😂
I'm just hoping on a prayer that he does an interview with Philomena Cunk.
Can you _imagine_ where that could go?
Could have called it ‘the Professor David Bellamy ‘, a genuine scientist for😂ced out of the public eye when he showed ❤he nonsense spouted by non qualified people like At😂tenborough were talking BS.
He was second in the poll so, not to bad a result.
Shropshire County Council have a web page listing the name of all their road gritters, including
Grit the Road Jack
Snowcial Distancing
David Plowie
Gritter Thunberg
and more
Not just Shropshire! It is national now.
The swedish had a similar contest in 2017 to name a new train. The winner with 49% of the votes was Trainy McTrainface, and unlike the british they actually went with it. Two other trains were named also, one got the name Estelle which is the name of the swedish princess, and the other one was named Glenn as it is a popular name in Gothenburg.
We would have named our train Thomas i reckon
That's odd, Trainy McTrainface is a mixture of English and a Scottish name prefix (Mc...), why would that mean anything to Swedes?
No but you can see where the inspiration came from
Had the poll been for a train in the UK, they would have probably gone with it as well. But the train driver doesn’t have to use the name of the train in an emergency, he’d use the running number, like a planes flight number. On a ship, if you have to make a call, you need to use the ships name. Especially in a distress call! You don’t want everyone laughing at you whilst you’re requesting help. A ships name has to be professional… unfortunately! 😂
@@MichaelJones-mk5vq It was the year after the Boaty McBoatface situation, which the Swedes were well aware of, I guess. So it would have been in direct response to that. :)
Gritty Gritty Bang Bang, Gritty McGrit Face, Kevin Fridges and Plougher O’Scotland are a few of my favourite names for the Scottish ice gritters
The exquisite humour of this episode in the UK context is the reverence in which the Royal Navy (the Senior Service) was traditionally held. Inter-Service rivalry may also have something to do with it. When a retired Admiral was drafted in to talk on national radio about why it wasn't a good idea to call an expensive research ship 'Boaty McBoatface' I was doubled up with laughter.
The late, great George Carlin once said that if voting made a difference they wouldn't let you vote... Boaty McBoatface proved him right. 😆
It's a Mark Twain quote, actually.
@@raycope2086 I heard George Carlin say it.
@@BlueBarchetta67 Yes I understand that, but tell me, what chance was there of hearing Mark Twain say it instead?
@@raycope2086 It was an Emma Goldman quote. She was a famous anarchist. Twain copied it. The first record of him saying or writing it, was 5 years after Goodman said it.
This is absolutely the quote of Mark Twain
Years ago I had a summer job in a factory that did dairy products like yoghurts and mousse, cream, stuff like that. The factory was knocked down and a housing estate built. The main road was Pasture Rise.
As in Ernie (fastest milkman in the west) ?
Sir David Attenborough will be 99 in May... What a Legend.
what about David Attenburrow?
@@eddisstreetwho's that?
Fab set of brothers.. even the other one had a pretty interesting life in cars :D .
The man is almost a god. I sometimes think he might just go on forever. When his time eventually comes (may it be decades yet), I wouldn't be surprised if the reaction is similar to when we lost the Queen.
Keep going Sir Dave. My first memories of the natural world are you in khaki shorts in a jungle in the 1950s and then going on to bothering Armadillos, which I thought were a brilliant improvement on our humble hedgehog. Later educating us from the top of a massive pile of guano. You then led BBC2 to produce brilliant programming like Civilisation, Horizon, Monty Python and a whole ethos of quality output. Followed by a very smart move away from the conventional executive career path back into natural history programming to help BBC natural history teams deliver breathtaking programs. May your genome continue to grant you at least another ten years and some influence over the great and the breeding as well as the rest of us who enable them ❤❤❤🎉
At work on an industrial plant last year I saw a scrap metal skip with a name stenciled onto it, "Scrap Binny McBinface" 😆
In Bristol, there's a local phrase for thanking a bus driver which is "Cheers, drive!", and it's become so established in Bristol that there's now a street called Cheers Drive.
We also say that in Hull to bus or taxi drivers, I've been called that as well by a customer but I'm neither, I work at a 24 hour petrol station and I sold him some beer. Cheers Drive!
I've been in London for too long and when I come back I hear it. I wanna say it but feel a Londony fraud. Love the M3 bus voice lady. Emersomms Green.
All I'm picturing now is that video of the wee Scottish woman 'bye bye driver, *bye* , *BYE* ' 🤣🤣
That's cool. We also say "cheers, drive!" In south Wales (amongst similar things)
I loved getting on the park and ride at Ashton Gate and the lady doing the recording started off with "Aright my lovers"🤣🤣
Ferry McFerryface was the name chosen for a Sydney Harbour ferry by popular vote. Unfortunately the name did not make it past the Minister for Transport.
British sense of humour. He really didn't want to say Boaty McBoatface. We're really pleased it was named after David.
David does have a very good sense of humour.
David Attenborough is well known in the UK for his excellent wildlife programs, but he also does a lot of other things.
Him and his brother Richard were brought up in Leicester. We are very proud of both of them
The Mandarin isn't a politician, he's a Civil Servant. You might like to google Yes Minister and Yes Prime Minister :-)
I'm proud to admit my vote went to Boaty McBoatface
Mine too
Yep. Me too.
And mine.😅
And mine.
I remember the former First Sea Lord “Lord West of Spithead” going against its naming on the grounds that it wasn’t a boat but a ship and “you couldn’t call it shippy McShipFace as the name could have caused a number of unfortunate spoonerisms”.
You may find Lord West interesting as he’s quite the character.
@@brianmurray8247 The submersible is, but the RRS it was carried by is a ship. The definitions get technical, but if one of the Admiralty says RRS Sir David Attenborough is a ship not a boat, I'm not going to argue with him.
Technically you're describing a malapropism rather than a Spoonerism.
'Malapropisms and spoonerisms are both humorous linguistic errors and literary devices. However, there is a key difference: Malapropisms confuse similar-sounding words. Spoonerisms mix up the initial sounds of multiple words within a phrase.'
I just love the use of 'unfortunate' in a statement like that. 😄
Sir David should act with honour and immediately change his name by deed pole to Sir Boaty McBoatface
At the time, trains in the London Underground had Trainy Mactrainface on their digital display.
I work for the organisation that decided to open the vote to the public to name the boat. Us minions in said organisation preferred ‘Fuck it’s cold’. And us minions also loved how the whole thing backfired, watching our senior management running round in circles farting 😂
This guy is a Sir Humphrey
Anyone remeber when there was a call for Ainsley Harriet's face to be put on the £20 note?
Big metal floaty thing is an awesome name.
Never, just never, ask the British public to name something.....,... Since then, if the public are asked about what anything should be called someone will riff on the name Boaty McBoatface in some way relevant to whatever the new thing is.
Absolutely - I think one of the things that made it so popular is that it's a just a brilliant original kind of jokey formulation that has a great ring to it and is also easily copyable/transferable. A perfect combination that's actually pretty rare!
The new Queensferry Crossing had similar issues, but they gave us a sanitised shortlist we had to vote on what it should be called. However, I have heard it is called Kevin by many (after Kevin Bridges).
Ok, I was just mooching about trying to find something to make me laugh. Found this, love this, we do have the best sense of humour. Subscribed.
I was working at the national oceanography centre in southampton a couple of years ago and stumbled across boaty. Had my picture taken with it, like it was a celebrity 😂
Jedi is an official religion here now after the compulsory National Census, like when we got Rage against the Machine to number 1 for Christmas lol. We're a country full off piff-takers heheh.
Jedi isn't an official religion in the UK. That's an urban myth.
@@geoffpoole483 Agree - though nearly 400,000 stated it as their religion in the survey. This compares to Anglican church goers at just shy of 700,000.
I was an office worker in a census here in New Zealand. Jedi is a good chunk of the religion here. 😂
We're the undefeated world champions at taking the piss, never to be beaten, Australia runs us close...😂😂
As an Aussie, I was so proud of my cousins across the world. Taking the piss, we learnt that from the Brits!
You Aussies aren’t bad yourselves…😂👍
Imagine the Boaty McBoatface sailed into the big city of Reeds for another of King Boomers amusements haha 😅😂
James Blunt (you've probably heard his biggest hit, "You're Beautiful") promised to legally change his name to whatever the public voted for if his 2004 album 'Back to Bedlam' got to number 1 in the charts again on its 20th anniversary.
The name that won the poll? Blunty McBluntface.
Sadly the album didn't quite get enough sales to hit #1, so he didn't have to go through with it. (Whether he actually would've done it or not is another story...)
He 100% would of done
He could've legally changed his name for a few months as a laugh. Changing all account details is a hassle, but it'd be fun.
I recommend any adult UK resident tries it at least once. A deed poll is completely free, and your name only officially changes once you've changed your name on things like a driving license and household bills. The deed poll is just a signed letter of intent, witnessed by a professional.
James Blunt's music is dreadful, but James Blunt is an absolute legend 😀
When the new Wembly was built the bridge name was put out to the public The Eric Canotona Kung Fu Bridge was not chosen.
Nobody under 30 or that are not British are not going to have any clue of the context of that
@@vallejomach6721 Almost all football fans (especially the fanatics) under 30 would know though, especially those who invest their time and money to watch football at Wembley.
FWIW, one of Canada's provinces was nearly renamed "Bob" after a public poll... BTW, I've seen a flag flown at a sports event that was plain blue except for words in white saying "Flaggy McFlagface" :)
You should check out the naming of the salt gritters round the UK
The reaaoning was that the ship would sail in dangerous waters, and if the worst happened, announcing the death toll on the Boaty McBoatface disaster might be upsetting for families.
The televised anguish of Widow McWidowface might be too much to bear...
Orphan McFishFood would have been a sorry sight, too.
@@alisongreen7576 😂😂 Coffee everywhere... Thank you!
Sorry.... 😂😂😂😂
The chap having difficulty answering the question wasn't a politician, the chap asking him was!
Ed Davey (leader of the Lib Dems) is an elected MP, but in no way a politician 😅 ... which is probably why I quite like him
You should see what we call some of our snow ploughs and gritting trucks over the pond.
Gary Gritter
@@Sandydnb 😂😂😂
Bet it’s the gulf of America ….🤨🇬🇧
Rule #1, NEVER ask the British public to name anything if you expect a serious outcome.
You _must_ now do a reaction to all the Scottish gritter lorries, brought out every year in the snowy/icy weather.
All of them have funny - often quite clever - names, and you can track their positions live on a map if that floats your boat(y McBoatface 😉)
imagine reading a list of the ice breaker fleet and seeing "boaty mcboatface" it would have been glorious and make people curious who otherwise wouldn't be in scientific research.
Macauley Culkin didn’t have a middle name so he asked his fans what middle name he should adopt. They suggested “Macauley Culkin” so he changed his name by deed poll to Macauley Macauley Culkin Culkin. I want the American illustrator Molly Bang to have the same idea so that she ill be Molly Molly Bang Bang.
I used to see that ship every day on my way to work..In Cammell Lairds shipyard, Birkenhead. I even went up Birkenhead Priory steeple to see it properly, always hoping they would go with the British public 😢😢 But they didn't they called it the Sir David Attenborough 😅😅❤❤
Piss Taking should be a national sport officially recognised at the Olympics, it has reached an art form in Britain. Lets bring comedy back to the world.
The man answering the questions in the first clip; he's a civil servant, not a politician. (In "Yes Minister" terms, he's Sir Humphrey Appleby rather than Jim Hacker MP.)
(Hint. ;) )
Search for "Yes Minister (1980 - 1984)"...
Funny how it didn't work 😂 everytime it's in the news its called boatymcboatface (sir david Attenborough)
I think the brits got asked who they thought was the best father in the world is in an independent poll. I'm sure Homer Simpson won😊
There was a model of Boaty McBoatface in the Science Museum in London - the actial research ship only got a photo!
I remember when my daughter told me about this I howled with laughter for hours and it still makes me smile.
I thought it was funny, but cried with laughter when they got some plummy aristo Lord of the Admiralty on the radio who very seriously said “The name Boaty Mc Boatface is entirely inappropriate for this cutting edge feat of maritime engineering”…and then went on at length to explain all the technical reasons why it was not a boat at all, it was, in fact, a ship.
He then earned the undying love of the nation by continuing, “so it should, considering everything I just said, rightly be called Shippy McShipface”.
This reminds me of a time when the UK Government tried to stop a Peace march finishing in Hyde Park in London because it would disturb hedgehogs breeding time (or some such related nonsense). A famous comedy programme then suggested on its show that the public support the hedgehogs by sending tubs of live worms to 10 Downing Street to be passed on to the said hedgehogs. On TV they gave full instructions as to worm care to keep them alive during the post and then gave the full address to send them to.
it is true - there are protected hedgehogs in Hyde Park, and construction projects there have to implement especially extensive and thorough morning checks on their machinery to make sure none has crawled into the warm spaces to nest. No-one objects. 🦔
I worked for Martin Donnelly! He’s a civil servant not a politician. 😂
“That’s not how democracy works!” Bangs fist on desk
Should be a new intro
If "Boaty McBoat face" pulled into Port anywhere in the world it would command local attention, people would want to get photographs next to it!! it would be great publicity, the sir David Attenborough great as he is, just doesn't cut it, they really missed a trick, they should have gone with what the Public wanted.
It's bad luck to change its name too. And we don't want to see "Head" lines about David Attenborough going down.
Yes but the concern was that if there was a tragedy and lives where lost, they didn't want to headlines to have any comical element in them that would detract from the seriousness of the event
funniest video yet - especially the Parliamentary select committee.
Now you know what YesMinister was based on
A master class on how the government works
Great video 👍 The guy not answering the question is Sir humphy or a real Civil servant 😂😂😂
We have a long and proud history of things like this... When the new Wembley Stadium was built, the winner of the poll for naming the bridge was German footballer Dietmar Hamman (the last player to score a goal against England in the old Wembley, sadly not used), and in the last census 1% of the UK population gave their religion as Jedi.... So proud to be a Brit 🙂
Proud to say I was one of the 1% lol. I also downloaded that Rage Against the Machine song that one Christmas and helped it get to number one
In 2001 1.5% of New Zealanders named their religion as Jedi, it has continued in every Census since. New Zealanders also like to take the piss.
Sir David’s an awesome national treasure. He’s even gotten behind the drive to ban commercial haggis farming. Look it up here on YT
Will someone think of the poor haggi (the collective noun, I believe) 😔
Football team Forrest Green Rovers asked the public to suggest a name for their new stadium. The majority voted for 'Kevin' they didn't go for it. Although Forest Green is a environmental conscious club, so Kevin was rythming slang for Kevin keegan- vegan
It's a good thing they are such champs at humour given the ways things have been going for them politically the last decade and the way their cricket teams have started the year...
The 'reality TV' generation has a lot to answer for. Ever since shows such as the X Factor gave the public a say on voting for or against talent acts, the Great British Public has come to expect a right to have a say in important affairs - often just to disrupt the anticipated result just to stick it to the establishment! Must be one reason that Brexit came down on the Leave side, or why Nigel Farage and Boris Johnson retain support despite proving themselves worthy of being sat in a corner and made to keep quiet...🤪
4:25 first rule of politicians
dont answer the question asked, answer the question you wish they asked
I taught James Hand A Level History when he was a student. My proudest achievement 😝
Martin Donnelly (Sir, of course) was a Permanent Secretary at the Department for Business. He was basically a Sir Humphrey Appleton.
Apple*by*...
@@timg5011 Appletits, whatever.
The only other thing to add is that by the time they changed the name back, Jeremy Vine or ‘Smuggy McSmug face’ said that, ‘It was a far more sensible decision to make’ that he said on the Radio and I immediately sat up right and went, ‘No it wasn’t!’
God yeah, he is Smuggy McSmugface indeed
In Scotland, all of the snow gritters have fun names based on puns mostly. I think you’d enjoy them.
The person answering the question is a civil servant and the person asking it is a politician. In the US this would be a member of government department / quango answering questions before Congress.
Never felt so proud to be British when I first heard this news.
I remember arguing with my mum because she was banging angrily on about how “pathetic” the public were whereas I found it bloody hilarious (she was a Daily Mail reader at the time 🤮).
Apparently there was a poll amongst USAF pilots to name a new stealth aircraft, can you guess what they picked...Stealthy Mc Stealthface of course. Sadly rejected by USAF command
Boaty was robbed! 😂⛴️
I recently met the wonderful Sir David Attenborough but while queuing for a blood test at the University College Hospital in London
I voted for the Big Metal Floaty Thingy Thing. It's descriptive, profound, and rolls off the tongue. And it is wrong that the ship wasn't named Boaty Mc Boatface. We paid for it, and we wanted it called that name, as it makes us all very happy
We have a Pub nearby called Pubby Mcpubface this is near Wrexham in the uk 😂
We went to the launch in Birkenhead ( near Liverpool) when the sub was shown on the big screen a big cheer went up! 😅
Christmas 2009 the people decided to mess with the music industry by making Killing In The Name Of number 1 in the UK charts.
Source BBC - Rock band Rage Against the Machine have won the most competitive battle in years for the Christmas number one. The band's single, Killing In The Name, sold 500,000 downloads beating X Factor winner Joe McElderry's The Climb by 50,000 copies to clinch the top spot. Their success followed a Facebook campaign designed to prevent another X Factor number one
I’ll give you another example of the British national attitude to this sort of officialness. We hold a census every 10 years and it goes out to pretty much everyone the government has an address for. In it, there is a question for your religion which has some default options (C of E, catholic, Jewish, Muslim, Hindu, Other and so on) and that if you answered “other” it would ask you to specify. If enough people answered (for Other) “Jedi” it would have to be included as an official option in the next census a decade later.
Enough people did (I certainly did my part), and apparently it will be!
Iam chaotic good, from my D&D character😅😅😅
That Jedi story is an urban myth.
When is the next census? Anyone know? It doesn’t seem that long since the last one but my concept of time has been buggered since the millennium (which I swear was only a decade ago or something).