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Boaty McBoatface is heading to Antarctica to help scientists answer urgent questions

sudshr47 April 30, 2018

The British research submarine that the internet named “Boaty McBoatface” is headed to Antarctica as part of the largest U.S. scientific collaboration with the U.K. in Antarctica in 70 years.
The project, which will involve more than 100 scient…

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Investigation reveals that Australians didn’t vote for Ferry McFerryface

sudshr47 January 30, 2018

When a public vote decided that Sydney’s newest ferry would be named Ferry McFerryface, Australians were (understandably) annoyed.

As if our parliament wasn’t shameful enough. Ferry McFerryface is deeply embarrassing. Beam me up to New Zealand. 😞

— Antfarmer (@antfarmer) November 13, 2017

But according to Transport Minister Andrew Constance, Ferry McFerryface was what “the people vote for,” so the local government made it official.

It is not everyone’s cup of tea, but the people voted for it so we listenedhttps://t.co/jU4oRjLL1I

— Andrew Constance MP (@AndrewConstance) November 13, 2017 Read more…

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This local council just won social media with its gritter naming competition

sudshr47 November 17, 2017

For a while, Britain experienced the Boaty McBoatface phenomenon — public institutions asking citizens to name boats/gritters/vehicles and getting swamped by a whole lot of ridiculously inappropriate names.

Now local authorities are starting to wise up and they’re preemptively hijacking any attempt to sabotage the vehicle-christening.

When asking for suggestions to name two new gritting vehicles, Doncaster Council posted this shady tweet: “Keep em clean and be original – we’d prefer not to spend the next few days trawling through responses of Gritty McGritface and Gary Gritter.” Read more…

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