What do you think of Boaty McBoatface?

Democracy!

Boaty Mcboatface if course!

Let democracy rule the day!

..... and Boaty McBoatface has won the poll. Wonder what they will name her?

That is an excellent idea!

click here to read about him

I'm voting for Henry Worsley to honour our own modern explorer who died so tragically so young.

Tch ... stick even ...

I find myself chuckling over Boaty McBoatface every time I see / hear it mentioned. Such good fun and so very British! I keep thinking it is the sort of thing my 20-something sons would have come up with. And whatever the 'real' name turns out to be, it will stuck now .

And I really really hope my DH gets a trip on it... Even though he would be incommunicado for a while. When he went for a short trip to the English Channel it was very strange - waving off your man at the jetty down the road from the house and knowing he's unlikely to get any phone signal for several days.

Have been watching this on BBC south news at night , its become a topic of note on the programme.
Mick

Fantastic free marketing for environmental research. Boaty will always be newsworthy from henceforth.

It is about time the masses were pandered to.

The NERC need to be careful they dont look po and elitist.

Why not Boaty . . . It certainly raised interest in the work of the NERC and I'll guess few people, children or adults were aware what that acronym stood for or what the NERC does before the crazy name for the boat.

I agree that it will always be known as Boaty. It's such a good point that children might be drawn to environmental research and if NERC has any commercial brains, it should produce toy/model versions of the new boat.

"Pandering to the masses"? It's a name for a boat not a dissertation.

I'd go with Boaty McBoatface any day, and, as a letter writer said in the I today: "Can anyone name a current Arctic research vessel. If the NERC wants people (especially children) to be engaged with its work and follow the progress of the ship, Boaty McBoatface is the ideal name".

The I also referred to an adopted owl in an owl sanctuary that had been named "Hooty McOwlface".

OK, so it's silly. Quite naturally, lots of people feel pretty sad about the state of the world today. Sometimes they need a break, something to giggle about.

I imagine it will end up with a proper name - but everyone who works on it will call it Boaty Mc B

Ah, the British. There is nothing they cannot make fun with. And po faced authority is the number one target. Bless them (us) all.

A little bit of thought has at least gone into RRS Pee Ee See Tee

Apparently the site has been crashing since yesterday. The reports I read said 16000 had voted for Boaty, but it was over 60000 when I voted. Keep trying!

Maybe they're just banning Gransnet members

Have we sunk the voting site? I tried to vote and every time the site crashed and disappeared.

Bags Half the bloody thread's been about it.

I guess yous've all seen this Trainy McTrainface spoof.

Boaty McBoatface has thousands more votes than any of the others.

Elrel, I found an option at the top of the list to do a search. When I entered Boaty McBoatface that one came up. I'd also looked right through the list, I thought, but missed it.

Boaty McBoatface? Is that the best we can do? I might have laughed my socks off when I was 12. At the risk of being called po-faced (and I'm really not), I'm voting for Henry Worsley. After a brave explorer who died earlier this year and who deserves to be remembered.