stormsdameron:

so the Natural Environment Research Council has this big fancy new £200m Royal Research Ship which will first head to Antarctica in 2019

and they asked the public for help naming it, because they apparently didn’t learn from every other time that has happened

the result?

yup. £200m Royal Research Ship….Boaty McBoatface.

but that’s not all.

yall i’m fucking D Y I N G 

ROYAL RESEARCH SHIP BOATY MCBOATFACE.