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 May 10 2016, 05:50 AM
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QUOTE (newres @ May 10 2016, 02:10 AM)  The name Boaty McBoatface demonstrates perfectly why referenda are a bad idea. If you have taken office, simply to exercise power, referenda certainly are a bad idea! -------------------- Know your place!
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May 10 2016, 05:52 AM
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Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 7,847 Joined: 23-May 09 From: Newbury Member No.: 98 |
QUOTE (x2lls @ May 10 2016, 12:13 AM) Just listen, sorry, read yourselves. It's not a general election or a referendum. So why ask the question? -------------------- Know your place!
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May 10 2016, 06:51 AM
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QUOTE (Simon Kirby @ May 8 2016, 07:10 PM) I'm disappointed that the poe-faced officials have rejected the name "Boaty McBoatface" for Nerc's new research vessel. A sense of humour is a good thing for a scientist because as well as discipline and precision good science also needs wit and invention, and the name had that. Good science also needs public support, and I can't imagine Nerc's work has ever had such positive public exposure as it got in the naming of their research vessel. And for me I now have nothing but contempt for those suit-wearing petty-minded dullards. Au contraire; my toes curled when I heard of the facile and pathetic name some half-witted low brow idiots had contrived. I did wonder if we'd become a nation of inarticulates. I'm glad common sense has prevailed. |
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May 10 2016, 07:19 AM
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QUOTE (Turin Machine @ May 9 2016, 11:28 AM) I remember, and wasn't the next one called 'pervy the perv face' ? Yes, by "popular" vote! 
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May 10 2016, 07:22 AM
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QUOTE (On the edge @ May 9 2016, 09:53 AM) Brilliant find, just think what a good job it was that they didn't actually name the engine after himself; otherwise even more would be able to say they'd been pulled by Jimmy Saville!!!  Ooooh you are awful.............but I like you!  (By the late D|ck Emery's Mandy, in case some are not old enough to remember.) Here's a reminder. |
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May 10 2016, 07:35 AM
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QUOTE (On the edge @ May 10 2016, 06:52 AM) So why ask the question? I do believe it was for suggestions with no commitment to use the most popular. -------------------- There their, loose loser!
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May 10 2016, 07:40 AM
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Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 7,847 Joined: 23-May 09 From: Newbury Member No.: 98 |
QUOTE (x2lls @ May 10 2016, 08:35 AM) I do believe it was for suggestions with no commitment to use the most popular. OK, can see your point; I hadn't appreciated the no commitment bit. -------------------- Know your place!
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May 10 2016, 07:42 AM
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Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 7,847 Joined: 23-May 09 From: Newbury Member No.: 98 |
QUOTE (Biker1 @ May 10 2016, 08:22 AM) Ooooh you are awful.............but I like you! (By the late D|ck Emery's Mandy, in case some are not old enough to remember.) Here's a reminder.
-------------------- Know your place!
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May 14 2016, 09:08 AM
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Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 2,682 Joined: 23-September 10 From: In the lower 40 Member No.: 1,104 |
-------------------- Gammon. And proud!
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May 14 2016, 03:17 PM
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Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 6,326 Joined: 20-July 10 From: Wash Common Member No.: 1,011 |
QUOTE (Turin Machine @ May 14 2016, 10:08 AM) Nice. -------------------- Right an injustice - give Simon Kirby his allotment back!
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