Boaty McBoatface from 2016 ... it feels like 10 lifetimes ago.
this post was submitted on 31 Mar 2025
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Yeah, a whole other era of the Internet.
back when there was still some fun and magic out there
First year of Trump but there was little to fear from the bumbling idjit.
Now tho' ... :(
June 16th, 2015 was when Trump the candidate started in earnest. We've been dealing with his shit off and on for almost 10 years now.
When was the off? Motherfucker has been daily news, even during biden's term. Fucking news can't stand a day with out him. He was right about at least one thing: he's good for ratings.
I'm so fucking tired
After he lost, he disappeared from the news cycle for quite a while. It was wonderful.
You're right. I forgot about that. It was glorious.
No footage of Nessie will ever be found or captured, because in 1991 the dude who started the damn rumor with that one famous photo admitted that it was a hoax. Why people still continue to search for the monster baffles me.
To be fair, this camera was put in the water in the 1970s...
Same reason people think the earth is flat, the moon landing was a hoax, and that vaccines cause autism?
A lack of critical thinking skills, and general stupidity.
A lack of critical thinking skills, and general stupidity.
And trolling. Don't forget trolling.
1991? I took a fake photo of Nessie in 1984, and I’m certain I wasn’t the first.
The picture he took was from the 60's; he just confessed it was bullshit in 91.
No footage of Nessie will ever be found … because in 1991 the dude … admitted that it was a hoax.
Yeah, but Nessie has been folklore for longer than such an animal could possibly have lived. I have great great great great grandparents from the area, and it was older than them. People have been faking photographs since the photograph was invented. Before that people painted pictures or did charcoal sketches.
My point was that the guy didn’t start anything; he just continued the tradition.
I was hoping for something more like this:
Personally I'm betting on Nessie having camouflage skills like an octopus, and instead of squirting ink they can create the equivalent of an underwater dust cloud. That would absolutely explain these photos.
Edit to add: /jk since apparently that wasn't obvious 🙄
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man that game is cool
True hero.
Omg, a camera with a flash cube - so it would have been able to take 4 flash pictures.
I had that exact same camera when I was a kid. My favourite part was putting in new flash cubes. Dude when the Kodak Disc came out we were wetting our pants, that thing had INFINITE FLASH
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Bitching out on naming the ship Boaty McBoatface is the real reason Brexit happened.
You can't call a ship a boat. Shippy McShipface would've been a different topic. Or maybe Chipper McShipface?
There are humans that are named after other animals (Bear Grylls, Tony Hawk, Michael J Fox). We absolutely could have called it Boaty McBoatface.
i read that at first as "camera to to set up the loch ness monster" and i thought they were trying to frame the loch ness monster of a crime she didn't commit
They were trying to catch her in a loving embrace with her cousin, the Ogopogo.
That was always a very long distance relationship.
I’ve got pictures of both of them though :D
Kind of puts a pin in Nessie then, if we can find a small camera lost 55 years ago but not a giant animal.
Dunno about found. I think that requires intent. This is a happy little accident
Shouldn't that be unloched?
You damn fools. You better have tree fiddy ready for the rest of your lives.
Shouldn't it be unwatered? :^)
Isn’t it best practice to develop film as soon as possible after taking a picture. Surely the undeveloped picture would have degraded after 55 years?
Did you see the pictures in the article?
You're right, but how bad depends on a lot of factors.
Technically yes, but in favourable condition the film can persist for pretty long time. People have developed films that had been sitting in a camera/cartridge for literally a century and gotten decent results.
Someone needs to glue a monster mould to the top of that sub...
So show us the pictures then! Why are you hiding them?! Outrage!
The photos are in the article!
I'm here to do two things: not read articles, and make ignorant comments based on not reading articles
and I'm almost out of articles to not read
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And at least 7 people upvoted them
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