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To be fair, it'd be bloody stupid to support cruel and punitive policies against sections of society they do like or approve of.

Irrational twats.

I know my target audience. :lolol: And I am genuinely a bit embarrassed. I mainly just wanted to apologise to the mods for the fuss.

Just to be clear, I am fully aware that I have an overly discursive approach to conversation. My siblings and friends regularly comment on it. This is just how I talk to people, it's not a deliberate attempt to derail conversation. In the last few posts on this thread, I see there's references...

Yeah that makes more sense. Still not sure I'd trust the sort of person we're talking about to put up a sandbag barrier my house depended on up though. This is the thing, National Service involved pretty much everybody, not just layabouts with nothing better to be doing. That's basically just a...

No I'm not. It was raised as an example of something the government could get people to do as National Service. That simply isn't what trolling is. Edit: I should probably emphasise that it's very much not my engineering business. I'd be f***ing loaded if it were. :lolol:

I mean, you're perfectly entitled to ask for your own thread to be closed, but some of us are still enjoying the conversation.

Well quite, I'm not joking about that bit. It's much more difficult and expensive.

Funnily enough, designing glass flood walls is a right pane in the glass ( :facepalm: I couldn't resist that as soon as it occurred to me). Seriously though, you have to make sure the wall doesn't bend under the weight of water and cause the glass to drop out.

Given Canada faces Russia directly over the (rapidly melting) Arctic, I'd think they have some good reasons to be concerned.

Not for an intelligent, competent civil engineer like me. :wink: Some of the twats I have to deal with seem to make it the most difficult task in the world. :lolol: Anyway, funnily enough most of the areas worth defending from floods seem to be town centres with loads of roads and railways and...

As somebody who designs flood defences (among other, more or less interesting things), I also don't want the chronically stupid or unmotivated anywhere near my building site.

I don't want those people (realistically a relatively small number) anywhere near heavy machinery or automatic weapons. If they have to do something make them dig crops or clear minefields or something. Ooh, we could make them reopen the mines! That'd be an incentive to do literally anything else.

British industry had been declining compared to other countries for decades by the 1940s.