Four-star ocean going success
Jun. 28th, 2009 03:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hirezIf you've not already done so, I commend one and all to view the fascinating 'Crude Britannia' series on BBC4.
Remarkable engineering and an atmospheric soundtrack.
I guess it's making me stop and think because we have this attitude (or at least that's what it seems like to me) that we don't do engineering in this country, it's all too hard, make do and mend, second-rate public private partnership, challenging career in pension sales, fast track to success by wearing a suit and braying into a phone like a cock with a shite haircut.
And yet.
People built these bloody great things the size of starships in a field in Scotland, towed them out into the middle of the North Sea and then left them there in a howling gale.
Can't do that, cost over-run, budget increase in real terms, inject liquidity into the banking system, buy-to-let, property ladder.
Wankers.
Anyway.
In the old days, when I crawled out of bed close to lunchtime with a thick head, it was because I'd been out having it average the night before. These days it's because I've spent circa twelve hours in work of a weekend. Phew, rock&roll, eh?
Remarkable engineering and an atmospheric soundtrack.
I guess it's making me stop and think because we have this attitude (or at least that's what it seems like to me) that we don't do engineering in this country, it's all too hard, make do and mend, second-rate public private partnership, challenging career in pension sales, fast track to success by wearing a suit and braying into a phone like a cock with a shite haircut.
And yet.
People built these bloody great things the size of starships in a field in Scotland, towed them out into the middle of the North Sea and then left them there in a howling gale.
Can't do that, cost over-run, budget increase in real terms, inject liquidity into the banking system, buy-to-let, property ladder.
Wankers.
Anyway.
In the old days, when I crawled out of bed close to lunchtime with a thick head, it was because I'd been out having it average the night before. These days it's because I've spent circa twelve hours in work of a weekend. Phew, rock&roll, eh?
