| Bring back the men of steel...
This is really making for depressing reading,just imagine the inventors and scientists of yesteryear worrying about cutting themselves or spilling abnoxious liquid over the work area ? what we need today are those men of iron and steel who could fashion things from raw natural materials with great gusto,little wonder that this country ( the UK at least ) is in the state that it is in ! once a nation capable of making great bridges,railways,carriages,aeroplanes with designers who knew what they were doing,now we are lucky if someone knows how to use a 12 inch rule,a micrometer,make saw cuts,bash out aluminium forms from sheets of soft alloy,make proper joints etc etc,little wonder that Guy cannot get the staff he needs at Legoland ? the whole system needs a proper overhaul,I could go on and on but it is so depressing to think that today despite the high technology presented before us we have landed up in this way.
I feel so lucky that I can enter my tiny shed workshop,and use that valuable knowledge instilled in me many years ago to make satisfying scale models from scrap and raw materials.
The nanny state is biting hard,this silly health and safety thing has gone too far,if you bang your finger nail with an hammer it goes bloody red and boy does it hurt ! if you touch hot metal it burns you,but one thing is for sure and that is you never do it again ?
Let common sense prevail,bring back woodwork and metalwork and bookbinding,and lets nurture real engineers again.
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