There’s an increasing issue on youtube … not just AI with its dislocated sentences and subtitles but the format of the presentation, the chosen voices … I can’t pinpoint it exactly but it has a very MSM feel … reassuring, persuading and assuaging voices, combined with mood music … it is no longer a short documentary in a straightforward way, unadorned.
The least bad I could find on the Nissen hut had almost no comments … ho hum.
When our family moved into our current home in the 1980s there was a Nissan hut used as a garage by the guy next door. Old guy, small car which he had to push in because it only just took the car. He died early 1990 and the next occupants knocked it down the instant they moved in to gain the space.
It was a talking point at our local school when they actually educated kids, don’t laugh, they did once in the mists of time, and WWII was being taught the kids would be down to look at it.
The Nissen Hut was a prime example of a pragmatic solution to a need, simple engineering, minimum skill required in operation, economical. No committees, no analysis, just one logical engineer.
Compare and contrast with the Ajax military vehicle catastrophe – £6bn and counting, it will never work as intended, it will all be written off eventually. Impractical, over-specified, inappropriate for the purpose or the times -the military version of HS2.
The ‘enemy’, when they need a vehicle to carry a few soldiers and a close-range gun, simply get a Toyota Hi-Lux crew-cab, weld a gun onto the cargo-space and start fighting the same afternoon – around £20k and an hour’s labour for a pragmatic solution. All they’re missing is infinite MoD committees and generous kick-backs.