Charlie StrossApr 16, 2024
If the British government recovered fragments of the sword Excalibur and decided to have it re-forged for nation-building reasons, how would they go about it?
Local mediaeval re-enactment blacksmith
3.9%
Outsourced weapons contract for BAe systems
40%
Prime Minister’s chauffeur’s bestie
33.9%
Blade hardened by stabbing a benefit claimant
22.2%
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Show threadRachel GreenhamApr 16, 2024
@cstross it wouldn't be outsourced to BAe, it’ll be outsourced to Tata.
Show threadBob ThomsonApr 16, 2024
@StrangeNoises @cstross Infosys surely :) You can bet Lady Penelope of Mordaunt would be first in line to wield it, possibly to amputate the dangly parts of Rishi Rich.
Show threadRachel GreenhamApr 16, 2024
@bobthomson70 @cstross Tata at least does actually make stuff. in steel, no less… On second thoughts, even though the money leaves the country, it's far too competence-adjacent for this government.
Show threadBob Thomson
@StrangeNoises @cstross like ‘competence-adjacent’, sure doesn’t sound like them.
Apr 16, 2024 at 5:09pmIceCubesApp
Show threadFeralRobotsApr 17, 2024
@bobthomson70 @StrangeNoises @cstross
but only adjacent, because the grade of steel Tata's accustomed to working with would bend the first time someone used the sword on anything harder than a ripe banana.