British aircraft carrier HMS Prince of Wales (2019) had both propeller shafts misaligned at construction. They vibrated, which is ungood . One repaired. The other … the entire shaft had to be replaced. Cost? 25 million Lbs.
“United Kingdom’s National Audit Office said the aircraft carrier program’s cost increase was propelled by schedule delays, immature design and industry underestimates of labor as well as materials … “
“immature design” … I’ve repeatedly said, with not a fucking thing to back up my bullshit, that other countries have little or no experience building big carriers. Welp, here’s a bit of evidence.
The Chinese are cranking out carriers, but will they work? Can they operate them? The Russians … LOL the Russians … never built a carrier that was happier in the water than out of it.
In a bullshit world, the defense construction industries may be the bullshitiest. (Always pushing the conclusion too far, right A Tad?)
P.S. I happen to know that putting a lil ole ballistic missile submarine into dry dock, in the late 1970s, cost a quarter million Ameros. Imagine the cost, today, of putting a ship ten times its size into dry dock. Did they include that in the £25,000,000 amount? If it were a U.S. defense industry release, I would be certain they did not. The Brits? Who knows.
Welcome to Wonkette, Ms. Binkowski. If you've joined the staff, I think that's great.
Having 10 years of real-world American media reporting under your belt certainly gives you a basis for reality checks every time you read an article in those media.
I write for and edit a small, monthly African American-owned newspaper in Asheville, North Carolina, the Urban News (www.theurbannews.com), and we also do whatever we can to tell truthful stories, call out the right wing's lies, and inform our readership. Excellent article.
Pain is really fucking with me and I haven't slept in a while. I called to check on the status of pain med refills I called in for three days ago and the pharmacy phone system is malfunctioning.
Not losing my temper is really overwhelming me at the moment.
Not that Canada is some utopia - has problems like most places - but this kind of blatant political award/punishment use of essential emergency public services is not only unheard of, it's laughable.
The Republicans have been doing this shit since Nixon (yes, the common thread from there to here is Roger Stone). Nixon's whole excuse for Watergate and all his other ratfucking, dirty tricks and spying was that Kennedy stole the 1960 election from him and he'd better do something to the Democrats because he was certain they would do something worse to him. The persecution complex has a long history with these creeps.
I killed that aphorism about finding what you lost - or at least wounded it - yesterday. Searched *everywhere* for lost item. "Oh, I bet I left it at work. Nope. On the way from work to buy a new one: "Maybe I'll look at home just once more." At home: "Yay, here it is under the stuff I piled on top of it!"
At this point Blue States are in an abusive relationship.
When in charge Republican leadership says fuck Blue States and doesn't even care if people in those states die due to lack of relief funding after disasters.
When in charge Democratic leadership also puts Red States first because they are hoping that will get Red States to change and be nicer to them.
No matter what arm of the US government you work for, it's the Ministry of Information.
It's worth remembering, this Labor Day, the Wisdom of He Who Should Not Be President
"Too many non-working holidays in America that cost the country "billions of dollars" to keep businesses closed."
-Juneteenth, 2025
Wrong thread
Brooke, you're a great addition to the Wonkette team!
British aircraft carrier HMS Prince of Wales (2019) had both propeller shafts misaligned at construction. They vibrated, which is ungood . One repaired. The other … the entire shaft had to be replaced. Cost? 25 million Lbs.
“United Kingdom’s National Audit Office said the aircraft carrier program’s cost increase was propelled by schedule delays, immature design and industry underestimates of labor as well as materials … “
“immature design” … I’ve repeatedly said, with not a fucking thing to back up my bullshit, that other countries have little or no experience building big carriers. Welp, here’s a bit of evidence.
The Chinese are cranking out carriers, but will they work? Can they operate them? The Russians … LOL the Russians … never built a carrier that was happier in the water than out of it.
In a bullshit world, the defense construction industries may be the bullshitiest. (Always pushing the conclusion too far, right A Tad?)
https://www.19fortyfive.com/2026/09/an-investigation-found-both-propeller-shafts-on-the-65000-ton-hms-prince-of-wales-royal-navy-aircraft-carrier-had-been-misaligned-when-the-aircraft-carrier-was-built/
P.S. I happen to know that putting a lil ole ballistic missile submarine into dry dock, in the late 1970s, cost a quarter million Ameros. Imagine the cost, today, of putting a ship ten times its size into dry dock. Did they include that in the £25,000,000 amount? If it were a U.S. defense industry release, I would be certain they did not. The Brits? Who knows.
https://substack.com/profile/157420297-kirsty-gnome-squattor/note/c-330240987
Welcome to Wonkette, Ms. Binkowski. If you've joined the staff, I think that's great.
Having 10 years of real-world American media reporting under your belt certainly gives you a basis for reality checks every time you read an article in those media.
I write for and edit a small, monthly African American-owned newspaper in Asheville, North Carolina, the Urban News (www.theurbannews.com), and we also do whatever we can to tell truthful stories, call out the right wing's lies, and inform our readership. Excellent article.
Ta, Brooke. We remember it all.
I am happy to learn that there are absolutely no Republican / MAGA in any Blue State anywhere ever. Paradisiacal, really!
A moment of honesty. MH instead of OT.
Baconzgood has been a wonker since Ken Layne. And I have NEVER met in all these years, such nice, wonderful, friends with a askew sense of humor
You Wonkers "turn it up 11" and put a zucchini wrapped in tin foil in your crotch.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7l5GyrEm9KM&pp=ygUZSGFycnkgc2hlZXIgenVjaW5uaSBzY2VuZQ%3D%3D
I use a Butterstick 😉!
Aww, Butterstick...
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/article/farewell_to_butterstick
🥲
preznit fuckwit is a bigly brain bidness geeenious.
https://bsky.app/profile/volts.wtf/post/3mupo37bc6c26
lolwut?
Expounding or Exsanguinating?
His brain is broken.
The "building" president has just kicked the functional foundation from beneath the very party he claims to represent.
Probably good.
Pain is really fucking with me and I haven't slept in a while. I called to check on the status of pain med refills I called in for three days ago and the pharmacy phone system is malfunctioning.
Not losing my temper is really overwhelming me at the moment.
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lllllllllllooooooongreach, sis)
Good story, but I feel it lacked schadenfreude.
Not that Canada is some utopia - has problems like most places - but this kind of blatant political award/punishment use of essential emergency public services is not only unheard of, it's laughable.
It's likely criminal, but since we've got a defacto authoritarian state now *shruggie*
The Republicans have been doing this shit since Nixon (yes, the common thread from there to here is Roger Stone). Nixon's whole excuse for Watergate and all his other ratfucking, dirty tricks and spying was that Kennedy stole the 1960 election from him and he'd better do something to the Democrats because he was certain they would do something worse to him. The persecution complex has a long history with these creeps.
OT:
Budgie had a Lonch Accident after she eated her leftover veggie chimken sammich from yesterday.
It tasted good in Budgie tummy, but then, uh, it Made A Reappearance.
So Budgie is going out to buy new earbuds. She lost her other ones.
As anyone knows, the only way to find what Uue already lost is to go and buy another one.
I killed that aphorism about finding what you lost - or at least wounded it - yesterday. Searched *everywhere* for lost item. "Oh, I bet I left it at work. Nope. On the way from work to buy a new one: "Maybe I'll look at home just once more." At home: "Yay, here it is under the stuff I piled on top of it!"
We ask Jack for help. He's our finder angel. I can't think of a time he hasn't helped.
>>As anyone knows, the only way to find what Uue already lost is to go and buy another one.<<
Works 100% of the time. :D
And 99% of the time, you find what you lost right after you come home with the new one.
At this point Blue States are in an abusive relationship.
When in charge Republican leadership says fuck Blue States and doesn't even care if people in those states die due to lack of relief funding after disasters.
When in charge Democratic leadership also puts Red States first because they are hoping that will get Red States to change and be nicer to them.