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  • Draining the North Sea
  • molgrips
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    Bring back Doggerland. It’d be ace.

    gofasterstripes
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    No idea what you’re talking about. Try googling it, perhaps include your location, and fetishes (if any).

    😉

    maccruiskeen
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    To bring back Doggerland you need to nominate somewhere of and equal size to be flooded.

    You can’t have Bangladesh, thats already taken.

    nickc
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    wouldn’t be that ace…it’d be like endless Norfolk.

    bikebouy
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    Be full of sodden moving sandbars, full of dead fish.

    You need to rethink your plan.

    CountZero
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    People would be able to walk here from the Continent, and we can’t be doing with that. It was bad enough with the Vikings, and they needed boats, and then there were the Normans.
    Although they were really Vikings wearing disguise…

    gwaelod
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    This is a cunning plan to upset UKIP isn’t it

    matt_outandabout
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    Well there be mammoths?

    kimbers
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    Farige would have a shitfit !

    Also busted the paleo diet. http://dienekes.blogspot.co.uk/2015/03/8000-year-old-wheat-in-britain.html?m=1

    molgrips
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    No, it’d be the new Norfolk, and the current Norfolk would become the new… er.. Cambridgeshire.

    matt_outandabout
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    Think of the variety of beer and wild boar sausages..

    Nipper99
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    I thought that was woods up by Penllergare.

    cr4sh
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    At which point would you stop driving on the left?

    zippykona
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    At which point would people start talking funny?

    cr4sh
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    At which point would people start talking funny?

    Same as they do now…narfarrk

    rkk01
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    I thought that was woods up by Penllergare

    Nah, that’s Garth Maelog / Smilog or Castell Coch woods…

    molgrips
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    Now I’m reading about the history of land drainage in the Netherlands.

    bodgy
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    Dammit.

    gofasterstripes
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    The way the Dutch build everything water related is genius.

    Field, ditch, elevated bank, line of trees, road, ditch, field = continual drainage, strong containment, trees dry the ditch and road, roads almost always passable.

    Fields below town level, possible to controlled flood huge areas, but to a shallow depth – town stays dry

    Roads and most towns paved/metalled with interlocking brickwork – maximum local drainage. Bricks delivered on pallets, and placed by a giant grabbing arm, 100 at a time.

    That’s before even mentioning the rivers, the cleaning/cutting-back of the plant growth, the big sea dijks etc etc…

    molgrips
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    The wiki article describes how it all came about. The country physically evolved alongside the technology that they had to invent.

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