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Threads is a 1984 BBC television play depicting the effects of a nuclear war on the United Kingdom and its aftermath. Written by Barry Hines and directed by Mick Jackson, Threads was filmed in late 1983 and early 1984. The premise of Threads was to hypothesise the effects of a nuclear war on the United Kingdom after an exchange between the Soviet Union and the United States escalates to include the UK.

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• Sheffield

[TheMonochromeBird]

07:45 - Aside from thinking they were going to eat the baby or something, I was just waiting for someone to say, in a Ricky Tomlinson-style voice, 'Merry Christmas, my arse!'. xD

[sr71ablackbird]

@Andros2709 that and the day after

[jazzx251]

One thing's for sure. Fallout 3 is a load of bollocks!

[TheMonochromeBird]

@11TechGuy I wouldn't be surprised if they already did. haha

[11TechGuy]

@TheMonochromeBird thought they should eat that dog that was barking while she was giving birth

[lesterclaypool1]

@Nowhereman10

Maintenance is a current problem, from what I understand? Parts fabricated to order and few knowledgeable people to do the repairs on salvaged/recreated steam engines?

I still don't see steam engines being viable in this situation. Take away a primary source of fuel and the secondaries get eaten up pretty quick. Everything that you've listed as a potential source of fuel would quickly become of such great value that feeding them to a steam engine would be frivolous.

[Nowhereman10]

@lesterclaypool1 Depends on the fuel source, of course. Most people don't realize that the major advantage of steam engines over their internal combustion cousins is that they can burn damn near anything. Initially steam engines could make do in this scenario on the vast amounts of dead wood from trees and wood salvaged from cities. Coal or peat would be other good sources, and unlike combustion engines, the simple steam engine would not be affected by EMP. Maintenance would be the big problem.

[Silven5]

god damn, Ruth is a badass

[lesterclaypool1]

@DaveFallows

I'm with you on that, bro: I don't think that we were the first advanced species to wander the earth and I don't think that we'll be the last. I disagree with your statement about the bible and the people who wrote it, though: Not much reeducation and control in a book that states that man will turn away from the God that it speaks of in the end times, and that that's how it's supposed to be. Religion's a big pile of steaming crap, though.

[lesterclaypool1]

@Nowhereman10

You'd still need people to mine or mill the fuel for steam power.

[DaveFallows]

@lesterclaypool1 How about the prophesy of the people who wrote the bible, the same people that educated you about it to begin with.

History repeats itself, and I believe we've been through three or four of these situations before. The guys in charge hide in a bunker and come out to 're-educate' the masses with their filth religion and technological miracles and so the cycle repeats. It would only take 2-3 generations before nobody knows what started a mess like this.

[DaveFallows]

@OatcakeFilms The military would easily be the most stocked of authorities. In another scene one of the soldiers complains about the flavour of a bag of crisps that were looted from a looter. They have the guns, they have the power... or, the people tucked safely underground that started the whole mess who control that army have the power.