I wonder, after the “World Elite” Banksters have crashed our worthless Fiat-Monies, how these guy would react if they found out one has a stash of Gold at home. Or rather some odd liters of bottled water.

ps modern Perkins diesels are total crap

No doubt you’re a handy chap in many of the extraction industries and one-off/prototype shipboard endeavors, but what do Brits call the guys who go to uni, learn the calculus and differential eqs. necessary to describe complex fluid dynamics and 3D heat transfer, then go to work at Perkins Diesel, designing spanky fine engines that “love you long time”… and do NOT explode?? ;^)

British English yes, apprenticeship wasn’t in any one country, or even continent.

Marine Engineering, so no, never a welder, never a toolmaker, never a boilermaker, never a fitter and turner, etc.

Job titles were Engineer, Chief Engineer, Bastard, and Boss when self employed, which happened a lot.

Mechanical Engineer is an oxymoron, what used to be called a Fitter.

Structural Engineer specialises in static structures, bridges and shit.

Back in the day “Engineer” meant someone who solved problems and challenges, big part of the job was making a designing a tool or machine to do a job, the tool could be something simple like a jig, or something complex like completely new bit of kit, say a hydraulic power pack (diesel engine + hydraulic pump + valve chest etc) that could fit through an aperture x wide or which could be broken down into pieces that weighed no more than 1000 kg and and which only took 4 spanners to disassemble and reassemble or indeed prototypes for stuff…. E1 E2 P1 P2 prototypes, 1 and 2 engineering prototypes to see if the idea could be made to work, and 1 and 2 production prototypes to turn the working idea into a design that could be manufactured at reasonable cost and reliability etc.

This for example

Built in the UK in the 1950s by babcock and others, where “built” means the parts were made, everything from plates with rivet holes pre drilled on up and down, no part too big to be loaded on a 2.5 ton army truck, shipped to Malaysia, carted through the jungle on said trucks to a clearing where tin had been found, assembled for the first time on site, and put to work.

That, is Engineering.