"Community" Service
Prison is expensive. "Community" service is unpopular with the general public. True fact. We have about 400 years worth of coal stuck under ground in the UK since Thatcher decided mining was uncool and coal was uneconomical to dig out. Solution. Prisoners should be made to go underground and dig coal for free until their debt to society is repaid. We all get lots of lovely low cost electricity. Wrong 'uns getting a punishment that they are truly scared of - hard manual labour, no more day time telly and wanking.
(Pere Ubu, Duke of Lithuania, Thu 29 Sep 2011, 1:08, 4 replies)

Worst idea ever
1. Assuming our power needs are the same as that of the 70's, then yes we might have a couple of hundred years left down there. Given that our power needs have grown and will continue to, I'd estimate that it's more like 50 years left.
2. Coal is one of the most polluting and damaging sources of energy going. Do you really want to live in a flooded, smoggy Britain with strip mines all over the countryside?
(Shippy likes linebreaks and doesn't care what you think, Thu 29 Sep 2011, 11:12, closed)

I think you'll find the worst idea ever was when
Olaf The Hairy decided to order a hundred Viking helmets with the horns on the inside.
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Thu 29 Sep 2011, 11:15, closed)

Thank you, Catpane Slackbladder

( shinyshinyscalp less a man, more a way of life, Thu 29 Sep 2011, 11:51, closed)

Is strip mining
as sexy as it sounds?
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Thu 29 Sep 2011, 11:30, closed)