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What is the best thing the British ever invented
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"World Wide Web." The Spinning Jenny | |||
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"World Wide Web. The Spinning Jenny " Very good.. | |||
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"Tim Curry " Oh I would have to agree. Breaks my heart to see him now | |||
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"The empire " Good call but not for all | |||
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"Stone circles? " They could be. I like the idea of Britannic people (as the Romans called us) being essentially British. I've always felt that Britishness, even just as a shared past, was something ancient and worth keeping. pt | |||
"America. " hhahhahahahhahahha | |||
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"Complaining about everything and everyone " Always after the event of course! Most of the time we are far too polite to do it at the time. pt | |||
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"Evening everyone "Sarcasm  | |||
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"The ability to invent a sport and give to the rest of the world....... only for the rest of the world to get better at it and rub our noses in it. "Same goes for a lot of our inventions to be honest! | |||
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"Not an invention as such but a discovery...penicillin. Alexander Fleming was a Scot but that's classed as British." Britain is only the sum of it's constituent parts. pt | |||
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"Cheese on toast with L&P
"Welsh rarebit no less! | |||
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"Lawnmower and adjustable spanner, same guy" Adjustable spanners are the work of beelzebub | |||
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"Lawnmower and adjustable spanner, same guy Adjustable spanners are the work of beelzebub " Depends if its metric or imperial | |||
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"Innocent apologies. "Waiter, I am so sorry there appears to be a public hair in my soup" When it's fuckin blonde and I'm not" *Pubic obv | |||
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"The empire " *spits coffee everywhere* | |||
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"Chavs " Innit | |||
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"Cars. " I'm pretty sure that the first vehicle powered by a gasoline engine was made by a German  | |||
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"Evening everyone ". The inflatable dinghy | |||
"Evening everyone ". The inflatable dinghy | |||
"The mini "Skirt ? | |||
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"British standards Quality of care Childrens home act 2015 Ofsted CQC OUR LAWS " | |||
"Tea bags - American The English language ( badly spoken by some and spelt badly by others) Australia Rugby Monty python Motorcycle - German Telephone " | |||
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"The mini
Skirt ?"Car | |||
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"The cat's eye reflectors. So basic but so helpful in the dark." Good call. | |||
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"Pot Noodles" … if true this comes a very close second! | |||
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"Ben Dover" | |||
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"Sorry, ignore my wry smile at some of these - often not exactly correct - answers to this post... Kettles were used in ancient Mesopotamia " The electric kettle wasinvented by Leslie Large in Birmingham | |||
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"Got be toilet paper " Walter Alcock ! | |||
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"Crop rotation." Crop rotation in the 14th century was considerably more widespread after John | |||
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"Crop rotation. Crop rotation in the 14th century was considerably more widespread after John" Shut up Neil! Crop rotation was considerably more widespread after John?..... | |||
" Shut up Neil! Crop rotation was considerably more widespread after John?..... " Lloyd patented the crop rotator | |||
" Shut up Neil! Crop rotation was considerably more widespread after John?..... Lloyd patented the crop rotator" Your such a girlie swot | |||
"The empire " , ,, ,, just to clarify ,, are you referring to (A) where we invaded other countries ,, or (B) the adult cinema in Huddersfield ??? | |||
"Sorry, ignore my wry smile at some of these - often not exactly correct - answers to this post... The internet was invented in the USA Bingo originated in Italy, as did the telephone (Bell did patent it though so that's the confusion) Yorkshire Puddings originated in France BUT the recipe was 1st published in Yorkshire (so us White Roses will claim that haha) Pot Noodles are from Japan. But the English worded trade name was invented in Wales The Chinese invented toothbrushes -but a Brit did pioneer what we think of as the modern version, albeit made of bone and pig's hair! Brit Humphrey Davy demonstrated that arc light was possible but it was American Eddison who shall we say perfected the light bulb. Its still a bone of contention that one! Others like Swan lay claim to it too. Karl Benz invented the car. Yes, in Germany. Kettles were used in ancient Mesopotamia Frenchman Pascal invented the calculator but I think it was a Spaniard perfected the digital one that USA's Texas Instruments made. An American invented the vacuum cleaner but the 1st ones were made in Britain. All good fun! But it has to be said Britain has invented a hell of a lot over the years!!! PS - I had to set an Xmas Quiz on all this so that's why I know! LOL . " One or two of your quibbles are touch pedantic even so! The Lightbulb was called out as contentious (I think I called it electric lighting). The internet I called 'hypertext' - and that was invented by a Brit (per the thread criteria) - Tim Berners Lee of course - I could have said HTML or the WWW but kept it simple. The Kettle - OK I should have said 'Electric'. I only used it to end my list humourously and invoke tea. You can't deny electric kettles have got around too! The Calculator - I couldn't remember what was unique about Clive Sinclair's - but something was. Maybe I should have checked what it was though (I wanted to say the ZX80, but that was too loose really). RE the vacuum cleaner - the whole idea/manufacture (ie a different matter) issue is often debated in this area. Again it was humourous though really to end the list! (the rest of the list was chronological). Pot Noodle - I thought that was someone's joke anyway(!) I think people have done pretty well! Another good list is what *came* to the UK. pt | |||
"The tidal system." | |||
"World Wide Web. The Spinning Jenny " The jacquard loom Directly insriring - Ada Lovelace - programmable computing - Alan Turing - breaking Enigma, ending the war early by years & saving 100k’s of lives - modern computing | |||
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" Shut up Neil! Crop rotation was considerably more widespread after John?..... Lloyd patented the crop rotator Your such a girlie swot "Straight over so many heads | |||
"World Wide Web. The Spinning Jenny The jacquard loom Directly insriring - Ada Lovelace - programmable computing - Alan Turing - breaking Enigma, ending the war early by years & saving 100k’s of lives - modern computing " Great connection re Lovelace. Turing came up with quite a lot too. pt | |||
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"The angry worded letter of complaint... "And queueing to post it | |||
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"The angry worded letter of complaint...
And queueing to post it "With a stamp invented by an English school teacher | |||
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"Apologies even if it's the other person's fault " . lol, situational apologising perhaps? And British understatement too of course. pt | |||
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"The Industrial revolution. This little island dominated world culture." mostly by destroying other cultures but whatever.. | |||
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"The empire " + Anti sl*very legislation | |||
pokey bum wanks | |||
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"The Industrial revolution. This little island dominated world culture. mostly by destroying other cultures but whatever.." I'm not sure it expressly dominated other cultures, or destroyed them either - in most cases anyway (sure there are exceptions, and there was always the role of religion too.). Britain itself became multicultural in the fullest sense, and from the outset too. The BE did often rule with too-heavy a hand though, but the idea was to civilise, industrialise and trade with via conquering with various different techniques. It certainly spread the English language around. I'm not into empire-building at all, I just think weren't any worse than any other (including I imagine the Scottish if they'd eventually got the Dutch model they were interested in going). pt | |||
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"The woke " People could say literally anything about 'woke' and it would automatically be 'True'. pt | |||
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