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TV WAS INVENTED BY SCOTTISH PEOPLE YOU FILTHY WHORE
We also invented the telephone, golf, penicillin and we brought haggis into society
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they also invented the scottish accent
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they also invented the scottish accent
well gee! aren't you helpful!
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They gave birth to Billy Connoly!
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Aparrently John Logie Baird invented the television.
John Logie Baird, according to fuzzball is some (great*n?) grandfather-ish relative of his, his name of course being Charles Baird.
Does no-one remember the quiz thread?
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Does no-one remember the quiz thread?
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They gave birth to Billy Connoly!
If it weren't for them, you would have me or Meiapaul (I'm 25% scottish)
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I can name three american inventions off the top of my head:
1) The motorized vehicle.
2) The airplane.
3) The television.
Without the latter, there would be no computers or internet as sophisticated as there are today, if they would even exist beyond the old hulking behemoths. AND, there would also be alot less of an economy in the entertainment business, which would mean the world economy would also be alot lower. Transportation would also be vastly behind if it progressed beyond ships and trains without the motorized vehicle or the airplane.
Yes, they're all 20th centuary inventions. But without them you wouldn't be sitting here talking right now. Not to say that America hasn't totally screwed OTHER things up, but it is at least somewhat of a redeming quality.
And without the British you wouldn't have had better medical procedures and equiment as developed during the rennaisance period. All these advances came from countries like England, France, Germany, Italy. Surgery, anaesthetics, Charles Darwin and the theory of evolution. How would you know where you came from without him? How would you be able to perform operations without the advances in medicine during the 19th century? How would you even know how the heart works? How would you know what caused disease? The fact is, you wouldn't.
Transportation would also be vastly behind if it progressed beyond ships and trains without the motorized vehicle or the airplane.
The aeroplane was first invented by someone from New Zealand AFAIK, after watching Billy Connelly's tour of New Zealand a few nights back.
Trains were invented by the british. Ships were manufactured a great deal during the industrial revolution by the british, not the USA.
The USA has only advanced things in the world post 1918, Britian has advanced and invented things/methods to improve health, lifestyle etc for many centuries.
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The aeroplane was first invented by someone from New Zealand AFAIK, after watching Billy Connelly's tour of New Zealand a few nights back.
then why're the wright (however you spell it) brothers the ones famours across the world for making the first working airplane?
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Fine, I'm sorry, I'll make sure I do more research before posting again .
However, most medical advancements did not come from any country. They came from war. Furthermore, I don't believe in the Darwin theory, so don't even go there with me.
I just get tired of the fact that everytime America gets mentioned in a thread, it abruptly gets hit upside the head with a brick. What's done is done, and nobody here had the power to force the present or past to bend to their will. Yes, if it weren't for Britain, we'd still be in the middle ages. But if it weren't for the Middle Ages, we'd be stuck in the time period before that, and so on and so forth until you reach whatever beginning of life you believe in. If it weren't for Britain winning against the French in the French and Indian War (or whatever you want to call it), we'd probably all be speaking French instead of English (American or otherwise). If it weren't for America becoming independent, none of us would probably be here. If it weren't for America, somebody would have inevitably gotten the footing they needed to take over this continent. If it weren't for America, and the World Wars did end up happening, maybe, just maybe, the rest of the world would have been completely under the gun. You can't say one country did everything the way it should be, or made the world better than any other. All countries coexist and create this world we reside in. And without one of the players, the play would have surely failed many years ago.
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They gave birth to Billy Connoly!
We gave birth to Lee Evans! He's one of the funnyist me thinks
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then why're the wright (however you spell it) brothers the ones famours across the world for making the first working airplane?
Because he didn't care about it, the Wright Brothers did. I don't know how much is or isn't known about it - it's just what I heard on the programme. I doubt someone would put his work in a museum if they knew he didn't invent it.
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If it weren't for Britain winning against the French in the French and Indian War (or whatever you want to call it), we'd probably all be speaking French instead of English (American or otherwise).
Hah, don't even start on the French in wars
Have you heard about the new French war flag?
Its a white cross on a white background :p
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All countries coexist and create this world we reside in. And without one of the players, the play would have surely failed many years ago.
And the prize for most enlightened sentence goes to Glenn.
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They gave birth to Billy Connoly!
We gave birth to Lee Evans! He's one of the funnyist me thinks
And Jasper Carrot and Jimmy Carr! God, us brits are funny.
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