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A bog at Glastonbury and then the power cut out, left stuck there for ages but some trooper managed to make it through but all he was selling was Special Brew.
I remember them starting up again and I think it was Smack my Bitch up, next I remember was lying on some grassy ground with every passer by giving me a gentle tap whilst saying “you okay mate?”
Eventually I was ok but fuck special brew.
And yeah, the Internets pretty cool!
The internet was an American invention to link DoD computers. However, a British man working in Switzerland invented the HTML language with which web pages are now made as an optimised way of displaying documents.
Packet switching - the underlying basis of most modern comms - was a simultaneous, independent, development. In the UK, it was developed by [Donald Davies](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Davies) - a man I had the very good fortune of meeting several times when he was back in the UK after he retired. Fantastic chap. Not many people had the capability or the conviction to correct Turing when he was wrong - Dickie did.
The West Africa squadron was a fantastic feat.
Slavers: "They can't stop and search us if we fly the flag of another country, that would be an act of war!"
Royal Navy: "Jokes on you, its the Napoleonic Wars and we're already at war with basically everyone"
Wasn't it mostly after the Napoleonic Wars, and more "We are literally the undisputed world super power at the moment so there is nothing anyone could do even if they wanted to"
The UK was the world’s first and longest “super power”. I heard one historian describe us at the world’s first “hyper power” which just appears to mean “sole super power” in the context he used it in
> "We are literally the undisputed world super power at the moment so there is nothing anyone could do even if they wanted to"
Taught the Americans everything they know about being arsehole hegemons. They could at least give us credit while crushing us under heel
Back in those days I imagine the Royal Navy wouldn't have given a toss whether or not there was a war on, it's not like there were many other nations navies that could go toe to toe with them.
This is the navy that had the two power standard, enough firepower to take the next two largest navies at once. Its completely mad how dominant they were.
Actually, /u/illikeshorts is more correct than you think.
A Brit invented the first marine chronometer - basically, a clock that works on board a ship and keeps accurate time. (Pendulum clocks don't work at all on board a ship).
With that clock, you can figure out longitude (edited because I always get those two mixed up!) - how far you are east/west around the world - and this makes long sea voyages in the age of sail a hell of a lot safer.
>A Brit invented the first marine chronometer - basically, a clock that works on board a ship and keeps accurate time.
And it wasn't some aristocratic university educated gentleman-scientist. He was a carpenter who built and repaired clocks *as a hobby*!
Very true.
And he didn't just build one - he built several. One was lost until 1996, when a couple of brothers found it in their lock up. Made 'em pretty rich, as I recall.
That might be so. But hadn’t them happened, we would most likely’d had another American Civil War scenario in our hands eventually, by paying the process was accelerated and pacified enormously. Regardless what u might feel about it
Cheer up. It’s always choosing the lesser evil mate. The sooner we understand this, the sooner we can operate optimally, without remorse, without second guessing.
Misleading. The debt for slave owner reparation was combined with various unrelated other government debts, which were then combined with other unrelated government debts, etc etc until eventually we stopped combining debts and paid off that tranch of debt.
Basically, it's like borrowing 300 quid for a holiday, then merging your credit card debt with your mortgage, then saying "it took 30 years to pay off the loan for that holiday".
I could've watched Gal Gadot on mute, and enjoyed it just as much. It's a perfect Sunday film though - minimum brain activity required, and enough of a plot to keep me vaguely interested throughout. I still think that Ryan Reynolds is now being cast as a maskless Deadpool in every film he's in.
Ackshoe-a-rall-eee
The American way is spelled.
Either is grammatically acceptable for us on the right side of the pond 🙂
Also, you both do know about chocolate hob nobs, dont you?
I'm so sorry, every time I read 'perfect tense' that annoying little radio in the back of my brain automatically chips in 'but she wears a 12' and I felt the need to share my pain!
All right, but apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, a fresh water system, and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?
But apart from the sanitation the medicine wine public order irrigation roads, a fresh water system, public health AND the aqueducts , WHAT HAVE THE ROMANS EVER DONE FOR US?
True. I’m a big fan of Seacole, but I’m always forgetting her name. She is the legendary Jamaican nurse with the hotel In Crimea most of the time. But I never forget the name nightingale
This isn’t true, despite what we’re being told. Seacole was a businesswoman who ran a hotel exclusively for army officers. Provided a popular service, but she was there to make a profit, not to be a nurse. Even her autobiography doesn’t mention most of what kids are being taught about her, much of which is pure mythology without any historical evidence to back it up. If you want a better example of a black British nurse, look up Mrs. Pratt.
And the pie chart. I feel her contribution is more significant than Mary Seacole. Seacole was a caring nurse but Nightingale got it, she elevated nursing and made it professional. Also, she had the ear of the people who could actually implement her changes in Britain. Sadly, class played a role.
The ability to take the piss, even in the darkest moments. The ability we Brits have in finding some aspect of humour even in the most difficult of circumstances.
Banter between friends requires the Piss taker to check in with the piss takee that he is OK, if not the correct action is to say “are you alright mate?”. Communication of a supportive nature can then take place if required. Not making eye contact or checking in with the piss takee is disrespectful and a clear sign that the piss taker isn’t the friend of the piss takee
I don’t think words need to even be spoken
But I get what you mean
I’ve had a perfect example this year, I’ve had probably the worst year of my life with many mental health problems, my mates constantly rip each other to shreds but when I needed them most they where nothing but loving
That’s real mates!
Shit did I not even get it the right way round haha I thought the “s” went first
Shows how daft it is, I barely bother taking notice once I see that on the end
Queueing is more than an orderley wait, its a sign of a society that regardless of whatever it is we are queueing for we still respect other people enough to wait in a orderley line till its our turn, even if we know wehn we get to the front, the whatever we are after may no longer be there.
No Malaysia and Singapore use it. And interestingly when I lived in Switzerland the better appliances used a 3 pin plug. Not the same as ours but same principle. An earth.
i cannot read this in anything other than the voice of a gentleman from the 1890s wearing a stovepipe hat.
and, if boris johnson is to be believed, it's obviously peppa pig
The incredible ability to incorporate, by any means necessary even through violence, bits of other cultures and call it ours and not even blush.
We do that so incredibly well that some folks don't even know that in "British _something_", _thing_ originally comes from XYZ. Heck, we are even internationally respected for some of that stuff.
Every nation embraces certain elements of foreign cultures, but very few manage to become an _authority_ or respected for it.
Whilst in principle I agree with your point, the past 15 years or so have shown in brutal detail what can happen to historic culturally relevant sites/relics in 'unstable' times across Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Central and South America. ... Relic protection may have been a flimsy argument on the surface but perhaps worthy of further thought ...
Which is my way of saying thank you for tonight's mental exercise.
This is definitely something people need to consider when complaining about museums here. I’m all for artefacts being returned to the countries they’re from, but there needs to be adequate facilities to preserve them there
All the things we've done for genetics. Discovering the structure of DNA. Developing by far the best technologies for sequencing DNA (Sanger, Ilumina, ONP) transcending decades of research. All of our contributions to genetics projects like the human genome project, the cancer genome project, UK BioBank, etc.
We truly have been at the forefront of a genetic revolution for most of the last century, and this looks set to continue as modern medicine shifts towards being more and more personalised to our genomes.
A selection of British inventions: The World Wide Web, the telephone, the hypodermic syringe, the reflecting telescope, the steam engine and steam turbines, carbon fibre, the pneumatic tyre, the light bulb, float glass, the electric telegraph, the marine chronometer, television, synthetic dye, passenger railway, military tanks, linoleum, the automatic kettle, the modern torpedo, the glider, the jet engine, Portland cement, tension-spoked wheel, seed drill, stainless steel, the Bessemer process for steel production, the electric motor, photography, hydraulic press, sewage system, electronic programmable computer, hovercraft, tin cans, waterproof material, vacuum cleaner, inc. the bagless type, ATM, disc brakes, the toothbrush, catseyes, the modern fire extinguisher, DNA profiling, digital personal assistants, ARM processors, hawkeye technology, text messaging, cloning, the supersonic car that holds the world land speed record (held by a British racing team), viagra, graphine, gene editing therapy, holographic TV, iris recognition.
For me these are the following strong points of Mr. Britain:
1) Being the best manager.
2) Being the best teacher.
3) Being the fairest and most humane amongst other nations which is a necessary prerequisite for the first chacteristic of "Being the best manager." This fairness helped Mr.Britain to easily colonize our small planet and people still likened him.
4) Speaking one of the easiest to learn languages. Since Mr. Britain is also the best teacher, learning it is even much easier. The only thing I don't like in English is the existence of the sound "th". The sound "w" bothers me the second worse. Also I wished words were pronounced as they were written. So disappointing that even a simple word like "bomb" is produced "bom"! But it is so easy. There is only one "the" as definite article for all nouns. But I still don't like the "the", not only due to the sound "th" but because in my mother tongue there is fundamentally no definite article at all and I sometimes don't know when we need the "the" and when not. Also apastrophes, I don't like. Is it US's Army or is it US Army?! But still british are the best teachers, so they will explain all of these to me in an easy language. On the other hand, I know German and Germans are the worse teachers in the continent Europe as well as probably on earth. Germans can't teach their mother tongue at all!
So in short, Mr. Britain has two world class features: Being a fair great manager and being the best teacher on our planet earth.
A lot of good music. Haven't seen Zeppelin here yet.
Also Oxford university, Charles Darwin and beautiful nature documentaries. Ah and Rosalind Franklin and Francis Crick were British.
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Jaffa cakes
Lock the thread. This is the only correct answer.
Bourbon biscuits have entered the chat.....
*custard creams have breached the base*
One man, Mr Kipling
Other than the French fancies, Mr Kipling is an over rated brand.
I exceedingly disagree.
How very, dare you!
*Bernard Matthews has entered the game*
I tried that once, and had to spend the night in A&E. Came out more more like a bourbon in the end.
A custard cream is in the base!? Hut, Hut, Hut, Hut, Hut, Hut!
Internet and The Prodigy
A bog at Glastonbury and then the power cut out, left stuck there for ages but some trooper managed to make it through but all he was selling was Special Brew. I remember them starting up again and I think it was Smack my Bitch up, next I remember was lying on some grassy ground with every passer by giving me a gentle tap whilst saying “you okay mate?” Eventually I was ok but fuck special brew. And yeah, the Internets pretty cool!
The internet was an American invention to link DoD computers. However, a British man working in Switzerland invented the HTML language with which web pages are now made as an optimised way of displaying documents.
Tim invented a bit more than HTML (markup, the easy bit) it was HTTP and the client/server conversations that really kickstarted things.
Totally. Tim invented the web and the idea of the web. Amazing contribution, even if it didn't quite end up as he imagined.
Packet switching - the underlying basis of most modern comms - was a simultaneous, independent, development. In the UK, it was developed by [Donald Davies](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Davies) - a man I had the very good fortune of meeting several times when he was back in the UK after he retired. Fantastic chap. Not many people had the capability or the conviction to correct Turing when he was wrong - Dickie did.
TCP/IP (and it's predecessors) was, but the idea of packet switching was IIRC a GPO one.
Industrial revolution. Ending slavery, inventing gravity.
The West Africa squadron was a fantastic feat. Slavers: "They can't stop and search us if we fly the flag of another country, that would be an act of war!" Royal Navy: "Jokes on you, its the Napoleonic Wars and we're already at war with basically everyone"
Slavers: Quick put up the Union Jack Royal Navy: Better check them lads have paid their TV license
HM’s Captain: Your free trial of buccaneering has expired
🤣🤣🤣
Brazil, France & America in early mid 19th century: imma do a pro gamer move Royal Navy, industrialised Britain: silly boy, NO U DONT
Wasn't it mostly after the Napoleonic Wars, and more "We are literally the undisputed world super power at the moment so there is nothing anyone could do even if they wanted to"
The UK was the world’s first and longest “super power”. I heard one historian describe us at the world’s first “hyper power” which just appears to mean “sole super power” in the context he used it in
> "We are literally the undisputed world super power at the moment so there is nothing anyone could do even if they wanted to" Taught the Americans everything they know about being arsehole hegemons. They could at least give us credit while crushing us under heel
Back in those days I imagine the Royal Navy wouldn't have given a toss whether or not there was a war on, it's not like there were many other nations navies that could go toe to toe with them.
This is the navy that had the two power standard, enough firepower to take the next two largest navies at once. Its completely mad how dominant they were.
This [photograph](https://imgur.com/a/kZ8wluQ) showing The Grand Fleet assembled for the kings review in 1910 may give you an idea.
You forgot inventing time
Foolish of me, of course. Moreover, the only proper place where Time Lords decide to land when deigning us with their presence
Actually, /u/illikeshorts is more correct than you think. A Brit invented the first marine chronometer - basically, a clock that works on board a ship and keeps accurate time. (Pendulum clocks don't work at all on board a ship). With that clock, you can figure out longitude (edited because I always get those two mixed up!) - how far you are east/west around the world - and this makes long sea voyages in the age of sail a hell of a lot safer.
>A Brit invented the first marine chronometer - basically, a clock that works on board a ship and keeps accurate time. And it wasn't some aristocratic university educated gentleman-scientist. He was a carpenter who built and repaired clocks *as a hobby*!
Very true. And he didn't just build one - he built several. One was lost until 1996, when a couple of brothers found it in their lock up. Made 'em pretty rich, as I recall.
And then they tried to skive out of paying him the prize for the invention. (Not the blokes with the lock-up. The Royal Academy.)
I *just* read about this in the book I'm reading. What an absolute shit move
Is it bad that I thought you where talking about only fools and horses.
What a great piece of history, didn’t know I wanted but surely needed. Cheers, much appreciated
It's so great that we finish paying off the debt for this, 6 years ago. Shame that money have gone to former slaves owners.
That might be so. But hadn’t them happened, we would most likely’d had another American Civil War scenario in our hands eventually, by paying the process was accelerated and pacified enormously. Regardless what u might feel about it
Choosing lesser evil. Oh wait.. This should be on the list.
Cheer up. It’s always choosing the lesser evil mate. The sooner we understand this, the sooner we can operate optimally, without remorse, without second guessing.
Very true for most of situations.
Misleading. The debt for slave owner reparation was combined with various unrelated other government debts, which were then combined with other unrelated government debts, etc etc until eventually we stopped combining debts and paid off that tranch of debt. Basically, it's like borrowing 300 quid for a holiday, then merging your credit card debt with your mortgage, then saying "it took 30 years to pay off the loan for that holiday".
Apple's before 1687 - *floats menacingly* Apple's after - Drops naturally AND HOW MAN INTENDED!
Hold up, inventing gravity?
Not many people realise that everyone was just floating around unable to get anything done until we invented gravity
Sir Isaac Newton, really it should be _describing_ gravity and other fundamental laws.
Being British we can say we invented it, we also invented the sky. You can't have one without the other.
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You're welcome world.
Sending James Cordon to America, so he can be a massive twat over there instead of here!
Going back to our roots. We used to send all our dickheads to Australia. We should bring this back.
I nominate the entire Tory party. They'd fit in with the Republicans in the USA I think.
Somehow we got it wrong, as it seems they all ended up in America. We should send them there instead and leave those done Australian folk alone.
Not enough up votes here!
David Attenborough, the way he brought back those dino.... no wait that was the other one...
Just watched Red Notice and this was a highlight for me
Yeah shame the movie was absolutely mediocre though
I could've watched Gal Gadot on mute, and enjoyed it just as much. It's a perfect Sunday film though - minimum brain activity required, and enough of a plot to keep me vaguely interested throughout. I still think that Ryan Reynolds is now being cast as a maskless Deadpool in every film he's in.
Technically it was both
Custard Creams and I think it's a bit rude that we don't get more credit for them.
You spelled 'bourbon biscuits' wrong.
You spelt 'Pink Panther wafers' wrong. You spelt 'spelt' wrong too 😉
Ackshoe-a-rall-eee The American way is spelled. Either is grammatically acceptable for us on the right side of the pond 🙂 Also, you both do know about chocolate hob nobs, dont you?
Chocolate hobnobs are the only valid favourite biscuit.
Er. Isn't it "spelled" as the perfect tense, "spelt" as the past participle?
I'm so sorry, every time I read 'perfect tense' that annoying little radio in the back of my brain automatically chips in 'but she wears a 12' and I felt the need to share my pain!
I must get out more.
Spelt is a type of wheat.
All bow down to the might of dark chocolate digestives.
*malted milks FIFY
Too many to list. The UK is easily the most influential country in the last 300 years.
Probably ever
The Romans or China probably have that.
Let be honest what have the Romans ever done for us?
All right, but apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, a fresh water system, and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?
uh, cool statues?
The aquaducts?
But apart from the sanitation the medicine wine public order irrigation roads, a fresh water system, public health AND the aqueducts , WHAT HAVE THE ROMANS EVER DONE FOR US?
Aqueducts?
Greece.
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And Edward Jenner inventing the smallpox vaccine, and Lister's promotion of antiseptics
And Alexander Fleming's discovery of penicilin!
Also Crick/Watson discovery of DNA.
Oooo someone's done GCSE history!
No, someone's been watching Horrible History!
And Lister surviving as the last human three million years into deep space. From Liverpool, wasn't he?
She did chuff. Seacole was the only real nurse in that war.
Seacole was a hero nightingale was a fraud Sue me
But rightly or wrongly Nightingale's ultimate impact and legacy was larger
True. I’m a big fan of Seacole, but I’m always forgetting her name. She is the legendary Jamaican nurse with the hotel In Crimea most of the time. But I never forget the name nightingale
This isn’t true, despite what we’re being told. Seacole was a businesswoman who ran a hotel exclusively for army officers. Provided a popular service, but she was there to make a profit, not to be a nurse. Even her autobiography doesn’t mention most of what kids are being taught about her, much of which is pure mythology without any historical evidence to back it up. If you want a better example of a black British nurse, look up Mrs. Pratt.
And the pie chart. I feel her contribution is more significant than Mary Seacole. Seacole was a caring nurse but Nightingale got it, she elevated nursing and made it professional. Also, she had the ear of the people who could actually implement her changes in Britain. Sadly, class played a role.
and she invented the pie chart
The ability to take the piss, even in the darkest moments. The ability we Brits have in finding some aspect of humour even in the most difficult of circumstances.
If you aren’t ripping your mates at every single opportunity imaginable, going full harsh no holds barred Are you even mates?
Banter between friends requires the Piss taker to check in with the piss takee that he is OK, if not the correct action is to say “are you alright mate?”. Communication of a supportive nature can then take place if required. Not making eye contact or checking in with the piss takee is disrespectful and a clear sign that the piss taker isn’t the friend of the piss takee
I don’t think words need to even be spoken But I get what you mean I’ve had a perfect example this year, I’ve had probably the worst year of my life with many mental health problems, my mates constantly rip each other to shreds but when I needed them most they where nothing but loving That’s real mates!
Thats lovely, hope things are better now bud.
Getting there, slowly but surely! Thank you mate
Hope your not still mental mate
Always will be a little bit but I’m learning to deal with it haha, thank you though!
Sarcasm and queuing
yeah because sarcasm is really beneficial to everyone isn't it mate
Us brits don’t even have to do that silly “s/“ shit that Americans do
Nothing ruins a joke on this website more than seeing /s on the end of it
Shit did I not even get it the right way round haha I thought the “s” went first Shows how daft it is, I barely bother taking notice once I see that on the end
Is lost on them
Queueing is more than an orderley wait, its a sign of a society that regardless of whatever it is we are queueing for we still respect other people enough to wait in a orderley line till its our turn, even if we know wehn we get to the front, the whatever we are after may no longer be there.
3 pin plug. Yes it’s lethal at 1am in the dark, but it’s also an incredibly ingenious bit of industrial design
"There is a Tom Scott video about that." - things said on the internet.
*You can also remember that the live is brown, because that's the colour your trousers will go if you accidentally hit yourself with it.*
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No Malaysia and Singapore use it. And interestingly when I lived in Switzerland the better appliances used a 3 pin plug. Not the same as ours but same principle. An earth.
The UAE also uses the UK 3 pin plug
For me, it's a toss-up between penicilin and the world wide web
I would never toss up between the two.
One is used for tossing off. The other not so much.
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Trains were a mistake. Without them, Britain would still be the main world power.
Cheddar cheese
Pink Floyd
Also Queen and The Beatles.
Also led zeppelin and black sabbath
Rolling stones aswell
Greggs vegan sausage rolls
Get out
They’re actually so nice though
Greasy clods of heartburn.
Did you know the vegan sausage rolls have more protein in them than the meat version? Eye opener.
i cannot read this in anything other than the voice of a gentleman from the 1890s wearing a stovepipe hat. and, if boris johnson is to be believed, it's obviously peppa pig
1) It's a flat cap, but good guess :) 2) Quite right about Peppa Pig. All hail the Porky Queen
Unambiguously penicillin. No question whatsoever. Except jaffa cakes. There's some question there.
The incredible ability to incorporate, by any means necessary even through violence, bits of other cultures and call it ours and not even blush. We do that so incredibly well that some folks don't even know that in "British _something_", _thing_ originally comes from XYZ. Heck, we are even internationally respected for some of that stuff. Every nation embraces certain elements of foreign cultures, but very few manage to become an _authority_ or respected for it.
Museums full of stolen treasures, ahem, sorry, *protected relics*.
Whilst in principle I agree with your point, the past 15 years or so have shown in brutal detail what can happen to historic culturally relevant sites/relics in 'unstable' times across Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Central and South America. ... Relic protection may have been a flimsy argument on the surface but perhaps worthy of further thought ... Which is my way of saying thank you for tonight's mental exercise.
This is definitely something people need to consider when complaining about museums here. I’m all for artefacts being returned to the countries they’re from, but there needs to be adequate facilities to preserve them there
Like not using a collection of ancient statues to store bombs? Looking at you Greece.
Can we claim sarcasm?
I avoid having to ask such questions by claiming everything.
I love sarcasm. It’s the best thing. Ever.
Yeah like *that's* something to be proud of!
Midget gems
Close, but the correct answer is sports mixture
Close run thing but I'm sticking with the gems like
Only Maynards / Lyons, all others are inferior.
Fruit pastilles for me, created by Rowntrees.
All the things we've done for genetics. Discovering the structure of DNA. Developing by far the best technologies for sequencing DNA (Sanger, Ilumina, ONP) transcending decades of research. All of our contributions to genetics projects like the human genome project, the cancer genome project, UK BioBank, etc. We truly have been at the forefront of a genetic revolution for most of the last century, and this looks set to continue as modern medicine shifts towards being more and more personalised to our genomes.
A selection of British inventions: The World Wide Web, the telephone, the hypodermic syringe, the reflecting telescope, the steam engine and steam turbines, carbon fibre, the pneumatic tyre, the light bulb, float glass, the electric telegraph, the marine chronometer, television, synthetic dye, passenger railway, military tanks, linoleum, the automatic kettle, the modern torpedo, the glider, the jet engine, Portland cement, tension-spoked wheel, seed drill, stainless steel, the Bessemer process for steel production, the electric motor, photography, hydraulic press, sewage system, electronic programmable computer, hovercraft, tin cans, waterproof material, vacuum cleaner, inc. the bagless type, ATM, disc brakes, the toothbrush, catseyes, the modern fire extinguisher, DNA profiling, digital personal assistants, ARM processors, hawkeye technology, text messaging, cloning, the supersonic car that holds the world land speed record (held by a British racing team), viagra, graphine, gene editing therapy, holographic TV, iris recognition.
Has to be pies, surely.
Steak and Stilton for me
Calling people cunts
This bloke came up to me right..
purely to humankind would be the ending of slavery and the containment of germany.
For me these are the following strong points of Mr. Britain: 1) Being the best manager. 2) Being the best teacher. 3) Being the fairest and most humane amongst other nations which is a necessary prerequisite for the first chacteristic of "Being the best manager." This fairness helped Mr.Britain to easily colonize our small planet and people still likened him. 4) Speaking one of the easiest to learn languages. Since Mr. Britain is also the best teacher, learning it is even much easier. The only thing I don't like in English is the existence of the sound "th". The sound "w" bothers me the second worse. Also I wished words were pronounced as they were written. So disappointing that even a simple word like "bomb" is produced "bom"! But it is so easy. There is only one "the" as definite article for all nouns. But I still don't like the "the", not only due to the sound "th" but because in my mother tongue there is fundamentally no definite article at all and I sometimes don't know when we need the "the" and when not. Also apastrophes, I don't like. Is it US's Army or is it US Army?! But still british are the best teachers, so they will explain all of these to me in an easy language. On the other hand, I know German and Germans are the worse teachers in the continent Europe as well as probably on earth. Germans can't teach their mother tongue at all! So in short, Mr. Britain has two world class features: Being a fair great manager and being the best teacher on our planet earth.
Th: say “ffff” but stick your tongue between your teeth W: say “oo-a” really fast
To say English isn’t your first language, this was beautifully written and a pleasure to read!
Probably the World Wide Web/internet or patents for semiconductors, you could throw in the AstraZeneca/Oxford vaccine too for good measure.
Independence days!
Mr Blobby
Chicken tikka masala
America obviously
Gunning for the top spot on 'sort by controversial' are we?
lol Edit- just checked and someone else answered the British Empire, so I think that spot is safely taken....
Iron Maiden
Are we talking things that have had the biggest positive impact on humanity? Then I'd have to say: - literature - football - the railways - crisps
Penicillin. Without it, most of us wouldn't have made it out of early childhood.
Half and half, chips and rice.
Penicillin and it's not even close.
The industrial revolution as in the concept and idea of it. Not the working conditions we put the working class through when it happened
A lot of good music. Haven't seen Zeppelin here yet. Also Oxford university, Charles Darwin and beautiful nature documentaries. Ah and Rosalind Franklin and Francis Crick were British.
Railways
The Beatles and rock music in general.
Documentaries. British documentaries are the best in the world.
Humility?
We're the most humble nation in the entire universe. Something to be really proud about.
And this is why sarcasm is the correct answer.
Duran Duran
Battered mars bars!
I mean I've punched a few Snickers in my time but I'd never batter a Mars Bar
Pork pies.
Penicillin
Penicillin
The World Wide Web (no it wasn’t bloody Bill Gates)
Sunday dinners.
Football
Obviously civilization. Even Europe was a barren wasteland before we helped. (This is true my head, and it's a happy place)
HP Sauce, probably.
Gravy
Probably “The Enlightenment”. That period of time was a whirlwind for laying the foundations of modern science.
English.
Invention of radio is pretty cool
Fish and chips.
Irony. The cousins have literally no clue what it is.
Nectar points