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They need to learn that the USA is the cause of the current worlds' economic problems - it all started with the collapse of the American sub-prime mortgage fiasco.

What do we have to thank the USA for? remind me, I can't think of anything at the moment.

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and what do we have thank the UK for remind me.
 

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and what do we have thank the UK for remind me.

Your founding fathers
Telephones
Television
Penicillin
Led Zepplin
Not to mention the deep fried Mars Bar!
 
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Your founding fathers
Telephones
Television
Penicillin
Led Zepplin
Not to mention the deep fried Mars Bar!

Telepone - invented by a Scot (granted) but living in North America. If he had stayed in Scotland, would he ever have invented anything :confused:
Television - a separate system was invented in the US at the same time as the UK. Thats why you have to convert British tapes and DVDs to be shown in America and vice versa
Penicillin - granted, but Viagra is American :D
Led Zepplin - and the Stones and the Beatles. All of whom credit early US rockers (Elvis, Buddy Holly) as their mentors.
Nothing exists in a vaccum, it's all based on what came before.
 
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and what do we have thank the UK for remind me.

The steam engine
The worlds first computer
The internet
The jet engine
LCDs
Radar
Lightbulbs
The corkscrew
The fax machine
Viagra
How many do you need by the way?
 
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Penicillin - granted, but Viagra is American :D

No it isn't!

In 1991, inventors Andrew Bell, Dr David Brown and Dr Nicholas Terrett (also Pfizer employees at Kent) discovered that chemical compounds belonging to the pyrazolopyrimidinone class were useful in treating heart problems such as angina. Nicholas Terrett was named in the 1991 British patent for Sildenafil (tradenamed Viagra) as a heart medicine, and some experts consider him as the father of Viagra.
 

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The steam engine
The worlds first computer
The internet
The jet engine
LCDs
Radar
Lightbulbs
The corkscrew
The fax machine
Viagra
How many do you need by the way?

yes, but Al Gore invented the internet...:rolleyes:
 
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The internet

Promoted to the head of the information processing office at DARPA, Robert Taylor intended to realize Licklider's ideas of an interconnected networking system. Bringing in Larry Roberts from MIT, he initiated a project to build such a network. The first ARPANET link was established between the University of California, Los Angeles and the Stanford Research Institute on 22:30 hours on October 29, 1969. By 5 December 1969, a 4-node network was connected by adding the University of Utah and the University of California, Santa Barbara. Building on ideas developed in ALOHAnet, the ARPANET grew rapidly. By 1981, the number of hosts had grown to 213, with a new host being added approximately every twenty days.[5][6]
ARPANET became the technical core of what would become the Internet, and a primary tool in developing the technologies used.
From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Internet

Huh? How'd you get that?

And you still owe me "the Rich plan".

And Al Gore barely knew there was an ARPA/DARPA around, much less that they were creating the Internet.
 
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The World Wide Web was developed in 1989 by English computer scientist Timothy Berners-Lee for the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN).

So, you're saying you want to edit your list from before?

WWW <> the internet
 

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Other british inventions to admire:

Time (discovery)
Powered Flight
The Guillotine (no its not french)
Telephone
Radio
Motor Car
Jet Propulsion
Submarine
Photography
Sandwich
Calculator
Tea (dare i say more?)
Chronometer
The Mini Skirt
Rugby / Cricket / Football / Tennis
Toilet Paper
Railways
Fish & Chips
Radar
Taxi
Factories
Christmas (Invented ;))
Vaccum Flask
Plastic
Toilets
DNA
Police
Vitmains
Vaccinations....

I can go on all day. Youre only claim on these yanks is the face that your actually the gypsies of the UK & il give europe some credit aswell ;)
 

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Other british inventions to admire:

Time (discovery)
Powered Flight
Tea (dare i say more?)

I can go on all day. Youre only claim on these yanks is the face that your actually the gypsies of the UK & il give europe some credit aswell ;)
Surely the Wright borther were American:confused:

And I am sure they were drinking tea in China and India long before it came to Britain.

However you could have added the pneumatic tyre to your list.
 

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and the periscope
scuba diving etc. etc

The aqualung - Scuba was invented by Jacques Cousteau. At least he held the patent. What do you think supported all his research.
 

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Other british inventions to admire:

Time (discovery)
Powered Flight
The Guillotine (no its not french)
Telephone
Radio
Motor Car
Jet Propulsion
Submarine
Photography
Sandwich
Calculator
Tea (dare i say more?)
Chronometer
The Mini Skirt
Rugby / Cricket / Football / Tennis
Toilet Paper
Railways
Fish & Chips
Radar
Taxi
Factories
Christmas (Invented ;))
Vaccum Flask
Plastic
Toilets
DNA
Police
Vitmains
Vaccinations....

I can go on all day. Youre only claim on these yanks is the face that your actually the gypsies of the UK & il give europe some credit aswell ;)

I'm going to ask for some substantion for some of these:
Time & DNA - surely they were always there, someone could hardly have invented it. A Brit and an American shared the Nobel prize for DNA.
Powered Flight - the American Wright Brothers, unless you are thinking of some other type of power
Telephone - invented by a Scot LIVING IN AMERICA. A tenuous claim at best.
Motor Car - with so many different concepts in so many countries, I don't think you can attach any ntionality to it.
Chrsitmas - Christ was a Brit? They were celebrating Christmas in most of Europe when the Druids were still running England

You're getting as bad as Russians with some of these claims.
 

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hehe i just thought id name drop Tea but yer the chinese are the cultivators... however Powered Flight is what i was talking about none of that gliding rubbish, planes that use mechanical locomotion.
By time i really meant the creation of an accurate mechanical time keeping device. Time goes back through history with sun dials, water clocks and other such malark.

Yer i knew about the pnueumatic tyre.. i could have also mentioned: The Lawnmower, Worcester Sauce, Vacum Cleaner, Road Cats Eyes, Hovercraft, The Pub, Marmite, DNA, The Underground, Public Parks, Tin Cans, Sparkling Wine... to name but a few
 

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The Underground
Yep, 'cos until we invented that moles, worms, etc. used to just flounder about on the surface, and miners had to rely on what coal they could find lying about ;)
 

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