Britain's Contribution to our World

On a "lighter" note (if you catch my drift), Peter Perfect.

Thank you Brits. Peter is saving one (US) business at a time!!!

Britain have given us so many thing BUT at the Cost of LONDON MUSEUM (KOHINOOR)...

Indians have modified English and given them back such as .....Teachers, IT consultants, Advisors, Astronauts, scientists, CEO's, Entrepreneurs, Lakshmi Mittal....etc

Gandhi a Brit??? Surely not! He was born in Kathiawar, India to Indian parents, so don't see how he could possibly be British. Yes, he studied Law in London, but apart from that he spent the rest of his life mostly in South Africa and India.

Briton just tried to claim it...

America is the world as such as briton has become...

Were all melting pots now...Just look at Doha...

Let's all just get along...

You can't teach experience...

Major contribution - Sending pilgrims to America and helping the building a new country.

Sending convicts to Australasia so they could produce legends such as Laver, Lilee and Warne.

Ruling Canada and helping them to stand on their own two feet as a nation seperate fro the USA.

I could go on, but tears are welling up in my eyes with pride...:(

National Geografic

New Zealand

Rugby

Jaguar

easy language

The rest I can live without

Rule 3/4 of the world....if you told the Spanish did ok, but the English?

Check mate.....

Facts:

You almost lost your "ROYALTY" until we rescue your butts in the last two World Wars.

We Know that would suck, If you were speaking, "Barbarian" instead of Angles.

Just admit to it, your guys are not crapping without the big crappers help! WTF? Hell with it, leave it on the board!

Anyhow, I do enjoy Land Rovers, Rolls Royce and best of all, Shakespeare and Robin Hood.

No problems here Baby, just been mean to our ex-invaders.

Simon Fuller

Founder of American Idol, Australian Idol, Canadian Idol, Slovakia searching for SuperStar, Indian Idol, Nouvelle Star and World Idol.

This outstanding and a devilish guy always wearing tight t-shirts showing his nipples...

What Happen to the England Idols show?

Not enough talent?

Like Mrs. Paula said once:

Are your British always behaving like Jerks?

I think it great you add it now! Shut the buggers up!

Probably not a good place to mention this, but Gandhi was a Brit.

Interesting to see as I predicted this has turned into a mud slinging session.

Interesting to see all these other nations who are just as good as us being jealous and then on the other hand just as bad but not admitting it!

So border issues between China and Tibet is a British problem? Border issues between KSA and UAE also a British problem?? Chechnya and Russia?? in Cyprus, Greece and Turkey?? etc etc

Yes I do agree with you.

What else you got?

Hit them again

Don't stop!

Look at the world over. Wherever you find border issues, all of them are BRitains gift.........

And they talk about PEACE. Real Hypocritesssssssssssss

either that, or his sense of humour really sucks.

(notice Humour spelt correctly, popey)

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I think you have me confused with someone who gives a sh1t.

You know what??? No matter how many people diss and slag off the Brits, we have a LOT to be proud of!

Michael Farraday - inventor of electricity and the first basic electric generated motor

Dottie - I think we have them stumped!!!!

mintus, having just googled Meucci, it seems that scholars outside Italy do not credit him with the invention of the telephone. Bell was the first to broadcast 'intelligible speech by electrical means'

Charles Babbage - invented the rudimentary calculator which led to the computer

jjj75 - Joseph Lister was a pioneer of antiseptic surgery. Graduated from London uni in arts and medicine, then was House Surgeon in Edinburgh Royal Infirmary. Worked with Louis Pasteur and developed the use of soaking surgical instruments in carbolic acid, which resulted in fewer infections, and therefore deaths.

Simpson pioneered the use of chloroform which was administered to Queen Victoria during childbirth, which subsequently became very popular and generally accepted.

Sorry to disagree mintus, but Alexander Graham Bell is recognised globally as the inventor of the telephone. Never heard of Meucci...............

Oh and totally agree jjj75 about sense of humour and the ability to laugh at ourselves!

Bram Stoker...grrrrr

do you mean politically correct or the computer??

Britain invented the PC brigade and all the crap that brings with it!

Bit below the belt - are you really from the Vatican city - if so what is your Nations contribution to the world and don't say the pope as that is up for debate!!!

also on a medical front - didn't joseph lister develop antiseptic - and I think that someone from Britain first understood DNA and how important it was

did anyone mention sense of humour - particularly the capacity to laugh at ourselves?? Not sure that in any other country the books that Bill Bryson (American) wrote about Britain and the British would be so well received (and yes he did write some positive things about Britain, but also some fairly critical ones too all dressed up in his humerous style)

Lets not forget the British Benefit System and National Health Service, that helps anyone and everyone who enters the UK....

Imperialism and capitalism….

And creation of Israel…..

BOYCOTT ISRAEL- The Sponser of Terrorism

Imperialism and capitalism….

And creation of Israel…..

BOYCOTT ISRAEL- The Sponser of Terrorism

Kaiser Chiefs, Franz Ferdinand, Snow Patrol and.. The IT Crowd!

Britain's Contribution to our World

That funny accent, Mad cow decease, small pox and VD, all brought in by those stinking English.

What about The Most important thing they did

U know, That we ALL use when we come to QL or anywhere we go.........ENGLISH!!

This discussion is so long and no one even mentioned it

Im a fool if im wrong

Inventor of the telephone. Well sorry

In most of Europe, Antonio Santi Giuseppe Meucci is officially considered the inventor of the telephone, as established by the Enciclopedia Italiana di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti. In June 2002, the United States House of Representatives passed a symbolic bill officially recognizing Meucci as the foremost inventor of the telephone.

Dottie, yes they were both Germans. I was just making the point that in some ways Britain's contribution has been as a refuge for thinkers, rather than inventing things or writing stuff. Another example is Freud, who escaped to London from Nazi Austria.

football

cricket

rugby

tennis

badminton

snooker

Hockey

Ice Hockey (funny enough it was not the Canadians)

Darts

Table Tennis

Marbles

we must have had a lot of spare time on our hands.

However the crap ones

American Football (you know it is that is why the rest of the world doesn't play the game.....)

were definitely not us

name of Percy Shaw.

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I think you have me confused with someone who gives a sh1t.

lol

ngourlay - correct me if I'm wrong, but surely Marx and Engels were German?? They only came to live in England as adults.

Probably THE most important discovery in medicine - PENICILLIN. Discovered by Sir Alexander Fleming, born in Ayrshire, Scotland. Saved countless millions of lives.

Pneumatic tyres - John Dunlop

Beta Blockers - Sir James Black, Nobel Prize for Medicine

Dolly the Sheep - Dr Ian Wilmut, first clone

Telephone - very definitely invented by Alexander Graham Bell, born in Edinburgh

Radar - Sir Robert Watson-Watt

Television - John Logie Baird

Anaesthetics - James Young Simpson

Oh, did I mention that all of the above are SCOTTISH?? British too of course, but for those of you who are confused, let me clarify. Britian means England, Scotland and Wales. Many people consider British to mean English, which is not the case at all. We're all British, but can also be English, Scottish or Welsh.

who invented it......

Just let it go, my little Canadian mucker :D

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I think you have me confused with someone who gives a sh1t.

Two of most important men of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Engels lived in Manchester, Marx in London.

England has always been a refuge for the thinkers of Europe. Since the reformation, it's been a place where writing something is unlikely to land you in jail.

He created it in Canada and the US! You can't claim the telephone!

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MR PAUL!!!! "And possibly one of the most important inventions of the world.. ...

The telephone."

I'm sorry but the telephone was invented by Alexander Grahamn Bell in Canada and Boston (he worked between the two places).

Middle East Oil, Congratz to Britain for finding that.

Mr. Bean, I love that guy :D

WWW

without Sir Tim Berners Lee you would not be having this conversation.....

monty Python, the madonna with the big boobies and ofcourse Bill Shankly.

that Lady/Princess Di ws hated in some newspapers and then as soon as she died she became this 'saint' again'?

"Deaths in the Bible. God - 2,270,365

not including the victims of Noah's flood, Sodom and Gomorrah, or the

many plagues, famines, fiery serpents, etc because no specific numbers

were given. Satan - 10."

and the Real princess Lady Diana

Porridge

Two Ronnies

Morcambe and Wise

Only Fools and Horses

Kumars at 42

New Tricks

Shameless

All of the above gave an insight into Britain, all that was good and bad!

James Bond

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The two ronnies

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HE WHO DARES WINS

only fools and horses

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HE WHO DARES WINS

"Briton" and Early Roman Empire was the second 'contributor' to such 'system'.

The first started from Egypt and 'Persia' and 'Mesopotamia'...Ha!

"Everything in this book may be wrong." Illusions: The Adventures of The Reluctant Messiah by Richard Bach

The original thread was what Britian had done for the rest of the world. As I said at the time, I hoped it was not going to be a mud slinging session, but as usual it has!

As I said quite a few threads ago, it was the Arabs started slavery and I in no way supportive of slavery and I make no apologies for my fore fathers, that is history. Interesting though, it still goes on in other countries!

And just for your information, yes England did 'take over' and we did 'colonise' but we were not the only ones and we were not as cruel as some. I am not saying we were right! All I am saying, all the world was doing it at that time and some still are! Yes we did have 3/4 of the world for a long time. However, for all the harm we did we also did good and neither of those points can be denied.

"Everything in this book may be wrong." Illusions: The Adventures of The Reluctant Messiah by Richard Bach

is obvious, but good for you!

Well sometimes one needs to raise their voice as people don't read the thread properly or chose the bits that they want to read. I do apologise if I offended you, that was not my intention, I just did not want to offend anybody by my history as I was taught it.

PLEASE LOOK AT WHAT I SAID....took religion and built churches in places where there was no religion or places of worship.

In other words, where there WAS NO RELIGION OR CHURCHES, so therfore we provided certain areas in the world with churches.

Sharia law is not In England.

We DO not have Sharia law in England. It is still in debate and according to people who work in Law, it never will be! Alexa the Missionaries from England took religion and built churches in places where there was no religion or places of worship. Not saying I agree with it, just poiting out historical facts.

Actually 'cuury' was a British invention in the time of the Raj, it was a way to feed the soldiers by hiding the smell of the rotten meat. Oh Yeah the Mosques, no problem with that; although I am tad p*ssed of that we cannot have chuch bells ringing but the call to prayer is still heard. Oh and by the way, we brought you churches. And I think, but you may shout me down, multi ethincity/culture, we experienced that way before 1066 when we had the French and Germans ruling us for quite a while. And please let me know what the additional law system is please.

Although based in India and Indian actors it is a 'British' film by the very fact it was directed by Danny Boyle.

Baldrick my hubby was born in Crumpsall lol but not Jew.

There are loads of FANTASTIC things about the UK and like any other country there is some bad stuff.

Heres a question then; What has the rest of the world done for Britain. (Apart from the Romans and perhaps America sometimes when it suited) lol Just thought I would throw that into the pot!

HARRY POTTER.

And according to BBC, SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE IS A BRITISH FILM.

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call me ONE.

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I think you have me confused with someone who gives a sh1t.

LOL Gypsy, I'm from Manchester, born in Crumpsall hospital, which is currently in the middle of Manchester's Jewish Community :o)

Rugby

Cricket

The modern music industry

Television

on the downside - Australians! :)

"Deaths in the Bible. God - 2,270,365

not including the victims of Noah's flood, Sodom and Gomorrah, or the

many plagues, famines, fiery serpents, etc because no specific numbers

were given. Satan - 10."

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The telephone.

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In a way that they are trying to get rid of it, just like the Jews i guess.

We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future. (Franklin D. Roosevelt)

what we did, some other country will have done.

And no country can say its completely free of any bad stuff to others.............

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Divided and rule Britan's done in India, sorry I can't write full Indian History here. and not advantage taken, Britan loot wealth of nations.

I think you will find if you do your history it was Arabs that gave the world slavery! Also can you please give us your basis for;

and relegious fight (by doing divided and rule)and Britan's take advantage from many country.

Not a good feat though....

They were made in an old ketchup bottle I heard.

for giving the world jews.........

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"They gave jews to the planet. Forever thankful for that as well. "

ROFLMAO, yes, I had heard Britain engineered the Jews. They made them in a small laboratory in Manchester.

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I think you have me confused with someone who gives a sh1t.

can we say england gave us america?

A small country ruled 3/4's of the world.Thats no mean feat by any standards.

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http://romancelanguage.org/

Britan's contribution to the world, War, Slavery and relegious fight (by doing divided and rule)and Britan's take advantage from many country.

I do like romance, definitively.

ROMANCE LANGUAGES

Origin

During the Roman Empire, Latin contributed to the cohesion among all the different countries which were under the Roman power.

Latin had a strong unity and was a vehicle of communication among people from different places.

In the 5th century, the decline of the Roman Empire started. So, the relations among such different countries broke down. Then, diversity tendencies inside the Empire increased and popular Latin (spoken Latin) lost the unity that had had before. This would be the origin of the future Romance languages. This process was slow (it took some centuries) and gradual.

Diagram of evolution:

Popular Latin (spoken)

Pre-Romance (5th, 6th... centuries)

Romance languages (9th, 10th centuries).

Since the Romance languages have been consolidated, they have influenced themselves all over the years.

Good manners

Patience

Queuing :)

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"Every adult of sound mind, should be able to choose to do whatever they want, as long as they cause no harm to others".

introducing democracy to the sub-continent

"50% Germanic (English and Scandinavian) and 50% Romance (French and Latin)." That's what I said, calamity, except that I call it "Roman" and not "Romance". But I like the way you're thinking.

Football Hooligans

Unmarried mothers

Binge Drinking

Reality Television

Come Dancing

Slags

Slappers

We appear to be the only COUNTRY in the world with those problems don't we???

Here is what I think England (UK)has done for the world (I am sure other nations have helped in some ways though)

I thought this was supposed to be a debate!

Latin was the native language of the Romans, who spread it petty much throughout their empire. After the collapse of Rome, the language "died." Actually, Latin didn't really die, it just turned into Italian, French, Spanish, and several other languages. Or, more accurately, it turned into dozens of local dialects, which gradually merged to form those more familiar languages. This dialect formation had been going on for centuries. Indeed, educated Romans had often bemoaned the increasinly incomprehensible versions of Latin which were developing in the provinces. The dialects evolved through the absorbtion by the local Latin speakers of words and grammar from the conquered peoples. Although the barbarians who overran the empire were mostly unable to impose their own language on the, by then, romanized locals, they did effect numerous changes in the local form of Latin. As a result, by Charlemagne 's day (c. 800), the changes had become so great that in much of Europe the common people could no longer understand sermons in Church, albeit that they were being delivered in what was once Vulgar (low class) Latin As a result, the Emperor decreed that henceforth sermons were to be in the "lingua latina rustica" (the country-people's Latin). In other words, preach to the people in the language spoken in the area. It is durng this period that the first writings genuinely identifiable as French, and later Spanish, and still later Italian are to be found. Of the Romance (literally "the Roman's") languages of Western Europe, French moved furthest from Latin, Italian the least. Indeed, it is still possible to write something in Italian which is perfectly acceptable classical Latin, as the following poem demonstrates.jjjjjjj

The Germanic languages are a group of related languages that constitute a branch of the Indo-European (IE) language family. The common ancestor of all the languages in this branch is Proto-Germanic, spoken in approximately the mid-1st millennium BC in Iron Age northern Europe. Proto-Germanic, along with all of its descendants, is characterized by a number of unique linguistic features, most famously the consonant change known as Grimm's law. Early varieties of Germanic enter history with the Germanic peoples settled in northern Europe along the borders of the Roman Empire in the second century BC.

The most widely spoken Germanic languages are English and German, with approximately 310-375 million[1][2] and over 100 million[3] native speakers respectively. The group includes other major languages, such as Dutch with 23 million[4] and Afrikaans with over 6 million native speakers[5]; and the North Germanic languages including Norwegian, Danish, Swedish, Icelandic, and Faroese with a combined total of about 20 million speakers.[6] The SIL

The Norman Invasion and Conquest of Britain in 1066 and the resulting French Court of William the Conqueror gave the Norwegian-Dutch influenced English a Norman-Parisian-French effect. From 1066 until about 1400, Latin, French, and English were spoken. English almost disappeared entirely into obscurity during this period by the French and Latin dominated court and government. However, in 1362, the Parliament opened with English as the language of choice, and the language was saved from extinction. Present-day English is approximately 50% Germanic (English and Scandinavian) and 50% Romance (French and Latin).

If you knew him, you would know.

britexpat...is that a pro or a con? :P

britexpat, of course.

that's quite a list!

now there's no accounting for taste but i think we can all agree that

steps, 5ive and the spice girls have had a detrimental effect on the music industry (and victoria adams even went on to maim football!)...the beatles, pink floyd, the who and supertramp do more than make up for it though...did i miss anyone?

Yah! De Konigen ist ein Kraut! BUT we gave you:

HP Sauce

Marmite

Balti Burgers

Beer

Football Hooligans

Unmarried mothers

Binge Drinking

London

Reality Television

Come Dancing

Slags

Slappers

Zoot Alors! Zippydoo! God Bless Holland - and its Gin!

Hic! Yippeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

Correction, calamity:

Democracy - Greece

Religious Tolerance - Buddha (India)

Proper Beer - sorry, either Germany or Chechoslovakia

But, yes: Newton, Stirling Moss, Kate Moss, James Bond, Morgan, Mini Cooper, McLaren, Cosworth, Steven Hawkins, Chadwick, Russell, Peter O'Toole, Sean Connery, Rod Stewart, The Rolling Stones, and Maggie Thatcher, my friend Jim, Jaguar, Silverstone, the first usable Jet engine, Cambridge and Oxford, and Stonehenge. And, and, and.

look down our noses at the rest of the world and offer up a paternalistic sigh.

"Deaths in the Bible. God - 2,270,365

not including the victims of Noah's flood, Sodom and Gomorrah, or the

many plagues, famines, fiery serpents, etc because no specific numbers

were given. Satan - 10."

the cons are all their contributions to the world of food............fish and chips are you kidding me....

All this is recent past. We really need to thank the old civilisations, like Egyptians, Chinese and Indians. These are the foundations of mankind.

you could argue it was the british that removed him, if it wasn't for american support, WW2 & 1 for that matter would have ended very differently,

that said, their is soo much to count, Roll Royce, Bentley, Jaguar, Lotus, Aston Martin, MG, Mini Cooper, Rover (although the last one failed miserably and in its end years was rubbish, and the rest are not british owned right now)

fashion: Burberry, Paul Smith, Alred Dunhill, Vivienne Westwood, FCUK...

notable people: Shakespeare, Darwin, Isaac Newton

but for me, its the BEATLES, LED ZEPPELIN, TopGear, AND MAN UNITED :D

and coming to thing about it.....the english language....

Glad it is not a mud slinging excercise. Here is what I think England (UK)has done for the world (I am sure other nations have helped in some ways though)

Democracy

Religious tolerance

Administration

Education

Medical leads (at all levels)

Shakespeare

Keats

Alexander Grahame Bell

Industrial Revolution

Florence Nightingale

Churchill

Fish and Chips

Bacon Buttys

Proper beer

Black pudding

Rolls Royce

Jaguar

At one time, ship building

Etc etc

I could go on and on but ALL countries have added to world history and we should all be proud of that!

We should thank everyone. The Mongols especially.

calamity, he doesn't mean 'German', he means 'Germanic'. It's 50% and 50%. Half Latin, half 'Germanic". Hence "Anglos" and "Saxons". If you know Latin you know 50% of the English language. If you know German, you know the other half. Which is a Spanish word in English? And even if you find one, it will still be of Latin origin, because Spanish is a 100 % Latin language. And that also applies to French.

so can we thank the english for english or not? :S

English is a West Germanic language which originated from the Anglo-Frisian dialects brought to Britain by Germanic settlers from various parts of what is now northwest Germany and the northern Netherlands. Initially, Old English was a diverse group of dialects, reflecting the varied origins of the Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms of England. One of these dialects, Late West Saxon, eventually came to dominate.

English is a mixture of quite a few languages but its roots are Roman (Latin), French and Spanish, very few of our 'words' are German! We also have words which originated in India and a few Arabic words.

HAHAHA, that's why it's called Anglo-Saxon. HAHAHA. So which Germanic tribe are the "Anglos"??

calamitypain, i was hoping not to get a reaction like that. i'm sorry it seems this way to you. i have great respect for the british and all they've done which i tried to show in my original post...this isn't a mud slinging exercise, i'm sure the brits will as usual come up on top in terms of pros and cons.

now as for lebanon:

we have tons of gorgeous women

fashion

hommos!...all lebanese food really

red lebanon (those of you who've been to amsterdam can appreciate this)

carlos ghosn ceo of nissan and renault...in a major way responsible for the 350z

i'm sure there's tons more but i feel i've made my point

once again, this isn't a mud slinging post...any of you who feel the urge to turn this into a political debate then please leave this one alone.

HAHAHAHA. Actually, English is a West Germanic language.

Shakespeare, and the English language. Imagine you all had to learn German!

Fish n chips

Ryan Giggs' left foot

Some of the best TV in the world

Rolls Royce

Proper beer (not your namby pamby lager)

Altoids

Administration. Where would half the 'empire' be now without British admin?

As a fully paid up member of British society. I am allowed to say things about my country. You appear to have opened a can of worms. Are you interested in debate or a mud slinging excercise. I see you are from Lebanon. Tell me, what have the Lebanese ever done for anybody. Just asking and then I will let you know in my opinion what England has done for the world.

What about James Clark Maxwell? Without him you could not use the Internet.

i'm not blaming churchill! i think he was a mountain of a man (a drunk chain smoking mountain but a mountain non the less). i'm just naming things and people that britain gave the world...and though i'd love to say that tony blair was born of a jackal and jackal really have no nations to belong to, i can't :(

You cannot blame Churchill for Blair, zayd.

Conservative promoters of barter system around the world .. LMAO

Moving on is simple; it's what you leave behind that makes it so difficult .

I hear you MD, took a lot of help from a lot of people but it wouldn't have happened without them...that's a definite pro.

there are however tony blair, belford and micheal owen who weigh them back down.

They gave jews to the planet. Forever thankful for that as well.

They removed an a*shole from the planet (1945). Forever thankful for that.

"Deaths in the Bible. God - 2,270,365

not including the victims of Noah's flood, Sodom and Gomorrah, or the

many plagues, famines, fiery serpents, etc because no specific numbers

were given. Satan - 10."