Thank you England redux - Page 3

**otokonomidori** · July 30th, 2017, 09:07 PM

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Originally Posted by bloke57

The British Isles - a tiny place geographically, but it invented the modern world.

Agrarian revolution, industrialisation, railways which shrank the world, TV, antibiotics, the jet engine, computing and the internet.

Others may have exploited those things better, but they started here.

Penicillin - some on here have been glad of that a few times.

**bowlinggreen** · July 30th, 2017, 09:22 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by otokonomidori

Penicillin - some on here have been glad of that a few times.

And not just for those social afflictions either.

Oh, and I forgot to thank England for Gail McKenna.

I'd also like to thank those kilt wearing dudes who live up beyond Hadrian's Wall for the following:

Glenfiddich.
Glenmorangie.
The Glenlivet.

You deserve to be a peer of the realm, if you can make whiskey like that.

**vo1v0d** · July 30th, 2017, 11:36 PM

Words left over from the romans, bits of saxon and viking, lots of french and constantly evolving; the debt the rest of the planet owes for our language increases daily.

Estreeter · July 31st, 2017, 12:29 PM

Benny Hill

Captain James Cook
The Endeavour

In that order

**wimbo77** · July 31st, 2017, 02:39 PM

Lovejoy
Minder
Roger Moore
James Hunt
Brian Blessed
Have I Got News For You

**otokonomidori** · July 31st, 2017, 03:30 PM

Blowjobs with the [English] lady sucking on a Fishermans Friend.

**Greenman** · July 31st, 2017, 04:16 PM

Yes it was April but nowadays Summer can start that early😀
I remember 1976 as the Summer of the invasion on the coast at least of hundreds of French ladybirds- you couldn't move for they covered roads, pavements and beach not to mention they flew about so despite the hot weather the windows had to remain closed. This was at Littlehampton btw.

PatentHappy · July 31st, 2017, 05:07 PM

- Diana Rigg and her Emmapeelers (heard she made them herself)
- T-Rex (still groovin' to the beat of Jeepster)
- The Proximity Fuze (invented in UK, developed in US; huge boost to WWII anti-aircraft accuracy)
- Jonathan Swift and his Boiled Baby Review
- Robert Burns (Japanese dept store customers wouldn't know when to leave w/o hearing Auld Lang Syne, daily)

- Sparks (American brothers, but had to go to England and get a British backing band to become semi-famous)

**wimbo77** · August 1st, 2017, 02:51 PM

Carry On

Kenneth Williams
Charles Hawtrey
Jim Dale

**danton** · August 1st, 2017, 06:32 PM

It is the seventieth anniversary of Partition. In 1947, by the insistence of Jinnah and the Moslem League, British India was divided in Moslem and Not Moslem. The result was widespread communal violence and the deaths of thousands.

The Guardian has commemorated this event with a subheading that continued "... violence unknown for centuries" without as far as I could tell, an explanation for why that was. British rule.

A friend went climbing in Ladakh in the 70s. An old man he met enquired politely "When are the British coming back?"

Always something of a racket and so forth, huge parts of the world were once ruled by young Englishmen with fountain pens and a stiff upper lip*. If one thing has made the British Empire look quite so good it has been the history of the past seventy years or so; there are, it seems, worse things today than British snobbery.

*One such described how he had to try a case against an agitator in a remote posting, the court house surrounded by an angry mob come to support their hero. He bound the man over ('don't do it again; or not soon'). Afterwards they drank tea together and reminisced about their time 'deviling' in chambers at the Inner Temple ...

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PatentHappy Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2012 Posts: 129 Thanks: 1,656 Thanked 1,462 Times in 129 Posts	That which was already said, plus: - Diana Rigg and her Emmapeelers (heard she made them herself) - T-Rex (still groovin' to the beat of Jeepster) - The Proximity Fuze (invented in UK, developed in US; huge boost to WWII anti-aircraft accuracy) - Jonathan Swift and his Boiled Baby Review - Robert Burns (Japanese dept store customers wouldn't know when to leave w/o hearing Auld Lang Syne, daily) - Sparks (American brothers, but had to go to England and get a British backing band to become semi-famous)

August 1st, 2017, 02:51 PM	#29
wimbo77 Veteran Member Join Date: Oct 2015 Posts: 9,115 Thanks: 130,160 Thanked 144,381 Times in 9,160 Posts	Carry On Kenneth Williams Charles Hawtrey Jim Dale __________________

August 1st, 2017, 06:32 PM	#30
danton Vintage Member Join Date: May 2009 Location: U.K. Posts: 1,402 Thanks: 11,464 Thanked 22,518 Times in 1,373 Posts	British Snobbery Revisited It is the seventieth anniversary of Partition. In 1947, by the insistence of Jinnah and the Moslem League, British India was divided in Moslem and Not Moslem. The result was widespread communal violence and the deaths of thousands. The Guardian has commemorated this event with a subheading that continued "... violence unknown for centuries" without as far as I could tell, an explanation for why that was. British rule. A friend went climbing in Ladakh in the 70s. An old man he met enquired politely "When are the British coming back?" Always something of a racket and so forth, huge parts of the world were once ruled by young Englishmen with fountain pens and a stiff upper lip. If one thing has made the British Empire look quite so good it has been the history of the past seventy years or so; there are, it seems, worse things today than British snobbery. One such described how he had to try a case against an agitator in a remote posting, the court house surrounded by an angry mob come to support their hero. He bound the man over ('don't do it again; or not soon'). Afterwards they drank tea together and reminisced about their time 'deviling' in chambers at the Inner Temple ...

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vo1v0d Hideous By Nature Join Date: Aug 2012 Location: sarf eeeest lunden Posts: 8,272 Thanks: 42,372 Thanked 60,850 Times in 7,489 Posts	Words left over from the romans, bits of saxon and viking, lots of french and constantly evolving; the debt the rest of the planet owes for our language increases daily.

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otokonomidori 緑の男 Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Jockistan, UK. Posts: 8,316 Thanks: 39,023 Thanked 122,415 Times in 8,316 Posts	Blowjobs with the [English] lady sucking on a Fishermans Friend.

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Greenman Live Legend of VEF Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Underground lair somewhere in the world Posts: 20,353 Thanks: 30,936 Thanked 383,528 Times in 19,356 Posts	Yes it was April but nowadays Summer can start that early😀 I remember 1976 as the Summer of the invasion on the coast at least of hundreds of French ladybirds- you couldn't move for they covered roads, pavements and beach not to mention they flew about so despite the hot weather the windows had to remain closed. This was at Littlehampton btw.