FabSwingers.com forum: What is the best thing the British ever invented

By *usman 199 OP Man
over a year ago

Stockport

Evening everyone

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Queues

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By *abtastic Mr FoxMan
over a year ago

A den in the Glen

The tidal system.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The moon

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By *icolerobbieCouple
over a year ago

walsall

World Wide Web.

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By *ranny-CrumpetWoman
over a year ago

The Town by The Cross

"World Wide Web."

The Spinning Jenny

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By *ensuallover1000Man
over a year ago

Somewhere In The Ether…

Elizabeth Hurley

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By *icolerobbieCouple
over a year ago

walsall

"World Wide Web.

The Spinning Jenny "

Very good..

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Yorkshire Pudding

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By *ormalfornorfolkMan
over a year ago

Norwich

Pickled onion flavour monster munch

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By *ools and the brainCouple
over a year ago

couple, us we him her.

America.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Granny Crumpet

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Complaining about everything and everyone

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Dogging and wotsits, in that order

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By *aomilatteCouple
over a year ago

Midlands

Bingo + Sunday Roast

People say we don't export things, but we've took them to most of the Spanish resorts

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Pot Noodles

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Football

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Hedgehog flavoured crisps.

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By *ools and the brainCouple
over a year ago

couple, us we him her.

Time

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Gravity!

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By *hePerkyPumpkinTV/TS
over a year ago

Bristol

Tim Curry

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By *ranny-CrumpetWoman
over a year ago

The Town by The Cross

"Tim Curry "

Oh I would have to agree. Breaks my heart to see him now

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By *ipppyMan
over a year ago

Poole

Hovercraft

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By *esmond and Molly JonesCouple
over a year ago

Watford

The Industrial revolution. This little island dominated world culture.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The Harrier jump jet

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By *panksspankedMan
over a year ago

Edinburgh

Petty bureaucracy

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By *ools and the brainCouple
over a year ago

couple, us we him her.

Rice krispies

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By *ools and the brainCouple
over a year ago

couple, us we him her.

Humour.

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By *ulieAndBeefCouple
over a year ago

Manchester-ish

Trade unions.

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By *inballs99Man
over a year ago

Blackheath

G.M.T

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By *aitonelMan
over a year ago

Liverpool

The empire

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By *inballs99Man
over a year ago

Blackheath

"The empire "

Good call but not for all

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Stone circles?

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By *irk_Dastardly.Man
over a year ago

Salisbury

Cricket

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The pub

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By *ersiantugMan
over a year ago

Cardiff

"Stone circles? "

They could be. I like the idea of Britannic people (as the Romans called us) being essentially British. I've always felt that Britishness, even just as a shared past, was something ancient and worth keeping.

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By *neforutoMan
over a year ago

Fantasy land in the SW

"America.

hhahhahahahhahahha

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By *orny-DJMan
over a year ago

Leigh-on-Sea

Got to be the railways.

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By *ersiantugMan
over a year ago

Cardiff

"Complaining about everything and everyone

Always after the event of course! Most of the time we are far too polite to do it at the time. pt

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By *ucka39Man
over a year ago

Newcastle

Vaccines

Toothbrush

Jet engine

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By *ememberTheNameMan
over a year ago

barnsley

"Evening everyone

Sarcasm

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By *ovetolick78Man
over a year ago

The Shire

The ability to invent a sport and give to the rest of the world....... only for the rest of the world to get better at it and rub our noses in it.

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By *2000ManMan
over a year ago

Worthing

Not an invention as such but a discovery...penicillin. Alexander Fleming was a Scot but that's classed as British.

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By *2000ManMan
over a year ago

Worthing

"The ability to invent a sport and give to the rest of the world....... only for the rest of the world to get better at it and rub our noses in it.

Same goes for a lot of our inventions to be honest!

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By *cnugatugMan
over a year ago

Chatham

Crumpets nuff said (mic drop)

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By *ucka39Man
over a year ago

Newcastle

Phone

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By *assing Fancies xCouple
over a year ago

Sherwood Forest

Cheese on toast with L&P

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By *ersiantugMan
over a year ago

Cardiff

"Not an invention as such but a discovery...penicillin. Alexander Fleming was a Scot but that's classed as British."

Britain is only the sum of it's constituent parts.

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By *impleSailorMan
over a year ago

the moon

The casual nod

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By *ersiantugMan
over a year ago

Cardiff

"Cheese on toast with L&P

Welsh rarebit no less!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

A Light Bulb

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By *assing Fancies xCouple
over a year ago

Sherwood Forest

Fry up

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By *rumpyMcFuckNuggetMan
over a year ago

Den of Iniquity

The Sunday Roast

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By *uchasGMan
over a year ago

Northwest

Dogging

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By *eltic connectionCouple
over a year ago

Manningtree

Stiff upper lips

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By *oTouchPleaseAndTeaseMan
over a year ago

Harlow

Fabswingers

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By *ushandkittyCouple
over a year ago

Gloucester

Lawnmower and adjustable spanner, same guy

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By *ormalfornorfolkMan
over a year ago

Norwich

"Lawnmower and adjustable spanner, same guy"

Adjustable spanners are the work of beelzebub

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The skip?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Understatement

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By *ushandkittyCouple
over a year ago

Gloucester

"Lawnmower and adjustable spanner, same guy

Adjustable spanners are the work of beelzebub "

Depends if its metric or imperial

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By *UGGYBEAR2015Man
over a year ago

BRIDPORT

One thing that the British invented that no other nation comes close to being able to pull off is; an air of superiority.

Others try but they just don’t have it.

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By *ruxruMan
over a year ago

sheffield

NHS

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By *abtastic Mr FoxMan
over a year ago

A den in the Glen

Innocent apologies.

"Waiter, I am so sorry there appears to be a public hair in my soup"

When it's fuckin blonde and I'm not

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By *abtastic Mr FoxMan
over a year ago

A den in the Glen

"Innocent apologies.

"Waiter, I am so sorry there appears to be a public hair in my soup"

When it's fuckin blonde and I'm not"

*Pubic obv

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By *acDreamyMan
over a year ago

Wirral

The propeller.

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By *nightsoftheCoffeeTableCouple
over a year ago

Leeds

Job seekers allowance.

The mr

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By *allySlinkyWoman
over a year ago

Leeds

The Beatles

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By *orthern StarsCouple
over a year ago

Durham

Cars.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"The empire "

*spits coffee everywhere*

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Wanking

Moaning

Shouting

Swearing

Sex

Respected

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Crisps

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By *cnugatugMan
over a year ago

Chatham

Chavs

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By *oadsafun1960Man
over a year ago

Somerset & Hertfordshire

The Jet engine

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By *adbod2godbodMan
over a year ago

Manchester

"Chavs "

Innit

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By *d4fun73Man
over a year ago

Shipley

Sliced bread

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By *tstillworksMan
over a year ago

Darlington

Bettany Hughes

Oh yes

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By *ushandkittyCouple
over a year ago

Gloucester

"Cars. "

I'm pretty sure that the first vehicle powered by a gasoline engine was made by a German

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By *ldgeezermeMan
over a year ago

Newcastle

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By *ilfCrumpet9Man
over a year ago

Wirral

The mini

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By *ood time Chris BMan
over a year ago

TAUNTON AREA

"Evening everyone

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The inflatable dinghy

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By *ood time Chris BMan
over a year ago

TAUNTON AREA

"Evening everyone

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The inflatable dinghy

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By *allySlinkyWoman
over a year ago

Leeds

"The mini

Skirt ?

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By *ansoffateMan
over a year ago

Sagittarius A

Tea

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By *tephanjMan
over a year ago

Kettering

Tea bags

The English language ( badly spoken by some and spelt badly by others)

Australia

Rugby

Monty python

Motorcycle

Telephone

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By *am101aMan
over a year ago

swad

Teatime?

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By *ir SupremacyMan
over a year ago

Bolton

Council Tax .

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

British standards

Quality of care

Childrens home act 2015

OFSTE

CQC

OUR LAWS

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"British standards

Quality of care

Childrens home act 2015

Ofsted

CQC

OUR LAWS

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By *ushandkittyCouple
over a year ago

Gloucester

"Tea bags - American

The English language ( badly spoken by some and spelt badly by others)

Australia

Rugby

Monty python

Motorcycle - German

Telephone "

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By *illan-KillashMan
over a year ago

London/Sussex/Surrey/Berks/Hants

Chicken Tikka Masalla.

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By *ilfCrumpet9Man
over a year ago

Wirral

"The mini

Skirt ?"

Car

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By *UGGYBEAR2015Man
over a year ago

BRIDPORT

The pneumatic tyre

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By *lutandhubbyCouple
over a year ago

west midlands

the reliant robin

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By *aGaGagging for itCouple
over a year ago

Newcastle upon Tyne

Greg's steak bake

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By *ansoffateMan
over a year ago

Sagittarius A

Freedom... oh wait that's America.

America!

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By *ermite12ukMan
over a year ago

Solihull and Brentwood

Mash get smash.

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By *eelGoodIncMan
over a year ago

Mids

The cat's eye reflectors. So basic but so helpful in the dark.

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By *ansoffateMan
over a year ago

Sagittarius A

"The cat's eye reflectors. So basic but so helpful in the dark."

Good call.

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By *inky_couple2020Couple
over a year ago

North West

The Co-op

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By *erces LetiferMan
over a year ago

Somewhere off the edge of the map... 'ere there be monsters

Probably the idea that sl@very is bad and everybody needs to stop doing it, that led to the sl@very abolitionist movement.

Buuuut…

"Pot Noodles"

… if true this comes a very close second!

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By *opinovMan
over a year ago

Point Nemo, Cumbria

The five second rule.

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By *ersiantugMan
over a year ago

Cardiff

[Removed by poster at 14/09/23 01:52:44]

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By *ersiantugMan
over a year ago

Cardiff

The English language, textile mechanics, modern harvesting, the Guillotin, devolved monarchy, vaccination, calculus, matches, steam rail, factories, steel production and modern industry, tarmac, modern cement, soda, the chocolate bar, liberalism, utilitarianism, Darwinism, The Communist Manifesto, impressionist painting, electric lighting, possibly the telephone, television, the war tank, the jet engine, the computer, lino, stereo, the calculator, the one-song ipod, micro-mobile phone chips, alt-country, hypertext, cloning, experimental dining, the hoover, the kettle and of course the lawn mower because how else could there be cricket and all the other popular ball sports we invented?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Ben Dover

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By *arl17Man
over a year ago

Central Portugal

"Ben Dover"

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Shutting the fuck up! Hold on. Your time will come.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Sorry, ignore my wry smile at some of these - often not exactly correct - answers to this post...

The internet was invented in the USA

Bingo originated in Italy, as did the telephone (Bell did patent it though so that's the confusion)

Yorkshire Puddings originated in France BUT the recipe was 1st published in Yorkshire (so us White Roses will claim that haha)

Pot Noodles are from Japan. But the English worded trade name was invented in Wales

The Chinese invented toothbrushes -but a Brit did pioneer what we think of as the modern version, albeit made of bone and pig's hair!

Brit Humphrey Davy demonstrated that arc light was possible but it was American Eddison who shall we say perfected the light bulb. Its still a bone of contention that one! Others like Swan lay claim to it too.

Karl Benz invented the car. Yes, in Germany.

Kettles were used in ancient Mesopotamia

Frenchman Pascal invented the calculator but I think it was a Spaniard perfected the digital one that USA's Texas Instruments made.

An American invented the vacuum cleaner but the 1st ones were made in Britain.

All good fun! But it has to be said Britain has invented a hell of a lot over the years!!!

PS - I had to set an Xmas Quiz on all this so that's why I know! LOL

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By *alleyDaveMan
over a year ago

Sheffield

Black Pudding

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By *allySlinkyWoman
over a year ago

Leeds

"Sorry, ignore my wry smile at some of these - often not exactly correct - answers to this post...

Kettles were used in ancient Mesopotamia

The electric kettle wasinvented by Leslie Large in Birmingham

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Got be toilet paper and its evolution

Izel paper ouch ......

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By *irtydevil666Man
over a year ago

bristol

SAS

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By *allySlinkyWoman
over a year ago

Leeds

"Got be toilet paper "

Walter Alcock !

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By *aretobareCouple
over a year ago

Central Portugal

The combination of terrible weather and evil midges has meant that Scottish people in shed have invented a disproportionate number of things!

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By *reeneggsandsamMan
over a year ago

Perpignan and cap

Me! My parents were both from Harrogate.

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By *ools and the brainCouple
over a year ago

couple, us we him her.

Crop rotation.

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By *allySlinkyWoman
over a year ago

Leeds

"Crop rotation."

Crop rotation in the 14th century was considerably more widespread after John

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Bubble and squeak

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By *ools and the brainCouple
over a year ago

couple, us we him her.

"Crop rotation.

Crop rotation in the 14th century was considerably more widespread after John"

Shut up Neil!

Crop rotation was considerably more widespread after John?.....

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By *allySlinkyWoman
over a year ago

Leeds

Shut up Neil!

Crop rotation was considerably more widespread after John?.....

Lloyd patented the crop rotator

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By *ools and the brainCouple
over a year ago

couple, us we him her.

Shut up Neil!

Crop rotation was considerably more widespread after John?.....

Lloyd patented the crop rotator"

Your such a girlie swot

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By *ony 2016Man
over a year ago

Huddersfield /derby cinemas

"The empire "
, ,, ,, just to clarify ,, are you referring to (A) where we invaded other countries ,, or (B) the adult cinema in Huddersfield ???

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By *ersiantugMan
over a year ago

Cardiff

"Sorry, ignore my wry smile at some of these - often not exactly correct - answers to this post...

The internet was invented in the USA

Bingo originated in Italy, as did the telephone (Bell did patent it though so that's the confusion)

Yorkshire Puddings originated in France BUT the recipe was 1st published in Yorkshire (so us White Roses will claim that haha)

Pot Noodles are from Japan. But the English worded trade name was invented in Wales

The Chinese invented toothbrushes -but a Brit did pioneer what we think of as the modern version, albeit made of bone and pig's hair!

Karl Benz invented the car. Yes, in Germany.

Kettles were used in ancient Mesopotamia

Frenchman Pascal invented the calculator but I think it was a Spaniard perfected the digital one that USA's Texas Instruments made.

An American invented the vacuum cleaner but the 1st ones were made in Britain.

All good fun! But it has to be said Britain has invented a hell of a lot over the years!!!

PS - I had to set an Xmas Quiz on all this so that's why I know! LOL

One or two of your quibbles are touch pedantic even so!

The Lightbulb was called out as contentious (I think I called it electric lighting).

The internet I called 'hypertext' - and that was invented by a Brit (per the thread criteria) - Tim Berners Lee of course - I could have said HTML or the WWW but kept it simple.

The Kettle - OK I should have said 'Electric'. I only used it to end my list humourously and invoke tea. You can't deny electric kettles have got around too!

The Calculator - I couldn't remember what was unique about Clive Sinclair's - but something was. Maybe I should have checked what it was though (I wanted to say the ZX80, but that was too loose really).

RE the vacuum cleaner - the whole idea/manufacture (ie a different matter) issue is often debated in this area. Again it was humourous though really to end the list! (the rest of the list was chronological).

Pot Noodle - I thought that was someone's joke anyway(!)

I think people have done pretty well!

Another good list is what *came* to the UK.

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By *aysOfOurLivesCouple
over a year ago

Essex

"The tidal system."

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By *aysOfOurLivesCouple
over a year ago

Essex

"World Wide Web.

The Spinning Jenny "

The jacquard loom

Directly insriring - Ada Lovelace - programmable computing - Alan Turing - breaking Enigma, ending the war early by years & saving 100k’s of lives - modern computing

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Fingering

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By *aomilatteCouple
over a year ago

Midlands

Shut up Neil!

Crop rotation was considerably more widespread after John?.....

Lloyd patented the crop rotator

Your such a girlie swot

Straight over so many heads

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By *ersiantugMan
over a year ago

Cardiff

"World Wide Web.

The Spinning Jenny

The jacquard loom

Directly insriring - Ada Lovelace - programmable computing - Alan Turing - breaking Enigma, ending the war early by years & saving 100k’s of lives - modern computing

Great connection re Lovelace. Turing came up with quite a lot too.

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By *inky_couple2020Couple
over a year ago

North West

Giant crumpets

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By *usty.TromboneMan
over a year ago

Manchester

The angry worded letter of complaint...

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The Empire ........ hussar

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By *aysOfOurLivesCouple
over a year ago

Essex

"The angry worded letter of complaint...

And queueing to post it

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Foreigners

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By *allySlinkyWoman
over a year ago

Leeds

"The angry worded letter of complaint...

And queueing to post it

With a stamp invented by an English school teacher

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By *r X46Man
over a year ago

Liverpool

Cricket, then saying that everything isn't cricket

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Apologies even if it's the other person's fault

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By *entleman_spyMan
over a year ago

nearby

The spitfire

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By *ersiantugMan
over a year ago

Cardiff

"Apologies even if it's the other person's fault

lol, situational apologising perhaps?

And British understatement too of course.

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By *coobyABCMan
over a year ago

Aberdeen

Sliced bread

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By *igDMBMan
over a year ago

romford

Nearly every game containing a ball except snooker which was invented in India

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By *ucka39Man
over a year ago

Newcastle

Newcastle brown ale guaranteed to give you a hangover

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By *entlemanrogueMan
over a year ago

Motherwell

"The Industrial revolution. This little island dominated world culture."

mostly by destroying other cultures but whatever..

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Inventing games for other countries to beat them at.

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By *eneralKenobiMan
over a year ago

North Angus

Radar but that was the Scot’s specifically

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Geordie sluts

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Train delays and strikes

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By *aul DeUther-OneMan
over a year ago

Sussex

"The empire "

+ Anti sl*very legislation

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

pokey bum wanks

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By *ragsterMan
over a year ago

Blackburn

The Wonderful British Empire

British Sense of Humour

Sadly so called new humour we have these days...well it's as funny as migraine and anything but funny..

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By *ackdaw52Man
over a year ago

Chesterfield

The Web

Jet engine

Radar?

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By *ersiantugMan
over a year ago

Cardiff

"The Industrial revolution. This little island dominated world culture.

mostly by destroying other cultures but whatever.."

I'm not sure it expressly dominated other cultures, or destroyed them either - in most cases anyway (sure there are exceptions, and there was always the role of religion too.). Britain itself became multicultural in the fullest sense, and from the outset too.

The BE did often rule with too-heavy a hand though, but the idea was to civilise, industrialise and trade with via conquering with various different techniques. It certainly spread the English language around.

I'm not into empire-building at all, I just think weren't any worse than any other (including I imagine the Scottish if they'd eventually got the Dutch model they were interested in going).

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By *ucka39Man
over a year ago

Newcastle

The Wheely bin

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The woke

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By *ersiantugMan
over a year ago

Cardiff

"The woke "

People could say literally anything about 'woke' and it would automatically be 'True'.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Fish N Chips.

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By *onnycMan
over a year ago

Doncaster

The telephone

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Curry

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