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By *arlomale OP   Man
over a year ago

darlington

Inventions we have gave the world that makes us proud to be British

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

Queuing

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


"Queuing "

Was queuing invented? I think it just happened

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By *ranny-CrumpetWoman
over a year ago

The Town by The Cross

Talking about the weather.

Stammers.

Prudery.

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

Cement.

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By *irth.Minge.FireMan
over a year ago

Seen in far off places

Scampi Fries?

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

I'm sure fabbers will come up with some jokey items that put down the British, but we've invented and created some pretty important stuff

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By *ovelifelovefuntimesMan
over a year ago

Where ever I lay my hat

James Bond

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

Bury Black puddings.

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

Code breakers

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

The industrial revolution.

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By *arlomale OP   Man
over a year ago

darlington

I’m glad some are taking it seriously but I suppose our humour is as good as anything we have given the world

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By *orksRockerMan
over a year ago

Bradford

Brought peace.?... Or am I thinking of something else

https://youtu.be/Y7tvauOJMHo

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

Blake the snake

But to be fair credit to my mum

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

The jet engine

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

Cricket, football and rugby.

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By *wo4FemCouple
over a year ago

Birmingham

Wigan butty

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By *ookworm258Man
over a year ago

Wythenshawe

Radar

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By *arlomale OP   Man
over a year ago

darlington


"Cricket, football and rugby. "
and now everyone one else is better at it maybe we should of kept them just for us

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By *ookworm258Man
over a year ago

Wythenshawe

Ram-jet engine

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By *ross-eyed MaryMan
over a year ago

Salisbury

Railway

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

Cadbury fruit and nut.

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


"Cricket, football and rugby. and now everyone one else is better at it maybe we should of kept them just for us "

I can’t remeber the advert but an American says about cricket, “ You invent a game that nobody can understand the rules of, and the whole world whoops you at it!”

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By *illyjohnyCouple
over a year ago

brighton

The best and maybe the worst ? world wide web

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By *rivateparts!Man
over a year ago

Walking down the only road I've ever known!

Jaffa cakes.

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


"Jaffa cakes."

First prize.

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

Programmable computers and the world wide web.

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


"Bury Black puddings. "

Bleurgh!

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By *ayjay218Man
over a year ago

Aberdeen

Scots

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


"Bury Black puddings. "

Mmm, yum

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

Traffic lights

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

Tom Hardy

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By *owhard007Man
over a year ago

leeds

The spitefire

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By *arnsley guy100Man
over a year ago

Sheffield


"The jet engine"

That nazi,s invented that didn't they for the V1 V2 rocket???

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

me

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

Tom Hardy

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

The internet

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


"The jet engine

That nazi,s invented that didn't they for the V1 V2 rocket??? "
Frank Whittle is credited with inventing the turbojet engine many years before Germany

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

THE GINGERS

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

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By *hekaiserMan
over a year ago

Glasgow

Certainly invented "divide and rule"....worked wonders when expanding the empire...

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By *ust RachelTV/TS
over a year ago

Horsham

Rubber bands

Incandescent light bulb

Mouse trap

Electric Toaster

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


"Certainly invented "divide and rule"....worked wonders when expanding the empire..."

nah sorry the romans did that long before

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By *obbytupperMan
over a year ago

Menston near Ilkley


"The spitefire "

Was it a woman scorned who invented that?

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


"The jet engine

That nazi,s invented that didn't they for the V1 V2 rocket??? "

Rocket engine, Werner Von Braun

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

Piers Morgan

You are welcome world!

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


"Cement."

I honestly had the Romans down for cement, aka Pozzolan.

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

Agree with other posters.... Each era has something noteworthy, but surely the internet is the winner?

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


"The jet engine

That nazi,s invented that didn't they for the V1 V2 rocket??? "

Oooh, now that could be debatable, as to who very first, truly, ruly thought of the jet engine. Wasn't Whittle in there somewhere?

Okay, clue is in the tile and if in doubt, do a quick youtube for the difference between jet and rocket engines. Just sayin'

However, what is perfectly true is that doodlebugs were powered by futuristic engines.

What is also true (in very simplistic terms) is that after WW2 finished, the Americans got first choice of the brains behind the Axis powers.

Which is why Mr Brown who invented the rocket engine, became the American who put man on the moon.

What is truly scary, is the thought that Werner von Braun (Mr. Brown) could very easily have shared a drink of Pilsner in the same bar as Schindler, Hess, Goering and a mildly well known Austrian who might have been injured close to Ypres in World War 1.

Hope that Helps

Doubt that it Does.

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


"Traffic lights "

Garrett Morgan = American

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


"The jet engine

That nazi,s invented that didn't they for the V1 V2 rocket???

Oooh, now that could be debatable, as to who very first, truly, ruly thought of the jet engine. Wasn't Whittle in there somewhere?

Okay, clue is in the tile and if in doubt, do a quick youtube for the difference between jet and rocket engines. Just sayin'

However, what is perfectly true is that doodlebugs were powered by futuristic engines.

What is also true (in very simplistic terms) is that after WW2 finished, the Americans got first choice of the brains behind the Axis powers.

Which is why Mr Brown who invented the rocket engine, became the American who put man on the moon.

What is truly scary, is the thought that Werner von Braun (Mr. Brown) could very easily have shared a drink of Pilsner in the same bar as Schindler, Hess, Goering and a mildly well known Austrian who might have been injured close to Ypres in World War 1.

Hope that Helps

Doubt that it Does."

You really should try and argue a point without derision.

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


"The spitefire

Was it a woman scorned who invented that? "

No, but our dear Theresa is working on it......

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


"Traffic lights

Garrett Morgan = American"
JP Knight 1868 outside houses of parliament using gas lamps

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By *tella HeelsTV/TS
over a year ago

west here ford shire

Erm slavery, concentration camps

By the way we did do this

On a positive

Industrial revolution

We polluted the whole world too

Blimey we’re shit

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


"The jet engine

That nazi,s invented that didn't they for the V1 V2 rocket???

Oooh, now that could be debatable, as to who very first, truly, ruly thought of the jet engine. Wasn't Whittle in there somewhere?

Okay, clue is in the tile and if in doubt, do a quick youtube for the difference between jet and rocket engines. Just sayin'

However, what is perfectly true is that doodlebugs were powered by futuristic engines.

What is also true (in very simplistic terms) is that after WW2 finished, the Americans got first choice of the brains behind the Axis powers.

Which is why Mr Brown who invented the rocket engine, became the American who put man on the moon.

What is truly scary, is the thought that Werner von Braun (Mr. Brown) could very easily have shared a drink of Pilsner in the same bar as Schindler, Hess, Goering and a mildly well known Austrian who might have been injured close to Ypres in World War 1.

Hope that Helps

Doubt that it Does.

You really should try and argue a point without derision. "

I know what you're saying, but when the original poster states something about rocket powered bombs being powered by jet engines, I do tend to glaze over and wonder if the original poster has ever seen the yootoob video entitled "10 reasons why jet engines can't go to the moon".

Hope that Helps.

Doubt that it Does.

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

Full English Breakfast

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

A stiff upper lip.

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

James Clerk Maxwells work on electromagnetism is the basis of modern physics. Anything that uses or produces electricity has a basis in his theoretical and practical work

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By *wisted999Man
over a year ago

North Bucks

I was going to say the Balti. But Google told me I’m wrong.

So I’m going to say David Attenborough.

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

Looking down our noses at people we think are less intelligent than us.

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


"The jet engine

That nazi,s invented that didn't they for the V1 V2 rocket???

Oooh, now that could be debatable, as to who very first, truly, ruly thought of the jet engine. Wasn't Whittle in there somewhere?

Okay, clue is in the tile and if in doubt, do a quick youtube for the difference between jet and rocket engines. Just sayin'

However, what is perfectly true is that doodlebugs were powered by futuristic engines.

What is also true (in very simplistic terms) is that after WW2 finished, the Americans got first choice of the brains behind the Axis powers.

Which is why Mr Brown who invented the rocket engine, became the American who put man on the moon.

What is truly scary, is the thought that Werner von Braun (Mr. Brown) could very easily have shared a drink of Pilsner in the same bar as Schindler, Hess, Goering and a mildly well known Austrian who might have been injured close to Ypres in World War 1.

Hope that Helps

Doubt that it Does.

You really should try and argue a point without derision.

I know what you're saying, but when the original poster states something about rocket powered bombs being powered by jet engines, I do tend to glaze over and wonder if the original poster has ever seen the yootoob video entitled "10 reasons why jet engines can't go to the moon".

Hope that Helps.

Doubt that it Does."

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


"Looking down our noses at people we think are less intelligent than us."

We can already see an example of that behavior in this forum.

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

Paul Daniels

Mr blobby

Timmy mallet

Chaz & Dave

Danger mouse

Cannon & ball

Ted rogers & dusty bin

Little & large

Jive bunny & the master mixers

The X factor

Brxit

Super gran

Etc etc

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By *ayjay218Man
over a year ago

Aberdeen

Penicillin

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


"Erm slavery, concentration camps

By the way we did do this

On a positive

Industrial revolution

We polluted the whole world too

Blimey we’re shit"

You do have a very good point there, StellaHeels.

It's something I do worry about each time I buy a bag of Tate & Lyle, visit the Tate Britain, walk past a branch of Mr Barclays finest banks (There's not many left now) and even every time I buy either Unilver's Lynx bodywash or a tub of margarine (so that's palm oil covered too).

I'm not convinced that "On a positive" and "Industrial revolution" should be in the same sentence though, even if they are seperated by a line break.

Hope that Hepls.

Suspect that Stella might be intelligent enough to grasp what I'm saying, if not agree.

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


"Paul Daniels

Mr blobby

Timmy mallet

Chaz & Dave

Danger mouse

Cannon & ball

Ted rogers & dusty bin

Little & large

Jive bunny & the master mixers

The X factor

Brxit

Super gran

Etc etc "

Only Fools and Horses

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


"Paul Daniels

Mr blobby

Timmy mallet

Chaz & Dave

Danger mouse

Cannon & ball

Ted rogers & dusty bin

Little & large

Jive bunny & the master mixers

The X factor

Brxit

Super gran

Etc etc

Only Fools and Horses "

The chuckle brothers

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

Everything

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

WORLDWIDE WEB

Invented: 1989

Inventor: Tim Berners-Lee

Not to be confused with the internet, which is a system of linked computer networks, the worldwide web was invented by British computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee (left). He created the first server in late 1990 and, on 6 August 1991, the web went live, with the first page explaining how to search and how to set up a site. Berners-Lee gave his invention to the world for free.

Source: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.radiotimes.com/news/2013-01-08/the-50-greatest-british-inventions/amp/

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


"Everything"

Fuck you look like Del ha ha

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By *eetmyfootTV/TS
over a year ago

Cambridgeshire

Its language. English is the most important language in the world. If you speak English you have access to the whole world of knowledge because every major written work in every single domain either has been written or translated into English. People all over the planet love learning English more than any other language.

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


"Paul Daniels

Mr blobby

Timmy mallet

Chaz & Dave

Danger mouse

Cannon & ball

Ted rogers & dusty bin

Little & large

Jive bunny & the master mixers

The X factor

Brxit

Super gran

Etc etc

Only Fools and Horses

The chuckle brothers"

Mr & Mrs

Blake's 7

Black lace

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


"Looking down our noses at people we think are less intelligent than us.

We can already see an example of that behavior in this forum."

There is a difference between knowledge and intelligence.

I know 2 people.

One is a rocket scientist.

The other is a bloke with grease covered hands who dropped out of school but knows how to rebuild a Merlin Engine. (Which is neither jet nor rocket powered)

Hope that helps.

Doubt that the person who wrote their reply will allow it to help.

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

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


"Everything

Fuck you look like Del ha ha "

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


"Paul Daniels

Mr blobby

Timmy mallet

Chaz & Dave

Danger mouse

Cannon & ball

Ted rogers & dusty bin

Little & large

Jive bunny & the master mixers

The X factor

Brxit

Super gran

Etc etc

Only Fools and Horses

The chuckle brothers

Mr & Mrs

Blake's 7

Black lace "

Black Lace?

Huh?

1989 was their finest vintage.

"Gang Bang".

For anyone who doesn't understand, just do a google for Rita, Sue and Bob too.

For everyone else, tell the world that I'm looking down my nose at people in an *ist manner.

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By *c1989Woman
over a year ago

Manchester


"Wigan butty "

Pie on a barm. Best carb on carbs there is.

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


"Its language. English is the most important language in the world. If you speak English you have access to the whole world of knowledge because every major written work in every single domain either has been written or translated into English. People all over the planet love learning English more than any other language. "

A year or two or three ago, one of our British politicians announced that the whole world needed to be global. And as part of that initiative, he suggested that the whole of the British Isles / United Kingdom / England etc..... should grasp the chance to become better educated and to lead the world by.......

Learning how to speak in Chinese.

A week or so later, I had the delightful job of transporting "international students" between an international transport hub (airport) and an international base of international learning (Sheffield University).

The most memorable part of the journey was not only giving Far Eastern students a guided tour of Ladybower whilst pointing out it's importance to the Dambusters, but also, I got great rpide from listening to how many of those people from half way around the world were telling me that English is the language of the world.

Hope that helps.

Doubt that it does.

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


"Wigan butty

Pie on a barm. Best carb on carbs there is.

"

Can't beat a good pair of carbs.

SU or Weber?

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


"Inventions we have gave the world that makes us proud to be British "

Yorkshire pudding!

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By *elma and ShaggyCouple
over a year ago

Bedworth

Thinking only of things from my home city......

Ibuprofen

MRI scans

Tarmac

Traffic lights

VCR

High pressure water supply

And most importantly, HP sauce!

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

Antibiotics.

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By *udewhennudeMan
over a year ago

newport


"Cement."

Romans used cement.

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

Your mum.

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By *udewhennudeMan
over a year ago

newport


"Erm slavery, concentration camps

By the way we did do this

On a positive

Industrial revolution

We polluted the whole world too

Blimey we’re shit"

If you’re talking about the transatlantic slave trade, slavery existed thousands of years before that.

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By *unniebee1970Woman
over a year ago

The Hive

John,Paul,Ringo & George...

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By *tella HeelsTV/TS
over a year ago

west here ford shire


"Erm slavery, concentration camps

By the way we did do this

On a positive

Industrial revolution

We polluted the whole world too

Blimey we’re shit

You do have a very good point there, StellaHeels.

It's something I do worry about each time I buy a bag of Tate & Lyle, visit the Tate Britain, walk past a branch of Mr Barclays finest banks (There's not many left now) and even every time I buy either Unilver's Lynx bodywash or a tub of margarine (so that's palm oil covered too).

I'm not convinced that "On a positive" and "Industrial revolution" should be in the same sentence though, even if they are seperated by a line break.

Hope that Hepls.

Suspect that Stella might be intelligent enough to grasp what I'm saying, if not agree. "

Totally, sorry got absorbed in comedy on tv

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By *tella HeelsTV/TS
over a year ago

west here ford shire


"Erm slavery, concentration camps

By the way we did do this

On a positive

Industrial revolution

We polluted the whole world too

Blimey we’re shit

If you’re talking about the transatlantic slave trade, slavery existed thousands of years before that."

Very true, but we did use and abuse the African people to enrich our own pockets, we are grossly guilty of abusing a nation..

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


"John,Paul,Ringo & George... "

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By *ab_SparklesWoman
over a year ago

sparkle Surprised

The clocks going back in forward an hr i believe we are the only country to do so. So it is in fact invented

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


"The clocks going back in forward an hr i believe we are the only country to do so. So it is in fact invented "

No we’re not the only country.i know that Spain definitely does at least.

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By *innie The MinxWoman
over a year ago

Under the Duvet

Me.

Oh and custard creams.

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


"Erm slavery, concentration camps

By the way we did do this

On a positive

Industrial revolution

We polluted the whole world too

Blimey we’re shit

If you’re talking about the transatlantic slave trade, slavery existed thousands of years before that.

Very true, but we did use and abuse the African people to enrich our own pockets, we are grossly guilty of abusing a nation..

"

"we" I never abused any African peoples. I'm not guilty of anything. The African people kept slaves long before the white people turned up.

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

Concorde

The steam catapult

The jet engine

Harrier jump jet

Television

Trains

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


"The clocks going back in forward an hr i believe we are the only country to do so. So it is in fact invented "

Most areas in North America and Europe, and some areas in the Middle East, observe daylight saving time

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

Stephen Hawkins in collaboration with Roger Penrose on gravitational singularity theorems

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


"The clocks going back in forward an hr i believe we are the only country to do so. So it is in fact invented

Most areas in North America and Europe, and some areas in the Middle East, observe daylight saving time"

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

Reebok

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

The cornish pasty

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By *tella HeelsTV/TS
over a year ago

west here ford shire


"John,Paul,Ringo & George...

"

Oh yes

Was at cavern club less than a month ago

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By * and M lookingCouple
over a year ago

Worcester

The JCB

Still rated number 1

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By *iss Penny TrationWoman
over a year ago

NW

Rick Astley

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By *tella HeelsTV/TS
over a year ago

west here ford shire


"Erm slavery, concentration camps

By the way we did do this

On a positive

Industrial revolution

We polluted the whole world too

Blimey we’re shit

If you’re talking about the transatlantic slave trade, slavery existed thousands of years before that.

Very true, but we did use and abuse the African people to enrich our own pockets, we are grossly guilty of abusing a nation..

"we" I never abused any African peoples. I'm not guilty of anything. The African people kept slaves long before the white people turned up."

No of course we didn’t were perfectly innocent it wasn’t anything to do with Britain sorry silly me

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

The time

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

George Best

Mary Peters

Ulster Fry

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By * and M lookingCouple
over a year ago

Worcester


"John,Paul,Ringo & George... "

More like a punishment than something that is great and British

You may as well have said Oasis, now that’s the epitamy of crap.

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By *xcumMan
over a year ago

kidderminster

Money housing nhs schooling plus cash. To anyone that knocks on our door

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


"Erm slavery, concentration camps

By the way we did do this

On a positive

Industrial revolution

We polluted the whole world too

Blimey we’re shit

If you’re talking about the transatlantic slave trade, slavery existed thousands of years before that.

Very true, but we did use and abuse the African people to enrich our own pockets, we are grossly guilty of abusing a nation..

"

If you have ever, ever had cause to pause in Calais on your way to the ferry and you have ever witnessed the quantity of immigrants, and the countries from which they come, then you might stand a chance of having witnessed the greatest "rip off" of Africa which hasn't happened quite yet.....

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

2/3 People attributed to the discovery of the structure of DNA were Brits. So really we’ve kind of given the world everything

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


"The JCB

Still rated number 1 "

Topical

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By *tella HeelsTV/TS
over a year ago

west here ford shire

Largest empire known to man

Ruled or conquered same thing..

Social welfare

NHS (3rd largest employer in the world)

Rolls Royce

The Allegro

F1

Football

Rugby

Cricket

4 wheel drive

The jet engine was originally designed in Britain

The rocket engine was designed by Herbert Von Braun (nazis)

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


"The internet "

This x x

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By *ayjay218Man
over a year ago

Aberdeen

Donal McIntyre once said the greatest things Britain gave to the world was association football and the saying “fuck off” that amused me

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

Telescope!

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By *ENGUYMan
over a year ago

Hull


"The clocks going back in forward an hr i believe we are the only country to do so. So it is in fact invented "

The USA do the same as us!

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


"Erm slavery, concentration camps

By the way we did do this

On a positive

Industrial revolution

We polluted the whole world too

Blimey we’re shit

If you’re talking about the transatlantic slave trade, slavery existed thousands of years before that.

Very true, but we did use and abuse the African people to enrich our own pockets, we are grossly guilty of abusing a nation..

"

And "we" were used and abused by the Romans, the norse/vikings and the Normans. How far back in history do you want to apportion blame for conquest?

Britain has given the world some of the greatest arts - Shakespeare, Chaucer, Byron, Shelley, Keats, Constable, Turner, Stubbs, Newton, Vaughan Williams, Elgar, Holst etc.

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By *albec26Man
over a year ago

Great Yarmouth

How about Bill Wigglestick? lol, created most of our English language

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

The Smiths

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

Interesting swear words?

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By *aul DeUther-OneMan
over a year ago

Sussex


"Certainly invented "divide and rule"....worked wonders when expanding the empire..."

To be fair, the British were only copying the method that had worked so well for the Romans...

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By *unniebee1970Woman
over a year ago

The Hive


"John,Paul,Ringo & George...

More like a punishment than something that is great and British

You may as well have said Oasis, now that’s the epitamy of crap. "

Oasis.

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

Queen

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

Oasis

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

The Rolls Royce Merlin engine

The sound of freedom

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By *ettyboob72Woman
over a year ago

Manningtree

cats eyes

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


"Bury Black puddings. "

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

The steam engine.

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

Cheesy wotsits

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By *evaquitCouple
over a year ago

Catthorpe

Wiff Waff aka table tennis

Football

Australians

There countries back.

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By *evaquitCouple
over a year ago

Catthorpe

*their

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By *exoParaTodosMan
over a year ago

Alicante province

Immigration

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By *ensualbicockMan
over a year ago

liverpool wavertree picton clock

Jacobs cream crackers

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By * and M lookingCouple
over a year ago

Worcester

The Spitfire

Even the Luftwaffe wanted them

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By *allySlinkyWoman
over a year ago

Leeds


"Queen"

Freddie Mercury was from Zanzibar.

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


"Cement."

Used by the Greeks and Romans. Thousands of years ago.

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


"Jaffa cakes."

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By *allySlinkyWoman
over a year ago

Leeds

Television

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By *dward_TeagueMan
over a year ago

wolverhampton


"Cricket, football and rugby. and now everyone one else is better at it maybe we should of kept them just for us

I can’t remeber the advert but an American says about cricket, “ You invent a game that nobody can understand the rules of, and the whole world whoops you at it!” "

They don’t! We are pretty good at it at the moment.

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


"2/3 People attributed to the discovery of the structure of DNA were Brits. So really we’ve kind of given the world everything "
This

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By *dward_TeagueMan
over a year ago

wolverhampton

The Land Rover

The original Mini

I was thinking about some of our influential bands like the Beatles and the Stones but they both started out covering black American music.

Sandwiches?

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By *dward_TeagueMan
over a year ago

wolverhampton


"Concorde

The steam catapult

The jet engine

Harrier jump jet

Television

Trains "

Concorde was an Anglo-French development.

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By * and M lookingCouple
over a year ago

Worcester

The Telephone and television

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By *xhibcupCouple
over a year ago

portsmouth

Dogging.

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

Colonial atrocities.

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


"Immigration"

If you read your history, you'll find most English people's heritage suggests they weren't originally from England so not sure about your claim?

Thermos flask is my offer!

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By *xhibcupCouple
over a year ago

portsmouth

Guy fawkes

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


"Colonial atrocities."

I think you’ll find the Spanish, Portuguese, French, Belgians, Romans, Greeks and Turkish (Ottoman) amongst many others also had colonial ambitions that don’t chime with modern day thinking.

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By *ensualbicockMan
over a year ago

liverpool wavertree picton clock

The computer

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By *exoParaTodosMan
over a year ago

Alicante province


"Immigration

If you read your history, you'll find most English people's heritage suggests they weren't originally from England so not sure about your claim?

Thermos flask is my offer!"

Obviously. That was my point. The British Isles have always been world leaders in being invaded, mixing with the new folk (Romans, Vikings, Normans, etc).... and incorporating that into the English language and way of life.... Something that Brexit Britain has conveniently forgotten

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By *ensualbicockMan
over a year ago

liverpool wavertree picton clock


"Immigration

If you read your history, you'll find most English people's heritage suggests they weren't originally from England so not sure about your claim?

Thermos flask is my offer!

Obviously. That was my point. The British Isles have always been world leaders in being invaded, mixing with the new folk (Romans, Vikings, Normans, etc).... and incorporating that into the English language and way of life.... Something that Brexit Britain has conveniently forgotten"

Don't know whether you like Stewart Lee, but check out his immigration sketch.

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By *ara JTV/TS
over a year ago

Bristol East

Penicillin

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By *evaquitCouple
over a year ago

Catthorpe


"Dogging. "

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By *ob198XaMan
over a year ago

teleford

It’s either you or it is me

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


"Inventions we have gave the world that makes us proud to be British "

Politeness

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By *ike Hunt888Man
over a year ago

Lancashire.

Chip butty.

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By *ilth500Man
over a year ago

Merseyside

Nhs

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By *xhib12Man
over a year ago

Blyth

Cornish pasties

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By *rx1Couple
over a year ago

North Devon-ish

The jet engine.

Photography. ...

Stereo. ...

The cat's eye. ...

The train. ...

The World Wide Web. ...

The telephone. ...

The television. The Idiot's Lantern is actually a British invention, dreamed up by Scotsman John Logie Baird in February 1924. ...

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By *rumpyMcFuckNuggetMan
over a year ago

Den of Iniquity

Yorkshire Pudding

The Mini

Moaning about weather

The TV License

Kelly Brook

And Chavs !!

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By *lactontogMan
over a year ago

Clacton on Sea

Fear & the need for them to arm themselves to the teeth in case of invasion/looting/genocide...yep we've done the world proud lol.

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By *allySlinkyWoman
over a year ago

Leeds


"

The television. The Idiot's Lantern is actually a British invention, dreamed up by Scotsman John Logie Baird in February 1924. ..."

I'm sure it took him longer than a month to invent it.

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

A laugh ...

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

Church of England ..still practiced by over 6 people.

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By *dward_TeagueMan
over a year ago

wolverhampton


"Church of England ..still practiced by over 6 people. "

That many?

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By *exoParaTodosMan
over a year ago

Alicante province


"Immigration

If you read your history, you'll find most English people's heritage suggests they weren't originally from England so not sure about your claim?

Thermos flask is my offer!

Obviously. That was my point. The British Isles have always been world leaders in being invaded, mixing with the new folk (Romans, Vikings, Normans, etc).... and incorporating that into the English language and way of life.... Something that Brexit Britain has conveniently forgotten

Don't know whether you like Stewart Lee, but check out his immigration sketch. "

What did the Romans ever do for us.....

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


"Church of England ..still practiced by over 6 people. "

You'd think they'd be good at it with all that practice.

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


"Church of England ..still practiced by over 6 people.

You'd think they'd be good at it with all that practice."
......oooo if Henry V111 (who invented it)was alive today - he'd be spinning in his grave !!!

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

There’s so many answers that could make sense here, I’m thinking just in science you’ve got all the stuff Newton did with gravity and then Fleming with penicillin?

what about the internet?

Greenwich mean time?

I’d have to go for the Yorkshire pud though

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

Love this cheeky thread! Will be going through it again sometime for giggles.


"Piers Morgan

You are welcome world!

"

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

Slavery Abolition Act 1833

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

Football hooliganism; we led the world for 3 generations.

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By * and M lookingCouple
over a year ago

Worcester


"Yorkshire Pudding

The Mini

Moaning about weather

The TV License

Kelly Brook

And Chavs !!"

Kelly Brook and Chavs

Oh yes, one and the same

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

Greg Rusedski , Kevin Pietersen , Zola Budd , Lennox Lewis.

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By * and M lookingCouple
over a year ago

Worcester


"Greg Rusedski , Kevin Pietersen , Zola Budd , Lennox Lewis. "

That’s about right

Rent a Brit

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

Stephen Hawking

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

Heels and hold ups

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