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English/Scottish/Welsh etc vs British (pg. 4)
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| MagikMan_643 |
| quote: | Originally posted by RickyM
You know why Scotsmen wear kilts?
Because sheep can hear zippers from a mile away :D |
LMAO :D |
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| Dervish |
| quote: | Originally posted by slinkyhead
here's a few for you:
Parliamentary democracy, free market economics, the industrial revolution, modern medicine, tanks, computers, trains, jet aircraft, femdoms, bondage |
Bit flaming genral there like, most of the things you list are actually many thing not a single invention.
Democracy: Greeks
Free Market Economics: Romans
Industrial Revolution: Not a single invention.
Modern Medicine: Overly genral, and basicly untrue as I understand it.
Tanks: Hard to define, but the first self-propelled gun, was french.
Computers: Really hard to define.
Trains: James Watt made it viable, and it's hard to define.
Jets: Yep give you that.
Femdom & Bondage: I recon the freaky ass Romans and/or Greeks would have had that, they had everything.
Also some less well known scottish inventions:
Encyclopedia Britannica <<< Surprise
Logerithms (unbeliveably important when you don't have a calculator for multiplying, science would been wayyyy behind without thouse)
Fax Machines
Kelvin (the proper way of mesuring temp)
Ultrasound
First Cloned Animal
Nobel Gases (Sir William Ramsay)
Discovery of Insulin (with others)
Grand Theft Auto
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| Fundamental |
| quote: | Originally posted by Dervish
Grand Theft Auto
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That's the important one. :D |
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| Grrrrr |
| quote: | Originally posted by Dervish
Bit flaming genral there like, most of the things you list are actually many thing not a single invention.
Democracy: Greeks
Free Market Economics: Romans
Industrial Revolution: Not a single invention.
Modern Medicine: Overly genral, and basicly untrue as I understand it.
Tanks: Hard to define, but the first self-propelled gun, was french.
Computers: Really hard to define.
Trains: James Watt made it viable, and it's hard to define.
Jets: Yep give you that.
Femdom & Bondage: I recon the freaky ass Romans and/or Greeks would have had that, they had everything.
Also some less well known scottish inventions:
Encyclopedia Britannica <<< Surprise
Logerithms (unbeliveably important when you don't have a calculator for multiplying, science would been wayyyy behind without thouse)
Fax Machines
Kelvin (the proper way of mesuring temp)
Ultrasound
First Cloned Animal
Nobel Gases (Sir William Ramsay)
Discovery of Insulin (with others)
Grand Theft Auto
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Since we're being pedantic
Ultrasound is any noise above 20,000hz how can you invent a sound? It's like saying newton 'invented' gravity
Nobel Gases, how can you invent an element of the periodic table? You might have discovered them first (not sure if you did) but you certainly didnt invent them
Trains; we did invent them. Richard Trevithick made the first road going locomotive, George Stephenson made the first train. Both english source
Tanks, i don't know who invented them and can't be bothered to look it up but what do self propelled guns have to do with tanks? |
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| Grrrrr |
Oh and the reason more people haven't listed english inventions is because we don't feel the need to prove our countries greatness. Our heritage speaks for itself. You scottish on other hand are desperately trying to out-do us english and the FACT is you never will
The welsh... they don't even try because they know there is no hope what-so-ever
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| slinkyhead |
| quote: | Originally posted by Dervish
Bit flaming genral there like, most of the things you list are actually many thing not a single invention.
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okay i'll be a bit more specific with a few:
The Flushing Toilet: John Harrington 1596
worldwideweb: Tim Berners Lee
calculus: Sir Isaac Newton
friction mathces: John Walker
Fizzy drinks: Joseph Priestly 1772
and the industrial revoultion was first experienced in England, yes general but certinaly a world changing thing. And i was talking about parliamentary democracy, very different to plain old democracy.
Face it England > Scotland |
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| slinkyhead |
| quote: | Originally posted by Grrrrr
Oh and the reason more people haven't listed english inventions is because we don't feel the need to prove our countries greatness. Our heritage speaks for itself. You scottish on other hand are desperately trying to out-do us english and the FACT is you never will
The welsh... they don't even try because they know there is no hope what-so-ever
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whoops, just done the opposite of that whole post. hehe |
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| Dervish |
| quote: | Originally posted by Grrrrr
Since we're being pedantic
Ultrasound is any noise above 20,000hz how can you invent a sound? It's like saying newton 'invented' gravity
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Ultrasound as used in medicine....
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Nobel Gases, how can you invent an element of the periodic table? You might have discovered them first (not sure if you did) but you certainly didnt invent them |
As in discovered it.
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Trains; we did invent them. Richard Trevithick made the first road going locomotive, George Stephenson made the first train. Both english source
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Yeah but they were gash.
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James Watt (1736-1819)
Engraving of James Watt
James Watt was a Scottish inventor and mechanical engineer, born in Greenock, who was renowned for his improvements of the steam engine. In 1765, James Watt while working for the University of Glasgow was assigned the task of repairing a Newcomen engine, which was deemed inefficient but the best steam engine of its time. That started the inventor to work on several improvements to Newcomen's design.
Most notable was Watt's 1769 patent for a separate condenser connected to a cylinder by a valve. Unlike Newcomen's engine, Watt's design had a condenser that could be cool while the cylinder was hot. Watt's engine soon became the dominant design for all modern steam engines and helped bring about the Industrial Revolution.
A unit of power called the Watt was named after James Watt. the Watt symbol is W, and it is equal to 1/746 of a horsepower, or one Volt times one Amp. |
>Source<
Well useless things thouse Watts.... never catch on that term.
As for tanks, what is a tank except an armored self-propelled gun? Anyway when I think about it in terms of design Da Vinci did it first (he just didn't make it). :p
And I havent even mentioned who I recon (cos he's in my field) is the greatest Scot of all time yet. Maxwell. His equations and theories on electromagnatism
From Wikipedia:
| quote: | | Maxwell had perhaps the finest mathematical mind of any theoretical physicist of his time. Maxwell is widely regarded as the nineteenth century scientist who had the greatest influence on twentieth century physics, making contributions to the fundamental models of nature. |
| quote: | | Maxwell also made contributions to the area of optics and colour vision, being credited with the discovery that colour photographs could be formed using red, green, and blue filters. |
I'm surprise you haven't mentioned more about Newton, Faraday, Darwin (though he did not single-handidly invent the theory of evolution as it is often stated), or the language I'm using (though it too is as Newton would say based upon "standing on the sholders of giants") lol.
And in no way is England better than Scotland, it's just bigger. I mean right now your being led by a Scot, who gonna be taken over by a Scot. The defence minister is scottish, europe minister is scottish (I could go on) out of the 4 contenders for the tory party leadership 2 were scottish. The now dumped leader of the lib dems is scottish the guy who is gonna take over from him is scottish......
Thats scots at the top of all three main parties.
We rule you. :toothless |
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| isoterra |
yeah well at the end things, we're just wankers. you, on the other hand, are colonized by wankers. you can't even pick a decent culture to be colonized by. you are ruled by effete arseholes. it's a e state of affairs and all the fresh air in the world will not make any ing difference
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| slinkyhead |
| quote: | Originally posted by Dervish
We rule you. :toothless |
we live longer than you :p |
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| Dervish |
| quote: | Originally posted by isoterra
yeah well at the end things, we're just wankers. you, on the other hand, are colonized by wankers. you can't even pick a decent culture to be colonized by. you are ruled by effete arseholes. it's a e state of affairs and all the fresh air in the world will not make any ing difference
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We unlike Wales wern't annexed, we just got (uncharacteristicly) too drunk at one point and desided that being part of the same country as you guys would be a good idea.
The last 299 years has to have been the worst hangover in History! I say to celebrate 300 years next year we should roll over scrape up some change from the bedside cabinet and say "there's your money for the bus pet". :p |
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| Fundamental |
| quote: | Originally posted by slinkyhead
we live longer than you :p |
Low blow.
Woah, hang on... I feel another heart attack coming on. :p |
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