Where would the world be without the English?

teatime


Joined: 20/10/2008
Posts: 852

Message Posted:
14/03/2010 23:17

Now for some flack, I've got my helmet on already!!!

dublinderm


Joined: 26/09/2009
Posts: 538

Message Posted:
14/03/2010 23:24

So!



Are you going to tell us what it is that they did?



That was of benefit of course - we know about the rest!!!!



DD

karakum5c



Joined: 18/03/2008
Posts: 1021

Message Posted:
14/03/2010 23:28

Walking about in jack boots, talking German, celebrating Adolf Hitlers birthday, giving Nazi salutes and discussing the final solution over dinner.





To make this a reality you can still do it if you want ---VOTE BNP ON MAY THE 6th !

Woodspeckie


Joined: 25/01/2009
Posts: 2263

Message Posted:
14/03/2010 23:35

Wot the English big breakfast?

loulouis


Joined: 13/12/2009
Posts: 234

Message Posted:
14/03/2010 23:56

They would all still be living in caves and grunting ! and there women folk would be doing as they were told !.

Brinsley


Joined: 04/04/2009
Posts: 6858

Message Posted:
15/03/2010 00:07

DNA all the 'poms' and the World will find out that they're all related to either to the Vikings, Spaniards ( Irish descendant influence), the French and not forgetting the Romans! All a lot of war mongering idiots anyway!



Richard

plumber



Joined: 27/08/2008
Posts: 85

Message Posted:
15/03/2010 03:23

lets face it we still dont know

nurseawful



Joined: 06/02/2009
Posts: 5934

Message Posted:
15/03/2010 06:43

Well the world would certainly have never seen the 'Morris dancers'.



Chris

proger1



Joined: 18/04/2009
Posts: 2919

Message Posted:
15/03/2010 07:01

Well, we wouldn't have the english language. No, wait that's a mixture of the easiest parts of about 5 different languages. Sorry, I take that one back.



Paul (Yes, I am scottish and can't help myself)

ang1706


Joined: 28/01/2009
Posts: 570

Message Posted:
15/03/2010 08:04

Lets be fair to the English

They have given some great people....................

They have won the World Cups at rugby and football as they never tire of saying!

Winston Churchill, Thatcher,McMillan,Atlee, Emily Pankhurst and Posh Spice!!!!

flowerfairy


Joined: 17/09/2008
Posts: 1277

Message Posted:
15/03/2010 08:26

Hey !!!!!, don't forget lady Diana.

newscoop


Joined: 23/12/2007
Posts: 2197

Message Posted:
15/03/2010 08:39

Magna Carta

THE International language

Parliamentary democracy

Isambard Kingdom Brunel (and his dad)

Great Western Railway, SS Great Britain, first tunnels under navigable water.

Iron bridge

Bessemer

Jet Engine

Hovercraft

Football

Rugby

Cricket

Tennis

Too many great actors/actresses/writers/musicians to name

Jenner

Humphrey Davey

Red Rum and the Grand National

Flying Scotsman and Mallard

The world wide web

The first computer

Supplying most of the early settlers in the Antipodes (inc Brinsleys forebears)

Guy Fawkes

Thomas More

Cromwell

Duke of Wellington

Captain Cook

General Wolfe

Royal mail

The police

David Beckham

Groucho



Joined: 26/04/2008
Posts: 7993

Message Posted:
15/03/2010 09:07

spoiled it at the end!

Groucho



Joined: 26/04/2008
Posts: 7993

Message Posted:
15/03/2010 09:10

Music!



English rock, pop, progressive music is appreciated throughout the modern world.



Yes

Deep Purple

Pink Floyd

The Beatles

Cream



the list is endless..

Carndi


Joined: 12/06/2009
Posts: 613

Message Posted:
15/03/2010 09:40

Wellington was Anglo Irish. Does he count ?

Groucho



Joined: 26/04/2008
Posts: 7993

Message Posted:
15/03/2010 09:43

up to ten, then he ran out of fingers!

ang1706


Joined: 28/01/2009
Posts: 570

Message Posted:
15/03/2010 10:20

Great list Newscoop,

Sorry for my ignorance but what is/was bessemer!

As are genuinly interested in finding out without going on the web!

TopTen


Joined: 15/04/2009
Posts: 1246

Message Posted:
15/03/2010 11:11

Bloody hell someone put inThatcher as if she did something of value for the country,destroying the steel and engineering and coal industries, sold off offshore oil and any other profitable industry gave us the highest intrest rates great for the monied friends of hers, but for working class people with a mortgage ruined them.

Should have been shot........

newscoop


Joined: 23/12/2007
Posts: 2197

Message Posted:
15/03/2010 11:13

Bessemer process;



The first inexpensive way of making steel in large quantities from pig-iron.



Google him, it's easier to read than explain.



As for Beckham, I was of course being ironic.



Chuck Alf Garnett into the mix.

nurseawful



Joined: 06/02/2009
Posts: 5934

Message Posted:
15/03/2010 11:42

Margaret Thatcher my hero. Just for Topten!!!!!!!!!!!

Lambousa Gordon


Joined: 03/11/2007
Posts: 1992

Message Posted:
15/03/2010 13:05

Re Msg 12 - Thanks Newscoop - here's a few others:



The Rule of Law.



Common Law and Admiralty Law - Worldwide.



Jury of One's Peers.



Industrial Revolution.



Separation of Church & State.



Fair Play.



Baconian Method.



Scientific Method.



Isaac Newton, Francis Bacon, Charles Darwin, Duke of Marlborough, WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Groucho



Joined: 26/04/2008
Posts: 7993

Message Posted:
15/03/2010 13:12

Gordon, you mentioned Francis Bacon and William Shakespeare... so say they were one and the same!

dublinderm


Joined: 26/09/2009
Posts: 538

Message Posted:
15/03/2010 14:06

Re Msg 12.



Guy Fawkes and Thomas More - didn't you kill them? They must have felt really valued!



Re Msg 21.



Separation of Church and State? Isn't the Queen Head of State and Supreme Governor of the C of E at the same time. I'm a republican (small r) so I obviously wouldn't understand that.



DD

newscoop


Joined: 23/12/2007
Posts: 2197

Message Posted:
15/03/2010 23:17

Groucho;



Not Bacon, you're thinking about Christopher Marlowe.

newscoop


Joined: 23/12/2007
Posts: 2197

Message Posted:
15/03/2010 23:20

dublinderm;



I didn't actually kill anyone.



They were topped for their religious beliefs.



Rightly or wrongly



You decide.

newscoop


Joined: 23/12/2007
Posts: 2197

Message Posted:
16/03/2010 00:12

"To be born English is to win first prize in the lottery of life"



Cecil Rhodes.

Ailletoo


Joined: 24/01/2009
Posts: 1003

Message Posted:
16/03/2010 00:19

better off!

greenman


Joined: 16/02/2008
Posts: 526

Message Posted:
16/03/2010 00:21

When you're practically perfect in everyway you don't have to bang the drum about your achievements. The English leave that to lesser nations.

mollycorbin


Joined: 12/03/2010
Posts: 390

Message Posted:
16/03/2010 01:03

...thirsty for Beefeater Gin and unemployed dentists???....

Just joking - I love all of you cheeky bastards!

Izzet



Joined: 01/12/2006
Posts: 920

Message Posted:
16/03/2010 01:12

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