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Did you hear about the bigot who hates all things English? He makes a good living in the Concreting business, because almost everything in the City depends on this industry. It's just a pity that rein

The NHS..which without most of you wouldnt be here today

Seems like a lot of people feel badly done to by the British,understandable.   Who are these British who go round invading,stealing and generally pissing off everyone? Its not me,im a f****n bricky,

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  On 23/10/2011 at 18:47, undisputed said:
  On 23/10/2011 at 18:46, leegreen said:
  On 23/10/2011 at 16:27, undisputed said:

In the spirit of the freedom post and a touch of the monty python.....what have the English ever done for the other home nations or the world for that matter?

Gave you this forum and the language your writing in for starters.

 

Ah but did you give the world the art of writing

Maybe not :laugh:

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  On 23/10/2011 at 18:01, undisputed said:
  On 23/10/2011 at 17:57, Mooch. said:
The English brought tea to the world, what more do you want?

 

The English also invented government and democracy but I wouldn't really say that turned out well at the moment.

 

Wrong on both counts tea came from India and the Chinese were drinking tea when we were all in mud huts. Goverment democracy invented by the Greeks

Fair enough on the democracy thing but I'm right about the tea (sort of but we'll get to that).

 

Tea was first produced in China but was introduced to India in the 1840s. In 1851 a man named Robert Fortune smuggled thousands more (higher quality) tea plants out of China along with 8 expert Chinese growers thus improving the quality of the tea known as Indian tea. What I meant was tea was exported throughout the world by the East India Company which was a division of the British governement (i'e. we brought it to the world). Unfortunatly for my argument Robert Fortune was Scottish.................damn it!

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  On 23/10/2011 at 17:10, undisputed said:
  On 23/10/2011 at 17:06, scothunter said:
plenty tbh.

without the union we would never have had the empire,also the trade wealth that came with it.we gave the world a lot of good systems and backing.yes it wasnt all roses,we have done some terrible things aswell.however were not the only ones who was into empire building,and if it had went the other way we could have been downtrodden by other imperialistic empires.

no union was ever created without bad blood,but on the whole it hasnt been all that bad a relationship.i suspect the ones who dont like it,are dyed in the wool anti english,and IMO a lot of the ad feelings come from the troubles in ireland.the way i see it,the world is more unstable than it has ever been,also the current climate in monetary terms dictates to me that venturing into unknown terrority of independence could very blow up in our faces.got to laugh though those in scotland wanting independence seem to be of a certain age.older generation.who lets face facts here,no be long till your dead so dont think it very fair to leave a mess for the next generation.why change something that aint broke.

 

Apart from the empire, the trade and the wealth what else have they done?.....although I'm pretty sure it wasn't just the english involved.,

errr....the aquaduct?

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  On 23/10/2011 at 16:27, undisputed said:
In the spirit of the freedom post and a touch of the monty python.....what have the English ever done for the other home nations or the world for that matter?
on the title it say whats the english ever done for us....who,s us..???
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