So...what makes YOUR country special?

Post by **Muttley** » Thu Jul 26, 2007 10:01 am 0

Wibble wrote:Do I really need to pull out all the clichÃ©s?
<snip>

Don't forget these too, you fuckers!

Muttley

MadHippo · Post by **MadHippo** » Thu Jul 26, 2007 10:03 am 0

(Cue "Rule Britannia" played by Brian May on the roof of Buckingham Palace. Voice-over by Tom Baker:)

Britain, Britain, Britain. Home to one of the most diverse blends of societies on the planet, and for the most part they all get along. We have tremendous coast line, we have gorgeous countryside, and we have exciting and diverse cities.

Our history is long and fascinating, and rightly or wrongly, we once ruled a large percentage of the world. We gave the world Television, Rubgy, The Jet Engine, Dr Who, Table Tennis, the clockwork radio, and a million other inventions.

Our film industry, although small, has had some of the biggest worldwide hits, and our engineers are known throughout the world for their quality.

Sure we have bad weather, some social behaviour problems, dodgy sandwiches and crumbling infrastructure, but we should be proud of these small isles, and if we can pull together and sort ourselves out, old blighty can be "Great" Britain once again!

swith · Post by **swith** » Thu Jul 26, 2007 10:15 am 0

MadHippo wrote: Sure we have bad weather, some social behaviour problems, dodgy sandwiches and crumbling infrastructure, but we should be proud of these small isles, and if we can pull together and sort ourselves out, old blighty can be "Great" Britain once again!

moosedude · Post by **moosedude** » Thu Jul 26, 2007 10:19 am 0

psychorob wrote:
moosedude wrote:Nectar points.
damn I was going to say that, a Bill Bailey fan purhaps? hmm

You found me out

and when my hairline starts receeding more, I plan to have a hairstyle just like his!

MadHippo · Post by **MadHippo** » Thu Jul 26, 2007 10:49 am 0

swith wrote:
MadHippo wrote: Sure we have bad weather, some social behaviour problems, dodgy sandwiches and crumbling infrastructure, but we should be proud of these small isles, and if we can pull together and sort ourselves out, old blighty can be "Great" Britain once again!

That was the idea dude.

Baggypants · Post by **Baggypants** » Thu Jul 26, 2007 10:55 am 0

RageMatrix · Post by **RageMatrix** » Thu Jul 26, 2007 11:17 am 0

The Industrial Revolution.

The modern world? You're welcome.

Ratsoap · Post by **Ratsoap** » Thu Jul 26, 2007 11:21 am 0

RageMatrix wrote:
The modern world? You're welcome.

The Polar Ice Caps?

kalmar · Post by **kalmar** » Thu Jul 26, 2007 11:23 am 0

http://www.magicdragon.com/Wallace/thingscot.html

adhesive postage stamps
anaesthetics
antisepsis
artificial diamonds
reaping machine
Bank of England
latent heat
Brownian movement
Buicks
chemical bonds
penicillin
the decimal point
documentary films
Encyclopedia Britannica
engineering sciences
fax machines
first cloned mammal
flailing machines
geosciences
golf
historical novels
hypodermic syringes
Kelvin scale
percussion powder
logarithms
Maxwell's equations
marmalade
mackintosh raincoats
macadamized roads
microwave ovens
colloid chemistry
breech-loading rifle
tubular steel
quinine
Sociology
pneumatic tyres
pink bathtubs
hollow pipe drainage
Peter Pan
radar
paleobiology
polarization
cure for scurvy
King Arthur
Halloween
refrigerators
Neptune
bakelite
iron bridges
solitons
the steam engine
telephones
thermos flasks/dewars
the telegraph
television
the stereotype
sulphuric acid
the steam-hammer
cure for insomnia
paraffin
Sherlock Holmes
Toad of Toad Hall
Long John Silver
Jekyll and Hyde
Auld Lang Syne
Whisky
US Navy
Chilean Navy
Economics
Cloud Chamber

l1n3n01z · Post by **l1n3n01z** » Thu Jul 26, 2007 11:55 am 0

Midnight Sun

Nightlife

Ice and Fire

Harsh landscape

Odd Food

And since this YakYak: The Icelandic horse

Tmuk · Post by **Tmuk** » Thu Jul 26, 2007 12:32 pm 0

And I know we didn't invent it, but we do make the best mugs of tea in the world over here. The combination of a bacon and egg sandwich with brown sauce, a mug of dark, sweet tea and a ciggie is an absolutely staggering one, and I'm pretty sure we came up with that at least.

RageMatrix · Post by **RageMatrix** » Thu Jul 26, 2007 12:41 pm 0

l1n3n01z wrote: [Icelandic things...]

You forgot the most important one!

amanset · Post by **amanset** » Thu Jul 26, 2007 12:42 pm 0

Yeah, but she's shit.

Purple Grapefruit · Thu Jul 26, 2007 12:53 pm 0

Anders wrote:

Well the music of Abba is musical genius,
and though my nation has produced the beatles
none wore tinfoil underpants.....

Sweden FTW.

If they were to enter the Eurovision song contest they
would certainly win with outfits like that.

l1n3n01z · Post by **l1n3n01z** » Thu Jul 26, 2007 1:02 pm 0

Purple Grapefruit wrote:
Anders wrote:

So Sweden is known for conspiracy buffs, who believe their brains are in their naughty parts?