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The three great British inventions

 
  

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Strange Machine Vs The Virus with Shoes
06:39 / 06.06.03
The fry up/English breakfast is the best breakfast in the world, bar none. Forget your continental rubbish, a bit of ham, cheese and a bread roll. Or your American crap: pancakes, eggs over easy, grits or whatever.

A decent cup of tea, obviously tea has been around for centuries but we made it actually taste nice by adding milk to it.

And a sense of humour, everyone likes a laugh but us Brits are the funniest. Have you actually seen a French comic strip or heard a German joke? Zut a fucking lors, you’d rather die than laugh!
 
 
Quantum
07:41 / 06.06.03
(damn, Panarchy got tea in just before me)- Tea, chocolate coated Digestive Biscuits and politeness.
 
 
Saveloy
09:28 / 06.06.03
The Romans don't count, that was ages ago. And they didn't have big steam powered f**king pumping stations, did they?

Alright then:

3. The Hovercraft, without which Chicken Tikka sandwiches could not be delivered to the Isle of Wight in less than 10 minutes, except by helicopter or airplane, which is dangerous.

Btw, I tried some of them Tim Tams and they were rubbish.
 
 
The Return Of Rothkoid
02:35 / 07.06.03
Fine. Hold to your inferior Penguins, then. All the more for me and Flowers.
 
 
Less searchable M0rd4nt
02:44 / 07.06.03
Ummm... I'm reasonably certain we didn't invent tea. I think the guys in the places where tea actually grows might have got there first, unless they were using it for something else till we came along.

"Hey, if you crush up this draught excluder and steep it in hot water it makes quite a nice cuppa!"
 
 
My Mom Thinks I'm Cool
03:14 / 07.06.03
I must say the "fry up" was much better than I'd expected. But I still prefer buscuits and gravy. And nothing goes better with saturday morning cartoons than cold cereal. I think those are american though.

I've always thought britain was great for sandwiches and, by extension, hamburgers. Hope the earl of sandwich story is true. Where else would you come up with a name like that?

Uhm, what about all those cartoon bears? Paddington and Winnie and...weren't they british? They seem british. I don't think I had marmalade until I was 26. Wait, what the hell am I talking about? This week needs to end.

Just read a cool Stranger Kisses comic where the SAS agent says the british empire never ended and america is a social experiment. would that count as a cool invention? ...if america were cooler?
 
 
Less searchable M0rd4nt
03:25 / 07.06.03
Pooh is Britis, but only proper A.A. Milne Pooh, not Disney Pooh who I refuse to recognise. Paddington is British by adoption, having arrived from Darkest Peru. He was found on Paddington Station wearing a label marked "Please Look After This Bear", IIRC. Wouldn't get away with that sort of nonsense nowadays. He'd be placed in a processing centre for a few months and then stuck on a plane home. Bloody asylum seekers.
 
  

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