endure Posted September 24, 2012 Share Posted September 24, 2012 He still invades my Television Set ... I think you ought to try and get some help... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
endure Posted September 24, 2012 Share Posted September 24, 2012 ^^ I'm not even a Brit ... though can admire talent and freely acknowledge it yet still keep a strong sense of pride in my nation. What I am surprised is that no-one to date has listed the literary talent that the Brits have produced over the years.. That's because we're not to keen on blowing our own trumpets. Self effacement dont'cha know... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
draftvader Posted September 24, 2012 Share Posted September 24, 2012 ^^ I'm not even a Brit ... though can admire talent and freely acknowledge it yet still keep a strong sense of pride in my nation. What I am surprised is that no-one to date has listed the literary talent that the Brits have produced over the years.. That's because we're not to keen on blowing our own trumpets. Self effacement dont'cha know... We'd make a list SO long that you'd get RSI just from scrolling through it! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
draftvader Posted September 25, 2012 Share Posted September 25, 2012 I would just like to add something to this thread. I have looked through this thread again and found, on the whole, that it has been conducted in a good manner. However there have been a number of posts that have been "competitive" (I think that one of mine could be considered as such). I am presently in the process of organising an "International Day" for my wife's school (as a parent on the Parent Working Group). As such I am at the core of providing some balance for countries representing themselves. My thought is that it is fine to be proud of your nation. Thais should find reason to be proud of being Thai, Americans should find reason to be proud of being American, Brits should find reason to be proud of being British and so on. There is nothing wrong with helping others understand why your nation deserves respect. It is wrong to state that your nation is better than another. If the whole world could celebrate their nation's reasons to be proud and educate other nations in these reasons then we would all be wiser and there could be more effective collaboration. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
asiaexpat Posted September 25, 2012 Share Posted September 25, 2012 This is a fun thread. Right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pigeonjake Posted September 25, 2012 Share Posted September 25, 2012 thats good you noticed,, well done,lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StreetCowboy Posted September 25, 2012 Share Posted September 25, 2012 thats good you noticed,, well done,lol The Pigeon Has Landed Could be a title for a film, that could. SC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soutpeel Posted September 25, 2012 Share Posted September 25, 2012 thats good you noticed,, well done,lol The Pigeon Has Landed Could be a title for a film, that could. SC The Pigeon Brief To Kill a Pigeon The March of the Pigeons Pigeon Run The Maltese Pigeon Pigeon Soup Pigeon on a wire Pigeons of prey Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
canman Posted September 25, 2012 Share Posted September 25, 2012 (edited) I cant do this much longer im cracking up!! Lets give our colonial cousin some help with truely American inventions which have contributed to the civilised world as we know it...my contribution... McDonalds.... thereby contributing to the growing problem of obesity on a world wide scale.. Dont forget KFC, although Colonel Sanders is suspect because he looks Chinese. Col Sanders is Ho Chi Minh! EDIT oooops I see that submaniac beat me to that one Edited September 25, 2012 by canman Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soutpeel Posted September 25, 2012 Share Posted September 25, 2012 I cant do this much longer im cracking up!! Lets give our colonial cousin some help with truely American inventions which have contributed to the civilised world as we know it...my contribution... McDonalds.... thereby contributing to the growing problem of obesity on a world wide scale.. Dont forget KFC, although Colonel Sanders is suspect because he looks Chinese. Col Sanders is Ho Chi Minh! Yes didnt you know this ?.... the founders of KFC were closet communist, so every time a US citizen bought KFC they was making a dontation to the VC to buy weapons to fight the imperialist Americans 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
canman Posted September 25, 2012 Share Posted September 25, 2012 Lot's of British, American, Australian banter happening, one thing I have noticed on TV is that there is a good number of Canadians contributing. And with that attempt of keeping slightly on topic I will slide to: Canadian inventions: Insulin, Treatment for Diabetes [1921, Frederick Banting, Charles Best] Telephone [1876, Alexander Graham Bell] Light Bulb [1874, Henry Woodward, Mathew Evans] Five Pin Bowling [1908, Thomas F. Ryan] Wonderbra [1964, Louise Poirier] Pacemaker [1950, John Hopps, Wilfred Bigelow, John Callaghan] Robertson Screw, 1908 [Peter Robertson] Zipper [1913, Gideon Sundback] Electric Wheelchair [1952, George Klein] Poutine [1957, Fernand Lachance] Cobalt-60 "Bomb" Cancer Treatment [1951, Harold Johns] Java Programming Language [1994, James Arthur Gosling] Bloody Caesar [1969, Walter Chell] Canadarm [1975, Spar Aerospace/NRC] Standard time [1878, Sir Sandford Fleming] Electron Microscope [1939, James Hillier, Albert Prebus] Ski-Doo [1922, Armand Bombardier] BlackBerry [1999, Mike Lazaridis] Radio Voice Transmission [1900, Reginald Fessenden] Birchbark Canoe [First Peoples] Basketball [1892, James Naismith] Retractable Beer Carton Handle [1957, Steve Pasjack] UV Degradable Plastics [1971, James Guillet] Instant Replay [1955, CBC's Hockey Night in Canada] Goalie Mask [1959, Jacques Plante] Marquis Wheat [1908, Sir Charles Saunders] Pablum [1930, Alan Brown, Theodore Drake, Frederick Tisdall] Lacrosse [First Peoples] Electric Oven [1892, Thomas Ahearn] Steam Fog Horn [1853, Robert Foulis] Walkie-Talkie [1942, Donald L. Hings] Alkaline Long-Lasting Battery [1959, Lewis Urry] Paint roller [1940, Norman Breakey] Electronic Music Synthesizer [1945, Hugh Le Caine] WeeVac 6 [1990, Wendy Murphy] Green Garbage Bag [1950, Harry Wasylyk, Larry Hansen, Frank Plomp] Snowblower [1925, Arthur Sicard] Self-propelled Combine Harvester [1937, Thomas Carroll] Instant Mashed Potatoes [1962, Edward Asselbergs] Explosives Vapour Detector [1985, Lorne Elias] Marine Screw Propeller [1833, John Patch] Plexiglas [1931, William Chalmers] Key Frame Animation [1969, Nestor Burtnyk, Marcelli Wein] CPR Mannequin: "ACTAR 911" [1989, Dianne Croteau, Richard Brault] G-Suit [1941, Wilbur Rounding Franks] Ardox Spiral Nail [1954, Allan Dove] Automatic Lubricating Cup [1872, Elijah McCoy] Crash-Position Indicator-CPI [1957, Harry Stevinson] Caulking Gun [1894, Theodore Witte] Separable Baggage Check [1882, John Mitchell Lyons Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chiangmaikelly Posted September 25, 2012 Share Posted September 25, 2012 Lot's of British, American, Australian banter happening, one thing I have noticed on TV is that there is a good number of Canadians contributing. And with that attempt of keeping slightly on topic I will slide to: Canadian inventions: Insulin, Treatment for Diabetes [1921, Frederick Banting, Charles Best] Telephone [1876, Alexander Graham Bell] Light Bulb [1874, Henry Woodward, Mathew Evans] Five Pin Bowling [1908, Thomas F. Ryan] Wonderbra [1964, Louise Poirier] Pacemaker [1950, John Hopps, Wilfred Bigelow, John Callaghan] Robertson Screw, 1908 [Peter Robertson] Zipper [1913, Gideon Sundback] Electric Wheelchair [1952, George Klein] Poutine [1957, Fernand Lachance] Cobalt-60 "Bomb" Cancer Treatment [1951, Harold Johns] Java Programming Language [1994, James Arthur Gosling] Bloody Caesar [1969, Walter Chell] Canadarm [1975, Spar Aerospace/NRC] Standard time [1878, Sir Sandford Fleming] Electron Microscope [1939, James Hillier, Albert Prebus] Ski-Doo [1922, Armand Bombardier] BlackBerry [1999, Mike Lazaridis] Radio Voice Transmission [1900, Reginald Fessenden] Birchbark Canoe [First Peoples] Basketball [1892, James Naismith] Retractable Beer Carton Handle [1957, Steve Pasjack] UV Degradable Plastics [1971, James Guillet] Instant Replay [1955, CBC's Hockey Night in Canada] Goalie Mask [1959, Jacques Plante] Marquis Wheat [1908, Sir Charles Saunders] Pablum [1930, Alan Brown, Theodore Drake, Frederick Tisdall] Lacrosse [First Peoples] Electric Oven [1892, Thomas Ahearn] Steam Fog Horn [1853, Robert Foulis] Walkie-Talkie [1942, Donald L. Hings] Alkaline Long-Lasting Battery [1959, Lewis Urry] Paint roller [1940, Norman Breakey] Electronic Music Synthesizer [1945, Hugh Le Caine] WeeVac 6 [1990, Wendy Murphy] Green Garbage Bag [1950, Harry Wasylyk, Larry Hansen, Frank Plomp] Snowblower [1925, Arthur Sicard] Self-propelled Combine Harvester [1937, Thomas Carroll] Instant Mashed Potatoes [1962, Edward Asselbergs] Explosives Vapour Detector [1985, Lorne Elias] Marine Screw Propeller [1833, John Patch] Plexiglas [1931, William Chalmers] Key Frame Animation [1969, Nestor Burtnyk, Marcelli Wein] CPR Mannequin: "ACTAR 911" [1989, Dianne Croteau, Richard Brault] G-Suit [1941, Wilbur Rounding Franks] Ardox Spiral Nail [1954, Allan Dove] Automatic Lubricating Cup [1872, Elijah McCoy] Crash-Position Indicator-CPI [1957, Harry Stevinson] Caulking Gun [1894, Theodore Witte] Separable Baggage Check [1882, John Mitchell Lyons 1827, Czech-Austrian inventor Josef Ressel had invented a screw propeller which had multiple blades fastened around a conical base. He had tested his propeller in February 1826 on a small ship that was manually driven. He was successful in using his bronze screw propeller on an adapted steamboat (1829). His ship "Civetta" (48 BRT) reached a speed of about six knots (11 km/h). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soutpeel Posted September 25, 2012 Share Posted September 25, 2012 Basketball [1892, James Naismith] ....our colonial cousins will be grabbing for their Valium about now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
canman Posted September 25, 2012 Share Posted September 25, 2012 Lot's of British, American, Australian banter happening, one thing I have noticed on TV is that there is a good number of Canadians contributing. And with that attempt of keeping slightly on topic I will slide to: Canadian inventions: Insulin, Treatment for Diabetes [1921, Frederick Banting, Charles Best] Telephone [1876, Alexander Graham Bell] Light Bulb [1874, Henry Woodward, Mathew Evans] Five Pin Bowling [1908, Thomas F. Ryan] Wonderbra [1964, Louise Poirier] Pacemaker [1950, John Hopps, Wilfred Bigelow, John Callaghan] Robertson Screw, 1908 [Peter Robertson] Zipper [1913, Gideon Sundback] Electric Wheelchair [1952, George Klein] Poutine [1957, Fernand Lachance] Cobalt-60 "Bomb" Cancer Treatment [1951, Harold Johns] Java Programming Language [1994, James Arthur Gosling] Bloody Caesar [1969, Walter Chell] Canadarm [1975, Spar Aerospace/NRC] Standard time [1878, Sir Sandford Fleming] Electron Microscope [1939, James Hillier, Albert Prebus] Ski-Doo [1922, Armand Bombardier] BlackBerry [1999, Mike Lazaridis] Radio Voice Transmission [1900, Reginald Fessenden] Birchbark Canoe [First Peoples] Basketball [1892, James Naismith] Retractable Beer Carton Handle [1957, Steve Pasjack] UV Degradable Plastics [1971, James Guillet] Instant Replay [1955, CBC's Hockey Night in Canada] Goalie Mask [1959, Jacques Plante] Marquis Wheat [1908, Sir Charles Saunders] Pablum [1930, Alan Brown, Theodore Drake, Frederick Tisdall] Lacrosse [First Peoples] Electric Oven [1892, Thomas Ahearn] Steam Fog Horn [1853, Robert Foulis] Walkie-Talkie [1942, Donald L. Hings] Alkaline Long-Lasting Battery [1959, Lewis Urry] Paint roller [1940, Norman Breakey] Electronic Music Synthesizer [1945, Hugh Le Caine] WeeVac 6 [1990, Wendy Murphy] Green Garbage Bag [1950, Harry Wasylyk, Larry Hansen, Frank Plomp] Snowblower [1925, Arthur Sicard] Self-propelled Combine Harvester [1937, Thomas Carroll] Instant Mashed Potatoes [1962, Edward Asselbergs] Explosives Vapour Detector [1985, Lorne Elias] Marine Screw Propeller [1833, John Patch] Plexiglas [1931, William Chalmers] Key Frame Animation [1969, Nestor Burtnyk, Marcelli Wein] CPR Mannequin: "ACTAR 911" [1989, Dianne Croteau, Richard Brault] G-Suit [1941, Wilbur Rounding Franks] Ardox Spiral Nail [1954, Allan Dove] Automatic Lubricating Cup [1872, Elijah McCoy] Crash-Position Indicator-CPI [1957, Harry Stevinson] Caulking Gun [1894, Theodore Witte] Separable Baggage Check [1882, John Mitchell Lyons 1827, Czech-Austrian inventor Josef Ressel had invented a screw propeller which had multiple blades fastened around a conical base. He had tested his propeller in February 1826 on a small ship that was manually driven. He was successful in using his bronze screw propeller on an adapted steamboat (1829). His ship "Civetta" (48 BRT) reached a speed of about six knots (11 km/h). Looks like John Patch had the idea first John Patch ~ Uncredited Inventor of the Screw Propeller Born: 1781 in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia - Died: 1861 in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia John Patch was a sailor and fisherman in the Yarmouth area of Nova Scotia. One day, while watching a small boat being manoeuvered with a single oar, he came up with the idea for a device which would allow steamships to travel without need of large, inefficient paddlewheels or wind-dependent sails. It would be thirty years before he would see his idea become reality. During the winter of 1832-3, Patch developed and built the screw propeller, a wooden shaft with two "fans" at the end. Robert and Nathan Butler, friends of Patch, helped him by building a hand crank and wooden gears to be used with the device. Throughout the summer of 1833, Patch tested his invention in Yarmouth Harbour and, in 1834, Captain Robert Kelley agreed to put it on his 25-ton ship, the Royal George. On a subsequent trip to Saint John, the wind died, leaving other sailing vessels stranded, but the Royal George carried on. The propeller was a success. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
canman Posted September 25, 2012 Share Posted September 25, 2012 Basketball [1892, James Naismith] ....our colonial cousins will be grabbing for their Valium about now Yeah saw that one too. Not sure what this is but I think I want one: Automatic Lubricating Cup [1872, Elijah McCoy] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StreetCowboy Posted September 25, 2012 Share Posted September 25, 2012 thats good you noticed,, well done,lol The Pigeon Has Landed Could be a title for a film, that could. SC The Pigeon Brief To Kill a Pigeon The March of the Pigeons Pigeon Run The Maltese Pigeon Pigeon Soup Pigeon on a wire Pigeons of prey The Pigeon of the Ninth Where pigeons dare I was really trying to stay on topic of invasions SC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
canman Posted September 25, 2012 Share Posted September 25, 2012 thats good you noticed,, well done,lol The Pigeon Has Landed Could be a title for a film, that could. SC The Pigeon Brief To Kill a Pigeon The March of the Pigeons Pigeon Run The Maltese Pigeon Pigeon Soup Pigeon on a wire Pigeons of prey The Pigeon of the Ninth Where pigeons dare I was really trying to stay on topic of invasions SC PigeonHeart? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soutpeel Posted September 25, 2012 Share Posted September 25, 2012 Basketball [1892, James Naismith] ....our colonial cousins will be grabbing for their Valium about now Yeah saw that one too. Not sure what this is but I think I want one: Automatic Lubricating Cup [1872, Elijah McCoy] Keeps your balls well oiled I wonder ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicog Posted September 25, 2012 Share Posted September 25, 2012 (edited) ^^ I'm not even a Brit ... though can admire talent and freely acknowledge it yet still keep a strong sense of pride in my nation. What I am surprised is that no-one to date has listed the literary talent that the Brits have produced over the years.. Yer mean like the Mrs In Stratford??? although its rumoured she didnt write wot Shakespeare writ? He didn't live in Stratford, but Stratford upon Avon. Otherwise it might have read " An 'orse, An 'orse. My Kingdom fer an 'orse". (Hmmmm Shakespeare done cockney, I think that could be a crowd pleaser). Edited September 25, 2012 by Chicog Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bendejo Posted September 25, 2012 Share Posted September 25, 2012 Listening to the radio once in the US the dj said if you wanted to receive the monthly programming schedule to send a stamped self-addressed envelope and write "schedule" on the back of it. He then added that if you were a Brit it would be ok to write (here he used the Brit pronunciation) and they would probably be able to figure it out. It hit me just the right way, causing me to fall down laughing. Man, we were smoking some great stuff in those days! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bendejo Posted September 25, 2012 Share Posted September 25, 2012 Otherwise it might have read " An 'orse, An 'orse. My Kingdom fer an 'orse". Unless it was a baby horse. horse.avi Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisinth Posted September 25, 2012 Share Posted September 25, 2012 thats good you noticed,, well done,lol The Pigeon Has Landed Could be a title for a film, that could. SC The words on the street SC, careful out there! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Issam rider Posted September 25, 2012 Share Posted September 25, 2012 While living in the states I constantly got free access to night clubs etc by showing the front page message to the security never failed to get you in free got to love the yanks and there love for the queen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bendejo Posted September 25, 2012 Share Posted September 25, 2012 A Pigeon For All Seasons 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisinth Posted September 25, 2012 Share Posted September 25, 2012 Lot's of British, American, Australian banter happening, one thing I have noticed on TV is that there is a good number of Canadians contributing. And with that attempt of keeping slightly on topic I will slide to: Canadian inventions: Insulin, Treatment for Diabetes [1921, Frederick Banting, Charles Best] Telephone [1876, Alexander Graham Bell] Light Bulb [1874, Henry Woodward, Mathew Evans] Five Pin Bowling [1908, Thomas F. Ryan] Wonderbra [1964, Louise Poirier] Pacemaker [1950, John Hopps, Wilfred Bigelow, John Callaghan] Robertson Screw, 1908 [Peter Robertson] Zipper [1913, Gideon Sundback] Electric Wheelchair [1952, George Klein] Poutine [1957, Fernand Lachance] Cobalt-60 "Bomb" Cancer Treatment [1951, Harold Johns] Java Programming Language [1994, James Arthur Gosling] Bloody Caesar [1969, Walter Chell] Canadarm [1975, Spar Aerospace/NRC].................... And then theres the women............ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David48 Posted September 25, 2012 Share Posted September 25, 2012 ^^ One Flew Over the Pigeon's Nest . 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ozziebloke Posted September 25, 2012 Share Posted September 25, 2012 Ok, I may be wrong about the distance thing. I was just talking to some Aussie tourists once and they were telling me about how many times they were coming to Thailand. It was explained to me that they went because, partly, because with the costs of a vacation (hotel rooms, food, etc.) in Aussie, it was cheaper to come to Thailand than to go on a vacation in their own country. You need to come to Aus and then you will understand about distances. We are a Island Continent and like for myself when i go to do weekly shopping i drive 42km , 26 miles and that is normal for many Aussies so 9 hours is nothing just sleep on the way. It's like a trip to visit relly's! And <deleted> yeah so much cheaper than hollidaying here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David48 Posted September 25, 2012 Share Posted September 25, 2012 (edited) ^^ The Pigeon who loved me The Man with the Golden Pigeon (James Bond Themeing) . Edited September 25, 2012 by David48 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soutpeel Posted September 25, 2012 Share Posted September 25, 2012 (edited) ^^ The Pigeon who loved me The Man with the Golden Pigeon (James Bond Themeing) . From Pigeon with Love The Pigeon is not enough Pigeons are forever Edited September 25, 2012 by Soutpeel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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