Still finking.............

Well all the great ones are gone.......

I nominate Tim Berners-Lee for giving us the World Wide Web.

due of your above mentioned restrictions i will refrain from answering...

Oh come now CC, what about Jamie Oliver?

You can't even nominate the world's best chef, as he's Scottish.

OK a serious reply-Marco Pierre White(even he is just half a Brit)...

Good call but only half a point for half English.

and minus 10 points for having a garlic eating surrender monkey name like "Pierre"

I nominate Tim Berners-Lee for giving us the World Wide Web.

No No...Al Gore invented the WWW, so all my American friends tell me

Michael Parkinson

bear Grylls

Ranulph Fiennes

Jeremey Paxman

Harry Redknapp

Sir James Saville MBE.

The greatest living English man ?

I was going to suggest a number of dead people, some women and a few ozzies, but I see I am too late.

ronald biggs

ronald biggs

He's dead

ronald biggs

He's dead

Also he's nowhere near being great, a failed wanabe gangster with an ego bigger that his brain.

biggs made up story about his death

he lives at pattaya with his boyfriend

biggs made up story about his death

he lives at pattaya with his boyfriend

whats his TV user name then ?... " Kurt Ramsbottom "

Eric Clapton slowhand!

John Surtees,Bike and car world champion.

Ian Botham.

ronald biggs

He's dead

Also he's nowhere near being great, a failed wanabe gangster with an ego bigger that his brain.

But a great singer.

Mr Bean , as every one knows.

Eric Clapton slowhand!

John Surtees,Bike and car world champion.

Ian Botham.

Ian Botham, a real legend.

If I recall correctly, i believe that Ian used to have 3 shredded wheat for breakfast.

Ashes to Hashish.

what about biggles he was my hero when i was a kid

Jeremy Clarkson?

Ok ok, just a poor Aussie joke....

Only slightly dead...

And lastly this man.

I have no idea who he is but he looks important...

Well in all seriousness I am nominating one special person now deceased sad to say but the memory lives on

He got wounded at El Alamain when the tank he was in was brewed up, he rescued his N.C.O from the tank as well as himself,he got an M.C. for his act and retired as a Major after W,W,2,

Wouldn't have a war film on the T.V. On came the film off went the T.V.

Worked bally hard for servicemen's charities and getting benefits for the victims of the war via his unpaid post in the R.B.L.for some 30 years

Never wore his medals and never talked about the war.

When he passed away his medals went to his cremation.When clearing up my mothers affairs some years later I found many documents and newspaper cuttings concerning his act. Only then did I begin to understand what he and many others like had been through and why at times he was a bit tetchy. The wounds both physical and mentally had left scars some visible some not and pain came and went.

That man was my father, truth be known there were indeed many fathers like him and let us be fair my mother too, mothers had their battles on the home front.

So I will nominate two great people,

My father and my mother and to be fair many of us perhaps have forgotten or possibly never knew just what our parents endured from 1939 to 1945 in the U.K. and elsewhere too.

And for the modern English society this fellow

And for the modern English society this fellowimage.jpg

Good one CC. Maybe this one is a tad more wholesome?

As English as vegemite.

Off topic/troll style posts removed.

They attacked Siampolee's post?

Low, low!

No offence intended but the best description about England I heard in "Snatch"..

London? London! ...you know : bad food worst weather Marry f%#^^>Poppins London...

And for the modern English society this fellowimage.jpg

Good one CC. Maybe this one is a tad more wholesome?

Adventures_of_barry_mckenzie_daybill.jpg

As English as vegemite.

Who the heck is this fella??? Must be an Aussie thing...

And for the modern English society this fellowimage.jpg

Good one CC. Maybe this one is a tad more wholesome?

Adventures_of_barry_mckenzie_daybill.jpg

As English as vegemite.

Who the heck is this fella??? Must be an Aussie thing...

Yes.

"Forgive me brother for I have sinned".

Ok, back to the English.

Well in all seriousness I am nominating one special person now deceased sad to say but the memory lives on

He got wounded at El Alamain when the tank he was in was brewed up, he rescued his N.C.O from the tank as well as himself,he got an M.C. for his act and retired as a Major after W,W,2,

Wouldn't have a war film on the T.V. On came the film off went the T.V.

Worked bally hard for servicemen's charities and getting benefits for the victims of the war via his unpaid post in the R.B.L.for some 30 years

Never wore his medals and never talked about the war.

When he passed away his medals went to his cremation.When clearing up my mothers affairs some years later I found many documents and newspaper cuttings concerning his act. Only then did I begin to understand what he and many others like had been through and why at times he was a bit tetchy. The wounds both physical and mentally had left scars some visible some not and pain came and went.

That man was my father, truth be known there were indeed many fathers like him and let us be fair my mother too, mothers had their battles on the home front.

So I will nominate two great people,

My father and my mother and to be fair many of us perhaps have forgotten or possibly never knew just what our parents endured from 1939 to 1945 in the U.K. and elsewhere too.

Nice respectful post...even if my forefathers stood at the other side at this time...very sad indeed may they could have been buddies as well...