23-09-2018, 05:12 PM
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Re: Are you proud to be British?
Originally Posted by Besoeker
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I'll tell you why I'm proud to be a Scot. Not that I harbour the slightest expectation that it will make you change your tune.Scotland has a tiny population, a bit over 5m compared to USA with over 300m or the world's 7,000m. So, less than 0.1% of the total. An almost insignificant proportion.
Yet, look at we have given the world.
James Watt, engineer, after the unit of power for your bulbs, electric kettle, power station etc.
Alexander Graham Bell - inventor of the telephone. The Bell Telephone Company still exists.
John Logie Baird - Inventor of television.
Sir Robert Watson-Watt - considered to be the inventor of RADAR
Alexander Fleming - discovered penicillin
James Clerk Maxwell - physicist who unified electricity, magnetism, and light in a single theory. The importance of this cannot be overstated.
James Barrie - creator of Peter Pan.
John Napier - inventor of logarithms.
I could go on.....
23-09-2018, 06:24 PM
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Re: Are you proud to be British?
Originally Posted by Sweetie pie
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YAY - Well said, I am with you girl.
23-09-2018, 06:28 PM
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Re: Are you proud to be British?
Originally Posted by shropshiregirl
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And so you should too Roxy, same as we English, Welsh and Irish. With regard to being English usually comes the pride in being a Londoner, Brummy, Mancunian, Yorkie, Lancastrian and in my own case - Salopian and so on. We are most definitely still tribal, even in these modern times.
23-09-2018, 06:30 PM
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Re: Are you proud to be British?
Originally Posted by Besoeker
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I'll tell you why I'm proud to be a Scot. Not that I harbour the slightest expectation that it will make you change your tune.Scotland has a tiny population, a bit over 5m compared to USA with over 300m or the world's 7,000m. So, less than 0.1% of the total. An almost insignificant proportion.
Yet, look at we have given the world.
James Watt, engineer, after the unit of power for your bulbs, electric kettle, power station etc.
Alexander Graham Bell - inventor of the telephone. The Bell Telephone Company still exists.
John Logie Baird - Inventor of television.
Sir Robert Watson-Watt - considered to be the inventor of RADAR
Alexander Fleming - discovered penicillin
James Clerk Maxwell - physicist who unified electricity, magnetism, and light in a single theory. The importance of this cannot be overstated.
James Barrie - creator of Peter Pan.
John Napier - inventor of logarithms.
I could go on.....
Just a short list of why I am proud to be English.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...nd_discoveries
I could add lots more if required.
23-09-2018, 07:12 PM
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Re: Are you proud to be British?
Originally Posted by basser
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Just a short list of why I am proud to be English.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...nd_discoveries
I could add lots more if required.
That list must really upset some anti-British people who seem to find fault with everything to do with this country these days.
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