23-09-2018, 03:52 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, 04:35 PM
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Re: Are you proud to be British?
Originally Posted by Purwell
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You do not have a case. You want to force almost 50% of the people in this country to sing your tune.
23-09-2018, 04:57 PM
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Re: Are you proud to be British?
I think it's becoming very clear, even on only this one thread, why Britain is not the country it once was.Time was we made a democratically arrived at decision as to how to run our country. Now, all we seem to do is constantly argue about it.
Britain is the product of the British people. It is what we make it.
As I have said, I was once proud of this country. Now, I am proud of what it once was.
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