The British have force fields, Yanks are behind as usual.

[loser]

Originally posted by Kieran
Polio and smallpox vaccines, penicillin, heart transplants, dynamite, trains, automobiles, airplanes, submarines...

LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


smallpox and peniccilin  vaccines, dynamite

just cause you live on same continent doesnt mean you can claim Canadian inventions.

[Pei]

Polio and smallpox vaccines, penicillin, heart transplants, dynamite, trains, automobiles, airplanes, submarines...

Of these only the polio vaccine, heart transplants and airplanes are American inventions. There are plenty of american inventions to choose from, especially in the last century. Microchips come to mind. Certainly it cannot be said that our US cousins are useless.

And dental care here is free for most on low income, students, children... Where the hell did this start anyway, Austin Powers or something?

As far as I can tell it came into popular American culture with Austin Powers. It's rapidly become a favourite of my hosts, I'm not sure why. It's in a movie so it must be true, right?

[Sikboy]

Originally posted by loser
smallpox and peniccilin  vaccines

I had a bad case of peniccilin once. I'm glad the Candians invented a vaccine for it.

-Sikboy

[Elfenwolf]

Originally posted by gatso






And dental care here is free for most on low income, students, children... Where the hell did this start anyway,  Austin Powers or something?

Gatso

BTW whats the most significant thing you bloody useless Yanks have ever come up with? Just wondering.  

Gatso, Great pic of the British knock-off of the M1-A1. I wonder how many American parts are in that thing? I wonder who makes the ammo it fires? I wonder if its nuts and bolts are Metric or American Standard?? All I was doing was  responding to Swoop's claim that you Brits are on the cutting edge of technology. Please, even the French build better military hardware than you guys.

[batdog]

Doh... its been covered thus I shall hush.

P.S. DC is like dangerous... half a sine wave when applied vie current to your little itty bitty receptors for muscule contraction is like a BAD thing. You cant let go...you just hold on till you die. Dont ever short yourself messing w/a car battery.



 xBAT

[gatso]

And I would dispute the airplane as an american invention. Maybe you were the first to strap an engine on but you didn't invent em. I'd maybe give the credit for that to some italian bloke called Michelangelo.

Kieran you maybe need to do some more research... Alfred Nobel - Dynamite, Edward Jenner - Smallpox vacine, Alexander Flemming - Penicillin, James Watt - steam engine... the list goes on, none of em American apart from the 1st heart transplant as Pei said.

Elfenwolf you obviously have not got a clue. I think you'll find that 'American Standard' is based on BSW (British Standard Whitworth) which standardised imperial measurements in 1841. I'd be very suprised if there are a significant number of American components in the Challenger II. (RR engine, British gun and British design ammo).  You'd better hope we build good hardware coz theres going to be lots of British bits in the F-35.  

Gatso

and yes the invention of the transistor/microchip is American, I'll give you those two.

[Kieran]

Of course you would dispute the airplane- that's the Brit way. Michaelangelo may have drawn an airplane, but he didn't build, climb into one, and fly it. Same for any of your countrymen. Now Otto Lillienthal might have, but no irrefutable proof has been found- and anyway, he was German (grandfather of Kurt Tank).

I know the steam engine was British, but did the Brits put it on a train first (Tom Thumb)? Or a boat (Robert Fulton)?

I'll give you dynamite, and smallpox- didn't check.

[Awulf]

Television would be another...

[Nashwan]

Of course you would dispute the airplane- that's the Brit way.  Michaelangelo may have drawn an airplane, but he didn't build, climb into one, and fly it.

Sir George Cayley built and flew a manned "airplane" in the 19th century.

No engine, but gliders are aircraft

[Replicant]

Originally posted by Elfenwolf


Gatso, Great pic of the British knock-off of the M1-A1. I wonder how many American parts are in that thing? I wonder who makes the ammo it fires? I wonder if its nuts and bolts are Metric or American Standard?? All I was doing was  responding to Swoop's claim that you Brits are on the cutting edge of technology. Please, even the French build better military hardware than you guys.

Knock-off of the M1-A1?  Challenger II was based on Challenger, which was based on the Chieften, which is way before the M1-A1.  The Chieften was losely based on the Centurian which was perhaps one of the most successful post WW2 western tanks ever built.

If you don't like British technology then why do you keep buying it?  US have bought four different types of British main military aircraft, and not to mention loads of Royal Ordnance designs under licence over the years so I don't see you guys buying French.

[midnight Target]

1st heart transplant  - Dr. Christian Barnard of S. Africa

Michelangelo never drew an airplane, you are thinking of Leonardo DaVinci

Steam engine was first devised by an anceint greek fellow named Hero.

Polio Vaccine - Jonas Salk (US)

[Thrawn]

Hell, even the US was invented by the British.  

[midnight Target]

Originally posted by Thrawn
Hell, even the US was invented by the British.  

And Canada was just a rejection by the British R&D.

[Kieran]

...and let's not forget the British gave us "buggery".

Oops! Michaelangelo instead of Leonardo *smack*!

I need to wait until I get home to post, instead of slow moments at work...

[Thrawn]

Originally posted by midnight Target


And Canada was just a rejection by the British R&D.

LOL!