Isn't nutella German?
British History Lessons
by Utopian Reformist 19 Replies latest jw friends
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outnfree
Hey, ExpatBrit!
Hey! This thread is nine posts long. Isn't it about time we started calling each other names?
I heard that the Saxons (Edward Godwinson & co) called William the Conqueror -- "William the Bastard"!!!
Will that do?
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outnfree
P.S. I thought Nutella was Canadian! LOL
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outsider_looking_in
just a few LITTLE things to add:
jet prepulsion,
penicillin,
the telephone
pneumatic tyre
television
antiseptic surgery,
the flushing toilet
According to Japanese research figures, of all the patents granted throughout the world for new inventions in the last 50 years, 40% have been to inventors from the British Isles...give us credit for something!
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bboyneko
Isn't nutella German?
Im sure it was invented by an englishman living in germany
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cynicus
Isn't nutella German?
Im sure it was invented by an englishman living in germany
Nope. It's all Italian.
http://www.nutellausa.com/history.htm
http://www.ferrerousa.com/history.htmAnd you really don't want to know what English put on their bread...
For the Brits here: what do you call these slices of rye, drowned in almost fluid lard and then deep-fried in the same oil where seconds before both your fish AND chips we're fried and that you subsequently sprinkle with voluptuous amounts of vinegar, ketchup and mustard, right before you stuff it into your faces?
Yech!
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Bgurltryal
MARMITE!!!!!!!!...YUMMMYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!
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ballistic
I personally have nothing against Americans. But one thing which will generally get any Brit's back up, is when Americans claim to have won the war for us. Also the number of films which grossly exaggerate the Americans influence in the outcome of the war.
Some Americans seem to think they know everything about the war after some fleeting propoganda at high school, but they often show complete ignorance as to the facts, and certainly have very little personal experience of it. -
cynicus
I personally have nothing against Americans. But one thing which will generally get any Brit's back up, is when Americans claim to have won the war for us. Also the number of films which grossly exaggerate the Americans influence in the outcome of the war.
Come on! Didn't you see U-571? Oh yes, obviously there are those weird British who claim this is a 'revisionist' movie and keep whining about some place called Bletchley Park and some guy called Turing, but who DID save your asses in the end? Right: Private Ryan! And by all means, do you remember the 'Guns of Navarone'? Remember how that British sod (major Franklin) got his leg wounded and how the American captain Keith Mallory had to do all the hard work? And...
Hollywood: Americas finest history education available.
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Englishman
UR,
Battle of Hastings 1066.
Hundred years war commenced around 1330.
Malvinas ? Falklands? Hope this helps. http://www.xl426.com/popup.htm
Englishman getting bored with snipers.
..... fanaticism masquerading beneath a cloak of reasoned logic.