Russia mocks Britain, the little island

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    And that's coming from a country which has contributed much less to civilisation than Britain has and which has a smaller economy than Britain.
     
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    LOL Russia has had a chip on it's shoulder for three hundred years when it comes to Great Britain . Russians just want to keep many of their fine traditions going :)
     
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    That is awesome. Brits' butthurt is enjoyable. The best part is that this is the truth.
     
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    Well, a criminal government always welcomes criminals We supported Bush, after all!
     
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    That country has contributed to the world cultural heritage with works of literature that you simply do not have. You are lagging behind even the 'boring Germans', having had virtually no significant contribution to the Romantic Age in literature.

    Also... Think of the Renaissance. The awakening of Western art & civilization as we know it today, a phenomenon you largely remained outside of. If you take Shakespeare out of the picture, you pretty much have nothing. Think of Italy, France or Spain. You English didn't even know how to paint or how to make a sculpture that is worthwhile.



    Russian economy has been invested in weapons and armies you don't have. In 1999 it challenged the NATO block itself and managed to keep it at bay for its own gain:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incident_at_Pristina_airport

    You gotta admit that before challenging NATO or Russia all by yourselves, all the British would rather (*)(*)(*)(*) in their pants along with all the bits of empire that are left and overseas territories.
     
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    Vlad,

    Right. Where are the great British art galleries?.. Nothing compared to the Louvre, Hermitage, Prado ..

    and We cannot forgot the great russian writers: Lermontov (Geroi Nashego Vremeni), Dostoievky, Tolstoi, Puskhin, Chejov, Bely, Pasternak etc.
    And you forgot the ridiculous televised in Suez, 1956. some "strategist" thought they were in 1882 (London) or 1862 (Paris). The Russian bear roared ... and they went running to ask for help to Daddy Washington, seeing that USA gave them back ... they went running home ... Any military intervention was never more ridiculous than that of Suez.

    When one seeks to repeat history (Egypt, Arabi Pacha, 1882), this one is repeated in the most comical and ridicolous version (Egypt, Nasser, 1956).

    Угроза международной изоляции и глобальной войны вынудили Великобританию и Францию вывести свои войска из Египта в декабре 1956

    One thing was to play with Toy War in Suez.. and another very very different the Total War with the Russian Bear.

    Ciao!
     
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    As a contemporary critique I think it's reasonable. Britain has little influence now on the world stage. I think that's current reality. But then for the Brits I'd say, "so what?" I mean what average Brit would give a stuff about that? Having a good country to live in is far more important than the influence that that country has in the world.

    Now, when it comes to history be very careful about revisionism and selective memory. It was the greatest empire the world has ever seen, others are also-rans and the era of empire is now over.

    Russia has done well to go from a feudal economic system with an authoritarian monarchy and basically a nation of peasants, whose own ruling class refused to speak the native language in preference for French; to the power it was under the Communist Party. It had revolution, civil war, pulled out of the First World War (which was fair enough, it had other problems), began to modernise, fought the Great Patriotic War or as we call it the Second World War and ensured that the western Allies and the Soviets would defeat the Axis powers. Without the Soviets it is not fantasy to say that the Allies would have had to seek terms from Germany. But the Soviet Union had the devastating dictatorship of Stalin and then the dictatorship of the Communist Party which was still Stalinist up until the 1980s and then didn't take long to fail internally. Now it's being run by another dictator and it is suffering under immense corruption which surely must get up the nose of the average Russian. I think the average Brit is better off than the average Russian.
     
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    Ah, Ministry of Truth doing it's job fine. Good for them.
     
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    LOOOOL!

    That's all I have to say on that matter about a country which gave the world Charles Dickens, Geoffrey Chaucer, Enid Blyton, William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, James Boswell, Mary Shelley (gave the worlds Frankenstein's Monster), Bram Stoker (Dracula), Jonathan Swift (Gulliver's Travels), Daniel Defoe (Robinson Crusoe), Sheridan, Robert Burns, William Blake, William Wordsworth, Samuel Coleridge Taylor, Thomas Carlyle, Byron, Jane Austen, Walter Scott, the Bronte Sisters, Anthony Trollope, George Eliot, Thomas Hardy, J.M. Barrie, H.G. Wells (The War of the World; The Invisible Man), Robert Louis Stevenson, Arthur Conan Doyle (Sherlock Holmes), Lewis Carroll (Alice In Wonderland), Tennyson, Browning, Oscar Wilde, Siegfried Sassoon, Walter de la Mare, John Masefield, Virginia Woolf, Rudyard Kipling (The Jungle Book), Aldous Huxley, D.H. Lawrence, george Bernard Shaw, Agatha Christie, J.R.R. Tolkien (The Lord of the Rings), George Orwell, Harold Pinter and J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter).

    You've obviously never heard of Constable, Turner, Gainsborough or Hogarth.

    And name something worthwile invented by a Russian

    Britain invented the modern world. Britain gave the world almost all of the major inventions - and all of the world's greatest sports - over the last few hundred years.

    The British invented or discovered the television, the telephone, the computer, the World Wide Web, the jet engine, the trains and railways, the lawnmower, the Christmas card, the Valentine card, the postage stamp, the pencil, the clockwork radio, the cardiac pacemaker, shorthand, mobile phone text messaging, the typewriter, HTTP, HTML, DNA fingerprinting, iris recognition, the adjustable spanner, the gas turbine, the internal combustion engine, the lighbulb, the iron bridge, the hydraulic crane, football, rugby, cricket, golf, tennis, table tennis, hockey, badminton, modern boxing, darts, snooker, rounders, bowls, the modern Olympics, the Paralympics, the Lonsdale Belt, polo, Thoroughbred Horseracing, the tank, the fighter aircraft, the Dreadnought, the Bouncing Bomb, the depth charge, the stun grenade, the rubber band, the tin can, the lighswitch, the dishwasher, the electric toaster, the mousetrap, the corkscrew, the tin can, the fire extinguisher, the microchip, the wind tunnel, the concertina, the tuning fork, the motion picture camera, the movie projector, cinematography, the mathematical equals sign, calculus, the Faraday cage, infrared radiation, holography, the discovery of gravity, evolution, oxygen, the atom, the electron, the proton, the neutron, dinosaurs, Uranus, Triton, the planetarium, spiral galaxies, the structure of DNA, the cat's eye, the seat belt, traffic lights, the hovercraft, the lifeboat, the sextant, the diving bell, the hydrofoil, the screw propellor, SS Great Britain - the world's first steam-powered, screw propeller-driven passenger liner with an iron hull, the rubber balloon, plastic, plasticene, carbonated soft drinks, the friction match, the arts festival, the music festival, the literary festival, the Metric system, the railway ticket, the Boy Scouts, the Venn Diagram, Tarmac, the ultrasound scanner, the US Navy, the US and other countries, bangers and mash, fish and chips, black pudding, bubble and squeak, cheddar cheese, the Cornish pasty, the Kendal mint cake, jellied eels, ice cream, Lancashire hotpot, Marmite, the pancake, the pork pie, the Scotch egg, gravy, Yorkshire pudding, Sunday Roast, Toad in the Hole, Shepherd's Pie and the sandwich.

    No country, including Russia, has contributed sp many great things to this world as Great Britain.

    Yeah.

    Unlike the Russians, the British don't have rustbuckets defending them.

    Is that the same Britain which fought Nazi Germany alone in 1940 and 1941 whilst Romania was colluding with it?
     
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    What about the Tate Modern?
     
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    You forgot A.A Milne & The Spice Girls.
     
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    Really a joker

    Televisión was produced as a result international scientific works:. germans, russian, americans, british etc.

    Telephone: the same, mainly from Italy and USA.

    Computer: The same: German, USA, british,

    www: British and belge

    Jet engine: From many places: Romania (Coanda, 1909), Italy (Fono, 1915), france (Giullaume, 1921), japan, german etc...

    Pencil: from many places: Italy, Germany, england..but mainly italians

    Radio: many places, mainly austrohungarian, italian etc.

    Mobile phone tex messaging: International.

    Typwriter in his modern version: USA

    Olympic games. French

    etc etc I didn´t wast time in seeking more...
     
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    Your education system is so f cked up, so you can't even use Google and Wikipedia?
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Russian_inventorshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Russian_inventions,_discoveries_and_technology_records
    Germans must be laughing their pants, while reading you. Besides, how exactly does it changes the fact that Britain now is indebted stagnating US puddle?
    Judjing by your list I can only say that the British have invented theft.
    Most of "your" inventions in the list are not yours. (See:television (many nations), computer (German),the jet engine(Italian). In other words 3 out of first 5 "your" inventions list are not yours.Tieves.)
    Oh, what would the world do without your "inventions", like yorkshire pudding? Guess the world don't give a slightest (*)(*)(*)(*) about it.

    Yeah, Brits have nothing defending them. With an entire army of 80 000...lol...I guess beating the (*)(*)(*)(*) out of irrelevant island is not going to take long.


    Taking into account the "heroic" British fight was just an ordinary day on Eastern Front you have not impressed anyone.


    Face it. Even if you had something heroic and importand in your history back in your past it doesn't help you now because you are a colony of your own former colony. That must hurt your pride really bad, doesn't it?
     
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    Rubbish.

    Television was invented by John Logie Baird, a Brit, in 1925. Baird gave the world's first ever public demonstration of moving silhouette images by television at Selfridges department store in London in a three-week series of demonstrations beginning on 25 March 1925.

    In his laboratory on 2 October 1925, Baird successfully transmitted the first television picture with a greyscale image: the head of a ventriloquist's dummy nicknamed "Stooky Bill" in a 30-line vertically scanned image, at five pictures per second.

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    Stooky Bill, the world's first TV star, currently lives at the National Media Museum in Bradford

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    In his laboratory on 2 October 1925, Baird successfully transmitted the world's first television picture with a greyscale image: the head of a ventriloquist's dummy nicknamed "Stooky Bill"

    Baird went downstairs and fetched an office worker, 20-year-old William Edward Taynton, to see what a human face would look like, and Taynton became the first person to be televised in a full tonal range. Looking for publicity, Baird visited the Daily Express newspaper to promote his invention. The news editor was terrified: he was quoted by one of his staff as saying: "For God's sake, go down to reception and get rid of a lunatic who's down there. He says he's got a machine for seeing by wireless! Watch him — he may have a razor on him."

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    The world's first known moving image produced by Baird's "televisor", circa 1926

    Invented by Alexander Graham Bell, a Brit.

    Invented by Charles Babbage, a Brit.

    Invented by Frank Whittle, a Brit.

    Invented in the Lake District, England, in the 16th century.

    Some time before 1565 (some sources say as early as 1500), an enormous deposit of graphite was discovered on the approach to Grey Knotts from the hamlet of Seathwaite in Borrowdale parish, Cumbria, England. The locals found that it was very useful for marking sheep. This particular deposit of graphite was extremely pure and solid, and it could easily be sawn into sticks. This remains the ONLY large scale deposit of graphite ever found in this solid form.

    The value of graphite was soon realised to be enormous, mainly because it could be used to line the moulds for cannonballs, and the mines were taken over by the Crown and guarded. When sufficient stores of graphite had been accumulated, the mines were flooded to prevent theft until more was required. Graphite had to be smuggled out for use in pencils. Because graphite is soft, it requires some form of encasement. Graphite sticks were initially wrapped in string or sheepskin for stability. The news of the usefulness of these early pencils spread far and wide, attracting the attention of artists all over the known world.

    England continued to enjoy a monopoly on the production of pencils until a method of reconstituting the graphite powder was found. The distinctively square English pencils continued to be made with sticks cut from natural graphite into the 1860s. The town of Keswick, near the original findings of block graphite, still manufactures pencils, the factory also being the location of the Cumberland pencil museum.


    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pencil#History

    The world's first ever text message was sent on December 3rd 1992, when Neil Papworth, a 22-year-old British engineer, used his computer to send the message "Merry Christmas" to an Orbitel 901 mobile phone.

    Invented by Henry Mill, a Brit, in 1714.

    In 1714, Henry Mill obtained a patent in Britain for a machine that, from the patent, appears to have been similar to a typewriter. The patent shows that this machine was actually created: "[he] hath by his great study and paines & expence invented and brought to perfection an artificial machine or method for impressing or transcribing of letters, one after another, as in writing, whereby all writing whatsoever may be engrossed in paper or parchment so neat and exact as not to be distinguished from print; that the said machine or method may be of great use in settlements and public records, the impression being deeper and more lasting than any other writing, and not to be erased or counterfeited without manifest discovery."

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typewriter#Early_innovations

    The first modern Olympic Games were not started by the French - as the myth states - in 1896, but by the British.

    The first modern Olympic Games started in the Shropshire village of Much Wenlock in 1850 - 46 years before the 1896 Paris Olympics.

    The first National Olympian Games were held in London in 1866 and were organised by the National Olympian Association which had been co-founded by Brookes in 1865. The National Olympic Association ceased its operations in 1883.

    In fact, Baron Pierre de Coubertin visited the Olympian Society in 1890, which held a special festival in his honour. He was inspired by Dr Brookes and the Much Wenlock Olympian Games and went on to establish the International Olympic Committee (IOC).

    On 25 February 1850 the Wenlock Agricultural Reading Society (WARS) resolved to establish a class called The Olympian Class - "for the promotion of the moral, physical and intellectual improvement of the inhabitants of the town and neighbourhood of Wenlock and especially of the working classes, by the encouragement of outdoor recreation, and by the award of prizes annually at public meetings for skill in athletic exercise and proficiency in intellectual and industrial attainments". The secretary of the class and driving force behind the Olympian Games was Dr William Penny Brookes who was inspired to create these events through his work as a doctor and surgeon in the sprawling borough town of Wenlock which consisted of Madeley, Broseley and Much Wenlock. The first meeting was held at Much Wenlock racecourse on 22–23 October 1850.

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    Dr William Penny Brookes, founder of the Wenlock Olympian Games

    The first Wenlock Olympian Games were a mixture of athletics and traditional country sports such as quoits, football and cricket. Events also included running, hurdles and cycling on penny farthings. Some of the early Games included "fun events" as the blindfolded wheelbarrow race and, one year, an 'Old Women's Race' with the prize of a pound of tea.

    Following a dispute with WARS, in November, 1860 the Wenlock Olympian Class separated from WARS and changed its name to Wenlock Olympian Society. The 1860 Games the following year was a greatt success and Rifle Shooting was added to the programme.

    In 1861 after several years of work by Brookes and his colleagues the Shropshire Olympian Games were introduced. The first National Olympian Games were held in London in 1866 and were organised by the National Olympian Association which had been co-founded by Brookes in 1865. The National Olympic Association ceased its operations in 1883.

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    A silver medal from the 1864 Wenlock Olympian Games

    Baron Pierre de Coubertin visited the Olympian Society in 1890, which held a special festival in his honour. He was inspired by Dr Brookes and went on to establish the International Olympic Committee. Brookes was named as an honorary delegate at the 1894 Sorbonne Congress at which the IOC was established, although he was unable to attend due to ill health. The Wenlock Olympian Games continued intermittently after his death in 1895, with significant revivals in 1950 and 1977. The current series has been running since 1977, and has received official recognition from the IOC and the British Olympic Association (BOA), exemplifed by visits from the Princess Royal for the BOA in 1990 and Juan Antonio Samaranch for the IOC in 1994.

    One of the two mascots for the London 2012 Summer Olympics was named Wenlock in honour of the Wenlock Olympian Games.


    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wenlock_Olympian_Society_Annual_Games

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    London 2012 Olympics mascot, Wenlock, was named after the English village where the first modern Olympics were held in 1850

    Not only that, but Britain also invented the Paralympics. The first Paralympics were those held at Stoke Mandeville Hospital in the village of Stoke Mandeville in Buckinghamshire in 1948 - the same year London also hosted the Olympics - which saw soldiers injured during the war take part in various sporting activities.

    Stoke Mandeville also hosted the 1984 Paralympics.

    That's why the mascot for the London 2012 Paralympics was called Mandeville.

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    The world's first Paralympics were held in Stoke Mandeville, Buckinghamshire, in 1948. Stoke Mandeville also hosted the 1984 Paralympics.


    I bet you're glad of that. Your humiliation has been lessened.
     
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    Britain only was "alone" between july 1940 (The fall of France) till october 1940 (when Italy invaded Greece). Russia fought alone in Europe between June 1941 to september 1943 (when USA, GB and others invaded Italy) but when USA and UK invaded France (June 1944), russian were in Warszawa gates.
     
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    Rubbish. He would fail witout these:
    In 1884, Paul Gottlieb Nipkow, a 23-year-old university student in Germany, patented the first electromechanical television system which employed a scanning disk, a spinning disk with a series of holes spiraling toward the center, for rasterization. The holes were spaced at equal angular intervals such that, in a single rotation, the disk would allow light to pass through each hole and onto a light-sensitive selenium sensor which produced the electrical pulses. As an image was focused on the rotating disk, each hole captured a horizontal "slice" of the whole image.
    Nipkow's design would not be practical until advances in amplifier tube technology became available. Later designs would use a rotating mirror-drum scanner to capture the image and a cathode ray tube (CRT) as a display device, but moving images were still not possible, due to the poor sensitivity of the selenium sensors. In 1907, Russian scientist Boris Rosing became the first inventor to use a CRT in the receiver of an experimental television system. He used mirror-drum scanning to transmit simple geometric shapes to the CRT.

    Not a British invention.



    Computer - Konrad Zuze, German.
    Jet engine - Secondo Campini, Italian.
    Not British inventions.

    On 25 February 1850 the Wenlock Agricultural Reading Society (WARS) resolved to establish a class called The Olympian Class - "for the promotion of the moral, physical and intellectual improvement of the inhabitants of the town and neighbourhood of Wenlock and especially of the working classes, by the encouragement of outdoor recreation, and by the award of prizes annually at public meetings for skill in athletic exercise and proficiency in intellectual and industrial attainments". The secretary of the class and driving force behind the Olympian Games was Dr William Penny Brookes who was inspired to create these events through his work as a doctor and surgeon in the sprawling borough town of Wenlock which consisted of Madeley, Broseley and Much Wenlock. The first meeting was held at Much Wenlock racecourse on 22–23 October 1850.

    Or, in other words, NOT a modern Olympic games.
    So yeah, French invention.


    Stop attempting to steal other nations' achievements already!
     
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    Feeble. Just feeble.

    There's no Russian invention there on a par with British inventions like television, computer, the jet engine, the World Wide Web, the railways, the cardiac pacemaker, the lawnmower, the postage stamp, stainless steel, plastic, the modern toilet, blood transfusions and almost all modern sports.

    According to that the Russians gave us a type of loghouse, Tula gingerbread and a type of hat.

    To be honest, I don't give a damn what the Germans are doing. The British invented modern sport, giving the world almost ALL its major sports - football, cricket, rugby, darts, tennis, table tennis, hockey, ice hockey, baseball and others.

    The British invented the modern WORLD.

    And why would they be laughing? Is there a major sport today invented by Germany? I can't think of one.

    The only thing I can think of that Germany gave the world was Nazism.

    What would the world do without loghouses, gingerbread and hats?

    We've go 85,000 BRITISH troops defending us, not poorly-trained Russian ones.

    Whilst you lot in Russia sat on your freezing arses twiddling your thumbs, getting drunk or queuing for potatoes us in Britain were inflicting the first major defeat of Nazi Germany during the Battle of Britain.

    Britain has a lot to be proud of in its history and present, much more so than Russia.

    Britain isn't an American colony. I can't see much of an American military and settler presence here in Britain.

    Britain influences America much more than any other country in the world, and definitely more than the hated Russia.
     
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    The first television pictures were created by John Logie Baird in 1925.

    Again. Feeble.

    Konrad Zuze was born in 1910.

    But almost 100 years BEFORE he was even born, an Englishman by the name of Charles Babbage came up with the Difference Engine in the 1820s.

    He then came up with the idea of the Analytical Engine in 1834. The design of this machine was the first in history to posses ALL the essential logical features of the modern general purpose computer. It incorporated an arithmetic logic unit, control flow in the form of conditional branching and loops, and integrated memory, making it the first design for a general-purpose computer that could be described in modern terms as Turing-complete.

    It was, in short, the world's first computer.

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    The Analytical Engine was the world's first computer, invented in 1834 by Charles Babbage

    The British also gave the world the computer programmer.

    Ada Lovelace, Lord Byron's daughter, was the world's first computer programmer - and she was a computer programmer before Zuze, the guy who you wrongly think invented the computer, was even born.

    As a young adult, her mathematical talents led her to an ongoing working relationship and friendship with fellow British mathematician Charles Babbage, and in particular Babbage's work on the analytical engine. Between 1842 and 1843, she translated an article by Italian military engineer Luigi Menabrea on the engine, which she supplemented with an elaborate set of notes of her own, simply called Notes. These notes contain what is considered the first computer program – that is, an algorithm encoded for processing by a machine.

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    Byron's daughter, Ada Lovelace, was the world's first computer programmer in the 1840s

    Britain's Frank Whittle took out a patent for his turbojet engine in 1930, BEFORE Campini did anything with jet engines. Another humiliating failure on your part.

    Oh dear. You're in desperation now, losing badly.

    How did the French invent the modern Olympic Games when the first modern Olympic Games were held in Much Wenlock in Shropshire in 1850? Can you explain that to me?

    We don't need to steal other nations' achievement. We've got plenty of our own.
     
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    Sure, because none of these are British. We can't be equal to a non-existing thing. (*)(*)(*)(*)(*)-slap from reality.
    I suggest you to improve your reading comprehension skills. We have already found out, that your education system is f cked, but there are borders, you know.
    The next time you'll take a electrically-powered train be advised, that you are using a Russian invention. Next time you'll see a mighty (sic!) Challenger 2, be advised, that it's caterpillar tracks are Russian invention. The next time you'll see a helicopter on TV, be advised, that you are looking at Russian invention. A small irony over here, since you won't be able too see it if without the other Russian invention - television(partly). This one won't work witout a power grid, which won't work witout another Russian invention, a transformer. And, by the way, if you have a sattelite TV, you should know, that it is using Russian invention too - a sattelite. If something will go wrong, when you'll be watching your TV and eating your very important invention aka yorkshire pudding (like a heart attack, for one), your relatives will call an ambulance. They will save your life. The most interesting part is, that they wouldn't be able to get to you in time,if not two Russian inventions - synthetic rubber and industrially produced petrolium. Well, of course , if the tiny little island will mess up too much with more relevant countries, like Russia, it might end it's existance in the matter of minutes due to the other russian invention - termonuclear bomb.



    You didn't. Hockey is a Russian invention again. As I said, the first thief must be a British.


    You should open a list of German inventions too. Of course if you don't want to be known as a nation of uneducated savages.



    Yeah, they are so higly trained (sic!), that they managed to have two serious incidents on board of state-of-the-art (sic) Astute sub in a year!


    You mean your glorious (sic!) victory (sic!) was shoting down ~2% planes produced by Germany during WW2? Yeah. Glorius. I wonder who did the rest 98%? A, seems to be those silly Russians and Americans.

    Almost like slaughtering 1/4 of their active duty army in Stalingrad. Not.

    Colonialism, tyrants, slaughtering their own people by hundreds of thousands (Elithabeth I killed 100 000 vs 5 000 of Ivan the "Terrible" ), concentraition camps, slaughtering your Irish, Welsh and Scottish neibours, sitting on your arses on wet islands during almost all wars happened in Europe. Yeah....so much to be proud of.


    Yes, it is.
    Why would there be any? If you don't need an army to control a nation you don't send it there. Simple as that.
    Ah, yes, a lapdog is influencing it's master much more, that the only other country capable of wiping USA out of planet's surface. Dream on.
     
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    KGB agent Well-Known Member

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    Denial. It doesn't work for public.


    It wasn't a modern computer. This one was a big mechanical calculator.

    Your denial doesn't work over here. Bo-o-o-o-o-oring!!!
     
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    All inventions come from other previous inventions or other scientific methods they solved problems before the onset of the invention.
    No invention comes from a nation ... if we put the mechanical computers reach the Caliphate of Baghdad.

    By other side, The first major Wehrmacht defeat in WW was in Russia (Battles of Moscow (Centre) and Rostock (South)...the end of the beginning.

    the Russian army was poorly "trained" but conquered Warzsawa, Praha, Budapest, Brava, Königsberg, Bucarest, Sofia, Beograd, Wien, Berlin. Frankfurt, Zagreb, etc etc.... If it was "a good trained" army... For sure, It conquered the world.!

    Russians came first:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehR4eqTgpVA
     
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    Brits want to Syria. Looks like Fucinkgshtone made the brits do bend their spines
     
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    Are you sure all these are Romantic?? We were talking about the Romantic Age...

    Haha nice list but do you know what the Western Literary Canon is? You're just getting drunk on a lot of cold water here. Speaking of the Canon and the Romantics, on the continent you have names like Goethe, Schiller, Hegel or Victor Hugo and later with the Modern Age like Proust, Balzac, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Pushkin, Chekhov.

    Cute of you to mention Harry Potter. All those you mentioned are under European cultural influence from those above. Glad you mentioned George Orwell. He was a great British intellectual but spoke fluent French and in his books, which I'm sure you didn't read, he mentions a lot the circles of writers and critiques in Paris and other places on the continent, including even USA. Shame on you. Even the United States have more literature than you.

    You did however have John Locke next to Rousseau and Voltaire with the Enlightenment and earlier Shakespeare too but other than that, like I said, nothing. All you have is a big mouth and an even bigger ego.

    Even in music... Where is your Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart or your Johann Sebastian Bach? ... Your Giuseppe Verdi or your Strauss??



    China has.


    In 1940 and 1941 there were no such things as computer guided intercontinental missiles or nuclear submarines. So you didn't give a (*)(*)(*)(*). And Britain was not alone. The entire Canadian fleet and economy nourished the entire population of Britain, all families along with all children and their cats etc.
     

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