What Has Your Country Ever Done For Us?!

[Exterminas]

Here is what Germany did for the world:

We invented Jet-Engines, Rockets, Nuclear Fission and discovered a bunch of cool stuff, like how Bacteria works and lives and that they make us sick.

Also we invented industrialized genocide and how to look cool in black uniforms.

In all seriousness:
We did facism for the world. And we did it so well that the result was so horrible that no other major nation ever had to try it again. Great contribution, if you ask me.

 

[Ghengis John]

[small]"The Aqueduc-"[/small] NO! SILENCE!

Anyways, what has your country ever done for us? What have you got to offer the world eh? Some fancy little doodad, a big gun? Toilet paper? What've you done to help out the world?

We gave you the telephone dammit! What've you done for us!?

In what universe did you guys invent the telephone?

I have seen credit given to a scotsman, an american, an englishman and an italian but never a canadian.

America: Vapor-compression refrigeration and Stan Lee. Sweet.

 

[88chaz88]

We gave you the United States and Canada and therefore lay claim to all their subsequent achievements as well as our own.

 

[Vibhor]

On behalf of the Moon and it's inhabitants...me, I must explain to you that the Moon may have played a crucial part in the creation of life on Earth. Also it's gives man a goal, controls your tides, and is pretty to look at.

Also it's gives man a goal, controls your tides, and is pretty to look at.

controls your tides

Tides go in, tides go out. You can't explain that.

ONTOPIC
Kamasutra. I dunno if anyone ever read it though.

 

[GraveeKing]

Created lots of colonies. Lots of inventions, huge economy. The sexiest accents in the world - with only the Irish and Scottish one step ahead. A huge mother fucking clock. The best snobs in the world. And most importantly - Steven Fry.

 

[Zyntoxic]

well most of all:
DYNAMITE!

and Battlefield, Skype, Spotify, IKEA, Celsius, the modern day refrigerator, the zipper and well... racial science... thankfully the germans still take most of the blame for that one ^_^

well here are plenty of other stuff:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Swedish_inventions

 

[Bobbity]

Australia?

Paul Hogan, an amusing stereotype, and some moderately amusing articles on Cracked.

So basically? Fuck all.

 

[rabidmidget]

I'm lazy, you get this:

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

 

[Bobbity]

Penicillin, and of course the Robinson's screw and screwdriver. The best screw you can use simply because your screwdriver or drill won't go flying into your knee cap making one embarrassing trip to the hospital where a nurse questions your manhood and handyman skills at the same time.

Australia came up with penicillin.

Actually Penicillin was invented by a Scottish man in england.

Penicillin was discovered by Fleming's Australian lab assistant/understudy/whatever, but he gets all the credit for it. Figures.

 

[Swan02]

You name it Scotland invented it and what thanks to we get? Goundskeeper Willie.

 

[Thaluikhain]

Why did you point it out. And why did I click it. D:

So you could see what Canada has done for us.

In all seriousness:
We did facism for the world. And we did it so well that the result was so horrible that no other major nation ever had to try it again. Great contribution, if you ask me.

Fascism originated in Italy, the word comes from "fascine", a bundle of sticks tied together, a symbol used since the Roman Republic (you can break one on its own, but together they are strong).

Fascism survived WW2 in China (which was sorta majorish), until 1949 when the communists finally drove the fascist Guomintang out (they fled to Formosa, and renamed it Taiwan, with the support of the US navy).

We gave you the United States and Canada and therefore lay claim to all their subsequent achievements as well as our own.

...

And you don't even bother claiming Australia, New Zealand etc

 

[Superior Mind]

We make Rugby worth watching (and are nice enough to choke at every Rugby world cup since the 1999 one)

Mate, this may distress you, but we haven't won the Rugby World Cup since 1987.

But enough about Rugby. Know that whole nuclear power thing? Made possible by our guy. Also the whole man-on-the-moon thing. Also made possible by our guy. Water jet engine, also our guy. Could also argue for powered flight thanks to Richard Pearce who made his first controlled flight and landing in early 1903.

Oh, and interestingly before one of our guys started blowing a whistle, referees in sporting matches used to yell really loud. Didn't know that.

 

[HardkorSB]

[small]"The Aqueduc-"[/small] NO! SILENCE!

Anyways, what has your country ever done for us? What have you got to offer the world eh? Some fancy little doodad, a big gun? Toilet paper? What've you done to help out the world?

We gave you the telephone dammit! What've you done for us!?

What has Poland done?

Best food of all time.
That and cheap labor all across the world

 

[Thaluikhain]

You name it Scotland invented it and what thanks to we get? Goundskeeper Willie.

Spoiler: Well, there is that sorta famous fictional scottish engineer

 

[ElPatron]

Apparently, we discovered half the world along with the Spanish and divided the planet in half. We have the longest alliance and it's still running.

Although many of our projects were used in the Space Shuttle and in the ISS or any other top scientific research in many fields, we have come up with revolutionary ideas, sell them because we think they are worthless, then have to buy them back from others for a much higher price - long story short, we can't plan ahead and just go for the quick buck.

We also wasted public money to make a video full of things nobody cares about to convince the Finns to send us money.
HINT: They will never get it back. Deal with it.

 

[Pegghead]

I once read that we Aussies invented the black box, the crankless engine and the cement mixer (or possibly just the cement mixer truck).

As well as that, Granny Smith apples originated here and you can thank us for Mad Max and all it did to the post-apocalyptic genre.

Uh...boomerangs?

Best food of all time.
That and cheap labor all across the world

Actually, a few years ago my family went to Poland to visit some rels on my mother's side. At one particular visit to one particular family at the end of the meal they brought out a cake that was tall and round, like a big cylinder. Do you guys have a name for that? It was delicious!

Not to mention all the chicken steak and beetroot soup *drools*

 

[General_Potatoes]

Parkway drive, Major copper mine in my home town....... umm...... Parkway drive?

 

[DenUrs]

This is why I will never leave this country <3

Also I note a certain red button amongst your badges.

Why did you point it out. And why did I click it. D:

Yeah, same thing here

 

[Floppertje]

boats! we made awesome ships. and we supplied America with slaves, which you were grateful for at the time. also dikes. we're good at them. and trading stuff. and pretty girls. LOTS of 'em. and acting like the biggest bunch of douches at the world cup.
Also, the first fully capitalist country in the world and the first stock exchange.
Oh and of course a ton of painters. and New York, we did that too. and gracing most of the world with our awesomeness.

you're very welcome.