What Has Your Country Ever Done For Us?!

[Dirzzit]

England gave the world America. So sit down and shut up America.

Canada should call more, shouldn't we?

 

[BrailleOperatic]

England gave the world America. So sit down and shut up America.

Canada should call more, shouldn't we?

You should, Canada. We worry about you, we just want to make sure you're doing well while you're off at college.

 

[RatRace123]

The US gave the world the KFC double down. If that's not an achievement worthy of the Nobel Prize, I don't know what is.

 

[Cleo Cowdrey]

Ernest Rutherford was born (Brightwater, Nelson, NZ) about 30min from my house. He was considered the father of nuclear physics.
Also pavlova and marmite.
I love New Zealand.

 

[RadiusXd]

The US... so,

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Spoiler: and eventually this

Without which modern machinery (and, by extension, all of the first-world conveniences you enjoy) would still be cost-prohibitive to manufacture. You're welcome.

but does it blend?

If you make a blender with it, sure...

what exactly does it do?

 

[hedges1001]

u.k - hugh laurie and stephen hawkins your welcome
also doctor who

 

[TheEndlessSleep]

Actually, the British empire ended slavery at least thirty years beforehand - and it was that fact that pressurized the USA into following suit

Actually about half the states of America banned slavery quite a while before Britain did when America gained independence, called the "Northern states". They didn't have a nationwide ban until the end of the Civil War, before it was up to the states.

Actually, technically, 'England' (Not the British Empire), banned slavery itself in 1701, before any of the US states.

I take your point though if referring to the Empire and not just England; what I meant was it took you longer as a whole entity to ban slavery outright.

It was not laid down in your constitution until 1865, making it an individual state right by omission beforehand, and not part of Federal Law - whereas the British Empire simply banned it in 1833.

If I wanted to be technical, neither of our countries invented the idea of liberation of slaves;

The very first incidence of a country banning slavery as a practice (rather than just the trading of slaves - which started being banned all over the place in about the 9th century), was Iceland sometime in the 1100s.

 

[Mr Box]

Canada happens to have a lot of emerald mines.

 

[LittleChone]

Airplanes, TV, internet, and Facebook. Your welcome!

 

[TheHighway]

There you go

 

[Jonabob87]

I'm Scottish, we didn't invent the telephone but we did invent a shitload of other things the world would be worse off without. Let me rhyme off some of them:

Tarmac Roads
The Bicycle
Tubular Steel
The fundamentals of aircraft design
Field intelligence (military) - Established the first Intelligence Corps.
Royal Air Force
Cast Steel
Logarithms
The theory of electromagnetism
Discovered (or recognised) transplant rejection
Criminal Fingerprinting
Ultrasound scans
Surgical anaesthesia
The Hypodermic Syringe
Penicillin
The Ghillie Suit
Colour photography

That's a hell of a lot for a country who's population has never exceeded 6 million.

 

[pvaglueman123]

Britain gave you Yahtzee.

Your Welcome.

 

[Jonabob87]

The nuclear age. If you're posting this by the power of the Atom, or if you're as amazed and entertained watching nuclear tests as I am, you have America to thank for it.


Such a shame we had to bring in this age the way we did but oh well.

Oh you did did you?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Rutherford
the father of nuclear physics was a Kiwi mate.

So? Doesn't matter where he was from. That's the nice thing about America, it has minds from all over the world. It was America that finished the first nuclear bomb, it was America that pioneered the technology needed to harness the power of the atom peacefully(The same reactors used to enrich the uranium can also extract power from it, and they had to build enrichment reactors in order to build nukes), it was America that used the bomb to usher the age in. Doesn't matter if the scientists were German, Kiwi, Austrian, Martian or from the planet Zog. They built it here, they pioneered the tech here, Our air force dropped the first two bombs, therefore America as a country brought forth the Nuclear age.

Eh? It doesn't matter where he was from, but your nation will take all the credit if somebody happens to be there when a discovery is made? And that's what's great about America? I see. And I have never seen 'America' repeated so much in the one paragraph. Feel like I'm at a rally for something.

Well, he was referring to the nuclear bomb, something invented and funded in the United States. It's like the creator of Pong taking credit for Halo 3 :\

The father of Nuclear Physics was a New Zealander, the neutron was discovered by an Englishman, and fission was a term first coined by Germans and an Austrian.

No one nation is responsible for the creation of nuclear fission, and by extension, the nuclear bomb.

 

[surg3n]

Canada has graced the world with it's presence. You're welcome.

AND the telephone dammit!

And most of the cast of Firefly, so yeah. We're pretty rad.

we have all this but not insoline for people suffering from diabetes I mean that discovery saved millions. I tend to feel the country isnt to thank for what individuals do however.

Insulin is a Scottish invention - and your right, whoever discovered that deserves all the kudos in the world. Scots discovered penicillin and invented the hypodermic needle as well - would be a pretty different world without the scots.

 

[Chaos Marine]

hmm... invented personal computers and the interwebs? and iphones.... so yeah, we're responsible for the downfall of civilization.

The computer was invented by an Italian man called Babage. It was more a cogitator engine though which was a crank powered computer for math.

[Edit] Also, Ireland invented the surname.

 

[PiggyJibbleFish]

We gave you AC/DC, The Wiggles, the bionic ear, Steve Irwin and Mad Max.

Yeah.

Mad. Freakin. Max.

Oh yeah, and spray on skin, but when is THAT ever likely to be useful?

 

[Sigmund Av Volsung]

South Africa - Open Heart Surgery, Charleze Theron, J.R.R Tolkien, some kind of insane cannon in the 70s, some kind of insane helicopter, CAT Scans, oil from coal, Kreepy Krauly (those swimming pool things).

Recently we're building two "strongest telescopes in the world", I can't remember what they're called but SCIENCE!!! and all that.

A debatable contribution was the war in Angola against the communists.

You also forgot district 9.
My country was the first to use lasers for surgery.
Not that impressive .

 

[willofbob]

Australia has beer, Yahtzee (technically English, ut an Aussie citizen), Hugh Jackman, Crocadoile dondee, the 12 Apostles (9 fell down, so ...3 apostles?) and blue-collar jokes.

and a place to run away to.

 

[ScourgeOfHell]

Im Pakistani, but India and Pakistan were one nation for about 5000 years. Anyways, we invented
. The decimal system, Algebra, Calculus, and most of modern trignometry
. We were the world's only source of diamonds till the 20th century.
. We created the first irrigation dams in the world
. The predecessor of modern chess was created in the subcontinent.

 

[Micklet]

The submarine, half the transcontinental railroad, the whitehouse, modern day genetics, most of the worlds greatest race horses and trainers, Dracula, Yeats, Gulliver, Wilde, Beaufort Scale, the Delorean and some of the best rugby players in the world but to name a few.

sorry to ruin your pick nick, but i do think the submarine was actually a dutch invention.

You're not far wrong buddy, was the invention of a John Phillip Holland born in Clare to an Irish speaking family, then moved to the states. So I can see how you got confused. It was first mass produced by a Polish fellow whose name escapes me at the moment.