What Has Your Country Ever Done For Us?!

[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.

 

[airlife101]

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.

Hate to break it to you, but Charles Babbage (the chap who invented the world's first computer; the Difference Engine) was an Englishman; born, raised and indeed died in London.

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.

While the first submarine was indeed built by the Dutchman Cornelius Van Drebbel in 1620 whilst he was living in England, the first design of a submarine was carried out by William Bourne in 1578; an Englishman.

 

[Infernai]

Vegemite and Crocodile Dundee..which was more or less inspiration for the sniper from TF2.

You're welcome.

 

[Enamour]

There's more to history than America is the good guy and anyone who opposes it is the bad guy.

Not that I ever said that or believed that like ever, since it's something you ignorant foreigners don't seem to realize about American books.

Let me try another approach. You won't find a South African who'll agree with " The Apartheid Government was worse than the Communists." It's simply ludicrous, I'd need to write a mini-thesis explaining the depths to which it is ignorant. It was bad but I find it highly offensive when someone makes a claim like this. The reason I mentioned the US was to highlight that the greatest and most democratic country on earth actively supported and protected the Apartheid regime and only LATER opposed it based on self-serving political, NOT humanitarian grounds. You can't separate the protectionism.

Let me give you some perspective just so that you don't think I'm some kind of pro-Apartheid nut. My family came to a homeland in protest of Apartheid, my father was on a watch-list. I went to public schools where maybe 40 - 50 of the 600 children were white or Afrikaans; I WAS THE MINORITY. I do not in any way condone or agree with the actions of the previous regime. By the way, I studied Russian history under a Russian Professor.

The reason why I found your comment so offensive is because of the blatant and hypocritical ignorance behind it. If the Apartheid regime was worse than the communists then the US was the evil empire. You said "you ignorant foreigners", you probably didn't mean it this way but you do realize that the meaning of that the words mean "non Americans are ignorant by definition". I mentioned your statement to a Tswana co-worker this morning and he laughed.

You didn't grow up here, you didn't live the history, you weren't exiled; you have no right to spout it. You ignorant fucking bigot. You do not even know.

Edit: How old are you? Cause if you're under-age then I've wasted my time even trying.

 

[Enamour]

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 .

Oh yeah, forgot about that. Awesome movie.

 

[Circusfreak]

It gave us Minecraft AND Just Cause 2 AND Magicka.

 

[Doctor Brobotnik]

New Zealand - spreadable butter, Peter Jackson, Dub.

 

[iseko]

The lamb of god (it's a painting in case you we're wondering =.= )

 

[airlife101]

Would it be fair to say that the United States has invented the biggest debt in history, along with the ability to keep extending their loan limit?

Spoiler

And on a side note, Britain created the Total War series. :3

 

[uttaku]

Saving your sorry asses during war and natural catastrophe, while expecting nothing in return.

your from the soviet union? because I can't think of any other nation thats 'saved out asses during war'

 

[NinjaOnXTC]

Lord of the Rings