What Has Your Country Ever Done For Us?!

[katsumoto03]

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

This.

Fucking this.

 

[Hristo Tzonkov]

Yogurt and supposedly a Bulgarian descendant was the dude who invented the personal computer.

 

[Tiger Sora]

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.

Ahh, I meant to say insulin. We made that. And you do know that he didn't do it all alone this Australian man, there was also a German and an English Biochemist. So kinda 3 countries made medical penicillin.

 

[Lewg999]

Britain gave the world Alfred Hitchcock , one of the best directors ever , among many other things

 

[Warforger]

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

Wait what? At the time the South African government was WORSE then the Communists in Angola! And the Communists still won anyway so I don't see why that's debatable.

 

[Krion_Vark]

The U.S. begot movies. I'd say that's pretty cool.

Coughcough. Ahem. The world's first feature film [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Story_of_the_Kelly_Gang] was, in fact, Australian.

First feature film was perhaps Australian but the technology that lead up to it was all from the United States of America. or most of it at least.

 

[thahat]

Netherlands: telescope, microscope, realy efficient hull designs, a retarded amount of money for western Europa

and for the Americans here: the machine guns that shoot down missiles fired at your expensive toy boats.

thats off the top of my head, there is probably more

with the aid of wiki: the entire bloody stockmarket, wind powered sawmills, the submarine, 4 wheel drive, CD-rom, and, i begrudgingly have to admit: speed enforcement camera's >.<

 

[Warforger]

9: We fought the Nazis and the Japanese, Double what anyone else fought

No, no, no and no again.

First, Britain fought both, as well. And unlike America, who only put troops on European soil in 1943, the Brits had been fighting the nazis since day 1. Their country was actually bombed to crap during the Blitz, yet they persevered. In the Pacific Theatre of Operations, you forget that Britain had a lot of colonies in that neck of the woods when the Japanese invaded. Ever see "Bridge on the River Kwai"? That's British soldiers in a Japanese prison camp in SE Asia.

Yah it was actually a huge embarrassment and the colonies lacked the military to effectively defend themselves, the Jap's took all of France's colonies then moved onto British and the Dutch colonies, where they got all the was as far as north New Guinea and part of India.

But the majority of the fighting was on the US, Australia and most of all; China. The European nations didn't do too much or lose anything morally debatable. While yes the Soviets did fight the Jap's early on, the Jap's didn't continue because their military would not be able to take it, nevermind the huge occupation force they needed for all the territories they conquered as well as the American threat to the East, which eventually did in fact end them. All the other nations in that front were just trying to get back what they had pre-war for most of the war and nothing too significant came out other then advances being stopped. The US was probably the only one which was able to launch an offensive against Japan.

I'm always sorry to have to tell Americans this, because they somehow need to believe (and are told by their history books and entertainment media) that they won WWII by themselves. Not so. Sorry to bust your bubble, but your information is simply wrong, through no fault of your own.

Erm no this stuff is taught in history books i.e. El Almain and Stalingrad, it's just the USA is focused on, like say your history book probably focused on your nation as well.

 

[XHolySmokesX]

The English invented the bicycle, hells yeah!

 

[xbox hero]

Serbia gave the world's best tennis player (we pwn nadals!) Many great sportsmen,and one of the most inportant people in the world....Nikola Tesla!Plus we have the future of the english language,do look it up on wiki!

Edit: We ...Uh cinda started WW1...But just cinda....We didn't start the shooting at least,oh and america....How did you like the bombs?

 

[thahat]

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.

 

[allways2edlast]

Scotland not much But the TV, and the medicine aspirin.

 

[thahat]

Best beer in the world and lots of hot girls from Czech Republic. Youre welcome

thank you! at least this is qouted for truth, go czecks!
greetings from a guy from the netherlands ( only drinkable beer ever = your beer XD )
and yes, the woman are hot. XD especially the waitresses.

 

[Edith The Hutt]

The town next to my home town once hanged a monkey because they thought it was French. Does that count?

 

[kasperbbs]

We provide the world with illegal immigrants, be grateful.

 

[Dr Snakeman]

We made the Moon our *****, were a vital Allied power in the second World War, had all the scientists responsible for the invention of nuclear fission... stuff, and we invented superheroes, the "movie studio", and half of the internet (the Swiss made the other half).

Oh, and this guy:

'Merica.

 

[NiXi]

Northern Ireland:

The Titanic
The Delorean
Dame Susan Jocelyn Bell Burnell - Discovered Pulsars(some neutron star thing)
Frank Partridge - Invented the portable defibrillator.

Sporty things:
George Best (alcoholic 70s/80s football player)
Rory McIlroy

 

[Snowblindblitz]

The Beatles, and consequently, most of all modern music.

As a non Beatles fan, I call foul. They were influenced by 1950's rock where blatantly stole from blues in America. Blues being the foundation of almost all rock and roll, I must say, you are welcome.

Aha! But I would have to counter your argument with the fact that the Beatles took those 1950's rock n roll influences and went on to create the genres we know now as pop, alternative and psychedelic. In fact, if you check out this article....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Beatles'_influence_on_popular_culture

...you'll see that the beatles influence stretched far and wide.

Of course i dont doubt the importance of blues and rock n roll, its just that it was the Beatles' innovation that helped modern music to develop into newer, more lasting institutions, rather than languishing and going stagnant.

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

Much better band to pick to represent your country.

 

[Coffinshaker]

who's that?

Tricia Helfer as "Number Six" from the reimagining of Battlestar Galactica. A very good watch if you have some time!

 

[Castratikron]

U.S.A. invented right turn on red.