What have the Brits ever done for us?

Mr. FoggPatches · 30-11-2016 02:32PM #1

Apart from giving us a legal system, a system of government, their language, a place for bail skippers to disappear, fish and chips and Helena Bonham Carter's backside, what have the Brits ever done for us?

me_irl · 30-11-2016 02:33PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qc7HmhrgTuQ

Winterlong · 30-11-2016 02:33PM

They gave us something to whinge about.

JeffKenna · 30-11-2016 02:33PM

They've given us some fairly good soccer players!

5rtytry56 · 30-11-2016 02:34PM

built the railways. and the branch lines off the mainlines, most of which are closed / abandoned now.

fizzypish · 30-11-2016 02:34PM

Mr. FoggPatches wrote: »

fish and chips

I thought this was the Italians?
They gave us a grudge that will endure the ages!

A Little Pony · 30-11-2016 02:36PM

Dead provos?

jimgoose · 30-11-2016 02:36PM

Many fine country houses and manors, on exquisite grounds sometimes right beside rivers, many of which have been converted into knocking-shop hotels by gawbeen Johnny Ireland types, with the main entrance at the back spilling out onto the car-park and boiler room, for some reason. We're back! By fuck, we're back!!

mahoganygas · 30-11-2016 02:38PM

Brought peace?

KERSPLAT! · 30-11-2016 02:39PM

Only Fools and Horses. Grandad was some character!

BalcombeSt4 · 30-11-2016 02:41PM

Lots & lots of massacres.
Famines
Some of the most infamous miscarriages of justice in history.

andekwarhola · 30-11-2016 02:41PM

Provided a veritable munificence of thread material.

Sue Pa Key Pa · 30-11-2016 02:48PM

Given us someone to blame for our own failings

God Bless You Ma'am

StupidLikeAFox · 30-11-2016 02:54PM

You have just reminded me of internet history and transported me back to my younger days...

Anybody remember the langerland videos?

Robsweezie · 30-11-2016 02:55PM

A famine sized potato blighted chip on our shoulder

midnight city · 30-11-2016 02:59PM

Some nice buildings, not sure we should be grateful for English language though or their system of law. We probably would have been better off if we had been taken over by the French.

They also give us plenty of oppression and were the reason so many died in the 'potato famine'. It wasn't an actual famine as there was plenty of food around at the time.

Steve F · 30-11-2016 03:09PM

Something to aspire to?

razorblunt · 30-11-2016 03:10PM

A new City Hall in Cork ... after the B&Ts burnt down the previous one.

BalcombeSt4 · 30-11-2016 03:10PM

A Little Pony wrote: »

Dead provos?

A lot of live ones as well, like the people who bombed Harrods.

armaghlad · 30-11-2016 03:12PM

A Little Pony wrote: »

Dead provos?

West brits

thomasj · 30-11-2016 03:15PM

Mr. FoggPatches wrote: »

Apart from giving us a legal system, a system of government, their language, a place for bail skippers to disappear, fish and chips and Helena Bonham Carter's backside, what have the Brits ever done for us?

How long have you got?

mahoganygas · 30-11-2016 03:16PM

thomasj wrote:

How long have you got?

800 years?

topper75 · 30-11-2016 03:19PM

They looked down on the Irish and were happy to see tenants leave the land. Some Brits were bitter enough to be happy to see us die out.

But the one-crop-only, breed-like-rabbits, eternally-subdivide-the-wet-hillside ideas were our genius. Some price we paid. I'd like to think we have grown up as a nation on account of that. However, then I review the state dependence ratio in 2016. The amount of household that are dependent on the state for income is shocking. Seems like we have learned nothing.

BalcombeSt4 · 30-11-2016 03:20PM

One of the most sectarian statelets in Europe.

Maximus Alexander · 30-11-2016 03:22PM

Ask not what the Brits have done for you, but what you have done for the Brits!

thomasj · 30-11-2016 03:28PM

Mr. FoggPatches wrote: »

Apart from giving us a legal system, a system of government, their language, a place for bail skippers to disappear, fish and chips and Helena Bonham Carter's backside, what have the Brits ever done for us?

Given us reason to look for independence.

But more recently (good or bad make of that what you will), satelite television, alot of shops over here, premier league football, Timezone (yes we used to have our own time zone) and having to put the clocks forward and back every year

And dare I say reason to have a unique sense of irishness

whisky_galore · 30-11-2016 03:37PM

armaghlad wrote: »

West brits

People in Devon and Cornwall?

kneemos · 30-11-2016 03:38PM

Industrial revolution. Jobs that saved many a household during our many recessions.The high moral ground on abortion.Cheap Postboxes.

mahoganygas · 30-11-2016 03:39PM

whisky_galore wrote:

People in Devon and Cornwall?

Splitters!

30-11-2016 03:41PM

midnight city wrote: »

Some nice buildings, not sure we should be grateful for English language though or their system of law. We probably would have been better off if we had been taken over by the French.

And even the building designs weren't British - unless one accepts their hilariously nationalist term "Georgian architecture" as a unique style rather than a renaming of Greco-Roman architecture or, in Ireland often a renaming of vernacular designs which were built when the English had one of those kings on the throne of their country.

whisky_galore · 30-11-2016 03:42PM

Winterlong wrote: »

They gave us something to whinge about.

The amount of fcuking moaning, p*ssing and whinging about them has filled many a Boards thread. Build a fcuking bridge and get over it.

I don't think there's another country in the world that obsesses about it's neighbour as much.

What have the Brits ever done for us?

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