The Great Britain Appreciation Thread

Kermit.de.frog · 14-03-2019 8:23pm #1

A thread to celebrate the nation of our neighbor and their achievements :cool:

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igCorcaigh · 14-03-2019 8:26pm

What have the Romans ever done for us?

TheValeyard · 14-03-2019 8:27pm

McMurphy · 14-03-2019 8:28pm

Possibly doing this wrong, but here goes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doegoa3spKo

igCorcaigh · 14-03-2019 8:29pm

Nice creamy ales, the type you can't get here.

Kermit.de.frog · 14-03-2019 8:30pm

igCorcaigh · 14-03-2019 8:31pm

I prefer London over Dublin (sorry, not sorry) or Paris.
Cardiff is a nice city.
Haven't been to Edinburgh yet, but I hear it's lovely.

McMurphy · 14-03-2019 8:31pm

Odhinn · 14-03-2019 8:33pm

Kermit.de.frog wrote: »

A thread to celebrate the nation of our neighbor and their achievements :cool:
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Yep, getting away with mass murder, robbery racism and sectarianism for a fair few centuries is rather an achievement, when you look at the scale of it.

OldMrBrennan83 · 14-03-2019 8:33pm

Let's not. They're a blight on the planet.

stimpson · 14-03-2019 8:40pm

igCorcaigh wrote: »

I prefer London over Dublin (sorry, not sorry) or Paris.
Cardiff is a nice city.
Haven't been to Edinburgh yet, but I hear it's lovely.

Cardiff a nice city? It’s the only place I’ve ever been that had a KFC inside a nightclub.

igCorcaigh · 14-03-2019 8:43pm

Some great thinkers, scientists and artists.

David Hume (Scottish), Charles Darwin (English), Dylan Thomas (Welsh).

Giveaway · 14-03-2019 8:44pm

Cool Britania = celebrating mediocraty

Fr_Dougal · 14-03-2019 8:44pm

They built all the nice houses in Dublin, and around the country.

whisky_galore · 14-03-2019 8:45pm

A British thread on AH, quelle surprise.

igCorcaigh · 14-03-2019 8:46pm

stimpson wrote: »

Cardiff a nice city? It’s the only place I’ve ever been that had a KFC inside a nightclub.

It has that. But a very good museum and well kept parks. The area by the University is very Parisien. The bay is a nice area. Lovely old style shopping arcades.

It's a compact and lively city, with a castle at its heart. I always like my time there.

Giveaway · 14-03-2019 8:48pm

Was in Bath viewing a fine museum of a city house for the uber rich of the day. This onr was the most palatial...built by an absentee landlord from roscommon with money made off the backs of the irish serfs of the time that lived in absolute poverty. But the whole tour stick was best of british etc and not a mention of how the buildimg had been funded. A formal demand for reparations is in order.

igCorcaigh · 14-03-2019 8:49pm

Giveaway wrote: »

Cool Britania = celebrating mediocraty

Well yeah. Britpop!

riffmongous · 14-03-2019 8:50pm

SeaFields · 14-03-2019 8:51pm

I have to give it to them lately. They have a remarkable ability to make all politicians super intelligent... relative to their own.

Kermit.de.frog · 14-03-2019 8:54pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8KSAtos-dk

14-03-2019 9:07pm

Gimme A Pound · 14-03-2019 9:15pm

Churchill looked down on the Irish, like you Kermie.

I'ma go with: awesome music, television, literature, comedy.

mikemac2 · 14-03-2019 9:24pm

Very good at the queing up and standing in line

I think the Brits are better at this than most

Omackeral · 14-03-2019 9:28pm

OldMrBrennan83 wrote: »

Let's not. They're a blighty on the planet.

Would've been clever.

OldMrBrennan83 · 14-03-2019 9:29pm

Omackeral wrote: »

Would've been clever.

But less true.

Omackeral · 14-03-2019 9:29pm

90% of Irish football fans **** themselves silly over British teams and even refer to them as 'us' in a lot of cases, so there's that. GSTQ!

Omackeral · 14-03-2019 9:31pm

This guy was a childhood hero of many

sabat · 14-03-2019 9:31pm

Mens shoes, Private Eye magazine, jungle music, Liverpool FC, David Hockney...

The problem is all their worst ****e is the most celebrated.

Harry Palmr · 14-03-2019 9:32pm

Railways, the world wide Web, computer (says no), gravity, Australia, the English language, Chris Morris, Liverpool football club, Father Ted ( cos RTE would never have made it).

rgodard80a · 14-03-2019 9:38pm

I don't think the Brits done anything for anyone out of the goodness of their hearts however I'll give them

- the industrial revolution : steam engines, railways, clocks, compass etc
- the scientific process
- democracy ?
- we inherited their legal system, constitution etc
- production of steel ( bessemer process )
- chemistry ?
- better bridges / arches / steel bridges
- World War 2
- football

Most was sold through capitalism not donated, so can't exactly claim the moral high ground on it.

Omackeral · 14-03-2019 9:40pm

Celtic FC, the first British team to win the European Cup. Hail hail.

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janfebmar · 14-03-2019 9:50pm

Duke Cool Battery wrote: »

Churchill looked down on the Irish,

Other people would not be of that opinion, such as Brendan Bracken, an Irish Catholic, who was Winston Churchill’s closest friend in politics and minister of information in his wartime government.

Also do not forget Churchill made a speech to Irish nationalists in Belfast in 2012, when he defended the creation of a Dublin parliament: “History and poetry, justice and good sense, alike demand that this race, gifted, virtuous and brave, which has lived so long and endured so much should not, in view of her passionate desire, be shut out of the family of nations and should not be lost forever among indiscriminate multitudes of men.” He saw the new relationship of Great Britain and Ireland as fostering “the federation of English speaking peoples all over the world”.

OldMrBrennan83 · 14-03-2019 9:52pm

janfebmar wrote: »

Other people would not be of that opinion, such as Brendan Bracken, an Irish Catholic, who was Winston Churchill’s closest friend in politics and minister of information in his wartime government.

Also do not forget Churchill made a speech to Irish nationalists in Belfast in 2012, when he defended the creation of a Dublin parliament: “History and poetry, justice and good sense, alike demand that this race, gifted, virtuous and brave, which has lived so long and endured so much should not, in view of her passionate desire, be shut out of the family of nations and should not be lost forever among indiscriminate multitudes of men.” He saw the new relationship of Great Britain and Ireland as fostering “the federation of English speaking peoples all over the world”.

You might be thinking of a different Churchill.

peasant · 14-03-2019 9:58pm

Cream tea

janfebmar · 14-03-2019 10:00pm

OldMrBrennan83 wrote: »

You might be thinking of a different Churchill.

Typo, it was of course 1912. It was well reported at the time.

two wheels good · 14-03-2019 10:03pm

Duke Cool Battery wrote: »

Churchill looked down on the Irish, like you Kermie.

I'ma go with: awesome music, television, literature, comedy.

That's not English. Maybe in the appreciating South Compton thread.
But great music, television, literature, comedy - I concur. Or "I feel you, bro."

M.T. Cranium · 14-03-2019 10:09pm

What is actually understood by the term "Great Britain" when used in conversation? I think of Great Britain as the name of the island that contains England, Scotland and Wales. The term "Britain" is more or less the same thing but can often be taken as equivalent to the UK despite the fact that the UK includes Northern Ireland (for the time being). This confusion sometimes shows up in sports. Does the UK team at the Olympics assemble under the name UK or Britain? The Scottish curlers are always referred to as Britain on our TV coverage.

I think of Great Britain as the second most appealing island off the coast of Europe. Maybe third if Iceland could be included.

OldMrBrennan83 · 14-03-2019 10:12pm

M.T. Cranium wrote: »

What is actually understood by the term "Great Britain" when used in conversation? I think of Great Britain as the name of the island that contains England, Scotland and Wales. The term "Britain" is more or less the same thing but can often be taken as equivalent to the UK despite the fact that the UK includes Northern Ireland (for the time being). This confusion sometimes shows up in sports. Does the UK team at the Olympics assemble under the name UK or Britain? The Scottish curlers are always referred to as Britain on our TV coverage.

I think of Great Britain as the second most appealing island off the coast of Europe. Maybe third if Iceland could be included.

'Team GB' is the brand but the team is the UK.

14-03-2019 10:17pm

I don't care who he gets, so long as I can have a go at the Greeks! They invented Gayness!

igCorcaigh · 14-03-2019 10:23pm

M.T. Cranium wrote: »

What is actually understood by the term "Great Britain" when used in conversation? I think of Great Britain as the name of the island that contains England, Scotland and Wales. The term "Britain" is more or less the same thing but can often be taken as equivalent to the UK despite the fact that the UK includes Northern Ireland (for the time being). This confusion sometimes shows up in sports. Does the UK team at the Olympics assemble under the name UK or Britain? The Scottish curlers are always referred to as Britain on our TV coverage.

I think of Great Britain as the second most appealing island off the coast of Europe. Maybe third if Iceland could be included.

I've always understood the term of Britain to be the geographical island. Maybe Great includes some of the islands. Not sure.

igCorcaigh · 14-03-2019 10:24pm

I always have a sympathy with Wales though.

Did you know there was an attempt at a military independence campaign?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Wales_Army

lbc2019 · 14-03-2019 10:26pm

Alan Turing

KaneToad · 14-03-2019 10:28pm

A nation that has to put 'great' into their name is compensating for something...

lbc2019 · 14-03-2019 10:29pm

igCorcaigh wrote: »

I've always understood the term of Britain to be the geographical island. Maybe Great includes some of the islands. Not sure.

Britain is England and Wales
Great Britain is England Wales and Scotland
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is the countrys official name

riffmongous · 14-03-2019 10:37pm

KaneToad wrote: »

A nation that has to put 'great' into their name is compensating for something...

Ours is shorter but thicker

FrancieBrady · 14-03-2019 10:41pm

Like any nation, it has it's good.
Britain has given a huge amount to the world across all human activity.
But it also has a huge amount of bad.
The people of Derry got a bit more of it's bad side today and the entire EU have been getting a severe dose of it for several years.

Report: Must do better.

indioblack · 14-03-2019 10:41pm

riffmongous wrote: »

Ours is shorter but thicker

Hopefully that's not a Freudian slip.

Mad_maxx · 14-03-2019 10:42pm

Arrogant pr1cks but you could still have worse neighbours ( just about)

riffmongous · 14-03-2019 10:47pm

indioblack wrote: »

Hopefully that's not a Freudian slip.

Get out the atlas

McMurphy · 14-03-2019 10:47pm

OldMrBrennan83 wrote: »

You might be thinking of a different Churchill.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAy0lkB00JE

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