Iron Edge
Iron Edge => General Discussion => Topic started by: Nemiron on January 29, 2016, 04:32:03 pm
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For several years, I've been partial to the notion that brits are unwashed illiterate savages with ugly teeth.
However, the only proof for this assertion so far has been anecdotal... until now.
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/young-people-england-have-lowest-literacy-levels-developed-world-says-oecd-1540711
Science has confirmed that Brits are officially the most illiterate people in the developed world. The surprising thing is that England counts as a developed country at all.
So go on, hit me in the "goober" mate, but just make sure someone reads the criminal charges for you later :^)
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Brits=chavs*
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dafuq you say, fam? I'll shank ya.
Ryan, hold my man-bling
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Somewhat misleading it's the 16-19 bracket of college drop outs who think brick laying is a great career path....
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Oh Nemi. I generally use a far more limited set of vocabulary to account for the large international contingent. Slang is slang, look at the internet and it's use of 'teh' 'kek' etc.
Ah, and at that age bracket, I'm fairly certain a lot have been dropped on their heads, mothers drinking special brew during the pregnancy, and general shitty attitude to education. init. proper bo slice bra.
I think that last bit has killed quite a few brain cells. It hurt.
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The same can be said for Russians in that age bracket, there all internet order brides....
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Vejeta if you don't want to confirm Bempton you should try to get that there their they're problem under control :)
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Vejeta if you don't want to confirm Bempton you should try to get that there their they're problem under control :)
Dunno if any typos in there but honestly you lost me at Bempton? Guessing autocorrect had you.
Im assuming saying the order brides are russias problem, id also say there fighter jets being shot down is theres too XD
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There = That person over there
They're = They Are
Their = That bike is theirs
The same can be said for Russians in that age bracket, there all internet order brides....
The same can be said for Russians in that age bracket, they're all internet order brides....
http://grammar-monster.com/easily_confused/there_their_theyre.htm
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There = That person over there
They're = They Are
Their = That bike is theirs
The same can be said for Russians in that age bracket, there all internet order brides....
The same can be said for Russians in that age bracket, they're all internet order brides....
http://grammar-monster.com/easily_confused/there_their_theyre.htm
Fucking grammar police....
Why make 3 words sound the same, this is bullshit!
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The title of this thread is wrong; it's not BRITAIN, it's specifically ENGLAND. It's an important distinction!
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Aretum, there are gold nuggets in a pile of shit occasionally, and you are one :--)!
Kawe, it's not that important, seeing as all other subareas of Britain are largely irrelevant.
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Kawe, it's not that important, seeing as all other subareas of Britain are largely irrelevant.
Nemoron,
Scotland is not an irrelevant 'subarea' of Britian. Scotland has contributed probably more to the world you live in than you care to think about:
The pedal bicycle
The pneumatic tyre
The overhead valve engine
Tubular steel
The patent slip for docking vessels
The Drummond Light: Thomas Drummond
Canal design
Dock design
Crane design
The fundamentals of aircraft design
Condensing steam engine
Thermodynamic cycle
Coal-gas lighting
The Stirling heat engine
Carbon brushes for dynamos
The Clerk cycle gas engine
The wave-powered electricity generator
The Pelamis Wave Energy Converter
Europe's first passenger steamboat
The first iron–hulled steamship
The first practical screw propeller
Marine engine innovations
Lieutenant-General Sir David Henderson two areas: Field intelligence. Argued for the establishment of the Intelligence Corps
Special forces: Founded by Sir David Stirling, the SAS was created in World War II in the North Africa campaign to go behind enemy lines to destroy and disrupt the enemy. Since then it has been regarded as the most famous and influential special forces that has inspired other countries to form their own special forces too.
Making cast steel from wrought iron
Wrought iron sash bars for glass houses
The hot blast oven
The steam hammer
Wire rope]
Steam engine improvements
The Fairlie, a narrow gauge, double-bogie railway engine
Threshing machine improvements
Hollow pipe drainage
The Scotch plough
Deanstonisation soil-drainage system
The mechanical reaping machine
The Fresno scraper
The Tuley tree shelter
Print stereotyping
Roller printing
The adhesive postage stamp and the postmark
The Waverley pen nib
Universal Standard Time
Light signalling between ships
The underlying principles of Radio
The Kinetoscope, a motion picture camera
The telephone:
The teleprinter
The first working television, and colour television
The British Broadcasting Corporation BBC
Radar
The automated teller machine and Personal Identification Number system
The first edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica
The first English textbook on surgery
The first modern pharmacopaedia The book became 'Europe's principal text on the classification and treatment of disease'
The first postcards and picture postcards
The educational foundation of Ophthalmology
Sherlock Holmes
Peter Pan
Long John Silver
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
Logarithms
Modern Economics
Modern Sociology
Hypnotism]
Tropical medicine
Modern Geology
The theory of Uniformitarianism
The theory of electromagnetism
The discovery of the Composition of Saturn's Rings
The Maxwell–Boltzmann distribution
Popularising the decimal point
The first theory of the Higgs boson
The Gregorian telescope
The discovery of Proxima Centauri
The discovery of the Horsehead Nebula in the constellation of Orion
The world's first oil refinery and a process of extracting paraffin from coal laying the foundations for the modern oil industry
The concept of latent heat
Discovering the properties of Carbon dioxide
The concept of Heat capacity
The pyroscope, atmometer and aethrioscope scientific instruments
Identifying the nucleus in living cells
Incandescent light bulb
Colloid chemistry
The kelvin SI unit of temperature
Devising the diagramatic system of representing chemical bonds
Criminal fingerprinting
Identification of the noble gases
The cloud chamber recording of atoms
The discovery of the Wave of Translation, leading to the modern general theory of solitons
Statistical graphics: William Playfair founder of the first statistical line charts, bar charts, and pie charts in (1786) and (1801) known as a scientific ‘milestone’ in statistical graphs and data visualization
The Arithmetic mean density of the Earth
The first isolation of methylated sugars, trimethyl and tetramethyl glucose
Discovery of the Japp–Klingemann reaction: to synthesize hydrazones from β-keto-acids (or β-keto-esters) and aryl diazonium salts
Pioneering work on nutrition and poverty
Ferrocene synthetic substances
The first cloned mammal (Dolly the Sheep
The seismometer innovations thereof
Metaflex fabric innovations thereof
Tractor beam innovations thereof
Discovery of Catacol whitebeam
Scots have been instrumental in the invention and early development of several sports:
Australian rules football
several modern athletics events, i.e. shot put and the hammer throw,derive from Highland Games and earlier 12th century Scotland
Curling
Gaelic handball
Cycling
Golf
Ice Hockey
Shinty
The Dugout
Pioneering the use of surgical anaesthesia with Chloroform
The hypodermic syringe
The ultrasound scanner
The MRI body scanner
Discovery of hypnotism
Identifying the mosquito as the carrier of malaria
Identifying the cause of brucellosis
Discovering the vaccine for typhoid fever
Discovery of Staphylococcus
Discovering the Human papillomavirus vaccine
Penicillin
General anaesthetic
The establishment of standardized Ophthalmology
The first hospital Radiation therapy unit
Pioneering of X-ray cinematography
The Haldane effect a property of hemoglobin
Oxygen Therapy
Ambulight PDT: light-emitting sticking plaster used in photodynamic therapy (PDT) for treating non-melanoma skin cancer
Discovering an effective tuberculosis treatment
Developing the first beta-blocker drugs
Developing modern asthma therapy based both on bronchodilation (salbutamol) and anti-inflammatory steroids
Glasgow coma scale
Glasgow Outcome Scale
Glasgow Anxiety Scale
Glasgow Depression Scale
ECG [Electrocardiography
The first Decompression tables to calculate the safe return of deep-sea divers to surface atmospheric pressure
Surface Enhanced Raman Scattering (SERS) A laser and nanoparticle test to detect Meningitis or multiple pathogenic agents at the same time
The television
The refrigerator
The first electric bread toaster
The flush toilet
The vacuum flask
The first distiller to triple distill whiskey
The piano footpedal
The first automated can-filling machine
The waterproof macintosh
The kaleidoscope
The modern lawnmower
The Lucifer friction match
The self filling pen
Cotton-reel thread
The electric clock
Chemical Telegraph (Automatic Telegraphy)
The carronade cannon
The Ferguson rifle
The Lee bolt system as used in the Lee–Metford and Lee–Enfield series riflesThe Ghillie suit
The percussion cap
Bank of England
Bank of France
The industrialisation and modernisation of Japan by Thomas Blake Glover
Kirin Brewing Company
Colour photography
Safetray
Buick Motor Company
New York Herald newspaper
Pinkerton National Detective Agency
Forbes magazine
The establishment of a standardized botanical institute
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine: founded by Sir Patrick Manson in 1899
SERIES-B by JAC Vapour
Not to mention The Romans; who after conquering most of Europe, built Hadrians wall to keep us in because we fucked them up so much and they couldn't handle the Scottish.
Oh and the data in your study is from 2012. Old data.
Not to mention the Scots are some barbaric mutherfuckers, check out the size of this sword in the Natural History Museum, twice the height of my girlfriend!
http://imgur.com/BmtjD8j
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Mate, dont get all defensive on me. Its ok to struggle reading instructions off an Aspirin bottle. Just keep on keeping on chap!
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LOOK AT THE SWORD!