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Off Topic Britain's Greatest Invention

Discussion in 'Hull City' started by Quill, Jun 15, 2017.

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What is Britain's Greatest Invention?

Poll closed Jun 17, 2017.
  1. The Television

    6.7%
  2. Concrete

    3.3%
  3. The Jet Engine

    3.3%
  4. The Mobile Phone

    0 vote(s)
    0.0%
  5. The Fridge

    6.7%
  6. Antibiotics

    50.0%
  7. The Steam Engine

    30.0%
  1. Quill

    Quill Bastard

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    Antibiotics won.

    Crock of **** that, we're becoming immune to the bastards.

    Wouldn't exist without the steam engine, **** off Rippon.
     
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  2. Happy Tiger

    Happy Tiger Well-Known Member

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    I'da voted for "Time" which we invented.

    You can see its origins in Greenwich.

    FACT.
     
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  3. tigerscanada

    tigerscanada Well-Known Member

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    Much earlier.
     
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  4. originallambrettaman

    originallambrettaman Mod Moderator
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    For those who didn't watch it, it was the development of a concrete that could be mass produced and used anywhere that Britain invented, the Romans had a type of concrete, but it didn't have the same properties and could only be produced in close proximity to a volcano.
     
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  5. Edelman

    Edelman Well-Known Member

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    Dutch !!
     
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  6. DMD

    DMD Eh?
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    It's a synonym in the dictionary. Greenwich mean time.
     
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  7. Sir Cheshire Ben

    Sir Cheshire Ben Well-Known Member

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    Crosswords

    **** is a favourite.
     
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  8. OedipusTex

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    Don't underestimate the contribution to human life of refrigeration. That got my vote.
     
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  9. look_back_in_amber

    look_back_in_amber Well-Known Member

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    This is a complete no brainer, it's quite obviously Yorkshire Tea!
     
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  10. The B&S Fanclub

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    Football... and all the other sports we've given the world...

    Ungrateful set of ba$tards
     
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  11. Carmine Galante.

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    Not been funny mate but state the obvious why don't you?

    The Roman concrete / volcanic proximity link is one of, if not the, first things taught in pre school.
     
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  12. Ernie Shackleton

    Ernie Shackleton Well-Known Member

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    Where do you stand on the Pompeii/Herculaneum debate?

    Concrete aqueducts, aquifers, reinforced water storage Chambers, sunken baths, you name it. They had them all, until...




    The big mountain thingy blew up.



    Who knew?
     
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  13. Carmine Galante.

    Carmine Galante. Well-Known Member

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    I am, generally speaking, indifferent to the above mentioned feats of Italian aqua based engineering.

    Saying that I do love a nice hot bath with a goblet of vino in one hand, a chicken leg in the other whilst donning a laurel reef on my swede.

    Those Roman motherfuckers knew the score.
     
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  14. Ernie Shackleton

    Ernie Shackleton Well-Known Member

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    Isn't a laurel reef a bit heavy?

    And don't the accompanying fish tickle your ears?
     
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  15. Sir Cheshire Ben

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    The laurel's for wiping his arse.
     
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  16. Carmine Galante.

    Carmine Galante. Well-Known Member

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    You haven't seen the size of my head.

    Makes Sam Allerdyce's look like Ping Pings.
     
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  17. Happy Tiger

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    He doesn't **** in the bath.

    He's not an animal.

    He does that in a paint pot in the garage.
     
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  18. Carmine Galante.

    Carmine Galante. Well-Known Member

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    Like you haven't?

    You can't kid a kidder kidder.
     
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  19. Ernie Shackleton

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    Of all the things Carmine's claimed to do in the bath, this new revelation about eating chicken legs is the worst.




    The dirty, dirty bastard.
     
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  20. Happy Tiger

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    Aye agreed. Sitting there, wallowing in his own filth, candles lit round the edge, Enya playing in the background and munching on a soggy old bird.

    It's disgusting.
     
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