AMERICA: The greatest country in the world

[Kantor]

highwaystar101 said:

trashleg said:

Kantor said:

trashleg said:

fixed it for you seece ... you see how much of your "great British" awesomness comes from us scots?

Yes, it's Great Britain, not Great England.

Having said that:

-You can't claim Bond, just because you had the best Bond actor! Ian Fleming was English!

-England invented the world wide web, so there.

Sean Connery = James Bond. that is all.

and if i remember my history lessons, dear Kantor, it was a Scotsman who invented the television (John Logie Baird) and yet another who invented the telephone (Alexander Graham Bell).

i'll let it sink in before laughing at you

Urban myth. John Logie Baird was the first person to invent the volumetric display and the first person to transmit TV in colour. He did not invent the TV though. The system he invented was ripped off from a man called Paul Nipkow, who invented the Nipkow disc used in Logie Baird's system. Also Logie Baird's TV system only lasted for a few years before it was replaced by Philo T. Farnsworth's Cathode ray system, the one we used for 60 odd years. Although TV was advanced tremendously under Logie Baird who was certainly a major TV pioneer, he did not invent it.

John Logie Baird also invented thermal socks though, and in some ways that is more important than TV.

While we're at it, Alexander Graham Bell didn't invent the telephone, he just patented it.

Also, Thomas Edison didn't invent the light bulb, that was Joseph Swan.