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Jeku
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Quote: "Isn't kerosene just 4 chemical elements, alkanes C12 to C15?"


Well aren't cutips just a plastic stick with cotton on the end? Yet it's still an invention. Almost everything is made up of common base elements.


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All of that stuff comes from oil, which we started to process here in the americas into propane, butane, ect....

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Benjamin
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The french invented... penicillin! Ok well they were the first to discover it.


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The British invented... concentration camps... DOH!


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Fallout
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Posted: 20th Mar 2005 08:53
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The british also invented Tanks.

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Benjamin
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Posted: 20th Mar 2005 08:58 Edited at: 20th Mar 2005 08:59
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And... piccalilli!


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Andy
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>Quote: "British inventor Frederick DeMoleyns"
>That name sound more French than english.

You can find alot of people with french names not living in France.

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Neofish
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Quote: "Alkanes have the formula C(n) H(2n+2), Alkenes have the formula C(n) H(2n)."


GCSE Chemistry


You said something similar (Biology) to me once

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I did?

It's the separate science stuff, the bit that 93% of the country doesn't learn

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Yeah I'm doing separate too by looking at my school I'm not sure that all of the 93% would be able to take it and pass

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Quote: "You can find alot of people with french names not living in France"
Yeah, it's class how the US thinks we are all like Henry Wilkenton-Smythe clones. When in actual fact massive areas of the UK (eg. London) are hugely multi-racial. Every time I've gone into the centre of London, for example, you have to hunt around to find someone speaking English. Hunt around a bit more to find someone from the UK... And then you get 2nd and 3rd generation. Was class to see my dad's face when we went around Slough (very asian) for the first time. Basically lots of Indians speaking in london accents. We come from a *very* white area of Wales. Inbredtastic. Erm, I don't actually come from that area BTW, so don't worry about webbed fingers etc.

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Alot of people think I live in London. It' the UK bit that create that effect

Quote: "Inbredtastic"


Fantastic word!

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we invented the black box, and because of the great austalian irony, its actually 2 boxes, one bright blue and the other bright orange.

i think we invented some other great things too, but i can't be bothered figuring out what they are.

we did perfect lazyness though


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everyone's forgetting the best thing about canada, lana from neighbours (aussie soap) was canadian, and she was a lesbian, and she kissed sky. So, i'm gonna say that canada invented teen lesbianism, and therefore, is on my christmas card list.

oh, i like austrailia too, but that's just 'cause of neighbours really... its awesome, i watch it twice a day if i can.

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Quote: "You can find alot of people with french names not living in France."
Ya, but I kinda figured that the majority of them are in french colonies(I mean I wouldn't move to say india, beacause I don't speak the languge).

Quote: "canada invented teen lesbianism"
That's right, god save Canada.

Quote: "i think we invented some other great things too, but i can't be bothered figuring out what they are."
Painfully stupid nature show hosts(Steve Irwin).

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I would list grate english inventions that changed the world but i dont think this server can hold them all. o/j but we invented, i say we but i mean some inventer, the lcd screen and the computer also the tv and the train, the jet engine. but better than inventions the british empire spread all the way around the world and the sun never set on out empire but the the stupid U.N was formed.

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Gir
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Brits invented Supersonic flight, dont let any Americans tell you they did it first, cos the stole it from us

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Andy
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>we invented the black box, and because of the great austalian
>irony, its actually 2 boxes, one bright blue and the other bright
>orange.

In engineering terms, a black box is just a subsystem where the I/O is following a set of specifications, but the actual working of the subsystem is either not known, subject to change or not important. With several manufacturers of flight data recorders being fitted into existing aircraft they all had to conform to a single standard, regardless of how they recorded the data. Flight data recorders have always been bright coloured.

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Posted: 21st Mar 2005 10:01
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Quote: "canada invented teen lesbianism"


Wasn't that Russia?

Quote: " Painfully stupid nature show hosts(Steve Irwin)"


Shut up, eh?


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Posted: 21st Mar 2005 12:22
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Practically the whole world is America, which is what they think.

"Let's go to Northern America"

"Hmmm... A trip to South America isn't bad"

Euromerica, lol


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Posted: 21st Mar 2005 17:09
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A Brit invented the internet, and the computer

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In that order

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Posted: 22nd Mar 2005 01:58
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Canidians... inventors of mayonase! er wait no that was teh french...

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Posted: 22nd Mar 2005 04:36 Edited at: 22nd Mar 2005 04:39
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Quote: " The british also invented Tanks."


Yeah. Too bad the early models were usless. Most of them got stuck in the mud before making it to the enemy trenches.

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The Germans created large aprabolic dishes to reflect the sound of the tank coming towards them back at the tank. The vibrations rattles the tanks to bits.

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theoretically

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No, this really happened.

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..but i dont see how it would work..

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Surely the sound of the tank at the tank would shake it to pieces, not a weaker reflection.
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what he said

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DavidT, I've never heard of that. O_o

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I have no idea where you got that fact.

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Quote: "I have no idea where you got that fact."
The little man in my head.

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WE DO NOT SAY EH AFTER EVERY WORD, how did you guys think this up!

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Hmmm the English may have invented computers, but the French invented the word "computer".


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ordinateur? o_0

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Quote: " Hmmm the English may have invented computers"


Well technically the Greeks did.

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Quote: " ordinateur? o_0"

No, computer is a french word. It means to compute.


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The english language is made from many languages during the middle ages upperclass people spoke allot in french so now allot of words are french.

Any spelling mistakes are totally In tensional.
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Quote: "No, computer is a french word. It means to compute."


clever. I never thought of it as an infinitive before.

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Damn you and your big words... *looks up infinitive in the dictionary* ah its a substantive... *looks up substantive in the dictionary*.. ohhhh so its a verb yet it functions as its own word. Ok

Anyway, here is where I found out:
http://dictionary.reference.com/help/faq/language/c/computer.html




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Computer, verb to compute I suppose.

je compute
tu computes
il compute

nous computons
vous computez
ils computent

I assume unless it's irregular.

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Not sure exactly if they still have that word in their language.. I can't find it in any dictionary. I think they use calculer instead for that verb.


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The word for computer in latin is Ordinatrum and computer is a noun not an verb...

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Computer is/was a FRENCH verb.


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Quote: "computer is a noun not an verb..."


Sure is. Just not in the language you think

@ben:

This has been bugging me for a while. How do you say nothing in French?

My grammatical self is saying its "ne... rien" but to me

il y a rien de choses a faire

sounds better than

il n'y a rien de choses a faire

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Posted: 24th Mar 2005 05:11 Edited at: 24th Mar 2005 05:17
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nothing = rien

I don't think ne rien is said... google thinks so, but we all know how wrong google is.


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Yeah - I've always known

ne...pas to be negative
ne...personne to be nobody
ne...rien I thought was nothing

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Quote: "ne...pas to be negative
ne...personne to be nobody
ne...rien I thought was nothing"


"ne...pas" is like "to not"
just "personne" is nobody
just "rien" is nothing

but most times you put ne or n' in front

Examples:
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Man1: Quest-ce que t'as dit!
Man2: Rien

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Man: ne faites rein.

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Quote: ""ne...pas" is like "to not"
just "personne" is nobody
just "rien" is nothing

but most times you put ne or n' in front"


Good, as I thought

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God I hate French.

I failed it twice in a row once.

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I failed it in Grade 9 and just quit French for life. The teachers had the gall to tell me I wouldn't be able to get into Uni without French. The jerks tell kids that to scare them, but no Uni in this province requires it!


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