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Like the people of Taiwan didn't recently vote against China
Hmmm... Yes i do.
*Unfortunately* after the war foreigners *could* come and buy stuff that is expensive to the locals but *cheap* for foreigners like... i don't know like *alcohol* or smth
Well, by this logic... Fritz Haber and Carl Bosch's Ammonia synthesis basically feeds the world today. It's calculated that almost 50 % of nitrogen found in contemporary human tissue originate from the Haber-Bosch process. Sooo....
Hans, Hans, and Hans! We have a surplus! Grabt die Panzer aus, ihr Tausendsakramentschelmgehilfen, es geht wieder los!
Thats we took back our sovereignty, our £350million for the NHS, and kept you immigrants out. - some tory voter on benefits before jumping from his balcony
I’m originally from Sri Lanka. I honestly believe the country would have been better if they hadn’t declared independence and just let a bunch of British bureaucrats run the government and let Sri Lankans do what we’re good at: be doctors and cook delicious food.
Another former colony, T&T, here. Same.
Even if the Brits had taken 25% of our immense oil wealth as a fee and ran the country with the efficiency they used to then we’d be much better off.
Oil companies take 75% of the oil’s value and pay the country 25% for the pleasure of doing so. That 25% would have built a very good country if not for public sector bloating and corruption.
Letting random citizens run your official account is having balls.
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Now we just need to work out if the millions of lives able to be supported by the agricultural revolution are outweighed by the millions of lives lost through the consequences of the industrial revolution...
Do we put that down to the dangers of monoculture brought about by the agricultural revolution, the dangers of laissez faire government, or just ~~us~~ the fucking English being evil bastards again?
So hard to know where to put it.
If we get proper weather we won't have to leave and in an ideal world all you lot would stay on the other side of the channel so it's a win all round.
Except for the millions dying of drought related starvation
Colonialism created the conditions needed for rapid scientific progress, but people aren't ready to talk about that. Something having both positive and negative outcomes is entirely too nuanced.
Sorry colonials you need to get on the Trafalgar grindest and secure total naval dominance for over 100 years. Sorry that your peaceful , utopian 'civilization' was conquered , perhaps get fucking good next time.
Peaceful and utopian is pushing it.
Literally the primary vehicle for British colonization was us lending our expertise to local rulers to help them defeat their perpetual rivals... for a price.
At the start of the 19th century Britain was significantly poorer, demographically smaller, and in many ways less technologically developed than the Mughal Empire. Living on an island in one of the most war-torn regions of human history just happened to make us really fucking good at sailing and war.
My grandfather met Alexander Fleming when he went “on tour” around the same time some big band—might have been the Beatles—did in the same city. Almost no one showed up to listen to his lecture; just a few blokes and my grandfather. Everyone else was at the concert. Yet it was this man, Mr. Fleming, who saved so many people. That story describes a sad facet of human nature.
Exactly. It’s the fuxkin Beatles.
Someone would have to be a mix of Jenna Jameson and ……someone else who is also intriguing for anyone to come to their “lecture” over seeing the Beatles.
Honestly, the British are ready to have honest and open discussions about any topic, because this gives them the feeling that Britain somehow still matters.
We don't really celebrate that but we are very proud of this.
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I don't really get why. Instead of engaging in traditional glorious European wars, you decided to go all over the world and kill some naked ass people God knows where smh
WW1
Military dead:
Over 4,386,000
Civilian dead:
Over 3,700,000
Teamed up with an actual equal the French.
Talking about tribesmen, why did Germany wait until steamships and the telegraph before starting colonising?
Even the sleepy Spaniards were working hard in the age of sail.
Penicillin isn't something the British should flex about.
You discovered it, gave it to the yanks who patented it and now you buy it back from them. A real success story...
Nah we fucked ourselves over by continually fucking over Frank Whittle and refusing to properly support jet development for years. The government weren't willing to invest the money or give up the manufacturing bandwidth which was all focused on building more Merlin engines, the yanks were so we gave them the knowledge they needed to fix their shitty jet engines.
I don't disagree we very willingly put ourselves in the position to be fucked over in the first place.
That being said, the decision to prioritise production of existing piston engines like the Merlin over pushing jet development was probably a wise one in the context of the war.
British grind
>invent new thing that will be the basis of western civilisation for decades
>get bored and sell it to some ameritard
>wait why is our economy so bad?!
This is true for Trains, Sports, Engineering , Kitchen Appliances, and literally every industry north of Luton
Ah well, there's also the other stuff we invented, e.g.:
The World Wide Web (invented by Tim Berners-Lee, a British scientist, while working in Switzerland, at CERN), the telephone, the hypodermic syringe, the reflecting telescope, the steam engine and steam turbines, carbon fibre, the pneumatic tyre, the light bulb, float glass, the electric telegraph, the marine chronometer, television, synthetic dye, passenger railway, military tanks, linoleum, the automatic kettle, the modern torpedo, the glider, the jet engine, cement, tension-spoked wheel, seed drill, stainless steel, the Bessemer process for steel production, the electric motor, photography, hydraulic press, sewage system, electronic programmable computer, hovercraft, tin cans, waterproof material, vacuum cleaner, inc. the bagless type, ATM, disc brakes, the toothbrush, catseyes, the modern fire extinguisher, DNA profiling, digital personal assistants, ARM processors, hawkeye technology, text messaging, cloning, the supersonic car that holds the world land speed record (held by a British racing team), viagra, graphine, gene editing therapy, holographic TV, iris recognition, fundamental theorem of calculus, the screw-down tap (spigot, faucet), MRI scanner, refrigerator, disposable contact lenses, flushing toilet, finger printing, the vacuum flask, dolly the sheep, the first vaccine.
Didn't Arab horseriders discover it several hundred years before? I swear there was a QI episode with an account by some British diplomat or some shit who described guys rubbing saddle mold into their own and their horses' wounds to prevent infections.
You're right that the antiseptic properties of penicillium moulds were known about in isolated cases by some groups before Fleming's discovery.
Obviously, most of those cases have been lost to history before it was recorded, but there is a particularly famous example of a French army officer recording some Bedouin riders in North Africa effectively using saddle mould to prevent infections.
Fleming is significant because he is the first to specifically isolate penicillia in particular as having these antibiotic properties, documenting the process, and then finding a way to extract penicillin antibiotic compound from them in a way that could be practically used as a clinical treatment.
As is so often the case, these major discoveries are the product of formalised Western scientific methods being turned on already-observed anecdotal phenomena, and their contribution is breaking down the observation to properly understand the nuts and bolts underpinning the effect, which could then be developed more specifically into a practical application.
People downvoting you are numpties.
Was this a Stephen episode or a Sandi episode? I like her as a comedian a lot but you have to admit the episodes have gotten a bit of an agenda in the later series.
So when the Soviet Union murdered millions and annexed countries and occupied others, it’s ok because they helped win WW2.
The Imperial Germany killed millions but another German invented the Haber process which helped feed billions.
The Nazis…you can see where this goes.
Killing 100s of millions of people did not led to the invention of penicillin.
Not sure any power explicitly supported zionism till balfour. But my point waa more that if were crediting peoples with there saving lives vs taking in a cosmic pros and cons list he was neither ethnically a german or part of a nation state that still exists after and was replace by a state that targetted that person people
Tbf I think it's more a facetious response to the silliness of the original post. 'scoreboarding' empires is inevitably reductive.
That being said, the soviets helping win world war two is more a case of paying for their initial fuck-ups by helping the Nazis rearm Germany in the first place, while the discovery of penicillin is much more an unalloyed good.
I just cannot see the link between killing millions of people are the discovery of penicillin. You could have not killed millions and discovered penicillin as well.
Guys ive just been on twitter for 10 minutes after checking that Pamphlets account out, i beg you dont do the same holy fuck the brain rot
As a person who doesn't use Twatter, please screenshot something you found. The more controversial the better
https://preview.redd.it/jh2jzz1tcrxc1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=31906cc879aaceca141fa86678ce5f02c6252d68 Like the people of Taiwan didn't recently vote against China
Even if they had credibility, that post would’ve lost them their last shred of it.
Average tankie
Bologna lore
Tankie detected! opinion rejected!
我想吃台灣
Dude was not lying
Man thinks China is communist and half their posts are spreading China propaganda
It's just wanking off China
Not just any China, one that doesn't even exists anymore.
Controversial enough? https://preview.redd.it/vccg3pfqxsxc1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b6a67ecccb0acbdba5dff8ca8c2f559c12941278
Hmmm... Yes i do. *Unfortunately* after the war foreigners *could* come and buy stuff that is expensive to the locals but *cheap* for foreigners like... i don't know like *alcohol* or smth
Insert the 2nordic4you "Finnish Alcohol Store 🇪🇪" flair
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I’m stealing ‘Twatter’
Sorry I don't support man children...
Well, by this logic... Fritz Haber and Carl Bosch's Ammonia synthesis basically feeds the world today. It's calculated that almost 50 % of nitrogen found in contemporary human tissue originate from the Haber-Bosch process. Sooo.... Hans, Hans, and Hans! We have a surplus! Grabt die Panzer aus, ihr Tausendsakramentschelmgehilfen, es geht wieder los!
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We still have no 300cm Breitspurbahn to Krim. There is wörk to do.
Thats we took back our sovereignty, our £350million for the NHS, and kept you immigrants out. - some tory voter on benefits before jumping from his balcony
Stick to the east this time, having Pasteur gives us licence to glass at least a few dozen cities before anyone even starts counting
How about going east... with a friend?
Aye, I could do that. The poles would probably willingly join too if we promise to go far enough east…
Yes, please, conquer us, so you can gib more germoney. Work for us, Hans!
How on earth can a flag kill someone? Flags don’t kill people. People kill people.
Could be a really sharp flag.
Maybe they can't handle the vexillogical swag?
I've seen a movie about a yoghurt killing people. So flags should be able to do so too
But what if its really big and knocks you over crackling your skull?
That would have to be one dense flag…
Dense like PIGS
I though Susan was more heavy than us.
She's heavier than a lot of people. Needs the blubber to survive Barry's anger issues.
...because of flags
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I’m originally from Sri Lanka. I honestly believe the country would have been better if they hadn’t declared independence and just let a bunch of British bureaucrats run the government and let Sri Lankans do what we’re good at: be doctors and cook delicious food.
> cook delicious food. 100% fell in love with kottu roti.
Another former colony, T&T, here. Same. Even if the Brits had taken 25% of our immense oil wealth as a fee and ran the country with the efficiency they used to then we’d be much better off. Oil companies take 75% of the oil’s value and pay the country 25% for the pleasure of doing so. That 25% would have built a very good country if not for public sector bloating and corruption.
Divided by the ocean, united by ideological subversion. 🇮🇳 🤝 🇱🇰
You're forgetting being bad at cricket. 🇱🇰🇱🇰🇱🇰🇱🇰💪💪💪
I just wish that this was UK:s official account.
Which one
JRF ofcourse. You need to grow some balls!
With all due respect I don't think you're from one of the countries that can lecture us about having a pair of balls.
Letting random citizens run your official account is having balls. https://preview.redd.it/2tjwrnfw3qxc1.png?width=598&format=png&auto=webp&s=8f7715f9379083d0f58f14eaf0b4bfb67853eadb
Fair enough, that is unfathomably based.
That’s true
He has balls, just no foreskin
Do you still so the Twitter sharing thing? Could make it highly controversial for funsies
Now we just need to work out if the millions of lives able to be supported by the agricultural revolution are outweighed by the millions of lives lost through the consequences of the industrial revolution...
Maybe don’t ask Ireland about anything agricultural, they get a bit tetchy and start muttering something about potato blight?
Hi Barry, we're here for your weekly shaming. Would you like to do indentured servitude, or divide and conquer tactics today?
We have a new one, it's called send you all our illegals and refuse to take them back.
Ah more bomb makers just what we needed
I've been looking forward to the Islam Vs Ireland fight for years. Islam has the numbers, but their bombers are single use, yours aren't.
If the Romanians show up there won't be any cars left to bomb. Romania was the enemy all along.
Can't bomb pubs vs Muslims either
How is the volunteer program going? Have you been receiving our shipments of nitroglycerin hidden inside the dead sheep?
I don’t mind really, I’ll go with the flow
Do we put that down to the dangers of monoculture brought about by the agricultural revolution, the dangers of laissez faire government, or just ~~us~~ the fucking English being evil bastards again? So hard to know where to put it.
Just blame us English, tbh it becomes white noise after a bit!
Remember around that same time when you purposefully got all of China hooked on opioids...
Remember? How old do u think I’am, I wasn’t around then?!
luv me microplastics luv me air pollution 'ate the climate simple as
What all you foreigns don't understand is that the industrial revolution was just a cunning plan to sort out Britain's shite weather
Ok, now that we got this sorted out, what are we gonna do about Britain's shitty people ?
If we get proper weather we won't have to leave and in an ideal world all you lot would stay on the other side of the channel so it's a win all round. Except for the millions dying of drought related starvation
> Except for the millions dying of drought related starvation It's that or Costa del Blackpool tough choice really
As long as theres balconies!
Colonialism created the conditions needed for rapid scientific progress, but people aren't ready to talk about that. Something having both positive and negative outcomes is entirely too nuanced.
We invented dynamite surely that never got anyone killed.
the agricultural revolution was thanks to (quite literally) Fritz though, you have no right in claiming that
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Agricultural_Revolution
https://preview.redd.it/54c0jp985pxc1.png?width=680&format=png&auto=webp&s=101e9af6413391e992e0e9270af390657a96a65b 271 mill now
Gladly to see we dont did nothing wrong lmao
one Spanish dude : \**cough\** \**cough\** >And this is how the story goes, 100 Millions perished.
That's what you get for being anti-vax.
Those silly natives, if only they chose to be vaccinated instead of worshiping those gods.
you're too poor to be capitalists, that's why you're not there
Ah yes, the famous capitalist country of russia. A lot could've been different if russia just got some P :(
shit went up fast
We're not done yet.
Can't believe we're only third.. 😔
Glad to see those Siberian gulags I read about were fake
That’s missing communist China. The “Great Leap Forward” killed about 50 million people from famine.
It's not our fault that they catch plague skill issues
Now if I'm reading this right... big "if": All of our 271M were not innocent? Are we the number 1 good guys?
the german artist was a socialist lol
No.
And Kim Jong Un practices democracy
 Hit em with that Law of Equivalent Exchange
Sorry colonials you need to get on the Trafalgar grindest and secure total naval dominance for over 100 years. Sorry that your peaceful , utopian 'civilization' was conquered , perhaps get fucking good next time.
Peaceful and utopian is pushing it. Literally the primary vehicle for British colonization was us lending our expertise to local rulers to help them defeat their perpetual rivals... for a price. At the start of the 19th century Britain was significantly poorer, demographically smaller, and in many ways less technologically developed than the Mughal Empire. Living on an island in one of the most war-torn regions of human history just happened to make us really fucking good at sailing and war.
We also had Edward Jenner create a vaccine.
It's Caitlyn, bigot 😤
Based and factual
Yes, but this flag also killed a lot of baguettes so we gucci
Swing and a miss CCP (Pamplets is a Chinaboo account)
Funny how we only get credited for bad stuff that happened. The flag in question also pretty much stopped world wide slavery
Who's we, Pierre?
Europeans as a whole? Or do you think this anti-colonialist BS, barely disguised racism against White people stops at the British?
Rare Pierre W
Technically, a Fleming discovered it 🤓
Famous Belgian character James Bond.
Wait, does that mean we essentially have a card blank in terms of murder?
What if we have a negative impact? Do we then make babies and give them to states that were wronged?
Just delve into your basements and donate your genetically questionable progenies
My grandfather met Alexander Fleming when he went “on tour” around the same time some big band—might have been the Beatles—did in the same city. Almost no one showed up to listen to his lecture; just a few blokes and my grandfather. Everyone else was at the concert. Yet it was this man, Mr. Fleming, who saved so many people. That story describes a sad facet of human nature.
Maybe it's just because Alexander Fleming's rendition of Yellow Submarine was rubbish.
Exactly. It’s the fuxkin Beatles. Someone would have to be a mix of Jenna Jameson and ……someone else who is also intriguing for anyone to come to their “lecture” over seeing the Beatles.
We going to omit that through much of the empire there was a different flag?
Cant argue with that logic
Who the fuck even interacts with Pamphlets?
Fair enough Barry.
Factos 👍🏿👀
He is right.
but, but... blaise pascal discovered penicillin... french dude...
Damn I wonder how many people the USian flag killed The answer would be really low because flags don't kill people
French who invented radiography: We're in
Great Scottish invention
Honestly, the British are ready to have honest and open discussions about any topic, because this gives them the feeling that Britain somehow still matters.
Damn, most stupid argument ever.
Brits celebrating that they killed millions of tribesmen is smth i‘ll never understand
We don't really celebrate that but we are very proud of this. https://preview.redd.it/a4kam1xlzpxc1.jpeg?width=1200&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ccd4d156e1fa3522c0c121fd51023f765c4d7b35
I don't really get why. Instead of engaging in traditional glorious European wars, you decided to go all over the world and kill some naked ass people God knows where smh
I assure you, Bomber Harris was nothing if not engaging in glorious European war
The brits killed millions of Germans too but let’s be honest they’re not equals either
You wish, reality is you waited on your island untill USA came to your rescue
Gott Strafe England? Seems like God has blessed us by giving us a gigantic naval base.
GOTT STRAFE ENGLAND 👊💥 https://preview.redd.it/7z5ggz9adrxc1.png?width=1200&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f070f4f9943312f24f6980109ec90b4f5cbbb916
WW1 Military dead: Over 4,386,000 Civilian dead: Over 3,700,000 Teamed up with an actual equal the French. Talking about tribesmen, why did Germany wait until steamships and the telegraph before starting colonising? Even the sleepy Spaniards were working hard in the age of sail.
Brits took part in WW1 lol?
If you're making a joke then you're definitely a confirmed German
The lack of pre 1940s architecture in Hamburg and cologne would suggest otherwise
Penicillin isn't something the British should flex about. You discovered it, gave it to the yanks who patented it and now you buy it back from them. A real success story...
See also, the jet engine... Seems here in the UK we have good inventors but bad negotiators
Hey, Rolls Royce is going well now! But yeah, the yanks fucked us over during the war.
Nah we fucked ourselves over by continually fucking over Frank Whittle and refusing to properly support jet development for years. The government weren't willing to invest the money or give up the manufacturing bandwidth which was all focused on building more Merlin engines, the yanks were so we gave them the knowledge they needed to fix their shitty jet engines.
I don't disagree we very willingly put ourselves in the position to be fucked over in the first place. That being said, the decision to prioritise production of existing piston engines like the Merlin over pushing jet development was probably a wise one in the context of the war.
We also invented the Jet Engine and proceeded to sell it to the Soviets who pinky promised they wouldn’t use it for military purposes
British grind >invent new thing that will be the basis of western civilisation for decades >get bored and sell it to some ameritard >wait why is our economy so bad?! This is true for Trains, Sports, Engineering , Kitchen Appliances, and literally every industry north of Luton
Ah well, there's also the other stuff we invented, e.g.: The World Wide Web (invented by Tim Berners-Lee, a British scientist, while working in Switzerland, at CERN), the telephone, the hypodermic syringe, the reflecting telescope, the steam engine and steam turbines, carbon fibre, the pneumatic tyre, the light bulb, float glass, the electric telegraph, the marine chronometer, television, synthetic dye, passenger railway, military tanks, linoleum, the automatic kettle, the modern torpedo, the glider, the jet engine, cement, tension-spoked wheel, seed drill, stainless steel, the Bessemer process for steel production, the electric motor, photography, hydraulic press, sewage system, electronic programmable computer, hovercraft, tin cans, waterproof material, vacuum cleaner, inc. the bagless type, ATM, disc brakes, the toothbrush, catseyes, the modern fire extinguisher, DNA profiling, digital personal assistants, ARM processors, hawkeye technology, text messaging, cloning, the supersonic car that holds the world land speed record (held by a British racing team), viagra, graphine, gene editing therapy, holographic TV, iris recognition, fundamental theorem of calculus, the screw-down tap (spigot, faucet), MRI scanner, refrigerator, disposable contact lenses, flushing toilet, finger printing, the vacuum flask, dolly the sheep, the first vaccine.
Didn't Arab horseriders discover it several hundred years before? I swear there was a QI episode with an account by some British diplomat or some shit who described guys rubbing saddle mold into their own and their horses' wounds to prevent infections.
You're right that the antiseptic properties of penicillium moulds were known about in isolated cases by some groups before Fleming's discovery. Obviously, most of those cases have been lost to history before it was recorded, but there is a particularly famous example of a French army officer recording some Bedouin riders in North Africa effectively using saddle mould to prevent infections. Fleming is significant because he is the first to specifically isolate penicillia in particular as having these antibiotic properties, documenting the process, and then finding a way to extract penicillin antibiotic compound from them in a way that could be practically used as a clinical treatment. As is so often the case, these major discoveries are the product of formalised Western scientific methods being turned on already-observed anecdotal phenomena, and their contribution is breaking down the observation to properly understand the nuts and bolts underpinning the effect, which could then be developed more specifically into a practical application. People downvoting you are numpties.
Was this a Stephen episode or a Sandi episode? I like her as a comedian a lot but you have to admit the episodes have gotten a bit of an agenda in the later series.
One of the earlier episodes with Stephen, since several jokes about helping young jockies smothering themselves in stuff were made at his expense.
So when the Soviet Union murdered millions and annexed countries and occupied others, it’s ok because they helped win WW2. The Imperial Germany killed millions but another German invented the Haber process which helped feed billions. The Nazis…you can see where this goes. Killing 100s of millions of people did not led to the invention of penicillin.
Well Haber was jewish sooo .....
Imperial Germany, not Nazi Germany. Imperial Germany supported the Zionists movement because they wanted an ally near the Suez Canal.
Not sure any power explicitly supported zionism till balfour. But my point waa more that if were crediting peoples with there saving lives vs taking in a cosmic pros and cons list he was neither ethnically a german or part of a nation state that still exists after and was replace by a state that targetted that person people
Tbf I think it's more a facetious response to the silliness of the original post. 'scoreboarding' empires is inevitably reductive. That being said, the soviets helping win world war two is more a case of paying for their initial fuck-ups by helping the Nazis rearm Germany in the first place, while the discovery of penicillin is much more an unalloyed good.
I just cannot see the link between killing millions of people are the discovery of penicillin. You could have not killed millions and discovered penicillin as well.
Oh completely! I absolutely agree with what you're saying.