Britain is built on......

Nutella and rice cakes, gave away the scones today!

What do you feel we are known for?

Would Indians know tea if it wasn't for the British?

 

when i think of britain i think of punk rock and cold miserable weather. ooh and cute little boxy cars! and these guys... :bobby:

 

Sure, the Chinese, the Vikings and possibly the Egyptians were here centuries before the Brit's arrived. Put down those state approved history textbooks already, they're mostly full of crap anyway.

 

Irony.

 

the chinese the vikings and possibly egyptians? fritz dude .... i'm all for accurate history books... but at least read some before you start preaching about them to others :mickey:

what are we known for? ... beautiful poetry... fantastic art...sodding rain.. bad teeth... imposing our culture into practically every society on earth... building the biggest empire the world has ever seen.... oh, and this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJmouowPH5k"]YouTube - Sex Pistols - God Save the Queen Studio

 

Well the Vikings for sure, Chinese are iffy but there have been some reports of Egyptian relics and such found on our soil, or at least greatly resembling Egyptian relics.

So yea, Columbus the Spaniard wasn't the first foreign national to spread small pox to the indigenous culture here.

http://www.goldenageproject.org.uk/124chineseking.php

 

ok... read ANY history books, even the bad ones (briefly because i'm nice.... chinese predated any recognisable british culture by a loong way ... stonehenge was built before the pyramids ... and the vikings liked nothing better to raid the british coast, and fight with the british, our cultures prolly grew at the same time)

 

I THINK OF THIS !!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55bML4ee4oQ"]YouTube - FLQ: Front de Liberation du Québec

 

Actually, I think he might be right... the Vikings did penetrate pretty deeply across what we now call Russia [by river and overland], so its not impossible they might have reached into Asia by that route. After all, they also made it to Canada.

He might have added the Greeks , since Alexander the Great reached India too.

 

we know... but what has that to do with the british colonization, introduction, farming and exporting of tea in india?

 

Nothing - should it ?

I was just backing Fritz's point about the Vikings probably reaching India.

 

Click. Number three.

 

Curry And Chips, Washed Down With A Pot Of Earl Grey Tea....



Cheers Glen.



P.S....Should The Occasion Be Less Formal, Feel Free To Subsitute Warm,

Flat Beer, Instead Of Tea....



P.P.S....Should The Occasion Be Full On "Upper Class", i.e... An Audience

With "Her Madge", Then I Suggest "Cheap Cooking Sherry" Would Be The

Appropiate Beverage....

 

Matchsticks?

 

The British mystery novels are the best. The inspector with his side kick visiting the locals who serve tea and always have something to hide. Love it!:book:

 

The stiff upper lip, the Queen, binge drinking, the inability to be stylishly dressed in hot weather, great music.

 

I thought it was built on large mounds of pubic hair and yellow teeth..

 

I am very proud to be British.

 

Came back to a history lesson-

Glen your prepared for every occasion you win afternoon tea at the Ritz
:coffee:

 

What ! Proud of all the killings and lies ? Grow up you s are hated all over the world . Just my opinoin
:devil: