What's the best thing the UK has ever given to the world?

[Barrel of Fun]

Multiculturalism and racial harmony.

 

[junior]

Foxhunting.

 

[southwickseagull]

The delectable Sarah Watts. Ooh yes

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

The long ball

 

[Alonso Moseley]

Monty Python

 

[coventrygull]

Multiculturalism and racial harmony.

We even gave National Socialism to the Germans. I give you Houston Stewart Chamberlain

 

[Psychobilly freakout]

penalty shootouts !!

 

[simmo]

Some suggestions:

- The UK judicial system?
- The Spice Girls
- English Mustard
- The Internet
- Penicillin

Sorry to be pedantic but

The British did not invent the internet. It was invented/innovated/created by the US so that devices (predominately computers) could communicate in the event of a nuclear attack by the USSR.

Tim Berners Lee invented/created the world wide web, which is a more user friendly interface so that the general public gain access to information that is available on the internet.

E-mail is also part of the internet but Berners Lee didn't invent that.

For my two pennith, our judicial system.

 

[Giraffe]

It has to be football

and Dr Who.

 

[desprateseagull]

The telephone.
chicken tikka masala.
jade goody.
swine flu.

not neccessarily in that order.

 

[sir albion]

This super dooper bad boy which was thrown back in our faces

 

[Cian]

This super dooper bad boy which was thrown back in our faces

Half French...


Football
The BBC
Irn Bru

 

[Stoo82]

Liberty
Industrialisation
United States of America - woops! We did try and stop it!
Brighton and Hove Albion
The Red Phone Box

 

[bhafc22]

knew the whole internet and www was going to brought up, i am aware of it, but to joe public they are one and the same, i am aware they are not, but it was to save confusion to some people.

 

[Tom Bombadil]

The industrial revolution, without which we'd all be in the fields at the moment.

 

[jakarta]

From the Harveys Website:

The English pub does not translate well to other countries. As an icon of the Nation, pubs surpass fish & chips, double decker buses and village cricket. Our pubs are to be treasured and require support. Hilaire Belloc, a great Sussex writer, wrote... "When you have lost your inns drown your empty selves, for you will have lost the last of England!"

Has to be serving a pint of Harveys Best Bitter in good nick of course.....

 

[Biscuit]

 

[little al]

as soon as i saw your name up , i knew you what you had put !

It had to be done

 

[Gwylan]

Er...fried fish was a Jewish import and chips were invented by Belgians/French/Irish... take your pick.

It's certainly not an English invention

 

[Stoo82]

Brighton and Hove Albion

Nice one mate. At least you can admit we are the greatest football team out of the UK.