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

[Norman Baker suck my lozenge]

Lots of taxpayers money

 

[Mendoza]

Ice Cream vans at the top of really MASSIVE hills

 

[Taybha]

Kieth chegwin

 

[Tyrone Biggums]

The correct answer is : Australia

 

[Norman Potting]

A great writer who was French!

Good man

Half French but a good point well made. I sometimes think that the ones who see the best of Britain/England are those who come from elsewhere such as Bill Bryson and the Archbishop of York.

....What about "Father Ted" or is that stretching the "UK" definition too far!

 

[Nigella's Cream Pie]

The correct answer is : Australia

I think abo's might disagree with you there, mate

 

[bhafc22]

the SAS as well?

 

[larus]

I fear you've all missed the greatest gift to civilisation from the British. It is, as the Great Boris Johnson so eloquently put, "Wiff-Waff".

 

[Tyrone Biggums]

I think abo's might disagree with you there, mate

Considering what Australians have contributed to in the fields of war, medicine, science, sport etc i'd say they would be the UK's greatest legacy.

If the Japanese hadn't been turned back and defeated during WW2 there wouldn't be any Aboriginals left

 

[SUIYHP]

The British just carried on the job from what the romans did, taking over the world to make it a better place, well we did do it, sort of...

 

[The Spanish]

Considering what Australians have contributed to in the fields of war, medicine, science, sport etc i'd say they would be the UK's greatest legacy.

If the Japanese hadn't been turned back and defeated during WW2 there wouldn't be any Aboriginals left

hahaha the uk's biggest legacy is australia. classic. and island full of insecure people with no real identity banging on about how great they are to their big brother on the other side of the world who forgot about them years ago.

its just overspill. Its just a giant crawley with hot weather.

Don Bradman and a couple of VC's do not get you on the top table with the proper countries mate.

 

[ewe2]

Chicken Korma.......

 

[csider]

Hooligans....

 

[little al]

Top Gear. The TV programme, not quality drugs.

 

[csider]

cockneys & rhyming slang

 

[Barrel of Fun]

Lord Lucan. But who did we give him to exactly?

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

I fear you've all missed the greatest gift to civilisation from the British. It is, as the Great Boris Johnson so eloquently put, "Wiff-Waff".

upper class buffoons?

 

[Stoo82]

"Wiff-waff" - Table tennis.

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[Nottseagull]

Sender pays postal system.

That post is badly in need of some inverted commas.

(quoting the post above):-
I didn't say its current form was worth praising, but Rowland Hill's concept and initial system was...

Did you think I meant that the post system would be improved by the introduction of inverted commas ??

 

[Cian]

Did you think I meant that the post system would be improved by the introduction of inverted commas ??

I thought you meant it needed some inverted commas to imply sarcasm in that utterly irritating american way. I now see what you mean (I think).