slim_boy_fat

When you try to be smart (no pun intended) at least use proper English, its made, not make!!!

And don’t get me started on what the Scots have invented.

p.s. we are part of Europe.

sweanders

Yep, I guess Scotland is a lot like a European version of what Hawaii is to the US - a bit off...

lart951

Besides brave heart what else have scotlands invented?

Y la razon por la cual yo tengo errores gramaticales en la lengua inglesa es porque el espanol es mi primer lenguage, no espero que un escoses tenga la capacidad para enterder eso.

Dicen que los escoseses usan falda porque son un poco afeminados es cierto eso delgado muchacho gordo?

special tool

Ta seguro hombre - pero no diga esa mierda aqui, Lucho

ldt1

I wish I knew how to download pics so I could make all of you bow before my hideous green 78 coupe deville, complete with rotting landau roof and the mighty 425 cu v8.

lart951

El que el escoses me esta enojando.

Popthatthang

Chinga tu madre pinche. Culero.

lart951

Oye pendejo, y la pinche gorrda de tu madre como esta?

Popthatthang

Tu madre------> Puta

lart951

La mia es puta no mas, pero la tuya es super gorda fea y mas puta no te recuerdas? Pero no es mas gorda fea y puta que tu mujer

special tool

No te recuerdas?

Eso no save ne la mama - ella se fui dexando le en la gasolinera.

Royalty

I'm gonna say this in plain ol english.

Can we get back on topic, you thred jacking hooligans :-)

lart951

Aye, ah It wasn't me it was Jock the young Scottish lad. It's nae guid tae do that accuse someone else.

slim_boy_fat

I just have to..

Imagine a world without
Television; telephones; penicillin; antiseptics; lawnmowers; microwave ovens; marmalade; computer games; golf.

Some people, maybe, could do without some of these things. Some people have an aversion to marmalade, for instance. Some – sticklers you might call them – would only consider heating up their dinner in a microwave at gunpoint. Some would cheer if computer games were un-invented and others – and this might seem incredible to some readers – wouldn’t bat an eyelid if there was just green grass without the holes where there are golf links now. But that’s just human nature: you can’t please everybody all of the time.

All of the above inventions are Scottish. Some of them, without doubt, are major discoveries that have changed the world. Penicillin, for instance, discovered by bacteriologist Sir Alexander Fleming in 1928 has saved more lives than all those lost in all the wars in history. Television has no equal in communicating to and influencing a mass audience – so much so, that during any modern revolution one of the first acts is to take control of the national TV station. And the telephone, which was initially dismissed as having no value as ‘there would always be an adequate supply of runners to carry messages in London’ has transformed the way the planet communicates like no other invention: the telephone network has grown to be the ‘biggest machine on the planet’. These are major contributions to modern civilisation. And they’re only the tip of the iceberg. New inventions emerge from Scotland’s scientists and engineers with an amazing rapidity, some of which bring with them immediately graspable implications like the MRI scanner or the Tuley Tube (the plastic tree shelter than can be spotted along hillsides and motorway verges around the world). Others, like the ground-breaking animal cloning at the Roslin Institute outside Edinburgh, bring with them complex ethical issues as the powers of sciences like bio-technology become ever more fundamental.

The key point here though is that the best Scottish minds have always been worth backing. To underline the point, below is a selected list of some of things that Scotland has contributed to the world – things that for the most part we understand. Many of the inventions and discoveries currently being worked on in universities and research institutes across Scotland require, almost by definition, a leap of the imagination, for they are the building blocks of tomorrow’s world. But you only have to look at how far we’ve come to imagine how far we might go. For instance, imagine a world without cancer. Just one thing that Scottish scientists are working on. Imagine what the world would be like without the following – all invented in Scotland.

An abbreviated A-Z of Scottish inventions


Anaesthetics

Beta-blockers

Bicycles

Cash credit

Colour photography

Cotton-reel threads

Continuous electric light

Criminal finger-printing

Decimal points

Fax machines

Financial services by telephone

Fountain pens

Electro-magnetism

Hollow pipe drainage

Hypodermic syringes

Insulin

Kaleidoscopes

Lime cordial

Motor insurance

Noble gases

Paraffin

Postage stamps

Quinine

Radar

Reflecting telescopes

Retail banking

Savings banks

Tarmac

Ultrasound scanners

Universal standard time

Vacuum flasks

Waterproof mackintoshes

Wave-powered electricity generators

Epic2112

Me cago en la leche.