Britain are kicking USA's ass in the Davis Cup Tennis.

[pinhead]

Wow, you yanks really are trash when even we can beat you at tennis. Maybe if you all left your computers and got some exercise you might produce some good sportsmen again.

[KingBeasley08]

Basketball >>>>>> Tennis

Our bballers >>>> your bballers

Thus, USA >>>>>> England

[Draz]

Truuuu

[pinhead]

Basketball >>>>>> Tennis

Our bballers >>>> your bballers

Thus, USA >>>>>> England


Tennis is probably better than Basketball to be honest. And we don't care about Basketball so it would be pretty embarrassing if you were not better.

[RagaZ]

They are f*cking sh*t.

Who's their best player right now? Donald Young? :roll:

Their best football player, Jozy Altidore, is a scrub in the english league. :lol

[KingBeasley08]

Sorry you dislike the US so much. But being back-to-back World War Champion MVP breeds jealousy :rockon:

[pinhead]

They are f*cking sh*t.

Who's their best player right now? Donald Young? :roll:

Their best football player, Jozy Altidore, is a scrub in the english league. :lol

I went for a shit before Murray-Young match yesterday and by the time I had finished Murray had destroyed that punk ass yank bitch.

[pinhead]

Sorry you dislike the US so much. But being back-to-back World War Champion MVP breeds jealousy :rockon:

You were the MVP in Hollywood only. Even the French had the guts to fight for a bit before all the countries had destroyed each other.

[Raymone]

Soccer, tennis and cricket. Nicely done!

Next up: semi-real sports like golf, hockey and baseball.

After that: real sports like football and basketball.

I believe in you guys. You can do it. Shoot for the stars.

[aj1987]

Sorry you dislike the US so much. But being back-to-back World War Champion MVP breeds jealousy :rockon:
http://i.imgur.com/nMOX6qn.png

[pinhead]

Soccer, tennis and cricket. Nicely done!

Next up: semi-real sports like golf, hockey and baseball.

After that: real sports like football and basketball.

I believe in you guys. You can do it. Shoot for the stars.

Europe always kick your ass in Golf as well which is mainly British players. Justin Rose is the current US open Champion.

We won medals in the proper Hockey at the last Summer Olympics, or do you mean the retarded one played on Ice?

American Football is not a real sport. It really is the worst sport out there. Why do 20 stone men have to wear big shoulder pads and helmets?

[Grinder]

lol, Brits can't hold the US' jock when it comes to tennis. The US has 51 men's Grand Slam singles titles in the Open era while the UK has 2. :roll:

[pinhead]

http://i.imgur.com/nMOX6qn.png

Take away the medals you won with help from drugs and it would look different. We are too honest as a sporting nation, that's all.

[KingBeasley08]

lol, Brits can't hold the US' jock when it comes to tennis. The US has 51 men's Grand Slam singles titles while the UK has 2. :roll:
Damn, I don't know shit about tennis but talk about thread backfire :roll: :roll:

[RagaZ]

lol, Brits can't hold the US' jock when it comes to tennis. The US has 51 men's Grand Slam singles titles in the Open era while the UK has 2. :roll:
When was the last time you lot won a Grand Slam?

[pinhead]

lol, Brits can't hold the US' jock when it comes to tennis. The US has 51 men's Grand Slam singles titles in the Open era while the UK has 2. :roll:

USA have had great tennis players. Now you have Donald Young. I could beat that punk.

[pinhead]

When was the last time you lot won a Grand Slam?

I think it was 1 hit wonder Roddick.

[RagaZ]

I think it was 1 hit wonder Roddick.
And that was in U.S. :lol

[aj1987]

Take away the medals you won with help from drugs and it would look different. We are too honest as a sporting nation, that's all.
That's all you got?

Why do I have a feeling that you're not British and are just baiting people?

[pinhead]

And that was in U.S. :lol

He won it between the eras of Sampras and Federer. That is the only reason he won.

[pinhead]

That's all you got?

Why do I have a feeling that you're not British and are just baiting people?

Don't question my heritage or where I have come from you pleb.

[aj1987]

Don't question my heritage or where I have come from you pleb.
How are things in mini Pakistan?

[K]

http://i.imgur.com/nMOX6qn.png

Lame. Germany's different eras aren't combined.

[K]

Germany has won 11 Wimbledon Singles titles in the open era between 3 people.

Boris Becker himself takes a dump on all the British tennis players.

England was bailed out by a Scot. :lol

[nightprowler10]

Soccer, tennis and cricket. Nicely done!

Next up: semi-real sports like golf, hockey and baseball.

After that: real sports like football and basketball.

I believe in you guys. You can do it. Shoot for the stars.
Man they suck at cricket. Never won a World Cup to this day and just got destroyed by Australia 11-1 in all formats (5-0 in Tests, 4-1 in ODI, 2-0 in T20) even though they're supposed to be great at it.

[pinhead]

[QUOTE=K

[pinhead]

Man they suck at cricket. Never won a World Cup to this day and just got destroyed by Australia 11-1 in all formats (5-0 in Tests, 4-1 in ODI, 2-0 in T20) even though they're supposed to be great at it.

1 bad tour? It happens to all teams. We have been the best test team for years.

[mr.big35]

Andy murray was the first grand slam winner in about 70 odd years. In the past 20 years we had sampras agassi

[nightprowler10]

1 bad tour? It happens to all teams. We have been the best test team for years.
:oldlol:

Lost 3-0 to Pakistan.

PAKISTAN!!

And this was much worse than a bad tour. It was an abomination. Your coach had to leave, your best bowler retired mid-series, and your most promising future batsman went home with depression (though you could argue that was most likely a result of being overloaded). No other team gets dominated by this Australian team full of shaky prospects. This is not the Aussies of 2001 - 2007 who were dominating everyone. You guys literally made a legend out of guys like Brad Haddin and Mitchell Johnson for ****'s sake. :oldlol:

[bdreason]

They are f*cking sh*t.

Who's their best player right now? Donald Young? :roll:

Their best football player, Jozy Altidore, is a scrub in the english league. :lol


Dempsey is probably our best player... and he led Fulham in goals scored last year (in the EPL). Howard is probably our second best player, and he's the goalkeeper for Everton who is holding the 5th spot in the EPL.

[B-Easy8]

The US does suck balls at mens tennis.

[Crystallas]

What is sad is that the UK invented Tennis, but does not dominate the world at it.

[MMM]

Sorry you dislike the US so much. But being back-to-back World War Champion MVP breeds jealousy :rockon:

Canada should be in the discussion for WW1
did the most with the least.

[magic chiongson]

women's tennis is the only thing that matters, and i'm not talking about their game

[pinhead]

What is sad is that the UK invented Tennis, but does not dominate the world at it.

We invent sports that the rest of the world enjoy and take seriously, that might explain it. Unlike you fatties who invent sports that sends the rest of us to sleep.

[pinhead]

Dempsey is probably our best player... and he led Fulham in goals scored last year (in the EPL). Howard is probably our second best player, and he's the goalkeeper for Everton who is holding the 5th spot in the EPL.

Dempsey did not play for Fulham last year you douche.

[Black and White]

1 bad tour? It happens to all teams. We have been the best test team for years.

India? South Africa?

[step_back]

Canada should be in the discussion for WW1
did the most with the least.

I've visited lots of WW1 memorial graves on the continent. Canada really did have our back. :cheers:


America would not have entered WW2 if they weren't attacked by the Japanese. They also have no idea who pioneered their special forces. Part of the America is #1 at everything mentality.

[Raymone]

The British invent boring sports like cricket and tennis.

Americans invent exciting and intricate sports like football and basketball, as well as other things like electricity, human flight, the telephone, the Polio vaccine, the operating system, the internet.

[dr.hee]

The British invent boring sports like cricket and tennis.

Americans invent exciting and intricate sports like football and basketball, as well as other things like electricity, human flight, the telephone, the Polio vaccine, the operating system, the internet.

Nope. First of all, humans didn't invent electricity. Maybe you've meant to say who discovered it. In that case, it's not Benjamin Franklin, lol. He didn't "invent" it, nobody did. He's also not the first guy describing electric phenomena. Just one of them.

And "human flight" is also not correct. The Wright brothers weren't the first humans to fly.

[Raymone]

Nope. First of all, humans didn't invent electricity. Maybe you've meant to say who discovered it. In that case, it's not Benjamin Franklin, lol.

Nope, America invented it. Take America out of the equation and things would be very different for you europeans today. You'd still live in your shanties, just without electricity. You'd be using candles for light and fire for heat (if you don't already) in 2014.

That's invention.

[dr.hee]

Nope, America invented it. Take America out of the equation and things would be very different for you europeans today. You'd still live in your shanties, just without electricity. You'd be using candles for light and fire for heat (if you don't already) in 2014.

That's invention.

You know what electricity is, right? Electricity is a little bit older than mankind, nobody invented it. Also, human flight is bullshit. Balloons and steam powered flying machines have been around decades before the Wright brothers.

[KingBeasley08]

The British invent boring sports like cricket and tennis.

Americans invent exciting and intricate sports like football and basketball, as well as other things like electricity, human flight, the telephone, the Polio vaccine, the operating system, the internet.
Not to mention the radio, modern air conditioning, microwave, microprocessor and a bunch of other useful modern appliances

[dr.hee]

Not to mention the radio, modern air conditioning, microwave, microprocessor and a bunch of other useful modern appliances

Who exactly?

[step_back]

The British invent boring sports like cricket and tennis.

Americans invent exciting and intricate sports like football and basketball, as well as other things like electricity, human flight, the telephone, the Polio vaccine, the operating system, the internet.

What ****ing school did you attend :roll:

You just listed loads of things not created in the U.S.

[Raymone]

What ****ing school did you attend :roll:

You just listed loads of things not created in the U.S.

Name them, and I'll explain to you why you're mistaken.

[dr.hee]

Name them, and I'll explain to you why you're mistaken.

electricity
human flight

[Raymone]

electricity

Ben Franklin's invention of the lightning rod in 1749, without which the harnessing of electricity would not have been possible.


human flight

Wright brothers' 1903 flights recognized by the F

[step_back]

electricity
human flight

Add Basketball, The Telephone and The internet into the list as well.

[Raymone]

Basketball

Invented in December 1891 at a YMCA in Springfield, Massachusetts.


The Telephone

Patented on March 7, 1876, by the U.S. Patent Office.


The internet

The first two ARPANET nodes of what would later become the internet were interconnected between Leonard Kleinrock's Network Measurement Center at the UCLA's School of Engineering and Applied Science and Douglas Engelbart's NLS system at SRI International (SRI) in Menlo Park, California, on October 29th, 1969.

[dr.hee]

[QUOTE=Raymone]Ben Franklin's invention of the lightning rod in 1749, without which the harnessing of electricity would not have been possible.



Wright brothers' 1903 flights recognized by the F

[step_back]

Invented in December 1891 at a YMCA in Springfield, Massachusetts.

By Canadian James Naismith


Patented on March 7, 1876, by the U.S. Patent Office.

Alexander Graham Bell is credited as inventing the telephone. Patented doesn't mean shit.


The first two ARPANET nodes of what would later become the internet were interconnected between Leonard Kleinrock's Network Measurement Center at the UCLA's School of Engineering and Applied Science and Douglas Engelbart's NLS system at SRI International (SRI) in Menlo Park, California, on October 29th, 1969.

I'm reffering to the World Wide Web. Invented by Tim Berners-lee

[Raymone]

Why would it be impossible to "harness electricity" without a lightning rod?

I'm not going to teach you electrical engineering. Just trust me. No lightning rod back then, no electricity powering your euro shit today.


On the Wright brothers...do you realize the difference between "human flight" per se and "the first sustained and controlled heavier-than-air powered flight"? Probably not. If your first claim would've been the latter one, that's correct. But to say they invented "human flight" is simply incorrect.

They were the pioneers of the modern day "human flight" that we know today. You know, in "heavier-than-air, powered" airplanes. It's that simple.


I'm reffering to the World Wide Web. Invented by Tim Berners-lee

I don't care what you thought was being discussed. You questioned the fact that we invented "the internet," not "the world wide web." Different things.


By Canadian James Naismith

Alexander Graham Bell is credited as inventing the telephone.

You: "You just listed loads of things not created in the U.S."
Facts: Basketball and the telephone were both created in the U.S.

[dr.hee]

I'm not going to teach you electrical engineering. Just trust me. No lightning rod back then, no electricity powering your euro shit today.


Even though you don't need a lightning rod for capacitors, batteries and generators?

Uneducated fool:roll:

[step_back]

I'm not going to teach you electrical engineering. Just trust me. No lightning rod back then, no electricity powering your euro shit today.



They were the pioneers of the modern day "human flight" that we know today. You know, in "heavier-than-air, powered" airplanes. It's that simple.



I don't care what you thought was being discussed. You questioned the fact that we invented "the internet," not "the world wide web." Different things.

You mean the World Wide Web which you are using to answer me on. That is Definitely what you meant when you said the internet in your original post.

I'll let you play the semantics card because you're currently digging your own hole anyway.

P.S LMAO you think a Canadian inventing basketball in the U.S makes it American.

[Raymone]

[/B]

You mean the World Wide Web which you are using to answer me on. That is Definitely what you meant when you said the internet in your original post.

I'll let you play the semantics card because you're currently digging your own hole anyway.

I definitely meant "world wide web" when I typed "internet"? There's literally no issue of ambiguity or semantics here. They both describe two distinctly different things.

http://www.webopedia.com/DidYouKnow/Internet/Web_vs_Internet.asp
http://computer.howstuffworks.com/internet/basics/internet-versus-world-wide-web1.htm
http://www.diffen.com/difference/Internet_vs_World_Wide_Web

Your ignorance of their differences isn't evidence that I was referring to the WWW and not the internet.


P.S LMAO you think a Canadian inventing basketball in the U.S makes it American.

Was basketball created in the U.S.? Simple answer to your original objection.

[pinhead]

We just kicked the Yanks' asses in their own backyard. It is like the Ryder Cup all over again.

[step_back]

The British invent boring sports like cricket and tennis.

Americans invent exciting and intricate sports like football and basketball, as well as other things like electricity, human flight, the telephone, the Polio vaccine, the operating system, the internet.

Your own words Raymone.

[Raymone]

Your own words Raymone.

I wasn't replying to my own post. I was replying to yours:


What ****ing school did you attend :roll:

You just listed loads of things not created in the U.S.

The bolded is false. Perhaps you meant to post "loads of things not created in the U.S. by American citizens born in America," but your omission of any qualifiers is your error; not mine.

So I ask again... was basketball created in the U.S.?

[step_back]

I wasn't replying to my own post. I was replying to yours:



The bolded is false. Perhaps you meant to post "loads of things not created in the U.S. by American citizens born in America," but your omission of any qualifiers is your error; not mine.

The fault is of your own doing. You can try and wriggle out of what you said but you did say Americans invented sports like Football and Basketball. Perhaps you should take your own advice.

[dr.hee]

The fault is of your own doing. You can try and wriggle out of what you said but you did say Americans invented sports like Football and Basketball. Perhaps you should take your own advice.

Don't be so hard on him. He most likely dropped out of school at 14. I mean come on, the fool really thinks a human invented electricity...by building a lightning rod:oldlol:

Raymone is learning quite a few new things today. Here's something else...the Milky Way is actually not made of milk :eek:

[Raymone]

James Naismith was also American anyway. He became an American citizen in 1925 in Lawrence, Kansas. So actually both of these two statements are correct.

Basketball was created in the U.S.
Basketball was created by an American who was born in Canada and moved to the U.S. and became an American citizen.

I'm right, you're wrong any way you slice it.

[K]

Electricity was invented by an American. :roll: :roll: :roll:

[Raymone]

[QUOTE=K

[dr.hee]

[QUOTE=K

[step_back]

James Naismith was also American anyway. He became an American citizen in 1925 in Lawrence, Kansas. So actually both of these two statements are correct.

Basketball was created in the U.S.
Basketball was created by an American who was born in Canada and moved to the U.S. and became an American citizen.

I'm right, you're wrong any way you slice it.

Nope you're just wrong and I think you know it..... At least you don't quit.

[CavaliersFTW]

http://cdn.ebaumsworld.com/picture/Dillion_Day/British.pnghttp://25.media.tumblr.com/f7b849baa6ee8b6368dabe33dbecc68d/tumblr_msohpaZGMp1sd38a1o1_500.pnghttp://s940.photobucket.com/user/mogren15/media/asdfda/26455yo.jpg
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british people :roll:

[aj1987]

http://i.imgur.com/sfG9Cav.jpg


JK

[Raymone]

Nope you're just wrong and I think you know it..... At least you don't quit.

Naismith was American.

[K]

They also invented water, oxygen and dinosaurs :lol

But seriously, can some Americans on here tell me whether you guys really learn that an American "invented electricity"...or is Raymone simply not the brightest?

Just two weeks ago someone said that Henry Ford invented the automobile. Now, I currently live in a more affluent area. :facepalm It's not uncommon either.

The general education certainly isn't the best.

[dr.hee]

@aj1987

I'm all for hearing different opinions but damn, that comic is simple minded:facepalm

[dr.hee]

[QUOTE=K

[aj1987]

@aj1987

I'm all for hearing different opinions but damn, that comic is simple minded:facepalm
com

[K]

Das Allgemeinwissen in der USA ist sowas von Grottenschlecht. :oldlol:

[Raymone]

If anyone's curious, here's a partial list of all American inventions throughout history (sorted alphabetically):

3D printing
8-track tape
Acrylic paint
Aerogel
Aerosol Bomb
Aerosol paint
Airbag
Airplane
ARPANET
Artificial heart
Artificial neuron
Artificial cardiac pacemaker
Assembly line
Automatic transmission
Autopilot
Barbed wire
Barcode
BASIC
Bass guitar
Bazooka
Beach ball
Bifocals
Black light
Bread clip
Breakfast cereal
Bubble gum
Bubble wrap
Bulldozer
Bulletin board system
C (programming language)
Cable television
Cable tie
Calculator
Candy apple
Candy corn
Cash register
Catalytic converter
Cigarette
Clothes hanger
Coca-Cola
Communications satellite
Compiler
Cooler
Cordless telephone
Cotton candy
Cotton gin
Cotton swab
Crash test dummy
Crayon
Credit card
Curiosity (rover)
Defibrillation
Dental floss
Digital camera
Dishwasher
DNA computing
DOS
Dynamic random-access memory
Electric chair
Electric guitar
Electric stove
Electromagnetic lock
Email
Escalator
Ethernet
Fax
Ferris wheel
Fiberglass
Fire sprinkler
Firewall (computing)
Flashlight
Fleshlight
Floppy disk
Garage door
Gas laser
Gas mask
Global Positioning System
Graphical user interface
Hair spray
Hard disk drive
Hydraulic brake
Hypertext
Integrated circuit
Internet
Ion laser
Jeans
Jelly bean
Jukebox
K-Y Jelly
Kart racing
Computer keyboard
Lambda calculus
Laptop
Laser
Laser diode
Laser printing
Laser turntable
LCD projector
Leaf blower
Lightning rod
Lightning Switch
Lint remover
Liquid-crystal display
Magnetic resonance imaging
Magnetic storage
Magnetic stripe card
Marker pen
Masking tape
Microprocessor
Microwave oven
Microwave popcorn
Modem
Monopoly (game)
Monster truck
Mouse (computing)
Mouse button
Mousepad
Napalm
Neutron bomb
New Year's glasses
Nuclear power plant
Nuclear submarine
Nuclear weapon
Nylon
Oil well
Operating system
Optical mouse
Paintball
Paper clip
Paper cup
Paper shredder
Parking meter
Payphone
Personal computer
Photocopier
Photosensitive glass
Pipe wrench
Plasma display
Polio vaccine
Polygraph
Polymerase chain reaction
Potato chip
Radar gun
Radio telescope
Radiocarbon dating
Random-access memory
Recombinant DNA
Refrigerator
Relay
Remote control
Revolving door
Richter magnitude scale
Roller skates
Safety pin
Safety razor
Satellite navigation
Scotch Tape
Scrabble
Semi-trailer truck
Skateboard
Skee ball
Slide Away Bed
Slot machine
Smoke detector
Snowboarding
Softball
Solar cell
Space blanket
Space observatory
Space Pen
Space Shuttle
Space tourism
Spreadsheet
Stop sign
Swivel chair
Tow truck
Traffic cone
Transcriptor
Transistor
Tupperware
Universal Product Code
Uno (card game)
USB
Vacuum cleaner
Video game console
Videotape
Virtual reality
Virtual reality therapy
Vitascope
Washing machine
WD-40
Windsurfing
Wireless keyboard
Wireless LAN
Zip (file format)
Zipper
Zipper storage bag

Again, it's only a partial list of American inventions. It's by no means a complete list. More detailed list here. (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Category:American_inventions)

[Crystallas]

We invent sports that the rest of the world enjoy and take seriously, that might explain it. Unlike you fatties who invent sports that sends the rest of us to sleep.


umad?

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/256734.php

pot-kettle? Anyways, I'm in damn good shape playing sports that put you to sleep. So while you're eating crisps and sleeping, I'm being active.

[dr.hee]

[QUOTE=aj1987]com

[K]

But they don't teach that shit at American schools, right?

I don't think so. But from what I've seen in high school books, let's just say there is a lot more fanfare about everything American. So, in a way you can see why a lot of Americans believe that. :roll:

I was in high school here for a very, very brief time. High schools are a complete joke and it wasn't worth the time. Any half decent student from a Realschule should ace it without problems.

[Raymone]

Some of the sports created in the U.S.

Baseball
Basketball
Disc golf
Football
Kickball
Racquetball
Roller derby
Softball
Squash
Street luge
Volleyball

[dr.hee]

Some of the sports created in the U.S.

Baseball
Basketball
Disc golf
Football
Kickball
Racquetball
Roller derby
Softball
Squash
Street luge
Volleyball

Before you're posting even more of that...you do realize that's nothing you should be proud of, right? Neither is any real invention. You know that I hope...

Besides...Squash was invented in England.

[aj1987]

Why are you posting the definition of the adjective when it's clear that I was using it as a noun?
Shit. I only copied half of it. I know it's highly exaggerated, but I posted it because it's funny. Go back to my OP and try to find the white text at the bottom of it.

I'll save you the trouble. It says JK (just kidding) under the image.

[dr.hee]

Shit. I only copied half of it. I know it's highly exaggerated, but I posted it because it's funny. Go back to my OP and try to find the white text at the bottom of it.

I'll save you the trouble. It says JK (just kidding) under the image.

:cheers:

[pinhead]

Some of the sports created in the U.S.

Baseball
Basketball
Disc golf
Football
Kickball
Racquetball
Roller derby
Softball
Squash
Street luge
Volleyball

Worst list of sports ever. Disc golf? Racquetball? Kickball? WTF.

[Raymone]

It's crazy to consider how prolific the U.S. is at invention and discovery and single-handedly advancing society. We're a single country with roughly 23% of the population of China and 25% of the population of India, and yet we exert so much sheer dominance in so many facets of life. It's not just science and mathematics and technology and medicine, it's sports, music, movies, arts, humanities, everything.

[dr.hee]

It's crazy to consider how prolific the U.S. is at invention and discovery and single-handedly advancing society. We're a single country with roughly 23% of the population of China and 25% of the population of India, and yet we exert so much sheer dominance in so many facets of life. It's not just science and mathematics and technology and medicine, it's sports, music, movies, arts, humanities, everything.

I like the "we" part. Ingroup bias at it's best. Especially if you've not contributed a damn thing to the accomplishments others busted their asses off for. National pride is such bullshit :oldlol: The "sheer dominance" is excerted by a small group of the absolute intellectual elite...which you aren't part of. So what should you be proud of? That some scientist was born on the same piece of dirt like you? Congratulations.

[K]

It's crazy to consider how prolific the U.S. is at invention and discovery and single-handedly advancing society. We're a single country with roughly 23% of the population of China and 25% of the population of India, and yet we exert so much sheer dominance in so many facets of life. It's not just science and mathematics and technology and medicine, it's sports, music, movies, arts, humanities, everything.

400% the population of Germany.

[K]

I like the "we" part. Ingroup bias at it's best. Especially if you've not contributed a damn thing to the accomplishments others busted their asses off for. National pride is such bullshit :oldlol:

Come on, in essence, yes, it's bullshit, but the banter can be amusing. :lol

[Raymone]

[QUOTE=K

[pinhead]

It's crazy to consider how prolific the U.S. is at invention and discovery and single-handedly advancing society. We're a single country with roughly 23% of the population of China and 25% of the population of India, and yet we exert so much sheer dominance in so many facets of life. It's not just science and mathematics and technology and medicine, it's sports, music, movies, arts, humanities, everything.

This is not true but even if it was, why can't you make houses that don't look like refuge shacks that tumble over after a bit of bad weather.

[dr.hee]

[QUOTE=K

[Dresta]

If anyone's curious, here's a partial list of all American inventions throughout history (sorted alphabetically):

3D printing
8-track tape
Acrylic paint
Aerogel
Aerosol Bomb
Aerosol paint
Airbag
Airplane
ARPANET
Artificial heart
Artificial neuron
Artificial cardiac pacemaker
Assembly line
Automatic transmission
Autopilot
Barbed wire
Barcode
BASIC
Bass guitar
Bazooka
Beach ball
Bifocals
Black light
Bread clip
Breakfast cereal
Bubble gum
Bubble wrap
Bulldozer
Bulletin board system
C (programming language)
Cable television
Cable tie
Calculator
Candy apple
Candy corn
Cash register
Catalytic converter
Cigarette
Clothes hanger
Coca-Cola
Communications satellite
Compiler
Cooler
Cordless telephone
Cotton candy
Cotton gin
Cotton swab
Crash test dummy
Crayon
Credit card
Curiosity (rover)
Defibrillation
Dental floss
Digital camera
Dishwasher
DNA computing
DOS
Dynamic random-access memory
Electric chair
Electric guitar
Electric stove
Electromagnetic lock
Email
Escalator
Ethernet
Fax
Ferris wheel
Fiberglass
Fire sprinkler
Firewall (computing)
Flashlight
Fleshlight
Floppy disk
Garage door
Gas laser
Gas mask
Global Positioning System
Graphical user interface
Hair spray
Hard disk drive
Hydraulic brake
Hypertext
Integrated circuit
Internet
Ion laser
Jeans
Jelly bean
Jukebox
K-Y Jelly
Kart racing
Computer keyboard
Lambda calculus
Laptop
Laser
Laser diode
Laser printing
Laser turntable
LCD projector
Leaf blower
Lightning rod
Lightning Switch
Lint remover
Liquid-crystal display
Magnetic resonance imaging
Magnetic storage
Magnetic stripe card
Marker pen
Masking tape
Microprocessor
Microwave oven
Microwave popcorn
Modem
Monopoly (game)
Monster truck
Mouse (computing)
Mouse button
Mousepad
Napalm
Neutron bomb
New Year's glasses
Nuclear power plant
Nuclear submarine
Nuclear weapon
Nylon
Oil well
Operating system
Optical mouse
Paintball
Paper clip
Paper cup
Paper shredder
Parking meter
Payphone
Personal computer
Photocopier
Photosensitive glass
Pipe wrench
Plasma display
Polio vaccine
Polygraph
Polymerase chain reaction
Potato chip
Radar gun
Radio telescope
Radiocarbon dating
Random-access memory
Recombinant DNA
Refrigerator
Relay
Remote control
Revolving door
Richter magnitude scale
Roller skates
Safety pin
Safety razor
Satellite navigation
Scotch Tape
Scrabble
Semi-trailer truck
Skateboard
Skee ball
Slide Away Bed
Slot machine
Smoke detector
Snowboarding
Softball
Solar cell
Space blanket
Space observatory
Space Pen
Space Shuttle
Space tourism
Spreadsheet
Stop sign
Swivel chair
Tow truck
Traffic cone
Transcriptor
Transistor
Tupperware
Universal Product Code
Uno (card game)
USB
Vacuum cleaner
Video game console
Videotape
Virtual reality
Virtual reality therapy
Vitascope
Washing machine
WD-40
Windsurfing
Wireless keyboard
Wireless LAN
Zip (file format)
Zipper
Zipper storage bag

Again, it's only a partial list of American inventions. It's by no means a complete list. More detailed list here. (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Category:American_inventions)


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/9787698/Greatest-50-British-inventions-full-list.html


This collection of inventions were far more important for human progression. Most of the American inventions do little more than make things a bit more comfortable and convenient, or to make blowing stuff up easier. The British inventions changed the landscape of the world.