Americans React To "Why you should thank the British - for their inventions & science"

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[@SirHilaryManfat]

Us Brits also invented American KZbin channels that react to British things. Because without British things, you wouldn't have anything British to react to. You're welcome!

[@ruth1231]

That made me laugh - great comment :)

[@philiprowney]

Is that you Al? [ Murray ]

[@cheryltotheg2880]

lol

[@jojeffrie962]

😂😂😂

[@DILLYJENN]

😅

[@peaeater1]

We don't need you to stroke our collective egos - we've invented a machine to do that.

[@myrarowlands9216]

😂😂😂

[@davidmalarkey1302]

@@peaeater1 we don't need to dream unlike the Americans we are awake.

[@peaeater1]

@@davidmalarkey1302 Thank you, Al Murray.

[@Danny_kay]

😂😂😂😂

[@gibson617ajg]

The toilet seat was invented in the US. The British immediately improved it by cutting a hole in the middle of it.

[@mikestarkey7989]

Ireland was British at that time.

[@abarratt8869]

And Parsons did it in England...

[@simontemplar676]

Part of it still is, the rest are in denial 😅

[@piggypiggypig1746]

@@simontemplar676🫨

[@CrazyInWeston]

​​@@simontemplar676Ireland is still part of what the rest of the world calls 'the British Isles' despite their hatred or claims that they arent. Which makes them technically still 'British' today.

[@janice506]

@@CrazyInWeston the British Isles is a term used by England trying to assert dominance over everyone else. The Irish have every right to dislike GB for committing genocide against them .

[@TheCornishCockney]

We invented Pisstaking too. We are undefeated World Pisstaking Champions.

[@stevenfair2288]

Pisstaking I think we've been relegated To about four place, Immigrants.

[@personofearth5076]

lol with us Aussies a close second.

[@TheCornishCockney]

@@stevenfair2288 not talking about ponces pisstaking,talking about banter.

[@FlbcImp]

It must be so disheartening for Americans to learn that people living in an insignificant little island in the North Atlantic invented almost everything that makes today's modern world possible.

[@brianbenson4045]

An American, stood next to me at the grand canyon as I was admiring the view......he said "listen to this, if I shout, it takes ten seconds before you can here the echo. How great is that he smugly says". So I said 'well, the British blew the bugle in 1939 and you Americans didn't hear it untill 1941

[@gibson617ajg]

December '41 - call it 1942.

[@stuartauld3193]

​@gibson617ajg Japanese gave them a nudge there was a war on.

[@personofearth5076]

LMAO

[@Danny_kay]

😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@memkiii]

That's nothing. in WWI they blew it in 1914, and the US didn't answer until 1918. (before you KB warriors start melting your peripherals, I know they DECLARED war in April 1917, but they took no real part in combat until just before the war ended).

[@PHDarren]

06:20 FYI Charles Parsons was born in London son of the famous English astronomer William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse. His mother was Anglo-Irish. Also at the time Ireland was part of the UK, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

[@peterchapman3740]

Eat that fact yanks

[@KaraJaneAdams]

According to a Japanese study over the last 50 years the UK had a research budget that was less than 3% of the worldwide total, yet around 40% of discoveries originated in the UK.

[@johnritter6864]

Actually Ireland only became independent in 1921. He invented those things while Ireland was still part of the UK, so technically British

[@SirZanZa]

he was born in London also.. so id say that's even more reason to call him English/British only his parents were Irish

[@philiprowney]

'British Isles' ;-) [ says the Plastic Paddy, lol ]

[@coltsfoot9926]

Irish independence ony happened fully in 1949. From the 1920s until then, they had a regional government which allowed self rule, similar to the governments of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. Even today, the Republic of Ireland is geographically still part of the British Isles, although politically, it is not part of the UK.

[@josephturner7569]

@@coltsfoot9926 Edward VIII was actually the last King of just Ireland. His abdication declaration wasn't read out until 1 day later because of the Royal Mail.

[@russellbradley454]

Z​🎉@philiprowney British Islands is Geographical term and is none political defined by latitude and Longtitude

[@TerranSol]

I'm s Brit living in America and I will never complain about British public transport after experiencing American public transport.

[@lordsheogorath-bz5ti]

Yep, you helped us in WW2 . Shame you were so bloody late. 😂😂

[@digidol52]

Unlike Australia, Canada, New Zealand, India and the rest of the Empire.

[@gibson617ajg]

They only joined in after the attack on Pearl Harbor - up until then they leased us equipment - which was paid for in full in 2006!

[@MicheleLLOYD-bk2mt]

To make up for being late, they’ve started every other war since. ……..For all the wars started since 1952 (248 in 153 countries), the USA has started 201 of them. Source: American Journal of Public Health. USA been at “peace” for only 20 years since 1776. Just a war monger - start to finish. Whilst China has had only 3 wars in a 1000 years. USA. Genocide of its own native peoples, Widespread Homelessness, twice-daily mass murders, rampant violence, no universal healthcare, poor education, fake democracy, unsafe wherever you go, no freedom, no honesty, fake Christians, no infrastructure maintenance, no social welfare, selfish and greedy, no high speed rail, no social cohesion, racism, crimes against humanity, zero credibility and even less respect from the world. a destroyer of all - including itself. thanks be to God. Lol.

[@stuartauld3193]

And the Russians.

[@matthewwigley1613]

@@stuartauld3193 The Russians were initially on Hitler's side until 1941 bound by the Ribbentrop Molotov packed, the only reason they went to war with Germany was because Germany invaded them in June 1941 in operation Barbarossa. That was about five months before the Germans declared war on the US in that December. Other than it is doubtful that neither the US or the USSR would have joined the second world war, they both had too much to gain from sitting on the side lines. Just saying!!!!

[@MiddleAgedBrit]

We leave comments because it's rude to boast in public! 🤣

[@andrewrodigan7102]

To summarise its really just everything of any significance. Except for elasticated waistlines on pants, that's clearly American ingenuity.

[@digidol52]

And necessity is the mother of invention.

[@pem...]

Nope, invented in London 😂

[@pauldurkee4764]

We have nothing to declare but our genius.🇬🇧

[@SirZanZa]

Parsons was actually English, he was born in London to Irish parents. He regarded himself as an English Inventor and his Wikipedia page also confirms this.

[@anta3612]

His parents were English. They were an Anglo-Irish family

[@SirZanZa]

@@anta3612 Not totally true, his mother was Irish his father was English and the Earl of rosse but the Earls Father was also Irish. (Parsons grandfather) both Parsons and his father were both born in England that is correct

[@pabro]

Quite frankly - I'm damned proud to be a "Bastard Brit"!

[@sarahfoster6765]

We thank you for the tea bag, we couldn’t live without it 😁❤️🇬🇧

[@hendy643]

Colossus was build by a Post Office Engineer, Tommy Flowers. He always get's overshadowed by Turing.

[@johnleonard9090]

Turing bombes were used to break the Enigma codes, Colossus was used to break the harder Ultra/Lorenz codes.

[@chris6770]

I came here to say this. No Tommy Flowers, no modern computer. We should name some device or company after him, frankly.

[@clivestainlesssteelwomble7665]

​@@chris6770 A technical school lad that grew up in London ...

[@nigelclinning2448]

@@johnleonard9090Ultra was simply the intelligence derived from Enigma and Lorenz.

[@user-yk1cf8qb7q]

@@chris6770 But Turing did the programming, the machine was just a dumb machine without that.

[@CMc-v7z]

We were an extremely inventive nation. Scotland where I live especially has a long list of inventions that makes the modern world tick. Our advancements in medicine alone were groundbreaking.

[@DavidStruveDesigns]

Penicillin being the absolute unit of medical inventions, or rather "discoveries" which has probably saved the most lives out of any medical advancement to date. That was Scottish too, though it's often falsely claimed by English folks (but not me)

[@CMc-v7z]

@@DavidStruveDesigns the rules of football were also first written by 2 Scotsmen in an English pub but we let you claim that one, gotta let you have that it. 😉

[@matthewjamison]

The invention of penicillin alone has saved billions of lives.

[@billythedog-309]

How many? Really?

[@matthewjamison]

@billythedog-309 They say it's up to 500 million globally. But I was stoned when I wrote that & couldn't remember the number. But it will continue to save people from dying of minor infections moving into the future too.

[@antonycharnock2993]

Technically discovered by accident like quite a few "inventions"

[@matthewjamison]

@antonycharnock2993 Never the less. It was discovered, developed & distributed to the world.

[@lizbignell7813]

It is possible to argue that penicillin is partly responsible for the human population explosion in the second half of the twentieth century.

[@garethmitchell7723]

As a British person im leaving this comment just to prove you right.

[@EmbraceTheSuck21]

Predictable

[@lorrainemcgregor1759]

@@EmbraceTheSuck21 😂😂😂

[@lorrainemcgregor1759]

@@EmbraceTheSuck21 The design of the black (oh! Sorry) the white house.

[@florrie2303]

Joseph Bazalgette designed and built the London sewer system. It was revolutionary because prior to this sewers were open, thus leading to much disease, such as typhoid and typhus. He put the sewers underground, used mainly gravity to help it run away, and installed pumping houses where gravity couldn’t be used. The drop in cases of disease was astounding. So every sewer system in the world is based on Bazalgette’s design. So you could say the the British invented the modern sewerage system.

[@Trebor74]

There are some very beautiful pumping stations. I love the way Victorians made things look pleasing. Now it's all functional and boring.

[@gaynorhead2325]

It’s MATHS as in Mathematics win an S!

[@welshgit]

I notice that Spencer did say maths before quickly overrun by Dan!

[@steveh9428]

It’s WITH, as in WITH, with a TH 🤦🏻‍♂️

[@memkiii]

Americans only have one Math... That's why we were able to do so well in science & technology before they managed to design a computer of their own..

[@coot1925]

I too am a British inventor. I've invented a way to stop my bed sheets from moving around on my mattress. I call myself an inventor but others call me an obsessive wanker.

[@wulfgold]

I put a hinge on my duvet.

[@coot1925]

@@wulfgold 😂😂😂

[@peterchapman3740]

pmsl

[@personofearth5076]

Oh yes the word wanker used by Aussies and Brits alike. Fantastic word that can be used when joking with someone or insulting something. Very talented word.

[@josephturner7569]

Australia invented the rotary washing line. So it's not all about us.

[@welshgit]

Were they Australians at the time, or British criminals? 😊

[@myrarowlands9216]

😂😂😂

[@john9508]

Ah the US who were taken by surprise 2 years into a world war 🤣🤣🤣🤣 Edit - Guy has new programmes out

[@mikeymikeFType]

Al Murray?

[@lorrainemcgregor1759]

😢 and we won't let them forget it. 😁

[@mickdavis8521]

And we’re still paying for it

[@mikeymikeFType]

@@mickdavis8521 . Are you referring to lease lend? Final payment from the UK was 2004 I believe.

[@Dave.Thatcher1]

@@mickdavis8521 QUOTE.....When did the UK pay off war debt to US? 31 December 2006 Some of these loans were only paid off in the early 21st century. On 31 December 2006, Britain made a final payments of about $83m (£45.5m) to the US and about $23.6m to Canada. By the end of World War II Britain had amassed an immense debt of £21 billion....UNQUOTE.

[@davidmoore5925]

I'm British, English actually, and I don't really care what Johnny foreigner thinks about us.

[@helmutstrap]

Are you sure you didn't read "The Americans invented Teabagging" Daniel?

[@Gotta_say]

Just suck it up guys🤣 just a little sour grapes detected we invented that machine too by the way🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@josephturner7569]

Are we bastards? Absofuckinglutely.

[@gaynorhead2325]

It’s what got us through being invaded by dozens of countries in the north of Europe and 2 world wars!!

[@brigidsingleton1596]

Technically (& actually) I am as my sister may have known her Dutch father, she was born in December.1944, but by the time I was born in Aug.1953, our Mum was single (a divorcée) ...however, I never did find out who my biological father was, and when I was six years old, and Mum and I moved in with the man who was to become my stepdad, though he never officially adopted me, so I had my half-sister's surname (until I married in Oct,1986). I was never "officially" referred to as "a bastard" though...and didn't really think about it til my teens, despite knowing my stepdad _wasn't_ my "real Dad" (...which I was later pleased about, considering his unpleasant leering attitude towards me, and to my younger - now deceased - niece, too. 😠😠).

[@peacemaker6662]

So were the Romans... maybe bastards get thing's done!

[@dereklupton5259]

As a Brit I am very proud of our achievments but dispair that we never seem to be able to monetise these things.

[@whizzo94]

No, it wasn't Turing, it was a GPO telephone engineer called Tommy Flowers. And the lightbulb was British too, Joseph Swan.

[@Thurgosh_OG]

And the television. John Logie Baird.

[@alfredthegreat9543]

The "American War of Independence" was actually a Civil War...so the USA was founded by the British 😂

[@Thurgosh_OG]

Fact.

[@Trebor74]

It's like Australia being proud of being colonised by convicts. They were failed criminals,they got caught and convicted when there was no police force,CCTV,etc

[@gabbermensch]

He missed possibly the most important one - trial by jury of peers. Before that, accusations were based on status so Lords could make shit up and have you hanged because the word of a Lord was worth more than that of a commoner. Trial by jury of peers introduced and enforced the concept of law belonging to a people rather than one person.

[@Thurgosh_OG]

Those 'peers' where only applicable to 'Freeman', basically the Nobles and the free tradesmen, who were not under the servitude of a noble. Magna Carta was mainly a way for the Nobles to pay less taxes to the Monarch but at least some good came out of it many years later.

[@Pseudonym-aka-alias]

We invented "Gravity" (Al Murray).

[@jongregory1396]

Us Brits we invented inventions 😂

[@personofearth5076]

Yeah that's confusing to me because although you're right the Brits invented it, if you google it, it also says the Australians. That has to work out somehow but at the end of the day, Aussies are Brits anyway.. Lancelot de Mole Australian and William Tritton British.

[@bobcrockett6016]

The mini engine is transverse not straight and with direct drive to the front wheels. This is why it was revolutionary.

[@edcranfield861]

I thought Citroen had invented it in the late 40s and early 50s!?

[@philhawley1219]

@@edcranfield861 The Citroen had the engine mounted inline with the chassis, not transverse like the Mini and thus 80% of modern vehicles.

[@edcranfield861]

@@philhawley1219 my grandfather said that he had a front wheel drive Citroen or a Renault but he's passed on for many years now!

[@russellstanton7583]

You helped us in the war ? You helped yourselves. I seem to remember Pearl Harbour initiated the USA joining the Allies

[@Trebor74]

In both wars they entered because they were attacked. The first was unrestricted submarine warfare,which interfered with their trade and was losing them money(American passengers being an excuse. And pearl harbour in wwii and the fact that Germany declared war on them. They never went to war for freedom,that was an unintended consequence.

[@PHDarren]

09:25 the roundabout around the Arc de Triomphe in Paris is still the opposite, traffic entering has priority, so those on it yield to cars entering. It's why so many cars in Paris have dents in them 😁😁

[@josephturner7569]

Nah. That's just French parking. All the dents in my car were aquired in Aldi carpark

[@terryhayward7905]

Early American roundabouts use the same silly system, the new ones are changing the the British system.

[@markjones127]

One thing which always blows my mind is the sheer scale of the industrial revolution, the stuff that Dibnah and Guy Martin get hard 0ns over, when you go and see with your own eyes some of the heavy industry they created it's insane, both my grandads worked in the slate quarries which were the biggest in the world at the time, and going back now and seeing the size of the machines they were building just beggars belief, they mechanised the modern world, and as you mentioned the Irish I think it's only fair to mention the Irish navvies who made the industrial revolution possible by building so much sh!t with just shovels and pick axes a lot of the time to make much of it possible, digging the canals and laying the railway lines etc.

[@neilperry2224]

The model T used a prop shafts to the Rear axle but the Mini was transverse front wheel drive and not driven to the back axle

[@davidbirchall832]

And leaf springs

[@JohntheLNERP2]

One of our greatest inventions undoubtedly is the army tank

[@Trebor74]

Or the kettle?

[@memkiii]

@@Trebor74 I think kettles predate the UK by about 5 to 10 thousand years.

[@educatednumpty71]

Spencer came to the UK...WOW! It's not like he brings it up in every video since then.

[@personofearth5076]

We're with you Brits us Aussies. It's not WE who are on the wrong side of the road. If the English invented the the English language then English is whatever they say it is. If they invented horse and cart then whatever side of the road they used is the real side of the road because lets face it, they were doing it long before America or Australia were even countries. Good on you Brits!!!

[@ericjackson9496]

Never trust a country that doesn't play cricket mate

[@personofearth5076]

@@ericjackson9496 Hahaha so true.

[@jasonbull6560]

What did the British empire do for us? Your living in the world we created. Unfortunately we dont run it anymore, it would be much more cordial. X

[@garyphisher7375]

Not many people are aware that the Americans sabotaged Britain after WWII. America came away from the war as the new 'Superpower'. To bolster themselves, they weakened Europe. They forced Europeans out of Africa - which everyone knew was a bad idea - it was far too soon. The Africans weren't ready to maintain the new structures the Europeans were putting in place. The effects are still being seen today. Our Politicians suck up to America because they have the most power.

[@andrewwestgate2415]

It's odd that most people forget our greatest invention, the English language, spoken by a fairly large portion of the world's population. Even the the folk in the USA manage to speak it, although they do tend to butcher it occasionally. Just think about it, the comments section would in French or Latin and I hated learning French (we never had to learn Latin) when I was at school.

[@garyphisher7375]

To make our neighbours speak English, we sacked all their Teachers and installed our own. Scots. Irish, and Welsh pupils were told that they could only speak English in school - if they didn't then they got corporal punishment. Last month I was talking to an irishman and a Welsh man in the pub. I said it sounds horrible what they did, but I argued that it was a good thing. They didn't take it well. I said we can all communicate with each other - look at us now, I said, we can bond because we all speak English. The Welsh man still doesn't speak to me. He thinks we could've all learned 2 languages - I said it would've been at least three. He got the right hump!

[@Thurgosh_OG]

English has overtaken Mandarin as the most spoken language in the world.

[@Whiteshirtloosetie]

Sir Charles Algernon Parsons was born in London from Anglo-Irish parents. I know that Roundabout at Letchworth Garden City for years not realising it's significance.

[@Rachel_M_]

Mr Parsons invented the turbine in 1884. Ireland was part of the UK until 1921.

[@SirZanZa]

he was born in London, he wasn't even Irish.

[@MicheleLLOYD-bk2mt]

Prior to being invaded by the English and their slaves, Ireland was, well, Ireland. Like Hawaii was a country before USA stole it.

[@Rachel_M_]

@@MicheleLLOYD-bk2mt shall we talk about the time the Irish were taking Welsh slaves? In fact St Patrick was a Welsh slave who escaped and then returned to Ireland to spread the gospel

[@SirZanZa]

@@MicheleLLOYD-bk2mt Ireland was not a country before the English united it and created the Kingdom of Ireland. there was Viking rulers and separate kingdoms all over that were constantly warring between themselves. you had the Normans who controlled roughly 50% of the island Scottish who controlled another 24% then you had Vikings, gallowglass, The Pale and various other clans. don't spread false information

[@Thurgosh_OG]

@@MicheleLLOYD-bk2mt Hawaii was given to the British by the ruler of the islands (before being stolen by the Yanks), which is why the Union flag is part of the flag of Hawaii.

[@ritahamblin1043]

As much as other countries might not like it we did do these things they are true.

[@theotherside8258]

Romans had cement made from volcanic ash and other types existed before portland cement which was actually revolutionary

[@garyphisher7375]

Aren't they still unsure of what Roman cement was made of? It sure holds up well, and anyone who can recreate it would be a very wealthy person.

[@theotherside8258]

@@garyphisher7375 I think they recently figured it out

[@Trebor74]

A lot of big Roman projects were concrete. Coliseum,being one.

[@memkiii]

Ash wasn't the cement, it was the binder, like we use sharp sand today. Lime was the cement. Portland cement is a different beast.

[@rolex-js9nk]

fun fact the steering wheel was also on the right initially in the US...i believe 😁

[@DarthBill-h6f]

The Cornish/British inventor Richard Trevithick invented the first high pressure steam engine and steam railway

[@stonesie81]

The model T was front engine / rear wheel drive with very basic leaf spring suspension and no front brakes, it was designed to be quick and easy to mass produce on that brilliant American invention, the moving production line. I'm a Brit and I will give you that one.

[@theblackwidowchronicles]

Sir Charles Algernon Parsons was an English engineer born in London in 1854...He was educated in Ireland, nothing more !!

[@josephturner7569]

Tins! About 46 years later, they invented the tin opener 😂

[@josephturner7569]

Apparently, Steve1989 was the first to use it.

[@PeterSmith-bj4ml]

Ernest Rutherford was a New Zealander. But he made his physics discoveries at the Cavendish in Oxford and Manchester University. I just saw that the author mentioned this in his video. 😂

[@buck2trips906]

Not to mention the sport we brought to the world, Golf, Rugby, Football (the game you pay with your feet), cricket, boxing to name a few.

[@peterd788]

Ireland was a part of the UK at the time.

[@ClassicRiki]

6:44 you should probably take the time to make sure you’re correct before trying to be clever Spencer 😉

[@johnnybeer3770]

Not to mention the touch screen TV and the vertical take off jet engine . Americans can blame Henry Ford for them driving on the wrong side of the road , originally you started driving on the left until he decided to put the steering wheel on the left . 🇬🇧

[@cpmahon]

Thank you for stroking my ego. As I'm already subscribed and I've clicked like, I didn't skip the ads out of appreciation!!!

[@Steve-ys1ig]

Parsons was born in London England to an Anglo-Irish family (Ireland was part of Britain at the time) and he considered himself British as was common with the upper class Anglo-Irish families at the time (especially since he was born in London and spent most of his working/inventing life in England).

[@steveh9428]

It’s important to recognise that the success of the British described in the video is due wholly to the social developments over hundreds of years that created the conditions of freedom and opportunity to think creatively. That’s what the narrator meant when he said, for example, that Ernest Rutherford, a New Zealander, was effectively British. He and other people from the Commonwealth did not have the opportunities to do what they did in their native countries, but the social conditions in the UK enabled them to achieve their goals.

[@mathiasosiriswoodhal]

also your central park in new york was designed by a brit was a bigger version of the park in birkenhead near liverpool same designer

[@garyphisher7375]

Birkenhead Town Hall (and Liverpool Lime Street Station) is clad in Sandstone from a quarry from the nearby town of Bebington. It is the same Sandstone found on the Empire State Building. The Camell Laird Shipbuilders in Birkenhead, built ships for the Confederacy.

[@Delicious_J]

Another one about the the Empire States, the foundations is built of Accrington Bricks, the bricks which were used build all of our terraces in much of greater Manchester​ and probably Liverpool as well identified by their specific red-orange hue and the marked with NORI, which was an accidental reversal of IRON, but NORI stuck as a brand @@garyphisher7375

[@philhawley1219]

@@garyphisher7375 The gunmakers of Birmingham made guns for both the Confederates and the Republicans to shoot eachother with the latest technology.

[@Ad-gy7gn]

Be careful when searching the internet for tea bagging 😂

[@stevealsop83]

What I love about you two is you get our humour, we only take the piss because we like you and we want to have fun, not to be little but to prove our superiority haha and its so good when you guys enjoy the joke and give it us back its hilarious oh and both of you please come over you'll be welcome with open arms

[@thankyou1974]

In England tea bagging can mean a different thing

[@waynenorth5322]

Feeling a certain sense of irony listen to Yanks talking about egos!!

[@BrianM0OAB]

America invented mainstream stupidity, gives us something to laugh at.

[@davidmarsden9800]

As a Brit I'd settle for just the "Teasmaid" alarm clock and teamaker everything else just flows from that setup for the day. Yorkshire Tea of course, none of your fancy muck thanks.

[@richardhall6034]

The noise it made would wake me up long before the alarm went off 😊

[@jay-rk1ve]

Irish was british at the time of invention though anything pre 1921 we was as one

[@nez9751]

We rock, and you know it.

[@jimb9063]

Heh, you're very welcome for it all old boys. Thanks for the tea bag btw, it's certainly easier to take a bit of civilisation into the wilds with them onboard. I'm afraid we'll have to claim the skyscraper too though. Walked past the worlds first iron framed building earlier today, and sat by the river right where Charlie Darwin played as a kid. Didn't get much inspiration, but couldn't help singing "Oh shooby doo, I wanna be like you hoo hoo" all the way home.

[@lynby6231]

The Americans used the Liver buildings in Liverpool were the inspiration for their skyscrapers. Something about concrete structures

[@philhawley1219]

So you were in Ditherington? I hope you didn't get mugged, the yanks invented that!

[@jimb9063]

@@philhawley1219 Heh, keep your eyes on the pavement and walk fast. A quick nod and a "mon" allows safe passage!

[@trampertravels]

The whole of Ireland was British up until 1921, when the south was separated and became the Republic of Ireland, therefore Mr Parsons was British at the time of his invention.

[@seanmcmichael2551]

Absolutely loving the opening remarks guys, and hadn't even heard your reactions to the vid yet ! Then I came to the Teasmaid, the alarm clock that can make tea. It made me wonder has anyone invented a combo device that can wash your hands, scrub your toes, wipe your butt, and blow your nose ?

[@tonibaker3823]

yep i named it spencer

[@olisipocity]

Americans invented the tea bag, but who invented tea bagging?😜🤪

[@martinp8174]

Spencer I have NEVER seen you so jealous !!

[@leemcclennan1118]

Haven't watched your channel for a while guys as wasn't keen on your pivot on your content but let's give this a go. Love you work ethic to your channel. All the best lads! Liverpool, England. * OK just watched it and I enjoyed it, well done fellas 👌🏻 What have we learnt today..... Great Britain 1 - The World 0 👍🏻

[@jrd1982]

In America they say "if it wasn't for us you Brits would be speaking German, however the rest of the world completes this sentence as follows in full..."if it wasn't for us you Brits would be speaking German, if it wasn't for us Brits you would still be speaking Spanish or God forbid French" LOL

[@chsh1]

Look up Teabagging UK slang

[@Loki1815]

I know, I thought it strange that they were claiming TeaBagging!

[@Iluvantir]

We invented the "End of Slavery" too. 900 years ago we started. Edit 1: Need to Correct you about the Irish inventor of the Steam Engine: he was British. The date he invented it, Ireland as a whole was part of "The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland". Also, even if he HAD invented it just after the Republic of Ireland formed (his life does cover that time period) he'd still be counted as... we're all the same people, frankly. There's no-one from these Isles that doesn't share Celtic, Gaelic, Angle, Saxon, Jute, Dane, and Norse heritage. We're a right mixed bag of "whities" Edit 2: if we expand this list to all peoples who were either created by Britain or hugely influenced BY Britain... well... the current modern world wouldn't look like this at all.

[@JoeeyTheeKangaroo]

Unfortunately we didn't end slavery. There are more modern day slaves today than there was in the height of colonialism.... primarily in the countries that we helped free.

[@decrulez]

We removed slavery from being seen as common and acceptable but we didn’t eradicate slavery. There’s unfortunately more slaves now than there has ever been (because there’s more people than ever so it’s a smaller % than it was but still too many)

[@garyphisher7375]

@@JoeeyTheeKangaroo Arab states didn't end the trade until the 1960s or later. India currently holds the record with 11 million.

[@Thurgosh_OG]

Britain ended the TransAtlantic Slave trade, not world slavery. Still a very good thing and the yanks even came to help us 30 years after we started and also accounted themselves very well too.

[@Thurgosh_OG]

@@garyphisher7375 There's still slavery in some Arab nations now. Africa, itself has approx. 7 million slaves today and you seem to have missed China from your comment, who have an estimated 6 million.

[@Max_Flashheart]

Parsons was born into an Anglo-Irish family on 13 June 1854 in London as the youngest son of the famous astronomer William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse

[@philiprowney]

The model T was sprung on cart springs and was rear-drive and undriveable to 99.99% of people now. The mini on rubber cones with independent suspension all round with pushrods and trailing arms at rear that anyonme who can 'drive stick' can drive today. 2 very different prospects a few decades apart. The Mini have the Austin 7 [ rear drive A series engine ] pedal layout as taken from Chevrolet, they got the pedal order correct long before Ford! Love me a 63 Mini Cooper S [ 1298 ] and a 55 Chevy in black 😀

[@PuzzledlifeTV]

it's Maths not Math - there are many branches of Mathmatics (same as a tree doesn't have one branch, it has branches not branch). It's called English, also invented by the brits (btw I'm Irish, we invented more important things)

[@Thurgosh_OG]

Like?....(I'm Scottish and you guys can't spell my name correctly, so I'll take the piss out of the Irish for that one). :)

[@rogerlidster6184]

It must be very difficult for you to sit through this 😂😂😂

[@MichaelLamming]

The British also invented the light bulb 💡 ✨️ ✨️

[@ZuulGatekeeper]

Then Edison stole Swan electrics design & tried to pass it off as his invention before losing in court for infringing on Swans patent.

[@iddjutt]

he parsons was british because came from british isles ; but someone would have done it, and they are all(mostly) dead and can not see the worlds a mess, well done for the american that put all the holes in teabags

[@JGG3345]

"Frank Whittle (1907-1996) was an engineer, inventor and RAF air officer who is credited with having invented the turbojet engine. He overcame physical limitations to join the RAF, patented his design in 1930, and developed the first prototype in 1937."

[@marvinc9994]

Re Ernest Rutherford: of course he was a Brit! His Mum came from England, and his Dad from Scotland. Saying he was a New Zealander, is a bit like calling a child with German parents, born prematurely in Hong Kong, a Chinaman! Had Rutherford been a MAORI, however, that WOULD have been different!😀

[@stevenredmond7455]

Excuse me I’m off to cut that fucking cable 😂

[@hot5and77]

Ireland was a part of the UK until 1922 so at the time of the invention he was British.

[@Thurgosh_OG]

And him being born in London, makes it more British.

[@coltsfoot9926]

Irish independence ony happened fully in 1949. From the 1920s until then, they had a regional government which allowed self rule, similar to the governments of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. Even today, the Republic of Ireland is geographically still part of the British Isles, although politically, it is not part of the UK.

[@Thurgosh_OG]

And look at how badly those devolved governments have done. Devolution was and is a failure. SNP stealing from the people and decimating Scotland's public services, while in Wales, so many things but, of 20mph everywhere, where 30mph was entirely suitable before.

[@wotexpat9367]

"We helped you in WW II"? Nope.... The yanks inly joined WW1 and WWII after they realised it would impact them.. WW II - Pear Harbour. The UK GAVE the yanks RADAR and the Merlin engine for their aircraft. I served for 20 years in the UK military and was on active duty with our US brothers, and loved them all, but do not disrespect us.

[@garyphisher7375]

Not many people are aware that it was the Yanks who forced Europeans out of Africa - even though they knew the Africans wanted us to stay, because they weren't ready to take over the new structures we had implemented. But America realised that they were the new 'superpower' and they wanted to weaken Europe's hold on power. War was very costly for Europe, and consequently for the poorer countries we were trying to help.

[@thoughtful_criticiser]

The British invented CPR and prehospital defibrillation. One person in Maryland made a major difference. R. Adams Cowley invented trauma centres with the world's first Shocktrauma in Baltimore. He then cured shock lung which killed most people who were ventilated for extended periods by using only positive pressure ventilation.

[@MichaelJohnsonAzgard]

The teabag is the most important invention since someone first created fire. No wonder you had a party for such a thing.

[@kaygibson8942]

Until the 2WW I think Ireland was part of Britain.

[@lynnejamieson2063]

It was a little after World War One in 1921.

[@jemmajames6719]

We just take it for granted that people from the UK discovered or invented most things or were involved, it’s not until you think about it you realise what that means for the world,the health etc of the world has the UK to thank for it.

[@lesh4357]

I'm from the North East. Parsons was Anglo-Irish, born in London I think. But the stuff he did was in the North East with factories on Tyneside. He originally worked for Armstrong of Armstrong/Whitworth and Armstong/Vickers fame. Later opening his own factory on Tyneside.

[@user-yk1cf8qb7q]

By the way, the first powered passenger vehicle was invented by a Brit as early as 1801. It was a steam-powered carriage called the puffing devil with steering and transmission, unfortunately they stopped at an establishment to celebrate with a couple of jugs of ale. They left the fire burning, which was standard practice with steam engines, as cold water takes too long to fire up and produce steam. Anyway, as is normal in good company, two pints are too many but three are not enough, so the celebration continued but was interrupted by a loud bang. The water had run out, the boiler overheated and the inevitable happened. The builder of the vehicle, Mr Trevithick, gave up passenger vehicles and concentrated on steam driven mine pumps to clear water and drive ventilation fans. As well as railway locomotives . He did later design a steam carriage though, but it was too expensive to run and seen as a failure. So our vehicle industry was stillborn, to be resurrected later in the century. Oh, and he forgot, in medical science we invented IVF the first human embryo produced outside the body was implanted in 1978 and her mother have birth to a lovely girl 9 months later - Louise Brown. The doctors involved were Dr. Steptoe and Dr, Edwards, with help from Jean Purdy and embryologist. Louise Brown is still alive, married and has two sons of her own.