American Reacts to Shocking Things America STOLE from Britain

[@vikingraider1961]

Just after WWII the Brits and the US were both trying to break the sound barrier. The Yanks were having a serious problem with the controls locking up at trans sonic speeds, which put the aircraft into an unrecoverable dive. The US approached the Brits to see about pooling research, as the Brits had managed to cure the problem by developing the all-moving tail. The Brits said "yeah, OK, let's share" and sent all of their data over to the US - and then the US said "Actually, on second thoughts, let's not share" - put the all-moving tail on the Bell X-1, broke the sound barrier and then crowed about how advanced US aeronautics were...

[@Grover91]

They did exactly the same thing with the atomic bomb. They wouldn't have done it without vital UK research, but just after the war said, " Yeah, we're not giving you our half of the research"

[@listerofsmegv987pevinaek5]

Remember watching a program a few year's ago back in 1940 the RAF Approached a small plane maker to design a plane/fighter to break the sound barrier. After the war they were encouraged to share their work and findings with the Americans. Seemed funny how they were denied access to the American project, and that the X1 that broke the sound barrier was exactly like there design

[@noteanotell937]

Curious droid does e very good video on it

[@tommillar2821]

@@listerofsmegv987pevinaek5 you would think once bitten twice shy but no [atomic knowledge collaboration]

[@steveknight878]

Similarly the Americans asked for some help from the Brits for the Manhattan project (atomic bomb). The agreement was that all the information and technology resulting from this would be shared. The Brits sent over their nuclear experts. Once the bomb was developed, the Americans passed a law saying that the information could not be shared with other countries - including Britain. When the British discovered penicillin, they didn't have the manufacturing capacity to manufacture it in quantity. They went to the Americans who took this discovery and (with a different strain of Penicillin ) developed a method of making it in bulk. And for a long time afterwards kept it all for themselves and their military.

[@jameslewis2635]

'As American as apple pie.' This is a very good phrase to explain how America works as there is nothing more American than taking ownership of something you didn't come up with and taking credit for it.

[@griswald7156]

As English as a doner kebab..

[@evilmessiah81]

@@griswald7156 its called Döner with an Ö

[@griswald7156]

@@evilmessiah81 Griswald is spelt with an A not an O…ahhso

[@insomniacbritgaming1632]

@@griswald7156 and we didn't claim to invent it, we know it's not British lol

[@johncampbell2979]

Yes like Syrians oil !!

[@B-26354]

Had a debate with an American the other week funnily enough who tried explaining that the word 'woke' origin was African American community even though the word along with its meaning was used in old English for centuries especially regionally within Britain - I pointed out that the US had a habit of laying claim to British words and inventions as their own and used the Edison stealing the lightbulb as an example of this... He totally denied that Edison did indeed steal the lightbulb and called me a racist for pointing out the word "woke" was used in old English... I've found Americans are often utter buffoons when it comes to anything outside of their own nation, they believe the world revolves around them culturally and technologically.

[@TheTripledz]

That's called a generalization.. since basically we speak the same language and are deeply related/founded by Great Britain... a good portion of us have genetic roots directly to the English/Scottish or Irish bloodlines.. straight from the Isles.

[@B-26354]

@@TheTripledz I know what it's called but it certainly is a demonstrable observation.

[@TheTripledz]

@@B-26354 True however you have to take into account we are the "offspring" of Great Britain and therefore we are basically a creation of a time when Great Britain was having "growing pains"

[@davidmundowyahoo7839]

Funny, I was wondering about this when I woke up this morning

[@davidfrost779]

Remember Yanks have trouble knowing the difference between England & Great Britain. What a shame it was us British who set up a colony in that La La Land

[@ifitistobeitisuptome]

Not hard to believe when you consider that MORE THAN 50% of the entire WORLDS most important inventions are actually British!! And when you consider that Great Britain is such a tiny little country, that statistic is very VERY impressive!!

[@TheZebbga]

When a lot of these things were invented the UK wasn't just a tiny country but rather the worlds biggest Empire.

[@ifitistobeitisuptome]

@@TheZebbga At the height of its empire, the UK was far FAR SMALLER than it is now! But even today the UK is still making break through inventions like DNA testing (just 30 years ago) that has changed the world. and even more recently was the first country in the world to administer the Covid19 vaccine! for what ever that rubbish is worth!!

[@wrutherfordx3x]

Mostly Scottish inventions.

[@TheZebbga]

@@wrutherfordx3x They did invent a lot.

[@ifitistobeitisuptome]

@@wrutherfordx3x LOL! Unlikely!!🤣

[@jasminelawrie8961]

Eddison was a notorious thief of inventions kinda surprised you weren't aware of that

[@OriginalPuro]

I am shocked. I was sure everyone knew that Thomas Alva Edison was half a fraud, still a smart person, but a fraud.

[@briwood6328]

He patented other people's ideas before they could didn’t he?

[@jca111]

Eddison was like Steve Jobs. He took other people ideas and populised them, but did little of the original research themselves.

[@zo7034]

@@briwood6328 Yeah, he started off directly stealing inventions. Then when he was rich enough he hired people to invent things for him and registered them all under this own name.

[@mattybrunolucaszeneresalas9072]

@@jca111 neither of them did no such thing! I don’t know where you get these crazy theories

[@johnp8131]

Reminds me somewhat of the apocryphal tale, of when the USA tried to buy the land on which the old US Embassy stood in Grosvenor Square. Officials aproached the land owner, the late Duke of Westminster and asked if it could be bought. He alledgedly said that he would exchange it for his old family lands back in America. They asked what the name of this place was? Virginia was his answer.

[@AV-fo5de]

@@Oi.... I presume they meant the previous, now late, Duke of Westminster.

[@barriehull7076]

@@Oi.... He could have been late for an appointment. LOL

[@queenslanddiva]

@@Oi.... are you American 😀

[@anonniemouse8042]

Haha love it.

[@jayonenote7527]

The clue is in the name.. Grosvenor...the name of the owner

[@jakey28]

06:40 A good quote to remember - "An Englishman thinks a hundred miles is a long way; and American thinks a hundred years is a long time” ― Diana Gabaldon

[@ajaxlewis7664]

Meaning?

[@zachpaterson2585]

@@ajaxlewis7664 Americans are spread out, but have comparatively no History

[@JMNL07]

@@ajaxlewis7664 we have different forms of knowledge. Americans can think big, Englishman can think long. Americans have lots of knowledge of lots of things. Englishman have in depth knowledge of more specific things. Americans have less concept of history, Englishman have less concept of distance.

[@scaleyback217]

@@JMNL07 As we have spent a thousand years covering distance to get to places other than England I cannot go along with that.

[@JMNL07]

@@scaleyback217 An interesting point! However did you not say a thousand years? We don't do this now (much) but we have a long memory of when we did. Besides, this is not meant to be a be-all-to-end-all statement, but a theory regarding the above quote.

[@davidlamont5793]

The funny thing about sandwich in kent is that there is a small village just a couple of miles away called ham so when your traveling along the road there is a road sign that says HAM SANDWICH

[@giada951]

Omg I love it! Hahahahah

[@jabba7746]

My biggest gripe in this regard is actually a film. U571 is considered by some people as being based on real life events during the war and shows how the Americans captured Germany's top secret enigma machine. It's actually completely fictional as long before America was dragged into the war the allies had captured and decoded the machine yet, as mentioned, because of this film some people are unaware of that.

[@nickgrazier3373]

The team was (apparent) a Naval lieutenant and a seaman who’s name was Grazier, a distant great great great cousin of mine apparently after the scuttling mechanism had been triggered under the survivors noses hence the German high command had no idea we had the machine.

[@andrewpitchforf696]

I know it's fiction, but based on a true story.The enemy ship in the film Master and Commander was American in the novel by Patric O'Brian and the date was 1812 during the British, USA war. The film makers made it French as you can't have America as the enemy. According to Hollywood.

[@DoomsdayR3sistance]

In the UK, our biggest shame is the treatment of Alan Turing, the genius who played a significant part in decoding the Enigma machine. Since Alan Turing was gay and homophobia was still rife in the 1940s, systematically so, Alan Turing was basically publicly shamed in court, chemically castrated and led into a depression cycle that ended in his suicide.

[@rickb.4168]

I believe the actual ship was the H.M.S. Bulldog that captured the Krieggsmarina "Shark" enigma machine as its code books

[@davemac1197]

That's true and the movie is 100% fiction, inspired by several real events involving the Royal Navy before the US even entered the war, and The Guardian's article is cheekily titled "U-571: You give historical films a bad name", which is a riff on the fact Jon Bon Jovi is one of the actors in this piece of Hollywood hokum. The UK Government lodged a formal protest with the US after the film was mentioned in Parliament as an affront to the real sailors who risked their lives to secure the Enigma machines and code books at sea during the war. The response of the filmmakers was to add a list of the real incidents in which Enigma machines were captured in the final credits after the end of the film - just when audiences are getting out of their seats and leaving the theatre - thanks guys! Even then, they couldn't bring themselves to admit the Royal Navy got there first, so first credit goes to the Polish slave workers who risked their lives to smuggle the rotor parts from the machine to British Intelligence, which were the first clues we received about how the machine operated.

[@Paul-hl8yg]

Not only is the Star Spangled Banner written to an English tune, the flag itself is a direct copy of the British East India company flag. The 13 red/white stripes represent the 13 original English (later British) colonies & the red/white & blue is also original to the British Union flag. The British East India company was the company that brought trade (including tea) to the new world. When in Boston in 1773 they emptied the tea into the bay, the vessel that tea was taken from was a British East India company vessel. That vessel was complete with the company flag, which later was slightly altered into the American Stars & Stripes flag. The Liberty bell was also cast in Britain. 🇬🇧🇺🇸

[@johnbancroft5242]

The Liberty Bell was Cast at the famous Whitechapel foundry in East London England, and still exists to this day.

[@fus149hammer5]

@@johnbancroft5242 Yeah surrounded by immigrants from the Indian sub continent.

[@Iwasthemilkman]

And a family coat of arms in Maidstone, Kent

[@Paul-hl8yg]

@@Iwasthemilkman Very true. Washington family, Washington, England.

[@TheBiggreenpig]

@@johnbancroft5242 And the Statue of Liberty is a gift from France :D

[@Me-nobodyspecial]

It was Scots who invented Telephone invented by Alexander Graham Bell, Television by John Logie Baird, Tarmac by McAdam. Greetings from Scotland 😄🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@annekekramer3835]

At least partly incorrect, Bell stole the invention of the telephone. Again, history is written by those who had more money. Edit: it was Antonio Meucci in 1871, while Bell was in 1876. Meucci didn't manage to get enough money for the patent and his prototypes "went missing" at the patent office. To this day, the invention is still disputed.

[@matspurs1629]

with English money, cough cough

[@AV-fo5de]

@@annekekramer3835 Check the real history. He was working on the project. Another inventor claimed it had been stolen after the patent had been registered by Bell. The other man was a rival of bell's and there were numerous suits brought against Bell. The US Supreme Court ruled that Bell had invented and patented it honestly. It was the longest patent battle in US history, apparently. Bell had a driving need to invent it as both his wife and mother were hearing impaired, which was why he was working on accoustice-and listening devices.

[@Armadacon]

Baird invented optical scanning television. Sadly. It was an American who invented television in the way we view it today (Electronic scanning).

[@AV-fo5de]

@@Armadacon I quote, "John Logie Baird FRSE was a Scottish inventor, electrical engineer, and innovator who demonstrated the world's first live working television system on 26 January 1926. He went on to invent the first publicly demonstrated colour television system and the first viable purely electronic colour television picture tube." Check Encyclopaedia Britannica for reference. The Encyclopaedia was also a Scottish innovation with its first printing in 1768 in Edinburgh.

[@kawaiideejay1652]

It's crazy because hamburgers, are originally German from the port town of hamburg, the steak meat (which would become known as the burger patty) was too hot for sailors to hold, as they had just docked and were obviously hungry, so a German patty salesman decided to put the patty in between 2 slices of bread so it could be held without burning the hands, and that's where the hamburger was invented

[@kc5402]

So the sailors could burn their lips, tongue and mouths instead of their fingers! Cool idea!

[@jeffsuter344]

A recipe for hamburgers can be found in ancient Roman cook books. Romans also invented the bikini.

[@lupaswolfshead9971]

sweet cool bit of trivia.

[@kiwitrainguy]

Or not-so-cool as the case may be.@@kc5402

[@boblordylordyhowie]

The idea of two pieces of bread put together with a filling is credited to Lord Sandwich, I wonder what they called it?

[@Cant_handle_the_cause]

For a relatively small country, Scotland has invented some of the most influential things. Telephone, television, penicillin, steam engine, contact lenses, atm cash machines, fingerprinting, refrigerator … I could go on. We kick ass.

[@MrTonyHeath]

arse

[@Fifury161]

pneumatic tyre....

[@audreybunyan1493]

Yes we do.

[@Thegobstopper61]

​@@nevillebloodybartosYou lot fucked up by giving Tories.

[@robmanabouttown3298]

Tarmac?!

[@jgreen5820]

The game 'rounders' which we in the UK play at school (it's great fun - millions of uk children play it) involves hitting a ball and running round 4 'bases'. It had been played since Tudor times ie at least 500 years ago. In 1744 it was referred to as base-ball, but later known as 'rounders'. It became popular in Ireland (with slightly different rules) and perhaps Irish and/or English immigrants brought a form of the game to the states, which evolved to be baseball.

[@LynneHutchable]

It always amuses me that their national sport is basically a game played mostly by little girls in the UK.

[@johnboylan3591]

Baseball is rounders, basketball is netball and American football is a less physical version of rugby.

[@andrewcarr2657]

@@johnboylan3591 basketball and netball were invented by the same person and are 2 inventions that were invented entirely in the USA...byJames Naismith a Canadian which at the time of his birth makes him a British Citizen!

[@patagualianmostly7437]

@@LynneHutchable Ditto Basketball....AKA Netball in the UK......Mostly played by young ladies.

[@chrischarlton6542]

...Originally known as Stoorball ...

[@AJ-hi9fd]

I remember being on a tour around Salem, the tour guides bus pulled up outside a university and started to praise the Americans for discovering and producing antibiotics 😂. Being my usual forthright self I said, I always thought Alexander Fleming was Scottish 🤔! Thereafter the tour guide purposely ignored me!

[@wjdietrich]

Where's Salam? Do you mean Salem, Massachusetts?

[@bigverybadtom]

But where did he do the discovery?

[@jonathaniwachiw-toothill29]

@@bigverybadtomLondon

[@steveknight878]

Yes, he was.

[@kiwitrainguy]

I hope you didn't give him a tip.

[@bilbobaggins706]

When I was at school in the 60s, the most popular sport for the summer (for girls, anyway) was rounders. It's all a bit hazy now, but you stand there with a wooden club-type thing, the bowler throws the ball, you hit it and run in a circle to a series of bases. If you're not caught out before you get to a base, you can stop safely at that base until the next ball is bowled. The object of the game is get round the whole circle, and if you can do it in one, I think you get extra points or something. Sound familiar? Another very popular girls' game was netball, where the object of the game was to throw a ball up and through a cylindrical net that was hanging from a pole. Need I say more?!!

[@selina5598]

I was forced to play rounders and netball at school in the 90s and early noughties. Netball is too popular. Rounders is probably hanging on there

[@DFMSelfprotection]

Joseph Swann invented a light bulb filament that lasted. It was this that Edison stole. Swann sued Edison in BOTH a British law court AND an American court. Edison lost both cases.

[@peterd788]

Edison, himself, acknowledged that he didn’t invent the incandescent lightbulb and that Joseph Swan in the UK had done it first. They eventually entered into a business partnership.

[@peregreena9046]

The principle of the light bulb, heating a filament with electric current in a vacuum, for it to glow, was known for about 100 years. What Edison invented and got a patent for, was a way to produce lightbulbs economically and reliably. Others attempted the same long before him. Some even succeeded (Joseph Swann being one of them) The one problem the predecessors faced, was the absence of a way to create electricity on the scale needed to market them.

[@nicoladc89]

When Edison "invented" the lightbulb, Paris already had a public electric illumination system. What Edison did is simply what he ever did, unfair competition. In 1879 Edison patented a light bulb with a duration of 14 hours, meanwhile Alessandro Cruto patented a light bulb that lasted 500 hours.

[@paulwallace4332]

Of course he'd want to 'go into partnership' with and inventor. Fifty percent of the plaudits will then be his. Ha ha!

[@fredschepers5149]

The patent was sold to Edison. Only because they couldn't perfection it and couldn't commercialise it. Edison could. But beside of that. Many worked on light bulbs and therefore contributed to creating a bulb....

[@chrischarlton6542]

Joseph Swan from my home town, SUNDERLAND. Visit the city museum and see a 10 ft plaque dedicated to him and also to his significant contribution to the development of photography. No American likes being put in their place over this. Mentioning they went into a partnership does not exclude Edison from being a liar and a thief.@@peregreena9046

[@jgreen5820]

An American firm took over our beloved Cadbury's chocolate and changed the recipe. It's now horrible as they have added palm oil, it tastes nothing like the lovely chocolate I remember from my young days.

[@akitas8165]

You are quite right, though Cadbury chocolate has always been second grade, now it's even worse. Nestle is far superior, and the Swiss and German chocolate makers leave them all behind.

[@paulwallace4332]

Of course it's easier to pour shit into a product to make it taste like shit. The Brits used better and more refined products to make their best chocolates ever but now the Cadbury brand is as bland as their corporate takeover ensuring that Americans aren't allowed to eat real food. Despoilers of all they were given.

[@fredschepers5149]

😂😂😂😂 I guess your British with a British point of view? British chocolate is just a horrible as other British based production chocolate. I think that you are not really used to real chocolate from other countries where making chocolate is really an art... 😉 Just saying.. 🙂

[@Stevehboy]

@@paulwallace4332 exactly it’s sad, Never buying it again

[@marieparker3822]

It was the makers of American plastic cheese (Kraft) who bought Cadbury's, but fairly quickly sold it. What worried me at the time was that Cadbury had previously bought Green & Black's independent chocolate Company. However, whoever now owns Cadbury's, Green & Black's chocolate has remained unscathed. I would not wish to be without it.

[@norahdenovan8658]

Britain has invented so much it’s unbelievable!! Engineering, science, medicine, poetry, writing, the American Navy was started by a Scotsman, it goes on& on, we really made a big mark on the world for such a small island

[@bilbobaggins706]

We did NOT invent poetry or writing! The earliest record of the written word is in Asia, and the Persians (Iranians) and Iraqis were reciting poetry in beautiful, fragrant gardens when we were still dragging each other in and out of caves by our hair!

[@bigverybadtom]

We did invent the internet though. (No, Al Gore was not its inventor, nor did he claim to have been.)

[@mikelovesbacon]

@@bigverybadtom No we didn't invent the Internet. Sir Tim Berners Lee invented the World Wide Web, but the WWW is just one of many applications that runs *on* the Internet, which was born from ARPANET - an American research network.

[@jbrassic5434]

Don't forget extreme colonisation! Britain excelled at that!

[@norahdenovan8658]

@@jbrassic5434 yeah yeah yeah , here we go again. Britain made a mark on the world, they did a lot of good , they stopped slavery for one. Lots of countries did wrong things, go & investigate them. Honestly getting onto to Britain & all they did wrong is a long playing record now that’s got stuck!!! go & study the Arab countries& what they did!!! 😡

[@eddihaskell]

This has nothing to do with your question, but I heard something very funny once. An American asked a Brit if they celebrate Thanksgiving in the UK (Happy Thanksgiving everyone)! and the answer was "yes we do as a matter of fact, on July 4!".

[@GA-fz2wt]

Hahahaha good one

[@simongraves8339]

Thay is gold I will remember that one

[@TheMogregory]

Regretfully I have only one 'like' to give.

[@dwaggys3322]

They probably said 4th July (not July 4), oddly a lot of Americans change the syntax of dates for the 4th of July to the "UK" system; i.e. date then month.

[@-Pol-]

A friend of mine dated a US Marine and we took him out on the town around her home town of Elgin. He couldn't get his head around the fact that parts of the local public house we were drinking in 'The Thunderton' pre-dated The Mayflower. The rest was older than the USA. Same's true of many UK pubs. So many historic pubs are closing down now though, getting demolished or converted to flats, sadly.

[@bigverybadtom]

Pubs serve food and alcohol. They are not subject to technology.

[@SandraBrown-h1o]

That marine might be interested to know that the US navy was invented by a Scot John Paul Jones born in southwest Scotland and and one of America's first navel war heroes

[@cantbarsedatall]

One of my favourite comments to throw at Americans is that my kid’s school is older than the USA. The building is relatively new by British standards (only Victorian with more recent additions) but the institution was founded in 1525!

[@bigverybadtom]

@@cantbarsedatall And I could imagine the students joking about how their teachers date from the same year!

[@skippyone3085]

While working in Saudi in the 80s for ARAMCO my line manager came back from his leave with pictures of a celebration they had for his church in his home town. Proudly showing us pictures of this old wooden church with a twisted spier where the timber had warped. I asked how old was this church to be told it was 130 years old. I chuckled and then told him the house I loved in in the UK was 300 years old and my garden shed was possibly 200 years old. He was shocked, I then showed him a picture of my house complete with a thatched roof. That finally blew his mind. Lol 😅

[@jamespasifull]

The guy who 'invented' m&m's was serving in London during WWII, & ate some Smarties sweets, which had been around since the early 1930's. He was impressed by how the candy shell round the chocolate centre prevented the chocolate from melting all over your hands. He took the idea home with him, and changed it very slightly, by printing an 'm' on every sweet, thereby avoiding any copyright theft charges!! (By then, it was the late 1940's, 10 years after Smarties became a thing!) We all know they're just Smarties with an 'm' though!! 🤣

[@sjhutton]

Grew up eating Smarties back in England :)

[@Unethical.FandubsGames]

Smarties are still the superior M&M. Though I do like the peanut kind.

[@LadyPakal]

Smarties with inferior chocolate inside.

[@kiwitrainguy]

In New Zealand a local biscuit manufacturer had / has their version called Pebbles. I'm sure that during my life I've eaten Smarties and Pebbles but I've never eaten an M&M.

[@jbrassic5434]

As a kiwi, I've always preferred Smarties. But then I'd choose anything from damn near anywhere over anything from America. America's claims to "greatness" are the greatest things they've achieved.

[@ilikelampshades6]

"Is there proof that Apple Pie is British?" - Yeah, the proof is in the pudding. I'll see myself out

[@TimBadger-w7d]

I think you’ll find the phrase is ‘the proof is in the eating’. Have a nice day.

[@ilikelampshades6]

@@TimBadger-w7d That is not a thing. The saying "the proof is in the pudding" means the evidence is clear when you have direct experience with it.

[@sgttoxiiczz]

​@@ilikelampshades6Lucky for you, some people got the joke. 😂

[@AdrianWright6363]

Don't forget the most obvious thing America stole from Britain: AMERICA!!! 🤣

[@mykota2417]

Yeah now we know give it back...

[@speleokeir]

I think the native Americans had a prior claim.🙂

[@AdrianWright6363]

@@speleokeir Thank god we live in the 21st century where invading countries and claiming them to be theirs is a thing of the past! 🤣

[@kevintwine2315]

You mean the native Americans?

[@nigelpilgrim4232]

@@speleokeir The native American had its land stolen from the self appointed US government & army not to mention wiping pretty much the various tribes out !!! 🏹 📯 🙄!!!

[@martinlarkin8066]

When visiting the US, I went to Harper's Ferry. They have an arsenal there. A tour guide was standing in front of a copy lathe. This machine would have been set up with others of the same type. They would all turn out rifle stocked simultaneously. Thus enabling faster production. The guide then said that because of this machine, the industrial revolution started there in 1861. However on closer inspection, there was a brass plaque on the front with Royal Enfield Arsenal London England 1856 on it. Actually the industrial revolution started at least 100 years before that in England. The guides mistake was so obvious, but clearly deliberate as the plaque was at least 8 inches across and very nicely polished.

[@robertcooper3491]

Not only did the good ole USA RENAGE on airodinamics …what about the a-bomb …if it wasn’t for the Brits sending all it had discovered about the secrets of the atom ..Oppenheimer and his crew wouldn’t have had the time to get their act together…Germany and it’s allies would have won the war ..the agreement was ..we give you what we have and help you develop it ..and you share what you have with us ….did they do that …did they F….K Typical yanks and their promises

[@davidfrost779]

I hope you told the guide that what he was on about was total bollocks. The yanks there's more intelligent life living on their backs at the bottom of ponds. they think they invented everything. Yes the industrial revolution started in Britain we've given more too the world then any other country. And what have the yanks given us? Answer. The Hot Dog

[@newkad]

correct the first industrial revolution was in Victorian time and in Brittan so steam trains machinery and some guns thought they were first created in France. also apparently the god damn Americans said that the beef wellington got created in Washington USA in 1754 when there is proof that it was created in Britain

[@WillzeeWoo]

Arsenal ftw. 🤭

[@Paul-hl8yg]

The first metal (iron) framed building was British. Which was also the first multi floored metal beamed building. The first iron bridge was also in Britain. Also the British invented true stainless steel. Plate glass (for windows) was also a British invention. So basically, you can thank the British for skyscrapers! lol 🇬🇧🇺🇸

[@mariajones8995]

True! hahahahahaha Brits are very humble doesn't say anything, americans just like to discover things and they dont like wht they know lol

[@adolfshitler]

Yep, the yanks love inventing or "re-inventing" things that have already been invented. The Hawker-Siddly Jump Jet and the hovercraft being just two, when infact they just made them bigger, and forgetting about the SR N4 cross channel hovercraft, the biggest ever built.

[@neovo903]

I've actually been on the first Iron bridge, pretty impressive considering it's age

[@adolfshitler]

@@neovo903 Thomas Telford i believe?

[@Paul-hl8yg]

@@neovo903 Iron bridge (built 1779) at Ironbridge, Telford. 👍🇬🇧

[@Cailean_MacCoinnich]

Bless 'em. Most also seem to think they invented the English language. Americans are like little children with big guns. But we British still love 'em.

[@SteveWhipp]

I remember a stand-up quote "We have newspapers in our dentist's office older than the US." - Whilst not true, it's pretty funny.

[@timaustin2000]

Potato chips also are NOT American. As shown recently in a UK documentary called Inside the Factory, recipes for thinly cut potato slices fried in oil until crisp appeared in Victorian cookbooks long before America claimed their invention.

[@neuralwarp]

They were used as counters in card games, which is why we called them Game Chips.

[@Braun30]

Actually in Britain chips are what in the US are called French Fries, and after the early 2000s, known as Liberty Fries. In the UK the name for thin sliced potatoes deep fried is crisps.

[@timaustin2000]

@@Braun30 my comment was for American viewers, hence my use of the word. I meant Crisps, of course.

[@Braun30]

@@timaustin2000 😎👍

[@ryotodoryu8919]

@@Braun30 your a lil off there buddy. Iver here in u.k we have chips (thicker slices cut in to length) we have fries (thinner slices cut into lengths) and crisps (real thin slices) all of which are backed of fried.

[@SEFSQklOR0VS]

The UK has thousands of years of history, while the US has only a couple hundred years or so. Puts a lot of things into perspective

[@SEFSQklOR0VS]

@@RojaJaneman only about 500 years

[@SEFSQklOR0VS]

@@RojaJaneman actually, we had millions of years of history before that. You forget, but Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome were both part of Europe and are still two of the most influential time periods for art, history, religion, philosophy and mathematics

[@scottneil1187]

​@@SEFSQklOR0VS Millions is greatly over exaggerating it, modern man evolved 200000 years ago and civilization as we know it began 6000 years ago.

[@SEFSQklOR0VS]

@@scottneil1187 we do have millions of years of history, it's just that not all of it is to do with humans

[@stephenphillipbostock5391]

Gillies is my personal GP practice. They are the òriginsl practice of practice surgery and are based in Basingstoke UK

[@Jamie-Z]

The computer is the main one as far as I am concerned. Britain developed Colossus computers during WWII and were the main part of cracking the German code machine "Lorenz". Everyone thinks of the Enigma code machine but the Germans knew that the British had captured an Enigma so knew that it was not safe but the British never captured a Lorenz so the Germans trusted codes sent by Lorenz as being safe. The Colossus computer was developed at Bletchley Park and was able to read messages sent by Lorenz. This was and important part of winning WWII but remained top secret until fairly recently so the US was able to develop and take credit for this technology by giving jobs to the British scientists who had already done the work.

[@bigverybadtom]

Actually the original "computer" was the programmable automatic loom, which could use punched cards to weave different patterns. Not certain who originated it though.

[@terranaxiomuk]

Bletchley park is in my hometown. Been there loads. What happened to Turing after ww2 is absolutely disgusting.

[@neddyseagoon9601]

​​@@bigverybadtomJacquard... The looms with sewn together paper plates with holes in repeated patterns were named after him.

[@jasondickson8712]

Wasn't the first Engima military encryption machine the UK got its hands on sent over by Polish resistance agents?

[@kiwitrainguy]

Yes it was. And no one has mentioned Babbage in this thread (except me just now).@@jasondickson8712

[@robfer5370]

Us Brits do like to spread our influence 😁 No need to thank us, happy to help out 👍

[@weybye91]

but you have never said thanks for half your launguade

[@Spencerinio5]

@@weybye91 our what?

[@margaretjames6494]

Rule Britannia! lol

[@bluestream50]

@@weybye91 rephrase that friend.:)

[@VolcanicTsunami]

@@weybye91 I'm sorry are you trying to tell me. That, We the people of England, the very place where the English Language was born. Way back before American history began owe our thanks to you for our own language. You never thanked us for the language that you speak a bastardised version of, and to add insult to injury had the cheek to call it American English. We can Thank you for being the second-best Whiskey Creators, I say that only because the Scotts have you beat on that. A Single Malt Scotch made by the Scotts UK wins again I mean the only thing that I can think of off of the top of my head that we can thank America for is... the growing level of obesity thanks to barely edible fast food outlets. Literally, no one does extremely unhealthy Fast Food that puts your cholesterol through the roof knocking a year or two off of life expectancy, better than America.

[@AndrewD8Red]

Brits also invented the programmable computer, the integrated circuit, the telephone, the jet engine and the world-wide web. They also pioneered supersonic research and they had the world's first nuclear weapons program.

[@georgecooksey8216]

Yeah - The Brits pretty much invented everything. There's nothing novel in the US patent office!

[@chrischarlton6542]

Don't forget...there is only one way to speak English... the correct way... in English !

[@chrischarlton6542]

Even the American National Anthem tune is an old English drinking song !...And the Star spangled banner flag is the flag of the East India Trading Company !

[@georgecooksey8216]

@@chrischarlton6542 Funny - even the American Declaration of Independence was written by British subjects - don't forget to take credit for that!

[@wjdietrich]

Uhh? Alexander Graham Bell ,born in Scotland, raised in Brantford, Ontario, Canada with his family(hobby farmer and linguistics expert father and deaf mother) and where the Alexander Graham Bell museum now is. He worked on communication devices as a teenager to aide his mother (with the beginnings of the telephone starting here) and completed in the USA. His wife was American Mabel G Hubbard (also deaf).

[@jaydizzay]

There are loads of examples of UK Sitcoms remade for the US - there's a wiki page devoted to TV shows transferred over but sitcoms include Red Dwarf, Fawlty Towers, Men Behaving Badly, The IT Crowd, Birds of a Feather, One Foot in the Grave, Gavin & Stacey, Whose Line is it Anyway (not a sitcom but bloody funny), Absolutely Fabulous, The Vicar of Dibley, Little Britain, Not the Nine O'Clock News, Porridge, Shameless, Steptoe and Son, Til Death Us Do Part, The Young Ones. Some didn't do so well stateside, which isn't a huge surprise.

[@branimirradinovic9535]

"A Home to roost", too?

[@matthewskinner1637]

Every kid in Britain plays rounders at school. You normally have 4 poles instead of bases, and the scoring for runs is a bit different so if you make it half way you get a half point and a full run if you make it all the way around the poles. Iconic British summer game.

[@CragusMaximus]

We just had small crappy cones on the floor for bases 😂

[@daryl198920]

Indoor rounders was fun most of us was competing on who can get the most balls stuck in the roof 😂

[@Sooz007-l3b]

All the street games have almost vanished. You don’t see groups of kids playing outside anymore. They are all glued to screens!

[@DazzaGee]

There's no debate about it really - baseball is simply based (no pun) on the old village game of rounders. Like US Football is rugby league. And millions were saved from death and disease in NY over the centuries by a British designed sewerage system.

[@owaffs]

@@CragusMaximus Same. By time I was playing rounders as a kid in school we were using cones for the bases. As a left-hander, it was always amusing seeing the fielders frantically running from their positions near third base to positions near first base just for me. :D

[@ladygwarth]

I love your open mindedness. Sir Humphry Davy was a very famous Cornish scientist from Penzance, who who invented the miner’s safety lamp, the Davy lamp and an early form of incandescent light in 1802 and later an arc lamp. There is a huge statue of him in the town. Us Cornish are very proud of Humphrey Davy as well as Richard Trevithick who invented the first steam powered locomotive in 1804.

[@enkisdaughter4795]

Sir Humphrey Davey was amazing; my late father and one of my brothers were coal miners in the NorthWest of England. Thanks Sir Humphrey.

[@ladygwarth]

@@enkisdaughter4795 My great grandfather was a Cornish tin miner, ironically, they weren’t at risk from methane like the coal miners.

[@peterneijs387]

@@ladygwarth Only rust

[@georgerobartes2008]

There's also the " Humpty Dumpty " pub as a monument in the town !

[@kevg3320]

Not trying to be too much of a pedant, but here goes anyway. Neither Humphry or Davy has the letter 'e' in it. I went to Humphry Davy Grammar back in the day and many a time heard a teacher shout at some poor unfortunate "Humphry Davy NO E's'!!

[@markmark63]

Edison's team made some important developments in the production of light bulbs but when he tried to patent in the UK - it was refused as they had already been in mass-production for 40 years. Edison instead offered to buy Joseph Swan's light bulb company and purchased a 50% share. They formed the Edison & Swan Electric Company which still exists to this day in the UK.

[@xbluebae]

Whose Line Is It Anyway? was originally filmed in Britain and hosted by Clive Anderson in '88. I remember seeing skits where a young Ryan Stiles and Colin Mochrie complain at the British producers/floor staff about interrupting them all the time.

[@madMARTYNmarsh1981]

The only thing that Americans claim as their own that really bothers me is the English language. There is a clue in its name but the amount of Americans that claim ownership of English is obscene and it really annoys me. Extra annoyance is directed at Americans that call English 'the American language'.

[@Kyrelel]

Well, if you do a bit of research, you're in for a bit of a shock. Brit here, BTW.

[@madMARTYNmarsh1981]

@@Kyrelel care to elaborate?

[@Paul-hl8yg]

@@Kyrelel Although the English language has changed over the centuries, from old English to modern. And although English stems from other languages, It still belongs to the English, to England. Hence the name 'English language'. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

[@paulgreen758]

kind of makes me laugh that when im in America, and as a English person I get complimented by Americans on my English

[@n7creed629]

I’ve seen in the media but I thought it was played up for effect… (Im a brit). They really think ‘English’ is american?? Wouldn’t it be called ‘Americanese’ or something?

[@paulhunter7002]

America was able to break the sound barrier in 1947 thanks to British technological research. Britan had a supersonic research project - a prototype jet plane called the Miles M.52 but in 1946 the project was cancelled, and the research was given to the United States.

[@Jon.Cullen]

Eric "Winkle" Brown (RIP) has never forgiven the Americans for this. The Bell X1 used the same horizontal stabiliser design from the Miles M52, which Miles had come up with themselves.

[@geoffmower8729]

At the time America didn't have the bugs out of there jet engine technology so they cut corners by putting rockets on there supersonic plane project and Chuck Yeager was first to brake the sound barrier. Many years later the British made a scaled down remote controlled version of the Miles M52 and it broke the sound barrier at first attempt.

[@rickb.4168]

@@Jon.Cullen but on first flights they had it fixed, and the effect was horrific. Afterwards they took it back to movable as in the original Miles design

[@rickb.4168]

They didn’t just give it the Americans, Britain and America agreed to swap research in the war. We have them jet and research info. They gave us f@ck all!

[@davidedbrooke9324]

Given, again.

[@patriciacarter1147]

Rounders (baseball) was played by the girls at school whilst the boys played cricket. Once home it depended on who was set up first on the road (it was a long time ago when there were fewer cars) and the boys in the street would join in or girls if the cricket was set up first.

[@neilbuckley1613]

Baseball is mentioned in Jane Austen's book Northanger Abbey, written at the end of the 18th century, so the name is over 200 years old.

[@radu3166]

Oină is a traditional Romanian sport which is similar in many ways to baseball and lapta. The word "oină" is obtained from the Cuman word oyn which means "game". Oină was first introduced during the rule of Vlaicu Vodă in the year 1364, when it expanded all across Wallachia.

[@vaudevillian7]

Baseball and Rounders are pretty different

[@scaleyback217]

Boys played rounds too and what came back from the states a hundred years or so later - softball. One of the schools I went to in the fifties had boys rounders team and a joint softball team.

[@susieq9801]

@@scaleyback217 - Basketball was "invented" in Canada.

[@baroquearttanya8514]

Always amazed at how people from colonised countries are so surprised to discover that a lot of things came from Britain or other European countries. They brought the things, recipes, songs, knowledge etc. with them. BIG surprise!

[@Alcagaur1]

To be fair, Thomas Alvar Edison also probably outstrips Robin Hood for the "Best known thief" title as well.

[@Crusty_Camper]

That made me smile. To paraphrase Baldrick, "He was half way to becoming the next Robin Hood. He stole from the rich but....."

[@furnessborn]

British shows remade in the US 'House of Cards', 'Love Island, 'Man about the house' (Three's Company), Pop Idol (American Idol), 'Queer as folk' 'Shameless', 'Steptoe and son' (Sanford and son), 'Strictly come Dancing', (Dancing with the stars), 'Till death us do part' (All in the Family), 'Who do you think you are', 'Antiques Roadshow', 'Whose line is it anyway', And a few more.

[@gloriahoulihan8717]

The Quakers in Britain had a great influence on foodstuffs because people trusted them to use good clean ingredients. Many chocolate products and sauces were originally made by the Quakers in factories.

[@judsdragon]

porridge oats even had their name on it ;)

[@charleenlangley8709]

@@judsdragon The best porridge brand still does

[@The-Underbaker]

Baseball is an easier game of Rounders, same as American Football is an easier game of Rugby. Americans also use Pomp and Circumstance March No.1 (by Sir Edward Elgar) for the song used at graduations. (you might know it as "Land of Hope and Glory")

[@robertlowe4784]

The reason Britain invented most sports is because we invented the lawn mower, if it's played outside it uses the open recreational spaces it created (on the popular landscape gardens prior wealthy landowners had using sheep etc to keep the grass short was where they started, but once public spaces like parks opened up by a lawnmower for the working classes in the 1800's they took off)

[@gdok6088]

Don't feel downhearted Tyler, it could have been worse - we might never have left! Apparently it was only because Britain, admittedly mistakenly, didn't see the colonies in the New World as particularly valuable that the British Army didn't fight too hard to keep America as a British outpost. At the time Brits thought India and the Far East were far more valuable and important because of their spices ... and you guessed it ... their tea too!

[@andreww2098]

too many irons in the fire, the Army didn't have the resources to fight several wars of conquest at the same time, and like you say the US colonies were costing more to run than they returned, despite US claims they paid less tax per person than anyone else in the Empire!

[@rickb.4168]

Let’s not forget it wasn’t the colonies that beat England, it was the Colonies, the French, the Spanish and the Dutch which collectively beat Britain. Something the Americans like to forget. FREEDUM!

[@neuralwarp]

Poor George III. He's remembered for losing America. Nobody ever remembers that he gained Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Southern Africa, and the Planet Uranus.

[@johnjamesflashman6856]

Britain also decided the West Indies and their sugar plantations were more valuable than the 13 American colonies, so more ships and soldiers were stationed there.

[@pianoboylaker6560]

You couldn't be more right about Britain not considering America worth the trouble of keeping it. Especially since you look at the way America is now a cesspit of moral degradation and racism. I couldn't live in America rent free. I prefer my sanity too much.

[@HaurakiVet]

Edison initially marketed his version of the light bulb under the "Edison-Swann" label to avoid further legal action. Edison was renowned for employing gifted people to develop new ideas, under tight contracts of course and then patenting these as his own. His battle to attempt to crush Westinghouse who had developed alternating current which we use today in competition with his direct current which was much less effecient was well recorded.

[@andreww2098]

trying to prove how dangerous AC was by electrocuting an circus elephant that had killed the trainer who had tortured it, sadly enough the DC system Edison used would of killed it faster and the poor animal suffered as a result of them using AC

[@davidholmes2283]

He hired Tesla

[@reggy_h]

@@andreww2098 AC was developed by Westinghouse. Because it was more effective when being used on the electric chair Edison, trying to discredit AC, called the electric chair Westinghousing.

[@leglessinoz]

It wasn't Westinghouse. It was Nikola Telsa. Westinghouse took his ideas.

[@reggy_h]

@@leglessinoz Ah. I think I should have said that Westinghouse was a strong supporter of AC power transmission. I didn't mean to suggest that somehow that Westinghouse had invented the idea. Edison's idea of supplying a power grid with DC was never going to work but he refused to accept it. I stand by my comments about Westinghousing though. I don't think Nikola Telsa never got the respect he deserved in his day. Revered now of course.

[@NoelRoots]

Tyler ! You do make me laugh and i love ur channel pal,you have a great tongue in cheek humour, it does actually make sense that a lot of American stuff originates from the uk as we're closeley related

[@cireenasimcox1081]

The phrase "American as apple pie." has always made us giggle. Because, knowing apple pie is an English thing, anything as "American" as apple pie" is thus English! Mind you, some people were a bit cheesed off when Reagan decided the rose would be the flower of America. Because for hundreds of years - long before the USA was a gleam in anyone's eye - it's been representative of the UK. Pretty girls are often described as an English Rose (eg Princess Di.) The rose appears in our iconography, art, customs etc. long before the first rose bush was ever shipped off to the USA. The native rose in the Americas was pretty puny & very unlike English roses, so the English varieties were sent over to the USA. But, while people have mentioned particular American movies that have been badly made, no-one has mentioned that neither films nor picture theatres/movie houses originated in the US. Edison had a huge ethics failure and is renowned for being a "patent pincher". In 1903 the first colour movie (which I've seen for myself - Brighton & Hove, where I live, being where all this took place.) was excitedly sent over to Edison who promptly patented it...and the world only got colour film after WWII.

[@susieq9801]

Daguerre and the Lumiere brothers from France were in the forefront of photography and moving pictures. Also early aviation via balloons.

[@cireenasimcox1081]

@@susieq9801 Indeed they were. But the difference was that all the folk this side of the Pond were reading each other's work and sharing breakthroughs and even getting together to discuss their work. Once they sent info to the USA, however, things were done differently.🙃

[@susieq9801]

@@cireenasimcox1081 - EVERY invention or advance in technology, music, architecture, government, you name it, has to start somewhere. You forgot to mention the US invented air, LOL. Yup, everything in the US is done differently. What about the Curies? Xrays. Underwater exploration. SCUBA invented by Jacques Cousteau. Copernicus and Galileo, started the exploration of the cosmos. Ancient Egyptians and Arabs mapped the stars and even calculated the diameter of the earth. Einstein, Hawking, and others took the next steps (neither one born an American). Von Braun, German, rocketry. Tesla a Serbian. Nobody can build a house without a solid foundation. Most foundations were laid globally. The US is not the center of the universe. Galileo proved that hundreds of years ago.

[@hermandadams]

Like All cultivated flowers and fruits, roses are hybrid flowers coming from the wild dog rose wich is a sad little thing but beautiful in its self, but tiny, plain white and striking in its natural environment the wild hedgerows of the countryside. i have a rosebush in my own back garden and over a time span of 15 to twenty years left to its own develpment has gone from a lush deep multi petaled red colour and is now at this time is just producing plain white four petaled yellow centred flowers the same as the dog roses in our amazing countryside hedge rows

[@reggy_h]

I think William Frieze Green from Bristol UK invented the first colour cine film.

[@-j5t-893]

Apples themselves are not native to the Americas, all apple trees grown on your side of the Atlantic are decedents of varieties originally shipped over from the UK and Europe. Just like the Potato coming the other way! Apple Pie with a closed pastry lid are the English style, the lattice lid are Dutch. They're delicious either way and wherever you find them :) A very traditional olde English accompaniment is a thick slice of Cheddar or Wensleydale cheese.

[@ftb2772]

Apple pie with Wensleydale 😋 that i have to try!

[@lloydevans2900]

Potatoes are actually native to the South American continent, not the USA. They grow incredibly well in the tropical climate, especially on volcanic ash based soil on the slopes of volcanic regions in Ecuador and Peru. It just so happens that Idaho has a lot of volcanic ash deposits too, which is why the worlds largest potato farms are there.

[@-j5t-893]

@@lloydevans2900 yes I know, that is why I didn't mention the USA at all.

[@susiejones3634]

Mmm, cheese and apple pie. Also cheese and fruitcake. I'm hungry now.

[@tedcopple101]

Apples were first cultivated in Turkey, as well as a great number of other things.

[@davidriley1188]

Well Tyler, considering you had the rug pulled from under your feet on so many occasions here I commend your open-mindedness. You took it on the chin like a true champ with good grace. Thoroughly enjoyed your reactions and mental calculations as the (harsh) historical realties hit home. Now go and console yourself by tucking into some good old English cuisine such as donuts and apple pie !!🤣

[@peterdevalk7929]

Donuts are Dutch pannekoeken with a hole in it.

[@WillzeeWoo]

Loving these videos. It amazes me how little most Americans know about other countries, especially a country that helped form the USA. Pure indoctrination. 😬🙈

[@RcGhost-V8]

they don't even know about their country how do you want them to know about others

[@madcyclist58]

A list of only 10? That's just scratching the surface.

[@outsidethebox2037]

Isn't it just....the biggest thing I've noticed here is there is so much history supporting evidence that the US didn't actually invent many of the things we have come to know so well. The USA has very little (non really) actual history....many things were initially brought to us from Ancient Civilizations such as the Chinese, Greeks, Egyptians and of course the Romans 🧐

[@catherinewilkins2760]

Baseball is Rounders. Barnes Wallace invented the swing wing aircraft and the music to your National anthem was a British drinking song, oh dear, never mind, how sad. Even your flag, traces its origins back to the heraldic devises of the Leggate family, relatives of George Washington.

[@paulhunter7002]

Don't forget breaking the sound barrier - America did it in 1947 thanks to British technological research. Britan had a supersonic research project - a prototype jet plane called the Miles M.52 but in 1946 the project was cancelled, and the research was given to the United States.

[@eddhardy1054]

Not sure about the Leggate family but the Washington family's own arms were a white shield with two red bars and three stars which could have influenced the stars and bars design of the US flag 🤔

[@ryansmallfield5957]

Washington family came from England to start with so the crest flag etc is from England

[@eddhardy1054]

I never said it didn't. I was merely pointing out the design of the Stars & Stripes is most likely based on the arms of the Washington family (of Sulgrave Manor in Northamptonshire) rather than the Leggate family.

[@oldman1734]

@@eddhardy1054 I thought the American flag was a copy of the British East India flag. They are practically identical.

[@FFM0594]

During WW2 the Brits invented the part at the heart of every microwave producing machine. They realised it's importance and were worried the Germans would get it if they invaded England, so they put it in the 'safe hands' of their friends, the Americans, who never gave it back.

[@RichHaynes2012]

We do that with alot of things, especially militarily.

[@fammader96]

Without America how would Britain look today? Probably a little more German.

[@DazzaGee]

And their Mustang was a piece of junk until they produced RR Merlin engines under license to make it a competitor to the Zero....

[@jimdigriz2923]

Fun little video, always good to see you guys over the pond react to stuff like this. A little side note - the town of Sandwich has a village nearby named Ham

[@vivianhull3317]

Lol

[@griswald7156]

There is a country near sandwich that eats baguettes.

[@darren25061965]

I`ve seen the sign between both location and it does have "Ham" & "Sandwich" on it.

[@griswald7156]

There is a village in Yorkshire called Fryup where you can buy a fried breakfast..

[@darren25061965]

@@griswald7156 It should be on the menu as "The Fryup Fryup"🤣

[@MysticG03]

For context regarding Eddison and the Lightbulb: Like said in the video he just took the credit, during this time 2 British scientists were racing to be the first Creators of electrical lighting. One of them hired Eddison to assist and they succeeded. But once the first ever light bulb was made, Eddison took the credit fully.

[@thibaultjoan8268]

I'm at 1:55, "apple pie" ... at what point in history America started to think that "apple pie" was invented in America? It's mainly apple and wheat ... (and it's been a while since apples have been cultivated in Europe ...)

[@markhoward2811]

There were some USA series that were originally from the UK in the 1970's. ' Three's Company' was called 'Man about the House' , 'The Ropers' was 'George and Mildred' and ' Sanford and Son' was 'Steptoe and Son' in the UK. Thomas Edison invented the concept of Direct Current Electricity but it was Nikolai Tesla's Alternate Current system that was adopted as it was the easier system of the 2 to allow the system to be reach everywhere it was required.

[@namugriff]

And The Hulk is basically the US version of Doctor Jekyll and Mister Hyde

[@neilrockley5327]

All based on British sitcoms Dear John Archie Bunker The Lucie Amaz show Reggie A Touch of Grace No Honestly You Again Love thy neighbour Men Behaving Badly Cosby On The Rocks The rag business 5 up 2 down Check it out The two of us

[@Heaven-dy9lj]

Dear John Alf Garnett. The actors and format change for the American market. When GB has USA TV nothings changed.

[@catherinekilgour2563]

@@neilrockley5327 thank you I was hoping someone had listed the tv shows as I knew there were a lot more than just The Office. I know it's not a sitcom but they remade Taskmaster too.

[@stumccabe]

It is certainly true that sticking some meat or cheese between two pieces of bread was done thousands of years ago. The name sandwich was invented in England, not the concept! There is also the US flag which has striking similarities to the 14th century coat of arms of the Washington family of County Durham, England - they both feature stars and stripes!

[@geoffwheadon4277]

I live about 15 miles from Washington, Co Durham, the old house is still there.

[@geoffwheadon4277]

And 4 miles from Toronto, 6 miles from Quebec and New York is about 20 miles away.

[@Phiyedough]

Yes, I'm sure the Romans, Greeks etc. were making sandwiches.

[@scaleyback217]

Even used the same colours as the Union flag. These Yanks will steal anything, one of 'em even came over here and stole me!!!!!

[@AV-fo5de]

@@Phiyedough No, buit the Romans did have pizzas.

[@Jeni10]

There’s a very popular western movie released in America, but its origin is Japanese! I’m referring to the Akira Kurosawa directed film, Seven Samurai, 1954. Hollywood took it and made it into a western - The Magnificent Seven! Actually, Hollywood has stolen lots of ideas for movies from foreign countries!

[@andreww2098]

Star Wars is also a slightly reworked Japanese story, based on Kurosawa's Hidden Fortress

[@annekekramer3835]

Shichinin no samurai? I watched it, it's actually a great movie.

[@axeami1354]

just like walt Disney stole a Japanese anime idea to create mickey mouse.

[@brianpowell6058]

The Equaliser was originally a British television series starring Edward Woodward.

[@stephenashe952]

@@brianpowell6058 don’t think so,it was an American TV show with a British leading man,Edward Woodward.

[@MichaelLamming]

Chocolate was a hot drink before Fry invented the solid version.

[@steveosborne2297]

Not only is the music for the Star-Spangled Banner written by a Briton but of course the lyrics are actually about a British attack on fort Henry in 1812

[@lovesgucci1]

Everything you stated is actually taught to American children. Maybe this guy was asleep in class?

[@maximusstorm1215]

@@lovesgucci1 I bet they don't teach kids that the U.S. lost in that war, though.

[@tonywalton1464]

About the most famous example of a remake of a comedy character might be Archie Bunker, based on Alf Garnett from Till Death Us Do Part.

[@peterpiper482]

I also was told that the British national anthem is sung to tje tune of and old German drinking song? Is that right?

[@steveosborne2297]

@@peterpiper482 No the British National anthem was probably written in the 17th century , possibly by Henry Purcell . The lyrics were added in the 18th century first being performed in 1745 , possibly written by Henry Carey . This included the verse , which is no longer sung , about punishing the rebellious Scots as this was of course the time of the Jacobite rebellion . It did not however become the national anthem until the 19th century .

[@gizzardpuke4056]

The first light bulb ever made was over 200 years ago at cragside in England . And it is still lit today.

[@AV-fo5de]

Cragside even appeared in a question in a paper for a History Degree exam years ago. Yes, it was a groundbreaker!

[@conan7422]

It was the german Heinrich Göbel he was the first to design a working electric incandescent lamp at the year 1854. then the British 1886. After this Eddison then had it patented. The same applies to the telephone, an invention by Phillip Rice long before bell.

[@andrewguttry6886]

Britain also gave (literally), America their first jet engine, the 'Whittle'. A variant of the engine was used in the first US jet, the Bell P-59 Airacomet.

[@bigverybadtom]

But the first jet fighter was invented and used in Nazi Germany.

[@TonyKettle-y9m]

Air Commodore Sir Frank Whittle.

[@AndresJames12]

The English language will probably be thought of as American soon. I live in Manila and when I tell people I'm half Filipino and half English, they say: American? I say no, English..... Yeah what??? American??? I say no, English, from England. And then I looked at like I've just made up a country

[@jikanygatthot7997]

Yeah it's because of the UK if you tell half British they will understand you

[@kobusvanstaden3747]

Americans don't really speak English though...

[@newkad]

@@kobusvanstaden3747 The American language is British just a few changes...

[@debbie541]

Edison, who patented his bulb in 1879, merely improved on a design that British inventor Joseph Swan had patented 10 years earlier. In fact, apple trees weren't even native to North America until the Europeans arrived.

[@Roman_Eagle]

Here is something that will interest you, I live approx 4 miles from the Town of Sandwich, which was within the Earl of Sandwich's domain. The town is first mentioned in historic records in 664AD and became a Cinque Port (a pretty big deal) under William the Conquerer in the 11th century, based on the River Sour. the town is dominated by medieval and Tudor (renacance) buildings which still stand today. The sandwich itself (before being named by the British) has been linked to ancient China and Rome, being invented individually by multiple civs over history. its one of those near-universal things.

[@sjbict]

My Grandfather worked for a building firm (name escapes me) that renovated many of those buildings back in the 60s /70s as well as all over Kent. We also lived there in the RAF houses when my dad was stationed at RAF Manston

[@jackdshellback3819]

@romaneagle. As you know, Sandwich is near the village of Ham. I love the old road sign with "Ham" and written directly underneath "Sandwich", hope it's still there.

[@Roman_Eagle]

@@jackdshellback3819 yeh it's still there, "Ham" > "Sandwich". I remember that sign for a while kept getting stolen, but that stopped around 6-7 years ago lol. you could probably find it on Ebay. not that I ever looked lol.

[@Roman_Eagle]

@@sjbict cool, I know that parts of the guild hall as well as many of the pubs are surviving buildings. It's a shame many got knocked down but I believe a lot of the victorian and Georgian structures are also still around like the civil parish church building. a beautiful town with lots of history. Its also a shame how Manston Airport has ended up.

[@danielefabbro822]

Yeah, before that period we Italians called it "Paninograd". 😤

[@scotthooton7478]

Ha Ha good reaction - Britain is figuratively awash with apples (7000 varieties world wide, 2500 are British & alcoholic cider consumption is by far the highest in the world) to be honest I thought that "American as Apple Pie" was a joke phrase - ie they are deluded

[@ClaireTee123]

I also thought the phrase meant not American at all, who knew they were serious?

[@leglessinoz]

And yet apples originated around Kazakhstan.

[@albrussell7184]

How about Crisps (What USA calls chips). First appeared in best-selling cookbook published in 1813 in the UK. So along with sandwiches and chocolate, I'm all set for living in front of the TV for the next few weeks watching the World Cup.

[@NathTMcC]

An American saying “remaking a comedy show is strange.” Is HILARIOUS 😂

[@rohan1970b]

FYI -- You were correct. Although chocolate bar was invented in Britain, chocolate itself is a Western Hemisphere invention. It isn't US, though. Chocolate goes back to the Olmecs of Mexico around 1500BC and was later served to Spanish in 1500s AD.

[@robertcooper3491]

Who the hell wants to eat American chocolate…when we have …Brit …Belgium…Dutch …and Swiss chocolate 🍫 to name just a few ..and you cannot in any stretch of the imagination compare Hershey,s and Cadbury,s

[@Grogu-485]

Your right chocolate milk was invented in Jamaica.

[@iankinver1170]

if you want to know where the flag itself came from, look at an image of George Washingtons (English) ancestral family crest.

[@solomonstemplers]

yep i see it.

[@neuralwarp]

Not '"crest". Coat of Arms. A crest is an amusing object added to your hat, such as a fish or a set of feathers.

[@jgreen5820]

Geoffrey Chaucer, in one of his books (which included the Canterbury Tales) wrote of apple pie in the year 1361. However, I imagine apple pie is a recipe that has been used across the world in various forms for centuries as there are hundreds of varieties of apple that have been grown in England and probably were many elsewhere too.

[@SandraBrown-h1o]

Apple trees were not native to America, they imported them from Europe the same way we imported potatoes

[@YeahNo]

4:53 Fry’s merged with Cadbury in 1919. Fry’s Turkish Delight still carries the “Fry’s” name despite being made by the better known Cadbury. 8:44 Red Dwarf, Coupling, Broadchurch, Fawlty Towers, Absolutely Fabulous, Blackpool, Are you Being Served? - their American versions all failed.

[@cpmahon]

Henry Ford didn't invent the assembly line, again a British invention. Happy Thanksgiving Day!

[@johnp8131]

Others have said it was American, prior to that and was a rifle production line. Springfield I think? However many Historians now believe it was earlier in places like Chatham, with the production of of rope for Ships Rigging.

[@Dawsinderu]

Yeah he didn't invent it but did optimize it and make it unique in his factories if I recall correctly

[@DoomsdayR3sistance]

Ford invented an assembly line for cars, where the Car is a German invention and the Assembly line British, it was still quiet an accomplishment in what he achieved.

[@SF64]

@@DoomsdayR3sistance I agree there, I don't think the concept had been applied to that level of complexity and scale before that it was revolutionary for that alone.

[@stevetheduck1425]

The concept of an assembly line existed long ago: the Romans had book-copying and -binding workshops that used an assembly line, with each slave specialising in one stage so they could never leave their employment as they did not learn a trade or craft. This was later applied by an Englishman to the manufacture of (originally) pins, which in the hands of a craftsman meant about twelve pins a day could be made, but when many cheap women were set up to do each stage, meant hundreds of pins a day were made on his assembly line. They were replaced by machines doing each stage at a later date, of course, when their miner husbands dug coal for steam engines, rather than warming their homes.

[@Crusty_Camper]

Here's a few more: The WWW, Tanks, Aircraft carriers, World's first powered flight ( Chard, Somerset 1848 ), Hovercraft, M777 artillery. Programmable Computer ( Colossus 1943), The lyrics of "Danny Boy". But we have also got many things back in exchange !

[@xneurianx]

Being surprised that the sandwich comes from England is like being surprised that Buffalo sauce is from New York.

[@Annabelle28lh]

On the bit about the creator of the lightbulb I’m related to Joseph swan it’s a fun fact I love to tell

[@joeking5310]

A lot of American TV shows are based on British programmes. All in the family was based on 'till death us do part. Sandford & son was based on Steptoe & son, etc, etc.

[@stuart7515]

Man About The House became Three's Company. However, Married with Children became Married for Life, and Счастливы вместе.

[@allnightrunner.6515]

Happens much more than you think. Cracker becoming Fitz was one. Many are failures though as U.K. and U.S. humour are not always comparable. The U.S. remake of Red dwarf sucked big time.

[@marikothecheetah9342]

@@allnightrunner.6515 The IT crowd as well.

[@trigger399]

There was also Dear John USA which actually used the same script.

[@adolfshitler]

@@allnightrunner.6515 The only half decent american sit com in my opinion was "Two Broke Girls" whether they bought the rights or made their own comedy series, they've not been that good at it.

[@oneoldmanontheroad9034]

Thank you for being open minded and enjoying history. I love your reaction and at the end of the day.... we are just brothers across the water 🤗

[@oneoldmanontheroad9034]

But then we all know how siblings behave lmao

[@michaelpalmer4013]

@@oneoldmanontheroad9034 Particularly when one has stolen the other's colony!

[@tgsgardenmaintenance4627]

Considering the size of the British Empire, it's not surprising that we exported and influenced so many things around the world. Some good, some not so good! ❤️ To 🇺🇸 from 🇬🇧

[@davidhoins4588]

Foolish little Brit 😂 return the stolen crown jewels mug 🤣 the British empire was the first economic migrants that stole,murdered and is still the American puppets they always were

[@grumpyone5963]

Exactly and the fact we had been around hundreds of years before America was even discovered. It goes without saying that most things there were taken there, ideas and recipes etc. Another big one that’s British is Banoffee Pie. 100% British, there’s an old recipe in a book that goes way back, and is proof we did it first. But not having a go at America, it’s just a time thing. The iffy part is the way Americans are taught in school. Another that springs to mind is the Raleigh Chopper. America started to import them, then banned them and copied them to make their own. But we definitely will give you landing on the moon!

[@mariajones8995]

@@grumpyone5963 true, Brits influenced the whole world, and this man is asking questions why? how they can invent something without the knowledge of the Brits lol

[@AV-fo5de]

@@grumpyone5963 Tens of thousands of years, to be exact.

[@MrJacobThrall]

The light bulb was a sort of gradual invention - people managed to get wires to glow back in the 1700s. Swan is an oft-cited pioneer (he'd already started a light bulb company and lit an entire city street by the time Edison took out a patent), but there were quite a few before him who did important work. Edison's first light bulb patent was for "Improvements to Electric Lights" - if the first thing you do is improve something that already exists, you don't really get to be called its creator! He did make it commercial though - the improved filaments for longer life, the power generation systems, the marketing - he convinced people that the entire setup of electric lighting was the way to go (regardless of how much of 'his' work may actually have been somebody else's).

[@boblordylordyhowie]

Most inventions can be seen to have predecessors that didn't quite work.

[@ramblingman8992]

Eddison had worked out how to create light from electricity, but not how to actually keep the filament from burning out after a short time. Swann, on the other hand, was working on a method to remove oxygen from a vessel in order to preserve it's contents. Swann managed to achieve his goal and patented his idea. Eddie on, realising that it could solve his problem, tried to buy Swann's patent. Swann refused to sell, and instead, licenced his patent to Eddison in return for a fee per bulb sold. This is why the screw in bulbs are still known to this day as Eddison Swann bulbs. The British were rather good at inventing stuff. We invented the Steam engine, windscreen wipers and came up with the idea of putting braking systems on both front and rear of motor vehicles.

[@Bob10009]

In the realms of transport alone, you can add the jet engine, the first jet airliner, the aircraft carrier (and most parts of it such as the angled flight deck, catapults etc) the hovercraft and the technology to break the sound barrier. Then more broadly there is your national anthem, your flag, your basic legal system, your language…..and your people.

[@pottersmiles7238]

Jet engines from Germany also the technology to break the sound barrier is built on the foundation of German knowledge.

[@herewardtheoutlaw9378]

@@pottersmiles7238 Frank Whittle, the British inventor, applied for his first patent for the jet engine in 1930, long before the Germans started their research. Both countries produced the first jet fighters in 1944 within months of each other, the Germans first. The German design was the one that was the foundation for future developments.

[@favesongslist]

@@herewardtheoutlaw9378 If the British government had listened to Whittle instead of appeasing the nazis the Britain would have had jet fighters before the beginning of WW2 :(

[@DFMSelfprotection]

@@pottersmiles7238 Jet engines weren't from Germany. The Germans took British ideas and completed them earlier. The jet engine was pitched to the British War Office but it decided not to spend the research money on it but keep building prop aircraft (it was a case of numbers)

[@pottersmiles7238]

@@herewardtheoutlaw9378 before whittle there were French ideas and Russian ideas and before the 1900s there were gas turbine ideas and steam ideas. The first turbojet to fly was the heinkel he 178.

[@Payne2view]

The US also 'stole' the concept of the 'flying tail' which enables aircraft to remain under pitch control during supersonic flight. No 'flying tail' no Chuck Yeger breaking the sound barrier. The UK shared the data with the US providing the US shared their data with the UK. Once the UK had given their end of the deal, the US said, 'nope thats a state security secret'. Also other things America may often take credit for: The jet engine, the programable computer, winning WWII, the telephone, democracy etc. etc.

[@AV-fo5de]

Indeed. The Greeks actually had the Democracy card-even long before the four countries of the British Isles were forcibly joined. WW2 had been raging since 1939, with all combatant countries holding their own. The US only joined in after Pearl Harbour, which really meant they missed half of it. WWI 1914-1918, the US joined in 1917.

[@jaysinha0]

...and efficient radar

[@AV-fo5de]

@silverfoxeater It was a comment about why it is wrong for nearly every war film to have all campaigns led to victory by the US. Thank you, but I am no idiot . I suggest you look up the "Lend Lease" equipment and the length of time it had to be paid for.

[@Payne2view]

@silverfoxeater When the US eventually joined in to 'save the free world' in 1943, they charged us for the help with debts which were only paid-off in 2006. We were without America from 1939 to 1943 yet the UK did not surrender. As you say, the UK even sold rights to Caribbean bases, so the US did okay out of the war. Not to be ungrateful for those US soldiers who died for the war effort though. The Bismark was sunk in 1941, long before the USA joined militarily. Brave UK airmen flying antiquated Swordfish biplane torpedo bombers damaged it enough to make it a sitting duck. When the US soldiers came over, they tried unsuccessfully to enforce racial segregation in our pubs. Meanwhile they were behaving in such a bragging way about how everyone can relax, the Americans are here, that there had to be a special film made to educate troops not to antagonise the locals or UK troops on leave. Many left with UK war-brides. On D-Day, British, Canadian & other non-Americans stormed the beaches of Normandy, so don't believe every partial "we saved their ass" version of history you're told. The British were fighting in North Africa, Italy, Mediterranian areas, and after VE Day, were still fighting in the far East against Japan. So someone could argue that the UK, Australia & NewZealand were vital in defeating Japan. That and your big bombs of course. US history of WWII gives little or no credit to a the special operations & against all odds determination & victories of the British. The 1940 Battle of Britain was a group effort between Britain and its allies but the participation numbers per country does not put the US in a good light. The list includes: 9 Americans, 10 Irish, 13 French, 127 NewZealanders & 145 Polish pilots. To but it bluntly, the US let people exhaust themselves, then marched in all well fed, well supplied and full of overconfidence to take the credit at the end. If the UK had fallen, I am fairly sure the USA would have made a deal with the Germans to let them keep Europe just as long as they had a good trade relations. Oh and there were german U-boats off the eastern coast of the USA too. The Battle of the Atlantic was a close-run thing.

[@stevetheduck1425]

@@silverfoxeater When the US attacked Canada in 1812-1814, Britain was involved as soon as the messages arrived. Naval forces interdicted, supplied and supported the Canadian militias against Mr Madison and he was beaten back. Remembered as 'the British burned the White House'? I believe Britain was involved in a few other wars the US was involved in, at least one before there was a USA. We've often been involved in the USA's many South American adventures, usually by supplying arms and ships, the Spanish, too.

[@XRos28]

I love seeing you so shocked about 90% of the items on this list... :)

[@alisonscott1469]

Morning Tyler, you look like your about to have a cardiac arrest while reacting to this one it’s so funny to see you react this way, Take care 😂🤣😀😘🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇺🇸

[@johnnybeer3770]

It's all the British secret weapons he's been consuming -------Doughnuts .🇬🇧

[@trevorenever265]

Luckily we have heart transplants; and that's one that got away from the US. Christiaan Barnard, a South African, learned his heart training and transplantation techniques in the US but carried out the first transplant back in South Africa.

[@lovesgucci1]

The vast majority of Americans aren’t as ignorant as this KZbinr is pretending to be. Americans were taught, all throughout grade school, that many things we enjoy today - food, technology, modern medicine… - were derived from other nations.

[@malpa2345]

We Brits gave the world a lot

[@AV-fo5de]

Especially the Scots.

[@michaelpalmer4013]

@@AV-fo5de Dream on!

[@AV-fo5de]

@@michaelpalmer4013 Do yourself a favour and just look up Scottish Inventions, make a cup of tea and be comfortable for the long time it takes to read. Really, research is your best friend. I learned that at University. What we think we know, may not be accurate. Enjoy. At least I am not being rude to you. "Manners maketh man," they say.

[@PhoeniX199777]

@@AV-fo5de When you take scotlands population into account it becomes especially impressive on the amount of things scotland gave to the world. No one can deny that both scotland and england made the modern world either

[@kayew5492]

Baseball is known here as rounders. It's not a national sport or anything, and it's mainly played in Primary (Elementary) schools by children too young to learn the rules of cricket.

[@sutty8526]

Not Really, there are differences but it came from rounders

[@Grover91]

Rounders is epic. I loved being given that to do in PE.💪💪

[@kayew5492]

@@Grover91 I hated it, myself, but that's because due to my eyesight, I could never hit the ball.

[@Grover91]

@Kaye W it was the ONLY thing I was good at. I just used it as an opportunity to always hit the balls towards the people I didn't like.

[@n7creed629]

Rounders is also a girl’s sport, at least in my neck of britian.

[@RcGhost-V8]

for a country that declared independence from the UK around 250 years ago, why would anyone think they invited anything in that video? and I am sure its many more things that America is taking credit for not only from the UK but from other countries

[@Dragonblaster1]

Don’t forget radar (RDF) the cavity magnetron (originally used for microwave radar, it led, in America to the microwave oven, which still contain magnetrons), sonar (ASDIC) and the jet engine.

[@tonygroves5516]

If you look up British firsts, this island more or less invented the modern world. First railways, first piston, first airports, first almost anything you can think of.

[@georgecooksey8216]

Indeed - you can even argue that America itself was invented by a band of rebellious British subjects.

[@planekrazy1795]

Where do you think the Apple Trees came from in the first place ? There were no native Apples in north America they came with the colonist. England was a huge producer of Apples particularly in the southeast and west. Particularly Kent (known as the garden of England). So with the Apples came the Pies (and the Cider) and don't forget England is the Pie capital of the world (for reference see Blackadder II Mrs Miggins Pie Shope).

[@stephanstreet2160]

I think in America there is even an old story about Johnny Appleseed. About planting apple trees.

[@Lucien86]

But where did Britain get apple trees from? Central Asia. They came here via Europe through the silk road. Whats the betting someone somewhere else 'invented' apple pie before we did?

[@davidnelson5533]

Well done for being an open minded and humble American

[@timspeakman4555]

One more shock for you the all American peanut butter was invented in Canada 😂

[@leglessinoz]

The Incas beat both Carver and Kellogg to making peanut butter by some hundreds of years.

[@fus149hammer5]

Didn't the incas murder their own children as human sacrifices by slitting their throats? The yanks do too but they just walk into schools and use assault rifles instead.

[@michaelsims1160]

So was insulin.

[@jasoneldridge4738]

Birdseye was Canadian I think ?

[@markstevenson1646]

Yes but canada was invented in Britain

[@dee2251]

One of the oldest written cookbooks in the world is a cookery book called ‘The Forme of Curry’ dating back to the 1300’s and the recipe for apple pie is in there. We were eating apple pie b4 the USA even existed. Early English settlers also brought over the apple seeds to grow apple trees. America is now stealing our famous Yorkshire Puddings and calling them popovers. They wouldn’t dare rename a pizza, lasagna or Chilli-con-carne. Also what some Americans call biscuits are actually our scones.

[@marikothecheetah9342]

Popovers? Pop...overs? uh... POPOVERS?!?! The... what?

[@peterdevalk7929]

Biscuits comes from the Netherlands, so is the Donut 🍩. And there's a LOT more that came from the Dutch. STOCKmarketing, Bluetooth, WiFi, etc. Without a certain Dutch company you wouldn't be able to use your cellphone, car, and many other electrical devices. Even the submarine is invented by a Dutchman.

[@willvangaal8412]

Scones are Dutch .

[@roguetalowen]

Popovers?!?!?! Sacrilege.