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Best inventions
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FUNK YOU
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oh shit!!..
That's fucking bad ass!!.. i love it...I wonder if they make tiny ones??  |
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bukkake emoticon tbh
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whytrance?™
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Penn (of Penn+Teller fame) invented a sex bath:
http://www.google.com/patents?vid=USPAT5920923 Try not to imagine him testing it  |
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whytrance?™
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 Only just noticed the product's name. Wicked. Could someone photoshop a pair of muttmuffs onto my avatar please? Thanks. |
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whytrance?™
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confuzed boy
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A few things the Scots have given the world ...
Mathematical & Financial * Logarithms * The Bank of England * Capitalism * The overdraft * The decimal point Technological * The threshing machine * The gravitating compass * Street lighting * The steam engine * The pneumatic tyre * The pedal bicycle * Tarmacadam (the modern road surface) * The locomotive * The bus * The telegraph * The thermos flask * The telephone * The gas mask * Colour photographs * The lawnmower * Television * The fax machine * The photocopier * Video * The kaleidoscope Scientific * Theory of combustion * Electric light * Geology * Gardenias * Helium * Radar * Neon * Artificial ice * Dolly, the cloned sheep Medical * The hypodermic syringe * Anaesthesia * Morphine * Antiseptics * Insulin * Penicillin * Interferon * The thermometer * Ante-natal clinics Sport * Golf * Curling * Shinty * Tennis courts * The bowling green Electronic * The alpha chip * Blue lasers * Kerr Lens Modelocking techniques Everyday Items * Marmalade * Writing paper * The fountain pen * Postcards * The Mackintosh (aka raincoats) * Suspenders Miscellaneous * Finger-printing * Encyclopaedia Britannica * Documentary films * The traffic cone * Sherlock Holmes |
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my god we're amazing.
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uh..I'm surprised not to see beer on here?? :P |
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60% andy
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music * simple minds * del amitri * wet wet wet |
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hahaha!
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get lost
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[quote=JonnySpeed;387498]Mutt Muffs for Flying dogs
 and urban camouflage dog-leotards too by the looks of things |
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confuzed boy
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The 50 Best Scottish Bands Of All Time (as voted for by the public) are as follows: 1 Belle & Sebastian 2 Travis 3 Idlewild 4 Wet Wet Wet 5 Sensational Alex Harvey Band 6 Simple Minds 7 Teenage Fanclub 8 Bay City Rollers 9 Primal Scream 10 The Proclaimers 11 Texas 12 Mull historical society 13 Big country 14 Snow Patrol 15 Franz Ferdinand 16 Bis 17 Deacon Blue 18 Fish 19 Jesus and Mary Chain 20 Mogwai 21 Runrig 22 Trash Can Sinatras 23 Del Amitri 24 Orange Juice 25 Nazareth 26 Beta Band 27 Biffy Clyro 28 Altered Images 29 Aztec Camera 30 Eddi Reader 31 Goodbye Mr Mackenzie 32 Fire Engines 33 Delgados 34 Arab strap 35 Vaselines 36 Associates 37 The Pastels 38 Eurythmics 39 Aereogramme 40 Blue Nile 41 Boards of Canada 42 Rezillos 43 Incredible string band 44 Cocteau twins 45 Dogs Die in Hot Cars 46 Spare Snare 47 Average White Band 48 Lulu 49 Skids 50 Shamen |
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Get A BRAIN! MORANS
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scotland SUCKS ASS
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confuzed boy
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u suck dick for a bigmac meal |
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I thought that decimal separators were Al-Khwarizmi's invention? Was he scottish? |
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confuzed boy
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Decimal Point
The notation we use today first appeared in a book called "Descriptio" by the Edinburgh mathematician, John Napier, Laird of Merchiston, in the 1616. He used a decimal point to separate the whole number part from the decimal number part. Known as 'Marvellous Merchiston", he published many other treatises including "Mirifici logarithmorum" (1614) and Rabdologia (1615) on systems of arithmetic using calculation aids known as Napiers Bones. Other achievements include his revolutionary methods for tilling and fertilising soil. To defend the country against Philip of Spain he came up with a number of "Secret Inventions" including the round chariot with firepower but offering protection (the tank); an underwater ship (the submarine); an artillery piece which would mow down a field of soldiers (the machine gun). Biographical details of John Napier |
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Get A BRAIN! MORANS
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copy and paste
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Is that a man in a dog costume??? |
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FUNK YOU
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uh.. in texas it would be whataburger, not big mac.. if you're gonna insult a texan, do it correctly... |
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whytrance?™
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The Scots invented suspenders? Respect.
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Whats it callled in Texas? Are you saying the whole world calls em "Big Mac" and the shit Texicans have the "privillage" to call it something else? WTF?! |
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the Scots also invented finger painting...
........................... "If you can't tell what genre the track you're making is you should have your instruments taken away and made to stand in the corner." |
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back4abit
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The germans invented MDMA and glitterball for x mas trees...
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the funniest one i noticed was halloween and the discription is even funnier Halloween Americans think they invented it. Certainly, they commercialized the hell out of it, and pushed down our throats. What used to be a quaint and charming way of getting pocket money to buy fireworks for the 5th of November has turned into a mass-marketing of bite-sized snickers bars. But back hundreds of years ago, in Scotland and Northern England, there was no street lighting, and nothing to light your way home in the countryside when it got dark at 4 pm on the cold afternoon of October 31st. People were scared of the ghosts, witches, and evil spirits that rose from their graves, or hell, to wander abroad on the eve of All Hallows (November 1st - you know - Disney showed it in the scary bit near the end of Fantasia). So folk decided it might be possible to escape the notice of these evil beings if they dressed up like a ghost or a witch themselves on Halloween. That's where the tradition came from - wear a disguise so the ghouls will think you're one of them, and you'll get home safely on Halloween. |
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confuzed boy
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Brilliant inventions |
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back4abit
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...and: the Dowel wall plug the jet engine the airglider Kraftwerk Beer Currywurst the chipcard the airbag Aspirin the dynamo bookprinting the car the TV the diesel motor etc etc Last edited by Jeniffer Mills : 4th January 2007 at 19:37. |
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He poplularized it, but the first usage is contributed to Al-Khwarizmi. |
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confuzed boy
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TV unless yer talking about transvestites was invented by john logie baird a scotsman or do you mean also brilliant inventions?  |
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