Things that come from your country.

[Menaced]

The English language

 

World Wide Web

 

Cricket

 

Military related ones:

 

The Harrier

 

Challenger 2

 

Tornado

 

L96

 

Edit: How could I f*cking forget.

 

Grand Theft Auto.

 

And Rockstar Games in general

Where in Britain are you from?

West Yorkshire, England.

[ghost of delete key]

From America:

 

- Peyote.

 

 

 

- Hippies.

 

 

 

- Tea Parties.

 

 

 

Enjoy.

[Cheat]

How did I forget?

Santa!

[Spider-Vice]

Lots and lots of T-shirts,

 

The Sea Route to India,

 

The Discovery of Brazil ,

 

The Discovery of Australia (possibly )

 

Vinho Verde

 

Pastéis de nata

 

Cristiano Ronaldo

Why not putting the Portuguese flag then? xD

 

You forgot Vinho do Porto, it's famous everywhere.

[AZAZEL]

 

• 1. LEGO

2. Danish Pastry

3. Femidom (female condom)

4. Hans Christian Anderson

5. Syno-pal (skid-resistant highway surface)

6. The Typewriter

7. Krarup cable (submarine loading cable)

8. Femi-X (female viagra)

9. The O-Ring

10. C++ Programming

11. Drum Motor (used to power conveyor belts)

12. Ussing Chamber (measures electrical currents through tissue)

13. Magnetic Wire Recorder (NOT magnetic tape, as used in casettes)

14. Dry Cell Battery (sort of, later: Duracell)

15. Fiber Trim (a diet pill)

16. The Corn Thresher

17. pH scale

18. Dogme 95 (avant-garde filmmaking movement)

19. Electromagnetic Coil (used in tattoo machines and doorbells)

20. Telegraphy (long-distance transmission of messages)

21. Triplane (airplane with three wings)

22. Aqua Wall (indoor waterfall)

23. DiaTest (saliva collection kit)

24. Hex (board game)

Yeah bitches. I command you to sing the Danish anthem every time you ring someone's door bell.

[Tyler]

We invented drinking pure alcohol.

Doesn't that kill?

It doesn't kill the Polish and the Russians!

How dare you forget the f*cking Irish! I can outdrink a bastard Polish man on a sunday!

[Cilogy]

I'm Indian.

 

The number zero.

 

/thread

Edited March 30, 2010 by Cilogy

[darthYENIK]

How did I forget?

Santa!

And not to mention the Santa of Anaheim California, Teemu Selanne.

[smeagol]

The Discovery of Australia (possibly )

Great Britain didn't discover Australia, they just put the first colonies on Australia.

[makeshyft]

The Discovery of Australia (possibly )

Great Britain didn't discover Australia, they just put the first colonies on Australia.

Yeah, it was originally referred to as 'New Holland' for a reason.

[YeaHomie]

I see you're fairly new (selamat datang, pak), and just wanted to be friendly and point out the fact that you forgot to include 'tidal waves'.

WTF, Pak? I'm 14.

I dunno 'bout that tidal waves. I've never go to beaches.

And yeah, what is your nationality?

You're a pirate?

ARR!

[Mr. Scratch]

Vampires(someone should have killed Stoker when he visited Romania)

sh*tty Carpati pistol

Dacia

[Ari Gold]

 

Our whole nation is built of f*cking warriors, rawr. We created warrionism. /patriot

 

 

Football hooliganism.

 

And from Australia:

 

 

The destruction of common-sense by those in authority.

[stinomontana]

And from Australia:

 

 

The destruction of common-sense by those in authority.

 

YAY atleast now we know where all our tax money goes...

[One-time]

 

I see you're fairly new (selamat datang, pak), and just wanted to be friendly and point out the fact that you forgot to include 'tidal waves'.

WTF, Pak? I'm 14.

I dunno 'bout that tidal waves. I've never go to beaches.

And yeah, what is your nationality?

You're a pirate?

ARR!

Looks like Google Translate failed again.

 

Anyway, we invented the TKIs, cheap human labor to be sent overseas. They sometimes don't get paid at all by their employers. They're even treated like slaves. But they DO bring profit, so the government is OK with it.

[makeshyft]

 

I see you're fairly new (selamat datang, pak), and just wanted to be friendly and point out the fact that you forgot to include 'tidal waves'.

WTF, Pak? I'm 14.

I dunno 'bout that tidal waves. I've never go to beaches.

And yeah, what is your nationality?

You're a pirate?

ARR!

Looks like Google Translate failed again.

Actually, I learned Indonesian in school. Australian kids are basically made to in a lot of schools. How the f*ck was I supposed to know he's only 14? I'm not his biographer.

[Garfield 2]

We invented drinking pure alcohol.

Doesn't that kill?

It doesn't kill the Polish and the Russians!

How dare you forget the f*cking Irish! I can outdrink a bastard Polish man on a sunday!

Is that a challenge?

[thebreak]

Pig's blood cake

 

looks like a popsicle, made of pig's blood and sticky rice.

Usually covered with a layer of soy sauce and peanut powder.

 

 

It's really good, and is very common in Taiwan.

 

 

Some idiot survey named it the most unusual food ever. f*ck that, give the title to fried worms.

[EduardKoeleJuck]

Pig's blood cake

 

looks like a popsicle, made of pig's blood and sticky rice.

Usually covered with a layer of soy sauce and peanut powder.

 

 

It's really good, and is very common in Taiwan.

 

 

Some idiot survey named it the most unusual food ever. f*ck that, give the title to fried worms.

That's the most unusual food ever.

[Vextroid]

The Blackbox Flight Recorder (Well the guy who came up with idea as Australian but had to go to England to get his idea realised. So half Aus half English right?)

 

The Ute

 

The Hills Hoist ( Rotary Washing Line.)

 

Latex Gloves

 

The Notepad

 

Refrigeration (apparently)

 

Pacemakers

 

The current WiFi standards.

 

 

 

Source

 

[YeaHomie]

Actually, I learned Indonesian in school. Australian kids are basically made to in a lot of schools. How the f*ck was I supposed to know he's only 14? I'm not his biographer.

So you're learning Indonesian, huh.. Did you learn the cultural, political, and social situations too?

[D- Ice]

Just a few from the top of my head for Iraq.

 

Ancient Mesopotamia times:

- Farming

- Bread

- Beer/brewing alcohol

- Laws (Hammurabi's code)

- Extraction and forging of iron

 

Umayyad/Abbasid (medieval Arab Empires).

- Algebra and other advances in maths

- The Arabic numerals we use today which replaced the Roman ones

- Distillation of alcohol, and chemical classification

- Splitting Islam into Shia/Sunni

- Classification of Alkalis and a whole bunch of other advances in chemistry.

- Torpedoes!

- Dolma (Dolmadas)

- Kibbeh

 

Modern times:

- Saddam Hussain

- Getting brainwashed by, and thinking up of ever more devisive methods of brainwashing people for Iran's Government/Taliban

- Being brainless zombie puppets for said factions

- Muqtada al-Sadr

- Mass-murdering and torturing one another for Iran/Taliban

- Having an identity crises and forgetting who we are and all we have achieved

- Corruption that dwarfs that of all other countries... combined!

- Turban-head worshipping

Edited March 31, 2010 by D- Ice

[One-time]

 

Actually, I learned Indonesian in school. Australian kids are basically made to in a lot of schools. How the f*ck was I supposed to know he's only 14? I'm not his biographer.

You see, we also invented one of the world's most confusing, most complexed, very dynamic language.

[ptiko]

Its not really a UK thing, but just staffordshire!

 

 

I could eat cheese and bacon oatcakes til the end of time!

[makeshyft]

Actually, I learned Indonesian in school. Australian kids are basically made to in a lot of schools. How the f*ck was I supposed to know he's only 14? I'm not his biographer.

So you're learning Indonesian, huh.. Did you learn the cultural, political, and social situations too?

No, I learned it. Past tense. When I was in my last year of primary school.

 

In 1993.

 

So, yeah, probs have forgotten most of it.

[BrownBear]

- Dolma (Dolmadas)

 

Thats the rice wrapped in vine leaves, yeah?

I love that sh*t, i thought it was Turkish though.

[D- Ice]

 

- Dolma (Dolmadas)

 

Thats the rice wrapped in vine leaves, yeah?

I love that sh*t, i thought it was Turkish though.

Lol I always thought it was Iraqi, especially since grape vine is indiginous there and gorws everywhere.

 

I'm absolutely addicted to it too man, but we make ours very different from the ones in Turkey when I went there on holiday couple of years back. First we cook the rice a lot more, so it;s sticky and mush, and we usually fill them half with rice or boiled wheat semolina and half witha kinda thick bolognaise sauce - but with lamb, thyme and a bit of concentrated pomegranate juice/syrup. And we also stuff all sorts of other vegetable too - paprikas/bell peppers, onions (these are amazing too, especially if they are semi caramalised after stuffing), sweet potatoes etc...

 

I'm really not sure who made it first, and using what method, but all I know is the ones my grandma makes are probably the best thing I've ever tasted!

 

Man, now I'm really hungry, and there's no dolmas anywhere.

 

By the way, according to the Bible, we also invented sex! Beat that bichezzz!

Edited March 31, 2010 by D- Ice

[BrownBear]

- Dolma (Dolmadas)

 

Thats the rice wrapped in vine leaves, yeah?

I love that sh*t, i thought it was Turkish though.

Lol I always thought it was Iraqi, especially since grape vine is indiginous there and gorws everywhere.

 

I'm absolutely addicted to it too man, but we make ours very different from the ones in Turkey when I went there on holiday couple of years back. First we cook the rice a lot more, so it;s sticky and mush, and we usually fill them half with rice or boiled wheat semolina and half witha kinda thick bolognaise sauce - but with lamb, thyme and a bit of concentrated pomegranate juice/syrup. And we also stuff all sorts of other vegetable too - paprikas/bell peppers, onions (these are amazing too, especially if they are semi caramalised after stuffing), sweet potatoes etc...

 

I'm really not sure who made it first, and using what method, but all I know is the ones my grandma makes are probably the best thing I've ever tasted!

 

Man, now I'm really hungry, and there's no dolmas anywhere.

 

By the way, according to the Bible, we also invented sex! Beat that bichezzz!

I prefer onesd made in Britain, or ones you buy here anyway, i think they're Greek or Turkish, but they are the bomb, in Turkey i had it a few times and it was nice but kind of sweet, not as good as ones you get in Turkish shops here.

Also in turkey, if you go to the docks there's thousands of people selling mussels filled with rice and lemon, beautiful.

Lol, your lucky your granny can cook, my Irish one is a great cook but my Turkish one cooked me what was essentialy fried grease

[YeaHomie]

No, I learned it. Past tense. When I was in my last year of primary school.

 

In 1993.

 

So, yeah, probs have forgotten most of it.

Ay, if you wanna learn it once more, learn all languanges in Indonesia. We got around 10 major languanges here. Most all of Indonesians are billingual. And that I learned English and Deustch, what should I call it? Fouringual? Lol..

[D- Ice]

- Dolma (Dolmadas)

 

Thats the rice wrapped in vine leaves, yeah?

I love that sh*t, i thought it was Turkish though.

Lol I always thought it was Iraqi, especially since grape vine is indiginous there and gorws everywhere.

 

I'm absolutely addicted to it too man, but we make ours very different from the ones in Turkey when I went there on holiday couple of years back. First we cook the rice a lot more, so it;s sticky and mush, and we usually fill them half with rice or boiled wheat semolina and half witha kinda thick bolognaise sauce - but with lamb, thyme and a bit of concentrated pomegranate juice/syrup. And we also stuff all sorts of other vegetable too - paprikas/bell peppers, onions (these are amazing too, especially if they are semi caramalised after stuffing), sweet potatoes etc...

 

I'm really not sure who made it first, and using what method, but all I know is the ones my grandma makes are probably the best thing I've ever tasted!

 

Man, now I'm really hungry, and there's no dolmas anywhere.

 

By the way, according to the Bible, we also invented sex! Beat that bichezzz!

I prefer onesd made in Britain, or ones you buy here anyway, i think they're Greek or Turkish, but they are the bomb, in Turkey i had it a few times and it was nice but kind of sweet, not as good as ones you get in Turkish shops here.

Also in turkey, if you go to the docks there's thousands of people selling mussels filled with rice and lemon, beautiful.

Lol, your lucky your granny can cook, my Irish one is a great cook but my Turkish one cooked me what was essentialy fried grease

Oh, you mean the ones in those big cans? Man they are amazing, and the rice inside is excellently done too. Must remember to get a couple of cans tomorrow from the international food store here with my shopping.

I have no clue what style they're based on, but the herbs they use and the oil preserve (as opposed to tomatoe sauce like with Iraqi Dolmas) definately makes them some of the very best.

 

When I went to Turkey, we went to Marmaris (yeah, not the best family holiday place - would love to back there on my own sometime though), and we brought them from the local supermarket deli section. They didn't have any sweet dolmas, like I said the rice inside was still quite hard - I'd definately must try the sweeter dolmas in Turkey, I can't believe I never heard of them before. I'd also love to see Turkish seafood, especially since Iraq has virtually no such concept lol. Though tbh, mussels aren't really my cup of tea - but then again, I never tried them either so can't judge rightaway.

 

Haha I remember when my grandma too can't cook for sh*t when I was younger. Then she eventually learnt from watching cooking shows and asking her cook to teach her - so in essence, it isn't her recipe, but one she learnt from that woman who used to cook for us.

My other grandma (paternal) is only good at making the best red tomato sauces - never tasted anything thivker and richer. Everything else, she is completely hopeless at lol.