Great Britain has done the most for mankind
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share'So So Britain' lol
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They say schedule wrong.
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shareOkay, but you have to admit y'all mispronounce aluminum.
shareWait, it's alumin-i-um, right???
shareNot in American.
shareWhy oh why did you guys drop the "i"???!!!π±
shareWe didn't. That's how the chemist who discovered it spelled it.
"Sir Humphry Davy, a British chemist, discovered this metal in 1808. He also discovered and named sodium, potassium, calcium, and magnesium, barium, and boron; lots of βiumβ usage in those names, but letβs not get ahead of ourselves. Davy originally gave this element the name aluminum after the mineral alumina, whose name derive from the base alum which means βbitter saltβ in Latin. This original spelling straddles the two competing versions we have today."
https://diecasting.com/blog/2014/02/26/aluminum-vs-aluminium-the-etymology-of-the-um-and-ium-debate/
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Well, that guy clearly didn't know what he was doing!:
"In 1808, Davy suggested the metal be namedΒ alumium. This suggestion was criticized by contemporary chemists from France, Germany, and Sweden, who insisted the metal should be named for the oxide, alumina, from which it would be isolated."
Utterly clueless!π€
I pronounce it ska-dooley.
shareGreat, then they can pay my electric bill as well!
shareWe gave you Fawlty Towers.
shareYou really think 12 episodes are going to help me get through the whole Corona crisis?!π€¨
shareHereβs a few other suggestions: -
https://www.ranker.com/list/best-british-comedy-tv-shows/ranker-tv
I don't think you realize how many time these shows have been repeated over here!
shareSome classic comedy never gets old.
shareHmm, I don't know about that. How many times can you hear "You stupid woman!" before throwing the remote at the tv???
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https://youtu.be/yfl6Lu3xQW0
Comedy gold!π₯ But I don't want to ruin it by watching it too often!
shareIsn't it fascinating that such a small island could produce the people with the most influence around the world? Makes you wonder what has set the British apart from everyone else to achieve such things.
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shareIβve always thought it was their massive navy that allowed them to reach out to far corners of the globe and exert power wherever they saw fit.
shareIt's true, they did see themselves as conquerors, but so did many nations in the past. What made the British more successful than the other colonial powers?
shareFrom that point of view the British didn't establish there empire with force so much as with trade. People made money from trading with the British.
This is an excellent question. What made the British so special ? My guess would be it was some kind of natural selection process going on. Did the lower classes breed slightly less while the middle and upper classes bred more ? Did Britain have a higher rate of capital punishment and so weeded out more bad genes?
Then again maybe it was a superior and broad based education system or the infusion of Viking and later Norman genes and influence. But it had to have come from somewhere.
It's from the teeth. Y'know they were making a deal with Satan, and their teeth was the price for all the glory they would get.
See, now that they mostly fixed their teeth their influences to the world is also waning. It's only logical.
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