"Britain Invented Most Things Worth Inventing"

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Free house and money for anyone that makes it past border controls

 

[seagully]

Radar

 

[Billy the Fish]

Football violence

 

[seagully]

The French might have something to say about this.

They have something to say about most things!

 

[KZNSeagull]

Marmite
Piccalilli
Scotch Eggs
Steak and Kidney Pie
Worcestershire Sauce
Yorkshire Pudding
Bubble and Squeak
Branston Pickle
Cornish Pasty

 

[Jimmy Grimble]

The internet

 

[wehatepalace]

The toilet

 

[KZNSeagull]

Anglicanism
Methodism

Pram
Baby Buggy
Dishwasher
Vacuum Cleaner
Lawnmower
Tin Can
Flushing toilet
Toaster
Electric Kettle

 

[Franks Wild Years]

Champagne socialist's oh and Dyson Hoovers.

I think the French might have something to say about the former.

 

[Lord Bracknell]

Spotted Dick.

Penicillin.

 

[Norman Potting]

British Standard Whitworth Thread System.
Mass production methods - by Marc Brunel, political asylum seeker from France. Dad of Isambard Kingdom.
The Computer - Charles Babbage started it, people like Alan Turing and lots of chaps at Bletchley Park perfected it.
Mass deception of enemies on a grand scale (see Operation Fortitude, Garbo, etc)

 

[Barrel of Fun]

The fridge, the tin can, the flush toilet, penicillin & insulin, viagra...

The flush toilet as it is today, yes, but flushing toilets were around in the Roman times.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Pencil.

 

[seagully]

The garden shed (probably)

 

[Sihajlovic]

Moaning

 

[Kumquat]

Lucozade. Some fella in Newcatle invented it.

 

[symyjym]

Sarcasm

 

[LargeHadronZugzwang]

Catflap invented by Isaac Newton
Postbox by Anthony Trollope

 

[clapham_gull]

We didn't invent the internet. Tim Berners Lee developed a way of storing and linking documents over the internet. His work grew into the world wide web.

Dubious whether we invented the TV.

 

[Acker79]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_British_inventions (British)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_inventions_and_discoveries (English)