Conquer Club

aad0906 wrote:The English also invented the Concentration Camp during the Boer Wars, didn't they?

thegreekdog wrote:

barackattack wrote:

thegreekdog wrote:

john9blue wrote:

barackattack wrote:Gravity - Isaac Newton
Economics - Adam Smith
Education - King's School, Canterbury
Freedom - William Wallace
Democracy - Winston Churchill

lol

WHAT? The British brought us gravity? How did they do that when they couldn't even stand firmly on the ground?

Also - the Greeks brought you the rest of that stuff. So suck it.

See edits. Pwnd.

Again, Isaac Newton didn't bring us gravity. Maybe he figured out what the hell made us not fly up into the sky... if so, kudos to him.

Here's why my ancestors did:

- Invented philosophy as a way to examine the word
- Invented literature and most, if not all, literary types
- Developed mathematics, including geometry and applied mathematics, as well as calculus
- Astronomy
- Medicine
- Democracy (real democracy)
- Education
- And, oh by the way - language. Two brief and relevant examples:

(1) Economy - from the Greek word oikonomia
(2) Democracy - from the Greek word demokratia

chang50 wrote:Okay the Athenians were the first to try a very limited democracy,but nothing we would recognise as a real democracy in modern times.Just look who had no voting rights,women,slaves and landless men,leaving virtually nobody..

thegreekdog wrote:

chang50 wrote:Okay the Athenians were the first to try a very limited democracy,but nothing we would recognise as a real democracy in modern times.Just look who had no voting rights,women,slaves and landless men,leaving virtually nobody..

This is true. However in the UK:

1432 - only male owners of property (wiki says property worth 40 shillings, which was apparently a lot of money back then) were entitled to vote
1832 - extended voting rights to adult males who rented propertied land of a certain value
1867 - enfranchised all male householders
1918 - "universal" suffrage

So, the UK had the same type of democracy as the Athenians from 1432 to 1918 (i.e. where only land-owning males could vote). That's 486 years and it took them until 1918. Just sayin'.

barackattack wrote:greekdog, I've now copyrighted 'just sayin'. Cease and desist.

AlgyTaylor wrote:We're all the Greek's bitches when it comes to civilisation.



But we have Monty Python, which means we beat them anyway.

Lootifer wrote:Anyone mentioned flat beer @ room temperature?

barackattack wrote:

(of course im talking micro-brew here, not macro)

Neoteny wrote:As a foreign, I approve this message. Warm beer is tasty. As in, you can actually taste the flavors. I've decided that USers chill their beer because they don't actually like the taste of beer. It suppresses the flavor. What's the point?