Well all that remains is this German Teutonic superiority complex

Isn't the english language a bastardised form of German?
As for the rest (except the last), I am not sure that the english or the British Empire are the origins of any of them. As for English Land tenure -in the name of that much blood was spilled.

At best they were fooling themselves, alternatively this was simply for mass consumption.

Edit - this is anyway OT. Can we get back to the issue?

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Very practical individuals.


Anyway, I agree with baboon. Vastly off topic.

I would honestly defriend whichever facebook buddy posted this list and made you look daft (or leave whichever Britain First-esque group you took it from).

First team sport, hahaha. To take a random example, Calcio Storico dates back to about 1500 when Henry VIII was still syphilitically bloating his way around the country, a good few hundred years before the British Empire made an impact anywhere.

Not even a good love story, but I guess we all have our opinions.....

Calcio Storico, fully codified and played around the world in packed out stadiums to this day

What's your point caller? You stated the British Empire invented team sports and you were proved wrong.

You can admit this AAAAAANY time you like...no didn't think so.

This is really the problem that I've come to see in this forum, too many people unwilling to acknowledge wrongness to save face, and in fact double down on their daft positions so much so that it makes a rather unpleasant atmosphere.

Statues can be extremely racist.

You should watch at night when all the statues come down off their pedestals and the marble-coloured ones fight the bronze-coloured ones.

I hope they dedicate the shelf space to brown sugar.

Wasn't Apartheid hatched after independence.

by the same logic, Britain is responsblie for the electoral council in the US, and the Turks are responsible for the awful traffic in Athens.

According to the greeks, they are.

Like I said earlier, welcome to the internet. If you don't like it, there's a power off button on your computer.

Full duck or no dinner. Britain is responsible for the current unrest in the USA.

What a lovely welcome and suggestion from a mod of all people.

So this is how the people in power treat noobs here...no wonder this shop has such a crappy rep.

Absurd logic.

The brits had previously defeated the Boers militarily but they lost the elections in 48 to the largely boer national party who introduced apartheid, but the south africans of british heritage were then complicit (not all, aka Tom Sharpe) in the following years - very strong Anglo-SA ties during this time, sports tours (of great symbolic importance -it is said the All Blacks finally not going to SA was a turning point in changing the white SA psyche) sanction breaking etc. The blacks of course did not get a say at this time.

Gemany, actually:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protestantism

Tom

Or people pretending to be noobs, after regretting they deleted their previous account?

So you equate being of Anglo heritage to being the long arm of the British empire? And you don't think that's racist?

Excuse me? Where have I said the British Empire INVENTED these things? My list was of the more important aspects of British life and society that were spread around the globe as a result of the British Empire. I think it's pretty clear the British Empire didn't invent the English language!