Oh. Ok. Didn't know that this was a competition. But alright: Spoiler 1. Television was invented by a Scotsman. 2. Telephone was invented by a Scotsman. 3. Penicillin was discovered by a Scotsman. I could go on with the discoveries and inventions, but it wouldn't be fair to all the other countries.
Also plaid skirts for men, so that's pretty cool. Spoiler Airplanes, the atom bomb, jeans, the electric guitar, lightbulbs, the internet, personal computers, dental floss, the assembly line, nylon, sunglasses, tampons...
Nah. You have to call it "Tartan", otherwise you'll be force-fed Haggis. Spoiler Television, Kaleidoscopes, Fridges, Penicillin, Bicycles, Toaster, Modern Geology, Bank of England, Golf, Tyres, Tarmac, Gin and Tonic, Telephone, Colour Photography, Fingerprinting, Tractor Beams, Logarithms, Decimal Point, Hypordermic Syringe, Flushimg Toilets, Tubular Steel, Stea. Engine, Thermodynamic Cycle, Coal-Gas Lighting, Roller Printing, the underlying principles of radio, the teleprinter, RADAR, Saline Drip, Ultrasound Scanner, identifying the Mosquito as the carrier of malaria, Insulin, X-Ray, Development of beta-blockers, Bovril, Modern Lawnmower, etc x many times over. Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_inventions_and_discoveries And https://www.amazon.co.uk/How-Scots-Invented-Modern-World/dp/0609606352 For a nation of a population of just less that 5.5 million people, I'd say that Scotland has given quite a bit to the world. Or to quote Voltaire: "We look to Scotland for all our ideas of civilisation"
Bicycles and tractor beams, but no bagpipes!?? I'm seriously disappointed! Did someone else invent them, or were bagpipes merely left off the list, maybe because they don't want to take the blame for all that noise?
lol I was always taught that it was an Egyption invention... if memory serves me right. I think we just adopted it.
Interesting. Haggis, Egyptian and Scottish together always makes me think of this guy (though I believe this is the only other place I've ever seen all 3 mentioned at the same time):
It's been around for a while. In Medieval Germany, it was called the "dudelsack" and they'll tell you that they gave it to the Scots, but the Scots didn't get the joke.
Well I was born in a small town in Russia but I moved to Canada when I was 17, now I'm planning to move to Germany in June. Russia has beautiful rivers and forests but the people and culture is bad, at least for me at the time I lived there.
Yes, but when you're tied to a pole and beaten by your people and culture, you tend to dislike them a bit.
