Thread: Worlds Greatest Ever Civilisation

Monty Python

Originally Posted by Rocker

Why doesn't the British Empire get a guernsey in this poll? It has to have a stronger claim than the Incas, whose only achievements were in Peru. The British Empire ensured that English became the premier world language that it is today. It also ensured that numerous countries, including Australia, became, or at least aspired to ....
Rocker

My fault entirely, I thought I did - I'm not sure I can go back and add them in, anyway I suppose the poms are used to being an afterthought anyway - just ask Tony Blair..

Originally Posted by Crazy Nutter

The Liberal Party

Originally Posted by silentC

Monty Python

"All right, but apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, a fresh water system, and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?"

Originally Posted by silentC

They also invented the bagpipes and that one feat alone obliterates any brownie points they might have accrued throughout history, including their general belligerence towards the English .

Actually silentC they stole the bagpipes from the Irish. God knows why.

The bagpipes go a lot further back than that, the Egyptians and Greeks used them along with other races.

[QUOTE=Zed] they had raiding parties to get wives and horses etc QUOTE]

They didn't go raiding for horses until after the white man came. They didn't have any to raid until then. The only method of locomation they had was either walking or skateboards

Originally Posted by namtrak

Maybe I should have clarified the question.

The greatest bunch of people who got together over an extended period of time and did amazing ****?

The Australian Cricket Team

Originally Posted by Iain

The bagpipes go a lot further back than that, the Egyptians and Greeks used them along with other races.

Again....... WHY?????????????????? What is it with these people??????????

Actually, I have to come out and confess that I find a pipe band quite stirring. I wouldn't go out and buy a recording of them or anything but the few times I have seen a live pipe band playing, it has made the hairs on the back of my neck stand up. They could be standing up to leave I suppose - but that would only make the few left on my head even more lonely.

Hark when the noot is falling,
Hear, hear, the poops are calling,
Ludely and prudely calling,
Doon thro' the glen.

Originally Posted by simon c

"All right, but apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, a fresh water system, and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?"

the aquaduct ?

Originally Posted by Wongo

The Chinese without a doubt

I am with "brother" Wongo (I found out 4 years ago I am from good chinese stock )

Originally Posted by simon c

"All right, but apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, a fresh water system, and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?"

ORGIES

Originally Posted by silentC

Actually, I have to come out and confess that I find a pipe band quite stirring. I wouldn't go out and buy a recording of them or anything but the few times I have seen a live pipe band playing, it has made the hairs on the back of my neck stand up. They could be standing up to leave I suppose - but that would only make the few left on my head even more lonely.

Hark when the noot is falling,
Hear, hear, the poops are calling,
Ludely and prudely calling,
Doon thro' the glen.

Mate, you need a holiday!

And not a Roman holiday, either!

Well, my Granny was a MacKay....