Your Top Inventions/Discoveries of all time.

[Rogue Chef]

Another thread idea 'borrowed' from OAMAAM.

1. The Royal Marines
2. Rugby
3. The internet
4. English Beer
5. English Cider

[London Boy]

Okay, to be serious for a moment, here are my top three that drastically improved the daily lives of people when they first appeared:

1. Biro
2. Bicycle
3. Telephone

[London Boy]

And now, not so serious, here's six of the best:

1.Football
2.Cricket
3.Whiskey
4. Guinness
5. Irish music of all sorts
6. Hard rock & Heavy metal

[sterion66]

1. Enigma machine
2. Penicillin
3. Telephone

[Stinky]

Mega drive
Nintendo 64
PS2
Xbox 360
and ME!

[Tab]

The Pill
Penicillin
Condoms
The Mini Skirt

[Cobber15]

Aircraft.

Motor cars.

The Pill, (This must be the best for most men)

Electricity; 'Supplied to the masses'.

Ships without sails.

Radio, all types.

Refrigeration.

Penicillin.

[London Boy]

The Pill
Penicillin
Condoms
The Mini Skirt

Surely that's in the wrong order TAb?

Mini skirt. Pill?
Condom?
aaaa..Penicillin

[Greenronnie]

1. The GPMG
2. Skydiving
3. Big cans!

[Illustrious]

Top Discovery of all time... my right hand & depending on the mood, my left one too

[GOS44]

Sliced bread

[sportbilly42]

Sliced bread

But are we talking about "The Best Thing Since.......?"


After trying to squat over a $hit smeared ‘hole in the ground’ in a run-down French motorway services the other week, wearing only my flip-flops and a headtorch (and trying not to let my feet slide into the dark mess .... I WAS Fekin deperate....)

...My vote goes to a modern version of Thomas Crapper’s ceramic sanitaryware…. The british flushing bog… Nowt beats sitting down in a comfortable position on some lovely white porcelain while you evacuate the contents of your bowels….

(I must say that the german version, where you dump onto a ‘shelf’ so you can admire your work, has a certain scatological appeal mind……..… )

Imagine living on the bottom floor of a 20 storey block of flats nowadays if everyone still tipped their 'nightly movements' out the nearest window!! You'd be spending all day cleaning the windows....

Aussie 'dunnies' don't count either.... too many spiders in there waiting to have a snack on yer sack.....

[sportbilly42]

oh..... better include Bog Roll too......

(Ever tried wiping yer arse with a stone? It's second nature to the 'outback' people, but I don't think I would EVER become comfortable about rubbing my ring with anything other than a few squares of Mr Andrex's finest....)

[GOS44]

Phillistine!!! Double Velvet! and not forgetting baby wipes to get into those delicate little places.

[Alfa]

Billy if you don't like the idea of using a stone you could always try it the Somali way and grow the nail on your little finger so you can pick yourself clean