Two Germans walk into a bar

[barackattack]

The British Empire was the largest empire the world has ever seen.
The two most popular sports in the world are soccer and cricket. These are English games.
English is the world's language, spoken by over 1 billion people.
The world's greatest playwright ever was Shakespeare - an Englishman.
The world's oldest school and the world's oldest university are both English. The world's leading university is English.
As well as the British Overseas Territories, the Queen is head of state of 16 independent countries and a global organisation whose membership includes 54 countries and 30% of the world's population.
The world's best selling book ever is A Tale of Two Cities, written by English author Charles Dickens.
The FA Premier League is the world's most watched soccer league.
You all know who Harry Potter is, and he isn't even real.

[nietzsche]

cricket? really?

[john9blue]

i'm still waiting for the punch line

[barackattack]

cricket? really?

Indians love it

[nietzsche]

they also love cows..

[saxitoxin]

The human species originated in Azerbaijan. And, today, Azerbaijan is the world's leading political, military, cultural and industrial power.

We need more threads in the Club about places like Azerbaijan, Macedonia, England, Mongolia, etc. Kudos to barackattack for taking the bull by the horns.

[Commander9]

The British Empire was the largest empire the world has ever seen.
The two most popular sports in the world are soccer and cricket. These are English games.
English is the world's language, spoken by over 1 billion people.
The world's greatest playwright ever was Shakespeare - an Englishman.
The world's oldest school and the world's oldest university are both English. The world's leading university is English.
As well as the British Overseas Territories, the Queen is head of state of 16 independent countries and a global organisation whose membership includes 54 countries and 30% of the world's population.
The world's best selling book ever is A Tale of Two Cities, written by English author Charles Dickens.
The FA Premier League is the world's most watched soccer league.
You all know who Harry Potter is, and he isn't even real.

I'm quite certain that best playwright would be from Ancient Greece - not England, although I do agree that this is debatable.
First of all... It's football - soccer is only played in US and Australia. Secondly... CRICKET is not the 2nd most popular sport.
Mandarin also has over a billion people that speak it.
If I am not mistaken, the world's oldest university is based in Italy.
Harvard is not in UK, I believe.
I'm quite certain that the Bible was not written by Charles Dickens.
Most watched doesn't equal the best.
'Arry who?

Pointless thread even without these errors.

[saxitoxin]

The British Empire was the largest empire the world has ever seen.
The two most popular sports in the world are soccer and cricket. These are English games.
English is the world's language, spoken by over 1 billion people.
The world's greatest playwright ever was Shakespeare - an Englishman.
The world's oldest school and the world's oldest university are both English. The world's leading university is English.
As well as the British Overseas Territories, the Queen is head of state of 16 independent countries and a global organisation whose membership includes 54 countries and 30% of the world's population.
The world's best selling book ever is A Tale of Two Cities, written by English author Charles Dickens.
The FA Premier League is the world's most watched soccer league.
You all know who Harry Potter is, and he isn't even real.

I'm quite certain that best playwright would be from Ancient Greece - not England, although I do agree that this is debatable.
First of all... It's football - soccer is only played in US and Australia. Secondly... CRICKET is not the 2nd most popular sport.
Mandarin also has over a billion people that speak it.
If I am not mistaken, the world's oldest university is based in Italy.
Harvard is not in UK, I believe.I'm quite certain that the Bible was not written by Charles Dickens.
Most watched doesn't equal the best.
'Arry who?
Pointless thread even without these errors.

I saw you weren't able to come up with a witty retort for this one, anglophobe:

the Queen is head of state of 16 independent countries

The Queen's vast empire of Barbados, Tuvalu, the Solomon Islands, Antigua, Saint Kitts & Nevis, Grenada, Papua New Guinea, etc. makes her one of the most powerful women in the world*, ruling nations with a population that numbers well in excess of 78 people.

* after Judy Chang, swing shift manager of the downtown Calgary KFC, and a few others

KEEP FIGHTING THE GOOD FIGHT, BARACKATTACK. WE SUPPORT YOU.

[pimpdave]

England is dumb.
Scotland is worse.
Ireland isn't even a real place it's so awful.

[Timminz]

The British Empire was the largest empire the world has ever seen.
The two most popular sports in the world are soccer and cricket. These are English games.
English is the world's language, spoken by over 1 billion people.
The world's greatest playwright ever was Shakespeare - an Englishman.
The world's oldest school and the world's oldest university are both English. The world's leading university is English.
As well as the British Overseas Territories, the Queen is head of state of 16 independent countries and a global organisation whose membership includes 54 countries and 30% of the world's population.
The world's best selling book ever is A Tale of Two Cities, written by English author Charles Dickens.
The FA Premier League is the world's most watched soccer league.
You all know who Harry Potter is, and he isn't even real.

I'm quite certain that best playwright would be from Ancient Greece - not England, although I do agree that this is debatable.
First of all... It's football - soccer is only played in US and Australia. Secondly... CRICKET is not the 2nd most popular sport.
Mandarin also has over a billion people that speak it.
If I am not mistaken, the world's oldest university is based in Italy.
Harvard is not in UK, I believe.
I'm quite certain that the Bible was not written by Charles Dickens.
Most watched doesn't equal the best.
'Arry who?

Pointless thread even without these errors.

You need to learn how to pick colours better.

[pimpdave]

Also, yeah, it's soccer. Football is a made up name for soccer by the inferiority-complex ridden English to do a cultural superiority dance, which is dumb, like their dumb country.

It was called soccer first in England. They invented the word over there! We've been over this, and barackattack clearly acknowledges it in this thread by referring to the game as soccer, it's true name.

[oVo]

The cricket is a prime source of protein in many parts of the world
and Peru has 5000 varieties of potatoes.

[chang50]

Also, yeah, it's soccer. Football is a made up name for soccer by the inferiority-complex ridden English to do a cultural superiority dance, which is dumb, like their dumb country.

It was called soccer first in England. They invented the word over there! We've been over this, and barackattack clearly acknowledges it in this thread by referring to the game as soccer, it's true name.

The sport's full name is Association football,which later was abbreviated to soccer.I lived in the Uk for 50 years and went to hundreds of games where virtually no-one called the game soccer.In the birthplace of the beautiful game it is generally called football.

[chang50]

The British Empire was the largest empire the world has ever seen.
The two most popular sports in the world are soccer and cricket. These are English games.
English is the world's language, spoken by over 1 billion people.
The world's greatest playwright ever was Shakespeare - an Englishman.
The world's oldest school and the world's oldest university are both English. The world's leading university is English.
As well as the British Overseas Territories, the Queen is head of state of 16 independent countries and a global organisation whose membership includes 54 countries and 30% of the world's population.
The world's best selling book ever is A Tale of Two Cities, written by English author Charles Dickens.
The FA Premier League is the world's most watched soccer league.
You all know who Harry Potter is, and he isn't even real.

Agreed mostly except I'm not sure the English spoken in the ex-colonies qualifies as the Queen's English..

[CPD SARGE]

All quiet interesting but the yellow print makes my eyes bleed!

[barackattack]

I removed the colour because it offended my eyes.

I'm quite certain that best playwright would be from Ancient Greece - not England, although I do agree that this is debatable.

Either you never went to school or you're just attempting to be controversial. 1: name any Greek playwright you consider to be better than Shakespeare (no Googling 'Greek playwrights'!); and 2: Shakespeare. Shakespeare. Shakespeare,

First of all... It's football - soccer is only played in US and Australia. Secondly... CRICKET is not the 2nd most popular sport.

Oh. Are your assumptions now considered fact? Google is your friend

India, Pakistan and Bangladesh have a combined population of about 1.4 billion. And guess what sport they all love there? Cricket!

(PEE.ESS. At my school, in England, we called it 'soccer')

Mandarin also has over a billion people that speak it.

Is Mandarin the 'world's language'? No. The international language of trade and diplomacy is English. Mandarin is almost only spoken in China.

Harvard is not in UK, I believe.

http://www.topuniversities.com/universi ... kings/2011

Nope, but Cambridge is.

I'm quite certain that the Bible was not written by Charles Dickens.

That isn't a novel, and either way there are no reliable figures for the sale of holy books.

Most watched doesn't equal the best.

I didn't say that. I said it's the most watched. Which it is.

[john9blue]

Harvard is not in UK, I believe.

http://www.topuniversities.com/universi ... kings/2011

Nope, but Cambridge is.

since random people assigned cambridge a higher number than harvard, it must be a better school than harvard.

what a coincidence that 4 of the world's top 7 colleges are in a relatively small country of 50 million. sounds unbiased to me

[comic boy]

Harvard is not in UK, I believe.

http://www.topuniversities.com/universi ... kings/2011

Nope, but Cambridge is.

since random people assigned cambridge a higher number than harvard, it must be a better school than harvard.

what a coincidence that 4 of the world's top 7 colleges are in a relatively small country of 50 million. sounds unbiased to me

Come back to us when you have discovered the difference between a university and a college.

[john9blue]

Harvard is not in UK, I believe.

http://www.topuniversities.com/universi ... kings/2011

Nope, but Cambridge is.

since random people assigned cambridge a higher number than harvard, it must be a better school than harvard.

what a coincidence that 4 of the world's top 7 colleges are in a relatively small country of 50 million. sounds unbiased to me

Come back to us when you have discovered the difference between a university and a college.

so then what do you think are the world's top colleges?

[zimmah]

I'm quite certain that the Bible was not written by Charles Dickens.

That isn't a novel, and either way there are no reliable figures for the sale of holy books.

i'm 100% sure the bible has way more then 200 million sold copies. it's probably over a billion. maybe even over 6 billion (yes i know that almost exceeds world population, but the bible has also been sold in the past to people who are now dead and a lot of religious and even non-religious people have more then 1 bible. our household has at least 20 bibles divided over 4 persons (and a lot of other religious and old/historical books) it's not unlikely the amount of bibles sold exceeds world population. (just like mobile phones, and mobile phone numbers. i believe the average number of phone numbers a person has in the netherlands is over 3.)

[saxitoxin]

I find it odd that 11 of the 15 "world's top universities" are from the United States and the other 4 from the UK. Germany, France, Canada, Japan, Italy, Sweden, etc., can't manage to get a single school to crack the top 15? L'École Nationale, Humboldt (ol' Saxi's own alma mater ), etc. are just blah compared to freakin' CalTech? CALTECH?! This sounds like an anglocentric ranking.

• But, whatever. In any case, I still want to hear about the vast power reservoir ERII enjoys as the ceremonial head of those 16 mighty super-states BA mentioned (Barbados, Jamaica, Belize, Grenada, etc.). LMAO, ol' Saxi got a chuckle out of that It cushioned the blow of learning Humboldt wasn't in the top 15 anyway ... at least McGill scraped its way into the Top 20 ...

[PLAYER57832]

The cricket is a prime source of protein in many parts of the world
and Peru has 5000 varieties of potatoes.

Peru has 5000 varieties of potatoes, and something like 90% of US corn is all oneof 3 particular hybrids.

[ManBungalow]

The cricket is a prime source of protein in many parts of the world
and Peru has 5000 varieties of potatoes.

Peru has 5000 varieties of potatoes, and something like 90% of US corn is all oneof 3 particular hybrids.

Thanks ijex.

[barackattack]

what a coincidence that 4 of the world's top 7 *universities are in a relatively small country of 50 million. sounds unbiased to me

I believe this is a league table of 'top universities', not 'largest countries'.

[betiko]

i think british people have a lot to brag about. the good thing is that most british people don't brag about it, because they are often smart and have a good sense of humour. they would rather throw stones at their roof and use auto-derision than talking greatly about all what their nation brought to the world.

Unfortunately for you barackattack, you lack of this witty british humour. can you be considered as one of them? not the good and funny ones I like to have pints in pubs with probably!