[Particle Person]

The jet engine is British and we dug the Suez canal. Curry is completely down to us, not Indians.

Cool. Those things are almost tangentially related to the things that you mentioned in your first post.

I wonder why nobody has appropriated great English cuisine like the toast sandwich?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toast_sandwich

[Vindictus]

Germans invented the jet engine.

[fappenhosen]

Germans invented the jet engine.

http://bit.ly/1oiImDl

[Particle Person]

Today I learned that a jet engine is an airplane.

[Rushy]

It's almost as if Thork can't bear people actually agreeing with him. He has to go and make stuff up that no one can possibly agree with, so that way someone has to argue with it. Thork's "we invented flight" is his classic troll deflection.

[Vindictus]

Germans invented the jet engine.

http://bit.ly/1oiImDl

If you want to be pedantic

The first patent for using a gas turbine to power an aircraft was filed in 1921 by Frenchman Maxime Guillaume

Also

In 1935 Hans von Ohain started work on a similar design in Germany, initially unaware of Whittle's work.[7]

Von Ohain's first device was strictly experimental and could run only under external power, but he was able to demonstrate the basic concept. Ohain was then introduced to Ernst Heinkel, one of the larger aircraft industrialists of the day, who immediately saw the promise of the design. Heinkel had recently purchased the Hirth engine company, and Ohain and his master machinist Max Hahn were set up there as a new division of the Hirth company. They had their first HeS 1 centrifugal engine running by September 1937. Unlike Whittle's design, Ohain used hydrogen as fuel, supplied under external pressure. Their subsequent designs culminated in the gasoline-fuelled HeS 3 of 1,100 lbf (5 kN), which was fitted to Heinkel's simple and compact He 178 airframe and flown by Erich Warsitz in the early morning of August 27, 1939, from Rostock-Marienehe aerodrome, an impressively short time for development. The He 178 was the world's first jet plane

So yeah, Frenchman, Germans and Austrians. Shortly afterwards, Germany came out with the first jet warplane and bomber. Sure, England was working on it as well but didn't get a plane into service until after the Germans.

[fappenhosen]

If you want to be pedantic

Jet engines can be dated back to the invention of the aeolipile around 150 BCE.

[Vindictus]

If you want to be pedantic

Jet engines can be dated back to the invention of the aeolipile around 150 BCE.

Doesn't count because I said.

[Thork]

If you want to be pedantic

Jet engines can be dated back to the invention of the aeolipile around 150 BCE.

If you want to be pedantic ...

God invented the jet engine several million years ago.

http://animals.howstuffworks.com/marine-life/squid2.htm

[Vindictus]

If you want to be pedantic

Jet engines can be dated back to the invention of the aeolipile around 150 BCE.

If you want to be pedantic ...

God invented the jet engine several million years ago.

http://animals.howstuffworks.com/marine-life/squid2.htm

God didn't invent that.

[Thork]

If you want to be pedantic

Jet engines can be dated back to the invention of the aeolipile around 150 BCE.

If you want to be pedantic ...

God invented the jet engine several million years ago.

http://animals.howstuffworks.com/marine-life/squid2.htm

God didn't invent that.

Who did invent squids?

[Rushy]

Who did invent squids?

This question is nonsense. It's like asking "what color is time?"

[Saddam Hussein]

It was me, actually.  I invented squids.

You're welcome.

[Thork]

It was me, actually.  I invented squids.

You're welcome.

Thanks. Are you licensing out the rights to calamari?

[Saddam Hussein]

It's all open-source.  I don't believe in proprietary cephalopods.

[markjo]

It's like asking "what color is time?"

Plaid, of course.

[Pete Svarrior]

It was me, actually.  I invented squids.

You are nothing but a pretender.

[fappenhosen]

I see a squid giving birth to a human. Because that's how your "so called" evolution works. So squid invented humans.

[Saddam Hussein]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/11/23/university-yoga-class-canceled-because-of-oppression-cultural-genocide/

I mentioned this on IRC a few weeks ago, but I might as well put it here too.