The Lads Can’t Sleep…Because Their Hotel Is Shite

Ohh the English….if not for Shakespeare, cricket, pink floyd …(& elizabeth hurley), what would happen of them…LOL!!!

Posted from  India

Sameet: yep, Newton, Locke, Orwell and the Industrial Revolution (amongst others) are hardly worth a mention, eh…

(plus we did invent football, tennis, rugby and a few other things I haven’t time enough to list…)

Posted from  United Kingdom

Sameet, don’t forget The Beatles. As for the Indsustrial Revolution, Orwell, etc. - that’s all fine and well - but I’d trade them all for Liz Hurley.

Matter of fact, you don’t want to know what I would trade for Liz Hurley. Oh, sorry about the drool, that should come right off.

Posted from  United States

And if it wasn’t for Ghandi, what of India? Oh wait, it would still be British! Only joking, Ghandi was a legend!!

Posted from  United Kingdom

And by the way D, England can’t take total credit for Tennis - Batista Pereira, a Spanish merchant, who lived in Birmingham, played a game named “pelota”, after a Spanish ball game. Pereira joined with Dr. Frederick Haynes and Dr. A. Wellesley Tomkins to found the first lawn tennis club in the world. In 1874 they formed the Leamington Tennis Club, setting out the original rules of the game.

But the Magna Carta, that’s yours, so bully for England.

Posted from  United States

Hey how could i forget Samantha Fox! A generation of Indians have grown up ogling at her posters pinned down on the back of the dorm toilet doors!!

Seriously, England need to be way more creative than what they have displayed so far, if they have a rat’s ass of a chance to win this cup. Before the tournament i was tipping them to win it, but now i am not so sure!!

Posted from  India

Luke: i dont care for Gandhi, gimme Liz Hurley anyday!!!

Posted from  India

Ha ha, this site is funny!

Hmm - okay, so tennis is one-third Spanish then, at least in terms of its founders? Going on your info though, it was still developed in England and is essentially rooted here, so I’m still claiming it on that basis.

Posted from  United Kingdom

Nice try D, but wrong again (and you English think the Spanish are prideful;-)…

Actually (and no doubt to English horror) the roots of tennis go all the way back to 12th century France (remember Act I of Henry V?), where it was played indoors and called “real” or royal tennis.

Anyway, isn’t credit for Elizabeth Hurley enough?

Posted from  United States

Sameet, how could you forget the greatest Englishman of all?
Mick Jagger

Posted from  United States

Ha ha, whatever Roland, it’s English and you know it!

Btw ‘prideful’? Since when was that a negative?!? (Apart from as one of the seven deadly sins, of course…)

Posted from  United Kingdom

The English!?! What ‘ave the English ever done for us?

Posted from  United States

Well speaking as a Scot, they have given us someone to scrap with for the last thousand years or so. Didn’t they win a cup back in 1960’something

Posted from  New Zealand