An article in the Daily Mail Saturday
Tried to get the link but left it too late.

Scots have always been known as an intelligent race and worthy of their reputation as inventors.

Did you know we invented all this.

William Cullen The refrigerator 1748
The decimal point
Dolly the sheep cloning
The adhesive postage stamp
ATM machines
Anaesthetic
Antiseptics
Television
The fax machine
Tarmac roads
The Mac Macintosh raincoats
The Bicycle
Pneumatic Tyre
James Watts steam engine
His descendant steam combustion
Beta Blocker Drugs
The ultrasound scanner
MRI scanning
Gas Masks
The speedometer
Penicillin
Ronald Ross who identified the mosquito as the carrier of Malaria
John McLeod Insulin
Sir John Crofton Found a treatment for tuberculosis 1950
Elaine Steven recently won an award for a locking chain device for keeping her class safe on outings
The Internet
Thermodynamics
The Marine Compass
Sonar depth sounding
The telegraph
William Patterson in 1694 founded the Bank of England
(They tell us Scotland could not survive on its own)
The overhead valve engine
The lawnmower
The Gun
The tank
Radar
Fingerprints
The Kaleidoscope

A small list of the Scottish achievements

In medicine the list would literally take days to write down. In engineering in other countries the list is also seemingly endless.

We also gave the world Fran and Anna, Sydney Devine and that gem of a rousing song, "Don't come home too soon".

Just to add a bit of balance, you understand...

dws wrote:
We also gave the world Fran and Anna, Sydney Devine and that gem of a rousing song, "Don't come home too soon".

Just to add a bit of balance, you understand...

and we made Buckfast famous

Whisky was omitted from the list and good government from the SNP

and

Harry Potter
Sean Connery
The big yin
need I go on

Yeah but you forgot

Tony Blair,
Gordon Brown,
The Krankies,
Deep Fried mars bars,
The massacre at Glencoe,
Ravenscraig,
Midges,
Tennants Breaker,
and
Burn's Suppers

Bananaman wrote:
Yeah but you forgot

Tony Blair,
Gordon Brown,
The Krankies,
Deep Fried mars bars,
The massacre at Glencoe,
Ravenscraig,
Midges,
Tennants Breaker,
and
Burn's Suppers

Haw you! Whats wrong wi Burn's Suppers?

fish and chips
chippy suppers
chip rolls
anybody guess I have just had chips

The numpties who attend them in general,
present company excepted

I went to a Burns Supper here in Ontario some years ago hosted by a group that titled themselves "Sons of Scotland". They started off with God Save the Queen. Never went back.

scunnert wrote:
I went to a Burns Supper here in Ontario some years ago hosted by a group that titled themselves "Sons of Scotland". They started off with God Save the Queen. Never went back.

Why did you not start singing Scotland the Brave or Flower of Scotland?

LYDIA REID wrote:
Why did you not start singing Scotland the Brave or Flower of Scotland?

Scunnert's a quiet retiring type, he wouldn't like to draw attention to himself.

Are Scots to blame for the world we live in?

Yes, of course.

Are Scots wholly to blame for the world we live in?

No, of course not.

"Scunnert's a quiet retiring type, he wouldn't like to draw attention to himself."

Eh? Has Scunny a twin we haven't met yet?

According to last night's news, we are also responsible for multiple sclerosis.

What next!!!

Martin wrote:
According to last night's news, we are also responsible for multiple sclerosis.

What next!!!

What was that about Martin I did not see the news are you serious