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  • #227623

    :D :D :D

    #38011

    Haha – no I didn’t know that :lol: :lol: :lol:

    #227598

    I think he should do the ful 9 years,

    I just don’t understand our system – he got 9 years, but a couple who raped a baby grl only got around 4…. :?

    All the b@stards should get 20 years minimum and f*cking castrated. :evil:

    #227653

    Why does being Scottish exclude me from being able to participate?? :roll:

    :D <—see!!

    #38010

    James Chalmers (1782-1853)
    Invented the adhesive postage stamp

    Sir Hugh Dalrymple (1700-1753)
    Invented the hollow-pipe drainage system

    David Douglas (1798-1834)
    Botanist after whom the Douglas Fir is named

    Patrick Ferguson (1744-1780)
    Invented the breech loading rifle

    James Gregory (1638-1675)
    Invented the reflecting telescope

    John McAdam (1756-1836)
    Developed the process of covering roads with small broken stones (Tarmacadam)

    Charles MacIntosh (1766-1843)
    Added naptha to rubber to create the Macintosh raincoat

    Andrew Meikle (1719-1811)
    Invented the threshing machine

    John Napier (1550-1617)
    Developed the concept of logarithms and invented the decimal point!

    Richard Noble
    Holds the World land speed record

    William Paterson (1658-1719)
    Founded the Bank of England!

    Sir James Young Simpson (1811-1870)
    Pioneered the use of chloroform in anaesthetics

    James Small (1730-1793)
    Invented the iron plough

    William Symmington (1763-1831)
    Developed the first steam powered marine engine

    Robert William Thomson (1822-1873)
    Invented the vulcanised rubber pneumatic tyre, patented the fountain pen and patented the steam traction engine

    Sir Robert Alexander Watson-Watt (1892-1973)
    Developed RADAR

    John Logie Baird (1888-1946)
    Invented the television

    Sir Alexander Flemming (1881-1955)
    Discovered penicillin

    Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922)
    Invented the telephone

    James Young (1811-1883)
    Developed the process of refining oil

    Sir David Brewster (1781-1868)
    Invented the kaleidoscope

    Sir James Dewar (1842-1923)
    Invented the vacuum flask

    John Boyd Dunlop (1840-1921)
    Further developed the vulcanised rubber pneumatic tyre (Dunlop Tyres)

    Thomas Telford (1757-1835)
    The “Colossus of Roads!” Built many of the first roads

    Rev. Patrick Bell (1800-1869)
    Invented the reaping machine, which led to the combine harvester

    Joseph Black (1728-1799)
    Developed the concept of latent heat and discovered Carbon Dioxide

    James Braid (1795-1860)
    Pioneered hypnosis

    Sir Dugald Clerk (1854-1932)
    Invented the two-stroke Clerk Cycle Gas Engine

    Sir William Fairburn (1789-1874)
    Developed the use of tubular steel in construction

    Rev. Alexander Forsyth (1769-1848)
    Invented the percussion cap which later became the bullet

    William Murdock (1754-1839)
    Invented coal-gas lighting

    James Pillans (1778-1864)
    Invented the blackboard and colored chalk

    John Shepherd-Barron (1925- )
    Inventor of the ATM

    Sir Sandford Flemming (1827-1915)
    Created the World time zones

    Alexander Wood (1817-1884)
    Invented the hypodermic needle

    John J R MacLeod (1876-1935)
    Helped to discover insulin

    Henry Faulds (1843-1930)
    Created the process of criminal fingerprinting

    Ian Donald (1910-1987)
    Invented the ultrasound scanner

    John Anderson (1882-1958)
    Father of the Anderson Air Raid Shelter

    Sir Charles Thomson Rees Wilson (1869-1959)
    Created the Wilson Cloud Chamber and carried out extensive studies on particle physics

    See…..we are good at so many things…football is inconsequential :lol:

    #227627

    I know – all this victimisation wears you down… :roll: :wink:

    #38009

    Hey – at least we are Elephant Polo champions!! 8) :lol: :lol:

    Can’t expect us to be great at everything :lol:

    #227626

    Yep…and according to another thread – apparently we are ALL alcoholics :roll: :roll: :lol:

    Nice huh?

    #227621

    Just ignore me then…. :wink:

    #227552

    @*Sian* wrote:

    If you need a lift and pump up in your thirties then there must be something wrong :lol: :lol: I have done the pencil test and mine are fine 8)

    Well – I dunno what age they start heading south at – I just figured 10 years time might be a time to assess the situation – preventative measres rather than corrective really….. :?

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