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Well, we made it of course. The French were mooching around doing nothing in the western bits, the Spanish were looting the southern bits, whilst we of course were building strong settlements across the seaboard.You know that bloke on your money called George? He was British. So was everybody that signed your Declaration of Outright Treason……sorry, I mean Independence.Why do you think ENGLISH is what the majority of you speak, even if you can’t spell properly and you don’t know what a tap is or the boot of a car? And you know how proud you are of Intel and AMD and how they’re shining stories of American success? Yeah, well, the first people to make anything like that were Tommy Flowers and his team of Post Office Engineers from Dollis Hill. You did get the transistor first though, we’ll give you that one. Even if was it a development from an idea by a German living in Canada which in turn was inspired by the work of one William Eccles, who came from Barrow-in-Furness. He and FW Jordan (from Canterbury) made the first flip-flop. Gosh, looks like we kick started the age of electronics too then. Oh, then there’s all those electric motors you like. Faraday. British.Oh, I nearly forgot about Robert Watson-Watt. He invented a little thing you appear to like very much. It’s called Radar. Then there’s Frank Whittle. He invented the jet engine. Don’t you have the biggest air-force in the world, and indeed the second biggest, if you count the US Navy? You’re very welcome, old top.Home video recorders (upon which you built an industry) were first made in Nottingham. Yep. That place where there was a bloke running round a forest in tights annoying a sheriff and I’m sure Disney were glad of that story even if in the original myth Robin was a man and not a fox. Went well with video recorders, did that.Bell was born in Edinburgh and buggered off overseas. He happened to invent the telephone. Mind you a Belgian (Charles Bourseul) had had the idea before. Ooh, better not forget Maxwell and Heaviside (Scots) on whose work Einstein’s (German) rests, along with Planck (German) and thus everything you Yanks have achieved in quantum physics started with the British and the Germans as well.We gave you lawyers too. All your laws are based on ours and so were your initial legal systems. Yes, sorry about that. If it’s any consolation ours are just as bad.Surely you invented the aeroplane and then spelled it airplane? Well, yes, Wilbur and Orville did get the first one unstuck, but they built on the work of George Cayley. British. In fact he was a baronet. He’d probably have made a flying machine if he’d found or invented a lightweight enough internal combustion engine. But as he died in 1857 he didn’t and we left it for you to grab the credit for. No need to thank us, a pleasure old boy.Ah, the motorcar. Henry Ford. Via China, France, Switzerland, France again, Germany, us from 1894 onwards and you lot finally cottoning on in a rare instance where you beat us to the punch in 1893. Well done. Ford actually made a moving assembly line, which was a development of the assembly line pioneered by Blanchard in 1821 at the Springfield Armoury, which was a copy of an idea that originated at the Portsmouth Block Mills to help with pulleys used by the Royal Navy. In 1802. By Marc Isambard Brunel, who admittedly was French but became British, eventually becoming Sir Marc. I’m sure you’ve heard of his son, Isambard. Great railway engineer. Oh yes, we gave you those too. That was jolly decent of us, wasn’t it?Moon Landings. Of course only Americans have ever been on the moon. Shame it was done by importing a bunch of ex-Nazis in to build the rockets and using maths developed by Newton (British). But you know, needs must.Well, you know, life isn’t just about science and technology, there’s also the cultural side, so now let’s go on to see how much we’ve given you in arts and humanities as well.Films: Eadweard Muybridge, I’m afraid, was British, coming as he did from Kingston-upon-Thames. He did the early motion-photography on which your film industry is based, but the French Lumiere Brothers were a bit earlier and the very first cinema in the world (which you would later misname a movie theatre and moreover misspell theatre as theater - oh come on Hank) was in fact in Berlin in 1895. Of course the American cinema gave us Charlie Chaplin. From London. And Cary Grant. From Bristol. And Laurel and Hardy. The former of which was born in Ulverston. In Cumbria. That’s in England but quite nearly Scotland. British then. Cheer up. Oliver Hardy was born in Georgia. His dad even fought in the American Civil War, albeit on the losing side. Mind you his music teacher was Swedish.Well, look, you’re a reasonably intelligent-ish nation over there. There must be something you’ve done for yourselves, surely. Ooh, baseball. It’s your national game. Huzzah, we found one! Oh. Wait. According to Wikipedia it’s a development of rounders, played in Britain and Ireland even today at school. Mainly by girls. Oh well, you’ve got Elvis Presley. Invented rock ’n’ roll in 1953. We might let you have that one as it’s a combination of R&B and European Jazz and swing styles. Go on then. But we developed it. You might have heard of the Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Who, Judas Priest, David Bowie, Elton John, and The Spice Girls (alright, yes, we aren’t perfect, sorry).Currently there is a very American film on the telly my wife is watching. It’s Willy Wonka. Starring Johnny Depp. American. Yay! Except the original Charlie and the Chocolate Factory was written by Roald Dahl (Welsh) and I’ve just seen Christopher Lee’s mug appear on the screen and he was from London. And we got to the telly before you did too. And radio broadcasting.Hmmm. Looks like we need to be turning the question round dear boy. Perhaps we should be asking “Apart from piling in late in two major wars when all the actual work was done and what was left was just to win, what use has the USA been to the rest of the world?”Just a thought, don’tcha know? :)

Simply, Chris Gayle.My motivation to answer this question :-Date: 18/01/2016Big Bash League- Renegades against Adelaide StrikersGayle equals world record with 12-ball 50Doesn't mean, we as cricket lovers don't admire other powerful hitters who might be better than Gayle both in statistics and consistent performances. My personal favourite is AB De Villiers, nevertheless, but Gayle mesmerises and entertains the cricket lovers to a different level.There is AB De Villiers, who can the cricket ball out of the park in every direction and angle possible. Maxwell, who hits on will, the boom boom Shahid Afridi, the classic hitting of Corey Anderson and David Miller, the king of sixes on the leg side: Yuvraj Singh. But there is something called a X-factor which find most in the Calypso King, Gayle.A strong built to be a hard hitter: He is a huge man. His sixes are even more. :P Hard hitting requires timing too, but his strong suit is his magnificent ability to send the ball out of the park, thanks to his strong hands and fast elbow movements.Positive and a focussed attitude towards cricket: He is a fun, a jolly personality but at the same time knows his cricket well, and implements his targets under any circumstances. He may be partying hard, a night before an important game, but as soon as he enters the ground, hitting the white ball is his single damn target.An irresistible aura in the cricket field: Be it any situation, both outside the cricket field and on it, this man is as cool as ice. West Indies is undergoing a huge turmoil and unresolved issues between its cricket board and current lot of players, which throws the future of many upcoming youngsters and current players in the dark. But this man separates his personal or professional issues and keeps it aside, to give a blazing performances and entertains everyone in the stadium including the fielding side. :PA cricketer criticized by media and cricket fraternity, of insensitive flirting with a female reporter just few days back throws a strong comeback equalling the fastest fifty record, shared with Yuvraj Singh.Gayle criticised following interview with female reporterI seriously doubt that this man is a normal human being. :P