http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFKwnHJQXsY&feature=related

(At work when a colleague was slanting Indians for fun (he's not racist) till I told him that USB key you wear around your neck like a gold medal…guess who Invented that…)

Now what have the Irish done for us?
(Hic thank you Ireland!)

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Curry.?

is the intel guy Indian or American?

They provided a lot of the economic foundation for our empire, didn't they? Probably not willingly in many cases mind.

iDave – Member
is the intel guy Indian or American?

According to Wiki…(cough pinch of salt) he was born and degree eduacated in India, did his Masters in New York and worked for Intel developing USB, AGP and Pci express.

Probably an American Citizen if he still works for Intel???

But the Brits still have some of the best Engineers and scientists right? as long as they don't work for BP…
Wouldn't mind an Indian takeaway tonight but need to be in work early and gives me the…best colonic ever?!

Sent us a load of doctors and people willing to put in some graft. In the next decade we'll probably become more closely linked to India as an economy, due to the relatively small psychic distance between us.

They bought the Christy towels brand (who my wife was working for at the time), closed down all UK production, made all the staff redundant and moved production to India. Hurray for India! BThis was before reaising that they didn't actually make any of the predicted cost savings at all, but the quality had plummetted!

So…. Yes Call-me-Dave. Lets have closer links with India. More of this kind of thing please. Jesus christ! When are we ever going to learn in this country

They bought the Christy towels brand

'they' being the whole of India? India's government nationalised Christy towels?

so binners, the guys doing business with/for Christy in India were smarter or more persuasive than those in little England?

An Indian company. And its this kind of 'closer business links' with India that Dave is trying to encourage. But hey, not to worry. It was just a load of working class northerners out of work. As long as the London Lawyers got their fees and the city took there cut for the financing then its all ok isn't it? Britain wins. Hurray!!

The think the previous owner of Christy Towels will be the winners.

Feel for you Binners as I have seen with it with other companies and Euro owners shutting it down moving it abroad but low pound and interest rates might help.

Maybe the Brit owners shouldn't sell? But call me Dave is getting the investors to put money in and not sell as we need the money from India and China who are moaning about their people investing into the U.K. no doubt!

There are quite a lot of educated Indians coming over to the UK at the moment and working in construction/engineering/architecture – and whilst they're usually technically very good, a lot are not very good at "thinking round corners" and coming up with solutions that don't fit their preconceived ideas.
But on the whole India gave us the financial backing for the Empire that we live on the name of nowadays.

i used to love their squidgey black and their menhali

First atomic warfare? (according to Oppenheimer and the Mahabharata)..

Gurkha,
flying a swift and powerful vimana
hurled a single projectile
Charged with all the power of the Universe.
An incandescent column of smoke and flame
As bright as the thousand suns
Rose in all its splendour…
a perpendicular explosion
with its billowing smoke clouds…
…the cloud of smoke
rising after its first explosion
formed into expanding round circles
like the opening of giant parasols…
..it was an unknown weapon,
An iron thunderbolt,
A gigantic messenger of death,
Which reduced to ashes
The entire race of the Vrishnis and the Andhakas.
…The corpses were so burned
As to be unrecognizable.
The hair and nails fell out;
Pottery broke without apparent cause,
And the birds turned white.
After a few hours
All foodstuffs were infected…
…to escape from this fire
The soldiers threw themselves in streams
To wash themselves and their equipment.

I've read that stuey, that maybe it was based on an alien civilistation or the world was advanced and we blew it up and became scavengers but Charlton Heston saved us. 😀

aqueducts

The way i read it is Charlton Heston fathered us all after being stabbed by plagued disciples of Charles Manson. He later ascended/sublimed when he realized we all just ripped of Vincent Price. That's when the apes get their go.

but Charlton Heston saved us.

You don't mean…..it was Earth all along?..

….Arrrgggggggg damn you, damn you all to hell.

Well the Indians chased all the cowboys out of India.

Which is why, I suppose, the place is full of bloody cows roaming the streets.

moccasins… teepees

closed down all UK production, made all the staff redundant and moved production to India. Hurray for India

And yet, you like buying cheap tellies, washing machines, etc etc don't you?

bassspine – Member
aqueducts

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Well the Indians chased all the cowboys out of India.

I think you must be thinking of the Cowboys who chased the West Indians out of the West Indies.

The modern administrative taxation system.

Casinos on their reserves?

Gave us wet rot….

The best word in the English language: Bungalow

Brought peace?

What have Indians done for us?

Two great girlfriends when I was growing up. Well technically one muslim and one Hindi.

the number 0 thats quite useful

and the karma sutra of course

What have Indians done for us?

Two great girlfriends when I was growing up. Well technically one muslim and one Hindi

this makes no sense

Well the Indians chased all the cowboys out of India.

I think you must be thinking of the Cowboys who chased the West Indians out of the West Indies.

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Ghandi
Siddh?rtha Gautama- buddha
Taj Mahal

does hora ever make any sense ?

What have we done for the Indians ?…

does hora ever make any sense ?

You do realise this is:

A, A forum
B, A non-serious topic?

Or in your world is everything 'deadly serious' like Juans? 🙄

isn't the concept of treating 'zero' as a number, indian? – mathematically very important.

(i might have made this up, or not, i don't know)

Nobody is really sure where/when zero came about. But yes, its very, very important.

the number 0 thats quite useful

Thanks for nothing then!