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OT - 100 Greatest Britons
Posted: Tue Oct 22, 2002 2:56 pm
by Roger Cooper
who do you think the greatest briton of all time is? and why is that twat Beckham in the top 50?????????
Re: OT - 100 Greatest Britons
Posted: Tue Oct 22, 2002 3:13 pm
by Ace
You HAVE to throw Ben Dover in there, you just HAVE too! AND if Freddie Mercury (Zanzibar) can make the top 100, Im sure Pascal (Belgium) is in with a shout as well.
Re: OT - 100 Greatest Britons
Posted: Tue Oct 22, 2002 3:24 pm
by Lizard
Are you not posting on the wrong forum Rog?
Re: OT - 100 Greatest Britons
Posted: Tue Oct 22, 2002 3:46 pm
by Dollar Bill
C'mon, the "100 Greatest Britons" is complete bollocks. They didn't include Linda Lusardi (lol)
Re: OT - 100 Greatest Britons
Posted: Tue Oct 22, 2002 4:22 pm
by jj
The irrational inclusion of so many contemporary ephemerals has left me rather depressed at our stupidity as a nation.
Darwin and Newton, whose ideas shook the world......and Robbie Williams. Good grief.
Almost makes me want such people to have their franchise revoked..........or perhaps their existence.
Re: OT - 100 Greatest Britons
Posted: Tue Oct 22, 2002 5:02 pm
by MisterC
Aleister Crowley making the top 100 made me laugh. Makes Ben look like a choirboy.
Re: OT - 100 Greatest Britons
Posted: Tue Oct 22, 2002 5:16 pm
by mart
Well, what about the guy who made all this possible: Tim Berners-Lee, who came in at 99.
Mart
Re: OT - 100 Greatest Britons
Posted: Tue Oct 22, 2002 5:23 pm
by jj
As long as you include Babbage and Turing, then.
Re: OT - 100 Greatest Britons
Posted: Tue Oct 22, 2002 9:34 pm
by Caractacus
What bothered me was the inclusion of a certain simpering clothes horse in the top ten. Yeah, like before her no one in Britain knew how to look doe-eyed, or sell copious copies of the Express and Mail.
Sorry to any royalists, but I mean, really . . .
Re: OT - 100 Greatest Britons
Posted: Tue Oct 22, 2002 11:30 pm
by jj
Yep: if it had been a list of the top 100 greatest whingers, or drains on the Exchequer..........