What has Scotland ever done for the world?

Question

Don't you think we might be better off without them?
I mean, who cares about kilts and haggis when the Middle East is on the verge of World War 3.
I'm fed up that no one ever mentions this and we're all meant to act like we're friends with them.
All they do is drink whiskey, fight at football games and shout at my dog when it goes in their garden.
What good are the Scottish??

Answer 1

Well besides not being English ( a big plus) they gave rthe world:

adhesive postage stamps
anaesthetics
antisepsis
artificial diamonds
reaping machine
Bank of England
latent heat
Brownian movement
Buicks chemical bonds
penicillin
the decimal point
documentary films
Encyclopedia Britannica
engineering sciences
fax machines
first cloned mammal
flailing machines
geosciences
golf
historical novels
hypodermic syringes
Kelvin scale
percussion
powder
logarithms
Maxwell's equations
marmalade
mackintosh
raincoats
macadamized roads
microwave ovens
colloid chemistry
breech-loading rifle
tubular steel
quinine
Sociology
pneumatic tyres
phollow pipe drainage
Peter Pan
radar
paleobiology
polarization
cure for scurvy
King Arthur
Halloween
refrigerators
Neptune
bakelite
iron bridges
solitons
the steam engine
telephones
thermos flasks/dewars
the telegraph
television
sulphuric acid
paraffin
Sherlock Holmes
Toad of Toad Hall
Long John Silver
Jekyll and Hyde
Auld Lang Syne
Whisky
US Navy
Chilean Navy
Economics
Cloud Chamber
Glasow Celtic

Have I nmentined The Siren, Logithrims, the steam hammer, the vacuum flask, Bovril, Kaleidoscopes, Overhead valves, and Parallel motion?

England's inventions: The concentration camp

Answer 2

Let me ask you this then: What good have YOU done lately? Seriously... Each country has its own purpose, whether it's a little or a lot, in which case the telephone and Penicillin has went a long way from Scotland, and many other things in Scotland that people who posted before me already covered. So if you're a Yank and I'm Scottish, am I supposed to say to you, "did you roger your mum, so you can have a new sister and a new brother at the same time?"

I mean relax, guy. Each country has its own cultures and traditions, so I fail to see how kilts and haggis have to do with anything while there's the Japanese system of bowing to each other, Californian surf culture, the little dot on an Indian's forehead and many other cultural differences I could mention that is as long as the history of all the Yahoo! Answers combined.

Besides, I doubt if you're out in the real world enough to realize that's not ALL people are talking about... Also, by you talking about the Middle East, don't you think that even though it is a common and internationally-known topic, don't you think people get sick of worrying about it? I mean, the only hopes of them attacking us is via terrorism, but even then we have beefed up security since there's no way that a stolen F18, a MiG, or any fighter plane would safely cross into our territories anyway without probably meeting its demise by Patriot missile.

So by you saying that the Scottish are fighting and drinking people that shout at your dog, it's like me saying you're an incestuous Yank that drink beer, roger their sister and scatter car parts for a worn 1940s Ford pickup truck all over the lawn.

Another thing, who IS going to be happy about other people's dogs going into THEIR lawn and tearing up things, digging holes, taking a leak and defecating on THEIR property while the dog is YOUR responsibility? What do you expect them to actually do, feed and groom the dog when it's in their yard and welcome it into the family while it's technically none of their business of what their neighbor's dog does? I myself own a dog, so by you saying that, it's simply the most absurd/irresponsible thing I've heard. Better yet, everything you said IS absurd, ignorant and irresponsible.

Answer 3

Alexander Graham Bell - Scottish born, invented the telephone.

Andrew Carnegie - Scottish born, started the largest steel company in the world at his time and was an extraordinarily generous philanthropist.

Sir Alexander Fleming - discovered penicillin.

John Paul Jones - Scottish born, established the US Navy.

John Muir - Scottish born, set up the US National Park system, the model for National Parks the world over.

Adam Smith - influential economist and founder of the "school" of political economy.

Robert Louis Stevenson - author of "Kidnapped" and "Treasure Island."

Reverend John Witherspoon - Scottish born, helped frame and signed the Declaration of Independence in the USA.

This is just a start.

Answer 4

I actually dont know of a single person that pretends to like scotland,they either do or dont,anybody can do the same,your opinion is you own and nobody else's. Unless you live in scottland you are only getting a one had experience. I've never met a scott like that (and I've met some). And think of it this way,your dog is your problem not theirs.Anybody has the right to be mad about a dog that goes in their yard,and isn't their problem.
Kilts are just as much a part of our culture as taco's and kimonos. And if anything,we have great whiskey on account of them,so thats one thing their good for,besides their fabulous accents! And remember,they just as much right in the US,as you do,because nobodys 100 percent American. Somwhere in your blood line there is,russian,italian,welsh,belgum,korean,spanish,chinese,or somthing. I hope I helped. :)

Answer 5

Compulsory education, capitalism, first to decided to build a canal in Panama (and the first to fail), etc.

Answer 6

Hey, If the world thought they were useless, she'd have taken them out a long time ago.

Answer 7

I rather like their whisky.

I'm sure the whisky had something to do with the invention of the bagpipe...

Answer 8

Have your watched Braveheart....shoot I wouldnt want to get in a fight with them.

Answer 9

i feel the same about the english ken what a mean p.s feeble attempt gadgeeeeeeeeee

Answer 10

BETTER QUESTION WOULD BE, "WHAT GOOD ARE YOU??SO YOU'VE GOT SOME PETTY ISSUES, GET OVER IT NOW GET YOUR DAMN DOG OUT OF MY GARDEN...:)