RE: How Americans view the British
December 24, 2018 at 10:58 am
(This post was last modified: December 24, 2018 at 11:01 am by Aliza.)
(December 24, 2018 at 7:54 am)IWNKYAAIMI Wrote: Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't it the Americans who invented obesity?
America! Fuck yeah!
(December 24, 2018 at 9:56 am)Mathilda Wrote:(December 23, 2018 at 11:01 pm)Fireball Wrote: That may be true for a fair amount of enterprises, but I worked as an engineer for many years and if we sold shit to the gov, we burned. There was generally a government quality assurance presence that aided in ensuring we made a product that performed as required. Anything I worked on certainly did work as contracted, and in many cases exceeded the requirements.
Yeah it's probably quite different for the military. The one time I worked in company selling software to the MOD we developed a pile of shit (which included cartoon icons and comic sans in the GUI).
My career has mainly focused on R&D in industry, particularly with start-ups.
Although if we're talking about innovation, Scotland basically invented the modern world.
Not that Scotland should be considered part of Britain ...
Most Americans with roots in this country past three generations are of Irish and Scottish stock.
