Good job, Britain! A major contribution to the nations of the world!

Here's another one: In the last 10 years the UK has made the largest change in time freight waits to enter the nation.
- It almost became (I'm guessing) the first country to give up socialized medicine. So it could be worse.
  
  America: hold my beer 🍺.
  
  Has almost become. But over my literal dead body, I will take to the streets of Central London and so would millions of others. Take the NHS away and there will be genuine riots from real people with nothing to lose.

I can almost see the Internet on top of Big Ben there (it's where it gets the best reception).
- What's Jen doing with the internet!?
  
  It was demagnetized by the Hawk himself.

England is a great country to hate.
- I don't hate it, I'm sad about it because it could be so much more.
  
  Same as anywhere really. It has really become a bit shit, mostly because I can't afford to do anything nice.
  
  The sun never set on the British empire! Until everyone decided they didn't want to play along anymore …

The British 3 pin plug is superior to all other plugs. I miss it
- Schuko is the only one anyone would ever need. Those gigantic tumors from the island are horrible. And don't come with the fuse argument. A fuse belongs in the electrical cabinet and is the last failsafe. GFCIs are the ones protecting you l, the appliance and the house.
- Switzerland and Brazil use this weird as shit one and I kind of like it.
  And no, I don't know why Switzerland and Brazil.
  
  i mean Switzerland is famously neutral
- It's certainly the one most likely to shank you if you step on it. Beyond that I'd rank it as the least space efficient plug. I honestly think it's the worst design I've seen.
  "But it has built in fuses", I hear all the Brits say. This isn't the advantage you think it is. Why not put the fuses in the actual appliance with all the other components where it makes more sense to put them?

Created the best popcorn flick, like for example Brexit, Death of Queen Elizabeth, Installation of Palpatine, Lettuce Leaf, and the ongoing season of Riot.
- I don't know, man, The Apprentice has gotten super meta and wild over here.

It has one of the best gender neutral bathrooms on the planet.
- The view is great, the seat is a little cold.
  Species neutral too
- I went to the tate modern and their bathrooms were progressive as fuck. I'd never been in a mixed toilet just surrounded by women, but it was an experience I'd quite like to repeat again. I got some strange looks after, but hey that's London for you
- They lose points for not fully adopting mixer tap technology.

It's really sweet how they add unnecessary letters to feel all fancy about their little words.
"Colour"
"Humour"
Aww, so cute.
- It gets worse- "foetus," "aeroplane."
  They also think "er" is pronounced "re" like in the words "centre" and "theatre" and "s" is pronounced like "z" like in words like "apologise" and "realise."
  Get it together guys. We know you came up with the language, but that's no excuse not to keep up.
  
  Speaking of aviation, I have no idea why Americans use such a boring term as "airport". I mean, the guys invented half of the aviation technology and then they just use the term "airport". Such a waste of potential.
  The international standard term is "aerodrome". Say it like you mean it. It's a term with gravitas.
  
  Foetus is a weird one, I've never heard that before. I keep trying to pronounce it in my head but the closest I get is sounding like fajitas.
  
  Ok, I’m confused by the aeroplane reference. It’s not pronounced as per the American “airplane”.
  
  This is the first I'm hearing about these And they bug me
- The USA newspapers are credited with removing letters. It used to cost per letter, so people started removing whatever they could.
  
  Noah Webster dropped the 'u' on words as well as otherwise changed the spelling of many words in 'American' English.
- "Aluminium" anyone?
  
  Are you buying?
  
  But they're almost all 'iums', changing just one is like finding a fly in a bowl of cereal
- Now let’s hear yanks say “mobile mirror”. You’re too lazy to even pronounce the letters you do have.
- Totally normal if you ask me.
- Actually can we collectively agree to blame the French for this? It was they who introduced it.
- Thats certainly one possible explanation for why Americans chose to simplify the spelling of the words they use.

Britain has its faults, but look at how former British colonies are doing today as compared to former French colonies, and other European countries.
- You mean the ones where they essentially wiped out and replaced the locals, like the US, Canada or Australia? Or the ones where the locals are majority, like India, Bangladeh, Pakistan...
  
  Uh... "yes".
- Not sure that the comparison is all that favorable with France. You check Algeria and Egypt, or Uganda and Niger, and it's not exactly a massive spread. The most positive comparison would be with Italian and Belgian colonialism, which managed to be incompetent and (even by colonial standards) gruesome, respectively.
  
  Man German colonialism failed so hard it doesn't even make the list
- Adding my two cents, major curses to humanity today..
  Britain always followed the divide and rule on it's colonies and it still curses them and beyond.
  Most of the border disputes today can be lead back to british decisions.
  There are million more reasons, but it's just not worth arguing with UK now.
- I think you should read up on which countries are former British colonies, because there are definitely a lot of them not doing so well either.

*independence.
Best dictionaries in the world.

I wonder if there's a travel itinerary for a year long journey to as many independence days as possible. How many are there? How many could a person attend within a year?
Edit: Found a list on wiki and could sort by calendar day. By my count you could attend a maximum of 119 independence days; that is to say somewhere in the world there is an independence day on 119 different days. Many days of course have two or more countries celebrating so you'd have to pick one. Maybe I'll print the list and think about the geography a bit and see how many a person could reasonably attend; 119 is the maximum if you own a private plane and could land and takeout from the correct countries in order.
Conceivably, one person couldn't possibly line up the entry visas to get anywhere close to 119. They'd need a small team of immigration lawyers working for months ahead of and during each leg; some chronological legs might be impossible due to entry restrictions on country of entry or country of origin. Visa requirements would get more complicated as time went on and less likely to be granted, although to the extent border controls are discretionary, with the right letters and proof, the durations of stay will be so short, how many border guard supervisors are going to turn you down for a one or two day entry visa when you have photos of you partying it up on Independence days around the world, celebrating the prideful achievements of the cultures of the world, and asking "won't you let a kind traveler share your day of national pride with you, so that I may share it with others?"
And this is all flying privately with your own jet and unlimited money to keep it going on demand. Many legs would be interrupted by flight delays and travel bullshit. Flying commercially, even with unlimited plane fair money and very good luck in finding/planning accomodations (not living out of your private jet). This assumes the flight durations and time zones line up that you could make it in time from one to the next.
I would find it an amazing achievement if a regular person managed to get to like 25 of the these things in a year, and a lifetime achievement award to do anyone that hit 50. Maybe a very seriously dedicated individual could hit ~75. That last stretch from 100 to 119 I think would be insurmountable. With all the resources in the world I bet a few would still fall through for one reason or another.
If anyone finds some travel nerd somewhere that has really thought this out please share.

The clock is fancy.

Created Lord of the Rings, and metal. And made very important contributions to psychedelic rock and blues rock.

Best food
Brisbane consistently reaches the top of foodie lists
- Is this like the most Michelin stars mostly go to French restaurants because they're French?
  
  Maybe?
  But it’s not just Indian food, the other markets there cover just about any cuisine

No

I think I have a nice thing to say: It's not gonna last much longer.

Britain has the most sane immigration policies in EU currently. It truly is an advanced country compared to many other Western European states.
- Britain is famously not part of the EU
  
  Behind the scenes it still is. The brexit was just a capitalist agenda aimed to fool the masses.
- What do you mean? There are more immigrants now than before leaving the EU despite promises.
  
  Yes, I said it has most sane immigration policies. Only letting in the most poor people from Middle East we can lay the claim to national superiority. The rest of the xenophobic EU is closing borders…

Brought law and order to the world. Education. Infrastructure. Destroyed the slave trade. Brought stability and prevented genocides. Created governments. The industrial revolution. Science. Large parts of economics and free trade.
- You forgot to mention, looted hundreds of countries.
  
  But isn't it nice of them to let the Greeks go to see the Elgin Marbles in the British Museum whenever they want for free?
- I'm pretty sure India had law and order and infrastructure long before the British invaded and colonized it. And Britain benefited from the slave trade for a long time before working to abolish it.
  As far as prevented genocides, I'd ask an indigenous Australian how they feel about Britain preventing genocide.
  
  Honestly, I'm willing to give Britain the slave trade bit. Slavery is ancient, and choosing not just to break free of it, but to actively work for its suppression across the world, deserves some credit, at least.
  The rest, though? Y I K E S
  
  Really? We still don’t have law and order and infrastructure in India. Also we weren’t a country called India before the British came.
- I hope you forgot to put an /s at the end of your comment
- That's like saying communism brought up living standards for eastern Europe (It didn't)
  
  And don't go down voting thinking I am some Englishman or American I live in eastern europe
  
  (it did though)
- Yes, all those things would have been accomplished sooner if the British had stayed on their own little island. I agree.
  
  Probably not, to be honest. It's like a chaotic attractor, isn't it. I'm not a moral relativist, so I can't discount the suffering it created. But we tend to do that when looking at ancient history. It's pretty clear a specific version of "industrial civilisation" was spread globally, and the epicentre was Europe, and disproportionately the UK. It's just too recent to view objectively or with a historical lens for most people. That's fair enough. Now its bastard offspring the USA is the major cultural hegemon and the economic consequences of that are staring us directly in the face, with most people choosing to ignore it. And who knows what will happen next?