arab civilization ?

[Dundeegeorge]

Racist

They invented the word we currently use for chickpea, garlic and lemon juice paste. I can assure you they did not invent the product itself.

they certainly did invent them, and they invented computers and false teeth and charabancs and spiders. How dare you accuse someone of making this up, just to downplay the glorious role of a bunch of people who live in a ******* desert in the progression of civilisation.

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[sasguru]

they certainly did invent them, and they invented computers and false teeth and charabancs and spiders. How dare you accuse someone of making this up, just to downplay the glorious role of a bunch of people who live in a ******* desert in the progression of civilisation.

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I never thought this before (probably because of the stiff competition), but you really are a contender for village idiot, aren't you?

[gingerjedi]

They invented the word we currently use for chickpea, garlic and lemon juice paste. I can assure you they did not invent the product itself.

Hummus is popular in various local forms throughout the Arab world. It is said that its origins trace back to the great Sultan Saladin.

from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hummus

I dont know why im bothering with something so trivial!

[Dundeegeorge]

SAS I'm touched

I never thought this before (probably because of the stiff competition), but you really are a contender for village idiot, aren't you?

No really, that is just possibly the nicest thing you've ever said to me.
I mean it, really, I'm filling up now, excuse me (whips red and white polka-dot handkerchief out of sleeve, wipes eyes, blows nose loudly, stuffs handkerchief back up sleeve).
To think that I could follow in your footsteps, it's just too much, really, I'm not worthy to put on your dung-covered smock, to wear that straw-hat, to chew that bit of straw. Really I am moved by your statement, but please you keep the post, no one could fill it so well as you.

[sasguru]

No really, that is just possibly the nicest thing you've ever said to me.
I mean it, really, I'm filling up now, excuse me (whips red and white polka-dot handkerchief out of sleeve, wipes eyes, blows nose loudly, stuffs handkerchief back up sleeve).
To think that I could follow in your footsteps, it's just too much, really, I'm not worthy to put on your dung-covered smock, to wear that straw-hat, to chew that bit of straw. Really I am moved by your statement, but please you keep the post, no one could fill it so well as you.

All your blustering will get you nowhere, you are officially in the Chico/Mailman category

[Churchill]

Falafel - Woof!

[Dundeegeorge]

Damn your eyes, sir

All your blustering will get you nowhere, you are officially in the Chico/Mailman category

that is too much, I can stand being called an idiot (even by you, ironic or what?) but comparisons to those 2 wastes of dna are a step too far.
I shall see you in the morning, on the lawn outside the whitehouse, water-pistols or black puddings, my second will supply both.

Until tomorrow, I wish you a good last day.

(stroppy f*cker, is it your bad week or something?)

ps, since it's official, is there a certificate, I always find people are so impressed by certificates, even if they don't understand what the certificate relates to.

[Spartacus]

Hummus is popular in various local forms throughout the Arab world. It is said that its origins trace back to the great Sultan Saladin.

from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hummus

I dont know why im bothering with something so trivial!

The chickpea was used as food by our hunter-gatherer ancestors tens of thousands of years ago and was cultivated around 7,000 years ago in the Middle East. This is pretty much pre-history, so details are not clear. The Phoenicians are credited with bringing the chickpea to western Europe, but there is some dispute over that. Certainly by Roman times the garbanzo had become entrenched in the Iberian diet. So there are lots of versions of hummus, "invented" in lots of places.

Who invented hummus?

So double and a for good measure.

[Fungus]

Surely unless you're an American it's 'civilisation'...also we must have been observing the stars well before 2500BC to have built Stonehenge

Not so. People used to go to bed well before the sky was dark. It was only when alcohol was invented, that people stayed up late partying the night away. They often fell over drunk, followed by an hour or two staring up at the stars and contemplating the immensity of it all. Most of the hieroglyphics on the ancient observatories have been decoded and found to say things like "I love you" and "you're my beshtest ever friend you are, hic".

On a related issue, late last night I heard a loud banging on door, and after opening it with trepidation, discovered a neighbour dressed in nothing but his underpants, pissed as a skunk, having locked himself out of his flat, with no way to contact his other half who had some keys, and unable to see due to his glasses being in his flat. When asked where she lived, he answered with "Down the road from the Rose and Crown" and "Round the corner from the George and Dragon". Bleedin' alcoholics. What would others have done? Clsoed the door and left the alcoholic to sleep in the hallway, or wander round Luton semi-naked, pissed and blind? I wonder if the Israeli's would do a precision strike on the next door flat?

[Mailman]

Algebra.

Did they also invent pulling the rabit out of the hat after saying algebra kadabra?

As someone already said, for a group that was so advanced a thousand years ago their "offspring" today have done a pretty good job at ******* up any advances that had made completely.

In fact you could say that Islam is acting like the catholic church was acting a thousand years ago. Closed minded and inward looking. Feck, Id even go as far to say that Christianity is the new Islam

Mailman