Simply naming something, does not mean, that that thing was your own invention.
I know something about this because I was born in The British Isles, a place where people love to boast of the invention of any number of things.
Take the Sandwich for example.
The claim is, that the sandwich was invented in a gaming club in London, by the Earl of Sandwich in 1762, while he was playing cribbage and was pissed off because he was eating slices of meat with his bare hands, this was making his playing cards greasy.
The Earl ordered a servant to the kitchen after telling his slave, to bring back the slices of meat wrapped in bread.
The Sandwich was invented.
The idea that up until that fateful night, nobody in the world had conceived of sticking food between two pieces of bread is plainly ridiculous.
Perhaps Albania invented the Moustache, or Rain was invented in Venezuela. Salt of course, was thought up by a Ugandan farmer.
I have lived in China for many years and they are almost as rabid about claiming to have invented things as are the British.
I remember reading with some amusement, the claim, made by a Chinese historian, that the game of Golf was not invented in Scotland but Beijing, because he had come across a painting that had been made before the birth of Christ, the work clearly shows a man hitting a ball with a stick.
The events of this week in Iran, made me think of the riddle of who invented the sandwich.
The winner and still President, a dismal sorry figure of a man, was claiming, while delivering a victory speech, that Iran was the worlds foremost economic superpower, and all inventions of civilisation could be traced back to his country.
This idiot claimed, to much derision in a speech in America last year, that, homosexuality is a disease, and that the disease did not exsist in his country.
How do these people get into such high positions?
I know the answer to this question, it scares the living piss out of me.
