Who is your favourite/the greatest human?

[JamesMCFC]

The number of tribes that occupied Britain at the time of the Roman invasion is astounding to me. Each one had their own cultures, traditions, rituals, even languages. Sadly, we'll never know much about them!

I agree,

Especially when you hear the Anglo Saxons never came here and wiped out the Celts but the cultures somehow merged? Can't see that myself

 

[denislawsbackheel]

Alexander Fleming the discoverer of Penicilin and pioneer of antibiotics saved millions of lives without the need for wanking over Gail Platt.

Pioneered nothing.
He discovered it but its uses were developed by other people entirely.

 

[Kippax77]

Margaret Hilda Thatcher



TAXXXXIIIII

 

[Blue Mist]

Not to diminish his role in it, but is that not like giving Kennedy and Johnson the credit for the 1964 Civil Rights Act ahead of Martin Luther King and the various others who fought for years to make it happen? Or even David Cameron for introducing gay marriage?

It's fine to praise people in power when they do the right thing, but I'm not sure it qualifies them as the "greatest human" above people who fought often for decades at great personal cost to bring about the change.

Yes very true, Mr De Clerk step aside. ML King is my ultimate greatest, along with many other more silent activists in the movement. The beatings and threat of death they endured for years was a national and world disgrace. The fact that they endured says so much about them

 

[mancity2012_eamo]

John Hume.

 

[Manchester33]

I agree,

Especially when you hear the Anglo Saxons never came here and wiped out the Celts but the cultures somehow merged? Can't see that myself

It's true (to an extent) apparently.

There's a lot of DNA evidence to say it was more a cultural shift - there's also a stark lack of mass burial sites that you'd expect had they wiped out the natives.

 

[idahoblues]

Drone

 

[KS55]

Pioneered nothing.
He discovered it but its uses were developed by other people entirely.

Completely false. You are mixing up the development of knowledge with the development of (mass) manufacturing. He continued to research, lecture on and develop penicillin and even treated patients with unpurified strains right up until 1945, thus developing, for example, a treatment for conjunctivitis
He was a member of the wartime penicillin committee.
Chain, one of the developers, used Flemings output.
He also discovered the phenomenon of antibiotic resistance and warned against too small doses and courses that were too short.

 

[City Hobgoblin]

Les Dawson

 

[Plmokn]

Any straight man who is willing to sell his arse.