best English person in Spanish Wikipedia's image of representative English people

sorry that should be Pope Adrian IV

that is so painfully white

darwin doesn't actually look like i thought he looked, he's got some intense music vlogger thing going on there

no blobby no credibility

For comparison's sake, here is the French version:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/82/21_English_people.png

where's mr. bean

george is the only good beatle imo

Edward Jenner might be the top in terms of net quality-adjusted life years saved

Darwin I don’t believe was much of an imperialist himself but the social-darwinist perversion led to eugenic fads and forced sterilizations.

kate winslet suffers the most from copyright law

Kind of tails off towards the end.

No Churchill, I see.

... but Andrew Lloyd Webber.

anyway who's bobby charlton, I'm not going to go read about him on wikipedia

Footballer. About a million times better than David Beckham.

he's a senior citizen subject in that photo so doesn't really look the sporty type

prejudiced of me I know

... but Andrew Lloyd Webber

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/bb/dc/63/bbdc63518fb8ad81c172ae9b832876ae.gif

bobby c p much looked exactly like that as a teenager iirc

this is Shakespeare or Darwin for me. some right twats on here that will probably end up getting votes.

in terms of general importance: authors and philosophers > scientists > statesmen > musicians > actors > sports stars

in terms of lol choices: andrew lloyd webber

serious answer: Shakespeare

Newton was pretty smart, I guess.

Shakespeare, Darwin or Newton

shakespeare or newton for impact, maybe goodall just for pure goodness.

In terms of my own personal fandoms: Austen

William the Conqueror in the French one is a cute little dis

thesis: bobby charlton
antithesis: mr blobby
synthesis: mr blobby charlton

no Michael Faraday ffs? he's like the bobby charlton of electromagnetism and electrochemistry and was from very 'umble beginnings.

and he's on the twenty quid note!

Yeah the memory that whole bottom row will surely fade over time but Faraday's constant

*grudging applause*

Scots version and French version are one and the same. Hmmm…

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When I did my electrical qualifications my science teacher Julian was the kind of person who would have a wet patch on his leg after a geeky joke like that! But he did manage to impress on me that Faraday was a pretty fucking impressive autodidact.

Scots version and French version are one and the same. Hmmm…

― romanesque architect (pomenitul), Monday, February 24, 2020 12:21 PM (five minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

auld alliance

(I've yet to meet a french person irl who is aware of the auld alliance and the french influence on scottish culture)

(yes i have brought it up because i am a nerd)

Scots version and French version are one and the same. Hmmm…

― romanesque architect (pomenitul), Monday, February 24, 2020 9:21 PM (five minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

As are Dutch and Frisian...

German representation otoh:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/59/Carl_Spitzweg_047.jpg/1024px-Carl_Spitzweg_047.jpg

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I know about it from watching Braveheart!

It's also the same in Romanian and… Japanese. Perhaps there was more than one Auld Alliance?

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A google image search for 'les Anglais' yielded this:

http://media.topito.com//wp-content/uploads/2012/07/une-anglais.png

that is correct

First google hit for 'Engelsen':

https://images1.persgroep.net/rcs/Zf_OfFjapxiNDRGaKxCAyiW8dWI/diocontent/128077254/_fitwidth/694/?appId=21791a8992982cd8da851550a453bd7f&quality=0.9

One of the first few hits for 'englezii' (Romanian):

https://evz.ro/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/englezii-au-speriat-spania-cu-depravarea-lor-imaginile-pierzanie.jpg

Accompanying title reads something like 'the English have terrified Spain with their depravation'.

Darwin the second most influential there, after Newton. Also by all accounts, among the personally nicest, whereas Newton was a nutter.

voted for darwin partly because of his accomplishments and partly because whenever i read about him (or read him) he seems like a very decent, humble sort of person -- a nice contrast to the kind of personality we expect "geniuses" to have. jane goodall seems cool too.

worst person on here is undoubtedly cromwell, right?

you’d think but andrew lloyd webber tho

dunno about undoubtedly, Henry VIII pretty big competition on that one surely

we need JCLC in here to militate for Chaucer

and yeah, Henry 8 was one of the great monsters

I've yet to meet a french person irl who is aware of the auld alliance and the french influence on scottish culture

There is a pub called the Auld Alliance in Paris, sort of Bastille area.

Henry VIII’s characterization in the Wolf Hall books is fascinating. Childish, fearful, superstitious, proud, lustful, touched, paternal, weak-minded, impulsive, devout. In real life I’m sure he was much less interesting.

voted winslet because she look intersting

She's no Sam Mendes

The Tudors were Welsh anyway. (xps)

Voted thatcher cos dead

Newton because Science!

Voted Woolf because it would be a damn shame if no one did.

I'ma have to get back to you, I'm a little shook that Daniel Defoe looked like a bad Geoffrey Rush character.

might just vote for the Wolves supporter tbh

only one of these made a rave version of the tetris song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJKsn_OkOQ0

voted Winslet, will not be investigating any of the others

voted Winslet, will not be investigating any of the others

voted Winslet, will not be investigating any of the others

Voted Darwin because I read his granddaughter's memoir and there's an anecdote about him wandering into the room during a game of Anagrams, looking at the word "mother" and thinking someone's tried to make "moth" into a verb. "Moth-er? There's no such word as moth-er!"

worst person on here is undoubtedly cromwell, right?

― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Monday, 24 February 2020 21:50 (four days ago) bookmarkflaglink

you’d think but andrew lloyd webber tho

― Generous Grant for Stepladder Creamery (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 24 February 2020 21:57 (four days ago) bookmarkflaglink

dunno about undoubtedly, Henry VIII pretty big competition on that one surely

― Colonel Poo, Monday, 24 February 2020 22:00 (four days ago) bookmarkflaglink

we need JCLC in here to militate for Chaucer

― imago, Monday, 24 February 2020 22:07 (four days ago) bookmarkflaglink

and yeah, Henry 8 was one of the great monsters

― imago, Monday, 24 February 2020 22:09 (four days ago) bookmarkflaglink

taking notes here lads

Personally I have to plump for el bardo himself, Mr William!!!

I honestly think Shakespeare is good

Seriously! I'm not messing around this time. I 100% and sincerely would say "fair play" to Shakespeare if I met him after I'd seen one of his plays. Then I'd have to clarify that I meant it colloquially and that the play itself was actually 'excellent' not just 'fair'.

He's no Marlowe… or is he? 👽

If Shakespeare was actually Marlowe you would have to say fair play to Marlowe. What an absolutely incredible bit of banter that would be!

Little know fact they don't teach you in school: Marlowe wasn't just Shakespeare, he was Francis Bacon as well. Good things come in threes.

Only the father of modern empiricism could have written Doctor Faustus.

Being Francis Bacon is quite bonkers but if it turned out Marlowe was also John Dee then what a bloody legend that would make him! Discovering of such a top-tier jape would merit a total rejig of the Spanish wiki page on English people, see how many Marlowes we can get on there!!!

yes but what if he was also cromwell

That would be some frankly quite sick and twisted banter but as all Englishmen have an unyielding respect the rules of the game I would thus be powerless to say anything other than 'Well-played, sir!' to Mr Marlowe!!!

only one of these made a rave version of the tetris song

how did I not know this, and I don't mean the song, I mean who made it

have a feeling any people I might nominate from this list as not that bad might just be people I don't know enough about to know the bad stuff

The picture on the Italian wikipedia is imo a superior representation.

otm

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no william blake?! spanish wikipedia is bullshit

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Some real wags voting for Thatcher

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