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Effers;England. Posted Mar 3, 2008
Seems like we're on about telly again tonight. And all disagreing with each other.
No Gif I agree its fascinating, but there's something just not really there for me with him.
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Edward the Bonobo - Gone. Posted Mar 3, 2008
Oh, I'll get to Attenborough on 'on demand'.
I don't find him sugary. Charlie Brooker ws very complementary about him in today's Grauniad...talking about him wading in bat guano yet being delighted to have cockroaches crawling all over his face.
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Edward the Bonobo - Gone. Posted Mar 3, 2008
You know what I like? He loves nature without being 'An Animal Lover'. He's fascinated by them without sentimentalising them.
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Giford Posted Mar 3, 2008
More to the point, he loves all animals - not just the cute, fluffy ones.
Do you know, I'm not sure he's mentioned pandas once in the entire 'Life' epology? And for his big finale he chose - crocs!
Gif
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Effers;England. Posted Mar 4, 2008
>without sentimentalising them.<
I disagree. That's basically what he does do.
I once spent 2 months of hell in virgin rain forest in South America. Attenbrough has annoyed me ever since.
Gems of British TV
DA ; Simply Vicky: Don't get pithy with me! Posted Mar 4, 2008
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Which doesn't mean that it can't serve a higher purpose...
Vicky
Gems of British TV
Researcher U197087 Posted Mar 4, 2008
David Attenborough is on record as hating rats with a passion.
Gems of British TV
clzoomer- a bit woobly Posted Mar 4, 2008
Nicky, you really are a full crock of shite. Pick and choose , pick and choose, never choose anything that you can't support with reasonable argument. I really wish you would choose the aspect of your religion that say, Johnny Cash chose, that the weak and unsupported need help, not anyone else. You really reek of superficial self-supporting *I'm OK, Jack* Christianity. Do you tithe? Do you volunteer at soup kitchens? Do you donate your clothes to the Sally Anne? Do you care if any of us do? You really are a piece of work, argumentative and so self righteous. Always ready to cast the first stone. I feel sad for you. Go ahead and pick and choose what you want to talk about, that's so YOU.
Gems of British TV
taliesin Posted Mar 4, 2008
I've been avoiding posting to this thread, and not even lurking more than perhaps once or twice a week, however, I must voice my objection to the characterization of Sir David Attenborough as 'sugary'.
Polite, modest and very intelligent, yes. A bit lyrical and even hyperbolic at times, perhaps. But never 'sugary'
"When people talk about God and creation, they always think of beautiful things, like roses and hummingbirds.
But I also think of a little African boy sitting on a river bank in West Africa with a worm eating its way through his eyeball, which will make him blind in the next few years.
Now if you are telling me that God created the rose and the hummingbird, presumably he also created this thing in his eye.
And it didn't evolve the way that I believe that it did, but it was created by God.
Some way or another, God said, "I will make a worm that can only live by boring through peoples' eyes."
Now I don't find that compatible with the Christian idea of a God who cares for the well being of each of us."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCqA9EHQDYE
Reading/Read 'The God Delusion' by Richard Dawkins?
gabbybahia Posted Mar 4, 2008
hi my name is gabriel and l want to know what is the book that you are reading to l read too,l´m soory because my english is bad and l want to make a lot of friends around the wold and to pretice my english ok.
thanks for all
Reading/Read 'The God Delusion' by Richard Dawkins?
Edward the Bonobo - Gone. Posted Mar 4, 2008
Gabby,
It's this:
http://www.amazon.com/God-Delusion-Richard-Dawkins/dp/0618680004
But I think most of have forgotten that this was what the thread was about.
são Brasiliana?
Reading/Read 'The God Delusion' by Richard Dawkins?
Effers;England. Posted Mar 4, 2008
Okay I know I'm voice in the wilderness about David Attenbrough. It's just personal thing because of my own experiences. And I accept others think differently.
But I'm massive fan of his brother, Dickie Attenbrough, for his acting and directing of films.
Can you let me off a bit as I love his brother?
Reading/Read 'The God Delusion' by Richard Dawkins?
IctoanAWEWawi Posted Mar 4, 2008
I've not seen 'Pierre Trudeau', was it any good?
Reading/Read 'The God Delusion' by Richard Dawkins?
Edward the Bonobo - Gone. Posted Mar 4, 2008
No no no...not 'Pierre Trudeau'...Pierre Trudeau. If you see what I mean.
The next day a gossip column reported that both he and his date had got in half price. Him as a Senior, her as a schoolgirl.
Reading/Read 'The God Delusion' by Richard Dawkins?
IctoanAWEWawi Posted Mar 4, 2008
oh, so both he and Ghandi were in the audience?
Reading/Read 'The God Delusion' by Richard Dawkins?
Edward the Bonobo - Gone. Posted Mar 4, 2008
Yeah. That's right. I really felt for the Mahatma, out in the snow in nothing but a loincloth.
Reading/Read 'The God Delusion' by Richard Dawkins?
Edward the Bonobo - Gone. Posted Mar 4, 2008
(emergency bookmark, 'cause I accidentally unsubbed)
Reading/Read 'The God Delusion' by Richard Dawkins?
Edward the Bonobo - Gone. Posted Mar 4, 2008
Should that have been 'loincloth'?
http://quotation-marks.blogspot.com/
Reading/Read 'The God Delusion' by Richard Dawkins?
Effers;England. Posted Mar 4, 2008
Yes I think I probably over use quotation marks.
Note to self. 'Life' isn't 'rehearsal'
Stop overusing that dammed ''
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