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I believe I have just watched THE best tv programme that has ever been made. From a tuskfish that smashes a clam against a rock to open it up, to a female fish that changes sex and ends up looking like John Merrick (the Elephant Man) , to fish leaping out of the water to catch a bird and then dolphins surfing. David Attenborough, you are a real national treasure.
I don't think it can bettered in the remaining episodes but I will watch to see if I'm wrong.
Once had a conversation in the staffroom of a school I worked in, begun when I said it was hard to think of anyone in this country who was universally loved. Eventually someone suggested Michael Palin and David Attenborough: "Everyone loves David Attenborough, surely." " Can't f@cking stand him," said Gill, the TA.
Once had a conversation in the staffroom of a school I worked in, begun when I said it was hard to think of anyone in this country who was universally loved. Eventually someone suggested Michael Palin and David Attenborough: "Everyone loves David Attenborough, surely." " Can't f@cking stand him," said Gill, the TA.
Did Gill the TA outline the thinking behind this scurrilous statement?
I'm very anti-royal and think I might leave the country for a couple of weeks when Ma'am finally shuffles off this mortal coil - but when Attenborough leaves us (and sprightly as he is for a nonagenarian that sad day will come as it does to us all), I think a week's national mourning is in order.
By the way there was one fish, didn't catch it's name, that I thought looked exactly like a 40/50 something ex-hooligan skinhead
A walrus holding it baby in its flippers, the mother and baby stay close all their lives, real love.
Mainly because she probably doesn't insist on the son coming over every fcuking five minutes or having family 'get togethers' which usually involve going to whatever soulless crappy carvery she happens to have a token for.
'What do we want? We don't know! When do we want it? Now!'
Amazing TV last night. You think he can't show you anything new, but just wow, scifi stuff last night. Sir David should really be on some sort of Global Royalty status, and his shows on every school's curriculum.
Mainly because she probably doesn't insist on the son coming over every fcuking five minutes or having family 'get togethers' which usually involve going to whatever soulless crappy carvery she happens to have a token for.
The Mantis shrimp (aka the 'pistol shrimp') is the hardest shrimp/animal type thing on the planet, it could smash the head in of any other type of prawn, crab, crocodile or even elephants and grazing wildebeests Hard as hobnail boots and never lost a punch up yet.
My Father had a profound influence on me, he was a lunatic.
Did Gill the TA outline the thinking behind this scurrilous statement?
I'm very anti-royal and think I might leave the country for a couple of weeks when Ma'am finally shuffles off this mortal coil - but when Attenborough leaves us (and sprightly as he is for a nonagenarian that sad day will come as it does to us all), I think a week's national mourning is in order.
By the way there was one fish, didn't catch it's name, that I thought looked exactly like a 40/50 something ex-hooligan skinhead
Let's just say she is not someone often confused with a ray of sunshine, and her politics are a bit old school East End (think I can guess which side she'd have been on in The Battle of Cable Street). Probably thinks Attenborough is a bit too gay with the gorillas and pro-migration, what with his eulogies over wilderbeast and them monarch butterflies. I am with you mate, though of course (as Sir Dave would be the first to acknowledge) he has always been the face of large and extraordinary teams.
We sat and drooled over those wonderful images. What a fantastic programme. Glad to hear today that many more people watched that than the other dross such as Strictly.
I caught some whopping big Trevally (30lb +) near Christmas Island (now Kiritimati) but I never heard of them leaping to catch terns as they were shown doing.
The Mantis shrimp (aka the 'pistol shrimp') is the hardest shrimp/animal type thing on the planet, it could smash the head in of any other type of prawn, crab, crocodile or even elephants and grazing wildebeests Hard as hobnail boots and never lost a punch up yet.
Grazing wildebeests? I think you've mentioned them before, that's old gnus.
The Mantis shrimp (aka the 'pistol shrimp') is the hardest shrimp/animal type thing on the planet, it could smash the head in of any other type of prawn, crab, crocodile or even elephants and grazing wildebeests Hard as hobnail boots and never lost a punch up yet.
Got one of those in my reef tank. Often hear it clicking away when the lights go out. Fish stay well out of its way lest they end up dinner. That said there is a type of goby that pairs up with it and they become inseparable buddies.
My daughter (now 16) said that when her biology teacher put on an old dvd of Planet Earth a couple of years back she (my daughter) embarrassed herself by giving a little squeak of excitement when Sir Dave came on screen.
I told her it was a sight better getting excited over Attenborough than Justin bloody Bieber.
We sat and drooled over those wonderful images. What a fantastic programme. Glad to hear today that many more people watched that than the other dross such as Strictly.
I caught some whopping big Trevally (30lb +) near Christmas Island (now Kiritimati) but I never heard of them leaping to catch terns as they were shown doing.
Caught?
you can come clean now, it just jumped into your boat didn't it :)
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