Burn in hell David Attenborough.

[Aitch]

Not to mention the fact that we complain about our own country more than every other country put together...

Nothing new...

Then the idiot who praises, with enthusiastic tone,
All centuries but this, and every country but his own;

 

[Mashuna]

Then again I’m reminded of a Punch cartoon where one African bearer is whispering to another as they jog along behind a great white hunter, “I wonder if they’ll ever realise that Bwana means idiot”.

Yuri

I remember a similar joke in an old Steve Bell cartoon. The african man carrying the golf clubs for kemo sabe get very annoyed when he steps in a large pile of kemo sabe.

 

[The Shank]

I couldn't agree more. AND BLESS THE ENGLISH* for giving me the BBC. How perfect can a Sunday evening be, first Richard, James and Jeremy, then Sir David. All that for no extra costs from my own comfortable room in Holland.

OI!!

You bloody freeloader, we have to pay £130 odd quid a year for that!

 

[toddjh]

Inevitably there wouldn't be a dry eye in the classroom when the lion got its prey (I, of course was completely stoic).

I thought the scene in the recent Planet Earth series he narrated, where a polar bear fails to kill a walrus, was a lot sadder. At least when the lion kills something, it's fast, but knowing that the bear, too weak to hunt again, would slowly starve to death was horrible.

 

[CapelDodger]

Speaking as a for'ner, the UK strikes me as a country where private enterprise is the rule in the most unlikely places.

As a Brit of the older (pre-Thatcher) persuasion I find the place pretty foreign myself.

It seems to work, but sometimes I wonder how...

It doesn't work, but presentation makes it seem to.

And yeah, the Beeb is great no matter where you live.

Au contraire. It's the last bastion of our way of life, and under constant assault.

No doubt I'll know more once I move there... 5 months to go.

Prepare yourself for a steep learning-curve . First point : if you have a TV, get a licence. About the only thing that does still work efficiently is TV licence enforcement (and only because it's unpopular).

 

[zooterkin]

There's a series of short radio programmes by David Attenborough that I've just discovered, called David Attenborough's Life Stories on at the moment. Also available as podcasts, for those outside the range of transmitters, or who can't use iplayer. To give an idea of what they're about, here's the blurb for the current one:

Salamander: David attenborough's first pet was a Fire Salamander given to him by his father on his 8th birthday. He gave his own son a Salamander on his 8th birthday a legacy that is very much alive and kicking today.

(Punctuation and capitalisation as per the original, sadly.)