Good man. Great to hear things are looking up. I'm a firm believer in karma and treating everybody the way you would like to be treated (even my soon-to-be ex). Things DO get better - I should know that and things have a habit of sorting themselves out. Your lad will always love you, whatever and you should be proud of him - and yourself for not sliding back into the "easy" way of using stuff to hope the problems will go away.
That was amazing and most disturbing! I don't have an issue with snakes at all, but that was making me shudder. I wrote to my mate who's paranoid about snakes and warned him not to watch!
Just talked to the cringiest sales person ever. She was trying to get me to do the post code lottery. She called me babe, love,dear all within 2 mins. Then asked if I would take her on holiday if I won 5k. Worse thing was she smelt of BO real bad. Haha
Watched it on iPlayer HD. This is the sort of thing Auntie Beeb does way better than anyone else. Other media companies have to have celebs fronting their one off programmes, like Martin Clunes and wildlife or Joanna Lumley and the Arctic. David Attenbrough is a celeb because BBC natural history programmes are so pioneering. After all, he pretty much started the genre. I'm not sure I learned anything from this first one, as it was right up my environment degree avenue, so to speak. In fact, I remember doing an exam question on the wildlife colonisation of islands. I like the fact that the pygmy sloth is perfectly adapted to his mangrove island. Why get a move on when there's no need to hurry anyway.? No predators, no need to run. Not so the baby marine iguanas. No wonder they grow spines on their backs. And can there be any more gutsy animals than some penguin species.? On the one hand they stand around like unemployed waiters and on the other they routinely risk their lives for a belly full of fish.
Of course we all know how tough penguins are, but seeing them struggling on blood soaked and with broken legs really hit home hard as they said in the diaries section
Yep , I just walked out the store. I was tempted to say I would buy you some soap. But bit my tongue.
My eldest brother is a vegetarian [mind you, he eats fish which I always find rather hypocritical] and he can't watch natural history programmes full stop. He says the BBC glorify violence in nature. I tend to get a little gobsmacked when he says things like that because if anything, the BBC just show you a tiny glimpse of what really goes on. The bloodshed and dog-eat-dog nature of... well nature, is extraordinarily tough, and wildlife animals more often than not have lives of perpetual danger and hunger.
This vid is crazy. A us reporter in the front line with the Iraqy forces as they retake Mosul. They get attacked by ISIS
What does he think nature's really like? He should know that 100% of gazelles end up eaten alive by predators (it was a revelation when I first realised that). That's what "preying on the young, weak and old" leads to. And if lions get weak and or old, they are, in turn, predated on. It's only in our insulated, protected world where anything dies peacefully of old age. Nature really is red in tooth and claw. Bloody vegetarians, I ask you. Vin
That to me is totally horrific. No matter how bad our lives are here, imagine being a civilian there - through no fault of your own you are terrified. As for the Journalists, total respect for their bravery/madness.
