Sir David Attenborough

There's not a thread?

The beeb have just put up a load of archive stuff from his many and various progs. It's great.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/wildlifefinder/

And here's his own personal selection of faves.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/collections/p0048522
Amazing stuff.

I'll be disappointed in ILX if we don't muster up at least one Sir David Attenborough hater... presuming such a creature exists

Current BBC previews for "Life" have had me champing at the bit; an autumnal evening with a hot cup of tea and Attenborough on the telly = bliss.

I know of at least one Attenborough hater, tho they don't post here. Me, I'm kinda agnostic.

Nah, that's putting it too strong. He's just there, really.

I can understand that but what's to hate?

If I believed in God I'd imagine Him to sound something like David Attenborough.

If there was a god i'm pretty sure attenborough would have had a programme on him by now. or would it have been Parky?

A moment of worry that this was an RIP thread, or a revived thread to say RIP. That would make me incredibly sad.

It's not any exaggeration to say that Sir David Attenborough has taught me more about how life on this planet works than any other single person -- no teacher or professor has ever given the context that he does. He has made some of the only television that I would truly say should be seen by everyone, in particular the original 13-hour "Life On Earth" from the late 70's. (Don't mess with the chopped versions.)

uncut, of course

right, right

xp
I saw him speak last year and he was looking a bit frail but he held his own at the proms playing a mean floor polisher.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5343nfOnkk

First Life doesn't appear to be coming out on Blu-Ray? :-(

http://www.bbcshop.com/icat/davidattenboroughstore/

He had dinner at our house once--a really nice fella. He was in Australia for some reason, and my dad was his "guide" in Adelaide, showing him round, getting him to his appointments, etc. He told a story about how he really likes all animals, except rats, because once he was sleeping in a hammock in a jungle somewhere, and woke up to find some gently eating bits of skin off his face and hands.

Happy birthday Sir David!

*puts on light blue shirt and beige trousers, crouches and whispers*

Here, in this thread, we congratulate this elusive creature on his 85th birthday.

Does anyone know where I could buy a DVD of The Private Life of Plants? Is it something that's hard to find in the US?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCUtpmwacoE

Like this one? They seem very cheap on eBay. Or are you after the box set thing?

Soundtrack to this is wonderful by the way.

Ideally I would like the whole series, but I guess I could assemble it piecemeal. I just want to watch/listen to Sir David Attenborough talk about plants all day.

Youtube isn't cutting it anymore, I want to watch the whole series.

I once contacted David Attenborough for an interview (about his Bjork collaboration).

He turned it down but sent me a lovely hand written letter.

i can only find this on region 2 dvd
;_;

Does your ilx webmail link work?

yes it does

i was just watching the waterlilies on youtube
so beautiful

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igkjcuw_n_U&feature=relmfu

oh wow thank you!
i love halloween

will it not let me watch/download if i have a mac?

The second link for each ep should work. I have a mac, and they play for me.

oh! good news!
i will look into it. the amazon lilies have really made the last 24 hrs livable tbh.

Have We Reached Peak Attenborough?

The night at the natural history museum thing is really well done

Happy 90th birthday to him!

https://mercenaryornithology.files.wordpress.com/2015/12/attenboroughattenboroughing.jpg?w=1740&h=1167

Love this clip.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjE0Kdfos4Y

Happy birthday Sir! Don't ever die, ok?

Same birthday as Pynchon! Eleven years older. Feels weird, that

guys

Guyssss

This is incredible scifi

Wazzat?

Blue planet 2

Like a James Cameron hd wet dream.

brb getting a transparent head full of jelly

attenborough to himself: "i could totally put in a made-up creature and no one would be able to fact-check"
attenborough to camera: "the ZOMBIE WORM tunnels into bones by injecting acid, while the FLAPJACK SQUID… "

I KNOW RIGHT!?

attenborough to camera: "the ZOMBIE WORM tunnels into bones by injecting acid, while the FLAPJACK SQUID… "

Weird Animals

Weird Animals

Weird sea snake thing going into toxic shock and tying itself in knots.

It me

dere is a podcast:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p05lyq1v

Tiny transparent prawn with luminous jizz.

i don't understand how there can be an underwater lake under water, how.. like, can someone explain what I'm seeing here?

pro tip: you can make human jizz luminous simply by shining ultraviolet light on it

XP density of fluid

Like if you actually made a colony of teenagers this is what they would end up like after a month

Blenny Kravitz this dude

80K plus blennies

oh god this is like that scene from The Birds in reverse

These cunts always annoy me they're an argument for extinction

Dicks

what the big seals or the penguins? both awesome imo

The dignity of a butler at a bullingdon event imo

The big seals, the alphaest of males

8 tons of blubber

Look I didn't say I was perfect

sorry for fucking up planet lads, see you at shark sprang break next year

Where the fuck were these animals until now

in the ocean there is nowhere to hide iirc

feel the predation of starfish on limpets was underexplained tbh

the podcast often gets into those sorts of details

davesplaining what waves do

PUFFLING KLAXON

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_9XO-jzSQYjE/TVANfM2D7mI/AAAAAAAAAQU/NVZtEBi6gZQ/s1600/founders_card.jpg

i am suspicious abt that lone crab's perilous run -- i think it was actually several different crabs but we can't tell them apart and the story was created by editing and LIES

It'd brachyura heart

subscribe to my decapodcast

That's how most things are made nowadays: hero crab for the closeups, stunt crabs for the action shots. xxpost

Deems/NV podcast on the new A'borough series. Where's your Patreon at guys?

I can't work with at least one of those guys tbh

David's a pain to work with tis true.

god just because i defended the bull seals

Both rong tbh

I mean I dunno maybe eat somewhere else

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Twas a case really of luckit or limpet non

Still on last weeks. Getting a bit bored of weird randy fish.

better than depresso "here's some animals we fucked up earlier" season finale

Yeah also it sucks besides. Yerman and his sad microphone is cutting room floor shit

Yeah, make it a separate show or scatter it more thinly thru the whole series, i don't watch this for humans

not enough discussion of the SURPRISING UNDERSEA MUPPET SLUG

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2017/10/09/10/45299A8000000578-4962108-image-m-29_1507541693554.jpg

also this, which didn't feature but i found while looking for the above

https://ssl.c.photoshelter.com/img-get/I0000gvWkK_h73xI/s/880/880/nudibranch-nembrotha-021125.jpg

SIR D: "i'm lying here close beside a giant leatherback turtle as she prepares to lay her eggs"
GIANT LEATHERBACK TURTLE: "rude"

maybe he's a licensed Doula

for a moment as DA releases the little leatherback into the ocean i thought he was going to pop it into his mouth

baby leatherback was the best thing on tonight, also just remembered bad joke with the punchline "i'll have another of those crunchy pies please"

best thing was the muppet-looking sea slug, glimpsed but not even referred to

the "weird sounds of the seas" section didn't work bcz (a) mimpy sadsack microphone man, yes, but more importantly (b) this series constantly slathers sweeping music soundstracks over everything in the oceans to tell us how to feel, and in this bit obviously it couldn't and so didn't, so it felt very anticlimactic and minor

Tortoise doc on BBC2 atm featuring explicit tortoise sex

phwoar

go on my son

He rolled off, it was pretty undignified

I tried to use their sounds as a ringtone but it was too funny and I couldn't answer the phone

Top-notch elephant sex and violence on BBC4 just now

Davey McAttenboroughface has been launched!

Appreciate your ongoing commitment to keeping the meme alive

Davey's arse?

BIG-BOTTOMED BIRDS

https://images.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fi.huffpost.com%2Fgadgets%2Fslideshows%2F348565%2Fslide_348565_3713169_free.jpg&f=1

... make the natural world go round

what the - how big do those get if this is still the fluffy baby version? xpost

Attenborough’s only two-and-a-half feet tall tbf

https://www.famousbirthdays.com/group_images/medium/so-random-show.jpg