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07-11-2009, 05:52 PM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Leigh, Lancashire
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On balence (and I deliberately missed last week cos I found it so annoying the week before) but I risked it again last night and thought it was possible that they have been asked to just tone it down a little - camaradarie is fine - but Kate getting silly and shreiky just gets on my nerves - and I do actually like her but if I was a friend or working with her I'd have to suggest she toned it down just a bit ......... Chris Packham does manage to joke without going over the top and has settled down in middle age - he came over very arrogant when he was a young chap - he prob didn't mean to. The other chappie - well - I know its unfair to pick on folks mannerisms and I too rely on reading glasses and sometimes put them up on my head - but for goodness sake - keep getting his glasses tangled in all that hair - sorry - but its an affectation that some misguided person must have said would look good - it doesn't - its just annoying and if I was sat next to him I would slap his hand after the 6th or 7th time of whipping them on and off his head - either that or produce scissors and get rid of the hair ........... |
07-11-2009, 06:15 PM
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No, keep the hair but buy some varifocal glasses with plain glass at the top if he doesn't need specs for distance!  I thought it was just me being over-grumpy getting annoyed by the constant ups and downs of the glasses. 
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07-11-2009, 07:55 PM
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Originally Posted by PMG  The other chappie - well - I know its unfair to pick on folks mannerisms and I too rely on reading glasses and sometimes put them up on my head - but for goodness sake - keep getting his glasses tangled in all that hair - sorry - but its an affectation that some misguided person must have said would look good - it doesn't - its just annoying and if I was sat next to him I would slap his hand after the 6th or 7th time of whipping them on and off his head - either that or produce scissors and get rid of the hair ........... |
Harry Hill has just taken the wee-wee out of him on "TV Burp"!  (Yes, I know, but I was having dinner and the TV was on....  )
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08-11-2009, 08:41 AM
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Originally Posted by solus Harry Hill has just taken the wee-wee out of him on "TV Burp"! (Yes, I know, but I was having dinner and the TV was on.... ) | I love Harry Hill - his sense of gentle sarcasm knows no bounds - a pity I missed this I would have appreciated it, wonder if its on iplayer ........ 
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08-11-2009, 12:25 PM
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Hi Pauline
It's repeated today in all English ITV regions at least + Wales at 6:45pm. 
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10-11-2009, 09:26 AM
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Originally Posted by solus Hi Pauline
It's repeated today in all English ITV regions at least + Wales at 6:45pm. | Ta for that - yes I did trip over a repeat and watched it - but I was surprised he didn't don a wig and glasses and really take the michael - cos in my minds eye I could see him doing it to a 'T'  |
13-11-2009, 08:51 PM
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Well I don't care what anyone says, I'm loving this series and so are many others looking at the viewing figures.
As for Chris P's in jokes, his T-shirts refer to sci-fi films and the back of his cards refer to some of the greatest indie albums of all time (Psycho Candy- The Jesus and Mary Chain, The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses). I can only remember his Nostromo T-shirt at the moment (Nostromo was the name of the space ship in Alien) but if anybody wants any others explained, let me know, I'm an uber-geek |
13-11-2009, 10:41 PM
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I like the series so far, along with unsprung (I've done worryingly well on some of the quizzes!). Packham has really grown on me too. |
13-11-2009, 10:47 PM
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Ive been away from WB for a long time as it got to the point i was fed up of the bitching and moaners and haters and old miserable gits that we seem to have all become.....after enjoying yet another great 1.5 hours of Autumnwatch i thought i would pop in and see my old friends.....and i find you all older, moaning more, bitching and being even more miserable about poor old Kate and Chris than you were about Bill and Kate.....some things never change!. 
Cheer up the bloody lot of you!...one day...the bbc is going to listen to all you moaners and nit pickers and take all widlife off the tv for good....and THEN you really will be moaning!
Simon, Chris, Gordan are all very intelligent, knowledgable naturalists...Kate is a very likeable and experienced presenter. Some of us 30 somethings even fancy her...some of you 30 something women may even fancy Chris?....who gives two hoots if they flirt a bit? you all wanna thank your lucky stars im not a presenter on AW as i would be 20 times worse!....who do you want?....Charlie Chaplin and Hilda Ogden? would that suit you people more?...lol or maybe a Vicar and mother teresa?
Yeah she giggles, yeah the long haired one is irritating....but how great was the sparrowhawk drowning the magpie?.....who has ever seen a kingfisher pellet?, how nice was simons front room??!....I love SW and AW for all its faults....and i am positively sad in between times when neither is on tv...
Rant over. x
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13-11-2009, 10:51 PM
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Yeah she giggles, yeah the long haired one is irritating....but how great was the sparrowhawk drowning the magpie?.....who has ever seen a kingfisher pellet?, how nice was simons front room??!
| Good bits! and I liked to see the dogs - thought I heard one at Simons place too
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13-11-2009, 10:58 PM
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Originally Posted by Dan Salter Ive been away from WB for a long time as it got to the point i was fed up of the bitching and moaners and haters and old miserable gits that we seem to have all become.....after enjoying yet another great 1.5 hours of Autumnwatch i thought i would pop in and see my old friends.....and i find you all older, moaning more, bitching and being even more miserable about poor old Kate and Chris than you were about Bill and Kate.....some things never change!.
Cheer up the bloody lot of you!...one day...the bbc is going to listen to all you moaners and nit pickers and take all widlife off the tv for good....and THEN you really will be moaning!
Simon, Chris, Gordan are all very intelligent, knowledgable naturalists...Kate is a very likeable and experienced presenter. Some of us 30 somethings even fancy her...some of you 30 something women may even fancy Chris?....who gives two hoots if they flirt a bit? you all wanna thank your lucky stars im not a presenter on AW as i would be 20 times worse!....who do you want?....Charlie Chaplin and Hilda Ogden? would that suit you people more?...lol or maybe a Vicar and mother teresa?
Yeah she giggles, yeah the long haired one is irritating....but how great was the sparrowhawk drowning the magpie?.....who has ever seen a kingfisher pellet?, how nice was simons front room??!....I love SW and AW for all its faults....and i am positively sad in between times when neither is on tv...
Rant over. x | Only caught the last bits and they were great.. Quote: |
he sparrowhawk drowning the magpie?.....who has ever seen a kingfisher pellet?,
| Wow.. didn't simon look great..
Very interesting footage and evidence of big cats in the wild.
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14-11-2009, 11:31 AM
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Originally Posted by Dan Salter Ive been away from WB for a long time as it got to the point i was fed up of the bitching and moaners and haters and old miserable gits that we seem to have all become.....after enjoying yet another great 1.5 hours of Autumnwatch i thought i would pop in and see my old friends.....and i find you all older, moaning more, bitching and being even more miserable about poor old Kate and Chris than you were about Bill and Kate.....some things never change!.
Cheer up the bloody lot of you!...one day...the bbc is going to listen to all you moaners and nit pickers and take all widlife off the tv for good....and THEN you really will be moaning!
Simon, Chris, Gordan are all very intelligent, knowledgable naturalists...Kate is a very likeable and experienced presenter. Some of us 30 somethings even fancy her...some of you 30 something women may even fancy Chris?....who gives two hoots if they flirt a bit? you all wanna thank your lucky stars im not a presenter on AW as i would be 20 times worse!....who do you want?....Charlie Chaplin and Hilda Ogden? would that suit you people more?...lol or maybe a Vicar and mother teresa?
Yeah she giggles, yeah the long haired one is irritating....but how great was the sparrowhawk drowning the magpie?.....who has ever seen a kingfisher pellet?, how nice was simons front room??!....I love SW and AW for all its faults....and i am positively sad in between times when neither is on tv...
Rant over. x | Well said  |
14-11-2009, 03:22 PM
| | Wild Member | | Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Billingham Teesside
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Originally Posted by Dan Salter
Simon, Chris, Gordan are all very intelligent, knowledgable naturalists...Kate is a very likeable and experienced presenter. Some of us 30 somethings even fancy her...some of you 30 something women may even fancy Chris?....who gives two hoots if they flirt a bit? you all wanna thank your lucky stars im not a presenter on AW as i would be 20 times worse!....who do you want?....Charlie Chaplin and Hilda Ogden? would that suit you people more?...lol or maybe a Vicar and mother teresa? x | Well said Dan.I know how about Boris Johnson and Anne Widdecombe,perfect diction and guaranteed no flirting.That should keep them happy,super what?
Graham
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14-11-2009, 10:13 PM
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Originally Posted by Dan Salter Charlie Chaplin and Hilda Ogden? would that suit you people more x | Now you're talkin'. Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy? Even better.
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16-11-2009, 10:16 PM
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Great post Dan.
What's with the age limits of thirty-something on fancying Chris Packham, though? I liked Simon's living room too, lovely taste, though that fire would be a nightmare with small children around.
If parrots can use language accurately in context (much evidence that they can for example, the other day I heard a parrot in the local pet shop telling the cockatoo pecking him to "stop it!") I'm almost positive that sparrowhawks have the nous to drown birds.
It was such an enjoyable prog on Friday and now it's all ending, c'est la vie. |
17-11-2009, 01:35 PM
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parrots talking in context!!! now that i would love to see!
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17-11-2009, 04:38 PM
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If you google Alex the parrot = there are a number of Youtube vidoes showing this famous parrot identifying shapes etc. He seemed to know what he was doing!
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17-11-2009, 07:46 PM
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None of the men on Autumnwatch are attractive. It's not fair. Simon's living room was nice though | | |
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