Sir David Attenborough OM, CH, CVO, CBE, FRS, FSA

[Guest]

Whaddaguy.

 

I looked for a thread on him and couldn't find one. Next time I look for a thread on him, I will know I will find one.

 

He's had at least these  20 species named after him...

 

A plant (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hieracium_attenboroughianum)

A tree (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blakea_attenboroughi)

A plant that eats meat (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nepenthes_attenboroughii)

A genus of plants (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sirdavidia)

A butterfly (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euptychia_attenboroughi)

A dragonfly (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acisoma_attenboroughi)

A spider (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prethopalpus_attenboroughi)

A flightless weevil (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trigonopterus_attenboroughi)

A shrimp (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ctenocheloides_attenboroughi)

A snail (https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palaina_attenboroughi)

A parasite (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cichlidogyrus_attenboroughi)

A lizard (https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/your-weekly-attenborough-platysaurus-attenboroughi)

A bird (https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/your-weekly-attenborough-polioptila-attenboroughi)

A frog (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pristimantis_attenboroughi)

An anteater (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zaglossus_attenboroughi)

A dinosaur (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attenborosaurus)

A grasshopper (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrotettix_attenboroughi)

A bat (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myotis_attenboroughi)

 

He's a great storyteller.

And still alive. This thread is for all things Attenbouoroughi.

 

Whaddaguy.

[Strontium]

jesus scared the shit out of me then

[easytoslip]

If he was your teacher, you would listen. 

[Creator Supreme]

3 minutes ago, Strontium Dog™ said:

jesus scared the shit out of me then

I'll second that, frigging hell!

[Guest Pistonbroke]

Yeah, I feared the worst. He's definitely one of those who have actually deserved the title 'Sir.' 

[Bjornebye]

22 minutes ago, Strontium Dog™ said:

jesus scared the shit out of me then

Same.

 

Shooter you fucking bastard 

[Guest]

33 minutes ago, Strontium Dog™ said:

jesus scared the shit out of me then

 

10 minutes ago, Bjornebye said:

Same.

 

Shooter you fucking bastard 

It turns out you do have something in common.

[SasaS]

RIP.

YNWA

[cochyn]

Wasn't he director of the fledgling BBC2 when he was about 16 or something?

 

Quite the Polymath. 

 

Edit: OK, he was the controller in 1965, when he was 39. 

[AngryOfTuebrook]

2 hours ago, Strontium Dog™ said:

jesus scared the shit out of me then

Same here.

 

That would have sent me over the edge.

[Guest]

33 minutes ago, cochyn said:

Wasn't he director of the fledgling BBC2 when he was about 16 or something?

 

Quite the Polymath. 

 

Edit: OK, he was the controller in 1965, when he was 39. 

I didn't realise he was in the Navy before working in broadcasting. Imagine what it must be like to come out of the Navy and then get a dinosaur named after you?

[Captain Turdseye]

If Attenborough is getting a thread then I think it’s only fair that John Bunnell gets one as well. 

[Jennings]

Sir David McDavidFace.

 

Ledge!

[Champ]

It’s a bad enough day without starting threads like that, Shooter. Consider yourself reprimanded 

[Guest]

38 minutes ago, Champ said:

It’s a bad enough day without starting threads like that, Shooter. Consider yourself reprimanded 

[TheBitch]

Why am I the only one to neg shooter in the face?

[Guest]

8 minutes ago, TheBitch said:

Why am I the only one to neg shooter in the face?

How can you not like Sir David Attenborough? I watched an interview with Jonathan Ross from a few years ago, he looked really young. He was 82. He is almost an advert to me for how love for what you do is almost a guarantee for a for a happy life.

 

 

[Guest]

Slightly corny presentation but I haven't seen most of these...The wolves one was especially impressive.

 

 

[Guest]

The above video must have been when he was a lot more hands on, surprisingly I haven't seen much of that.

 

This is the stuff he is more famous for now, so I think I'm going to have to go back and find his older stuff...

 

 

[VladimirIlyich]

8 hours ago, TheBitch said:

Why am I the only one to neg shooter in the face?

I think he's a brilliant environmentalist/naturalist etc,but wasn't he head of BBC2 when it was nonce central?

[TheBitch]

 

11 hours ago, Shooter in the Motor said:

How can you not like Sir David Attenborough? I watched an interview with Jonathan Ross from a few years ago, he looked really young. He was 82. He is almost an advert to me for how love for what you do is almost a guarantee for a for a happy life.

 

 

I love Attenborough, man’s an institution, but you can’t put a thread up like this when people are dropping like flies and not put a (not dead) in the thread title. You’ll give a man a heart attack. 

[easytoslip]

10 hours ago, Shooter in the Motor said:

The above video must have been when he was a lot more hands on, surprisingly I haven't seen much of that.

 

This is the stuff he is more famous for now, so I think I'm going to have to go back and find his older stuff...

 

 

That Shoebill is one ugly cunt. a giant prehistoric bird, reminds me of what's on offer when full of whizz in injury time at a night club, but needs must and respect her in the morning before leaving, 

[Scooby Dudek]

 

Polar bears are scary

[Guest]

1 hour ago, Scooby Dudek said:

 

Polar bears are scary

In 8 minutes it has been discovered that

 

1. squid fight whales
2. octopii walk on land
3. polar bears use holes to hunt
4. and hunt humans, especially cameramen
5. babboons steal sandwiches and handbags
6. idris elba has a handbag
7. space is boring
8. cockatoos like fingers

Boss.

[Nunavut Patrick]

Amazing man, he can make ants chewing off blades off grass riveting.

 

With no sport I’ve been watching loads of the BBC nature channel.