Ooh I love a girl with spirit
Things that piss you off Page 1,022
Especially Vodka!
Quote: lofthouse @ July 8 2012, 3:05 PM BSTOoh I love a girl with spirit
I do, I do !
Thanks Mr O'Reilly!
TTPYO: The way Chris Packham wants us to go orgasmic about the connectedness* of natural things. Normal people might get excited about new shows, fast cars, sports, bands, elections, liberating oppressed peoples, or sex, but for him it's the fact that snails keep the river ecology working that has him hopping up and down. That's not the annoying thing though, it's the fact that he then informs us of how brilliant it all is, as if us ignorant viewers would do well to jolly well get excited too. It's not normal! Attenborough would never do it, he would be all understated about things, because they're all so obviously amazing. Let's face it, the fact a lot of protein in a forest system is derived from fish is interesting, but please don't demand that I be excited about it.
Don't get me wrong, apart from that the show's good.
*James Burke did a series called Connections which wasn't at all annoying.
Quote: Nogget @ July 10 2012, 9:16 AM BSTTTPYO: The way Chris Packham wants us to go orgasmic about the connectedness* of natural things. Normal people might get excited about fast cars, sports, elections, liberating oppressed peoples
I'd take a snail over them any day.
A man in the street laughed at me saving a snail from imminent treading t'other day, and said I'd go to heaven. Does that make it guaranteed, if someone you don't know who wasn't obliged to say so says so?
Did he have a long white beard?
Quote: zooo @ July 10 2012, 5:18 PM BSTDid he have a long white beard?
Ha, I don't think so but I don't really recall as I was focusing on transporting snail to safety. If God is going about laughing at me in the street then serves him right if I don't believe in him
Quite right!
Quote: AJGO @ July 10 2012, 5:13 PM BSTA man in the street laughed at me saving a snail from imminent treading t'other day, and said I'd go to heaven. Does that make it guaranteed, if someone you don't know who wasn't obliged to say so says so?
That snail was going to go off and ruin some crops, which will bring the farmer just a bit more misery. So it's pretty likely you'll either to hell, or maybe snail heaven, which is an eternity of enjoying what snails like best, eating their greens. Which will it be?
Quote: Nogget @ July 10 2012, 5:35 PM BSTThat snail was going to go off and ruin some crops, which will bring the farmer just a bit more misery. So it's pretty likely you'll either to hell, or maybe snail heaven, which is an eternity of enjoying what snails like best, eating their greens. Which will it be?
Will I be me, in with a load of snails, or will I be me in snail form, but unable to communicate with all the other snails, or will I be me in snail form but able to understand the different snail characters what with being in snail form?
Or is it all irrelevant if I point out that we're not big on farms in London?
Quote: AJGO @ July 10 2012, 5:39 PM BSTOr is it all irrelevant if I point out that we're not big on farms in London?
You don't think snails can catch trains?
I have a snaily anecdote. 3 years ago, my kids painted the shells of some snails that lived in the front garden. Last week I saw one of them again, patrolling exactly the same area in which it had always been. Looks like snails don't go far, and live longer than we might think. I wonder if they grow wise?
Aww!
When ever the rain stops for a while all my snails have a party on the top leaves of my laurel bush.