I seem to recall you complaining when Loose Women was cancelled because of the coverage of the Beslan siege.
That really doesn't sound like me, for two reasons:
1. If it concerned the Beslan siege, t would probably have been in the "Newsroom" forum, which I don't bother with very much, and
2. The cancellation of Loose Women, 'tis a consummation devoutly to be wish'd.
I seem to recall you complaining when Loose Women was cancelled because of the coverage of the Beslan siege.
That really doesn't sound like me, for two reasons:
1. If it concerned the Beslan siege, t would probably have been in the "Newsroom" forum, which I don't bother with very much, and
2. The cancellation of Loose Women, 'tis a consummation devoutly to be wish'd.
I was referring to Funky Guy, actually! (Which is why I quoted him.) If anything I agree with you re. Steve Irwin.
Well if you're daft enough to spend your life around dangerous animals then you're rather asking for it.
Stupid t****r... yes you... man have a bit of respect. You ever met Steve? Proabably not.
Ha!
The day you show respect Damian, you'll be the one in the wooden box.
I'm sorry, but this was always on the cards for Mr Irwin. I've never been a particular fan of wildlife hosts who insist on jammbing their thumbs into the back passages of crocodiles, or insist on lifting snakes up when they are clearly attempting to hide. If anything, it encouraged youngsters to go and seek deadly animals and annoy them.
I agree with Jenny that, sad a loss to his family thought this is, it was only a matter of time.
I respect alot of people.. unfortuanatly your not one of them.
Well if you're daft enough to spend your life around dangerous animals then you're rather asking for it.
Stupid t****r... yes you... man have a bit of respect. You ever met Steve? Proabably not.
Ha!
The day you show respect Damian, you'll be the one in the wooden box.
I'm sorry, but this was always on the cards for Mr Irwin. I've never been a particular fan of wildlife hosts who insist on jammbing their thumbs into the back passages of crocodiles, or insist on lifting snakes up when they are clearly attempting to hide. If anything, it encouraged youngsters to go and seek deadly animals and annoy them.
I agree with Jenny that, sad a loss to his family thought this is, it was only a matter of time.
I respect alot of people.. its just you don't deserve my respect.
So good you said it twice? When I heard the news, I kinda thought "It's the way he'd want to go" I mean he obviously loved the wild, better to die doing something you love, than to rot away in a hospital. Great shame though.
Well if you're daft enough to spend your life around dangerous animals then you're rather asking for it.
Stupid t****r... yes you... man have a bit of respect. You ever met Steve? Proabably not.
Ha!
The day you show respect Damian, you'll be the one in the wooden box.
I'm sorry, but this was always on the cards for Mr Irwin. I've never been a particular fan of wildlife hosts who insist on jammbing their thumbs into the back passages of crocodiles, or insist on lifting snakes up when they are clearly attempting to hide. If anything, it encouraged youngsters to go and seek deadly animals and annoy them.
I agree with Jenny that, sad a loss to his family thought this is, it was only a matter of time.
I respect alot of people.. its just you don't deserve my respect.
Beleive me, your point certainly wasn't good enough to state twice.
So I see that Jenny must "show respect" to a man she didn't really like, and yet you don't.
Your contradictions serve to make you look utterly foolish.
Here's the irony . It is being reported that Steve Irwin was just doing abit of snorkelling , filming for his daughter's kids series between shooting days for the main doc he was filming. He wasn't even doing any of his usual dangerous underwater stunt filming. A total freak accident - snorkelled overhead of a stingray and it fired a stinger up at him. Given that millions of people snorkel on the Barrier Reef every year it could have happened to anyone.
So, with all due respect - a somewhat hasty conclusion, Jenny and co I'm afraid.
Also - it's worth mentioning that Steve Irwin wasn't just a passionate wildlife presenter, he is also known worldwide for his conservation work. He ploughed most of his money into buying up and conserving large amounts of rainforest to stop it being developed thereby saving many species that would have been wiped out. His tv work funded his conservation projects.
So he will be quite a loss - and not just to television. I gather Australia is thinking of a state funeral - given the loss to conservation and to Australian tourism I am not surprised.
I find it quite interesting today that broadcasters are using the footage of him with his baby and the crocodile to illustrate him as a "good father" today, when just a couple of months ago it was used for entirely the opposite effect!
I didn't like him. A loud-mouthed Australian who for me brought nothing to natural history television. I actually watched a programme once which featured his zoo, and it was quite interesting until he came on the screen and his, "Strewth! It's a croc!" style made me switch off.
Give me Attenborough any day.
Still, it's a sad loss for his family, and if he did make some brainless morons interested in something other than soaps and gameshows then he did some good.
Here's the irony . It is being reported that Steve Irwin was just doing abit of snorkelling , filming for his daughter's kids series between shooting days for the main doc he was filming. He wasn't even doing any of his usual dangerous underwater stunt filming. A total freak accident - snorkelled overhead of a stingray and it fired a stinger up at him.
That's not what MediaGuardian is reporting...
Quote:
The accident happened while he was filming a TV documentary called Oceans' Deadliest at Batt Reef, near Port Douglas.
A member of the production team said he had gone out to film a sequence on stingrays when he swam over the venomous bottom-dweller, which has large pectoral fins like wings and can grow up to 4 metres long.