tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3742885423077088664.post4106302156967314284..comments2023-10-30T08:11:35.183-07:00Comments on The Mockingbird: Now I really have read every damn thing!Mockingbirdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02241527559864367117noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3742885423077088664.post-79646537525372893452010-06-11T01:43:24.417-07:002010-06-11T01:43:24.417-07:00The irony is that, sometimes, the wildlife program...The irony is that, sometimes, the wildlife programmes show the lot, in graphic bloodiness. But then this appears to only apply to animals in Africa, or Sharks and Orcas in the ocean.<br /><br />I think, like you say, that a lot of this nonsense comes from 60s/70s sentimentality. Nature while not precisely red in tooth and claw is certainly not cuddly, and sometimes foxes do kill for the hell of it.Mockingbirdhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02241527559864367117noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3742885423077088664.post-72833894099808443432010-06-08T06:44:01.804-07:002010-06-08T06:44:01.804-07:00The best quote ever on Irish Television delivered ...The best quote ever on Irish Television delivered in a thick Northside Dublin brogue about the social gap:<br /><br />"Babbies don' get bit be rats in Foxrock!" <br /><br />Fabulous! I happen to agree with you and wonder at the largely 60's & 70's BBC inspired sentimentality over wild animals that exists in the U.K.<br /><br />Did you see the Halcyon River series where the (professional) naturalist cameraman squeezes out some tears over a dead kingfisher even though he would have witnessed much worse during the course of his work? <br /><br />It seem almost infantile to think the wilderness and natural world is some kind of hyper-real telly tubby land. It has predators and prey.Gary Cantonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11441603552497294666noreply@blogger.com