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Feb. 15th, 2007 09:05 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
the_elyanThe episode of Planet Earth I was just watching could have been designed for me, as it contained many of my favourite natural things - frogs, fungi, elephants, even carnivorous plants.
The bit on frogs was especially good fun - mainly concerned with the mating habits of tree frogs, which can tend toward the frenetic, Attenborough delivered the voice-over with enough offhand suggestiveness to render the whole thing quite hilarious.
Talking of hilarious, there is also footage of a male Bird of Paradise boinging arouind trying to impress a clearly unimpressed female which could have been shot at 1am on any Saturday night in this country.
Another thing worth noting is that I came across a very useful German word in the Economist today - Denkverbot, meaning "thought embargo" (usually as siomething which must be avoided). This is a wonderful word, not least because the prevalence of Denkverbot uin this country, mainly due to our repulsive press, that exacerbates half the problems we are currently wading through...
The bit on frogs was especially good fun - mainly concerned with the mating habits of tree frogs, which can tend toward the frenetic, Attenborough delivered the voice-over with enough offhand suggestiveness to render the whole thing quite hilarious.
Talking of hilarious, there is also footage of a male Bird of Paradise boinging arouind trying to impress a clearly unimpressed female which could have been shot at 1am on any Saturday night in this country.
Another thing worth noting is that I came across a very useful German word in the Economist today - Denkverbot, meaning "thought embargo" (usually as siomething which must be avoided). This is a wonderful word, not least because the prevalence of Denkverbot uin this country, mainly due to our repulsive press, that exacerbates half the problems we are currently wading through...
