David Attenborough Turns 100 as Tributes Pour In

1 minute ago, Hummin said:

I have never complained about being bored. In fact, being bored can be one of the meaningful parts of life, because it gives us time to reflect on what is good, what is not so good, and what we might need to change.

There is also something important about expectations. Sometimes life does not become exactly what we imagined, and sometimes we reach a point where we have to be honest with ourselves and say: this is my limit. This is where I am right now. Then the question is not only how to escape it, but how to make the best out of it.

Cultivating negativity and abuse, is not one of them

Anyway, it is now that matters. Not yesterday, not tomorrow, but today

David had a nice voice.

7 minutes ago, Rockyroad said:

David had a nice voice.

He is still alive ;-)

7 minutes ago, Hummin said:

I have never complained about being bored. In fact, being bored can be one of the meaningful parts of life, because it gives us time to reflect on what is good, what is not so good, and what we might need to change.

There is also something important about expectations. Sometimes life does not become exactly what we imagined, and sometimes we reach a point where we have to be honest with ourselves and say: this is my limit. This is where I am right now. Then the question is not only how to escape it, but how to make the best out of it.

Cultivating negativity and abuse, is not one of them

Anyway, it is now that matters. Not yesterday, not tomorrow, but today

Life is ups and downs. Death and happiness. Fun and disaster. If you embrace both their is no suffering. Most of the farangs who are miserable never studied Buddha. I'm 100% happy.

Just now, Hummin said:

He is still alive ;-)

Him and John Laws two best voices for media.

Just now, Rockyroad said:

Life is ups and downs. Death and happiness. Fun and disaster. If you embrace both their is no suffering. Most of the farangs who are miserable never studied Buddha. I'm 100% happy.

As long you believe, thats what matters,

We are only responsible for our own illusions,

1 minute ago, Hummin said:

As long you believe, thats what matters,

We are only responsible for our own illusions,

You keep reading them so you must like them.

10 hours ago, Rockyroad said:

His camera men did most of the work.

Seems the highlight in your life is to troll on AN , what a life you have.

regards worgeordie

Just now, worgeordie said:

Seems the highlight in your life is to troll on AN , what a life you have.

regards worgeordie

Posting facts. He had a nice voice but did not do most of the hard work. Just the voice and face. You say nasty things about Trump and he just signs the laws. Others do the hard work! Pot kettle black.

1 hour ago, Rockyroad said:

Posting facts. He had a nice voice but did not do most of the hard work. Just the voice and face. You say nasty things about Trump and he just signs the laws. Others do the hard work! Pot kettle black.

Cleaned in your style:

I am sure you have accomplished a lot more alone.

Sometimes it is better to accept that some people have gifts. Not only because of luck or other people’s work, but because they are also great leaders. They see qualities in other people and make the team around them better.

In his younger life, all the way up to normal retirement age, he did real fieldwork.

So how old are you, and what do you do now?

Just as a comparison.

3 minutes ago, Hummin said:

Cleaned in your style:

I am sure you have accomplished a lot more alone.

Sometimes it is better to accept that some people have gifts. Not only because of luck or other people’s work, but because they are also great leaders. They see qualities in other people and make the team around them better.

In his younger life, all the way up to normal retirement age, he did real fieldwork.

So how old are you, and what do you do now?

Just as a comparison.

What did he achieve for these animals?

India saved the tigers

The shift between 2000 and 2025 is largely credited to the TX2 Goal, an ambitious commitment made in 2010 by 13 tiger-range countries to double their wild populations by 2022.

• India’s Dominance: India is the primary engine of this recovery. It is currently home to roughly 75% of the world's wild tigers. By 2022, India had successfully doubled its population to over 3,100 individuals through "Project Tiger" and massive investments in habitat corridors.

Specie savers

11 hours ago, Rockyroad said:

I have a 95% chance of making 10 more years.

Unfortunately.......

12 hours ago, Hummin said:

Finely we can agree on one thing!

Finally you are right

15 hours ago, fredwiggy said:

Which can mean you'll still be kicking for quite some time 😀 Hopefully for you.

I am a young 80 now, my sister and BIL are both 92.

15 hours ago, Hummin said:

This is not about left or right. It is about survival.

And so far, we are not very good at it.

Not when we look at quality of life.

Not when we look at lifestyle.

Not when we look at how we treat the only home we have.

The planet itself can take whatever is thrown at it, but our habitat cannot. Our own habitat, the one we depend on, we seem too stupid to conserve.

we are saving the habitat through co2 recycling

I just wish I could return to those says when guys like this....RULED.....

4 hours ago, Yagoda said:

Finally you are right

Finally, you have expressed your true opinion about yourself.

24 minutes ago, GammaGlobulin said:

Finally, you have expressed your true opinion about yourself.

That doesnt make a lot of sense but thats to be expected of you

On 5/9/2026 at 11:07 PM, Rockyroad said:

Not true at all. Statistics give David a 0.02% chance of living to 110. His tv shows were good but he did about 5% of the work.

oh shup up.

On 5/10/2026 at 4:10 AM, RayC said:

Happy Birthday, Sir David. I'm sure that you are a regular reader of AN. Ignore the curmudgeons.

He could teach you a thing or two about respecting the brexit vote.

I admire him and his anti EU views although his climate alamism doomsday stuff leaves a lot to be desired.

Overall he's a good bloke though. Great narrator with a very good team around him.

He just needs to realize us plebs are not going to live in cold mud huts to save a rare species of dragonfly. Complaining about the elites, capitalism and the climate is ironic when you're double knighted and worth 25 million as a result of an incredibly high carbon career.

Happy birthday though David.

11 hours ago, mordothailand said:

we are saving the habitat through co2 recycling

Our habitat is a lot more than just CO2.

It is forests. Clean groundwater. Healthy lakes, ponds, rivers, seas, fjords, and wetlands. It is insects, birds, fish, soil, fungi, trees, and all the small things most people never think about until they are gone.

We talk about climate like it is only numbers on a graph, but life is not only CO2. Life is a system. A circle. Everything is connected to something else.

If we cut down the forests, poison the groundwater, empty the seas, destroy the wetlands, make more animals extinct, and use more and more chemicals just to produce our food, then what exactly do we think will happen?

We are building a bubble around ourselves and pretending we can live outside nature. But we cannot. We are nature. We are part of the same system we are damaging.

The question is not only whether the climate will change. The question is whether the circle of life that supports us will still function when we have abused too much of it.

At some point, nature does not negotiate. It only responds.

4 hours ago, JonnyF said:

He could teach you a thing or two about respecting the brexit vote.

I admire him and his anti EU views although his climate alamism doomsday stuff leaves a lot to be desired.

Overall he's a good bloke though. Great narrator with a very good team around him.

He just needs to realize us plebs are not going to live in cold mud huts to save a rare species of dragonfly. Complaining about the elites, capitalism and the climate is ironic when you're double knighted and worth 25 million as a result of an incredibly high carbon career.

Happy birthday though David.

More false accusations, Jonny.

As I have explained time and time again, despite the false claims of 'sunny uplands' and the predicted and predictable bureaucratic nightmare and negative economic effects caused by Brexit, I accept that the UK government had no option but to implement it.

The question now is, 'When do we as a country recognise the facts and set the wheels in motion to try and reverse matters?'. As I've also written many times, imo Alex Salmond's 'once in a generation' suggestion for holding a Scottish referendum seems equally applicable to Brexit. Alternatively, a political party could stand on a platform of rejoining and, if elected, implement their mandate.

Sir David has expressed justified frustration with the EU, but I very doubt that he was a Brexiter. In any event, he almost certainly isn't now given how far the UK is slipping in comparison with the EU when it comes to environmental protection.

As this thread is about one great Briton, it seems appropriate to leave you with a statement and question from another. As John Maynard Keynes was reputed to have said, "When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir?". Sadly, experience suggests that you are so tied to your blinkered, bigoted views that you answer, 'Nothing', to the question.

1 hour ago, RayC said:

As this thread is about one great Briton, it seems appropriate to leave you with a statement and question from another. As John Maynard Keynes was reputed to have said, "When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir?". Sadly, experience suggests that you are so tied to your blinkered, bigoted views that you answer, 'Nothing', to the question.

No facts changed.

The only thing that has changed is your stance since you are aware your posts supporting a rerun of the vote because you didnt like the result are now too old to quote.

Britain has many problems the main one being the current woeful government you supported, but Brexit is not one of them.

Project Fear has been proven to be a lie. It was a decent try but in the end a wasted effort. Much like your efforts to shut me down with the same tired old insults. 😃

Vive La Brexit.

2 hours ago, JonnyF said:

No facts changed.

The only thing that has changed is your stance since you are aware your posts supporting a rerun of the vote because you didnt like the result are now too old to quote.

Britain has many problems the main one being the current woeful government you supported, but Brexit is not one of them.

Project Fear has been proven to be a lie. It was a decent try but in the end a wasted effort. Much like your efforts to shut me down with the same tired old insults. 😃

Vive La Brexit.

The reason that you can't find any posts of mine calling for a second Brexit referendum up until now is very simple: They don't exist. You are reduced to spouting lies to support your untenable position.

On the one hand, you have regularly lamented that Brexit hasn't delivered the promised 'sunny uplands' because it was not implemented correctly but, on the other, you claim it to be a success. Clearly, you are incapable of discerning fact from fiction.

I have no desire to 'shut you down', Jonny; you're doing a great job in making Brexiters question their decision and reinforce Remainers belief that we were correct.

'Vive': Good old 'indigenous' British word, that.

13 hours ago, RayC said:

The reason that you can't find any posts of mine calling for a second Brexit referendum up until now is very simple: They don't exist. You are reduced to spouting lies to support your untenable position.

On the one hand, you have regularly lamented that Brexit hasn't delivered the promised 'sunny uplands' because it was not implemented correctly but, on the other, you claim it to be a success. Clearly, you are incapable of discerning fact from fiction.

I have no desire to 'shut you down', Jonny; you're doing a great job in making Brexiters question their decision and reinforce Remainers belief that we were correct.

'Vive': Good old 'indigenous' British word, that.

I have no desire to dig up your old posts even if they did still exist on the forum.

My position was always that is has been a success but could have been a greater success had remainers not scuppered the process. The traitors.

Get over it Ray we left. Farage will be PM soon. We're not going back.

C'est la vie.

4 hours ago, JonnyF said:

I have no desire to dig up your old posts even if they did still exist on the forum.

My position was always that is has been a success but could have been a greater success had remainers not scuppered the process. The traitors.

Get over it Ray we left. Farage will be PM soon. We're not going back.

C'est la vie.

😂 So an implicit admission that there is no evidence that I called for a second referendum in the wake of the 2016 result. Glad that we confirmed that.

Let's have a look at some of the Brexit "successes": lower GDP than if we had remained in the EU; Increased non-tariff barriers to trade e.g. increased bureaucracy and red tape; lower business investment; an increase in food inflation costs; supply chain disruption; reduced employment chances; reduced educational opportunities for the young, etc, etc.

And you blame the lack of more 'successes' like this on the Remainers who " .. scuppered the process". As is usual with Brexiter's, you take no accountability or responsibility for the fiasco that you voted for. It would be laughable if the country wasn't having to pay the price for this act of economic masochism.

Unfortunately, if the polls are correct you may be right. Farage might be the next PM. The only comfort that I take from that possibility is that it will be for one term, by the end of which time the country will have swung firmly in favour of rejoining the EU. Hopefully, they will have us back.

9 minutes ago, RayC said:

😂 So an implicit admission that there is no evidence that I called for a second referendum in the wake of the 2016 result. Glad that we confirmed that.

Let's have a look at some of the Brexit "successes": lower GDP than if we had remained in the EU; Increased non-tariff barriers to trade e.g. increased bureaucracy and red tape; lower business investment; an increase in food inflation costs; supply chain disruption; reduced employment chances; reduced educational opportunities for the young, etc, etc.

And you blame the lack of more 'successes' like this on the Remainers who " .. scuppered the process". As is usual with Brexiter's, you take no accountability or responsibility for the fiasco that you voted for. It would be laughable if the country wasn't having to pay the price for this act of economic masochism.

Unfortunately, if the polls are correct you may be right. Farage might be the next PM. The only comfort that I take from that possibility is that it will be for one term, by the end of which time the country will have swung firmly in favour of rejoining the EU. Hopefully, they will have us back.

Please provide the exact figures that the UK would have had if we remained in the EU. With links.

Don't forget to include the billions we save every year by not having to prop up the basket cases like Poland and Greece in your calculations.

As well as the improved tariff deals we have with the likes of America compared to the EU.

We will never rejoin. There is no will on either side.

Habitue-toi Raymondo. Habitue-toi.

Please provide the exact figures that the UK would have had if we remained in the EU. With links.

Don't forget to include the billions we save every year by not having to prop up the basket cases like Poland and Greece in your calculations.

I'd add the benefit of being able to thumb your noses at the Euros regarding the half a million migrants gathered in Libya for their trek to "Europe". And that's just in Libya. There's more all over the Med.

The Greeks are raising the alarm mostly because that's where they're likely to make landfall in the Land of Free Stuff. Then, they'll be distributed to the EU states.

Sadly, though you have the ability to thumb your noses, I'm not sure your leaders have the will...

1 minute ago, impulse said:

I'd add the benefit of being able to thumb your noses at the Euros regarding the half a million migrants gathered in Libya for their trek to "Europe". And that's just in Libya. There's more all over the Med.

The Greeks are raising the alarm mostly because that's where they're likely to make landfall in the Land of Free Stuff. Then, they'll be distributed to the EU states.

Sadly, though you have the ability to thumb your noses, I'm not sure your leaders have the will...

Don't forget the 500,000 illegals that Spain is about to legalise.

Its only just beginning of the invasion and the EU are supporting it.

Brexit gave us the padlock to the front door. Unfortunately the Tories and Labour put it on the shelf and left the door wide open, hence their respective collapses. Reform won't and Restore would not only use the padlock but have a shotgun pointing out of the letterbox.

Once we have a proper government Brexit will prove to be the best thing we ever did as Europe gets overrun by illegal incompatible undesirables from intolerant third world hell holes.

Of course the likes of @RayC only talk about imagined GDP benefits and ignore culture, safety and community.