Having initially resisted watching and commenting on the Twitchers programme on Sunday, I cracked and watched it on the iPlayer at lunchtime today. There’s not much to be said that hasn’t already been said at great length elsewhere (life’s too short to read the entire Birdforum thread), so I’ll restrict myself to a few observations.
Most sensible thing anyone said in the whole film? Brett Richards: “There’s no point to anything in the universe – we’re all here by accident.”
Least sensible thing? Spoilt for choice, but a good contender would be LGRE, quoted by Garry Bagnell: “Lee said my chance of seeing the bird was less than 41%.” Sums him (Lee) up perfectly, although of course he wouldn’t understand why!
I was going to say that the programme would have been much more enjoyable without the oppressive presence of Evans, but on reflection, I think it’s good that they included him – hopefully as a result more people will realise what a poisonous individual he is, and how much more pleasant birding would be without him. And don’t say that someone else would just come along and fill his shoes, because there is no-one else like him and hopefully never will be. To sum up in one definitely non-PC word how he came across in the film: retarded. And that’s my honest opinion, rather than just trying to be offensive.
Most sensible thing anyone said in the whole film? Brett Richards: “There’s no point to anything in the universe – we’re all here by accident.”
Least sensible thing? Spoilt for choice, but a good contender would be LGRE, quoted by Garry Bagnell: “Lee said my chance of seeing the bird was less than 41%.” Sums him (Lee) up perfectly, although of course he wouldn’t understand why!
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Interesting to see how presumably mostly non birders (although one person did say they'd seen Baillon's Crake!) reacted to the programme. Also interesting how the word 'tool' crops up all over the place when describing Evans....
It was worth watching just for the comedy/lunacy/mentality. I don't care how badly edited it was or is claimed to be by the participants - you have to be a bit of a cock to make such ridiculous comments in the first place for them make the final cut.
In a similar vein to the "41%" quote was,
"13% of all birders are cheats", said with a completely straight face.
13%! Not 12.5% or 13.5%?
He's better at Maths than English Language clearly!
I just laughed at how Garry Bagnell didn't feel he could tick a bird until Lee said he could FFS!
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