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David Bellamy Dead

  • 11-12-2019 9:29pm
    #1
    MrAbyss
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 426 ✭✭


    What a legend. A working class guy who made some of the greatest nature TV shows ever. Including a great series on Ireland. The irony of the Climate Change knobheads attacking him as he did more to highlight ecology than anyone. Unlike the silver spoon aristocrat Attenborough - acting like colonial attaché having his cases carried by coolies and manservants - David Bellamy took you to the natural wonders in your own neighbourhood be it in England, Ireland, Scotland or Wales. His nature was our nature too. He spoke to you and not down to you. They sure don't make them like him anymore.


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  • #2
    Beechwoodspark
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,854 ✭✭✭✭Beechwoodspark


    Great post in fairness


  • #3
    MrAbyss
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 426 ✭✭MrAbyss


    They took away David Bellamy and gave us Greta Thunberg.


  • #4
    bonzodog2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,253 ✭✭✭bonzodog2


    RIP DB. I love a bit of rummaging around in the undergrowth.


  • #5
    corner of hells
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,409 ✭✭✭corner of hells


    MrAbyss wrote: »
    They took away David Bellamy and gave us Greta Thunberg.

    Cracking footballer , nice career in the premiership, mad as a brush though .


  • #6
    buried
    Registered Users Posts: 9,841 ✭✭✭buried


    Proper paid up member of the Human race.

    "You have disgraced yourselves again" - W. B. Yeats



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  • #7
    Spanish Eyes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,004 ✭✭✭✭Spanish Eyes


    He did have the most amazing individual voice when speaking didn't he? Big head of hair too from what I remember from a good few years back.

    Just like my now gone Dad. Ah well, it's Christmas season and we will remember them.


  • #8
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    A true gentleman who lived his beliefs. I met with him first in the early 70s, when he was working on Bellamy's Britain. I am so sorry to hear he has died. Rosemary only died last year; their children will surely miss his wonderful presence and humour.

    He became controversial when he claimed climate change was not down to human activity and it seems he was not entirely wrong in his hypostasis.

    He was a tremendous educator and a fantastic water colour artist.


    R.I.P


  • #9
    buried
    Registered Users Posts: 9,841 ✭✭✭buried


    Must get some of his water colouring guide books. Been meaning to try my hand at it. Anything he ever showcased educational wise seemed so accessible and enjoyable.

    "You have disgraced yourselves again" - W. B. Yeats



  • #10
    NIMAN
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,034 ✭✭✭✭NIMAN


    Hadn't seen him in donkeys, had assumed he was dead a long time ago.


  • #11
    Pherekydes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,191 ✭✭✭✭Pherekydes


    MrAbyss wrote: »
    They took away David Bellamy and gave us Greta Thunberg.

    Who did?


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  • #12
    Better Than Christ
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,135 ✭✭✭Better Than Christ


    MrAbyss wrote: »
    The irony of the Climate Change knobheads attacking him as he did more to highlight ecology than anyone.

    To be fair to him, he didn't always disagree with 97% of the world's climate scientists.


  • #13
    fryup
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,067 ✭✭✭✭fryup


    RIP

    funnily enough he had a speech impediment just like chris packham

    pesky wabbit


  • #14
    Yamanoto
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,489 ✭✭✭Yamanoto


    I don't think I was that into nature as a kid, but his enthusiasm, charisma and personal warmth always made you sit, watch and learn.

    RIP


  • #15
    Spanish Eyes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,004 ✭✭✭✭Spanish Eyes


    May he rest in peace.

    All deaths are terrible for those left behind. Particularly at this time of year, no matter what your views are re Christmas.


  • #16
    Mr Meanor
    Registered Users Posts: 197 ✭✭Mr Meanor


    Rodrigo Dazzling Turkey wrote: »
    He became controversial when he claimed climate change was not down to human activity and it seems he was not entirely wrong in his hypostasis.

    R.I.P

    You'll find most ecologist and scientists from the 70's and 80s agreed with this in early documentaries and papers.
    Their main concerns were, overpopulation, resource exploitation and extreme pollution.
    CO2 was noted but wasn't a concern.


  • #17
    Gaspode
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    Op sure does have a lot of axes to grind!


  • #18
    MrAbyss
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 426 ✭✭MrAbyss


    Better Than Christ wrote: »
    To be fair to him, he didn't always disagree with 97% of the world's climate scientists.

    You mean greedy lying whores?



  • #19
    Spanish Eyes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,004 ✭✭✭✭Spanish Eyes


    oh ffs, Just let us for five minutes say what a legend he was.


  • #20
    Cee-Jay-Cee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,235 ✭✭✭✭Cee-Jay-Cee


    I always enjoyed his programmes, particularly when he would end up to his waist in mud purely to demonstrate how muddy an area was. He was very 'hands on' he'd pick up a lump of shiit and hold it up to the camera when talking about whatever animal it was that left it there.

    RIP David.


  • #21
    SEPT 23 1989
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,028 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    A time when you could enjoy a bit of nature on the television without an end of the world fear propaganda ruining it

    RIP


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  • #22
    careless sherpa
    Closed Accounts Posts: 373 ✭✭careless sherpa


    Rodrigo Dazzling Turkey wrote: »
    A true gentleman who lived his beliefs. I met with him first in the early 70s, when he was working on Bellamy's Britain. I am so sorry to hear he has died. Rosemary only died last year; their children will surely miss his wonderful presence and humour.

    He became controversial when he claimed climate change was not down to human activity and it seems he was not entirely wrong in his hypostasis.

    He was a tremendous educator and a fantastic water colour artist.


    R.I.P

    What do you do for a living, ecology or media? Or did you know him socially?


  • #23
    Better Than Christ
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,135 ✭✭✭Better Than Christ


    MrAbyss wrote: »
    You mean greedy lying whores?

    Yes, you definitely seem calm and measured.


  • #24
    coastwatch
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 908 ✭✭✭coastwatch


    He had a real soft spot (eh hem) for Ireland's wetlands and bogs. I remember an interview on the late late when he highlighted how unique and fragile habitats they were and unfortunately how we were ( and stil are) destroying them for the short term gain of peat production.


  • #25
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Mr Meanor wrote: »
    You'll find most ecologist and scientists from the 70's and 80s agreed with this in early documentaries and papers.
    Their main concerns were, overpopulation, resource exploitation and extreme pollution.
    CO2 was noted but wasn't a concern.

    David took his determined stance on it in 2004.


  • #26
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    careless sherpa wrote: »
    What do you do for a living, ecology or media? Or did you know him socially?

    Ecology/environmental sciences.


  • #27
    careless sherpa
    Closed Accounts Posts: 373 ✭✭careless sherpa


    Rodrigo Dazzling Turkey wrote: »
    Ecology/environmental sciences.

    Can imagine he was pretty passionate about his work , seemed infectious


  • #28
    Spanish Eyes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,004 ✭✭✭✭Spanish Eyes


    Give it another day or so, and all is forgotten.

    They live on within their own at the end of the day.


  • #29
    fryup
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,067 ✭✭✭✭fryup


    SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »
    A time when you could enjoy a bit of nature on the television without an end of the world fear propaganda ruining it

    RIP

    but its not propaganda ..its real


  • #30
    murpho999
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,544 ✭✭✭✭murpho999


    David Bellamy : Really Into Plants.


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  • #31
    branie2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,305 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    He was a great naturalist. May he rest in peace.


  • #32
    bodhrandude
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,646 ✭✭✭✭bodhrandude


    RIP David, always enjoyed his shows, as mad as a box of frogs but a lovable educational rogue.

    If you want to get into it, you got to get out of it. (Hawkwind 1982)



  • #33
    branie2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,305 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    Remember when he did ads for Dettox?


  • #34
    work
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 661 ✭✭✭work


    RIP


  • #35
    wexandproud
    Registered Users Posts: 1,063 ✭✭✭wexandproud


    loved his shows , came across as very passionate and down to earth . Himself and Attenborough brought nature into our front rooms.
    sad loss


  • #36
    branie2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,305 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    I'd imagine David Attenborough's time is due soon


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  • #37
    TheFarrier
    Registered Users Posts: 612 ✭✭✭TheFarrier


    Am I the only one that thought this thread was about the man in muse??


  • #38
    fryup
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,067 ✭✭✭✭fryup


    branie2 wrote: »
    I'd imagine David Attenborough's time is due soon

    David Attenborough will never die,

    he'll out live us all, he'll out live this planet


  • #39
    KungPao
    Registered Users Posts: 4,784 ✭✭✭KungPao


    I just hope Bill Oddie isn't next.


  • #40
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    fryup wrote: »
    David Attenborough will never die,

    he'll out live us all, he'll out live this planet

    He was hale and hearty on Monday night. Long may he continue so.


  • #41
    Bobblehats
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,707 ✭✭✭Bobblehats


    branie2 wrote: »
    He was a great naturalist. May he rest in peace.

    Sure was. Wore it proud. On his face, his head, everywhere


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  • #42
    Bogfairy
    Registered Users Posts: 40 ✭Bogfairy


    Loved the way he said "wohtah" (water).


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