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Chris Packham on 'Winterwatch'

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MogTheForgetfulCat · 15/01/2013 22:43

Referred to 'The Highlands of Scotland'. Twice! As opposed to 'The Highlands of...oh, nowhere else'.

Grin

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LindyHemming · 18/01/2013 18:23

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badtime · 18/01/2013 19:12

I agree he is a prat(t?)

However, the Highlands of Scotland can be contrasted with the Lowlands of Scotland.

I have also heard places in other countries referred to as 'highlands'.

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bran · 18/01/2013 19:19

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Mynewmoniker · 18/01/2013 19:23

Wont watch Winterwatch because HE is on it Angry. He is so cocky!

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NigellaTufnel · 18/01/2013 19:24

Oh, I think he's lovely!

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BrianCoxandTheTempleofDOOM · 18/01/2013 19:26

I love Chris.

Not sure what's wrong with the 'Highlands of Scotland', isn't that what they are called?

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StuffezLaBouche · 18/01/2013 19:26

Oh he's really sweet! I like him :)

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Wolfiefan · 18/01/2013 19:28

Not very sociable in the flesh!

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peeriebear · 18/01/2013 19:28

I love him. He is very at ease with himself and confident.
At least they don't call Shetland 'The Shetlands' like a lot of newspapers/programmes.

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BrianCoxandTheTempleofDOOM · 18/01/2013 19:29

The Shetland Isles?

No?

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ArkadyRose · 18/01/2013 19:31

He's a right bellend and not very nice in person. I refuse to watch anything he appears in.

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BrianCoxandTheTempleofDOOM · 18/01/2013 19:33

I need details and factual evidence of bell-end behaviour please....am nosy

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Wolfiefan · 18/01/2013 19:38

My friend is a fan and approached him. (Think she asked for autograph for her DCs.) He could not have been more abrupt.
Michaela Strachan was a hoot though!

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Wallace · 18/01/2013 19:57

I say Highlands of Scotland - where I live. As opposed to the Highlands of Zimbabwe (okay Eastern Highlands) :)

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Wallace · 18/01/2013 19:57

I thought this thread was going to be about him talking about the pinemartens surviving here because there were "less people"

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discorabbit · 18/01/2013 20:01

i used to find him irritating but quite like him now, knows his stuff

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ggirl · 18/01/2013 20:04

He is a bell end..he used to go to same pubs as me in student days ...prize wanker and completely full of himself

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Wolfiefan · 18/01/2013 20:07

I just don't think he really likes people very much!

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discorabbit · 18/01/2013 20:08

is it fair to judge him from his student days though?

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ggirl · 18/01/2013 20:21

nah probably not

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peeriebear · 18/01/2013 21:30

Briancox, yes The Shetland Islands/Isles or Shetland, just not the Shetlands :)

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BrianCoxandTheTempleofDOOM · 18/01/2013 22:03

ah, thank you peeriebear

Phew!

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Mynewmoniker · 19/01/2013 09:55

We passed him in the street a few months ago and just said, "Hi" and smiled. He looked at us like something he had just scraped of his shoe. Miserable bgr! Agree about Michaela Strachan; lovely woman in the flesh.

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