Briano 12:42 Fri Nov 23
Sentinelese tribesman
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Astonishing in this day an age that group of people can remain isolated from the outside world.
They killed the American Missionary who wanted to convert them to Christianity, he was warned.
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Westham67
10:40 Tue Nov 27
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The Wombles were cleaner and far more advanced creatures that the Clangers, there I've said it and got it off my chest
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Darlo Debs
10:29 Tue Nov 27
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Pah Trumpton was superior to them.both.
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Nurse Ratched
10:25 Tue Nov 27
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Do NOT mention those smelly, hedge-dwelling knackers in the same breath. I'm warning you.
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Westham67
10:18 Tue Nov 27
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The Clangers were the celestial Wombles
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Eerie Descent
9:31 Tue Nov 27
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I think it was Northern Sold's mate who killed the American bible basher.
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Hammer and Pickle
9:28 Tue Nov 27
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Clearly bacteria congregating around geothermal vents.
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Nurse Ratched
9:20 Tue Nov 27
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Now I'm disturbed by the idea of where all that soup was coming from. It was a barren, rocky planet. The soup was green. The Clangers fetched it up from underground (the 'soup mines') where there would have been no light to facilitate photosynthesis in that 'greenery' which formed the substance of the soup. So what the fuck was going on? Was the Soup Dragon making/cooking soup from hydroponic veg, or...was it the Soup Dragon's SECRETIONS?
Yet another weirdy aspect of my childhood. Innocence betrayed.
The bloody 70s...
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Nurse Ratched
9:07 Tue Nov 27
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I remembered it wrong. It was the Soup Dragon who wigged out. The Clangers freaked out.
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Hammer and Pickle
9:01 Tue Nov 27
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There's something delicious about a prog rock band being turned into grill meat.
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Sven Roeder
8:53 Tue Nov 27
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What would they make of us?
LUNCH BY THE SOUND OF IT
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Nurse Ratched
8:49 Tue Nov 27
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You could send them gifts by drone, but they'd probably fire arrows at it.
It still boggles my brain to imagine what they make of helicopters and the occasional sight of 'us'.
Thinking of landing a drone on their island puts me in mind of that superb episode of The Clangers when a television from Earth lands on their planet. The Clangers accidentally switch it on and (what looks like) a scene from The Old Grey Whistle Test comes on - some hairy acid prog rock band - and all the Clangers start wigging out to the music.
Whatever band that was, it's nailed on SurfaceAgent is a fan.
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mashed in maryland
8:43 Tue Nov 27
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What's quite interesting is that at least a couple of people on the side of the tribesmen using lethal force to defend their territory from uninvited guests are the same people who've been utterly sickened the last couple of days by the USA using non-lethal force to defend theirs.
*shrugs and wanders off*
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tr3bor
8:30 Tue Nov 27
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Or the borough of Tower Hamlets
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tr3bor
8:30 Tue Nov 27
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The Next I'm a Celebrity should be held in Jaywick
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Hammer and Pickle
8:29 Tue Nov 27
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Nice to see all the WHO sympathy is squarely with the islanders and not the erstwhile biblebore.
Shows how well-adjusted we are after all.
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Cheezey Bell-End
8:25 Tue Nov 27
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I know that the language they speak is unintelligible to the other Andaman tribes who otherwise appear similar, suggesting a long isolation.
It would be interesting to know more about them, even if just from drone footage, but I think they will stay a mystery.
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mashed in maryland
7:11 Tue Nov 27
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"One thing straight off the bat is that we know that bows and arrows were developed over 80,000 years ago."
Not necessarily. They could well have developed them on their own. And them being totally isolated for 80k years isn't 100% proven. If you look around online you see various figures. They also look very similar to the other Andaman peoples, and there's still a lot of debate about where they're originally from and who they're related to.
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Gavros
7:11 Tue Nov 27
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He died too.
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Darlo Debs
7:10 Tue Nov 27
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Apologies if already done but has anyone suggested hosting the next series of I'm a Celebrity in this location?
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mashed in maryland
7:08 Tue Nov 27
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Similar things have happened to other peoples many times (look at Australia and America). And the last time there was any real physical contact with this lot (a few colonialists managed to grab a few of them some time in the 19th century and take them back for examination etc) most did indeed die almost immediately, presumably from a contagious illness. The survivor was sent back with gifts but no fucker knows what became of him.
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Gavros
7:07 Tue Nov 27
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either way you have to be careful. to all intents and purposes theyre blimmin' aliens. But they should be fascinating to science. One thing straight off the bat is that we know that bows and arrows were developed over 80,000 years ago.
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