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Come Inside... => The Snug => Topic started by: Grumpmeister on January 24, 2008, 10:28:24 AM
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...and Other Strange Tales From Bodmin Moor
Of course you are going to find strange people on Bodmin Moor, they are all blaadin batsh*t up there even by cornish standards. Its norhing to do with living on the moor. Thats why they built a psychiatric facility in Bodmin.
This eclectic, observational documentary series has been quite a hit with the critics. Described as "fascinating" and "brilliant", tonight's episode - about residents on Bodmin Moor, Cornwall, is especially noteworthy.
To most people, the A and B roads scored across the bleak and lonely grassland of Bodmin are a way of getting from one side of the Moor to the other, but, to Arthur Boyt, they are more like a chain of exotic delicatessens. Unlike most meat-eating Britons, Arthur never goes into a butcher's shop. He gets his meat by scooping up the carcasses of animals crushed under the wheels of passing traffic. It is a diet as varied as it is strange, and he boasts a taste for the meat of cat, barn owl, squirrel and hedgehog, as well as badger.
It was when he went on about loving 30 day old badger that got me (the fat on the one he was hshowing at the time was already turning an interesting shade of green.. sick2:
However, after years of harvesting the Cornish tarmac, his lifestyle is suddenly under attack. His wife - a vegetarian - is not impressed. And Arthur has started receiving abusive and threatening nuisance calls at their isolated moorland cottage. But, as the bizarre phone siege of their property mounts, it is clear there is one thing Arthur will never contemplate: changing his diet.
I could be mistaken but I think he actually released a roadkill cookbook at one point.
As well as Arthur, film-maker Daniel Vernon meets Clifford (the self-appointed guardian of the Moor and a man who spends much of his life following up reports of panther sightings); father-and-son farmers Peter and Simon; and local detective Barry. Vernon finds surprising patterns in the lives and behaviour of the men who have chosen to live in such a remote outpost of Britain.
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Barmey ~ the whole lot of them.
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Cliffords self defence lessons had me in hysterics. How to stop the 'Beast of Bodmin' by shining a torch in its eyes and waving a knife in front of it happy001
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Does he eat Beaver too? whistle:
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Avoiding teh double entendre I'd say that if its been knocked down by a car on the A30 then its in his freezer of frying pan.
I had to laugh at is line about these creatures having had no inpact on their lives from man. I'm guessing that the couple of tons of metal that hit them doesnt count.
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Does he eat Beaver too? whistle:
Who doesn't ~ given the chance? eyes:
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Does he eat Beaver too? whistle:
Who doesn't ~ given the chance? eyes:
eyes:
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Does he eat Beaver too? whistle:
Who doesn't ~ given the chance? eyes:
In your condition, hound, can I suggest that your tongue goes near nothing more exciting than an anchovy flavoured Bonio?
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Does he eat Beaver too? whistle:
Who doesn't ~ given the chance? eyes:
In your condition, hound, can I suggest that your tongue goes near nothing more exciting than an anchovy flavoured Bonio?
lol: lol:
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Does he eat Beaver too? whistle:
Who doesn't ~ given the chance? eyes:
In your condition, hound, can I suggest that your tongue goes near nothing more exciting than an anchovy flavoured Bonio?
I'd rather go with my tongue on a beaver than up a cat's arse.