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No funky music for him
A couple of historical clips.
The first one is about Mark 3, with snippets of contemporary interviews from Glenn Hughes and Ritchie Blackmore:
The second one is a report on the 1975 Sunbury Festival from Australian TV, including an interview with Jon Lord and Glenn Hughes:
Thanks to Ritchie Blackmore Official channel for posting these.
Unauthorized copying, while sometimes necessary, is never as good as the real thing
Pity there wasn’t any live performance footage of the Purps at Sunbury. I was still at school, bummer! Cheers.
July 17th, 2025 at 03:12Back in Mk III, Glenn still had much more of a Brummie accent – I even hear parallels to Tony Iommi‘s accent. It‘s not that Glenn has a thoroughbred American accent today, but his Midlands English has unsurprisingly after 50 years undergone quite some Californication.
As for Ritchie‘s well-known view on funky music – my God, he saw Glenn with Trapeze more than once before asking him to join, what was he expecting? Don‘t remember Glenn‘s contract reading “play like Roger”, but I do remember a 1974 interview of Ritchie where he belittled Roger’s bass playing and praised Glenn’s sense of syncopation, going even as far as to say it had changed SOTW for the better.
July 17th, 2025 at 04:36Hopefully no one reads this, but – well, I surrender to mark lll!
Against my better knowledge and will…
(What kind of place is this? I blame the German gentlemen!)
July 17th, 2025 at 05:52I agree Uwe that RB must have known what kind of music Glenn liked after hearing him with Trapeze. I always thought RB knew what kind of album he wanted he wanted to make, a more busier album (Burn) and that Glenn’s playing would be perfect for it but, after “Burn” it was like “We got a funky bass player, now what do we do with him? LOL I liked Trapeze. I still have their albums and pop them on the old turntable.
July 17th, 2025 at 10:09Finally, Karin, you have become my creature!
https://youtu.be/85se1vCri78
😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣
Seriously, I never understood why one has to dismiss one Purple line-up to elevate another. Mk II will always bear the crown of being the Purple formation most in sync with its times, most counterculture-interwoven and to my mind also “deepest” and most cerebral in its music, both Big Ian and Roger having a lot to do with that. In comparison, Mk III was an Americanized mid-70s stadium rock act that played great music, but it was “just” entertainment, they were culturally insignificant, merely an excellent rock band. And another big dif was how the change from Mk II to Mk III saw the collaborative aspect of Ritchie’s and Jon’s ying & yang improvisations (so much a trademark of early Mk II) relegated to a backseat – Ritchie also staged his escape from being perceived as “only a part of a tandem with Jon” by creating Mk III, he was on his way to becoming that solitary figure that would dominate Rainbow. The “Gorgan” was on the wane.
To me In Rock, Machine Head and Made In Japan are cultural artifacts/icons whereas Burn and Stormbringer are simply excellent rock albums.
But Mk III was still excellent music, the twin lead vocals were something fresh and relatively rare in the realm of hard rock and the much derided funk infusion by Glenn motivated Little Ian to his most expressive and sophisticated playing, proved Jon’s versatility and even dragged Ritchie out of his comfort zone (he’s always best when he’s outside of that). And while they were not the first to combine hard rock with a funk groove, they were still among the progenitors.
July 17th, 2025 at 12:39Constant praise of Mark III has left a mark on Karin. Deutsche Überzeugungsarbeit.
July 17th, 2025 at 15:58But they were quite good too!
Ritchie saw and heard this before an offer (he could not refuse) was extended to Glenn from the Purple management:
https://youtu.be/-PPiul3d5bU
Oh, and then it dawned on him only two years later that this scheming and conniving Midlander would sneak a funk approach into DP? That’s like marrying a girl you met and fell in love with in a cathouse (nothing wrong with that) and then accusing her a few years later: I thought I was your first and you were a virgin!
Musically, Glenn was what it read on the tin. A young white musician adoring Black Music in all its forms and stemming from the Midlands, home of the Brit Northern Soul movement.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_soul
It was already clear where Glenn was heading as a teenager – here you see him at 17 taking over the lead vocals at an early Trapeze gig in 1969, @o2:04:
https://youtu.be/qYIBO1nLKi4
I have taken a solemn vow to not rest until this nonsensical, yet popular myth “Glenn brought funk into DP and no one in the band knew what hit them” is eradicated off the face of this earth.
And he met fertile ground too, it wasn’t just Paicey and short-memory Ritchie who welcomed Purple more funked up as opposed to the swinging groove Roger had delivered, even Jon was by 1973 delving into funk:
https://youtu.be/7QXY_ttDFzw
July 17th, 2025 at 17:29@ 3 – “Hopefully no one reads this, but – well, I surrender to mark lll! Against my better knowledge and will…”
July 17th, 2025 at 22:22What, the earth just tilted on its axis, did anyone notice that? My coffee and the cup started rattling and shaking in disbelief. Old Cov’s now becomes a new Cov’s. Well, well ,well. I suppose that saying ‘better late than never’ springs to mind. When the infamous lady of Denmark admitted to ‘liking’ some of Coverdale’s vocal a little while ago, we knew it would eventually happen. So I suppose we shouldn’t be that surprised. It is the suddenness of it that shakes everything to the core. I still don’t know what to do about it. What about Anton, how is he going to adjust to DP with Coverdale and Hughes. Give him some notice Karin, please, the poor little thing? Cheers.
@ 7- Frankenstein’s bride indeed Uwe. Well done and I am not surprised that Karin has finally ‘submitted’. Don’t worry Karin, it can happen to us all. Next stop, JLT. What about poor old Rod though? Is he too much like that lad from Memphis Tennessee? Speaking of the ‘butter tenor’ he WILL be NEXT. Regarding Funk influences in DP Uwe. There is funk and then there is FUNK, if you know what I mean. Plus it would have also been other mitigating factors with MKIII that were not to Blackmore’s liking. The funk and soul gets the blame, it is obviously easier to do that for Blackmore, without going into other factors. Cheers.
July 17th, 2025 at 23:15“Next stop, JLT.”
😆
You’re right, I need a new task.
July 18th, 2025 at 02:56I’m not putting up a defense for Glenn’s cocaine habit, that did become an issue and didn’t go away for a long time, with or without DP. And he obviously liked the buzz he got from it so much that it took him more than 15 years to overcome it for good, realizing all the while it was crippling his post-Purple career in the 70s and 80s. He has no one to blame but himself for that.
His raging addiction was hushed up by a band omertà for quite a while, I first heard about his penchant for Columbian produce in I think 1977 or 78 when I read (strangely enough in a one-off Abitur-Zeitung) in a report from someone who had worked at Musicland Studios during the recording of CTTB that Glenn had suffered a nervous breakdown in the studio, had become a physical liability for himself – even a knife was mentioned – and for the others and was unceremoniously sent home to England to clean up his act (or else …), aborting his participation in the recording sessions. Otherwise, CTTB might have seen an even more prominent Glenn input.
Of course, the cover of Play Me Out with that smaller portrait of Glenn in cocaine-addiction-giveaway profuse cold sweat was a coming out of sorts too, but back then I hadn’t yet heard of that specific symptom.
https://images.app.goo.gl/jXrTi
Drugs weren’t unknown in our school, but cocaine wasn’t even on the horizon yet in Germany in the mid to late 70s. David Bowie left LA for Berlin to escape the ubiquity of cocaine on the West Coast because it was slowly killing him. He joked: “I left the cocaine capital of the world – LA – for the heroin capital of the world – Berlin -, but I didn’t like doing smack, so it was no danger for me, and cocaine was next to impossible to get in Berlin.”
July 18th, 2025 at 03:40@5
“Seriously, I never understood why one has to dismiss one Purple line-up to elevate another.”
– ohhh that was not the reason!
You have very often used that argument that I wanna elevate Ian by dismissing all other!
Nothing can be more wrong!
I just didn’t like the sound of DC, GH and JLT!
But even an old dog can apparently learn new, well, not tricks, but learning to become more mellow… 😑
I do still prefer Ian as the number 1 Troubadour! His voice draws lovely colours in my brain, way more than any other singer I can think of!
July 18th, 2025 at 04:11And because I even couldn’t keep a rhythm as a kid, banging two wooden sticks together, all I can use as a tool to figure out music is how it feels and affects my brain ☺️
@6
Well Thomas Max!
That might be!
July 18th, 2025 at 04:16But no one leaves musical Knutschflecke like the ‘Marks’ where Ian is singing ☺️😉
(Interesting word you have there..!)
No one has ever been with DP who is not a good singer or player – the quality of musicianship has always been high.
Ian Gillan stands out as a singer for me because his vocal melodies defy convention (though they are very often not really commercial or ear-candy’ish, but that made line-ups fronted by him always a little Prog whereas there is nothing Prog to either DC or GH) and his lyrics tower head, shoulders & dandruff over what other Purple vocalists have submitted over the years. He also has a very idiosyncratic voice, but then so does Glenn Hughes, you can pick out Glenn’s voice from a mile away if he adds the slightest backing vocals somewhere.
I wasn’t accusing you, Karin, your adulation for Big Ian is sincere and does not need to put other singers down, but a lot of people seem to dislike later line-ups from preceding ones because they can’t get over the loss of a beloved member. But DC & GH (or JLT for that matter) did not row out IG & RG and Bolin/Morse cannot be blamed for Ritchie’s departure or Simon for Steve’s or Don for Jon’s. That is why I always try to listen with open ears and a likewise mind. There is a lot to discover and enjoy in the Purple Metaverse through the decades. It’s like an endless series with a lot of different seasons, held together by one concept.
July 18th, 2025 at 14:12Isn’t Knutschfleck much nicer than hickey or love bite?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWFkhLUcvo0
July 18th, 2025 at 15:59@14
“I wasn’t accusing you, Karin”
– you have indeed Uwe Hornung, been accusing me of exactly that several times!
But as I always do when it comes to you fine gentlemen in here, I bear with you! You see, I know that your attention span cannot be much more than what a goldfish is capable of 😅
So I forgive, I forget, I look the other way and indeed I nod and smile so much that the Joker from the amazing Batman series would be soooo envious!
“That is why I always try to listen with open ears and a likewise mind.”
– ooohhh REALLY!?!
Also when it comes to blonde Viking women from the beautiful country just north of your very own former empire??
You have been accusing me for all kinds of very bad behaviour!
But again: I forgive, I forget etc etc 😉☺️
Listen young man: I cannot help that Ian Gillan is the ultimate singer the world yet has got the very great privilege to see and hear!
It’s certainly not because of me! But could I have been in the process of making such a singer (don’t ask me how please) I would indeed make him EXACTLY like Ian!
I admit that David and Glenn and Joe are very nice singers, but no where near Ian! No where near…. 😑
July 18th, 2025 at 17:08And will you now let me enjoy my 5th cup of coffee today, Lord knows I have deserved it ☺️
@15
No it’s not a nicer word! 😜
Thanks for the link, but Uwe is this the singer that somehow doesn’t prefer girls over boys?
Ok I have befriended several very nice and dear guys who indeed were gay, but this singer here, he doesn’t strike me at such.
Actually his body language screams other things.
I haven’t dwelled into JP for real before, and don’t think I wanna go that way right now, but it’s not awful music 😊
Knutschfleck, on the other hand, ought to be removed from your very nice language! Not that the Danish word for the same phenomenon is much prettier 😄 (please ask Edith, Im not in the mood right now 😄)
July 18th, 2025 at 17:19Most people think that Rob Halford due to his stage persona and attire must be into gay SM sex. He has always denied that and says he’s a “plain vanilla” guy. And he wasn’t promiscuous either, he spent ages looking for Mr Right (and tragically didn’t enter into a steady relationship with another man until he was in his late 30s even though he knew he was gay since childhood days) plus has been together with the same-man (who incidentally doesn’t like rock music and was unaware of who Judas Priest were) for thirty years or so now. Looks can be deceiving.
July 18th, 2025 at 20:59I have erred in my judgement and our fearless and immaculate leader Nick S has rightfully taken to task and admonished me. Many of Mk II’s lyrics were co-written by the guy with the hat/bandana who plays that unimportant instrument that looks like a guitar but isn’t, can’t think of his name right now. I should have mentioned him while praising the lyrical skills of his buddy Ian G.
I make a caveat re the lyrics to All Night Long!!! 🤣 Don’t know about your brain, but you look alriiiiiight …
July 18th, 2025 at 23:04Gentlemen!
Someone, not me, but someone says that these fine guys are the new and improved Beatles!
(Ok, maybe I also said that, but I’m nothing alone about that opinion 🥰)
https://youtu.be/Zsq-07JMEZM?si=qAR2rvmJ0DszyzBj
July 19th, 2025 at 07:20If Oasis are the new Beatles then AC/DC are the new Cream.
July 19th, 2025 at 14:13@20
“these fine guys are the new and improved Beatles!”
Maybe I’ve got some sort of defect but I’m not impressed by Oasis and have never been a big Beatles fan either. They just don’t do it for me.
July 19th, 2025 at 19:02Karin is having a Brit Pop period, Russ, we best not even ignore it and she will eventually settle down. She always does.
July 19th, 2025 at 20:44@21&22
Well, they do it for me!
July 19th, 2025 at 21:41Having read the music papers for the last few decades I have seen a lot of ‘next Beatles’ come and go…Oasis among them.
July 20th, 2025 at 08:44And despite I will get in trouble with my dear son here again I tend to find the Beatles a tiny bit overrated – other than Oasis that are extremly overrated. I mean big time. Enormously. As they say: what’s good about them isn’t new. And what’s new about them isn’t good. But I admit the, were a breeze of fresh air among the ever lamenting likes of U2 and whoever deprimented the charts those days….
@25
One of the many things – I’m sure – you have that really is splendid for you, is that your name goes so well with your face, but besides that Max, I have to tell you that very very many people love Oasis, and the logic raisonnement will be: you, Uwe and Russ are so wrong!
(And now I will be educated thoroughly, I’m sure, in the concept that taste cannot be discussed nor dictated! And that is exactly my point 😆 just because 3 guys in here apparently can’t hear the wonderful rock made by Oasis, doesn’t mean they are overrated!!!)
I have to say that I have always liked Beatles! (I only love Purple! ! !) and I appreciate Oasis very much too.
Now if you, otoh, could explain, please, why you think Oasis are ‘extremely overrated’, I will forever be grateful and may even consider giving you a cup of my world famous yummy coffee….
July 20th, 2025 at 10:01The Gallaghers have an entertaining attitude as long it doesn’t overstay its welcome. A full gig with both of them in a bad mood can be tiresome, let me tell you. Their work ethic in live performances, wenn ihnen eine Laus über die Leber gelaufen ist, is worse than Ritchie’s – and that is saying something. No one tolerates bad work from a plumber because he has domestic issues, but with Oasis such behavior is sanctified as “street” – fuck, es ist einfach nur undiszipliniert und verwöhnt .
It was our very own Heinz-Rudolf Kunze, lieber Max, who as a former teacher/Studienrat once said about Oasis in academic arrogance: “Ich hätte ihnen musikalisch eine 3- geben, das ist weder gut noch richtig schlecht, was die machen.”
They never cracked America. Yanks, with their inbred appreciation of athletic discipline/commitment and putting on a good show no matter what, didn’t digest the sibling antics at all. No one wanted to see Eddie and Alex Van Halen quarrel either and they consequently kept it from the public.
July 20th, 2025 at 13:17Oasis are strictly a Brit phenomenon. Much of their appeal is that from an arrogant London-centric view, Noel and Liam act, talk and look like what you’d imagine (as a hip Londoner) working class Mancunians to be, hence all the interest in them. Dial back a few centuries, and Noel & Liam would have been ideal street urchin characters in a Charles Dickens novel.
All their (limited) success in other countries is fed from Anglophile sentiment and mimicry. Consequently, all their American tours grounded to a halt because the Yanks were – as they were of Oasis idols The Jam decades earlier – unimpressed by them, bewildered by their limited instrumental capabilities (Americans believe in getting better) and unable to understand the cultural sign language the Gallaghers flaunt to great reception in their home country.
The Gallaghers are 60% attitude and looks, 30% songwriting craft and 10% instrumental skills. There were people bearing the Gallagher name who had a more musical mix in my book – which is also why Ritchie’s son is called Rory and not Noel or (Wil)Liam:
https://youtu.be/JUbzs29YFL4
https://youtu.be/iX3J41FTR1w
https://youtu.be/0X1JgiFf9As
Nuff said.
July 20th, 2025 at 20:44@28
They are from Manchester, not London!
And the rest you’re writing is also wrong 😂😂
July 21st, 2025 at 05:36First, liebe Karin, look up what “Mancunians” means and then read what I wrote again, you little wannabe Brit Popper! 😂
London music press adored Oasis initially because to them they seemed like “the real thing”, Noel and Liam acting like you thought people from Manchester would. Before Oasis, Manchester was mainly known for these guys here
https://youtu.be/7duPNQCp-w4
who were not notorious for physical violence and spewing out insults to pretty much everyone.
July 21st, 2025 at 12:24@30
Hollies and ‘the air that I breathe’ is among one of my favourite songs were the tears are flooding out of my eyes! 🥺 but oh it is beautiful!
Liam is such a kind person and he really doesn’t mean all the insults……🤣🤣🤣🤣 oh sorry, I hardly couldn’t write the last words there!
I’m always surprised that you actually read my posts in here!
Note to self: be more accurate, don’t get Uwe any reason to laugh at you 😄
What is wrong about loving British music? As far as I’m concerned Purple are indeed British 😃
July 21st, 2025 at 16:24“Hollies and ‘the air that I breathe’ is among one of my favourite songs were the tears are flooding out of my eyes! 🥺 but oh it is beautiful!”
Yeah, Radiohead gave it a good listen too, still paying royalties to the songwriter – Albert Hammond – to this day! 😁
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XbogWA-riU&list=RDoaXFc4Zb78s&start_radio=1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PV8jYTfxJTI&list=RDoaXFc4Zb78s&index=2
The chords of TATIB are pretty damning to anybody who copies them – they defy conventional harmonic rules, i.e. shouldn’t really be combined that way, but Albert Hammond succeeded in making it sound great rather than grunge. But it’s a rare and idiosyncratic chord progression, that is why it gets noticed easily.
July 21st, 2025 at 21:00Purple are Brit, but they aren’t really core-Brit, too much American and mainland European success and recognition, in a way they are an international band, a status Oasis never really attained and perhaps not even sought.
DP were never the darlings of the hip Brit music press like Oasis once were, Purple had a “seasoned musos financed by wealthy businessmen”-image with no rags to riches lore attached. I think DC is the only Purple member with a true working class background, all the others are various shades of middle class (caveat: I don’t know what homes Rod Evans and Nick Simper came from).
That’s not really unusual, most white Rock’n’Roll has middle class roots. Exceptions always get the limelight, Dr Feelgood were working class and adored by music critics for it …
https://youtu.be/uvRNRiA_h34
Nothing wrong with Brit music at all, nor with American, both have their respective strengths. Some Italian-Americans are even pretty convincing at sounding Brit …
https://youtu.be/wnuQfaEJnGk
July 21st, 2025 at 21:24I have to say I noticed in the recent comments list this morning, (Tue 22 July) that Karin was almost totally dominating the list. Little ole Uwe was in the middle, valiantly trying to hold the fort. It did look rather intimidating, Uwe had no way out it seemed at that time. Is the lady from Denmark that assertive in gaining or attempting to gain control. Surely not. I sincerely hope Uwe wasn’t feeling a little alone there, all by himself. We must rally around him, give him some support, surely he needs it. Cheers.
July 22nd, 2025 at 00:31Here it is, poor Uwe. not really. GO Karin.
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@34&35
Well MacGregor, sometimes I have a lot to say..
July 22nd, 2025 at 09:18But of course I will limit myself 😞🥺
LOL, great minds work (and scoff) alike, Tassie boy, I thought exactly the same thing this morning, Karin is single-handedly increasing female content here in leaps and bounds! 😂
But I have an in-built husband filter, you just don‘t say things like that dress doesn‘t look good on you or your explanation is too longwinded, get to the point or, to randomly pick another example at will, <you‘re a mature woman.
So I kept it to myself. I avoid controversy where I can and my empathy is boundless.
Look, what you really wanted to say was Karin‘s pleasantly chatty demeanor is a sign of her communicative strengths and greatly enriches this site. 😇
July 22nd, 2025 at 14:01I cannot remain silent any longer, as an avid The Handmaid’s Tale watcher
https://youtu.be/dVLiDETfx1c
I herewith intrepidly champion:
THIS IS NOT GILEAD …
https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BYWM4NTJkZmItOTRhNi00NjAwLWI3MDctMDgzNTAxMDI3NzE2XkEyXkFqcGc@._V1_.jpg
LET
KARIN VERNDAL
SPEAK !!!
July 22nd, 2025 at 16:25@37
🤣🤣
“Karin is single-handedly increasing female content here in leaps and bounds!“
– well, I’m an one-person army here! And I do take my responsibilities very seriously 🤩
Whenever there is something devious going on in here (and no offence Uwe, but it is usually you who stir things up ☺️) it is my holy duty and privilege to right the wrongs, as good as I possibly can!
I did however not see the list MacGregor presented!
When I occasionally look at the list of speakers in here, it’s usually divided between you Uwe and MacGregor! Not one time have I seen my name mentioned more than twice tops!
“to randomly pick another example at will, <you‘re a mature woman.”
– but I am 😞😖😫 not a thing to do about it! I will not go to drastically improvements as plastic surgery, so I have to live with wrinkles, sagging skin and what nots 🫣
“So I kept it to myself. I avoid controversy where I can and my empathy is boundless.“
– this is unseen and very welcoming news! I guess the majority in here will join me in a happy sing-a-long:
https://youtu.be/Zr6rChjsWgs?si=JTGnJPp_t0WnbCwt
“Look, what you really wanted to say was Karin‘s pleasantly chatty demeanor is a sign of her communicative strengths and greatly enriches this site.”
July 22nd, 2025 at 17:31– thanks, I guess 😶🤣
@38
Have never seen ‘the Handmade’s tale’, but those few seconds I have seen of it, always made me think it’s some sick male’s secret desire of a future where women obey you and serve you hand and foot!
“ LET
July 22nd, 2025 at 17:50KARIN VERNDAL
SPEAK !!!”
– Uwe, I feel the urge to warn you: be careful what you wish for 😅😅
But the series is a tribute to feminist perseverance and the force of motherhood against a misogynist theocracy. It‘s well worth watching. All the really strong characters are women.
July 23rd, 2025 at 16:59@41
Well, I prefer more lighthearted comedies!
All those dark and sinister series and movies are too heartbreaking for me…
That’ll say, movies with realistic content can also be very interesting. But those with a happy end, oh they are nice!
July 26th, 2025 at 16:28You see, the world around us is sinister in itself, so to feel a little warm inside and with a smile, then I better can stand to listen to the news!
No worries, The Handmaid’s Tale ends upbeat in its last season, all strong women survive, all bad or ‘well-intentioned, but weak’ men die. What’s not to like? 🤗
July 27th, 2025 at 15:45@43
Ohh but Uwe, I don’t like anyone to die 🥺
I like series and films like:
Frasier
‘Allo ‘Allo
The Fawlty Towers
The Vicar of Dibley
One foot in the grave
Castle
Sherlock Holmes (with Benedict Cumberbatch)
That 70s show
Braveheart (but not all films with Mel Gibson, but ok Lethal Weapons are really good, especially the first two!)
Oceans 11 (12 & 13 are not as good imho, they are too overproduced, just like the music of Jeff Lynne, whereas 11 is more like Roy Wood!)
Silence of the lambs (always enjoy agricultural movies…)
Meet Joe Black (but not all films with Brad Pitt)
The Godfather (not only because of Andy Garcia, I need to stress that!)
Robin Hood, Prince of thieves (yes yes, ridicule me all you want, it’s very romantic, has a lot of cute stuff where I can’t help giggling and well, the casting is really good!)
When the boat comes in (an English serie from the 70s)
– that kind of stuff 😃
There are a lot of other movies and series, but can’t remember them all, I’ve just almost woken up…🥱
And then this very old serie (from the 80s) with British actor Peter Egan, only saw it once, can’t find it online, but the plot is that his character is in love with this woman, who unfortunately is in love with another man, but Peter Egan’s character can change his appearance so he looks like the other fella… ok writing it down I can hear it sounds lame, but it was really exciting and very romantic..
July 28th, 2025 at 06:53If you could find that Uwe, I would be in your debt forever! (Hey you have said so yourself that you’re the master of search engines ☺️)
@44
“Sherlock Holmes (with Benedict Cumberbatch)”
No, No, No, No! Sherlock Holmes with Jeremy Brett is the he best by far. Then closely followed by Robert Downey Jr. Then with Basil Rathbone. Then maybe this Cumberbatch fellow. Come to think of it even Will Ferrell did a better job portraying Sherlock Holmes.
And a shout out to Hugh Laurie for his portrayal of the Holmes-inspired character Gregory House in the series House.
But then, I suppose it is the Cougar in you that likes Cumberbatch as Holmes. I’m sure that it’s not for his acting, which is so-so at best.
August 3rd, 2025 at 06:16@45
Well by all means then call me a ‘Cumberbitch’ why don’t ya! 😄
I do like the others you mention, but what I find so refreshing with Cumberbatch and co is the fact, that it isn’t the easiest job to portrait a figure loved by so many! And he is doing a marvellous job!
So are the rest of the characters.
And the girl who plays “the woman”, well in my mind she is the only one that actually seemed to shake the good Sherlock a bit!
August 3rd, 2025 at 09:51@ 45 – Jeremy Brett indeed Russ and good to see. His portrayal is second to none. Properly executed to the tee. That trendy new age version was rather comical and I could only last the first couple of episodes. At least they didn’t give Holmes his full name in the title, that says a lot to me. I don’t mind Benedict Cumberbatch as an actor and Martin Freeman too. But not in that, it was below average. The two ‘Hollywood’ versions with Downey Jnr were ok in that aspect. They are making a third are they not? Cheers.
August 3rd, 2025 at 22:14@47
Maybe it’s a gender issue then!?
I honestly find Cumberbatch to be an excellent and very trustworthy Sherlock!
August 4th, 2025 at 17:35That series gave me headaches the few times I saw it. I would come home from work and wanted to be entertained, not slavishly follow the jumbled thoughts of the character Cumberbatch was playing, terrible. The type of series where you lose the plot completely if you miss one sentence. If you like films like that you probably like to spend time with Rubik’s Cube too – I never did.
Cumberbatch isn’t a bad actor but as Sherlock Holmes I found him miscast. I mostly went to sleep over the episodes, zoning out. I guess I prefer off-the-wall feel good movies.
https://youtu.be/ck__w39eTqA
August 4th, 2025 at 20:57@ 48 – It wasn’t the actors that wrote and directed that series Karin, so not their fault. It is how it was presented, a different take on it yes, but too different. Artistic license I believe it is called. Anyway it was popular for the masses, I think. Horses for courses as we often say. Cheers.
August 4th, 2025 at 21:59@49
Oooohhhhhh my! 🤣🤣🤣
This is a Christmas-, birthday-, wedding-, and all other kinds of gifts-days presents rolled up into one fine little dirty comeback Uwe 😂
Allow me to quote you:
“The type of series where you lose the plot completely if you miss one sentence.”
– 🤣😆😆😆
Well I guess Uwe that to be able to follow and comprehend a rather simple plot like the one where Benedict Cumberbatch is the wonderful Sherlock Holmes, it does crave a minimum of…
(No sorry, I can’t do this!) (everything in me want to, but I’m too polite!)
If I instead may show this to you:
https://youtu.be/E0sha1XfHxw?si=SaLIsHsDFU_7j4md
And then you get one attempt to tell me which other video this reminds off!
Don’t thank me! I’m here to make you look less, well you know 😃☺️
August 5th, 2025 at 12:16@50
“It wasn’t the actors that wrote and directed that series Karin, so not their fault.”
– ohh but MacGregor, I do wholeheartedly agree with you, but I guess this is a comment for our Lawyer Extravaganza!
“too different”
– what?!
Well, to bring in my long awaited opinion:
I adore the casting in the Sherlock Holmes series, where indeed Cumberbatch plays the leading role.
Ohh, you wanna know why? Well, I will certainly not keep you in suspense, I’m not that kind of person 🥰
The leading role is perfectly executed by Cumberbatch!
He is cheeky, brilliant (but not weird and mysterious as other directors have craved from their actors) he is charming, not handsome, but very intriguing! And even though I do know better, I buy in on the idea that it is Cumberbatch that is so intelligent!
The guy playing Watson – Martin Freeman – is also ideal for this part as Holmes’ sidekick, because other directors’ take on that part has been that Watson seems to be, maybe not in love with Holmes, but very much inferior and looking sickly up to the maniac as other directors portrays Holmes to be.
But Martin Freeman makes Watson somewhat loathsome towards Holmes, and that is very refreshing, because to be honest: Holmes is a pill! (You know hard to swallow)
And Watson also gets his own life, a wife – the rather mysterious Mary that is an even better agent than 007! And they get a child.
Furthermore we are presented with Sherlock’s and Mycroft’s sister….
And then I almost forgot about ‘the Woman’!
She is the ultimate weakness for Holmes!
I don’t know about you, but all my unspoken questions, from other series about Holmes, are met and answered here 😃
“Anyway it was popular for the masses,”
– I know MacGregor that you by heart aren’t insulting! 😄
But you know how Uwe always presents us with facts: so I dare to say this:
If it is popular for the masses then it has to be very very good!
I wonder what kind of song Holmes would sing (to satisfy our hard but fair admin that is) and I guess this one isn’t far fetched:
https://youtu.be/NUjIg10axqQ?si=LLyFfQgYwVdG2fFg
😄😄
August 5th, 2025 at 12:43“If I instead may show this to you:
https://youtu.be/E0sha1XfHxw?si=SaLIsHsDFU_7j4md
And then you get one attempt to tell me which other video this reminds of!”
That’s all too easy, Karin, it mostly reminds me of my time with the Afrika Korps in 1942
https://www.worldhistory.org/img/r/p/500×600/19304.png?v=1722536744-1722536821
when under our beloved Feldmarshall/Desert Fox Erwin Rommel we and our Panzerkampfwagen IV
https://i.pinimg.com/736x/3f/ac/80/3fac801f944a090b6e2b48186b253129.jpg
gave den Tommies a real grilling ! 😂
Oh yes, you wanted a video with it too:
https://youtu.be/I3phcWyra3w
How else can I satisfy you? Oh right, you wanted to hear Sherlock Holmes singing? Here you are …
https://youtu.be/OnNA2TMrynk
I was even at that particular gig. Edith, that ole shameless Pink Floyd/David Gilmour floozy, dragged me all the way to the Royal Albert Hall. Most expensive tickets ever too.
August 6th, 2025 at 00:09@47
“Jeremy Brett indeed Russ and good to see. His portrayal is second to none.”
When I read a book it’s like a movie plays in my head at the same time. Brett’s portrayal of Holmes is exactly that, almost a perfect match with what I conjured up in my head when I read those stories.
Robert Downey Jr’s. Holmes, to me, is like Johnny Depp’s portrayal of Hunter S. Thompson. It’s good but in a different kind of way.
3rd movie… apparently so: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2094116/
August 6th, 2025 at 07:17#53
“That’s all too easy, Karin”
– are you kidding me! 😄
Well, hopefully you’re making fun of me… but the video I was thinking of that reminded me of FM!s ‘Hold me’ is this one:
https://youtu.be/kp1mZZEzc7E?si=eHMR0F7zTa7NeTK0
Where the digging for instruments is the same in both videos.
But you knew that all along, didn’t ya!?
Thanks for the impressive song with BC!
I will enjoy listening to it in my break today.
Ohh and give my best to Edith ❣️ she is amazing! I mean she still has her own taste and opinions 😄
Listen to this:
https://youtu.be/NjxNnqTcHhg?si=Q7Tc2ECFWeQUdomM
Reminds me a bit of Sparks 😊
In Danish it was called: ‘frikadellens flugt over plankeværket’ but I’m not sure why actually.
August 6th, 2025 at 07:19@46
“Well by all means then call me a ‘Cumberbitch’ why don’t ya!”
OK, if you insist…
Karin “The Cougar” Cumberbitch Verndal I think you preference for that guy is based mostly on the fact that you find him attractive and are so smitten by his alleged handsomeness that you are unable to recognize how horrible his portrayal of Holmes is.
I’m not saying this to be mean. I felt this needed to be pointed out. I have always had your best interests in mind. As a matter of fact I have your best interests in mind so much that I include your dog as well.
If you don’t believe me; I can prove it with 8 simple words:
Don’t take your dog to The Aalborg Zoo: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/denmark-zoo-asks-people-to-donate-their-small-pets-as-food-for-captive-predators
August 6th, 2025 at 07:35@53
Ohh nooo!
I do have troubles with ‘Comfortably Numb’ even though BC is singing.
I prefer this instead:
https://youtu.be/Z9EbR0ckb40?si=dwtfvO7eqWphw7kM
August 6th, 2025 at 08:28Even with a moustache 😄
@56
“OK, if you insist”
– 😄😄 well Russ, it was meant as a hint to the gigantic female fanbase the actor has, because they call themselves for ‘Cumberbitches’
Sadly no, I’m not smitten with him 🤣🤣
I do however believe him to be a Sherlock Holmes figure I can relate to. Much more than those before him.
“I’m not saying this to be mean”
– 😆😆😆 You!? Mean?? Noooooooo, not the least! 🤣
“Don’t take your dog to The Aalborg Zoo:”
– ohhh my! This isn’t news in Denmark, I tell you that 😊
In many years all the Zoos in Denmark have got pets, and also horses and other bigger animals, when they were due to be put down because of age or illnesses.
In Denmark we have a rather pragmatic view on life in its variety.
I do like to stress though that we are not forced to donate dead pets to the Zoos.
My neighbour par example had this beautiful Berber Sennen, and they do not get very old, and when it was put down by the sweet vet (the same I use for Anton, and she is btw also a very skilled homeopath!) the family got their dog cremated, and now the ashes is placed in an urne in the living room.
They did that because they have a daughter (7 yo) who had some difficulties saying goodbye to the dog that had been there all her life.
And when they go on vacation, I babysit the urne, because if their house should burn down while they are on vacation, at least the dog’s ashes are safe. And the little girl is happy ❣️
I respect all kinds of mourning, and if people don’t have any problems with giving their pets to a ferocious lion or a teethy alligator, why should I be outraged by that?
Normally pets are being reused to make soap! Is that more kind, when you think about it?
And now I can almost hear you’re asking: ‘What about Anton?’
Well, I answer immediately:
Anton is 7 yo, and when he is no longer racing for frisbees in the garden, but need to be put to the eternal sleep, I send him to a crematorium at Själland.
I don’t receive the ashes though, but he will be burnt as the two other dogs René and I have had.
Our first pet, a beautiful red cat named Pip, was hit by a car.
It was hideous because he dragged himself home (his hips and hind legs were crushed 😓) to his safe place, and we took him to the vet to get him x-rayed, but he couldn’t be saved. So the vet gave him two injections so he was put to sleep and we took him home.
René dug a grave in our garden, and at the same time some neighbours (the man was a major general, and that same day they celebrated his 60s birthday) were having a big garden party. So Pip was buried to the song ‘You are my sunshine’, while I cried and cried.
But looking back it was sweet, beautiful and funny at the same time.
So Russ, you see, in Denmark we can pretty much do what we like.
We have the outmost respect for each other and the way we like to live our lives and do the things that need to be done.
I did hear yesterday morning that the ‘zoo’ thing is big news all over the world.
And isn’t it a bit tragicomic that while people are dying in terrible wars, the weather is complete out of control and a lot of other awful things are happening, still journalists describe a phenomenon that has taken place in Denmark for years and years, and treat it to be a scandal 😃
But I thank you for looking out for me and my dog 😄
August 6th, 2025 at 14:21@ 54- yes indeed Jeremy Brett carried the story with him on set every time and didn’t hesitate to stop anyone from wandering off from what the correct story was. He would have annoyed people on set no doubt, but the end result was superb indeed. He apparently immersed himself so deep into the Holmes character, that he started to take on certain characteristics in his own life. Ten years they were filmed over and with his health deteriorating we can see a change in his appearance in the later episodes. He managed to finish it all, thankfully. David Suchet did a similar thing with Poirot. He would only do the stories correctly and as long as they did all the stories, not just some of them. I guess for some they are not ‘sexy’ enough actors or characters. Both wonderful actors who we will never see the likes of again. Cheers.
August 6th, 2025 at 22:14Has Karin now – after Ian Gillan, David Coverdale and Dan Baird – moved on to the great Bryan Ferry?
https://youtu.be/OqnSVkkgjzw
She’s a quick mover, I’ll say that much.
https://youtu.be/Aw1tN0Sm4Rw
Best song about a wife murdering her husband ever!
Didn’t you Danes chop up a healthy giraffe before school children and feed her to the lions? I tell you, it’s that violent Viking DNA, blood eagle (blóðörn in Old Norse, a language Karin still learned at school as a young girl being mature and all …) and all that …
https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSBqW2sQyswCSKCT8eBg5X84utziSb_CUbt2w&s
Seriously, I’m ok with those zoo practices. As for the neighborhood dog’s urn – isn’t it a bit late to protect him from incineration? 😂
Animals die like all of us will, but their shorter lifespans can often be tragic if they are part of the family.
I have a European wels catfish (Silurian glanis) albino in my pond, it’s already at 1,20 m, growing fast and will likely reach 2 m or a lot more one day, expected life span up to 90 years. It will certainly outlive me, so I can one day be fed to him/her. He/she is omnivorous and not too particular.
https://www.blinker.de/content/uploads/2014/10/albino2.jpg
August 6th, 2025 at 22:59@60
Re Marius, as the young giraffe was named, the reason he was put down was that although he was healthy, Marius was genetically unsuitable for future breeding in captivity.
People in the zoo tried to find a suitable place for Marius, but was unsuccessful. Ultimately, the zookeepers decided to euthanize Marius due to his genetic defect.
As you know Uwe, all in this world, or almost all, is about money! And unfortunately Marius wasn’t profitable for any zoo. Had he been I am sure some zoo would have taken him in.
Despite numerous offers to save Marius via a petition, he was euthanized on 9 February 2014.
His body was then autopsied in a public display and then fed to the park’s lions. The event received worldwide media coverage and generated backlash from several organizations and individuals, including death threats against zoo staff.
I cannot explain to you why this incident took so much place in the world’s heart and mind.
Maybe, just maybe, I find it peculiar that people run amok regarding one dead animal, but neglect completely little children dying of hunger, not so many miles from this well fed area we live in! Or these insane wars that still are taken place! As Ian so perfectly described it in ‘The Battle rages on’.
Marius did not suffer!
He wasn’t fed alive to the lions….
Our neighbours keep the ashes from their beloved Berner Sennen because of their little girl.
And I know the mother so well that when their daughter is ok with the situation, the ashes will be spread in their garden.
BTW: your pond must be of a considerable size when such a gigantic fish can live there ☺️
Shouldn’t we end this formidable exchange of opinions with a jolly song?
https://youtu.be/63c7KL4RTiA?si=SPxyDoH2vQokkFvJ
Ohhh man that band could do some serious rock’n’roll 😍😍😍
And what about these guys:
https://youtu.be/-QlsqyxUkro?si=cXK9cPBb85g62XDD
Aahhh, yes, young love… 😉☺️
August 7th, 2025 at 19:27Look wot you dun was a strong number, it sounded like nothing had sounded before.
Ah, yes, poor Marius the giraffe. We learn from it that in Scandinavia, where the fine concept of eugenics was nurtured in the beginning of the last century (finding quick acceptance in Germany with dreadful consequences), a less than perfect set of genes can endanger your life. Some dark clouds hovering even in the blue skies of Nordic countries …
https://helda.helsinki.fi/server/api/core/bitstreams/3e18e071-3887-4820-a129-6d0696f02d46/content
But giraffes aren’t people. I have no issues with one being fed to lions, that’s nature. I even found it positively transparent how the whole affair was explained as something natural to children.
August 8th, 2025 at 01:20@61
“the reason he was put down was that although he was healthy, Marius was genetically unsuitable for future breeding in captivity.”
Poor guy…
So basically you guys killed him cos he had asthenozoospermia? That’s very German of you (Sorry Uwe, Max and and any other Germans, but it had to be said) to “euthanize something because it is genetically unsuitable.
August 8th, 2025 at 05:01Uwe, why in the name of Lucifer’s portion did you get a catfish that grows big enough to devour a human, let alone a dog. I have watched a few documentaries on those ‘killer’ catfish out in the wild, huge beast’s indeed. Are they a different type. Don’t fall in the pond one day by mistake. We would all be devastated if that happened. We would have to get someone to replace you and I have yet to see a disciple being taught along those lines. Although Karin’s comments lately and the amount of links she has been posting has a certain familiarity about it. Cheers.
August 8th, 2025 at 06:15@62
“Look wot you dun was a strong number, it sounded like nothing had sounded before.”
– I have never in my life wanted to listen to Slade.
One of René’s best friends is a Slade-maniac! And every time Slade is being played, I vanish (out into the starry night with Anton, and enjoy the silence
BIG TIME 😃)
But well, thanks to you I guess, I now can hear it without fainting and whatnot 😄
I do still think the guitarist’ bangs are ridiculous 😁
“a less than perfect set of genes can endanger your life. Some dark clouds hovering even in the blue skies of Nordic countries …”
– now don’t be stupid Uwe! You know, I really hope you do, that to protect the different species, it’s very necessary to be careful with what genes there are at play! They live in a ‘closed’ environment and the situation would be completely different had they lived at the savanna and could breed in between each other.
Thank you so much for the link to the gentleman from Finland, I do not have the time to read it all 😆 but if it contains what I think it does, (read some few lines) then I will tell you in strictest confidence that every country in the world has something rotten about them ☺️
“But giraffes aren’t people. I have no issues with one being fed to lions, that’s nature. I even found it positively transparent how the whole affair was explained as something natural to children.”
– WHAT!?
So why all the fuss?
I am really grateful you found that series to me, the one with Peter Egan 🤗
August 8th, 2025 at 09:11But it’s quite funny to re-watch it, because I remember it so highly dramatic and very exciting, but now: I fall asleep now and then 😂 ok, I see it on my iPad lying in my bed, late at night, but nevertheless I’m surprised how much ‘damage’ my mind has been taken in, I mean: I’m used to much worse now 😄😄
@63
“Poor guy…”
– 😂🤣🤣
Arrhhh come on! How sheltered lives you may live in USA!
If “asthenozoospermia” is what I think it is (low sperm count in the male body) then I don’t think that was Marius’ problem. But of course I’m not sure!
August 8th, 2025 at 09:15If you really want me to, I will call the director of the zoo and ask! 😁
@64
“We would have to get someone to replace you and I have yet to see a disciple being taught along those lines. Although Karin’s comments lately and the amount of links she has been posting has a certain familiarity about it“
– 🤣🤣🤣
Ohhh THANKS MacGregor!
Well I can tell you that Uwe feels like one of my dear brothers, when it comes to pull me at my pigtails (a hair do Uwe! I really don’t have pigtails on my body..’) and being a constant nuisance 😄 but he would certainly be hard to miss.
August 8th, 2025 at 09:18Well, so would all of you in here 🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗
If “asthenozoospermia” is what I think it is (low sperm count in the male body) then I don’t think that was Marius’ problem. But of course I’m not sure!
Man, am I happy that before I stayed in Denmark for longer the first time I had – low testosterone or not – documented my genetic suitability via conceiving two children. My son was conceived in a fjord hut in Norway, imagine the pressure I would have felt knowing I better make this work or —> lions 🦁 🦁🦁 …
– now don’t be stupid Uwe! You know, I really hope you do, that to protect the different species, it’s very necessary to be careful with what genes there are at play! They live in a ‘closed’ environment and the situation would be completely different had they lived at the savanna and could breed in between each other.
Unfortunately, I disagree completely, liebe Karin. I don‘t believe in human or animal segregation. Species “invading“ new habitats and establishing themselves is part of evolutions grand chaos plan. Almost all species were once invasive or there would be no mustangs in North America. I also don’t give a damn which fish crossbreed in my pond (I have something like 20 or more different species) as long as general decorum is somewhat observed and it’s all between consenting adults.
That inbreeding in captivity can be an issue, granted! But wasn’t the giraffe stud’s issue that he couldn’t breed at all? 😂 Being devoured by lions because your fertility ain’t great strikes me as somewhat harsh – but maybe it’s my Roman-Catholic heritage that throws me back into the Colosseum a little …
https://youtu.be/uHFxNlgOprs
Never really liked cats either. 😂
Why do I keep a wels catfish, Herr MacGregor? Because they are fascinating (can you taste with your skin or register the electricity of other living organisms?), beautiful animals with interesting behavior although – much like me – unjustly maligned and haunted by a bad press. 😂 If everything you’ve read about wels catfish (yes, I have the European giant kind) was true, my pond would long be empty save for the four sturgeons Ivan, Natasha, Dimitri and Leonid which are by now too large even for the wels. Truth of the matter is: Silu, the wels catfish, has been with me for six or even more years and I have never ever seen him/her eat or even chase any other fish. (S)He prefers sturgeon pellets with a high protein and fat content. He or she also always swims with her mouth open which has me developing the theory that (s)he is very much a plankton eater, more like a whale actually. Young wels catfish live off plankton, maybe they never totally give it up? They are omnivorous and basically eat what gives them sufficient sustenance —> expensive posh sturgeon pellets. 🤗😂
August 8th, 2025 at 16:06Picture the scene, a tragedy of course with little drama. One day Uwe is standing in his garden, then his neighbours will hear a “gulp” sound followed by a huge burp. This is what they tell the police when they are trying to find out, ‘just what happened to that man’. When looking around the garden they notice a rather bigger than usual catfish looking up at them from the pond with a huge smile on its face. There ends the unsolved mystery of ‘the missing man in his garden’. Cheers.
August 8th, 2025 at 22:20@68
“Unfortunately, I disagree completely, liebe Karin. I don‘t believe in human or animal segregation. Species “invading“ new habitats and establishing themselves is part of evolutions grand chaos plan”
– sometimes it seems you misunderstand me at purpose! 😄
I meant of course ‘in the zoos’!
“But wasn’t the giraffe stud’s issue that he couldn’t breed at all?”
August 9th, 2025 at 04:02– I don’t know…🤔
@ 68 -“I don‘t believe in human or animal segregation. Species “invading“ new habitats and establishing themselves is part of evolutions grand chaos plan”. What, the worst organism of all (human beings) introducing a filthy pest organism to a once pristine environment and that introduced species totally destroying everything and reducing it to a cess pit for all eternity? Do you not enjoy the natural environment Uwe, saying something like that. Or does the natural world only exist in a postcard holiday destination, meaning we just take it for granted that it will be there for my holiday. Most living creatures need fresh water and air as we know, When that is not available, well we know the results of that. We are supposed to be ‘mature’ enough to look after our environment as best we can for obvious reasons. The so called ‘higher intelligence’ of humans. To not allow it to go to the dogs, simply because of arrogant humans who don’t give a rats ass about the future health of all and sundry. Are you are placing that in the chaos scene and also a dystopian world of sorts, knowing that you will not be around to be affected by it. The folly of man eh? Regarding catfish, of smaller variety and I have come across many of them while snorkelling in the fresh water river we had access to from our property, 1995 to 2002 era. Eel tailed Catfish (Tandanus tandanus) with their cleared two metre circle on the river bed for their nest. They continue to fan the nest for many weeks until all the eggs are hatched. Platypus also use electro sensors in their bill to detect prey on the river bed floor. A remarkable creature also unfortunately facing extinction, I loathe deliberate modern human destruction and it’s negative impacts. Part of a poisonous chaotic evolution plan I guess. Cheers.
https://www.nativefish.asn.au/home/page/Eel-Tailed-Catfish
August 9th, 2025 at 04:05@69
“One day Uwe is standing in his garden, then his neighbours will hear a “gulp” sound followed by a huge burp.”
– 😄😄😆
MacGregor, hopefully his career as a well respected and very skilled lawyer has been giving him a somewhat different (I mean bitter 😂) taste, so the gigantic fish thinks for himself: thanks but no thanks Uwe, but that nifty little wife of yours…. 😃😄
August 9th, 2025 at 04:07And I’m sure Edith is very clever, even has some streets smart, so she knows how to handle such a situation!
That eel tailed catfish is cool. I have real eels
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/58/Anguilla_anguilla.jpg
in my pond too – supposedly a main diet of wels catfish just like the trenches/doctor fish
https://duwaterscapes.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/tench.jpg
I also have swimming in there. They should all be long gone if Silu was what people write about her/him. But the truth is: We actually know very little about the dietary habits of Wels catfish during their complete life. All we know is that they are omnivorous and basically eat anything, with a preference for what is easiest to get (like all hunter/scavenger animals). In Chernobyl for instance the wels catfish (unperturbed by the radiation) happily eat bread:
https://youtu.be/hnB46GmE95s
My Silu certainly doesn’t show this behavior (below) though (s)he is of similar size by now:
https://youtu.be/8J2PXULjjb0
(S)he never preys stealthily or chases other fish, (s)he does, however, bump them away if they intrude her favorite spots, wels catfish are territorial.
I don’t have illusions: If I stopped feeding my fish (I feed daily between half and one kilogram of pellets, pearls, beads, flakes, chips and wafers to them during summer when their metabolism is at its peak) for, say, two or three weeks, Silu might then very well use his/her inherent skill set to, uhum, explore alternative diets! 😂 But (s)he has grown up among other fish in this pond since (s)he was a baby, reared on yummy sturgeon food (the Rolls Royce of pond fish food).
https://encrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com/shopping?q=tbn:ANd9GcTfZRMf72HYeclhGvFJ1yVXZQirZfhFydR2EJPKBxcB67qleM93gErzCuvKxPO1hSJaU2Cp8oKf08UGDm0lD_ywDcEZdhfClfVjt6wulXUZjLgRUYeGnOsyNA
(S)He obviously gets what (s)he needs through other means than hunting fish (oops, did I mention though that sturgeon food has a very high content of fish meal 🤣).
Re conservationism, I’m all for it, Herr MacGregor, you misunderstood me, I once wanted to study zoology rather than law. I just think that the continuous expansion of species environment boundaries is part of the grand evolutionary plan or we would still have dinosaurs roaming the earth rather than seeing mammals (us humans among them) in the lead. [It follows from my agnostic/non-spiritual stance that I regard us as just another animal species, albeit one that can develop abstract thoughts.]
August 9th, 2025 at 14:34Fair enough Uwe, I did get on my bandwagon there, I have to get back to the music, so to speak. Jeremy Wade’s ‘River Monsters’ was the tv documentary where I watched all those aquatic monster beasts. Fascinating and yes that Chernobyl one was on there from my memory. Cheers.
August 9th, 2025 at 22:23@ 72, Karin, surely you are not suggesting that the Catfish instantly rejected Uwe because he tasted too bitter??????? So I guess the fish was just lying on top of Uwe so he wouldn’t bob to the surface and then the police would arrest poor Edith. This would make a great movie don’t you think. We should contact one of the streaming giants. Stardom here we come. Cheers.
August 9th, 2025 at 23:26@75
I remember we decided to make a motion picture before MacGregor 😃
But it didn’t happen.
However with this intricacy in the storytelling we must be sitting on a goldmine (or goldfish ☺️)
But no matter what, I will always be on Edith’s side (you know that poor woman suffers endlessly with, well, the pond owner😄) and maybe we could make it into some thriller?
The title could be: “Gone with the catfish”
And now we have the title, the rest practically writes itself 😁
August 10th, 2025 at 08:12Hey, you two rookie directors, before you develop the storyboard for your joint Jylland-Tasmania production by Rural Flicks any further, I think your movie has already been done!
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“River Monsters” was a great documentary on Silurus glanis btw, I saw it in utter fascination. Even Edith – normally not a great fish enthusiast – stopped what she was doing and sat down to watch it (I do give her breaks from the housework, that should be self-understood in any modern relationship).
August 10th, 2025 at 18:06@77
“I do give her breaks from the housework, that should be self-understood in any modern relationship”
August 11th, 2025 at 05:05– you are indeed the blueprint of husbands 😁