I know it's the Daily Fail, but still pretty fascinating stuff.
(, Mon 20 Jul 2009, 0:40, Reply)
give it 5 years and they will all be pissed up druggies with ipod adiction. but i hope that never happens, it makes me feel happy knowing that some people live life without all our bullshit!
(, Mon 20 Jul 2009, 0:52, Reply)
We don't need to ruin their culture
(, Mon 20 Jul 2009, 1:11, Reply)
and we need to ruin their land to grow palm trees for biofuel
Their culture will be preserved for eternity in a National Geographic Documentary
(, Mon 20 Jul 2009, 8:13, Reply)
"One of Earths last uncontacted tribes", so why not scare the shit out of them by flying a loud, unfamiliar object over them just to gawp at them? Poor folks.
(, Mon 20 Jul 2009, 1:29, Reply)
Whats to say that there aren't aliens then; looking over us as we look over them, commenting on how we probably think their transport vehicle is some sort of bird?
(, Mon 20 Jul 2009, 1:34, Reply)
* why not do this from a satellite or vehicle too high for these people to see, rather than bother them?
* How do we know they are there without having used satellites? Surely if they have seen us before, then technically we HAVE contacted them...
* How do we know there aren't more people we haven't contacted? If we'd contacted them then..well...we'd know they were there....
* The quote "The tribespeople are likely to think the plane that took this photograph is a spirit or large bird" is hilarious. How do we know the natives aren't saying "There's another cunt from the daily mail, if i can throw this pointy stick up his arse, can i borrow your copy of Ghostbusters on blu-ray?"
(, Mon 20 Jul 2009, 1:41, Reply)
that they had been contacted previously, and that the guy that released them told a little bit of a porky to raise awareness of logging practices that threaten communities such as these.
(, Mon 20 Jul 2009, 1:45, Reply)
I think it's slightly horrible. I have visions of a plummy retired colonal doing laps in his plane while the stupid natives are scared shitless, look at em, I'll buzz em lower next time, haw haw haw!
...sorry, I have strange visions sometimes...
(, Mon 20 Jul 2009, 1:44, Reply)
And pretty much was determined to be a bit of a stretching of the truth. As Jorvic said above, it was just some hippy-fueled "SAVE THE TREES AND THE PEOPLES TOO" thing that the press ate up. I'm all for saving the planet and all, but since so many people made a fuss over the funny painted men, and a year has passed, I'm sure they're all browsing b3ta on their laptops by now.
Hello silly painted men.
(, Mon 20 Jul 2009, 4:16, Reply)
made those red guys into Oompa-Loompas when the photo first came out - can't find in Search..
(, Mon 20 Jul 2009, 4:36, Reply)
..shortly to be followed by an 'expose'* of how they are coming over to our country and poaching our animals, getting paid benefits to do so and stealing all the jobs in Hull. And trying to kill Phillip so they can marry the queen and steal her away to live in the jungle.
*honest!
(, Mon 20 Jul 2009, 9:55, Reply)