St.Kilda: Island on the edge

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Starts in about twenty minutes on channel 3 (scottish)
I'd quite like to visit st.kilda sometime. Apparently they have a deadly secret to unveil tonight ...

 

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That was a bit pants I thought. Their deadly secret was shit as well.

 

[Stoi]

That was a bit pants I thought. Their deadly secret was shit as well.

go on then, what was it?

 

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The st. kildans were polluting the environment and themselves by burning peat and fertilising the soil with dead fulmars. Thus, the view of them living at one with nature was false. Something like that anyway.

 

[Stoi]

The st. kildans were polluting the environment and themselves by burning peat and fertilising the soil with dead fulmars. Thus, the view of them living at one with nature was false. Something like that anyway.

F*ck sake!! What were they supposed to do - have no heating and live off fulmar soup alone? And, just out of interest, did any St Kildans ever claim to have been living at one with nature ?

Edited to add: Sounds like a daft programme!

 

[Ich bin ein Mod]

What do you expect from STV?

 

[weepiper]

Pah, I'd quite like to have seen that but we can only get Border or Tyne Tees ITV here

Was my mate Donald William Stewart on it? He's done quite a lot of research on the St Kildans.

 

[Mrs Magpie]

There was a great programme about St Kilda on BBC Radio 4...I'll see if there's a listen again link....

 

[Mrs Magpie]

I've not succeeded.

 

[dozzer]

One of my old flatmates went to work on St Kilda, she was paid to count sheep.

Or maybe it was birds.

There are a lot of birds though, so it's probably sheep.

Or goats?

 

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I've not succeeded.

Damn! Would've liked to have heard that.

 

[ChrisFilter]

I thought this was a thread about St Kilda in Melbourne.. man I miss it

 

[pilchardman]

My brother went to St Kilda to count sheep, too. Maybe he knows your ex flatmate, dozzer?

My other brother (who is an Aussie citizen) has a St Kilda footie top, ChrisFilter. Maybe... <scratches head> ...maybe you are him.

 

[nino_savatte]

Speaking of evacuations and depopulations, it is reckoned that Papa Stour in Shetland could go the same way...though this isn't the first time that this sort of thing has been talked about.
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,6903,1572674,00.html

Apparently Papa's population has fallen to around 20, which is less than Foula had before the evacuation iirc.

 

[Belushi]

The st. kildans were polluting the environment and themselves by burning peat and fertilising the soil with dead fulmars. Thus, the view of them living at one with nature was false. Something like that anyway.

What a crap deadly secret, I was hoping they were secretly building an atomic bomb or something...

 

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Cannibalism. Now that would have been cool.

 

[cal]

perhaps a blofeld style spectre base?