No joke Attenborough saying 'cubs' is my favourite wordMy dear Dolly,
I think growing up consists of seeing every sacred cow you ever considered holy taken out and slaughtered.
When i was in my early 20's I thought that Asians, well, what you'd call SE Asians, had all the wisdom the west lacked. And Bali, where i spent many months living in, was some kind of gamalon tinkling paradise where nothing ever went wrong and where all the people were uber peaceful, unlike us big clumsy Europeans. But then i found out that during the anti communist coup of 1965 the Balinese alone executed 50 000 ethnic chinese. They'd have a village meeting, decide they were commos and take them out back and cut their throats.
i was devastated.
I thought Robert Falcon Scott was heroic until i read Roland Huntford's 'Amundsen and Scott' and found out he was a bumbling narcissistic idiot whose idiocy killed his team.
And so it goes on.
It probably is Attenborough. And I always thought he had such a lovely voice...
You're right though, many of our childhood hero's have in recent years been outed as rapists, nonces, etc I personally used to think Jimmy Savile was a top bloke as a child , and I even went to see Gary Glitter supporting Girlschool as a teen. and thought he was amazing..
he says cubs twice in the first 20 seconds