Continuing my loosely flung together theme of smug self sati­fied ‘joy­ful’ films I found on the web, the fol­low­ing peice of genius is some­thing I only recently found — although has been doing the rounds for the last year or so. Initially used to pro­mote the BBC’s iPlayer ser­vice, but also doing a fine job of show­cas­ing the BBC’s wild­life pro­gram­ming and keep­ing ex-Python’s employed, it’s a mar­vel­lous bit of film making.

It’s prob­ably worth not­ing at this point that I’ve had a long-held belief that pen­guins were always up to more than they were let­ting on– I mean, why would any­thing will­ingly live in such a cold envir­on­ment unless they knew some­thing we didn’t? Why would they favour swim­ming to such an extent that they effect­ively removed their abil­ity to fly? (My answer — the Hollow Earth the­ory of an ancient civil­lisa­tion inhab­it­ing the inside of the planet is true — the Antarctic is the entrance to Paradise)

Seriously, I’ve bored people in pubs with this sort of chat.

(yes,  I know it’s fake. Happy April Fools and all that)