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| May 29th, 2008 03:11 PM | ||
| Tadao | I saw 2 mins of Bear and turned him off. I was hoping for Survivorman. | |
| May 29th, 2008 12:30 PM | ||
| Fathom Zero | I remember that episode, it was the one where he took a truck apart and later used part of the dash to keep his kidneys warm. Survivorman blows my mind. | |
| May 29th, 2008 11:51 AM | ||
| AChimp |
Survivorman is way better. There was a story a few months ago about a guy in my province whose snowmobile broke down and he walked back to town over the course of a few days using the stuff he remembered from Survivorman's boreal forest episode. Grylls just goes out of his way to do stupid supervised stunts that would probably get you killed. |
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| May 27th, 2008 12:21 AM | ||
| Mr.Hoopla | I want to see a show where an older british gent shoots elephants with a huge rifle. Is that too much to ask? | |
| May 18th, 2008 05:36 AM | ||
| sloth |
every ex-public schoolboy i've ever met has seriously fawned over bear grylls like he was gods gift to the unburdened children of privilege. I think it's something to do with the distinguished heritage of landed gentry going off and conquering the vast unknown because they really have nothing else to do with their time. ray mears is sooooo much better. he taught tribesmen how to make fire again!he might not take shelter in the womb of an eviscerated camel or whatever, but that's probably because it could probably feed a whole tribe or some similarly grylls-esque arsehole thing to do. |
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| May 17th, 2008 02:51 AM | ||
| Esuohlim |
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| May 16th, 2008 03:33 PM | ||
| T-Rex |
Hahaha Seth, that sounds like a more practical way of getting honey. You guys have convinced me, he's doesn't seem as badass anymore. MJ, if you were English, I'd love you too 
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| May 16th, 2008 02:54 PM | ||
| Sethomas |
I remember watching one of these shows (I think Survivorman or whatever) and he made a fire in Alaska then went to sleep right next to it. In all my wilderness training, I was told that it's a tremendously bad idea to do that because your body's heat regulation will turn itself off very quickly while being exposed to an exterior source of heat but once the heat is gone it takes a relatively long time to pick back up again. This, I was told, was a very common cause of hypothermia--people spend too much time around a fire and when they have to leave it their bodies are far more vulnerable than usual to the cold. I do wonder how accurate that is, though. I mean, yeah, I have personal anecdotal evidence that if you spend half an hour around a fire and then walk away from it, all of a sudden the same temperature feels much much colder than it did earlier. I can see that being justified more by the way the body interprets the senses, however, than an actual reflection of metabolic processes. Anybody know? Oh, and without having seen the episode with the bees, I hope this jackass didn't neglect to mention that the proper way to get honey is to build a fire underneath or near the hive with lots of wet fuel so as to smoke out the bees. In a survival situation, the risk of getting stung is a far greater concern than the calorie value of the honey itself. |
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| May 16th, 2008 02:34 PM | ||
| Rez |
saw that youtube video of him traversing dangerous crevasses in hawaii only to have joe putz do the same thing then pan out to a nearby freeway. BOTH OUR LIVES WERE RUINED you dont need to kill a goddamned alligator to make a tent if you stay in a luxury resort when the cameras turn off. jackass |
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| May 16th, 2008 12:54 PM | ||
| MattJack |
and he's English
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| May 16th, 2008 12:53 PM | ||
| MattJack |
But Bear is so handsome
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| May 16th, 2008 12:39 PM | ||
| J. Tithonus Pednaud |
That's exactly right, it's the bullshit portion people have a major problem with. He's the Dr. Phil of survival. He's also the Jackass of survival...with the gross out antics. I know that people have actually been saved by watching Les Stroud - Suvivorman. That guy really is out there alone, with a backup group tracking him. |
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| May 16th, 2008 11:56 AM | ||
| Dr. Boogie |
He's in a hotel in that shot, rex. Come on. And people might think more of him if he didn't try to make it seem like he was alone in the wild trying to survive. If his show was just him giving you survival tips, I don't think people would hold it against him, but the fact that he lied about it... |
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| May 16th, 2008 04:02 AM | ||
| T-Rex |
Nah man! It doesn't matter that he was maxin' and relaxin' by a pool somewhere, he's still insanely badass for fighting, using, abusing and then eating live animals. The man is not afraid of having painful shits. "Have had a bit of an epic on the last two shoots in Mexico and the deep southern swamps! First, I got whopped by a bee whilst raiding a bee's nest to get honey. Hence the photo here (although I did get the honey!). But it meant that I had to spend the rest of the shoot looking like this, feeling terrible and only able to open my eyes with much effort. It made fighting a big pit viper rattlesnake interesting! (Although I did eventually get it. I then could eat it and use its skin to store my urine whilst in the burning hot salt pan desert. (The cocktail of snake innards and pee was truly terrible!) I was then in the swamps -- these are always the toughest shows to do -- and I did end up having a pretty full-on encounter with a 6-foot alligator. I came out on top, just, skinned it for cordage for my camp to sleep in, rubbed the alligator fat on me for mosquito repellant and then ate it. In short, I am looking forward to a bit of a holiday with my family next week! Bear x" He wasn't really in the wild, but if his show was called "Bear Grylls does insane stunts and eats some crazy shit, a lot", then the grief would be unfounded. |
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| May 15th, 2008 06:38 PM | ||
| sspadowsky | Les Stroud > Bear Grylls. By a long shot. | |
| May 15th, 2008 05:43 PM | ||
| Evil Robot | This man,badass as he is, must have had some fairly violent attacks of diarrhea. | |
| May 15th, 2008 05:17 PM | ||
| Misdemonar | Les stroud kicks more ass | |
| May 15th, 2008 02:21 PM | ||
| Esuohlim | I watched five minutes of his show once and it was just of him getting all naked on the Antarctic. | |
| May 15th, 2008 01:14 PM | ||
| Dr. Boogie | And it says it right in that wikipedia page you linked to, T-Rex. Come on. | |
| May 15th, 2008 12:22 PM | ||
| Hurude |
exibit A: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=3UpSlpvb1is exibit B: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=lw_8IbgLHFQ what a TWAT! |
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| May 15th, 2008 11:12 AM | ||
| J. Tithonus Pednaud |
Didn't Bear get busted for being full of it? Something about staging most of the things in his program... Could be mistaken as I am a Survivorman fan myself, who is way more badass than Bear. |
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| May 15th, 2008 11:05 AM | ||
| executioneer | i like his brother foreman better, he cooks all kinds of crazy animal meats indoors | |
| May 15th, 2008 10:33 AM | ||
| darkvare | bear is better cause he teches you to get out and ray only teaches you to stay there and survive and really who wants to stay in the forest more than he needs to? | |
| May 15th, 2008 10:06 AM | ||
| T-Rex | I once pretended to be sleeping to avoid an uncomfortable conversation with my mom. | |
| May 15th, 2008 09:02 AM | ||
| MetalMilitia |
Ray Mears built a tent out of sticks, what have YOU ever done? 
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