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T-Rex · #1

Everyone else is all Nature nature smoochie smoochie. Not Bear. He's like "Fuck nature. I'm Bear Grylls".

It would be an honour to be kicked in the nuts by this man.

Bear Grylls > You

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bear_Grylls

MetalMilitia · #2

"Fuck Nature, I'm staying in a luxury hotel" more like.

Though I did quite enjoy the series when it was on.

Still like Ray Mears better though.

T-Rex · #3

The difference being; If stuck in the woods and needing food, Ray Mears will look for berries and plants that can provide him with the energy he needs. Bear Grylls will find some scorpions.

MetalMilitia · #4

Ray Mears built a tent out of sticks, what have YOU ever done?

T-Rex · #5

I once pretended to be sleeping to avoid an uncomfortable conversation with my mom.

darkvare · #6

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?

executioneer · #7

i like his brother foreman better, he cooks all kinds of crazy animal meats indoors

J. Tithonus Pednaud · #8

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.

Hurude · #9

exibit A:

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=3UpSlpvb1is

exibit B:

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=lw_8IbgLHFQ

what a TWAT!

Dr. Boogie · #10

And it says it right in that wikipedia page you linked to, T-Rex. Come on.

Esuohlim · #11

I watched five minutes of his show once and it was just of him getting all naked on the Antarctic.

Misdemonar · #12

Les stroud kicks more ass

Evil Robot · #13

This man,badass as he is, must have had some fairly violent attacks of diarrhea.

sspadowsky · #14

Les Stroud > Bear Grylls. By a long shot.

T-Rex · #15

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.

Dr. Boogie · #16

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...

J. Tithonus Pednaud · #17

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.

MattJack · #18

But Bear is so handsome

MattJack · #19

and he's English

Rez · #20

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

Sethomas · #21

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.

T-Rex · #22

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

Esuohlim · #23

Quote:

Originally Posted by Esuohlim

I watched five minutes of his show once and it was just of him getting all naked on the Antarctic.

Also this was after he was all "Whoops I fell into the water haha" and it's bad enough to have to be his camera guy following him around in sub-zero weather but I don't think I'd want to have to videotape Bear Grylls' dong.

sloth · #24

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.