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On the other hand, the time he ate caterpillars and started feeling unwell was kind of funny to me, but that was more along the lines of 'he shouldn't eat strange bugs'.
At least it's not like one of those cooking things where you have a dvd that you follow through the stages with the host.
"And now you can eat the bug."
*eats the bug*
"Crap... apparently I shouldn't have done that... yeah, don't eat the bug."
*annoyed face*
Yeah it's also worth watching for his face when he eats bugs.
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This mud stinging is fething childish men, its all about your POV. It's entertainment, and I don't think your meant to take it seriously.
Ray Mears is a fat knacker, you can't tell me he eats nothing but moss!
It's just TV, I don't see why any of you should get offended ny it.
Although...... Did anyone see that catching Chris Ryan show!? Now that was an abortion!
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mattyrm wrote: Ray Mears is a fat knacker, you can't tell me he eats nothing but moss!
He doesn't live at sustinence level when he isn't filming an episode. I'm sure when he is back home he devours food so that he keeps that layer of blubber to help him survive.
Amidst the mists and coldest frosts he thrusts his fists against the posts and still insists he sees the ghosts.
is it wrong that I saw that as "He slept with a sheep"?
Mandorallen turned back toward the insolently sneering baron. 'My Lord,' The great knight said distantly, 'I find thy face apelike and thy form misshapen. Thy beard, moreover, is an offence against decency, resembling more closely the scabrous fur which doth decorate the hinder portion of a mongrel dog than a proper adornment for a human face. Is it possibly that thy mother, seized by some wild lechery, did dally at some time past with a randy goat?' - Mimbrate Knight Protector Mandorallen.
Excerpt from "Seeress of Kell", Book Five of The Malloreon series by David Eddings.
"You need not fear us, unless you are a dark heart, a vile one who preys on the innocent; I promise, you can’t hide forever in the empty darkness, for we will hunt you down like the animals you are, and pull you into the very bowels of hell." Iron - Within Temptation
I used to watch Bear alot. Then one day during a repeat show, I said screw it and watched Les Stroud. I hated Bear from then on. Les is a badass. A badass with a harp
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Albatross wrote:I wouldn't call Grylls a total 'fraud' necessarily - he was in the UK Special Forces Reserve. I'm sure he knows his stuff.
It is, however, a TV show. Let's bear that in mind.
I agree with this (although Bruce Parry bores me senseless). Although his shows may be staged, Bear does produce good television and is plenty qualified.
However, Ray Mears is a ledge, although no where near as entertaining. Also, is it bad that I don't know who Les Stroud is? Admittedly, I am a brit...
Also, has anyone noticed how wherever he is, Bear Gryll's always climbs a tree? My brother noticed this; wherever he may be he will always find a tree to climb. Always...
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Wiki wrote: In 1990 Stroud became a guide for Black Feather Wilderness Adventures leading canoe excursions into the Northern Ontario wilds.[3] It was also during this time while on a survival course he met his future wife, photographer Sue Jamison.[2] They married in 1994 and together left for a year-long honeymoon in the remote Wabakimi area of Ontario which was to become the basis of the documentary Snowshoes and Solitude. Afterward, the couple moved to Yellowknife in the Northwest Territories where Stroud was employed as an outdoor instructor to special needs individuals of aboriginal descent.[7] Stroud and Jamison then settled in Huntsville, Ontario, and started the outdoor instructional outfit Wilderness Voice and the media company Wilderness Spirit Productions.[6] Inspired by the popularity of the television show Survivor, Stroud pitched a more authentic version of the show to The Discovery Channel Canada. Stroud produced two programs titled One Week in the Wilderness and Winter in the Wilderness for @discovery.ca in 2001.[2] The success of these specials led to the development of Survivorman, a show that followed a similar format of leaving Stroud on his own, with minimal equipment, in the wilderness to videotape his survival experience.
wiki wrote:After his marriage to Jamison in 1994, the two of them spent one year in the Canadian wilderness living a paleolithic existence. They traveled to Goldsborough Lake (50°41′55″N 89°20′46″W / 50.69861°N 89.34611°W / 50.69861; -89.34611) deep in the Wabakimi and built a cabin with no metal, plastic, or otherwise manufactured tools. They took a store of traditional foods and attempted to supplement it by hunting and trapping. Family and medical emergencies brought them out of the bush on two occasions. Stroud filmed their primitive living experience and released the 50 minute documentary, Snowshoes and Solitude, which was named Best Documentary at the Muskoka Film Festival and Best Film at the Waterwalker Film Festival.[13]
In 2001 Stroud produced two one-hour specials for the science news show @discovery.ca. These segments follow the same format as Survivorman with Stroud filming his own survival in the wilderness. They were originally broadcast as daily segments over the course of one week but were repackaged as two one-hour specials titled Stranded.[2] The popularity of these pilots spawned the show Survivorman. Stroud produced 23 episodes of the show which began airing in 2004.[2] Stroud also composed and performed the opening theme music of Survivorman.[14]
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we've always been into trekking around the "wilderness" (not too much of that in ireland).
You must have missed old Bears episode set out West then He slept in a sheep if I recall.
I've been out the Wesht indeed, did some research on hill sheep in Mayo and a trek around Kerry and some rambling around Galway. Few and far between are the places where you're more than a days walk in any direction away from some sort of man made shelter, and probably, a small village with a shop .
The weather is foul enough to make it a tough environment to survive in (more because it's unpredictable than because it's extreme) but compared to some other areas of the world (large tracts of the americas come to mind) it's not that bad for surviving in. Plenty of easily scroungable grub on the coast too!
so why is bear grylls more popular is he's more of a fake?
Because he humiliates himself on tv. Seriously, who gives a gak about who can or can't survive in the wild? What matters is that when Grylls jumps out of a plane you know he's going to end up eating a bug, and probably drink his own wee.
And that's ratings gold!
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Adam Smith, who must have been some kind of leftie or something.
Goliath wrote:He climbed everest at the age of 23, and is the youngest chief scout since Robert Baden-Powell (the guy who formed the scout movement).
But of course people on the internet say that he's fake, so he must be!!
Not only was it leaked, but I believe he also confirmed that during his Born Survivor series, sections of it were faked. You can simply type 'Bear Grylls Fake' or 'Bear Grylls News' into Google and you'll find a good number of links to the story from credible sources.
Mandorallen turned back toward the insolently sneering baron. 'My Lord,' The great knight said distantly, 'I find thy face apelike and thy form misshapen. Thy beard, moreover, is an offence against decency, resembling more closely the scabrous fur which doth decorate the hinder portion of a mongrel dog than a proper adornment for a human face. Is it possibly that thy mother, seized by some wild lechery, did dally at some time past with a randy goat?' - Mimbrate Knight Protector Mandorallen.
Excerpt from "Seeress of Kell", Book Five of The Malloreon series by David Eddings.
"You need not fear us, unless you are a dark heart, a vile one who preys on the innocent; I promise, you can’t hide forever in the empty darkness, for we will hunt you down like the animals you are, and pull you into the very bowels of hell." Iron - Within Temptation
I thought he was interesting before I found out it was fake.
I guess the sad part was that he went to THE WEST OF IRELAND,now I'm Irish,I've been to the west,it's great,a house every few kilometre,it's nowhere near DANGEROUS WILDERNESS like he was saying.
You know, the title of this thread is a little weighted.
Also, I always thought he was stupid.
"Look at this dead camel in the middle of the dessert, I will now cut him open and drink his..."
"Look at this cliff (15 feet tall at most), I will now jump down, and if I roll when I hit the bottom it won't kill/hurt me as much..."
...
Les Stroud is amazing. Operating his cameras is probably one of the biggest things that makes him amazing. He always sets of his cameras for dynamic walks, and to make everything more interesting, but it extremely costing physically to walk twice as far as you normally would just for the cameras.
And he makes some awesome traps.
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I hardly ever watch this type of gak, i find the whole civvie "soldier man" shows ridiculous, however I did see him eat a big grub once when my nephew was watching it, and this was entirely lol worthy.
Excuse the quality, but i wanted to find a nice 10 second long one, and this was the only showing.
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