All of Bear Grylls new fame is killing me.

btuner said:
wow that was origional :jerkit:
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Come on man you can't come up with a snappier come back than that? Think about your hero Bear and ask yourself "what would he do in this situation" then go jump off the roof or eat something out of the trash can, preferably with maggots on it.

I'm still waiting for the Man Vs Wild episode with Bear, Steve-O and Johnny Knoxville.Chris
 
did i say hero? no i was just stating fact, like i said i work for the Nielsen ratings and so many people that i talk to, talk about MvW. Its one of the fastest growing cable television shows on now. people like it, Bear is a likeable guy, he does crazy ish and makes it through to make another episode.
And oh yes maggots mmmmm mmmmm
 
I think that Bear is a genius . . .

LOOK at all the hype his show has generated.

He even has those who profess to hate him with all their hearts tuning into his show on a weekly basis. THAT takes skill!
Hate him or not, he has created himself a very effective marketing machine, and his show has generated enough hype to attract supporters AND detractors.
That's pretty impressive.

I watch his show for the same reason I watch Dirty Jobs, or MXC: to see people get beat up for my personal entertainment. If someone decides to watch his show for their survival information, good on 'em.

That is all.
 
Strobengh said:
I think that Bear is a genius . . .

LOOK at all the hype his show has generated.

He even has those who profess to hate him with all their hearts tuning into his show on a weekly basis. THAT takes skill!
Hate him or not, he has created himself a very effective marketing machine, and his show has generated enough hype to attract supporters AND detractors.
That's pretty impressive.

I watch his show for the same reason I watch Dirty Jobs, or MXC: to see people get beat up for my personal entertainment. If someone decides to watch his show for their survival information, good on 'em.
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Good points, Love or hate him I still can't help but watch, I was the same way with Steve Erwin when it first came on but I got bored quickly.

There is a bit of a problem with Bear however, stupid people emulating him and hurting/killing themselves. Now you could argue that, it is darwinism at its finest, or you could argue that people blame everything on rock music and video games too. But I for one would hate to think of a lost, thirsty, boy scout drinking from a stagnant pool because he saw Bear do it, so he can be rescued in a couple of hours with some nice intestinal buddies. Chris
 
I've read somewhere else that its all setups. He's sleeping in hotel rooms at night. Even the gross things he eats and drinks are props. The maggots, I read, were fake.
 
i think that les isnt called out because alot of the stuff he does is far too practical and realistic to be even deemed "fake". Not that its a bad thing though
 
The biggest problem with Bear isn't the people on this forum. We are the third group that make up people that mostly know what he is and how much of what he does would never be done in a real survival situation. There are two other groups of people. First is the over 22 year old group who might think he is cool and ask someone they know who camps or hunts about some of the stupid stuff he does because "it just doesn't look right". They know they are mortal and almost certainly aren't going to try any of this crap. The other group is the 14 to 22 year olds that are going to be injured or killed because of testosterone poisoning. They aren't going to ask anyone anything. They saw it done; therefore they know they can do it. For most of us those years are long gone but I still remember us taunting each other about stupid stuff like that. Making remarkably stupid decisions in hindsight.

That is where the real problem is.

KR
 
Ok then, look at the dung from any grazing herbivore on the planet and tell me if you could wring water out of it.....then look at the footage and tell me it's not a sponge. While we're on the subject, an elephant digests only about 40% of what it eats, hence the constant grazing. This is pretty common as grasses are so hard to digest. The excess does however, provide a valuable source of moisture in the African bush. Now, why would the elephant's biology allow that moisture to be wasted, especially since a primary function of the digestive tract is to extract moisture ? That being said, it would have been much more credible to eat the dung, as many animals do. How about using the dry stuff as firewood.....

His efforts are completely and utterly worthless as a survival primer, but it's funny to watch.....especially since he does it with a straight face.
 
My 17 year old son who is a solid B student saw a video on line where a TV show goes around on the street and pays people to do stupid things. On this episode they payed someone to drink syrup of ipecac, he showed me the video and I admit I laughed my ass off. He then asked what ipecac was and where to get it, I told him and told him it was a common across the counter drug kept in a lot of first aid kits. I then told him that if he gave it to someone as a "trick" that he very well could be arrested and charged with assault and if he took it to school that he would be kicked out of school and charged with bringing a dangerous substance or drug to school.

He bought some and took it to school, 2 friends new what it was and what it would do, split the whole bottle, and then proceeded to fill the classroom with puke. My son was suspended for 7 days, and had to finish the rest of the semester at an alternative school. He was charged with a class 3 infraction, bringing narcotics to school, which I talked the principal down to a class 2, disruptive behavior, the only reason I got it reduced was my son's grades and this was the first time he had gotten in trouble. The only reason that he was not charged with assault and arrested, is that the 2 kids that took it admitted that they new what it was and what it would do and asked my son to give it to them.

I am very well aware of what adolescent boys will do. Chris
 
let's not forget bear man was SAS. Stupid As $hit. stupid is stupid no matter who's Army you served in.
SEMPER FI
 
Yes, this is a dead horse, but I had to offer that it is one of my very few evening refuges from sitcoms, idols, realities, fantacies, and cars that always explode like nukes. Spare me. I'll take Bear with gratitude. ss.
 
btuner said:
of people are gonna say that
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The man I read this 411 from was a consultant who was there during the filming of the first episodes. I don't wanna name names. But it would be hard to not believe him.
 
MIKE MACINTOSH said:
let's not forget bear man was SAS. Stupid As $hit. stupid is stupid no matter who's Army you served in.
SEMPER FI
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Do you mean that Grizzly-man jackass was SAS too? Or you just talking about the Bear that we've all come to love and hate at the same time?:D
 
Wow. I'm out in the Boonies so I don't get cable so I can't see all these shows y'all guys talk about.

I find it interesting that at a time when society is ever more urbanized and so few people even go hunting anymore that these sort of shows are so popular.
 
hollowdweller said:
Wow. I'm out in the Boonies so I don't get cable so I can't see all these shows y'all guys talk about.

I find it interesting that at a time when society is ever more urbanized and so few people even go hunting anymore that these sort of shows are so popular.
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Sure you can, go to youtube, type in Man vs Wild in the search box and you can watch pretty much any episode you want. You will probably get a kick out of it, it is fairly amusing, plus the discussions on here after an episode makes it worth watching. Chris
 
This show definately has a lot of Fear Factor, Jackass, and Crocodile Hunter in it. Those shows are a genre that is essentially, "Watch this dumass get himself killed." The problem is, Man Vs. Wild holds itself out as providing valuable instruction in survival situations. We like to think that the general public is smart enough to call BS on a lot of Bear's antics, but unfortunately, that is not necessarily the case. I posted a link yesterday by a bunch of outdoorsmen, many of them thinking how great it was that Bear was showing them what to do if something bad happened.

-- FLIX
 
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