All of Bear Grylls new fame is killing me.

Whatever its faults, "Survivorman" is far more authentic than "Man Vs. Wild". But entertainment usually prevails. Grylls is out of his gourd.....All the way to the bank.
 
epistasis said:
Exactly. Most of the "internet survival experts" here wouldn't make it a day if they actually had to get off their fat butts and fend for themselves in the wilderness.
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I don't recall anyone here claiming to be even as good as Bear. He'd kick my ass up and down in any kind of survival situation. I think the problem IS the internet experts who THINK the stuff he does is OK. This forum is the only one that I frequent that even has people that realize what he does isn't always the smartest and a lot for show. (I don't go to that many forums and most are mindless BS)
 
I would just like to put it out there now that I am, indeed, an "internet survival expert"

I feel comfortable that I can survive even the most harsh internet conditions, I've been to all kinds of horrible websites and clicked away virtually unscathed.
 
I love the show, and watch it every Friday with my familiy. We get a kick watching him take stupid risks , it is pure entertainment. :thumbup:
 
im 15 i like watching the show but im not going to jump down into a mystery river or drink my own piss.... thats just retarted besides Why is he always running? why does he try to pass that crap off as lessons every body should know?

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shotgunner11 said:
I would just like to put it out there now that I am, indeed, an "internet survival expert"

I feel comfortable that I can survive even the most harsh internet conditions, I've been to all kinds of horrible websites and clicked away virtually unscathed.
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Hahahaha! ROFLMAO!!

Forget the Wilderness & Survival forum knife, we need "Internet Survival Expert" tee shirts!!
 
THe show is entertaining the scenery is nice it's about the outdoors if anyone here made a shown about buscraft or survival skills in the wilderness I'd watch it even if they had 3 heads and were wrong about everything....Why??? because it's stillbetter than american idol...Bear seem allright, a little over dramatic, but he's just another squirrel tryin to get a nut...and succeeding
 
How about this report regarding his Everest over-flight?

http://www.mounteverest.net/news.php?news=16114

Just one climber witnessed...the landing

In fact, the only Everest climber who witnessed the flight was American guide Dan Mazur, at the time taking a walk outside Pheriche. Grylls and his motor-parachute, or that “lawn garden tractor that had lost its silencer” as Dan put it, literally landed on top of Mazur.

“As soon as he did (land), he shouted in English, ‘I did it, I did it!’,” Mazur recalls. “ I replied to him, ‘what did you do?’ He said, ‘I flew as high as Everest.’ I thought to myself at the time, I am not sure how high you flew, but, you didn’t fly over Everest, because you never left the area above the Pheriche plateau, as far as I could tell.”

Let's not get too caught up in his resume, which may be as filled with smoke-and-mirrors as his new show is.
 
Survivorman is where it is at!

The mix of entertainment stunts with survival is seriously wrong because BS trumps truth. I think that is dangerous.
 
I watch the show just for the scenery, but the staging kind of gets on my nerves. For example, I've never seen a maggot on that show. What he's calling maggots are the kind of meal worms you would buy at a pet store to feed to your tarantula. I could be mistaken, but I've never seen a maggot two inches long.
 
swedishdwarf said:
I watch the show just for the scenery, but the staging kind of gets on my nerves. For example, I've never seen a maggot on that show. What he's calling maggots are the kind of meal worms you would buy at a pet store to feed to your tarantula. I could be mistaken, but I've never seen a maggot two inches long.
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Maggots? That's what bothers you about Bear Grylls?

Not the risks he takes, not the way he treats some of his knives, not even his accent, but the fact that the maggots are 2 inches long!

I don't believe it. . .
 
Troop said:
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
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Edward gryl's the bear man that I neather love or hate. I Personnaly dont have a problem with the show as entertainment, hell I watch it every week. What bothers me is that the crazy stuff he pulls every show and implys that he does things like that because he was SPECIAL AIR SERVICE. And this is how they train. I mean even crazy Englishmen who have been in the sun to long DON'T normally run blindly down a shale mountain side and hope they dont come to a cliff oooop's
 
I love the show actually. I dont care about every episode as I wont be in some of those environments ever in my life. The everglades episode is a good one. I'm confused however why he went west as opposed to north. Im from Florida and going north would have eventually taken him to alligator alley, (oops) I-75. Also he states (if you listen) not to try or do some of these things that he is doing on the show. Its much better than most of the crap on tv.:thumbup:
 
I watch both Bear and Les and I find Les Stroud presents a far more creditible program but I have to admit the anticipation of what reckless or ill advised stunt(s) Bear Griylls will try makes me come back for more. I have learned from some of the negative examples of Bear's examples but I really think his program would be better from an educational standpoint if he cut the drama and addressed survival issues. Personally, I think if Ray Mears were a little more animated and teamed up with Les Stroud or Ron Hood the resulting series would be great.
 
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