Alone Season 2

alewn said:
iraq is a 6 month hitch. the pacific WW2 was 4 years, no breaks. Weak, weak, weak, minds these days.
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Don't be a numb skull. If you really knew what you were talking about you'd know that the average combat soldiers who deployed to Iraq for a year to 18 months were in contact/combat more than soldiers in WW2.

And you want to post about weak minds, huh. That's a riot. I also find it amazing how serious some seem to take reality TV. Witnessing that is far more entertaining than any reality TV.
 
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Was bummed we didn't get an update on Nicole this week, but glad to see the other three are getting something to eat.
 
why would you have to pay anybody? It's very easy to dump it out the window while you're driving. You "think" somebody hauls it off of the island for these show people? :-)
 
combat aint what they're crying about on Alone, tho, which IS what this thread's about, hey? What they are crying about is not being with loved ones. and that's what makes it bs. They start crying in less than a month.
 
alewn said:
combat aint what they're crying about on Alone, tho, which IS what this thread's about, hey? What they are crying about is not being with loved ones. and that's what makes it bs. They start crying in less than a month.
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A little of you and your attitude seem to go a long way here.
 
We are not going to continue to make each other the topic of conversation. Let's get back on track.
 
Captain Airyca said:
Ummm... I made a list of all of the Alone show contestants social media pages. It's fun to follow what they're up to :)
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Not just fun - but I'd say essential to understand the strengths and weaknesses each contestant brings to the party. Just as important as the Rockwell number of your chosen blade or the extent of your knowledge of local flora/fauna, or any other techy, geeky indices.

For this show, surely, the clue is in the title: "Alone".

AE.
(Removed signature line -- offerings?)
Esav Benyamin removed the details of the three blades I USE
Shame really - they might not be tacticool, but the wear on them shows that they earn their keep...
AE
 
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alewn said:
why would you have to pay anybody? It's very easy to dump it out the window while you're driving. You "think" somebody hauls it off of the island for these show people? :-)
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You'd just "dump it out the window while driving, huh? How are you gonna drive when you run out of gas. Vancouver have full service gas stations?
 
Thank you very much Captain Airyca for "The Captain's Log blog" on the Alone show contestants, very informative and a great idea.

I've been hooked on Alone since season 1 / day 1 and appreciate reading "most" of the comments on this forum related to the actual show.
 
Swampdog said:
Thank you very much Captain Airyca for "The Captain's Log blog" on the Alone show contestants, very informative and a great idea.

I've been hooked on Alone since season 1 / day 1 and appreciate reading "most" of the comments on this forum related to the actual show.
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It is a very interesting show and brings up a lot of fodder for reasonable discussion. I am not a TV watcher, as I have said before, but this show has my interest.
 
Swampdog said:
Thank you very much Captain Airyca for "The Captain's Log blog" on the Alone show contestants, very informative and a great idea.

I've been hooked on Alone since season 1 / day 1 and appreciate reading "most" of the comments on this forum related to the actual show.
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No problem! The stuff that the contestants say on social media really affect who I'm rooting for. For instance Larry just released this YouTube video that was really informative and I totally am rooting for him even more now:
[video=youtube;70nMK7uvV0o]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70nMK7uvV0o[/video]
If you skip to 27 minutes you'll see him explaining where he got that extra pocket knife that we saw on episode 9.
 
Bummer! I had picked Justin to win it all from the beginning. Oh well. Rooting for Larry now...man I was so thrilled to see him finally get revenge on those mice! And of course gotta root for our boy David. Was really happy to see him land all those crabs because it was looking pretty bleak for him up to that point. Still waiting to see some photos of that Diving Sparrow knife David!

Can't forget about Nicole either. Love her attitude and personality. A lot of people say she hit the jackpot with her site but I think you gotta give her more credit than that. She has a ton more guts than a lot of other contestants to stay within such close proximity to all those black bears. And her extensive knowledge of the flora there is really paying off too. She's definitely earned my respect. Wouldn't be surprised if she comes home a half million dollars richer.
 
Finally caught up on the last two. Really sad to see Justin go, but I think he made the right call, he left on his terms, and he knows what that place was doing to him. I think he will really be able to help his brothers and sisters, and I think that will mean more to him than the cash prize.

Some really interesting stuff. I'm loving that these guys are for the most part getting enough food, so its not a slow-starve. I'm far more interested in their thoughts than stomachs. Although those insights from Dave were enlightening.

On the thought of the bounty of the ocean, What would the challenge be like without the daily salvage sale of every tide? They are really getting a bounty of gear from it. I wonder what they will do for Patagonia next year? if its along the coast, it should be similar, but more inland, drop them a dead car for salvage? maybe a shed like Les Stroud had to use? Primitive skills aside, there is only so much one person can do, and so having these items that can't easily be made in the bush really ups the game, it becomes about adapting the resources, rather than struggling to find any.
 
Captain Airyca said:
If you skip to 27 minutes you'll see him explaining where he got that extra pocket knife that we saw on episode 9.
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Thanks for the post and the precise time reference. What I found interesting in those few seconds was:

"I could take my pocket-knife and not be worried about damaging my good bushcraft knife"

Good that he cares about his good knife, but is it good to be so protective? I note that David McIntyre had a ATS34 stainless blade made by Abe Elias, specifically to "Live and work" in that environment.

Years ago I had a custom knife made to exacting requirements of functionality - the maker died before it was hafted and dressed, and although his widow put on a somewhat rough and ready haft, for over a decade I kept that knife as a collection piece. One day I decided to use it - certainly no display item now, but it's coped with batoning, being thrown, opening bottles, paring and striking a magflint - a working tool. I'd like to think that if I need to do something, I would use it, not hope to find some abandoned "beater" for the rough stuff. Look after for sure, but not worship.

AE

PS - I'd have still taken the folder out of the tree though :thumbup:
 
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I wonder how much of it is really "finding" ones-self as opposed to finding out what is really real. For most of history, man lived in one reality; the real world. For a few hundred years, man has lived in two realities; the real world, and a sort of fictional alternate reality, like "Vice President of Operations" or "Minister" or whatever. The Minister is struggling to juggle the real world—the large rock that we live on, floating through space, why does any of it exist rather than nothing at all?—with his alternate reality as the Minister who does church things and helps people. Today, man lives 3 realities. The real world, the alternate reality, and the surrogate. The surrogate is this. Right now. My internet life. My facebook page, my YouTube account, my BladeForums handle... it's all a part of my third reality. People perceive my life entirely differently than it actually is because I post nice things about my life on Facebook and I don't post the not so nice things. The result is that my third reality is almost entirely fictitious; almost completely separate from reality. Being alone, like in the show, forces you to confront reality in much greater depth than most common people ever have to. You get glimpses of what the world really is, and it is scary. There is no second or third realities to hide behind and to consume most of our free time. So what does this all mean? I don't know. But sometimes it's the question that drives us and not the answer.
 
PsYCHoT|K said:
I wonder how much of it is really "finding" ones-self as opposed to finding out what is really real. For most of history, man lived in one reality; the real world. For a few hundred years, man has lived in two realities; the real world, and a sort of fictional alternate reality, like "Vice President of Operations" or "Minister" or whatever. The Minister is struggling to juggle the real world—the large rock that we live on, floating through space, why does any of it exist rather than nothing at all?—with his alternate reality as the Minister who does church things and helps people. Today, man lives 3 realities. The real world, the alternate reality, and the surrogate. The surrogate is this. Right now. My internet life. My facebook page, my YouTube account, my BladeForums handle... it's all a part of my third reality. People perceive my life entirely differently than it actually is because I post nice things about my life on Facebook and I don't post the not so nice things. The result is that my third reality is almost entirely fictitious; almost completely separate from reality. Being alone, like in the show, forces you to confront reality in much greater depth than most common people ever have to. You get glimpses of what the world really is, and it is scary. There is no second or third realities to hide behind and to consume most of our free time. So what does this all mean? I don't know. But sometimes it's the question that drives us and not the answer.
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It's the question that drives us....

[video]https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jXeF1rMkpQw[/video]
 
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