Bear Grylls is back

Gerberblades

Gerberblades

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Yep! The title says it all, the Bear is back! Finally, I was getting tired of listening to the hippie Les bitch about everything and watch him sleep all of the time. New episodes start Nov. 9, and IDK if any of you have heard the ad, but they have free bird by Lynard Skynard playing in the background.. (Now I dont want you guys complaining and whining about how Les is better than Bear, because I get enough complaining from watching Les!)


Go Bear!:D

Bill
 
Bear is back, and well rested. After all, he stayed at a Holiday Inn last night, and every night while filming.
 
Dont you think Bear has a real good command of herbal lore? I envy that. plant life, even edible plants for survival just never held my attention long enough. But I agree with about Les being a whiner. Why would he be considered better than Bear? The two shows have different formats. Even the complaint that Bear takes too many unnecesary risks is offset by the fact that alot of times he is demonstrating emergency techniques in what if scenarios.
 
xdshooter said:
Bear is back, and well rested. After all, he stayed at a Holiday Inn last night, and every night while filming.
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I personally think comments like this are ignorant. Never did the show say that Bear is out there braving the wilderness and being a super elite survivor. The show is there to give potentially helpful knowledge on how to get out of sticky situations relating to surviving in the wild. I dont blame or hold anything against him for sleeping in a hotel. Heck, if I were going to chimney climb a 100ft ravine I sure would want a good nights sleep. After all, the show is called Man vs Wild not Survive the Wild. Just my two cents.

If my psychic abilities are up to snuff, I can see this thread becoming heated, and fast.
 
Cuchuga I agree with you. And if you watch the guy, just the way he moves, He obviously has alot of skill. Like I said he seems to have alot of herbal lore at his finger tips as well. Has alot of accomplishments under his belt. I thought he may not spend alot of time, you know enjoying the woods, like alot of us here do. My impression is that the woods are his arena for his extreme sports. Did you see that episode when he his in the everglades? and there are those gas bubbles but he is afraid it's an alligator and its going to eat him and the crew? right there you can see he's not a woodsman. Alot of us who are in tune with the natural rythms and signs of nature, wouldnt have thought twice about those bubbles and probably not much more if there had been a live gator there anyway.
 
Cuchuga - I understand where your standing but what you dont understand is although they never said he would be out all the time its misleading. It like a cooking show where one scene there is all the raw foods and in the next they are cooked. They never said they show you how its done just what is made. A simple search on google will turn up heaps on dirt on him - more than the hotel. Stuff like bear costumes, faked food, hidden climbing gear and outside help.
IM not saying hes bad, just showed it in the wrong way. Though i still try to catch all the episodes.

GerberBlades - I think your comments were uncalled for - Les represents the more realistic approach. I doubt you would be over the moon being stranded alone. Calling him a hippie and saying he bitches is a little to much. Anyone dumped alone for 7days in unforgiving environments with not even the bare essentials will most definately "bitch". One reason why I believe bear is misleading he makes it seem... too easy.

Well i guess this horse is beaten enough...
 
Dont you think Bear has a real good command of herbal lore?
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Maybe herbal shampoos.
And if you watch the guy, just the way he moves, He obviously has alot of skill.
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Yet another example of being able to fool some of the people all the time. If the moronic things that the Weekend Warrior Jackass Who Couldn't Pass Reserve SAS Training vs. Wild shows doesn't offend you, you need to know a lot more about survival. Start reading, because you won't learn it from that fraudulent buffoon. A "survival expert" that can't make a fire without matches (or a power drill)? Whatever. I really thought Mr. Shiteater was gone for good.

I would suggest Ron Hood and survival.com.
 
nick-nack said:
A simple search on google will turn up heaps on dirt on him - more than the hotel. Stuff like bear costumes, faked food, hidden climbing gear and outside help.
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I do see your point about it being misleading. But I would have to question the validity of some of those rumors. Bear costumes? How can you believe that? Its the people who believe everything they read and watch who are posting the anti-Bear comments. I actually find this whole controversy somewhat humorous.

Edit: Ok, according to http://www.daughtersoftiresias.org/bearwiki/Evidence(posted below me but erased by editing) there was a dude in a bear suit. Either way you look at it, it is hilarious. Look at this.

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Just for the record, I also think the Les comments were unnecessary.

Anyway, I have found myself still enjoying the show the same as before even though all this controversy has been stirred up.
 
He never said that anything that he does is real, just that he was going to show you what to do if your in that situation. cant wait till the next season.

No matter if you bad mouth the show on here, or you like the show, everyone knows that all of us will tune into watch every week because its a show that involves outdoors and survival. end of story
 
Les is WAAY better. Grylls is entertaining but has pretty stupid antics. hes a good climber, but its not a climbing show. every episode has fake parts. i fear that somebody is going to get lost and is going to die using Bear's advise.
 
Cuchuga - It only looks hilarious since we know the story. IN the actual episode he pretended he was in danger and lay inhis shelter with a camera constantly saying how scared he was. Eventually he went fleeing into the woods because it got to dangerous. When the whole time it was one of his mates with a store bought bear costume.
If thats not misleading I dont know what is.
There no longer rumours Bear and Discovery have stood up and admitted it. Thats why the entire season was re-edited to include commentary on what was staged. THings like invisible gases from the volcanoes subsituted with smoke machines, coals used to stimulate the molten rock. All of these things are deadly to a survivor - imagine someone lost and seeing no gases and nor glowing red emebers and thinking the air was clean and it was cool. Dont even start the topic of him drinking urine...

Another thing I find bear does is he takes more the army method - constantly moving whether it could be dangerous or not. THis is what the army teaches to not get captured.
 
Well i like em both. Les a little more though, but still i like em both. I never miss either show. For what its worth, there both tougher than me. Ill admitt that. Lord either one of them is better that sitting through the show dancing with the stars.
 
I love the programmes, its great entertainment, and whilst the likes of Ray Mears and Les (whom I totally respect) send my kids of to sleep, Bear entertains thems, and even makes them want to come camping with me, so for me its a big plus.
 
I like them both also, yeah, Les is real, and Bear has faked it, but behind them BOTH is a REAL SURVIVAL guide, watch the credits. So the knowledge is not from Les or Bear, it is what the "advisor" of that episode has told them. And some of it I learn from watching the shows that I did not know. You must, as with ALL media, take what they show with a grain of salt.
And if someone is stupid enough to use the "antics" of Bear and die, well, IMO that is Darwinism at work.
 
Oh just one thing nemoaz, he spent three years in the Territorial SAS, so he had long passed selection by the time he broke his back, and even Sir Ranulph Fiennes an SAS vet of the Oman war, gives his backing to Bear Grylles.
 
Bear's show is more entertaining, but, Les is Canadian....so he wins. Do they even have trees in England??;):D
Bear would be able to pick up a lot more hotties at the pub though....
 
Grylls' show is designed for people who were raised on TV. Discovery is desperate for a new Steve Irwin. They don't give a shit whether you learn anything from the show. Just that you sit and stare at it and the commercials.
 
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