Man vs. Wild don't think so.

There is a little disclaimer, but many people do think that he's showing proper survival techniques.
If they called it Fake Survival Reality TV Which Will Make You Dead If You Emulate It, then at least it would be truth in advertising.
I find him less entertaining than cleaning the toilet though, to be honest.
 
KuRUpTD said:
If you look hard you can sometimes find some useful bits of info :)
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Yeah, I did see a few when I watched it.
But my favourite moment was when he caught a dead cleaned fish from the ocean...it had a slit in the belly!:D
At least they could have stuck a live fish on the hook, or one that hadn't been gutted.
 
KuRUpTD said:
Disclaimer:

Man vs. Wild has been on the air for 5 years and I haven't heard or read about anyone who has died because they were influenced by what Bear Grylls does on his TV program.
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Yeah, that's a lame accusation that his show would cause people to do stupid things; some people are just naturally stupid:eek: Did we really need Jerry Springer to show us all that there are some really whacko people amongst us? Come on :rolleyes::D

Bear motivated me to get out and take the dog for a hike today...I sprained my ankle; that bastard:mad::D

Bear is entertaining, he does have some decent skills and is in pretty darn good shape; he's no Mors Kochanski or Ray Mears, more like a wilderness "Super Dave";) I'll continue to watch his shows for entertainment (and a little curiousity of asking..."why in the hell would any person, survival situation or not, do that?").

ROCK6
 
ROCK6 said:
Yeah, that's a lame accusation that his show would cause people to do stupid things; some people are just naturally stupid:eek: Did we really need Jerry Springer to show us all that there are some really whacko people amongst us? Come on :rolleyes::D

Bear motivated me to get out and take the dog for a hike today...I sprained my ankle; that bastard:mad::D

Bear is entertaining, he does have some decent skills and is in pretty darn good shape; he's no Mors Kochanski or Ray Mears, more like a wilderness "Super Dave";) I'll continue to watch his shows for entertainment (and a little curiousity of asking..."why in the hell would any person, survival situation or not, do that?").

ROCK6
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Ray Mears is just a mamma's boy, you don't get a belly like his eating pine needles and grass hoppers, that's from his ma's homemade pies !

You don't really think he can make fire from spinning a stick around do ya.....all camera tricks I tell ya !:D
 
I actually have read an article about a man who always watched his TV survival shows such as Man vs Wild and the few others.


He went out into the wild and died.

Don't remember the location, nor where I read it from, but I did read it. I think Les Stroud might of even commented on the event from what I remember. Saying something like "what we do is not easy, and it takes years and years of practice to get good at"
 
pitdog said:
I prefer Man, Woman, Wild....now if only Ruth England was as eager to naked as Bear Grylls is !:D

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pitdog said:
No joke:

After leaving school, Grylls considered joining the Indian Army[16] and spent a few months hiking in the Himalayan mountains of Sikkim and West Bengal, Assam. He eventually joined the British Army and after passing United Kingdom Special Forces Selection (where he claims he was one of four to have passed out of his group of 180),[17] from 1994 to 1997, he served in the part-time United Kingdom Special Forces Reserve, with 21 Regiment Special Air Service, 21 SAS(R), as a trooper, survival instructor and Patrol Medic.[18] He claims that he served in North Africa twice.
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well I didnt know that I thought he was a full time SAS trooper, I didnt know they had a reserve SF unit, that quite weird, I wonder why they would bother?

thanks for clearing that up pit dog.
 
I have never seen the show, but it seems like another reason to

KILL YOUR TELEVISION
 
Bear Grylls is coming to New Zealand early March for 2 fundraiser shows at the request of a New Zealand organization. The proceeds go to the Wellington Children's Hospital and the families of the recent Pike River Mine disaster. In my books he's a good guy. The NZ radio DJ's mentioned some stats on Grylls. He's ex British Special Air Service (SAS). Broke his back in 3 places on a jump. He's the youngest Briton to climb Mt Everest - got in the Guinness Book of Records for that. He was appointed Chief Scout in '09.

His show might be entertainment (obviously!, what isn't?), but he eats raw disgusting, wriggling stuff - not like those Survivor pansies! His creds are impeccable. He's a good guy to come to a tiny country to support a children's hospital and orphans of a disaster.

Who's the man?
 
PDE said:
Most likely he is being serious, unless he includes one of the following:

Just Kidding
:D

You never know with some.
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I know, that is why I asked. He may have forgot the face to show he was joking.
 
sodak said:
I've only watched enough of these shows to seriously question whether or not these "experts" could really survive on their own, but I hold them in pretty low regard... When people are willing to do stupid things for a camera, I just tend to think they ARE stupid...
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Hmm. running around in the woods, playing with knives AND getting payed to do so ( With a safety crew on hand if I mess up )..........I wish I was that stupid, I really do.
 
The show can be flaky at times.. But he does do some crazy shit. He does know a lil...
 
KuRUpTD said:
Disclaimer:
Man vs. Wild has been on the air for 5 years and I haven't heard or read about anyone who has died because they were influenced by what Bear Grylls does on his TV program.
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Read again he die of hypothermia trying to emulate survival shows!
The worst part is....at the age of 41:eek:

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kurodrago said:
Read again he die of hypothermia trying to emulate survival shows!
The worst part is....at the age of 41:eek:

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I think we have all read about Richard Code's fate, but I don't recall ever hearing it having anything to do with Bears show.

The article you mention does a little Bear bashing ( Not much ) But then points out that Richard Code were a Stroud fan and that Stroud could not be blame for his death in any way.

Richard Code tried to imitate Les Stroud, not Bear.

Richard Code was not dumb enough to take Bear at face value.
But it seem he did mistake Survivor man for a "How to do" video, and not recognize it for being the entertainment show that it is.
 
stewey1 said:
well I didnt know that I thought he was a full time SAS trooper, I didnt know they had a reserve SF unit, that quite weird, I wonder why they would bother?

thanks for clearing that up pit dog.
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Hey Stewey, we have two reserve (actually National Guard, just a slightly different money stream and with a state mission which is easier for the state to activate than federal reserves) SF units in the States. They have augmented other Groups on deployment rotations recently as well. I've done training with one of the 19th SFG (A) units in WA state. Several were guys that had been on active duty and decided to return to civilian life, but continued their service in the Guard. I've in in an active duty SF unit and they do an enourmous amount of training...I'm really amazed that the Guard units maintain the level they do.

pitdog said:
Ray Mears is just a mamma's boy, you don't get a belly like his eating pine needles and grass hoppers, that's from his ma's homemade pies !
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:D I guess if we can blame some idiot's "re-enactment" of a survival show leading to serious injury or even death, than obese peopel should be able to blame all the cooking shows on TV for lack of control when stuffing their own pie-holes:rolleyes:

ROCK6
 
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