Survivorman

[Ramen]

wtf? No more Survivorman? How will I learn how to survive in the Australian Outback now? And don't give me that Bear Grylls guy from Man vs. Wild. Anyone who would squeeze rhino shit to get a drink of water doesn't know what the fuck he's doing.

 

[Tex]

I suggest you put the skills you've acquired already to immediate use in order to keep from forgetting them.

Have a plane drop you off deep in the glades with just a buck knife and some chewing gum and make your way back to your home.

 

[Ramen]

Good idea. If you don't hear back from me in a week, post a candlelight vigil thread.

 

[bryce]

Bear Grylls is a pussy and a fraud.

Les Stroud is the one True saviour who will lead us through the comming Apocalypse.*


*(Whatever form it ultimately chooses to take - nuclear and biological war, global pandemic, asteroid impact, global warming, some 2012 wierdness where the Earth tips over, electrical superstorms, zombie uprising, clonned velociraptor outbreak, he will be our Rock.)

 

[Tex]

Bear Grylls could turn you into a T-shirt and survive on your innards for several wintery months in Alaska. He may have cheated some on his show but the guy is still an all around bad ass.

 

[bryce]

Bear Grylls could turn you into a T-shirt and survive on your innards for several wintery months in Alaska. He may have cheated some on his show but the guy is still an all around bad ass.

Maybe true, with his military training very likely - but he makes it hard for people to take him 100% seriously with a history of doing crap like spending nights that he claimed to be out in the wild, instead in hotels...or pretending that the location he was filming from was deep off the beatin', when in fact it was right next to a busy highway.

 

[bryce]

Bear Grylls could turn you into a T-shirt and survive on your innards for several wintery months in Alaska. He may have cheated some on his show but the guy is still an all around bad ass.

(Plus I'm pretty skinny right now. Almost no body fat and not much meat. I wouldn't last him very long - and too much protien and not enough fat, and pretty quickily I could give him a serious case of "rabbit starvation". He'd at least have to eat some of my organsas wall, to combat that.)

 

[Volpone]

:shrug: I just like the production values of "Man -vs- Wild" better than the gimmick of "Survivorman".

And even if I could survive the shit they put either of them through, I don't think you could pay me enough to. "You want me to show how to survive falling into a frozen lake!? Fuck that. I'll be in the hotel."

 

[Grandtheftcow]

:shrug: I just like the production values of "Man -vs- Wild" better than the gimmick of "Survivorman".

One has a film crew follow him around filming obviously staged scenes and acts as help, spends his nights in hotels, and has had his episodes edited after the allegations came out to state clearly that he was not actually left alone to survive.

The other is a survivor expert dropped off in the middle of nowhere for a week with nothing but his pocketknife some cameras and usually an outdoors product he's never used.

I wonder which show would give me a better understanding of a survival situation?

 

[Volpone]

:shrug: Applying that logic, an illegal Mexican day laborer with a camcorder could teach you how to renovate a house better than Bob Vila.

 

[Ramen]

If Bob Vila was laying back in a hammock while his camera crew did all the work, then yeah.

 

[Grandtheftcow]

:shrug: Applying that logic, an illegal Mexican day laborer with a camcorder could teach you how to renovate a house better than Bob Vila.

I think the better analogy would be two scout troops. One goes outside and the other doesn't. Which one learns more about the wilderness?

 

[Cacophony]

I like the grittiness (wtf auto spell check, that doesn't look right) of Survivorman. It's interesting watching him freak out sometimes, and knowing that it's real fear that I'm seeing. Not him acting.

Watch the episode where he's stranded at sea for reference. He has a boat following him for safety, and it goes completely out of contact and he gets really nervous.

 

[bryce]

:shrug: Applying that logic, an illegal Mexican day laborer with a camcorder could teach you how to renovate a house better than Bob Vila.

Not just a camcorder - in addition to himself and whatever gear he's fashioned on site from whatever he can find, he carries around 50 pounds or video & audio gear.

(If you have ever tried hauling around a sleeping 50 pound kid, you know how much work dragging around that kinda dead weight is.)

And he's gone for 7 days. No hotels, hot showers or room service. Usually out of touch with his crew the entire time.

He could really die out there doing some of that stuff.

 

[Volpone]

Again, big deal. If you're going for realism, you should watch the whole week of raw footage. You can learn survival techniques without someone actually risking their life alone. Just like a cooking show can show a turkey being roasted in a half hour episode. They show the prep and pop it into the oven and then they walk over to another oven and voila! a turkey that has already been roasting for 3 hours comes out, done.