Survivorman is calling it quits.

[Aharami]

Originally posted by: Jmman

Originally posted by: adairusmc

Originally posted by: mxyzptlk
Survivor man is a badass and if he says now is the time to quit, then I accept his decision. I'm not even aware of this Bear guy, does he do anything similiar to Les?

No, Bear is a pussified wannabe that would die if his precious camera crew wasnt slipping him energy bars on the side.

Ugh, I saw Bear piss into his canteen and immediately drink it. Yeah, he is a pussy.....

see he does those just for the camera. he didnt really have to piss in his canteen and drink out of it. did his camera crew do that also? I doubt it. So they werent really out of water

 

[Liet]

Nooooo, Les, don't leave me! I loved Survivorman far more than Bear for the reasons posted in this thread.. Les is just a badass. Who the hell knew he was 47?! Incredible.

I also loved how depressed he'd get.
"Hour 1: It's raining hard, can't leave the shelter. Gonna hang here and play harmonica.
Hour 4: Still raining. Weird weather here.
Hour 7: Raining. Harmonica.
Hour 10: Harmonica. Raining.
Hour 14: The goddamned seagulls won't eat the bait from my fucking traps, I've spent 19 hours fishing and the fucking fish won't bite, this place is a goddamned fucking hellhole. Why am I come here? Fuck you Discovery Channel, fuck you viewers, fuck you rain, fuck you seagulls, fuck you Mother Nature, fuck you harmonica!"

 

[rudder]

Not as bad ass as the green beret that tied up his blown off leg so it would not flop around... but Les did eat scorpions and drink his own piss. :beer:

 

[Aharami]

Originally posted by: rudder
Not as bad ass as the green beret that tied up his blown off leg so it would not flop around... but Les did eat scorpions and drink his own piss. :beer:

wha?

 

[amish]

Originally posted by: Aharami

Originally posted by: rudder
Not as bad ass as the green beret that tied up his blown off leg so it would not flop around... but Les did eat scorpions and drink his own piss. :beer:

wha?

seconded...

 

[ShockwaveVT]

Originally posted by: rudder
Not as bad ass as the green beret that tied up his blown off leg so it would not flop around... but Les did eat scorpions and drink his own piss. :beer:

As stated earlier in the thread Les did not drink his own piss, he showed how to make pure water from urine, something far more useful if you're actually facing dehydration.
He set up a solar distillery using a plastic bag, a small stone, a hole in the ground, a cup. The moisture from his urine evaporated from the ground water, condensed on the underside of the plastic and dripped down into the cup. All the waste products from the urine are left in the ground.

Bear Grylls is the one who drinks his own piss while "dehydrated" then turns around downs a bottled water off camera since drinking urine doesn't do much to rehydrate you.

 

[dainthomas]

Originally posted by: Elganja

Originally posted by: DrPizza
It was an enjoyable show. But - regarding that his survival techniques didn't always work - that just shows that he was winging it. He didn't know wtf he was doing half the time.
"I've heard of igloos, so I'm going to try to build one." "Obviously, if you look at the results of my attempt to make an igloo, you can see that I don't have a clue wtf I'm doing. Thankfully, I only have to be able to build a fire, find enough water to survive, and walk for a while while suffering for 7 days, then someone will come get me."

I did find survivorman a little more entertaining than bear's show. However, I'd wager that in a real survival situation, Bear would outsurvive Les. Hell, I'd outsurvive Les; well, at least in the environments I would go into. Toss me into the woods in western NY for a week and I could probably gain weight, not whine about how I only had a half a stale cookie in my pocket.

/agree

In 1990 Stroud became a guide for Black Feather Wilderness Adventures leading canoe excursions into the Northern Ontario wilds.

Les developed all his survival techniques in northern Canada. I'm guessing if you or DrPizza tried to lead a canoe expedition into northern Ontario, there would be a whole lot of dead canoeists and likely a dead DrPizza or Elganja.

Obviously he couldn't do every show in northern Ontario or whatever, because everyone would stop watching after a few weeks.

 

[geno]

Originally posted by: ShockwaveVT

Originally posted by: rudder
Not as bad ass as the green beret that tied up his blown off leg so it would not flop around... but Les did eat scorpions and drink his own piss. :beer:

As stated earlier in the thread Les did not drink his own piss, he showed how to make pure water from urine, something far more useful if you're actually facing dehydration.
He set up a solar distillery using a plastic bag, a small stone, a hole in the ground, a cup. The moisture from his urine evaporated from the ground water, condensed on the underside of the plastic and dripped down into the cup. All the waste products from the urine are left in the ground.

Bear Grylls is the one who drinks his own piss while "dehydrated" then turns around downs a bottled water off camera since drinking urine doesn't do much to rehydrate you.

Oh yeah, he's such a vag. I watched the guy squeeze the half-digested contents of a camel's stomach just to show you how to get some hydration in a dire situation. He did the same with a lump of elephant shit. I don't care how many bottles of water he had lined up after that, he still gets a :shocked:

 

[JeffreyLebowski]

Originally posted by: JDub02
Survivorman was one of my favorite shows.

Big fan of Bear Grylls, too. I will say that I've never seen Les kill a snake, skin it, urinate in the skin, then drink his own urine out of the snake skin nor would I want to. I about lost my dinner when Bear did it. That's so hardcore, I'm not sure anything will top it.

People seem to think Bear is a pusy because he stages things to show you how to get out of it. You don't fake getting naked in sub zero weather and taking a dip in the water getting out and doing jumping jacks to warm up.

You also don't fake picking up an elephant turd and squeezing the water out of it to drink. Or using a dead camel's stomach as a source of water and cooking the meat on a rock in the sun.

Bear is entertainment, Survivor Man was me trying to survive an hour of boring TV.

 

[SlowSpyder]

What?!?! Bear is totally hardcore.

 

[rudder]

Originally posted by: amish

Originally posted by: Aharami

Originally posted by: rudder
Not as bad ass as the green beret that tied up his blown off leg so it would not flop around... but Les did eat scorpions and drink his own piss. :beer:

wha?

seconded...

10 Green Berets Awarded the Silver Star

Walding, of Groesbeck, Tex., recalled: "I literally grabbed my boot and put it in my crotch, then got the boot laces and tied it to my thigh, so it would not flop around. There was about two inches of meat holding my leg on." He put on a tourniquet, watching the blood flow out the stump to see when it was tight enough.

Then Walding tried to inject himself with morphine but accidentally used the wrong tip of the syringe and put the needle in this thumb, he later recalled. "My thumb felt great," he said wryly, noting that throughout the incident he never lost consciousness. "My name is John Wayne," he said.

 

[SAWYER]

Which one is the phony, this guy or the other show?

 

[dainthomas]

Originally posted by: JeffreyLebowski

Originally posted by: JDub02
Survivorman was one of my favorite shows.

Big fan of Bear Grylls, too. I will say that I've never seen Les kill a snake, skin it, urinate in the skin, then drink his own urine out of the snake skin nor would I want to. I about lost my dinner when Bear did it. That's so hardcore, I'm not sure anything will top it.

People seem to think Bear is a pusy because he stages things to show you how to get out of it. You don't fake getting naked in sub zero weather and taking a dip in the water getting out and doing jumping jacks to warm up.

You also don't fake picking up an elephant turd and squeezing the water out of it to drink. Or using a dead camel's stomach as a source of water and cooking the meat on a rock in the sun.

Bear is entertainment, Survivor Man was me trying to survive an hour of boring TV.

If I want to watch someone eating yak eyeballs and drinking elephant turds, I'll watch Fear Factor.

kthxbai

 

[DrPizza]

Originally posted by: dainthomas

Originally posted by: Elganja

Originally posted by: DrPizza
It was an enjoyable show. But - regarding that his survival techniques didn't always work - that just shows that he was winging it. He didn't know wtf he was doing half the time.
"I've heard of igloos, so I'm going to try to build one." "Obviously, if you look at the results of my attempt to make an igloo, you can see that I don't have a clue wtf I'm doing. Thankfully, I only have to be able to build a fire, find enough water to survive, and walk for a while while suffering for 7 days, then someone will come get me."

I did find survivorman a little more entertaining than bear's show. However, I'd wager that in a real survival situation, Bear would outsurvive Les. Hell, I'd outsurvive Les; well, at least in the environments I would go into. Toss me into the woods in western NY for a week and I could probably gain weight, not whine about how I only had a half a stale cookie in my pocket.

/agree

In 1990 Stroud became a guide for Black Feather Wilderness Adventures leading canoe excursions into the Northern Ontario wilds.

Les developed all his survival techniques in northern Canada. I'm guessing if you or DrPizza tried to lead a canoe expedition into northern Ontario, there would be a whole lot of dead canoeists and likely a dead DrPizza or Elganja.

Obviously he couldn't do every show in northern Ontario or whatever, because everyone would stop watching after a few weeks.

I don't know why there'd be a whole bunch of dead canoeists. I've taken my family - wife and little kids - into the wilderness area of the Adirondack mountains via canoe and raft. We were more than a day away from the nearest road. It was rather enjoyable, despite the weather (3 straight days of rain). Unlike Les, we were able to catch plenty of fish to eat. Of course, unlike Les we were able to find and use proper bait, not something that would be a waste of time. Plus, we weren't fishing in the middle of the afternoon. We gathered firewood all afternoon. We fished in the evening when the fish were feeding.

 

[dr150]

Originally posted by: SlowSpyder
What?!?! Bear is totally hardcore.

LMAO!

Ouch. They should reword the disclaimer that everything shown is for reenactment/fantasy entertainment purposes only.

 

[dainthomas]

Originally posted by: DrPizza

Originally posted by: dainthomas

Originally posted by: Elganja

Originally posted by: DrPizza
It was an enjoyable show. But - regarding that his survival techniques didn't always work - that just shows that he was winging it. He didn't know wtf he was doing half the time.
"I've heard of igloos, so I'm going to try to build one." "Obviously, if you look at the results of my attempt to make an igloo, you can see that I don't have a clue wtf I'm doing. Thankfully, I only have to be able to build a fire, find enough water to survive, and walk for a while while suffering for 7 days, then someone will come get me."

I did find survivorman a little more entertaining than bear's show. However, I'd wager that in a real survival situation, Bear would outsurvive Les. Hell, I'd outsurvive Les; well, at least in the environments I would go into. Toss me into the woods in western NY for a week and I could probably gain weight, not whine about how I only had a half a stale cookie in my pocket.

/agree

In 1990 Stroud became a guide for Black Feather Wilderness Adventures leading canoe excursions into the Northern Ontario wilds.

Les developed all his survival techniques in northern Canada. I'm guessing if you or DrPizza tried to lead a canoe expedition into northern Ontario, there would be a whole lot of dead canoeists and likely a dead DrPizza or Elganja.

Obviously he couldn't do every show in northern Ontario or whatever, because everyone would stop watching after a few weeks.

I don't know why there'd be a whole bunch of dead canoeists. I've taken my family - wife and little kids - into the wilderness area of the Adirondack mountains via canoe and raft. We were more than a day away from the nearest road. It was rather enjoyable, despite the weather (3 straight days of rain). Unlike Les, we were able to catch plenty of fish to eat. Of course, unlike Les we were able to find and use proper bait, not something that would be a waste of time. Plus, we weren't fishing in the middle of the afternoon. We gathered firewood all afternoon. We fished in the evening when the fish were feeding.

Sounds like fun! <-- not sarcasm

 

[rasczak]

Originally posted by: SlowSpyder
What?!?! Bear is totally hardcore.

He really is!