Man vs Wild

“He named one of his kids Marmaduke!”

“Creek Dancer, those are the new watch-over-us masters.
one of them suppose to be butt ugly.”

LOL...well, did we already give them the proper hello (read: rash of #&%!$)? I must have missed the thread.”

“I think you are all just jealous because Bear is so undeniably badass and hardcore. Any responses to this message will be considered denial.”

“The man is a ex special forces i.e SAS, he has climbed Everest and his show is the best because he explains it all while "Survivorman" leaves some crap out in regards to tech, etc.”

“i like the guy... his entire attitude. it's worth it to read more about the guy outside the context of this show. he's just a cool fellow. i can appreciate his view on life and all. i am betting breaking one's back really puts ones life in perspective... 12 months in rehab with no promise that he would ever enjoy doing the things he loved doing. if you listen to the dialogue in man vs wild i think you start to get a better picture of the guy but only bits and pieces.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bear_Grylls”

“All new episodes start this Friday.”

“JS, I am leaning towards agreeing with you. At first I really disliked his approached but its grown on me.I also think the production is better and his methods are "better" (less daring do, and more realistic skills).”

“Tango, they have been new for the past few weeks”

“Really, thanks didn't know that.”

“He's drinking pine needle tea (in Scotland). Never heard of that, he said by weight pine needles have x (I didn't hear) more vitamin C than lemons. Interesting.

He just killed a bunny. I didn't watch.
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“I am surprised that PETA hasn't filed some complaints against him.”

“We teach the pine needle tea thingy in our UNO classes, eating grub worms too. Those that have had the class before often bring garlic butter. They're not supposed too, but it makes everyone smile and since the have done it before, we let them.

Susan just left a message on my machine about a new trick with your pee (in a survival situation you pervs). If you have to spend the night without a sleeping bag or tent, save your pee in a bottle and keep it next to you while it's still warm. Once it gets cold, toss it.

Sounds like it should work...gonna have to try it during our next UNO class in September.
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“I know that when you are in a situation like that those in the know tell you to pee so your body won't have to use energy to keep the urine warm.”

“You got it Tango. I never thought of saving it while it was still warm and using it to keep me a little warmer while it lasted.

Brilliant.

I can't wait to hear how she heard about it.

It's funny, you will often lay there for the longest time because you don't want to get up, but you can't sleep. Once you do go pee, you usually back to sleep in a couple minutes.
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“Couldn't you just wet your pants?”

“The higher volume of concentration in the bottle makes the heat last longer than when it is wicked away by the micro base layers.”

“Couldn't you just wet your pants?”
Nimblefoot

You dont already?”

“"Susan just left a message on my machine about a new trick with your pee"


Hmmmmmmmmmmm........”

“I hope she is not trying to tell you something....”

“Can you imagine having this discussion at the water cooler on Monday morning??”

“only if there is no running water around”

“Yeah, Birch, of course I do. Just wanted to find out if there was a serendipitous functional aspect to it.”

“I slay me! lol!”

“when he killed that rabbit with a stick i was so pumped. that was amazing!”

“My boys and I enjoy wacthing that dude.
He is one crazy mofo!

Steve, do you have Carl Castle's voice on your answering machine?”

“I thought it was funny when he stepped into that small bog on Friday. It seems like he expected to just get stuck in the mud with his legs, but the water was over his head and he said he was stepping on dead animals in there.”

“How Bear Grylls the Born Survivor roughed it - in hotels

'If you really believe everything happens the way it is shown on TV, you are being a little bit naive,' Mr Weinert told the Sunday Times.

Now THERE'S a revelation!

What a phony!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=470155&in_page_id=1770”

“i saw one last night when he found a dead sheep. he took some meat but the sick part was when he popped out the eye and boiled it for a few seconds then ate it. gross when the blood dribbled down his cheek

:(”

“Yeah, I saw that too. After reading that article, I'm wondering if he really at a sheep's eyeball or if it was one of these....
”

“The man climbed Everest, I think he knows something about hypothermia. I think you all are very silly. All that fresh air you take during your "nature treks" is effecting your judgment. Next weekend head down to the drag races, smell the burnt rubber and exhaust as you marvel at the combination of fossil fuel and human ingenuity.”

“You know, to me this all sounds like jealousy. So what if he stayed in a hotel while filming a DIFFERENT show? Does it say he faked it in Man vs. Wild? He didn't fake it when he took the training for the French Foreign Legion.

Just face it, this guy is a bad ass who could whip up a tasty organic granola soufflé with one hand while arm-wrestling a grizzly with the other. Deal with it.”

“XL = poopsoup?”

“poopsoup = poopsoup”

“When you think about it, James Bond, Superman, Spiderman, the Terminator, Batman, etc. aren't real either and are more "way out there" than anything Bear Grylls does, yet people like it because it's TV. The majority of things on TV aren't real. It's entertainment like anything else on TV.
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“On the sheep thing and the latest one where he skins a deer for the hide to keep warm with, On both he is in the frozen north, where it gets sub-zero at night, and the two animals he wacks on with his knife are not frozen solid. Both are nice and soft and plyable. It looks like a sheep lying out in the tundra would be frozen solid. I think they were placed-just like both of the rabbits.”

“Poop-soufflé”

“"And I thought they smelled bad on the outside!!!!" Han Solo”

“'Bare' Grylls also claims to have flown a paraglider over Everest.

Grylls had announced a change of flight plan before departure, claiming fear of the Chinese airspace, for which he did not have permission. "Flying over the summit was the original plan but I changed the plan and I’ve always written very honestly about that,” Grylls said in the article.

That doesn't correspondent with his expedition website report though, which says: “(5/15/2007) Mission Everest success; Bear Grylls, supported by the GKN Mission Everest team, has become the first man to fly over Mount Everest by powered paraglider."

With the help of Discovery's media apparatus, the news quickly spread around the world - with no fact checks done. Only pictures of clouds were presented and no technical specs were made available. When ExWeb approached Grylls' for proof; he replied they would be shown on TV. Later, he told Cooper that his instruments froze. And finally that he only did it for charity anyway.

I believe he is kicking Chuck Norris's ass as we speak, while simultaneously working on a cure for cancer.

http://www.mounteverest.net/news.php?news=16243”

“did it ever occur to you that he is supreme to you? His knowledge is so vast he could outthink with his eyes closed upside down.”

“indeed, he is one cool dude.”

“personally, i dont have a problem with the show being staged. like someone commented, its an instructional show, hes not claiming to be stuck and stranded himself. at least, thats the impression i took. i havent seen that many shows”

“His methods seem a little more apropos of being chased by enemy combatants--as if he were a downed British aircraft pilot trying to avoid and escape soldiers who would kill him if he were to become thier prisoner.”

“precision, the military channel has a new show about just that. Pretty cool looking.”

“I'm not signed up for it, but I'll look for it elsewhere. Thanx”

“Survivorman starts up again next week I think. I like Les Stroud better than Bear.”

“http://www.milkandcookies.com/link/66040/detail/

oops”

“Uh oh! So he wasn't exactly dropped off in a remote lava field somewhere? LOL. Oh well, makes for good entertainment.”

“Jeez!

I knew the first show I watched when he stated his urine was very yellow and that meant he was getting dehydrated, then he peed on a white shirt and put it on his head to keep himself cool and the shirt on his head was STILL pristine WHITE!!! HA HA HA HA!!!!”

“Yeah, I wondered about that drinking water squeezed out of a elephant dung. I think it was just a big sponge. lol”