Wasn't Survivorman cancelled on allegations of being faked? I remember watching an episode and parts were always cut out. It'd skip ahead of time frequently and he would claim he "randomly" found some necessary item for survival, sometimes even crazy ones, such as rubber-bands, pillows in the middle of the woods, etc..
[QUOTE=Gmod_Fan77;20373550]Wasn't Survivorman cancelled on allegations of being faked? I remember watching an episode and parts were always cut out. It'd skip ahead of time frequently and he would claim he "randomly" found some necessary item for survival, sometimes even crazy ones, such as rubber-bands, pillows in the middle of the woods, etc..[/QUOTE]
survivorman ended because les stroud was like "fuck this i aint dyin for this show" after one too many close calls
Les is amazing
[QUOTE=Gmod_Fan77;20373550]Wasn't Survivorman cancelled on allegations of being faked? I remember watching an episode and parts were always cut out. It'd skip ahead of time frequently and he would claim he "randomly" found some necessary item for survival, sometimes even crazy ones, such as rubber-bands, pillows in the middle of the woods, etc..[/QUOTE]
No, I found a rifle in the woods once.
It was jammed and pretty dirty, the wood was cracked and half the stock missing.
Stranger have happened, lots of stuff is littered and can be found anywhere.
Man vs Wild is all acting.
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Les Stroud is good, Bear isn't.
None of them can however compare to these two.
Les Hiddins (Bush Tucker man) and Ray Mears.
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Ah man, these shows are the shit. I used to watch these constantly.
I liked both really. I trust Les more though. One time Bear said you can drink your own unfiltered urine safely. No, you can't. Urine is 92% water, 8% toxins filtered from the kidneys, or something like that. It also dehydrates you. It should be evaporated and condensed in one of those traps they build to purify it, as Les demonstrated but Bear failed to do.
These shows are what made me research survival. Eventually I bought a shit ton of books on it too. I love these guys.
That 8% is enough to kill you.
That's what you get for trusting a bear.
Bear is an idiot. Les is amazing though.
Shame he quit working on Survivorman :saddowns:
Les is awesome, but you gotta give credit to Bear because he does everything to the extreme and he eats nasty shit.
Damn I thought Man vs Wild was entertaining, thanks for ruining it.
I always thought it would be insanely fucking funny if they ran into each-other while shooting for their shows.
"And here, is a wild human; fully dressed and dangerous."
"No you fucking moron."
"He can talk!"
I've always liked Les more than Bear. It's a shame that when I got into Survivorman, Les was announcing the end of the show.
I like Man vs. Wild more I found Survivorman a bit boring, but Bear is always eating weird shit and jumping off shit and shit
Survivorman is amazing. Awesome as shit. That guy is a man.
[QUOTE=Chad Mobile;20406028]I always thought it would be insanely fucking funny if they ran into each-other while shooting for their shows.
"And here, is a wild human; fully dressed and dangerous."
"No you fucking moron."
"He can talk!"[/QUOTE]
Oh Christ that would have been awesome.
Bear isn't even surviving, he's just getting paid to run around and do ballsy shit while talking about completely false survival tips
[QUOTE=Savaril;20407559]Bear isn't even surviving, he's just getting paid to run around and do ballsy shit while talking about completely false survival tips[/QUOTE]
The vast, vast, vast majority of his tips aren't false, but he has been called out on a few of them. Your statement still pretty much true. Bear can do all that ballsy shit because he can take the risk without having to worry too much, having a camera crew at his side. If Les tried that shit and fucked up, he'd die.
I like both.
They have their own different techniques in doing things.
[QUOTE=BlueSaint;20378620]No, I found a rifle in the woods once.
It was jammed and pretty dirty, the wood was cracked and half the stock missing.
Stranger have happened, lots of stuff is littered and can be found anywhere.[/QUOTE]
I found a car in the woods. Well, the rusted out shell of a car. But I suppose if I was truely lost, I could've used it for shelter.
Say what you want about bear grylls. His shows are entertaining.
[QUOTE=Exploits;20407594]The vast, vast, vast majority of his tips aren't false, but he has been called out on a few of them. Your statement still pretty much true. Bear can do all that ballsy shit because he can take the risk without having to worry too much, having a camera crew at his side. If Les tried that shit and fucked up, he'd die.[/QUOTE]
Bear has like, what, 12 people following him around?
[QUOTE=Carne;20422889]Bear has like, what, 12 people following him around?[/QUOTE]
12 + his mother
Both ways ,but I found one episode by Lee really bad :P
Remember the one in Arizona? He did that in a state park during the Spring (your chances of surviving something in Arizona during the Spring is very likely if you avoid snakes.) In fact the area he was in was about two miles out from the beginning of the trail...
Survivorman actually taught me a few random survival techniques that are pretty damned useful.
For example, if you have a bowl/bowl-shaped thing, some plastic wrap, mud, a cup/smaller container, and the sun, you can evaporate the water in the mud and have it drip down into the smaller container to effectively distill it.
[QUOTE=CzechOutMyBapes;20362753]Bear Grylls is a fucking fake and a loser. Things survivorman has done on his show has led people to surviving in the wilderness when lost.[/QUOTE]
Bullshit, I've seen moments where the camera crew (usually 1-2 people actually) is doing the same shit he has to.
I clearly remember the time where he jumped for a tree and then the cameraman does the same thing, still holding the camera and filming. I couldn't find it on YouTube, but I know someone knows what I'm talking about.
No matter how many of these shows I watch, I still suspect that I, like most people, would be dead in short order.
Les had to do twice the work of a normal person. He has to constantly carry around 40lbs of camera equipment, constantly clean and maintain the cameras and then setup cameras for a long distance shot of him walking a mile away then run back to pick up the camera and repeat. Sometimes he will leave the cameras behind but he carries around 1 or 2 at all times. He's got endurance, balls and intellect.
Bear eats giant maggots...
[QUOTE=FunkyDisko77;20426277]Survivorman actually taught me a few random survival techniques that are pretty damned useful.
For example, if you have a bowl/bowl-shaped thing, some plastic wrap, mud, a cup/smaller container, and the sun, you can evaporate the water in the mud and have it drip down into the smaller container to effectively distill it.[/QUOTE]
thats probably the best survival tip because like if youre in the desert you can just dig a little hole in the sand and use that as your bowl
Bear is great eye candy, but Les actually knows how to survive.
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