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Last man standing (BBC3 or 4 not sure)

  • 02-08-2007 01:54PM
    #1
    MoominPapa
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    When I seen the ads for this before it started I thought it looked like the dumbest idea for a program, take a bunch of obnoxious overachieving westerners, send them to primitive cultures to make fun of the locals and have the crap knocked out of them, which is pretty much how it is, except the participants are fairly respectful of the locals, until it comes to eating sheeps testicles that is. But its great
    Last night they were in new guinea playing a variation of cricket. The main difference to regular cricket being that there are about 200 people on the pitch and the fielding team have a different song and dance routine to perform depending on how they get you out. (eg if you are caught out they do the octopus song - "I am the octopus, my arms are long an sticky"). All the while everyone is out of there boxes on Beetle nuts and coral dust, the local natural trippy high.
    Rieker, the buffed fitness guru, went into the forest to chop himself a nice new bat for the big game and managed to bury the felling axe in his big toe, Ray Mears would have been disgusted at his complete lack of even rudimentary backwoods skills, but still managed to win the game for the locals and is now regarded as some sort of demi god. I thought he was a right dick when I seen him first but he seemed genuinely humbled by the experience.
    Can wait for the final next week - its man on man wrestling in Senegal


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  • #2
    cosgrove80
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 900 ✭✭✭cosgrove80


    Really enjoying it myself.

    I missed the Tibetan wrestling episode but I've seen all the others. It comes across as a bit more intelligent than your average reality Tv show. It's annoying how they show the same clips each week of who they are but other than that it extremely watchable. All the contestants are participating fully in the spirit of things too.

    It's on BBC3 so I'd imagine very few people have watched it though.


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