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The Bear Grylls Appreciation Thread

  • 03-09-2010 08:30PM
    #1
    Devil08
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,659 ✭✭✭


    For all you lovers of the legend that is Bear Grylls. For those of you who dont know him, shame on you, shame on you! Share your favourite Bear Grylls moments with us please. My own personal favourite is when he finds a dead sheep and uses its skin as a sleeping bag. Let the fun begin.


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  • #2
    MistyCheese
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,006 ✭✭✭MistyCheese


    Well that was a short thread.


  • #3
    Wolfe Tone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,670 ✭✭✭✭Wolfe Tone


    Did you see the one where he is in Ireland? Biggest load of ****e I have ever seen.


  • #4
    CorsetIsTight
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 320 ✭✭CorsetIsTight


    I always think about his camera man - the Ginger Rogers to Bear Grylls' Fred Astaire.


  • #5
    Rebel021
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 943 ✭✭✭Rebel021


    Only survivalist I know who stays in hotels must be hell for him


  • #6
    heskey
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13 ✭heskey


    Eating apples out of a bear **** was quiet impressive too


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  • #7
    Devil08
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,659 ✭✭✭Devil08


    Do you know many survivalists?


  • #8
    --Kaiser--
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,461 ✭✭✭--Kaiser--


    MUSSOLINI wrote: »
    Did you see the one where he is in Ireland? Biggest load of ****e I have ever seen.

    In the wild wastelands of County Clare? He eats a dead sheep, what a numpty, he could've gone down the road and had some chowder and Guinness


  • #9
    changes
    Closed Accounts Posts: 959 ✭✭✭changes


    Is that the guy who squeezed 3 drops of rancid liquid from an elephants dung rather than just ask the camera man for a sip of his bottle of water.


  • #10
    Celly Smunt
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,463 ✭✭✭Celly Smunt


    --Kaiser-- wrote: »
    In the wild wastelands of County Clare? He eats a dead sheep, what a numpty, he could've gone down the road and had some chowder and Guinness

    its chowdah


  • #11
    rockmongrel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 645 ✭✭✭rockmongrel


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UpSlpvb1is


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  • #12
    --Kaiser--
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,461 ✭✭✭--Kaiser--


    This is something I've learned in the special forces

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dOecqFgiPM


  • #13
    Fago!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,647 ✭✭✭✭Fago!


    How many bears could a Bear Grylls grill if a Bear Grylls could grill bears?


  • #14
    Celly Smunt
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,463 ✭✭✭Celly Smunt


    Fago! wrote: »
    How many bears could a Bear Grylls grill if a Bear Grylls could grill bears?

    none?


  • #15
    My name is URL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,626 ✭✭✭✭My name is URL


    pfft, he's not even a real bear


  • #16
    Rubik.
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,185 ✭✭✭Rubik.


    Devil08 wrote: »
    Share your favourite Bear Grylls moments with us please.

    When Discovery Channel was forced to issue the following disclaimer - "Discovery Communications has learned that isolated elements of "Man v Wild" show were not natural to the environment (in order words fake) and that for health and safety concerns the crew and host received some survival assistance while in the field (which included overnight stays in 5 star hotels).


  • #17
    Handsome Bob
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,905 ✭✭✭✭Handsome Bob


    I call shenanigans on Bear Grylls and his survivalist treks, I bet ya he has a buffet table off camera at each location and stays in a hotel every night once the camera is turned off. :pac:


  • #18
    My name is URL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,626 ✭✭✭✭My name is URL


    Rubik. wrote: »
    When Discovery Channel was forced to issue the following disclaimer - "Discovery Communications has learned that isolated elements of "Man v Wild" show were not natural to the environment (in order words fake) and that for health and safety concerns the crew and host received some survival assistance while in the field (which included overnight stays in 5 star hotels).

    Grylls hunted down and ate the rogue cameraman who betrayed him, declaring him to be "a great source of protein".


  • #19
    Nodin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    Rubik. wrote: »
    When Discovery Channel was forced to issue the following disclaimer - "Discovery Communications has learned that isolated elements of "Man v Wild" show were not natural to the environment (in order words fake) and that for health and safety concerns the crew and host received some survival assistance while in the field (which included overnight stays in 5 star hotels).

    The fake volcano smoke.....I've never been able to watch the program since I read that.


  • #20
    Devil08
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,659 ✭✭✭Devil08


    The show is aimed at showing you how to survive in certain situations. Its very rare you would find yourself in these situations though! It doesnt have to be 100% real to get its point across or for Bear to demonstrate his survival techniques.


  • #21
    Nodin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    Devil08 wrote: »
    For all you lovers of the legend that is Bear Grylls. For those of you who dont know him, shame on you, shame on you! Share your favourite Bear Grylls moments with us please. My own personal favourite is when he finds a dead sheep and uses its skin as a sleeping bag. Let the fun begin.

    Some his greatest contributions can be found here, albeit anonymously....
    http://www.tripadvisor.com/Hotels


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  • #22
    Nodin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    Devil08 wrote: »
    The show is aimed at showing you how to survive in certain situations. Its very rare you would find yourself in these situations though!

    Fucken right. No way could I afford a five star...


  • #23
    Adriatic
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 484 ✭✭Adriatic


    I always wondered about the cameramen in Bear Grylls (no pun intended), I mean how do they do all that he does and film it at the same time. That always seemed more intriguing to me than what he was actually doing.


  • #24
    Oranage2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,129 ✭✭✭✭Oranage2


    Adriatic wrote: »
    I always wondered about the cameramen in Bear Grylls (no pun intended), I mean how do they do all that he does and film it at the same time. That always seemed more intriguing to me than what he was actually doing.


    Now these rumours may be wrong but i've heard the camera man is actually Chuck Norris


  • #25
    Riddle101
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,669 ✭✭✭Riddle101


    Bear Grylls? pfft. Tom Hanks is a better survivalist then him. Didn't he manage to spend a couple of years on an Island, lost from all signs of life whatsoever. Having to adapt by teaching himself how to catch fish and other such things.


  • #26
    Devil08
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,659 ✭✭✭Devil08


    yea but he had wilson with him helping him along the way, come on now!


  • #27
    Wolfe Tone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,670 ✭✭✭✭Wolfe Tone


    Riddle101 wrote: »
    Bear Grylls? pfft. Tom Hanks is a better survivalist then him. Didn't he manage to spend a couple of years on an Island, lost from all signs of life whatsoever. Having to adapt by teaching himself how to catch fish and other such things.
    Willssooonnn!!!!


  • #28
    Mr. Manager
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,139 ✭✭✭✭Mr. Manager


    Devil08 wrote: »
    For all you lovers of the legend that is Bear Grylls.
    - Bear Grylls is a joke!
    The Bear Grylls Ray Mears Appreciation Thread
    FYP!


  • #29
    Stark
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 21,377 ✭✭✭✭Stark


    I like when he takes off his clothes.


  • #30
    Devil08
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,659 ✭✭✭Devil08


    Cereal Rapist wrote: »
    - Bear Grylls is a joke!

    FYP!


    Set up your own Ray Mears thread! Bear Grylls would eat him for breakfast!


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  • #31
    Wibbs
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,387 Mod ✭✭✭✭Wibbs


    Well you could follow Bears hard edged biting the heads of snakes and scorpions or hang out with this lad and end up happily bloated with lovely grub.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RF-G_1FsxuA&feature=related as an aside WTF can't I embed youtube vids these days? all I get is a white box.

    Many worry about Artificial Intelligence. I worry far more about Organic Idiocy.



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