The Bear Grylls Appreciation Thread

TanG411 · 03-09-2010 09:28PM

Fago! wrote: »

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

Copy my post from another thread will you?!?!

Rebel021 · 03-09-2010 09:31PM

Wibbs wrote: »

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.

fixed that for you:)

Mr. Manager · 03-09-2010 09:35PM

I mean look at Ray, what's not to like about his cooking?! The man is a proper legend with some of the most useful info!

Bear Grylls gives ridiculous situations.

"Okay, so you're F22 has just been shot down behind enemy lines, you've lost all clothing. Let's skin a goat to make some pants and pick up this elephant **** and drain the juice to make some water."

Ray would stick his knife in the tree and let the natural run off fill the cup he has just made from the bark of the same tree.

Ray = Legend

Bear = Non legend

phishcakes · 06-09-2010 06:00PM

anyone seen the bear grylls episode with will ferrel??

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGVjDIA4Aao

Logical Fallacy · 06-09-2010 06:01PM

I like the bit where he pretends to do the stuff he says he does and people buy into it.

Ledgebag.

Pauleta · 06-09-2010 06:09PM

Bear Grylls is a legend. All he is doing is teaching you what to do if you get stuck in a certain situation. It doesnt matter if there is a pub or a hotel down the road, he still shows how to build shelter, how to get food and water and to stay safe.

My name is URL · 06-09-2010 06:13PM

Pauleta wrote: »

Bear Grylls is a legend. All he is doing is teaching you what to do if you get stuck in a certain situation. It doesnt matter if there is a pub or a hotel down the road, he still shows how to build shelter, how to get food and water and to stay safe.

Yeah, but if you're in a proper survival situation you probably won't have parachute cord or conveniently placed netting to help you. And attempting to grab sharks by the tail or wrestle wild boars is far from safe.. and neither is chimney climbing steep cliffs

fonecrusher1 · 06-09-2010 06:38PM

Devil08 wrote: »

Share your favourite Bear Grylls moments with us please.

The episode where he phoned up room service in that 5 star hotel (the crew where put up in the local hostel) & asked for fillet steak & baby potatoes after he had an his usual hour long massage session.
But get this....the kitchen ran out of potatoes that night! Apparently he had an elton john style tantrum so they had a kitchen worker go out & buy some potatoes just for his order so he got them eventually. Phew.

It was a close call.

Kidchameleon · 06-09-2010 06:46PM

Really enjoy Bear's show. Myself and my daughter love to sit down and watch it together. She finds it fascinating. Two episodes that stand out for me are when he was in Russia and Siberia.

So what if its a little bit fake, he really can do these things. The guy is an expert skydiver, recovered from a near fatal accident to climb Everest, what a legend. He's earned his right to stay in fancy hotels. He's done his time staying out all night in handmade shacks!

Snowie · 06-09-2010 06:47PM

bear grylls is a bit crap really rather watch ray mears...

OutlawPete · 06-09-2010 06:49PM

I like the episode where he jumped from a helicopter onto a beach in the Bahamas.

He lived like a vegan, lucked fruit from the trees and eat lots of leafy greens and avocados.

There was this really crazy part where a coconut fell from a tree and almost hit him.

He cracked this open anyway and drank the fresh coconut water.

He then made a salad from walnuts, grapes, olives, some local sea vegetables and crisp salad leaves.

Then he made a salad dressing from cream he squeezed from the coconut mixed with olive oil and lemon juice.

The scariest part was, he sliced an apple up and just before he added it to the salad, he noticed a worm in it - so he flicked it up and booted it into the sea.

Amazing guy and just goes to show that if ever you are stranded in Hawaii, you CAN survive.

fonecrusher1 · 06-09-2010 06:49PM

You people do realise he has a stunt double for the really dangerous stuff right?

Nodin · 06-09-2010 07:07PM

Devil08 wrote: »

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

..only if he had somebody prepare Ray for him first....

Nodin · 06-09-2010 07:09PM

Pauleta wrote: »

Bear Grylls is a legend. All he is doing is teaching you what to do if you get stuck in a certain situation.

Then why in one episode does he advise going through an old mine as a shortcut down a mountain....?

Logical Fallacy · 06-09-2010 07:14PM

Pauleta wrote: »

Bear Grylls is a legend. All he is doing is teaching you what to do if you get stuck in a certain situation. It doesnt matter if there is a pub or a hotel down the road, he still shows how to build shelter, how to get food and water and to stay safe.

All of that is also covered by the Boy Scouts, they don't dress it up as something it's not though.

I did enjoy the stint he did in the Foreign Legion though.

cuppa · 06-09-2010 07:19PM

And why would you try and climb up a waterfall.

cuppa · 06-09-2010 07:26PM

OutlawPete wrote: »

I like the episode where he jumped from a helicopter onto a beach in the Bahamas.

He lived like a vegan, lucked fruit from the trees and eat lots of leafy greens and avocados.

There was this really crazy part where a coconut fell from a tree and almost hit him.

He cracked this open anyway and drank the fresh coconut water.

He then made a salad from walnuts, grapes, olives, some local sea vegetables and crisp salad leaves.

Then he made a salad dressing from cream he squeezed from the coconut mixed with olive oil and lemon juice.

The scariest part was, he sliced an apple up and just before he added it to the salad, he noticed a worm in it - so he flicked it up and booted it into the sea.

Amazing guy and just goes to show that if ever you are stranded in Hawaii, you CAN survive.

Sure hawaii is littered in Darma food drops . But is he a match for the black smoke.

Darlughda · 06-09-2010 07:28PM

Dont give a rats ass what stuff is fake.

Yer man Bear Grylls is so hot.

Yum yumyumyum:p

Roomic Cube · 06-09-2010 07:33PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZDaESpBs5k

the lads who did the waterford one were pretty good

Hail 2 Da Thief · 06-09-2010 07:33PM

I'd watch Bear Grylls with the same mindset that I'd have watching a Rambo movie. I know it's all bollocks but it's entertaining none the less. Ray Mears knows his stuff but his shows dont exactly catch the imagination.

ShadowGal · 06-09-2010 07:40PM

he's still hot as f**k though , any guy that can kill something, thats likely to kill me and then cook it to survive gets my vote... phoar

The_Joker. · 06-09-2010 08:11PM

Bear Grylls is deadly.

Dennis the Stone · 06-09-2010 08:47PM

Looks kind of like Christian Bale

Agricola · 06-09-2010 09:11PM

I think hes great. Hes been in the military, hes learned these techniques. Hes now making a handy living doing tv shows and writing survival guide books. Fair play to him. He doesnt need to sleep inside a deer for the night for the show to be entertaining.

Plus he seems like a likeable down to earth fella. The episode where he heads out into the sticks with Will Ferrell is gas.

mikerowsopht · 07-09-2010 11:08AM

you do realise he has a subway van that follows him around the jungle right?
he couldn't hold a candle to Ray Mears, the real survivalist

he has brought WWF shame to the survivalist world

FUNKY LOVER · 07-09-2010 11:30AM

UGHHHH this is what annoys me about modern ireland and boards.this is a bear grylls APPRECIATION thread,if you dont like him stop sticking your 2 cent in and having an opinion,go do it in the ranting section.

all he does is show you how to survive in certain conditions,so what if he stays in a hotel bla bla bla moan bitch moan.

mikerowsopht · 07-09-2010 11:36AM

Bear...... is that u ??

u seemed very upset when I mentioned the name Ray Mears

FUNKY LOVER · 07-09-2010 11:37AM

the title of this thread doesnt mention ray mears,why dont you open a ray mears appreciation thread?

Sanjuro · 07-09-2010 11:37AM

Yeah, entertainment is bullshit. When I found out Mark Hamill didn't actually have his hand cut off in The Empire Strikes Back, and Christopher Walken didn't actually shoot himself in the head in The Deer Hunter, I thought, 'fuck the entertainment industry. Nothing I see on the screen is real.'

skipz · 07-09-2010 11:44AM

Bear Grylls can piss in a snake and drink it as he goes, eat live creepy cave creatures the size of your hand and generaly a whole lot more than must people,

:pac::pac:DO THAT RAY 'LAZY' MEARS:pac::pac:......no? you cant fit in the cave?

The Bear Grylls Appreciation Thread

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