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Ray Mears vs Bear Grylls

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  • #92
    EdenHazard
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    ray mears is a twat, bear grylls is a legend


  • #93
    Jesus Wept
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,243 ✭✭✭✭Jesus Wept


    EdenHazard wrote: »
    ray mears is a twat, bear grylls is a legend

    This is what I was going for.


  • #94
    KeithAFC
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,239 ✭✭✭✭KeithAFC


    And Ray Nears trains the SAS
    So? I very much doubt the SAS NEED Ray Mears to train them or they would be up sh*t creek without a paddle.


  • #95
    Paulie Gualtieri
    Closed Accounts Posts: 420 ✭✭Paulie Gualtieri


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

    BOOM


  • #96
    DB10
    Site Banned Posts: 2,719 ✭✭✭DB10


    Who the **** is Ray Mears, and Bear Grylls I dont even know.

    BA Baracus now thats a tough guy. And I'm not even that old. All these new ages "hardmen" **** em all


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  • #97
    kieranfitz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 592 ✭✭✭kieranfitz


    EdenHazard wrote: »
    bear grylls is a twat, ray mears is a legend

    FYP

    In summery, people who know their arse from their elbow about the outdoors/bushcraft/camping/survival will take Ray Mears, Cody Lundine, Dave Canterbury, Mors Kochanski and maybe Les Stroud

    People who watch too much TV/want to off themselves/think call of duty is a documentary will take teddy bear.


  • #98
    EdenHazard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,296 ✭✭✭EdenHazard


    kieranfitz wrote: »
    FYP

    In summery, people who know their arse from their elbow about the outdoors/bushcraft/camping/survival will take Ray Mears, Cody Lundine, Dave Canterbury, Mors Kochanski and maybe Les Stroud

    People who watch too much TV/want to off themselves/think call of duty is a documentary will take teddy bear.

    People with a life will take teddy bear ;)


  • #99
    KeithAFC
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,239 ✭✭✭✭KeithAFC


    kieranfitz wrote: »
    FYP

    In summery, people who know their arse from their elbow about the outdoors/bushcraft/camping/survival will take Ray Mears, Cody Lundine, Dave Canterbury, Mors Kochanski and maybe Les Stroud

    People who watch too much TV/want to off themselves/think call of duty is a documentary will take teddy bear.
    Bear Grylls KNOWS about survival and can implement survival skills in his shows which he has done. The point is his shows are designed to be entertaining on Discovery.

    Some one has already shown you that both Ray and Bear Grylls do two completely different shows.


  • #100
    dfx-
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    KeithAFC wrote: »
    So? I very much doubt the SAS NEED Ray Mears to train them or they would be up sh*t creek without a paddle.

    Obama: "We've found bin Laden, do you want to help catch him"

    SAS: "Let us get in touch with Ray Mears and get back to you with a recon of the local fauna and folk stories"

    Line goes dead


  • #101
    MungBean
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    dfx- wrote: »
    Obama: "We've found bin Laden, do you want to help catch him"

    SAS: "Let us get in touch with Ray Mears and get back to you with a recon of the local fauna and folk stories"

    Line goes dead
    In July 2010, Mears was asked by Northumbria Police to help them track fugitive killer Raoul Moat, after he fled his temporary tent-based shelter in the village of Rothbury.

    When stuff actually needs doing Mears is yer man, if you wanna be entertained then call Grylls.


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  • #102
    Paulie Gualtieri
    Closed Accounts Posts: 420 ✭✭Paulie Gualtieri


    www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-470155/How-Bear-Grylls-Born-Survivor-roughed--hotels.html


  • #103
    Wompa1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,281 ✭✭✭Wompa1


    I think Ray Meagher is better. Why not have him as an option. Watch how he deals with a slippery gypsy trying to poke his daughter

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


  • #104
    willmunny1990
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    If you want to be entertained watch Bear Grylls, i think his shows are far more entertaining but if you want practical advice and techniques on survival Ray is your man.


  • #105
    Jesus Wept
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    Wompa1 wrote: »
    I think Ray Meagher is better. Why not have him as an option. Watch how he deals with a slippery gypsy trying to poke his daughter

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

    Surprised he didn't put them in the rape dungeon tbh.


  • #106
    discus
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    KeithAFC wrote: »
    So? I very much doubt the SAS NEED Ray Mears to train them or they would be up sh*t creek without a paddle.

    He does train them. Some of my SERE training in work was done by Ray.

    HE SAID I COULD BE ANYTHING NOW I'M A JUNGLE MASTER


  • #107
    Sykk
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,327 ✭✭✭Sykk


    All the defenders of mears posting daily mail links are giving me a rash..


  • #108
    happyman81
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    Both are probably equally useful in the wild, but I would have a pint with Mears over Grylls any day. So being stuck with Mears sounds like a better prospect.


  • #109
    kylith
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    Mears any day. He'd have a house built and a 3 course meal laid out before Grills had even finished filling his water bottle with urine.


  • #110
    Paparazzo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,395 ✭✭✭Paparazzo


    kylith wrote: »
    Mears any day. He'd have a house built and a 3 course meal laid out before Grills had even finished filling his water bottle with urine.

    Mears builds a house he goes along the lines of "use a tent pole to support this bit. Use some rope to hold this here. Take a break and use your tilly kettle for a cup of tea"
    Bear Grylls rips the guts out of a camel with his bare hands and climbs inside.


  • #111
    the purple tin
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    You have to ask yourself, why would the SAS hire Mears to train their troops in outdoor survival if he wasn't the best there is?


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  • #112
    Wossack
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    the purple tin wrote: »
    You have to ask yourself, why would the SAS hire Mears to train their troops in outdoor survival if he wasn't the best there is?

    he's cheap

    rumour has it he works for short bits of rope, and stones with little bits of quartz in them


  • #113
    Sykk
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    the purple tin wrote: »
    You have to ask yourself, why would the SAS hire Mears to train their troops in outdoor survival if he wasn't the best there is?

    Mears is overweight. He likes to chat and tell stories of the old days whilst sipping a nice cuppa. Construct his shelter from a tent and eats a nice marinated dinner.

    What happens when you're in a Serbian wasteland of -40c? Wheres your tea and crumpets then? The chaps a joke tbh, I've never seen him do anything that patches him on bear.


  • #114
    the purple tin
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    Sykk wrote: »
    Mears is overweight. He likes to chat and tell stories of the old days whilst sipping a nice cuppa. Construct his shelter from a tent and eats a nice marinated dinner.

    What happens when you're in a Serbian wasteland of -40c? Wheres your tea and crumpets then? The chaps a joke tbh, I've never seen him do anything that patches him on bear.
    So how come they don't hire Bear then?


  • #115
    the purple tin
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    Wossack wrote: »
    he's cheap

    rumour has it he works for short bits of rope, and stones with little bits of quartz in them
    The SAS are probably the best trained forces in the world. The top brass aren't going to risk their soldiers lives just to save a few bob.
    They are going to hire the top man.


  • #116
    Sykk
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    the purple tin wrote: »
    So how come they don't hire Bear then?

    Who says he wants to do it? He's the youngest chief scout in history, and the youngest Briton to climb Everest. Mears would break a hip climbing the hill of Tara.


  • #117
    Chuck Stone
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    Ray Mears would kick the living shit out of Bear Grylls and then quickly fashion a roasting spit out of nearby branches and start a fire by staring at some tinder and cook the bastard.

    In other news:

    Vanilla ice cream is better than chocolate ice cream.


  • #118
    Paparazzo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,395 ✭✭✭Paparazzo


    I'd like to know more about Ray Mears "training the sas". Did he give one talk to a few lads one time? I find it hard to believe that the SAS get him in to train them and they don't have their own specialist trainers that work with them full time.


  • #119
    the purple tin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,943 ✭✭✭✭the purple tin


    Sykk wrote: »
    Who says he wants to do it? He's the youngest chief scout in history, and the youngest Briton to climb Everest. Mears would break a hip climbing the hill of Tara.
    Not sure what point you're trying to make about him climbing Everest.
    He was 23 when he did it.
    A 77 year old man has climbed Everest, now that's impressive.
    A 23 year old in his prime- a little less so.


  • #120
    couldntthink
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 295 ✭✭couldntthink


    Who would you rather go on a session with? I reckon if Bear got drunk he would be a proper nut job and you'd have a lot of stories the next day.


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  • #121
    discus
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    Sykk wrote: »
    Mears is overweight. He likes to chat and tell stories of the old days whilst sipping a nice cuppa. Construct his shelter from a tent and eats a nice marinated dinner.

    What happens when you're in a Serbian wasteland of -40c? Wheres your tea and crumpets then? The chaps a joke tbh, I've never seen him do anything that patches him on bear.

    That's because you sit at home watching their exploits on TV and internet. Bear makes his money on the motivational speaking / after dinner circuit. Mears trains Army/Navy/Airforce in SERE (survival/evasion/resistance/extraction) training, for all circumstances and environments, which doesn't really make it to telly for obvious reasons.


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