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Are you a Bear Grylls?

  • 25-04-2014 10:20PM
    #1
    Doom
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,381 ✭✭✭


    Well can you kill, skin and eat?
    Build shelter, start a fire, solve things fast, survive?

    I reckon I am, I can build, hunt, kill, cook, quick to solve a problem. I'm generally an outdoors persons, love nature.


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  • #2
    wazky
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,516 ✭✭✭wazky


    Doom wrote: »
    Well can you kill, skin and eat?
    Build shelter, start a fire, solve things fast, survive?

    I reckon I am, I can build, hunt, kill, cook, quick to solve a problems, I'm generally an outdoors persons, love nature.

    Can you drink your own urine though?


  • #3
    B.A._Baracus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,309 ✭✭✭✭B.A._Baracus


    Doom wrote: »
    Well can you kill, skin and eat?
    Build shelter, start a fire, solve things fast, survive?

    I reckon I am, I can build, hunt, kill, cook, quick to solve a problems, I'm generally an outdoors persons, love nature.


    Question: Have you actually:

    - Killed
    - Skinned
    - then eat said killed and skinned animal?

    If the answer is no, how do you know are you :pac:


  • #4
    Sir Arthur Daley
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,720 ✭✭✭Sir Arthur Daley


    wazky wrote: »
    Can you drink your own urine though?

    Can you drink other peoples urine? i love it.


  • #5
    Tokyo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,655 ✭✭✭✭Tokyo


    Doom wrote: »
    Well can you kill, skin and eat?
    Build shelter, start a fire, solve things fast, survive?

    I reckon I am, I can build, hunt, kill, cook, quick to solve a problems, I'm generally an outdoors persons, love nature.

    That man is comedy at its best - there isn't another show out there that better captures the excitement of a daredevil showoff with no attention span making a mockery out of nature.


  • #6
    Doom
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,381 ✭✭✭Doom


    B.A._Baracus wrote: »
    Question: Have you actually:

    - Killed
    - Skinned
    - then eat said killed and skinned animal?

    If the answer is no, how do you know are you :pac:

    -yes
    -yes
    -yes ;-)


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  • #7
    The One Doctor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,322 ✭✭✭The One Doctor


    Nope, but I wouldn't want to be. Grylls made most of his fame by lying his arse off about various achievements - saying he's done things that he never actually did. He's been exposed as a bit of a fraud by now.

    Ray Mears is honest and very interesting. Far easier to relate to him then some adrenaline junkie with a penchant for telling porkies about his achievements.


  • #8
    LeinsterDub
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,229 ✭✭✭LeinsterDub


    Though this was going to be about sexism


  • #9
    Ghost Buster
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,172 ✭✭✭Ghost Buster


    Doom wrote: »
    Well can you kill, skin and eat?
    Build shelter, start a fire, solve things fast, survive?

    I reckon I am, I can build, hunt, kill, cook, quick to solve a problems, I'm generally an outdoors persons, love nature.

    I prefer to think Im a Ray Mears.
    I can canoe, shoot a bow dam well, identify wild foods, start a fire, trap and kill etc but do so in a way that wont needlessly kill me.


  • #10
    wazky
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,516 ✭✭✭wazky


    Doom wrote: »
    -yes
    -yes
    -yes ;-)

    Murdering next doors cat and bbq'ing it doesn't count though.


  • #11
    Tokyo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,655 ✭✭✭✭Tokyo


    B.A._Baracus wrote: »
    Question: Have you actually:

    - Killed
    - Skinned
    - then eat said killed and skinned animal?

    If the answer is no, how do you know are you :pac:

    yes, yes, yes :)


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  • #12
    Sir Osis of Liver.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,820 ✭✭✭Sir Osis of Liver.


    Does the pope sh1t in the woods?


  • #13
    Doom
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,381 ✭✭✭Doom


    The One Doctor wrote: »
    Nope, but I wouldn't want to be. Grylls made most of his fame by lying his arse off about various achievements - saying he's done things that he never actually did. He's been exposed as a bit of a fraud by now.

    Maybe a bit of elaboration, but I rather be stuck with him than you in a jungle or desert


  • #14
    Doom
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,381 ✭✭✭Doom


    wazky wrote: »
    Can you drink your own urine though?

    Distillation :-)


  • #15
    B.A._Baracus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,309 ✭✭✭✭B.A._Baracus


    Doom wrote: »
    -yes
    -yes
    -yes ;-)
    mike_ie wrote: »
    yes, yes, yes :)

    Savages.

    *adjusts monocle while eating venison*


  • #16
    Ghost Buster
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,172 ✭✭✭Ghost Buster


    Doom wrote: »
    Maybe a bit of elaboration, but I rather be stuck with him than you in a jungle or desert

    Rather be stuck with Ray Mears though. Whilst Bear would be locating the vilest cack to eat ray would have a birds egg omlette with fresh fish whipped up and some berries for dessert. Then a nice shelter and a fire for later


  • #17
    Doom
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,381 ✭✭✭Doom


    wazky wrote: »
    Murdering next doors cat and bbq'ing it doesn't count though.

    Really...feck


  • #18
    Frosty McSnowballs
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,396 ✭✭✭Frosty McSnowballs


    Yep, I can indeed.


  • #19
    mikeym
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,992 ✭✭✭mikeym


    Bear Grylls is a bluffer.

    He doesnt spend the night out in the ground.

    Hes in a hotel.


  • #20
    Tokyo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,655 ✭✭✭✭Tokyo


    Bear Grylls, surviving in the west of Ireland by pulling a dead sheep out of a bog, turning it inside out, and using it as a sleeping bag.... :rolleyes::rolleyes:



  • #21
    Ghost Buster
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,172 ✭✭✭Ghost Buster


    mike_ie wrote: »
    Bear Grylls, surviving in the west of Ireland by pulling a dead sheep out of a bog, turning it inside out, and using it as a sleeping bag.... :rolleyes::rolleyes:


    The west of Ireland. Where youre never more than a mile from a B and B:eek:


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  • #22
    Stained Class
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,808 ✭✭✭Stained Class


    I'm more of a MacGyver myself.:cool:


  • #23
    Ruu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,622 ✭✭✭Ruu


    Yes, I have stayed in some lovely hotels.


  • #24
    Tokyo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,655 ✭✭✭✭Tokyo


    Ghost Buster wrote: »
    The west of Ireland. Where youre never more than a mile from a B and B:eek:

    Yep - I used to fish and climb where he first came ashore. It must have been a serious effort to angle the cameras to keep the houses out of shot... :D


  • #25
    Stavros Murphy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,435 ✭✭✭Stavros Murphy


    Bear Grylls - provider of stock to TK Maxx. He appeals to people who have never been fcuked off the back of an army truck and made fend for themselves - armchair survivalists. I prefer heat, booze and caviar tbh. Survivalism sucks, and it's fcuking cold out there too.


  • #26
    Ghost Buster
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,172 ✭✭✭Ghost Buster


    Stavros Murphy wrote: »
    Bear Grylls - provider of stock to TK Maxx. He appeals to people who have never been fcuked off the back of an army truck and made fend for themselves - armchair survivalists. I prefer heat, booze and caviar tbh. Survivalism sucks, and it's fcuking cold out there too.

    99.9 percent of us are simply big kids playing and shouldnt claim otherwise.
    Yup I often sod off into the woods or off to a lake island but only in good weather. Almost always in a tent or at least a hammock and a tarp and always bring food and my 8 year old to keep me in line. Yes i can catch fish and prepare and cook them but i dont hunt rabbits or fowl and such. I can and do know how to skin them but only cos i grew up on a farm.
    Its a hobby and a silly one at that but its makes old fellas feel like young fellas!


  • #27
    demanufactured
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,756 ✭✭✭demanufactured


    Doom wrote: »
    Well can you kill, skin and eat?
    Build shelter, start a fire, solve things fast, survive?

    I reckon I am, I can build, hunt, kill, cook, quick to solve a problems, I'm generally an outdoors persons, love nature.

    And stay in hotels after the show?


  • #28
    MonkieSocks
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,393 ✭✭✭MonkieSocks


    mike_ie wrote: »
    That man is comedy at its best - there isn't another show out there that better captures the excitement of a daredevil showoff with no attention span making a mockery out of nature.

    Mike :)

    Ya have to see this pair :rolleyes:

    Best Comedy Survival Show Ever :p


    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3339282/

    =(:-) Me? I know who I am. I'm a dude playing a dude disguised as another dude (-:)=



  • #29
    Micky Dolenz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 44,079 ✭✭✭✭Micky Dolenz


    I've eaten a few cows in my day.


  • #30
    Timmyctc
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,825 ✭✭✭Timmyctc


    mike_ie wrote: »
    Bear Grylls, surviving in the west of Ireland by pulling a dead sheep out of a bog, turning it inside out, and using it as a sleeping bag.... :rolleyes::rolleyes:

    Ghost Buster wrote: »
    The west of Ireland. Where youre never more than a mile from a B and B:eek:

    His point is more to do with if you had to survive in this particular type of environment. Not actually if you wandered a bit too far from the only road in Connemara
    Stavros Murphy wrote: »
    Bear Grylls - provider of stock to TK Maxx. He appeals to people who have never been fcuked off the back of an army truck and made fend for themselves - armchair survivalists. I prefer heat, booze and caviar tbh. Survivalism sucks, and it's fcuking cold out there too.

    Grylls is actually quite good at what he does believe it or not. Man knows how to survive. Youngest Chieft scout ever brah. Nearly paralyzed himself climbing Everest. Broke his back I think. Why not make money out of a cheesy tv show.


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  • #31
    Stavros Murphy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,435 ✭✭✭Stavros Murphy


    Timmyctc wrote: »


    Grylls is actually quite good at what he does believe it or not. Man knows how to survive. Youngest Chieft scout ever brah. Nearly paralyzed himself climbing Everest. Broke his back I think. Why not make money out of a cheesy tv show.

    I know, and not for one second am I questioning the "why" of what he does - fair fecks to him, good take, good sale. I'm just saying the "glamour" of survivalism is muppetry, cos it's shyte. I'd rather a warm bed and some horlix and I've frozen my hole off on many a welsh mountain with a dead sheep for company.:)


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