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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Curval on July 14, 2007, 10:23:04 PM
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You guys watch that show?
I've seen bits of it a couple of times and today I watched one where he was in Iceland .
I got cold watching that show...and it was 85 degrees with 85% humidity outside today.
That guy is pretty hard core. He ate the eye of a sheep, after dunking it in a boiling thermal pond to get rid of the bacteria, then he boiled up some of the sheep and chowed down. The latter I could do easily, the former...no.
I think there is probably a helocopter on call to rescue him if necessary, but the guy still really does seem to go through the whole experience in each location.
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He does do more than the competition show, survivorman. He definitely isn't into not eating for a week. He doesn't do the making fire by rubbing sticks together but the other stuff he does is more in tune with really getting through the situation.
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I actually love that show. Ive seen both Man vs. Wild and Survivorman. The guy on survivorman is alone and films himself, but the show is primarily how he survives.
On Man vs. Wild though, he has a camera crew with him. But the thing I like about this show is that he shows you different techniques on how to survive rather than just surviving himself. I saw an episode before where he was in the arctic where there were huge crevices in the ice. He then explained a technique where he took his parachute, made it into a rope, and tied knots in it every 1-2 feet. He said that ideally if you fell into a crevice then your own body weight would cause a knot to catch on the ledge of ice and keep you from falling. Then he said, "Theres only way to find out if this works" and he jumped in. Definately something I don't see the guy on survivorman doing.
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There are apparently lots of vitamins and other good stuff in eyeballs.
My personal preferred technique is to swallow the damn things whole... Otherwise they go pop and the gooey center (which tastes a bit salty if I recall correctly) can trigger a gag reflex if you're not used to that sort of thing.
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The guy also drank his own urine in Australia. He sipped it like it was gatorade or something.
I also saw him eat a raw fish in the alps, bite the heads off of maggots and eat them, do the same thing with ants etc.
That eyeball thing was just plain gross. I'm not sure just how hungry I would have to be able to eat an eyeball.
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I wonder if his camera crew camps out or if they find the nearest hotel.:D
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What about the one when he drank the "water" from the elephant crap. I almost had to run to the bathroom for that one.
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Almost anytime I've held brains (especialy whole) in anatomy practicals, I've had a nearly mouth-watering impulse to take a bite.
Lightly fried and seasoned, I bet brains are a nice dish.
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I like both Survivorman and M v. W.
Survivorman tends to give you a bit more towards the end after the isolation sets in. I'd like to see more episodes of both.
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I actually coked eyeballs the other day, but I don't like them.
(We eat charred sheep-heads, - no joke!)
Is this on youtube? Never heard of this show, but again, I'm not watching a lot of TV.
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Originally posted by Larry
What about the one when he drank the "water" from the elephant crap. I almost had to run to the bathroom for that one.
I'm glad I didn't see that one. Thats really really gross. :lol
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Did you see the previews? He picks up the load of **** and tilts his head back while squeezing it. Poo water was running all down his face.
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yes the pooh water was pretty nasty and yet if the choice for me were die of thirst or drink elephant pooh water I'd be looking for the herd.
I don't watch those shows too much I may stop for a bit during a channel surf but that's about it.
when I was young, in the boy scouts we were taught that when going out into the wilderness to always have a bandana and a small bottle of household bleach. an eye dropper type bottle is what we used and it contained maybe three ounces of chlorine. any water source then becomes potable water if you collect the water with your hat, filter it through the bandana and deposit five drops of the chlorine bleach into your container.
when I watched the elephant pooh episode the guy walked past a perfectly good puddle and went on to drink elephant pooh water. maybe he didn't know the bandana and chlorine concept but I kind of doubt it. drinking elephant pooh water causes what we have here, free advertising and more potential viewers.
having a survival kit in your vehicle is advisible if you live out in the hinterlands, of course if you live in the hinterlands then I'm preaching to the choir.
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Yea I liked Survivorman alot better. Man vs Wild is like here let me do the nastiest or stupidest things to get ratings. Survivorman was heres how you survive in the wilderness.
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Originally posted by storch
when I watched the elephant pooh episode the guy walked past a perfectly good puddle and went on to drink elephant pooh water.
On the Iceland episode he also just ate enough of the sheep meat to fill up his stomach. The next night he was laying traps for small birds. All he had to do was boil up enough sheep meat for two nights and carry some with him.
Definately some "televisioning" going on.
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no doubt. the other thing is that they don't mention that you need to consume the viscera of what ever animals you harvest. the meat from wild game may fill you and satisfy your hunger but typically wild animals musculature is lean and void of essential fatty acids, vitamins and minerals that the human body requires. one could conceivably starve to death with a full stomach.
if you observe what predators eat first you will have some clue as to what you need to eat as well.
it's essential that you eat the liver, heart and kidneys of any small game you capture if you are in true survival mode.
if not run to the outback steakhouse.
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I didn't realize there were two of these shows. We watch one. I'll have to see which one it is and watch for the other one. thanks:)
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I saw him on Conan O'bien and Conan asked did he ever want to quit while being out filming.
He said the closest he came was the next episode where he is in Scotland (this coming friday). He said he was really close to quitting and having to call for help on that one.
Now I never visited it up there but I cant see Scotland being as hard to survive as Iceland, or when he was in Australia.
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sheep and cow eyeballs and brains are very commen dishes im many middle eastern countrys ive had brain on nuemerous occasions its good:aok
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We must watch the other one. A recent episode showed him as having been stuck in quicksand for quite some time. He films himself (doesn't have a cameraman w/him), and was rescued after a very long time in the quicksand I believe.
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Bear Grylls rules.
First time I caught his show... he was in Africa and saw some buzzards.
He says something like, "This is a good sign" and trots off towards them where he finds a dead zebra that has been consumed by lions except for a bit. He dove right in, said it smelled fine and there were no maggots and then he started eating.
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So much interest for one little guy splish-splashing in puddles and doing Tom Green adventurer/necrophiliac skits and so much in-feeding on trite stuff like American Idol or other boring Reality shows, when there's billions of Real new things to explore versus actual Peril rather than (e.g.) very absurd death to cow-dung poisoning, these things starting right above everyone's head a mere 62 miles away.. that Nature gets about 1% (compare with the hundred of billions (trillions?) welfare-ish stuff gets) of the budget, and even that 1% is screwed with.
Add to that the fact that Man has its pants down to Nature, e.g. not global warming but some big stupid rocks from space (hold that strayjacket for a second) capable of dwarfing the OMGXBOXHEUG effects of global warming and that almost no one is preparing anything for, or other minor details like the truly huge large scale commercial and personal scale growth that space development would mean...
And now, back to your regularly scheduled bufoon-of-the-Spaceship-Earth program.
:noid
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I think that because Bear has a camera crew he can call on in a real emergency he's willing to do some riskier things like jump into an ice covered pond or over a crevase to demonstrate things that wouldn't be smart for a person all by themselves like survivorman. On the other hand he isn't squeamish about actually living off of the land like survivorman seems to be. Bear actually spends time hunting and definitely eats more on his show than survivorman does.
I really enjoy the differences between them. I'm tempted to try some of the fire making methods that survivorman uses.
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Originally posted by moot
Almost anytime I've held brains (especialy whole) in anatomy practicals, I've had a nearly mouth-watering impulse to take a bite.
Lightly fried and seasoned, I bet brains are a nice dish.
not bad if mixed with scrambled eggs and covered in Ketchup!:aok
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A very succesful professional matchmaker once told me not to do that:
"I don't care what you think you know about him - any man that puts ketchup on eggs cannot be trusted".
It was one of her golden dating rules, along with someone leaving skidmarks in their underwear being a closet booger collector, and men who apologize being bussies.
:noid
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Originally posted by Maverick
I really enjoy the differences between them. I'm tempted to try some of the fire making methods that survivorman uses.
Funny you say that. This weekend im planning on trying a "friction" fire.
It's difficult to compare the two because they are both unique, but I think I have to go with Les Stroud. If I were lost in the woods for a short period of time i'd like Bear Grylls by my side, but if it was any type of extended stay, i'd definately take Les Stroud.
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I saw surviverman totally FREAK out while on a raft at sea with a storm coming on. He pulled the plug, his backup boat comes, picks him up and drops him in the next morning. Funny after that episode I haven't seen a new surviverman since. Could be wrong but I think he decided their had to be an easier way to make money. Also I've seen Les do some very very stupid things. Things that you would not want to do in that situation.
Bear does a much better job of explaining the dangers, showing you how to survive. He does cheat with his fire making, would love to see him get that right. Have him show different possible methods of building a fire from scratch.
As for the foods, well surviving is as much about attitude and whats going on in your head as anything. If you want to live, you have to accept that you will do whatever is required. Just put your mind to it and get it done.
The urine trick he did in the outback clearly showed he was choking that stuff down. He was NOT enjoying it. Also I'd only play that trick once, and early on at that. The longer your dehydrated, the more the urine concentrates the bad stuff you need to get rid of. Recycling it through more than once could seriously overload or damage your health.
Both guys move a lot more than the average person would in a survival situation. If your injured at all, disoriented, lost, etc in most cases your better off moving as little as possible. Build a fire, find water and wait for rescue.
Only if I knew that no one would come looking for me would I attempt to walk out of some of the terrain that both guys have shown.