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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Mustaine on May 20, 2008, 09:42:51 PM
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Anyone watching this series? I am totally digging it, I'd totally pass the "cabin fever" part of it, and I think if I was put up in a cabin there I could chill... I don't know if I could do all the gutting / cleaning of the meat, but otherwise I'd do it.
Though it does seem that have to make "quests" or some crap, and I am not cool with that so to say, I'll chill in a cabin, but I won't trek for some dumb producers whim.
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I tried to watch, I really did. But those people were such unbelievable, hopeless pansies that I kept rooting for Nature to cull them from the gene pool. Wusses, the lot of them. The people I choose to associate with would not only survive, but THRIVE in those conditions. I sicken myself just thinking of their unworthiness! I feel soiled from just having to face the fact that those people and My People are both considered to be verterbrates! Just recalling those few glimpses of the show makes my gorge rise! I have had nasal secretions with greater survival instincts! I can literally taste the puke in the back of my throa......well you get the idea.
But it beats Cash Cab.
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I tried to watch, I really did. But those people were such unbelievable, hopeless pansies that I kept rooting for Nature to cull them from the gene pool. Wusses, the lot of them. The people I choose to associate with would not only survive, but THRIVE in those conditions. I sicken myself just thinking of their unworthiness! I feel soiled from just having to face the fact that those people and My People are both considered to be verterbrates! Just recalling those few glimpses of the show makes my gorge rise! I have had nasal secretions with greater survival instincts! I can literally taste the puke in the back of my throa......well you get the idea.
I will try my best not to laugh when you get hit by a semi :mad:
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I've watched it a couple of times. It's much better than some of the other survivalist shows, mainly because of its natural setting.
They always seem to pick city folk for these "experiences". I suppose their utter cluelessness does provide more sheer entertainment than would people who have had occasion to actually use some "primitive" and "barbaric" technologies in their everyday lives.
It was a real hoot to watch the young man turn green while having to skin and GUT the mountain goat he had killed. How many of ya'll think that the 150 pounds of meat he got off of that animal is going to supply all the protein needs of the people in his cabin for the entire winter?
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The scenery is good, but trying to convince the public that those concrete pounders could actually survive without all the back up that`s in place is ridiculous.
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How many of ya'll think that the 150 pounds of meat he got off of that animal is going to supply all the protein needs of the people in for the entire winter?
for the 3 of them no way... one guy said November is the coldest month, something tells me either they are clueless or they aren't staying through until spring thaw.
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I love Cash Cab
What a great idea - the guy is making bucco money -
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for the 3 of them no way... one guy said November is the coldest month, something tells me either they are clueless or they aren't staying through until spring thaw.
The entire "experiment" is only 3 months long. I think at this point in the show, there's only 1 or 2 months left. At 60 days left, splitting the goat evenly, that's around .8 pounds per person, per day, not including their veggies & whatnots. Sounds like a pretty good sized portion to me.
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for the 3 of them no way... one guy said November is the coldest month, something tells me either they are clueless or they aren't staying through until spring thaw.
he he..........November is still in the teens - 20's.............still short sleeved shirt time :D
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A year or so ago I read a book (trying to come up with the title, I'll google it directly) about a young man who made his way up in to Alaska to tough it in the wilderness. He died, of course, but it was an interesting read. If you find the premise of city folk trying to play mountainman amusing, you might enjoy that book.
<edit- It is "Into The Wild", by Jon Krakauer>
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0307387178/?tag=awaycom-20
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Recently watched that movie hub, most depressing thing I ever saw in my life.
Plus he made many many mistakes, a couple of which were cumulative.
A Crossing a frozen river without a way back after the Thaw.
B Not enough staples, rice, beans, flour, bacon, etc.
C totally inept attempt to cure meat.
Let me put it this way, your life depends on your ability to keep meat from spoiling.
Wouldn't you have made sure your method worked, or tested it first?
Or brought salt so you could keep it from rotting while you smoked it?
D terrible timing, He walked into the bush in what looked like winter (possible late fall, or late winter)
How do you walk into anywhere and build a shelter, put away a winters supply of food that way?
Its simply not possible. You time it to walk, float your way into the bush in springtime.
You have all summer and fall to build shelter, and stock away your winters food supply. And, if all fails and
you decide you can't make it, you can walk out before your snowed in too deep to get out.
If the kid handn't burned his money, given away his college fund. He could have gotten a float plane to drop him into a good location. He could have built a much better shelter than a metal bus. (Talk about freeze your tail off in January!)
And he could have the pilot drop supplys a couple of times a year. In short if the kid had thought he could still be alive in alaska.
Instead hes famous, dead, but famous.
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I said I thought it was interesting, I never said he wasn't an idiot.
Anyway, that's a real Alaska experiment- nothing like this formulated-for-the-bovine-masses roadkill they're getting you guys to watch.
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The only survival show worth watching is Survivorman.
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I tried to watch, I really did. But those people were such unbelievable, hopeless pansies that I kept rooting for Nature to cull them from the gene pool. Wusses, the lot of them. The people I choose to associate with would not only survive, but THRIVE in those conditions. I sicken myself just thinking of their unworthiness! I feel soiled from just having to face the fact that those people and My People are both considered to be verterbrates! Just recalling those few glimpses of the show makes my gorge rise! I have had nasal secretions with greater survival instincts! I can literally taste the puke in the back of my throa......well you get the idea.
agreed.
But it beats Cash Cab.
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The only survival show worth watching is Survivorman.
I like his shows.
I don't care much for that "Bear" guy since it was disclosed they film, go to the hotel, then go back out the next day....
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I love Cash Cab
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Ok.... but why is Cash Cab on The Discovery Channel? A game show on my beloved Discovery Channel!?!?
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Ok.... but why is Cash Cab on The Discovery Channel? A game show on my beloved Discovery Channel!?!?
Agreed. What are we Discovering on Cash Cab? The answers to game show questions? Come on.
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Yeah - I agree Discovery chan is a strange place for it - but I know they wont get rid of it because the revunue from ads is making them a lot of money.
Newbs
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Idiots watch Discovery channel too. Just because you don't think you're an idiot, doesn't mean that some marketing group isn't targeting you there, too.
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That seems to be their trend...they have these non-scientific shows on that are huge draws. Dirty Jobs, Dangerous Catch...etc...a while back we had American Chopper and such, which all got migrated to TLC (The Learning Channel ?).
More and more I'm getting drawn into the History Channel. Its funny how they've scaled back the WW2 themes since they became known as the "Hitler Channel" since there was always some sort of Hitler piece on. But again, how Ax Men and history go together...eh?
We seem to get sucked into "How Its Made" a lot lately. There was one a few days ago on how hotdogs are made. The kids saw unrecognizable pieces of meat ground into a brown foam, then shoved into tubes. They haven't eaten one since LOL
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I heard somewhere that in order to survive an Alaskan winter, you need to chop wood for at least 5 months (i would assume thats hand chopping) non stop.
no thanks, i have enough problems getting my grass clippings in the bag... :confused:
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i have enough problems getting my grass clippings in the bag... :confused:
:rofl :aok
Thanks. I needed that.