Ex-British Special Forces adventurer Bear Grylls is still trying to claw his way out from underneath a pile of public-relations elephant dung regarding his Discovery Channel series "Man vs. Wild." Seems ol' Bear was "roughing it" in a motel and staging certain "wild" scenes. Then there's the gigantic list of bad advice he supposedly has given: Thirsty in the wild? Yes! Drink your own urine, of course!
Grylls' show can't compare to the more compelling, blue-collar "Survivorman." I am totally freaking addicted to "Survivorman." Host Les Stroud gets dumped off in the middle of nowhere with little but a ton of camera equipment to lug and a Canadian sense of humor. Not only does Stroud have to survive (he often looks downright miserable at night), he has to film everything by himself. That's hardcore. Grylls has a camera crew. Not hardcore.
Both men eat a lot of caterpillars and scorpions. Definitely bug-core.
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Survivorman
is the better of the two.
I liked them both at first but then I had the thought, "hey, who's filming this British dude?"
Hmmm... I would have much more respect for the camera guy since he's doing everything that the Bear is, but with a camera. Pretty pathetic if you ask me.
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Les Stroud is 10 times smarter than Bear Gryles
Bear has an entire camera team with him, what a wuss. And he's always doing STUPID dangerous things that lost people should NEVER attempt - like sliding down a 200 foot rock face on his belly without any gear, instead of walking around it.
Bear almost always starts his fires with a match or lighter!! Les shows you how to start it sticks, flint, magnifying glasses, etc.
What kind of name is Bear Gryles anyway? It sounds like a porn name. But, he's cute so all of the girlies will like him. (say, I do too...cum to think of it) Luv ya, CB
Thank god for one camera!
Much harder to get butt shots right.
I still thought...
SUPERFLY on TBS was much cooler.
Go survivorman
Being a rock climbing Idaho countryboy,having
done search and rescue and somewhat of a
survivalist myself I couldn't agree more.
The essencse of wildereness survival
doctrine is to NOT put yourself in potentially life threatening situations in order to survive.
Alone Comes Jones...
with a microbe and kills you dead like RAID.
I forgot to say duh.
You shouldn't be...
EATING Caterpillars and Scorpions...
You want to operate a Caterpillar while listening to Scorpions.