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General Category => Entertainment and Media => Topic started by: Farren on December 25, 2008, 07:08:15 am
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Every night after getting really baked, I turn on the tv in desperate hopes that one of the two best shows ever will come on.
Survivorman
Survivorman is Les Shroud. Les does all of the taping and acting for survivorman all by himself out in the middle of nowherefucksville. All he has on him is his camera equipment (which he can't use) his clothing and like four random items which he can use any way he wants.
The title "Survivorman" refers to the host of the show, Canadian filmmaker and survival expert Les Stroud, who must use his skills to survive for seven days alone in remote locales with little or no food, water, and equipment.
During the filming of each episode, Stroud is alone, and operates all the cameras himself. He is equipped with only his clothes, camera equipment (which he does not use for survival except in an emergency), his harmonica, a Leatherman multi-tool,and often "everyday items" relevant to the episode's particular survival scenario. For safety purposes, Stroud carries an emergency satellite phone. However, Stroud has claimed that while filming several episodes, there were times when his emergency phone did not work, leaving him totally alone.[2] On a few occasions, Stroud has also been provided with a rifle.
Survivorman can be considered a sequel or spin-off to Stroud's earlier project, Stranded, a five-part series that was shown on the Canadian Discovery Channel in 2001.
Les Stroud has publicly announced that he will stop filming his popular Survivorman TV series after the third season. Stroud is leaving the highly popular series because he says that "a person can only go without eating for a week at a time, a limited number of times, before it begins to wear on you."
This dude goes through some real shit. Like hes even had to give up a few times I think because some of the places he goes to are so F$%$ing whack that he was just incapable of living there. This dude is good as hell though, he's like a frontiersman macgyver or some shit. I've seen him trap rabbits, squirrels, bugs, weird plants, snails, and all kinds of other crazy shit.
Man Vs Wild
Man Vs Wild is Bear Grylis. And Bear Grylis is a friggen badass. He is an X royal commando bred with the blood of 1000 kings, genetically engineered for killing little furry shit, and trained to live off an old muddpuddle and a stick of beef jerky for a week . He's like fucking batman or something and this show isn't even really about HOW TO SURVIVE IN SHITTY SITUATION. As it is how fucking crazy grylis is. Its like watching the hulk throw a car and then he being like: "ITS EASY THIS IS HOW YOU DO IT WATCH"
This guy is crazy:
Also, he escapes from quicksand in like every other episode its so hilarious I've seen him crawl out of quicksand like six times I think.
Anyways to my excitement there is a christmas marathon on man vs wild and he's been doing some pretty cool shit like he ate that snake and got stung by a bee in the face.
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I know his show is fake as shit but its still really entertaining and sometimes educational.
EDIT: He just shoved his fucking arm underwater in a swamp in the hollow of a cypress tree trunk or some shit and let a 3ft long catfish bite into his hand so he could catch it and eat it.
that is badass
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i know suvivor man is more legit than man vs wild but damn did you see that ep where bear guts out a dead camel and climbs up inside? what a crazy dude
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I think I'm the only one, cause all of my friends and family love this shit, but I would rather be stranded out in the wilderness than watch either of these.
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The only survival faggot I have any time for is ray mears.
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DUDE DRANK WATER OUT OF A PIECE OF DRIED SHIT IM NOT EVEN GONNA LOOK IT UP IT NAUSEATED ME YOUTUBE IT.
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was it the same ep with the camel? because he yanked out a bunch of shit out of the camel that was still being digested and squeezed the water into his mouth
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Yeah grylis is one crazy son of a bitch he's probably my favorite but he's like goddamn superbrit or something he climbs out of FUCKING QUICKSAND almost every episode like its a fucking cakewalk or something
ILL JUST PUT MY HAND UNDER THIS TREE TRUNK IN A FUCKING SWAMP I CANT SEE ANYTHING DOWN THERE AND THERE MIGHT BE A BIGASS TURTLE THAT CAN TAKE OFF MY HAND FOR A HUGE CATFISH WITH TEETH
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les stroud dude common.
at least he actually 'survives'. both entertaining i would say, but les is more legit.
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These shows are so awesome.
Bear is WAY too eager to drink his own piss.
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I think I'm the only one, cause all of my friends and family love this shit, but I would rather be stranded out in the wilderness than watch either of these.
all men love both of these shows, its science.
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Hahaha what man wouldn't love watching a guy drink moisture from camel shit?
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Man fuck this shit because Alone in the Wilderness is a thousand times the best thing. It's about Dick Proenneke (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Proenneke), who was this dude who was just fed up with shit so he moved to Alaska and built his own cabin with a nice stone fireplace and a tower to put his meat that he killed in so bears wouldn't get it and the only shit he didn't make himself was like...a few skillets and his canoe (I think, he might have made that too I don't remember) and he had a pilot buddy who would bring him sugar and dried apples and SOCKS he ordered out of the sears catalogue. But besides that he just made everything himself and shot a bunch of footage and it was negative 40 degrees most of the time. He did this until he was 82 and then finally went back to the rest of the world. Fucking awesome.
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I seen his story on... PBS, Velfarre. It was really good/inspiring. I have a lot of respect for that man. The cabin that he lived in is now a historic site I'm pretty sure. I remember on the documentary (maybe it's on wikipedia too, didn't read the article), but although he lived out in the wild by himself, he wasn't anti-social and accepted visitors who happened to stumble by.
One thing that stood out to me was when he looked at a tree and said "That would make a nice table" (The narration) and he went and cut a slab out of it and made a remarkable table for his cabin, I'm sure people would pay a lot for that kind of stuff.
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I seen his story on... PBS, Velfarre. It was really good/inspiring. I have a lot of respect for that man. The cabin that he lived in is now a historic site I'm pretty sure. I remember on the documentary (maybe it's on wikipedia too, didn't read the article), but although he lived out in the wild by himself, he wasn't anti-social and accepted visitors who happened to stumble by.
One thing that stood out to me was when he looked at a tree and said "That would make a nice table" (The narration) and he went and cut a slab out of it and made a remarkable table for his cabin, I'm sure people would pay a lot for that kind of stuff.
Yeah, my cousin recorded it off of PBS so that's how I saw it (PBS expects you to pay $120 for the DVD because it's mostly donation, still that's WAY TOO MUCH). Yeah, it did say he accepted visitors, and it is a historic site now (the park told him he could come back anytime, but he's dead now so it's just plain a historic site). If it wasn't, I'd say it could have been sold for an INSANE FORTUNE though, all of that being built by hand and everything. I only saw some of the documentary unfortunately because their recording only got the second half, but I did see him make the table. He'd just go out and cut off a hunk of wood and strap it to his back and come home, or find a dead animal and cut it up and bring back whatever he could. It's insane what he made though, building the chimney was crazy because he'd been collecting rocks for it for so long.