To think that Bear Grylls is a jumped up toss pot

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AIBU may not be the best place to put this but it was the 1st thread I came to

Radio4 have just done 'Inheritance Tracks' and it was survival's favorite elephant poo sucker Mr Grylls. During the article he waxed lyrical about his dad as an influence on his life (fair enough) then denigrate his mum as

'just a housewife and mother'

AAAAAGGGGGGHHHHHHHHH

Terence, you Total Tosser You may have been up Everest and been in the SAS but FFS could you do a mum's job?

Thankfully Sheila Hancock felt the same bristly indignity as me (much respect Ms H)

Especially when his wife is also 'just a housewife and mother', albeit one who has written some sort of marriage guidance book (always tempting fate).

My children really think he is a cheating liar. I have no idea why but whenever he is on telly they shout 'cheat!'

He makes me rofl.

He is a twat.

In fairness to him - I could much more easily become a housewife than I could do the things he does

That's probably because he was outed as a cheat for pretending to be roughing it for some television programme when, in reality, he was slumming it in some 5* hotel at night.

Story about 'faked' programme.

Ebberley I've read that he allegedly books into hotels rather than camps out as the progs suggest. That's what your DCs may be refering too.

Then again, what would I know, only being a 'housewife and mother'?

Hmmm though his film crew seem to manage them ok.

He has a fantastic talent for making things look waaaaaaaaaaaaaaay harder than they actually are.

He could make a walk in the park appear fraught with danger.

'That piece of dog shit, there on the path, I could easily have slipped and broken my neck, you can never be too careful in this area, Oh and look at this big boy, Springer Spaniels have been known to tear men limb from limb, we'll give him a wide bearth, see him running back to his owner? He knows not to mess with the Bear. Oh wow a puddle one false move and I could be face down in that drowning, lets step to the side and carefully make our way through these twigs.'

PMSL at WTWTW

WTWTW - That's made me think of David Baddiel's Heath and safety officer in the Mary Whitehouse experience

'Now there was absolutley no need for that to happen'

and as for Bear Grylls....I'd rather have a vegetable grill myself

I think he's an arsehole.

Give me Ray Mears every time. He's the man!

PMSL Where

Absolutely GreenMonkies. Ray rocks. Bear is a muppet.

Prize plonker, we watch him when we want to see a good fictional drama (grin) He makes DH's teeth itch!

Dh and I argue more about this than anything .

I think he is a total and utter tosspot (Bear G, not dh). Dh thinks he is cool and is impressed by all the things he does, despite the 5* hotel revelations.

You are right Ohdearwhatamess.

Yes, I wasn't impressed by him in that interview and was glad to hear that Sheila Hancock gave him the evil eye over it.

I'm in the Ray Mears camp as well. Me and ds saw him last year on his talk tour - he's a legend [not worthy emoticon].

Bear Grylls had a brief interview in the Guardian recently, where he alluded to Ray Mears not being entirely honest. Ray doesn't purport to be roughing it and in constant danger tho, does he? I like Ray's funny friend too, the one who ate mushrooms and found his vision went monochrome

And Bear's not proper SAS either, is he?

This is hilarious: "Bear lives with his wife Shara on a boat on the Thames in london, and also on a small Welsh island. They have two little boys called Jesse and Marmaduke. They are the pride of Bear's eyes."

all about the man himself

I prefer Bruce from Amazon, whose party piece is vomiting and halucinating on the locals rituals. Although the most entertaining was when he underwent penis inversion.

he owns an island near me
we all laugh at him
ray on other hand i love

i was appalled by this when i heard it this morning. nasty.

he's a total ponce