To think that Bear Grylls is a jumped up toss pot

[grouchyoscar]

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)

'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.'

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I have to say that is ome of the funniest things i have ever read on here.

Bear is a pillock.

Ray rocks.
DS2 idolises him.

Yes, v good Where

Rays programs are actually worth watching too. On Bears its just him poncing around.

Very droll

Yes, that irritated me. I have never watched one of his programmes because his name is too silly for words. Does he think it makes him sound tough?

You kinda feel after an hour of Ray thay an week in the outback is do-able eh.

I thought he was a twat when he killed animals for the camera. Cunt.

it says in small writing on the screen when his show is on that some situations have been 'engineered' to allow him to demonstrate his skills blah blah blah or words to that effect

he is an arse

oh but he is handsome.

[shallow]

Bear is a dildo. Bruce Parry on the other hand is ace.

Bear is wanker. Would wander off in mangrove swamp and die rather than listen to advice of man who gave himself such a knobhead name. Well, perhaps I might listen to him if I found myself in such circumstances, but would still be muttering 'wanker' under my breath.

Is his real name edward? Or did I just imagine that?

Me and Dh can't stand him. Yes, think I read he is called Edward. Bear one of those affected posh family pet names like Trinny...I can't imagine is taking off round here.

I was furious at that line this morning - arse "just a mother and housewife".....more hard work than being a blooody survival expert any day.

Nor here, now Staffordshire Bull Terrrier, that's a name.

"Who could forget the mighty Bear taking on a fearsome tortoise and roasting it alive?"

Seriously? That's hideous. I hope someone does is to him some day. Asshole.

I think the big difference between him and Ray is that Ray doesn't try to make out he's in mortal danger, even when he is alone. And when he's not alone, which is most of the time because he likes to go out with other experts and learn from them, he doesn't try to make out that he's the boss, just gets on with it. I just can't imagine him panicking or getting stressed, you know? My brother (an army bod) has been on one of his weekends, and he says he was fantastic, which is extremely high praise coming from my bro.

I've never watched his programmes so was quite curious to hear him yesterday. I thought he seemed quite likeable until that awful thing about mum = just a housewife = non-entity.

I don't think he did roast it alive

But he's still a nob