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for thinking that Bear Grylls is stretching the word 'survival' by using it in relation to

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nickytwotimes · 04/07/2009 20:28

a trip in rural Ireland?

I mean, come on, ffs.

Surely the biggest challenge is getting enough footage without walkers in it?

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monkeyfeathers · 04/07/2009 20:29

I dunno, he could probably do a programme in my back garden and find enough danger to make a case for 'survival'. Seriously, it's a jungle out there!

cornsilk · 04/07/2009 20:31

I just caught the end of that. Did he blow up a dead sheep?

nickytwotimes · 04/07/2009 20:31

Personally, I'd like to see him give survival a go on a sink estate.
Bet he couldn't.

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nickytwotimes · 04/07/2009 20:32

Cornsilk - he fashioned some kind of float with it.

I won't tell you what he was eating this week...

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nickytwotimes · 04/07/2009 20:34

Lol, monkey!

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expatinscotland · 04/07/2009 20:34

Who cares? He was showing a lot skin there .

cornsilk · 04/07/2009 20:34

Did he kill it himself or just find it lying around?

nickytwotimes · 04/07/2009 20:35

Oh no, far too pale and British for my taste.
No bloody wonder with that kind of diet.

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nickytwotimes · 04/07/2009 20:36

Not sure Corn.
It's on Channel4 plus 1 atm if you have a strong enough stomach.

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muffle · 04/07/2009 20:38

I just saw a minute or two of it in which he was thinking about climbing down a cliff using an old fishing rope he found on a beach. I thought "ohh ffs" and switched off. It is all so staged and I don't warm to him. He isn't fit to lick Ray Mears's boots!

cornsilk · 04/07/2009 20:38

I think I'll watch it back later. Want to see if I can spot any pubs in the background which he could've nipped into for a Guinness and a packet of tayto crisps.

expatinscotland · 04/07/2009 20:39

i only watch it to see him get his kit off .

nickytwotimes · 04/07/2009 20:40

No, Mears is superior imho.

Mmmm, Taytos!

THe editing team had a tough old job with that episode.

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nickytwotimes · 04/07/2009 20:40

That should be, YES, Mears is superior. Ahem.

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cornsilk · 04/07/2009 20:42

I challenge him to survive a long car journey with my chn.

cornsilk · 04/07/2009 20:43

(That should be children - not chin)

poshwellies · 04/07/2009 20:43

Do you think he'll drink his own piss?

I think he secretly enjoys doing that.

cornsilk · 04/07/2009 20:47

I bet he does even when he doesn't need to. Bet he loves playing 'Dare.'

HolyGuacamole · 04/07/2009 20:52

Agree expat! He is not too shabby that's for sure! I wouldn't kiss him though, not after seeing what he puts in his mouth - yuck! I so fancy him though, all that action and adventure......swoon.

Saw one recently and his wife and kids were on it and they were all beautiful, a lovely looking little family

expatinscotland · 04/07/2009 20:54

I wouldn't kick him outta bed, Guacamole, that's for sure.

cornsilk · 04/07/2009 20:57

Would you get him in a bed? Doesn't he sleep in hedges?

HolyGuacamole · 04/07/2009 20:58

ROFL, I wouldn't either......but DH would DH hates him, but only because I fancy him DH thinks it's cheap and tacky that he gets his kit off all the time.......

......and I laughed....

.....it's not that when Kylies sticking her gold lamed arse in the air is it?!

HolyGuacamole · 04/07/2009 20:58

I'd let him sleep in my hedge!

Buddleja · 04/07/2009 21:04

I've never seen him with his kit off

Would it change my mind about him? I find him too disappointingly posh to fancy at the moment

fishie · 04/07/2009 21:06

it must have been very diffucult to get a sheep at the right stage of deadness. maybe they pushed it in?

and if he is always going to keep his pants on then they should be smaller, those trunks must be making his trousers very soggy.

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