Bear Grylls - Born Survivor

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Did anyone see this on Saturday night? What a man! (Who i'm actually thinking is damn attractive!)

Although eating the maggots and fish - YUK!!!

Wasn't there a thread once about Bear Grylls unexpectedly turning up at someone's mother-and-toddler group?

Missed it, which is a pity as I like watching people eat maggots if they do it without making a fuss.

I dont know - but i wouldnt mind him turning up here! LOL!

Maggots were in a dead carcass though! Not nice!

The maggot part was seriously unpleasant - but good on him for getting into the survival thing properly!

what i didn't get is why he was running everywhere? Isn't that a stupid thing to do if you're trying to survive? I dont know, I missed the beginning of the program.

Can't comment on his looks! but I imagine he's more of a looker than ray mears! (who i also like a lot btw)

he was lovely wasn't he?

Though I did say to dh, why did he find it necessary to bite into the trout live and tear a chunk out of it when 5 minutes later he produced a very sharp knife and made snow-shoes

I saw the first one last week and made the mistake of saying "Phowar Bear Grylls" in front of DH. DH then proceeded to rip him to shreds, admitting later that he must have subconciously felt a bit threatened by my admiration for him.

Kathy I remember that thread.

He's a bit full on though isn't he old Bear. I would have thought he'd need to conserve his energy a bit. He was even throwing up in an over the top way.

Its all a bit questionable, the running, the killing fish with your teeth. Going from above tree level to forests - he cant have been very deep in the alps - however i feel the need to let him off all of that, if he keeps taking his shirt off!

Ray Mears somehow manages to extract a lot of calories from his diet of wild rabbits and water lily root fibre.

Oh, the fish was live, was it? Jeez.

yes Kathy - he killed it by biting through its spine

butt good as a demo if you ever get stranded without a sharp knife I guess

Kathy, was going to post the same thing.

Whichever poster it was said that his children went to the same toddler group and he turned up one day.

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DH wanted to know why he didn't abseil down the waterfall by the rocks instead of in the actual water "like cement bags hammering into my chest". (This was the first show when he was in the rain froest).
And how did the camera crew get down first? I just like the way he get sreally dirty and grunts alot.

Loved it! Dh has been recording it so I saw the one in the rainforest the other night. Thought it was fabbo! LOL at him getting totally soaked in the middle of the night in a tropical storm!!

oh he is funny
I love the fact his name is actually Edward.

DH loves the show - I saw it for the first time last night and ripped the piss 'Oh, so he's landed in the Alps with absolutely nothing except... a parachute. Oh and his knife. And the flint and steel he keeps hung round his neck...'

I thought it was interesting the difference between the way Ray Mears is constantly telling us the landscape can nurture us and feed us and we can work with it etc etc and the way Mr Grylls is convinced the landscape wants to kill us and we must fight it.

LOL @ 'Edward'.

Interesting about Ray/Bear differing landscape attitudes.
I suppose Bear hasn't spent time living with hunter-gatherers like Ray does.

Surely if you were in the SAS you wouldn't go anywhere without your knife and flint & steel?

Or like on Saturday in his Union Jack boxers - mmm mmm mmm mmm