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spixxor posted:I can't loving stand Bear. Something about him just screams douchey Bro to me. Les Stroud could out survive him any day.
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hall n oates mom posted:he's a preachy vegan earthchild. Bear claims to have done some thing for the SAS. Bears win! Bear also climbed Everest, after breaking his back falling or something. The guy is badass, I don't care if he gets choppered to a Best Western after filming, he still drank water out of elephant poo poo during the day.
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Jan 7, 2010 05:49
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No poo poo, I don't give a gently caress if he stayed in a best western during a shoot once, I sure as gently caress wouldn't somersault down into an arctic ice cave and eat a raw scorpion wrapped in a kangaroo nutsack
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Jan 7, 2010 06:00
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IRQ posted:Neither was Les. He had a sat phone and several episodes actually had him getting rescued. There's a pretty obvious difference between "does stunts in the woods, then stays in a hotel" and "keeps a satellite phone with him and gets evacuated if conditions are life threatening so he doesn't die for the sake of a TV show".
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Jan 7, 2010 06:06
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Honeymoon posted:There's a pretty obvious difference between "does stunts in the woods, then stays in a hotel" and "keeps a satellite phone with him and gets evacuated if conditions are life threatening so he doesn't die for the sake of a TV show".
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Jan 7, 2010 06:12
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IRQ posted:
ouch....i mean yeah i agree with you but drat thats cold. I wonder how they would do a pizza oven?
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Jan 7, 2010 07:05
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max4me posted:ouch....i mean yeah i agree with you but drat thats cold. I imagine a 16 cylinder leaded gas fueled "hemi" that vents the exhaust directly into the oven under a makeshift grill of welded together rusted rebar that you have to keep your foot on the pedal for and a manual gearshift to change the temperature, which ranges from anemic to lukewarm in first gear to hotter than the surface of the sun in 2nd gear. The lid is a 500 pound hood to a mac truck with nothing to prop it up so you just kind of have to remember to hold it. DETROIT INGENUITY!
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Jan 7, 2010 07:31
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IRQ posted:All I can really take away is that one of them said "That's how Detroit does it!" and all I could think was "pointless, inefficient, stupidly designed, rushed, doesn't do what it was supposed to, overly expensive, likely to break down, could be done better by pretty much anyone with two brain cells to rub together... yep, that's how Detroit does it." My buddy and I were watching it and right after that guy said that, my buddy turned to me and goes "Yeah, half-assed". I think on Monster Garage there's a good chance they'd have called that a failure and destroyed it. I was really surprised they let Tory cut the rope on the tree catapult like that on Mythbusters - a stretched rope breaking like that is incredibly dangerous and could seriously hurt someone. The only thing I could think was that because he was cutting it near the anchor point, there wasn't as much danger of him being whipped by it as it was cut.
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Jan 7, 2010 12:41
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I would love to see a survival show that combined Man vs Wild and Survivorman with the campy attitude of Dirty Jobs. Something where the host has to live in a hut or a cave eating seal rear end while the camera crew chills out in a RV and occasionally taunts the host with a beer and a hamburger.
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Jan 7, 2010 20:46
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Wikipedia posted:In December 2008, Grylls suffered a broken shoulder while kite skiing across a stretch of ice during an independent expedition to climb a remote unclimbed peak in Antarctica. Travelling at speeds up to 50 km/h (30mph), a ski caught on the ice, launching him in the air and breaking his shoulder when he came down Pfft, pussy. And that was on his spare time! BearG-4-Ever!
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Jan 7, 2010 21:50
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Neito posted:Eh. I still haven't gotten over the Man vs Best Western controversy from a couple years ago. I never feel like Bear's really in any danger. Survivorman seems somewhat more realistic, since he has no camera crew (that I know of), and has to lug it around everywhere he goes.
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Jan 7, 2010 23:26
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Beer4TheBeerGod posted:I would love to see a survival show that combined Man vs Wild and Survivorman with the campy attitude of Dirty Jobs. Something where the host has to live in a hut or a cave eating seal rear end while the camera crew chills out in a RV and occasionally taunts the host with a beer and a hamburger. Holy poo poo now I want to see a Dirty Jobs/Man vs. Wild crossover. I would watch the gently caress out of Mike Rowe out in the wild trying to rough it. They could take Barsky and crew instead of Bear's camera guys. gently caress yes.
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Jan 8, 2010 00:27
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IRQ posted:Bear doing ridiculous poo poo is the point of Man vs Wild. Half the time Les could never raise anybody; I know he tried on a few episodes to demonstrate just how isolated he was. That being said, Survivorman is leagues above Bear, but both are really entertaining in their own way.
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Jan 8, 2010 01:56
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One is survival entertainment, the other is survival education. I have little doubt both could survive anywhere you put them and once you strip away the flashing lights of Bear's show, he's still a guy who knows a ton about surviving. People compare the two because they think both are on the level and they simply aren't.
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Jan 8, 2010 02:20
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At the very least, the one you can be sure of is that anyone seriously trying to pit them 'against' each other on perceived criteria that has been embellished for promotional purposes is a Raging Flamer. 
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Jan 8, 2010 02:23
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So, does bringing up the fact that Bear Grylls gave himself an enema with water filled with bird poo poo on national tv make Bear Grylls cooler?
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Jan 9, 2010 21:54
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lordblytzkrieg posted:So, does bringing up the fact that Bear Grylls gave himself an enema with water filled with bird poo poo on national tv make Bear Grylls cooler? Les Stroud wouldn't put himself in the position to have to shove bird poo poo water up his rear end 
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Jan 9, 2010 22:01
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Having a camera crew means you don't have to watch the same 3 stationary camera angles for the whole hour, you don't have to listen to Les talk about the badass thing he just did 5 minutes before he set up his cameras, and you don't have to watch Les play the harmonica every single loving episode because they ran out of interesting footage to use. Survivorman would be so much better if they just cut it down to 30 minutes an episode.
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Jan 10, 2010 00:26
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spixxor posted:Holy poo poo now I want to see a Dirty Jobs/Man vs. Wild crossover. I would watch the gently caress out of Mike Rowe out in the wild trying to rough it. They could take Barsky and crew instead of Bear's camera guys. gently caress yes. gently caress, yeah. And Mike Rowe would probably be suave as a motherfucker through it all. I still love the sheep episode where he slept in an un-insulated trailer on the freezing Scottish (I think) plains. "How'd you sleep?" "Not good, but I discovered that, though some inventive maneuvering, it's entirely possible to pee through that window without getting out of bed."
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Jan 10, 2010 00:28
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Free Market Gravy posted:gently caress, yeah. And Mike Rowe would probably be suave as a motherfucker through it all. My favorite Mike Rowe moment, and I think this is probably the same situation you were talking about, is his TED talk about, among other things, castrating sheep.
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Jan 10, 2010 00:30
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Neito posted:My favorite Mike Rowe moment, and I think this is probably the same situation you were talking about, is his TED talk about, among other things, castrating sheep. That was the same episode where, if I remember correctly, he castrated sheep by biting their testicles off, which has to be an experience one doesn't easily forget.
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Jan 10, 2010 00:36
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Has Dirty Jobs ever filmed out of the country? I want to say I remember them doing something in Canada, but that's it. They could probably find some new crazy jobs if they went elsewhere.
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Ganon posted:Has Dirty Jobs ever filmed out of the country? I want to say I remember them doing something in Canada, but that's it. They could probably find some new crazy jobs if they went elsewhere. Oh my yes. You don't remember that episode in Africa with the batshit crazy monkey lady?
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Ganon posted:Has Dirty Jobs ever filmed out of the country? I want to say I remember them doing something in Canada, but that's it. They could probably find some new crazy jobs if they went elsewhere. Scotland for sure, but the issue with filming out of country is the language barrier. Rowe has said repeatedly that the stars of DJ are the guys who do this every day, not him, which explains why the workers are so heavily featured. It's one thing to read subtitles for a guy who speaks broken English/with a heavy accent, but a DJ overseas with people who would require a translator would suck.
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Jan 10, 2010 00:49
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IRQ posted:Oh my yes. You don't remember that episode in Africa with the batshit crazy monkey lady? Hahaha and the loving monkeys themselves, randomly attacking everyone. That lady was a nut though. Also there's all the shark week episodes, in south africa and I forget where else. I don't think the sheep episode was in Scotland though, if I still had it DVR'd I could tell you.
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spixxor posted:I don't think the sheep episode was in Scotland though, if I still had it DVR'd I could tell you. It was overseas somewhere, to my knowledge, but South Africa, too, if we're still looking for foreign DJ episodes. The best clip of the monkey episode was during the credits when Mike taunts the monkey through the window 
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Free Market Gravy posted:It was overseas somewhere, to my knowledge, but South Africa, too, if we're still looking for foreign DJ episodes. After braving the Dirty Jobs forums, it was filmed in Colorado. Also found this gem of a post in which Mike replies to some rabid PETA kook who was upset about the sheep castrating method. The bits in quotation marks are the ranter. Mike Rowe posted:"Why is Discovery continuing to show such cruelty on television?" I love that man.
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Ugh, all I can think is about that woman is "AUGH I'M ANGRY OVER LAMB TESTICLES  "Edit: I haven't seen the lamb castration episode, but I think the one that grossed me out most was with crab meat or something. They took leftovers of crabs and crushed them up? I think that's it, I had to change the channel a few times. At the end he eats something that looks like cat food and it just gross.
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Jan 10, 2010 02:14
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Jan 10, 2010 03:34
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Rowe's an avowed conservative, so I'm sure he hates those types of people, even if they have a point (not saying that particular person does). I say they should have some show that does a Mike Rowe/Ben Bailey team-up.
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Jan 10, 2010 03:58
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I remember Mike Rowe going on Opie and Anthony and explaining that they also did the sheep castration with the knife, and that the sheep's bleeding was prolonged and it took a few days to recover. With the teeth, they bled for a couple seconds that got up and walked around like nothing happened.
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FlamingLiberal posted:Rowe's an avowed conservative  You basically ruined Mike Rowe for me.
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Jan 10, 2010 07:22
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spixxor posted:Hahaha and the loving monkeys themselves, randomly attacking everyone. That lady was a nut though. The monkey farm WAS a shark week episode, they had to find something in a hurry after their boat booking fell through. Only time I've seen the entire crew running for their lives. "gently caress it, run the monkeys over, just drive!"
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IRQ posted:
There's a difference between "Avowed conservative" and "Crazy tea-bagging obama's a nazi" conservative, tho.
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Motor City Motors really is a crappy show. I just watched the episode where they took an army truck, added a combine, and then put a giant grill on the back of it. All I could think about while I watched them eat through a cornfield (in the middle of Detroit  ) was how all that food could have gone towards the community instead of being shredded and burnt.
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TL posted:I remember Mike Rowe going on Opie and Anthony and explaining that they also did the sheep castration with the knife, and that the sheep's bleeding was prolonged and it took a few days to recover. With the teeth, they bled for a couple seconds that got up and walked around like nothing happened. So yeah. Biting the balls, it turns out, is the most humane way.
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Jan 12, 2010 05:41
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When's the next Mythbusters episode? And when is Kari back?
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lordblytzkrieg posted:So, does bringing up the fact that Bear Grylls gave himself an enema with water filled with bird poo poo on national tv make Bear Grylls cooler?
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Beer4TheBeerGod posted:Motor City Motors really is a crappy show. I just watched the episode where they took an army truck, added a combine, and then put a giant grill on the back of it. All I could think about while I watched them eat through a cornfield (in the middle of Detroit Yeah, the criteria for "success" is definitely much different than on Monster Garage. The brother they put in charge of that build is absolutely clueless as to what it takes to be a leader too - his leadership style is exactly what you need to do if you want all your workers to revolt on you. Anyone watching Howe and Howe Tech? The first two episodes have been interesting and I'm keeping my season pass to see where it goes. I was afraid we'd see American Chopper levels of family drama, but so far it seems pretty mild.
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FlamingLiberal posted:Rowe's an avowed conservative I'm saying that because he really doesn't seem like it. He's pro-science and pro-workers' rights, neither of which are really a "conservative" ideal. Crows Turn Off fucked around with this message at 23:45 on Jan 24, 2010 |
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