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Toucan Sam posted:My guilty pleasure is reading and enjoying Tucker Max books. He spent time on the Time Bandit during season 7, he was there for the egg attack also. Tucker is a douche but he has a whole chapter on the show which gives a lot of funny insight to the behind the scenes antics. Ha, I didn't know Tucker Max was on the Time Bandit. He's a total douche, but goddamn can he write a funny story. It's a rare book that can make me laugh out loud while reading it.
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golgo13sf posted:Ha, I didn't know Tucker Max was on the Time Bandit. That's the thing, i wouldn't really like him in real life most likely but in book form he makes me laugh. Here's pics from his trip with the Time Bandit. http://www.tuckermax.com/pictures/album/72157625833842584/the-deadliest-vacation.html The Deadliest Vacation chapter is worth buying Hilarity Ensues, at least on the Kindle.
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Toucan Sam posted:That's the thing, i wouldn't really like him in real life most likely but in book form he makes me laugh. Here's pics from his trip with the Time Bandit. Probably the only story he's ever written that actually happened as described.
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May 5, 2012 04:48
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Toucan Sam posted:That's the thing, i wouldn't really like him in real life most likely but in book form he makes me laugh. Here's pics from his trip with the Time Bandit. The guys on the Time Bandit know what's really important. 
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May 5, 2012 11:13
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Rev. Bleech_ posted:Probably the only story he's ever written that actually happened as described. No doubt, but that dude can write funny poo poo. Some people just have a talent for story-telling. I knew a guy once that would have you doubled over crying from laughing just telling you about his wait at the DMV.
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May 5, 2012 19:57
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I'm not even done with the episode, and I think Mythbusters has evolved into a lesser show than it ever has been, but that demonstration of stability was as elegant and as beautifully captured as any explanation I've ever seen of the physics of flight, particularly ballistic projectile dynamics. All from a little doll on balsa wood. Sometimes, you remember why you loved this show, and why even in a lesser state, it's good it's still around. ashpanash fucked around with this message at 03:24 on May 10, 2012 |
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May 10, 2012 03:21
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True, I can't remember that last time I enjoyed an episode of Mythbusters as much as I did the last one. The fireworks man was brilliant.
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I don't get Keith. Every season he hires complete shitheads for his boat, spends half the season yelling at them for being shitheads, fires them, then hires more shitheads for the other half of the season and spends the rest of the season yelling at them. And occasionally slams cameramen against walls for not getting him coffee.
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May 12, 2012 05:37
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Some people literally have no interviewing or hiring skills. I would say it comes down to a general weakness in analytical thinking.
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Luigi Thirty posted:I don't get Keith. Every season he hires complete shitheads for his boat, spends half the season yelling at them for being shitheads, fires them, then hires more shitheads for the other half of the season and spends the rest of the season yelling at them. And occasionally slams cameramen against walls for not getting him coffee. I would imagine at this point that only shitheads even try to work on Keith's boat.
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May 12, 2012 16:16
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Luigi Thirty posted:I don't get Keith. Every season he hires complete shitheads for his boat, spends half the season yelling at them for being shitheads, fires them, then hires more shitheads for the other half of the season and spends the rest of the season yelling at them. And occasionally slams cameramen against walls for not getting him coffee. Well to be at least somewhat fair, one of the shitheads he currently has is Mouse's fault, and we haven't seen enough of the second guy to judge if he is useless yet.
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TaurusOxford posted:Well to be at least somewhat fair, one of the shitheads he currently has is Mouse's fault, and we haven't seen enough of the second guy to judge if he is useless yet. Ultimately it was Keith's call though. The fact that Keith didn't know just how GREEN this guy was before he got on the boat is Keith's fault. He should have demanded that information from his brother before accepting a recommendation like that. All his brother told him was that he was a real nice kid who looked right or something.
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ToastyPotato posted:Ultimately it was Keith's call though. The fact that Keith didn't know just how GREEN this guy was before he got on the boat is Keith's fault. He should have demanded that information from his brother before accepting a recommendation like that. All his brother told him was that he was a real nice kid who looked right or something. Watching the episode again, Keith states that "My brother said that our current hire was the best looking young kid he saw all Summer". Now, I can see your side of the argument here and yes, Keith should have asked for a more detailed description, but given that Keith probably trusts his brother's judgement, he probably thought Mouse wouldn't say this about a guy who didn't have a shot at doing the job.
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wormil posted:Some people literally have no interviewing or hiring skills. I would say it comes down to a general weakness in analytical thinking. Keith would do well to remember those words he said when one of his crew members dies after after being seriously injured and he tells them to put a bandage on it and get the gently caress back out on deck or he insists that the crew put down a string of pots in the middle of forty-foot waves.
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Rev. Bleech_ posted:I would imagine at this point that only shitheads even try to work on Keith's boat. Freddie  Also, don't Wizard crew members make a lot more cash than everyone else in general?
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SteelAngel2000 posted:Freddie ah poo poo you're right. That dude is a perfect fit for a Hillstrand boat instead, dammit.
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Is it just me mishearing what he's saying, or is Jeremy Wade literally in a place populated by cattle-rustling cowboys and gold-prospecting ninjas? Because I swear that's what he said...
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Welp looks like someone finally gets really hosed up on Keith's boat Tuesday night! The preview commercial shows him tending to a crew member and calling the Coast Guard.
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I haven't read that spoiler, but whatever it is, an injury was pretty much inevitable on that boat.Toucan Sam posted:
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It didn't look like a real injury in the preview, more like an exposure-related breakdown of some kind. Mythbusters was good this week. I never would have guessed that bullets would ricochet off pavement with that much energy remaining.
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haveblue posted:It didn't look like a real injury in the preview, more like an exposure-related breakdown of some kind. drat, I completely forgot that show is on Sundays now.
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Jamie sounded like he had a really bad cold last night.
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SteelAngel2000 posted:Freddie Yes but that's in large part due to the Wizard being loving huge comparatively speaking (in size and it seems quota) and Keith's complete disregard for safety while running his crew ragged. I wouldn't want to do the jobs these guys do, but I wouldn't even get on a rowboat with Keith as captain. I know a guy who used to do commercial fishing and a bad captain is apparently a very very bad thing, like don't even set foot on that deck.
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Well it looks like the Wizard crew member that got himself in deep poo poo tonight either went down due to severe dehydration, shock, or a massive seizure. Any one of those three things is a goddamn awful thing to have happen in the middle of the Bering Sea.
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With him saying the side of his body felt tingly, I'm thinking a stroke. Having a stroke out on a crab boat 
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SteelAngel2000 posted:With him saying the side of his body felt tingly, I'm thinking a stroke.
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SteelAngel2000 posted:With him saying the side of his body felt tingly, I'm thinking a stroke. The way his fingers are curling it wasn't a stroke according to the people I watched it with
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Frot Lesnar posted:The way his fingers are curling it wasn't a stroke according to the people I watched it with
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Parks posted:I don't know what life experience taught me this, but that is usually a pretty clear sign of dehydration. Hopefully it is not worse than that. Maybe we'll get to see Keith try to get an IV in the guy in a Bearing Sea storm. 
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I just watched Kari Byron fart on TV to prove a point. Mythbusters owns sometimes.
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Crazy Ted posted:I just watched Kari Byron fart on TV to prove a point. Mythbusters owns sometimes. Well, they were right that it was a terrible idea. The myth they confirmed by blowing up a car 30 seconds in and going "welp, no more myth, we can't run this on TV!" was great though.
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Luigi Thirty posted:The myth they confirmed by blowing up a car 30 seconds in and going "welp, no more myth, we can't run this on TV!" was great though.
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I get the feeling they could probably do 4-5 hours of nothing but bloopers, extras and other behind the scenes stuff and it would probably be great.
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Maybe its because I marathoned the arly seasons and got burned out but this season of Deadliest Catch is doing much for me.
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Early seasons of Deadliest Catch had a much lower level of blatant 'reality' scripting. It's fairly tiresome nowadays because they've decided the actual day to day isn't really interesting enough any more.
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Rapey Joe Stalin posted:Early seasons of Deadliest Catch had a much lower level of blatant 'reality' scripting. It's fairly tiresome nowadays because they've decided the actual day to day isn't really interesting enough any more. Maybe it is because I watch trash like Ax Men, well this is the last season I will have watched at least, but DC doesn't seem any where near as scripted as, well, just about any of the other reality shows these channels have.
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ToastyPotato posted:Maybe it is because I watch trash like Ax Men, well this is the last season I will have watched at least, but DC doesn't seem any where near as scripted as, well, just about any of the other reality shows these channels have. I think it isn't 'scripted' like a reality show, but more like it is edited like one.
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Deadliest Catch has always felt like the most real (as minimally scripted as possible) of the reality shows...but the GoPro camera strapped across the Greenhorn's chest as he was taken off the boat and loaded into the USCG helicopter was pretty ridiculous... "Holy crap, this kid is in bad shape..." "Gang, can we just strap this little...camera...across him here? For TV? There we go!" Also, didn't Flying Wild Alaska just end? They're already talking a new season in a couple weeks. CBJSprague24 fucked around with this message at 02:43 on May 23, 2012 |
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The only reason I believe Deadliest Catch isn't scripted is that none of those guys could act for poo poo. You can really tell when you see them in any other context.
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Rapey Joe Stalin posted:Early seasons of Deadliest Catch had a much lower level of blatant 'reality' scripting. It's fairly tiresome nowadays because they've decided the actual day to day isn't really interesting enough any more. I wish they hadn't changed the quota system after the first or second season. The way it used to work where the season opened and everybody raced around trying to catch as much crab as they could before they got the notice that the season was ending made for way better television.
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