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PostNouveau posted:Yeah, I just finished that season and it seems like it was the most random of all the results because they were all hurdling toward having to be pulled out and the winner just happened to get there slower also he started a lot bigger and probably had a huge advantage because of it. Everyone that season pushed themselves really really hard. Except for Positive Mental Attitude guy lol
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theflyingexecutive posted:Except for Positive Mental Attitude guy lol He did at least realize he shouldn't leave his wife with 3 adopted children about to arrive Ideally he would have realized that before he flew out to South America and spent 3 days in Patagonia, but he DID realize it.
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hemale in pain posted:I always wonder how real those shows with survival experts are. I'd like to see a 'celeberity' version of Alone with people like Bear Grylls and Ed stafford and see if they can actually do what they claim. I'd imagine Ed Stafford would do well since he has some good survival credentials. He got famous for being the first person to walk the length of the Amazon, took him 2 years IIRC. And he did a really good 3 part series about being left on a desert island for 60 days. Seems like he's pretty legit.
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the thing about survival shows like bear grylls' shows and survivorman etc. is that the charisma of the host is far more important than their survival skills so much so that bear grylls gets away with telling people to rappel down cliffs, explore caves, and swim across icy rivers, even though all of that is the worst loving advice for normal people at least survivorman is more about like, trying to fish, or making differnet shelters, but even there, his show would have bombed if he was just some typical survivor skilled type, it works because he's fun to watch and listen to
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Okay fess up, who of you works at humble bundle? Everest chat turns into survival show chat and suddenly humble throws out a book bundle on survival. Very convenient.
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Hopper posted:Okay fess up, who of you works at humble bundle? Everest chat turns into survival show chat and suddenly humble throws out a book bundle on survival. Very convenient. Whoever it is: pay someone to translate your page if you absolutely HAVE to have language versions, the German is beyond shameful.
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Dear Watson posted:Everest: Hey Bear! Every 60 seconds while dying from oxygen depletion, you have to remove your mask and yell at the top of your lungs, or the bears will eat you. I'd watch a season.
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Aphex- posted:I'd imagine Ed Stafford would do well since he has some good survival credentials. He got famous for being the first person to walk the length of the Amazon, took him 2 years IIRC. And he did a really good 3 part series about being left on a desert island for 60 days. Seems like he's pretty legit. Ray Mears seems to know what he's talking about, doesn't indulge in "Rapel off this cliff with a rope made of rat cocks while drinking your own piss" stuff, and he doesn't look like he goes hungry when he's outdoors.
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Feb 23, 2021 14:23
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Potrzebie posted:Every 60 seconds while dying from oxygen depletion, you have to remove your mask and yell at the top of your lungs, or the bears will eat you. This sounds like a task from Taskmaster.
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Feb 23, 2021 14:31
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HelloIAmYourHeart posted:This sounds like a task from Taskmaster. Don't worry, it's just Alex Horne in a bear suit.
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Ray mears is alright but as a fellow brit I dunno how well he'd do on alone. Here in the UK you're usually a 20 min walk from a supermarket.
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hemale in pain posted:Ray mears is alright but as a fellow brit I dunno how well he'd do on alone. Here in the UK you're usually a 20 min walk from a supermarket. He's spent plenty of time doing stuff abroad. In any case he's far superior to bear grylls who does genuinely stupid poo poo that'll get people killed if they try it. Mears at least seems to try to explain in exactly what horrible circumstances it may be worth it to do dangerous things to survive and otherwise stays down to earth. Edit: disclaimer, I haven't watched Ray Mears in probably ten years so I might be misremembering or he also turned to poo poo in the meantime NLJP fucked around with this message at 15:58 on Feb 23, 2021 |
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I wonder where in the UK is the farthest from any other humans, and how far that distance is. As a matter of curiosity, not intent to become a hermit, I mean.
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womb with a view posted:I wonder where in the UK is the farthest from any other humans, and how far that distance is. As a matter of curiosity, not intent to become a hermit, I mean. Probably some mountain or island in Scotland, and you're still a two hour hike to some shepherd's haggis filled bothy.
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Yeah the Scottish highlands are one of the most sparsely populated places in Europe so you can be a fair ways away from other people if you want.
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When in Scotland it's impossible to be as far away from the Scots as I want.
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Isn’t there still a bunch of remote-as-gently caress uninhabited islands in the Atlantic that are still technically part of the UK?
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Comrade Koba posted:Isn’t there still a bunch of remote-as-gently caress uninhabited islands in the Atlantic that are still technically part of the UK? I looked it up, and DANGER ISLAND in the Indian Ocean looks promising.
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Feb 23, 2021 17:21
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There's always Inaccessible Island too.
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NLJP posted:He's spent plenty of time doing stuff abroad. Oh yeah Bear Grylls "You got to be super careful around this water, you just don't know whats beneath the surface" next scene - does a backflip off a palm tree into it
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I was mostly joking about Ray Mears being a coddled UK resident. He apparently survived a helicopter crash uninjured and provided medical support to the people who got hurt so he sounds pretty rad.
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Feb 23, 2021 17:43
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I dunno what you're even talking about, you step off the ferry in Dover and it's a 500+ mile hike to the next spot of civilization
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Blunt Instrument posted:I dunno what you're even talking about, you step off the ferry in Dover and it's a 500+ mile hike to the next spot of civilization Yeah Delaware fuckin sucks
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I think Bear Grylls might make a decent stab at it, hard to tell how good at survival he is when he’s on a show where he gives himself a bird poo poo enema presumably at the whim of some insane producer.
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Feb 23, 2021 18:25
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The above presumes he finds a five star hotel in the wilderness to overnight at.
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Feb 23, 2021 18:26
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Grylls is full of poo poo, as these videos show: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UpSlpvb1is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTlsqZ214Mw
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Feb 23, 2021 18:35
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Ray Mears is one of my heroes. His heavyset frame and pleasingly British manner endear me far more than ex special forces insecure overachieving posh boys, or Jocko Willink style annoying CRUSH THE DAY!!! idiots. In matters of wilderness survival, trust the chunkiest.
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A CRAB IRL posted:Ray Mears is one of my heroes. His heavyset frame and pleasingly British manner endear me far more than ex special forces insecure overachieving posh boys, or Jocko Willink style annoying CRUSH THE DAY!!! idiots. So Samoans win, every time.
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Comrade Koba posted:Isn’t there still a bunch of remote-as-gently caress uninhabited islands in the Atlantic that are still technically part of the UK? You might be thinking of Rockall. There may be oil/under Rockall.
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Oracle posted:So Samoans win, every time. I mean, there's a drat good historic reason Polynesian folk have genes selecting for carrying lots of excess energy.
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Ted Bear was one of the more authentic survivalists. He never got as well known as some of the others tho.
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A CRAB IRL posted:I mean, there's a drat good historic reason Polynesian folk have genes selecting for carrying lots of excess energy. 
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A CRAB IRL posted:I mean, there's a drat good historic reason Polynesian folk have genes selecting for carrying lots of excess energy. Ehhh this is probably the reason for chunkiness if the poster means what i think he means. https://www.aspph.org/yale-the-samoan-islands-are-grappling-with-public-health-problems-children-may-provide-some-solutions/ That Yale Stuff Above posted:In the early 2000s, the adult overweight and obesity rate in the territory was nearly universal, at 93 percent, while the rate for children was close to 45 percent. Nearly one in three adults in American Samoa has diabetes. Zombiepop fucked around with this message at 23:19 on Feb 23, 2021 |
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Very sad to learn of the senseless mountaintop passing of Alexander Doba on reddit and not here because you terds wont shut up about lame filler tv on Netflix and wont get back to celebrating wholly unnecessary gloryhound peril fetishists getting their lumps.
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Netflix doesn’t have the seasons we’ve been talking about, gramps.
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shadow puppet of a posted:Very sad to learn of the senseless mountaintop passing of Alexander Doba on reddit and not here because you terds wont shut up about lame filler tv on Netflix and wont get back to celebrating wholly unnecessary gloryhound peril fetishists getting their lumps. I'm just glad that you're here to weep like a teased vagina rather than post anything about him. Great post!
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Netflix is for watchin' Sugar Rush, Sugar Rush Extra Sweet, Sugar Rush Christmas and Zumbo's Weird Prequel To Sugar Rush 
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Comrade Koba posted:Isn’t there still a bunch of remote-as-gently caress uninhabited islands in the Atlantic that are still technically part of the UK? St Kilda (formerly inhabited)
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Alone isn't filler tv, its a crazy cool and weird show. Man in the first season building a canoe for fun and then crying ceaselessly at random times because he's lonely is legit tv and you are absolutely not too cool for it.
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I'm watching Alone season 2 and while I really like a few of the people (esp Nicole! She is so sweet), I can't stand Larry the abusive angry. He makes me so uncomfortable and they feature him so much! I honestly might not watch the rest, he scares me so much. Plus he swears so much that it's more bleep than speech and it's really annoying.
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