Bushcraft magazine

[Sandgroper]

If Grylls can eat elephant sh1t without gagging, he's my man!! :cheers: :goodjob:
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:lol:

That has got to be the quote of day!

[Dougan]

Bear Grylls??............... more like Bull Sh1t!

He may very well be the showman for his TV shows, but bullsh1t....?

At 20 years old, passes UKSF selection and serves with 21 SAS. Combat patrol medic and survival instructor. Parachute accident in Africa and it is thought he would never walk again, then, after extensive rehabilitation, becomes youngest Briton to scale Everest at 23. Circumnavigates the UK on a jetski to raise money for RNLI. Roes 22 miles, naked, in a bath tub, to raise money for a friend who lost his legs. The first unassisted crossing of the North Atlantic Artic Ocean in an open air RIB.

Paragliding over the Himilayas and Angel Falls, highest "formal" dinner party (25000ft), climbs the remotest unclimbed peaks in the Antartic, longest indoor freefall, take a RIB 2500 miles through the North West Passage....... all for charity.

Showboating, yes, bullsh1t? Shame there's not more bullsh1tters like him, eh?

I think that's why he irritates me so much - the fact that his 'real life' achievements are brilliant, and then his programs are such rot. He was on the box the other night - drinking the water from elephant dung (squeezed in his hands) - If you were already in a bad situation, that would surely finnish you off (full of pathogens) - I can only assume that when they turned the cameras off that he induced vomiting and drank something to kill the nasties....

As for a 'bar fight in Bangkok' - I worked in Thailand for 3 years, and visited Bangkok many times - I never saw a bar fight - Bangkok is not as dangerous as people think, and Thais tend to settle their differences in private later...I knew one dive shop owner who was shot, and an instructor (English) who was stabbed (both killed )...they had both 'upset' the wrong people. I was fotunate to work for one of the larger 'families' over there, so didn't need anyone with me in bars...one night a Londoner who lived there (and not a nice person at all) threatened to kill me - he was escorted by some 'family' members back to his bungalow, where they helped him pack, then took him to the port, sat with him all night, and then put him on a boat back to the mainland.....

[Sandgroper]

I just checked out Grylls on WIkipedia, on the face of it he appears to be an all round good guy, I wonder why so many seem to dislike him.

EDIT - Me included...

I think it's mainly to do with his style of presenting and from what I've seen, he is more confrontational (bar room brawl - Sim) to his surroundings and situations. Whereas RM is more about moving with nature and surviving rather than trying to it the hard way - IMO.

[Chuck]

That's the same Bear Grylls doing Arctic Survival...by sleeping in a hotel then emerging at daybreak from a snow shelter is it Sim LOL.

As said, he may have made some achievements but I would imagine running about daft is NOT conducive to survival chances at times.