Survivorman Ten Days to return
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Not to completely derail the Survivorman thread, but if you're into the survival shows, check out Naked Castaway on discovery. 3 episodes spanning 60 days of a guy getting dropped on a tropical island - with absolutely nothing. All 3 will be on again on Sunday, well worth a watch to see a guy go from total caveman shit to self sufficiency in the span of 2 months.
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Was coming here to say this exact thing. Randomly saw the first episode and it actually wasn't too bad at all. Although I'm a huge sucker for any of these survival type shows. (Man vs Wild, Survivorman, Dual Survival, Man Woman Wild. I think that's all of them...)
You guys might check out Ray Mears' stuff too if you're into survival shows. A his stuff varies depending on the show but he does a lot of survival/bushcraft/story/history/food/animal stuff. It can be pretty slow if you're used to Bear Grylls speed but a lot more educational.
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Thanks for that recommendation. I was bummed when I could only find the first one on torrents, but they were all on today. Excellent survival show. I think that was probably the first true survival show I've ever seen.
You can get all 3 episodes under the shows alternate name, 'Naked And Marooned With Ed Stafford'.
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Not only was the goat thing a little suspect(he cut up and cured a goat with an engine part?), but the fact that he could just bat-phone in antibiotics took me completely out of it.
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You miss the part where he said he said it took him 7 hours to quarter the goat?
And you're right, he should probably have just died out there. That would have made for much better TV.
This dude walked the length of the Amazon river. Bear Grylls sleeps in a fucking hotel. Have some perspective.
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i had no problem with his dressing or curing the goat, even with that sharpened piece of metal, the goat getting trapped all by itself right in front of him was just a bit too perfect, especially since it was such a dealbreaker for his success
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Bear Grylls is a hack. The antibiotics thing just sort of took me out of the whole "point" of it, or at least what seemed to be the "point" of the whole thing. Life out on a remote island isn't exactly "sustainable" for 60+ days if you have to down a bottle of antibiotics every 20 days. Hell, the medical guy they had doing commentary even said he wasn't sure he even needed the 2nd bout of antibiotics, it may have just had a placebo effect.
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It's completely sustainable, as demonstrated by all of the shipwrecked people who have done it over the last several hundred years. You seem to be confusing the point, and your "point." The point was to make a documentary of 1 man attempting to do such a thing, since there isn't anything other than the word of the men who have done it before. It's not to fucking go out to this island and survive or die trying. Or to continue to do it when your life is in imminent danger (which it very well could be with any number of nasty parasites or bacteria that come from eating raw/undercooked sea life.
Every single guy you see doing this kind of shit has a safety crew not far away from them, and every single one of them (Stroud included) have called upon said safety crew multiple times in the course of their job. They're out there for a reason, and it's not to fucking die making a stupid TV show.
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Obviously he shouldn't have just let himself die. I'm not expecting that. But when I'm in a mind-frame of "Man, this dude is surviving out here!(even the medkit I was ok with. Since there's a chance you might have something like that on-hand)" and he bat-phones in antibiotics? I get completely taken out of it. And not only did the antibiotics help him(possibly just from a placebo standpoint), but he got the company that humans so desperately crave/need. Which is a HUGE part of why so many fail in a scenario like that. They can't handle the mental anguish of being alone.