Born Survivor - Hard Core OS

HappyIdiotTalk

Anyone watching Burn Survivor on C4? Only been watching it 10 minutes but that fella is proper hard core OS. So far I've seen him eat a small live frog and lots of tiny minoe type fish.

Not sure I'd be prepared to go that far to save money, but interesting all the same...

Bambywamby

Ewwww...think I will stick to rubber chicken and huge sacks of cheap pasta.

phizzimum

I like his approach to food though...eat whatever you find whenever you find it. That's been my personal mantra for years.

But I guess it only works when you're lost in the everglades, not wandering around Tesco!

furndire

I always wonder who were the first people to discover which types of mushrooms were poisoness and which were edible.
2 people together, you try this one ~ oh dear......

samtheman_2

what channel was this on? what day? is it finished?

HappyIdiotTalk

samtheman wrote: »

what channel was this on? what day? is it finished?

C4 saturdays at 7.30ish Should be a couple more left i think.

competitionscafe

It was #3 of 8 apparently - first one I have seen though - wanted to watch last weeks one in the Alps but was ill and fell asleep before it came on.

You would have to be quite hungry to eat a live frog though! Also wondered how they filmed some of it - eg him in the tree, crossing the river via the overhanging tree, swimming etc - how did the cameraman get across with a camera etc??

Here is tonights and next weeks from Radio Times:


After initial scepticism, I'm now completely sold on survival expert Bear Grylls (he could eat Ray Mears for breakfast). This week, in the Florida Everglades, he dives into some grass and emerges with a tree frog - a sweet little thing - which he holds tenderly - describes in loving detail, then bites in half. Later he does something similar with a turtle. But it's the guy's sheer guts that amaze you. Having waded through thigh-deep swamp water for two days trying to avoid alligators, he finds dry land, only to stumble on a "sink-hole" - a pit of quicksand. Absolutely lethal, as Bear describes at some length. Then he jumps in.

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Documentary
Born Survivor: Bear Grylls
7:25pm - 8:25pm
Channel 4
VIDEO Plus+: 326892

Former Special Forces adventurer Bear Grylls demonstrates how to survive in the world's most extreme environments. In this episode, Bear is marooned on an uninhabited Polynesian island after being dropped into the ocean two miles from shore. With the island lacking in natural resources, the intrepid castaway builds a raft that will take him to busy shipping lanes, but finds himself in the water with one of the sea's deadliest predators, a 17-foot tiger shark.

springchicken

I love this show , a must for Ray Mears fans -only a lot more hardcore!!

HappyIdiotTalk

competitionscafe wrote: »

After initial scepticism, I'm now completely sold on survival expert Bear Grylls (he could eat Ray Mears for breakfast).

Have to agree, he's also a lot more charismatic than Mears and interesting to watch.

evilwitch

He did a talk at work a few years back just after he'd returned from some expedition. He was inspirational and so totally into his thing he over-ran horrendously and had to be asked to finish up as he'd talked for too long.

Gordon Ramsay did the same thing last year and they asked him to leave as well which I found odd as since you're paying these blokes a fortune to speak then let them go and say what they have to say (plus as I was getting paid to listen it could have lasted as long as they wanted:rotfl: )

Haven't seen the programme but if the enthusiasm Bear shows on screen comes across half as much as it did when he spoke to an audience it must be compulsive viewing

celyn90

If he was hard core OS though he would have made that frog feed a family of four and noone would have noticed the lentils.

I love programs like this! Ray Mears is great too!