Who is your choice?
And, referring to another thread, why the HELL don’t those guys wear hats in the desert???
Bear Grylls took his shirt off, peed on it, then put it over his head like an Arab thingie. Personally, I think a straw hat would have made a lot more sense.
Perhaps you could explain what you are referring to …
djm
Survivorman, for sure. I used to like Man vs Wild, but one day I was sitting there watching it with some friends, and we picked so many holes in his “oh-geez-lost-in-the-woods-must-survive” demeanor. Who feeds the cameramen? Why, after several days in the wild with such dark hair does he have not even a trace of stubble? How in the world can anyone knock out a running rabbit with a stick on their first try?
At least with Survivorman it’s just him and his camera. And he actually gets ratty-looking as time goes by.
Sorry deej. I think you might be the one without the teevee, not sure. They are both reality shows where the hapless lads are abandoned for about a week in some remote location then show how to survive.
Man vs Wild is dropped from an airplane often, but its murky whether he has an additional cameraman or what.
Survivorman, as pointed out, is all alone.
Man vs Wild is a former Special Forces Brit guy named Bear Grylls. Survivorman, is, well, a Canadian, named Les Stroud. 
I don’t know what his background is, except he says “house” kinda funny.
Both have the penchant of never wearing brimmed hats, even in the desert.
There are plenty of You Tube clips of Bear Grylls (Man vs. Wild) doing stuff from his shows. The scariest one was when he threw himself in an icy lake, to demonstrate how you survive falling through the ice. He also eats fish and bugs and snakes raw.
With summer viewing pickings slim, I have been watching these guys…
And hath, I always think that Bear is eating bugs while the cameraman has a granola bar in his pocket…
My boys and I enjoy watching the shows, but prefer Bear, despite the possible fraudulent scenarios. My question is, mano a mano, who wins, Bear Grylls or Chuck Norris???
They are BOTH idiots!
(Noah won’t let me watch either show because I end up yelling “You are an IDIOT” to the screen).
What’s the first lesson of “survival” when someone is lost in the wilderness?
DO NOT WALK AROUND - STAY IN ONE AREA!
That’s because IF there is a search going on for you they do it by quadrants, and if you are wandering around, you may be missed when they do that quadrant!
And if you have a big, red parachute, or a shiny airplane or whatever - why in the heck would you LEAVE that?! It’s a heck of a lot easier to see a big red parachute than a man wandering around!
I"ll stop now… 
Aw, Missy, don’t get yer knickers in a twist.
On Man Vs Wild, his goal is to MAKE HIS WAY to a specific spot. He comes off the mountain, out of the forest, whatever.
Survivorman stays put in a general area, because he is going to be picked up in seven days. He spends a lot more time sitting around, waiting it out, while Bear Grylls is on the move, sliding down glacier tubes, climbing down waterfalls, etc etc…
So, you are missing the point just a bit, though your contention about staying in a certain area makes sense.
How would that be entertaining? If you’d rather watch them sit and wait for Search & Rescue for an hour then who would be the idiot? 
Even though Survivorman is more genuine, Man v. Wild is more watchable.
As for who could take who, Bear Gryll’s is trained to kill and survive so I’d put my money on him.
Okay, thx Weeks. I don’t care for any of the unreality shows, so I wouldn’t watch either of these guys, regardless where they come from. I have read a bit about orienteering, and it looks pretty interesting, but I would rather go and do it than watch tv. 
djm
Yeah, I think Bear could take Chuck. On the other hand, there is a vast body of belief that Chuck Norris has an extra fist behind his beard.
But, semi-seriously, I think Bear is one tough hombre, whether the show is put-on or not. I’d want him in my army. Stroud seems like a complainer and a questioner..
Bear got busted staying in a hotel during one of his “excursions” recently.
He’s also been busted “out in the wild” within sight of a major highway.
There was a Fark article/thread about it recently, I’ll see if I can dig it up.
Tough hombre or not, you gotta remember, Chuck Norris is the only man alive who can slam a revolving door. I wouldn’t like Chuck Norris in my army; Chuck Norris IS my army! In fact, it’s widely known that the US Army, in fact, stole their slogan, “an army of one,” from Chuck Norris.
Chuckles- 1
Bear - 0
Distressing news, Ty!!! The shame…
Gosh, who to believe? A disgruntled ex-employee, the Sun, Bear???
But I figgered I would get some action with the Chuck Norris question..
oh gawd, there’s no biz like show biz!
Never watched survivorman.
That Bear guy is a moron, though.
Lesson 1 of wilderness survival is it’s about being patient and keeping your cool. Overt machoness rarely plays a big part. If this guy were in a serious survival situation, he’d do things a lot different or he probably wouldn’t make it.
For example, the Bear dude runs and jumps everywhere. Makes for great TV, but if you’re alone in the wilderness and break a leg/ankle, game over. You never run because it’s inefficient and dangerous; you never, ever jump because it’s borderline suicidal.
I won’t get started on intentionally thowing oneself into frozen lakes and scouring avalanche corridors in hopes of finding decomposing animals to eat…there’s a lot of things to eat in the wilderness that aren’t disgusting. But, hey, who’d want to watch someone munching on clover or roots or aspen bark?
I’m with ya all the way, Missy! TV is TV. “The Edge” was hokey, but a great movie nevertheles. But when it’s passed off as reality, as instruction, I worry about the poor schmuck who survives a plane crash in Alaska or Sonora or whatever and thinks this is what you’re supposed to do.
Tom
I can’t be marooned. I don’t own a camcorder and a thing to strap it to my waist. So no worries!
Now it would be interesting to see a scene like this –
"I’ve been four days without food, and Brian the camerman won’t share his jerky, so I had to kill him. He had several bottles of water with him, but I’ll save those for later and for now will just drink the contents of his bladder after I gut him.
"By laying strips of Brian in this tree to dry, I can make enough jerky to last for several days, and the fat of his omentum is both a high calorie treat and a handy salve.
"I’ve used his back skin to fashion a small and useful sack to carry my jerky in, and I’ve washed his intestines and made a few pounds of Briansausage. From his thigh bones and the ligaments in his lower legs, I have made a pair of nunchucks, plus I was able to fashion a nice knife by sharpening his clavicle on a rock.
“All in all, Brian yielded several days worth of food, plus some handy survival tools. I can’t say I won’t miss him, though, because now I’ll have to carry that heavy-ass camera, but dammit, the little peckerwood should have shared.”
BWHAHAHAHAHA!!!
Gonzo - that post is a CLASSIC!!!
…and it’s good to know Weeks is safe, at least.
T
You left out the bit about using Brian’s foreskin to protect his nose from sunburn.
djm
And you CLAIM not to watch it. Nyuk.
Brit vs. Canadian my money’s on the Canadian. I have never seen this show though and if it really was about survival, a camera would last about how long? 2 days max?
Best survival movie? The one about the kid who went climbing in Utah and had to cut off his hand when it became trapped under a rock in a slot canyon.