my hero ray mears
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i would just like to tell you all how great ray mears is.
he is the master at lighting fires in the woods, gathering free food and sleeping in puddles of mud.
If i had a list of people who i would really like to meet he would be near the top.
hes such a top bloke and i dont think he gets the recognition he deserves, he should have been knighted by the queen by now.;
he is the master at lighting fires in the woods, gathering free food and sleeping in puddles of mud.
If i had a list of people who i would really like to meet he would be near the top.
hes such a top bloke and i dont think he gets the recognition he deserves, he should have been knighted by the queen by now.;
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Didnt he fail in helping to hunt down your July hero, Ray is obviously your August hero. I bet Father Christmas is your December hero.0
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if father christmas entered the tdf he would be my ultimate hero.0
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Ah Father Christmas, that was one old man I didn't want emptying his sack in my bedroom. And yes, Ray is awesomes.http://www.youtube.com/user/Eurobunneh - My Youtube channel.0
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I fail to believe you can actually spend as much time outdoors and living off the land as he claims he does and still be a fat lad!0
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It's because he's so good at finding food. Didn't you see the one where me scavenged the ingredients for a giant scotch egg in Epping Forest?0
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or the one where he caught that blue whale on some fishing line and ate the lot in one0
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Agreed.
Mears is brilliant.
Particularly like the way he habitually visits previously undiscovered tribes and re teaches them every trick and secret that they have managed to forget. Whilst declaring every roast piece of dung he is given to eat 'delicious'.
He'd be a good guy to get drunk with. In the jungle/tundra/savannah etc.0 -
...and he even presents the footy on ITV. What a talent!0
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Incredible the way he (or Bear Grylls for that matter) can survive in the most inhospitable environments, armed only with a film crew.'This week I 'ave been mostly been climbing like Basso - Shirley Basso.'0
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Bunneh wrote:Ah Father Christmas, that was one old man I didn't want emptying his sack in my bedroom. And yes, Ray is awesomes.
Which old man would you want emptying his sack in your bedroom mate?
'Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts'.0 -
Kudos to Bear Grylls i have seen him eat some freaky sh!t.0
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My money would always be on mears in any kind of wilderness off against grylls.
Bear might edge it in a straight forward fight. But I'm not certain.0 -
Finny how you never see Ray Mears and Clare Balding in the same room........0
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i think if your an ordinary person your better off listening to Ray,s advice because unless your SAS trained like Bear how the f**k can you do some of the stuff he does,for example like climbing down sheer cliffs without ropes, its all right for him as he,s climbed Everest, i think no matter how desperate i was i could,nt do some of the stunts he does.0
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Didn't Bear Grylls get caught out for sleeping in hotels when he was meant to be in the wilds a few years ago? Anyway Mears is an absolute hero - understated stuff while Grylls is all "la di da look at me aren't I the hard man" As for Father Christmas I'm not sure how he'd do in a fight against either of them. 0
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Got to be about time for a new Ray Mears series hasn't it. Loved the one where he got to fight the winner of the local wrestling championship - think it was a Mongol area - by the rules of their own form of wrestling and still beat him.
it's a hard life if you don't weaken.0 -
pdstsp wrote:Didn't Bear Grylls get caught out for sleeping in hotels when he was meant to be in the wilds a few years ago?
indeed mate, but he's proved his worth elsewhere.......
23 SAS. (say no more, if he is good enough for that then he can handle anything)
also climbed everest at the age of 21ish....sure he may of been(still be the youngest) man to climb it.
cant blame him really, sleep in a snake infested bog or a 5* hotel.....no brainer me thinks. lol. 0 -
kettrinboy wrote:i think if your an ordinary person your better off listening to Ray,s advice because unless your SAS trained like Bear how the f**k can you do some of the stuff he does,for example like climbing down sheer cliffs without ropes, its all right for him as he,s climbed Everest, i think no matter how desperate i was i could,nt do some of the stunts he does.
Grylls can't do some of the stunts he does...0 -
billy. wrote:pdstsp wrote:Didn't Bear Grylls get caught out for sleeping in hotels when he was meant to be in the wilds a few years ago?
indeed mate, but he's proved his worth elsewhere.......
23 SAS. (say no more, if he is good enough for that then he can handle anything)
also climbed everest at the age of 21ish....sure he may of been(still be the youngest) man to climb it.
cant blame him really, sleep in a snake infested bog or a 5* hotel.....no brainer me thinks. lol.
Rampant duvets, en suite bathrooms with no bog roll, wrong plug for his hair dryer. Yep hard as nails them SAS girls. The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns
momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself.0 -
Edward "Bear" Grylls - possibly one the most irritating men on TV. Nickname given by his sister - bet he wouldn't keep using it if she used to call him 'Cuddles'.
Oh, and apparently he 'served' in 21 SAS reserves. I'm no military expert, but doesn't 'reserves' mean 'not-quite-SAS-really'?
Is also Chief Scout. With all that hard-man-outdoor-SAS-Everest-etc-etc-etc training, I hope he can use a Swiss Army Knife.
According to Wikipedia, has kids named Jesse, Marmaduke and Huckleberry. If anything deserves a :roll: , it's that.
Ray Mears, on the other hand - brilliant.0 -
23 have gone through the same selection as the regulars.
Ray Mears for me though, that bloke just knows everything about the outdoors thing.0 -
I think bear grylls very well,you just have to keep an eye on it.0
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"There's a shortage of perfect breasts in this world, t'would be a pity to damage yours."0
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When i see bear on tv i will always be suspicious now.Aggieboy wrote:0
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billy. wrote:pdstsp wrote:Didn't Bear Grylls get caught out for sleeping in hotels when he was meant to be in the wilds a few years ago?
indeed mate, but he's proved his worth elsewhere.......
23 SAS. (say no more, if he is good enough for that then he can handle anything)
also climbed everest at the age of 21ish....sure he may of been(still be the youngest) man to climb it.
cant blame him really, sleep in a snake infested bog or a 5* hotel.....no brainer me thinks. lol.
He flew over the top of it as well with one of those big parachute/propeller things didnt he??
I think i would prefer to be with Ray if lost and needed to survive and with Bear if you were lost and wanted to get back and fight a brown bear on the way back.
And i bet neither of them are brave enough to stay at a Travelodge!!"BEER" Proof that god loves us and wants us to be happy0 -
I think Grylls was in the TA or the venture scouts or something until he twisted his ankle and had to stop. Then he went to stage school and ended up on TV. Not BBC either.0
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In Bear Grylls own words. " I'm a boy scout compared to Ray Mears."Pinno, מלך אידיוט וחרא מכונאי0
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I remember watching a Meares programme where he got some guy in Canada to make him a birch-bark canoe. Apparently they are very rare now and it was a kind of celebration of a dying craft. His shows are like that, more about the craft skills of survival, where knowledge is more important than the Action Man gestures of someone like Mr Bear (who presumably is more popular with the chav Delta-types who willingly watch Discovery Channel).0
