Still alive
No, I didn’t watch the speech, I’ve been watching Bear Grylls eating rhinocerous beetles. Damn, his bowel movements must be painful, all the crap he eats.
Anyway, more patient people than I can comment on wingnut head’s latest bowel movement, because I recognize a long con when I see it and I don’t like it one bit.
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Nice Post on a Long Con.
I can appreciate a well run long con. As with any other piece of street theater, you’re gonna pay for it. With a good con you at least get entertainment value for money, its an art form like any other. The current leadership couldn’t run a good con if they’re lives depended on it. They aren’t con artists but are strong arm robbery thugs. There is no art to a mugging even if you do it in a suit with government backing.
I think I wandered off the point. A con rarely involved theft with menaces, but these emotionally stunted yahoos seem positively eager to send in the thugs.
Bear Grylls is a tool. Any “survival” show with an obvious third-party cameraman goes right in the “stunt” bin, as far as I’m concerned.
Les Stroud, on the other hand … I’d spend a week in the wilderness with him any day.
Oh, and the “long con” business? I watched about 10 minutes of that preening asshole before I turned off the TV and went to bed. I promised myself I would watch until I got to the first provable lie; that turned out to be a vague and imprecise goal.
On the other hand, I laughed myself silly when Obama was talking about the economy and Geithner looked like he was trying to pass a kidney stone.
I watch both shows. Bear is a hardcore adventurer and has been all his life. After breaking his back in a parachuting accident, he climbed mount everest. When he’s not doing survival stuff on TV, he’s doing survival stuff alone. When Les Stroud is not doing survival stuff, he’s playing his guitar, singing kumbyayah, and eating macrobiotic fish paste. yes, both have safety nets. You don’t see the shows where Les gets hungry and pushes the button on hie GPS transponder and gets carted away back to civilization. And if I have to watch les walk dramatically away from his camera (when I know he’s just going to walk back and retrieve it) one more time, I’ll smack him upside the head.
I don’t watch the shows for the personalities or for entertainment. I watch them to learn.
Didn’t know that about him climbing Everest … I guess it just rubs me the wrong way when someone does something extreme or disgusting just to prove a point for the camera. I never got into Steve Irwin for the same reason.
I have eaten raw roadkill meat alongside the road.I haven’t found much of what Bear does disgusting. Of course, i wouldn’t do it unless I had to, but if I had to, now I know what is safe to eat and what isn’t.
I am amused when he eats the raw fish scales and all. I like raw fish, but the scales I can do without.
The little experience I have with fish scales tells me he’ll be picking them out of his teeth for years. Heh heh heh.
Aint so much the teeth I’d be worried about!!
I like both Bear and Les.
Bear was in the SAS which is seriously hardcore, but his talking down to the audience annoys me.
Les is interesting but again, the singing and happyclappy stuff gets on my nerves.
But I’ll learn from anyone, warts and all, it’s not like I’m marrying them!