ack-ack Posted October 14, 2011 Report Share Posted October 14, 2011 (edited) Not too bad is it During a fairly raucous night in the SU bar one of the wags 'topped up' a pint and left it on the side. We sat and watched for potential minesweepers. Sure enough we got a taker very soon, a high ranking member of the SU social elite no less. He got halfway down before realising that something was amiss (may have been the sight of us in tears out the corner of his eye perhaps). From the look on his face and the speed that he exited the bar I would say that perhaps its not too bad if its your own. Edited October 14, 2011 by ack-ack Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve_b_wales Posted October 14, 2011 Report Share Posted October 14, 2011 What channel/time? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gixer1 Posted October 14, 2011 Report Share Posted October 14, 2011 (edited) During a fairly raucous night in the SU bar one of the wags 'topped up' a pint and left it on the side. We sat and watched for potential minesweepers. Sure enough we got a taker very soon, a high ranking member of the SU social elite no less. He got halfway down before realising that something was amiss (may have been the sight of us in tears out the corner of his eye perhaps). From the look on his face and the speed that he exited the bar I would say that perhaps its not too bad if its your own. Classy Bird there... :unsure: :blink: Edited October 14, 2011 by gixer1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foxnet22 Posted October 14, 2011 Author Report Share Posted October 14, 2011 What channel/time? ITV1 8.OOPM MATE.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cottonseed Posted October 14, 2011 Report Share Posted October 14, 2011 On the subject of living rough in the country, do any of you know of a book I'd like to read. I have no title, or author's name. It's about a guy who works in an office in London, but lives in a wood in the Home Counties. He commutes to work by train each day in a suit and tie, but manages to keep his clothes clean and presentable while living in some sort of a den and foraging for food. Someone otld me about it, but had no real information. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thunderbird Posted October 14, 2011 Report Share Posted October 14, 2011 Down and Out in Virginia Water and London? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sandspider Posted October 14, 2011 Report Share Posted October 14, 2011 Drinking you own **** ain't too shabby, it could have been somebody else's! Apparently, drinking someone else's is better for you. You've drunk yours once already and your body has taken most of what it needs out of it. Someone else's body will have slightly different mineral etc. needs so their wee is better for you than yours! Apparently, I've not experimented to confirm this :look: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ack-ack Posted October 14, 2011 Report Share Posted October 14, 2011 Apparently, drinking someone else's is better for you. You've drunk yours once already and your body has taken most of what it needs out of it. Someone else's body will have slightly different mineral etc. needs so their wee is better for you than yours! Oh yeah? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sandspider Posted October 14, 2011 Report Share Posted October 14, 2011 (edited) Ok, there are exceptions to that rule - not EVERYONE'S is better than your own! Edited October 14, 2011 by sandspider Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darren m Posted October 14, 2011 Report Share Posted October 14, 2011 any body seen " man , woman , wild " he's ex special forces and his wife is a babe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrispti Posted October 14, 2011 Report Share Posted October 14, 2011 During a fairly raucous night in the SU bar one of the wags 'topped up' a pint and left it on the side. We sat and watched for potential minesweepers. Sure enough we got a taker very soon, a high ranking member of the SU social elite no less. He got halfway down before realising that something was amiss (may have been the sight of us in tears out the corner of his eye perhaps). From the look on his face and the speed that he exited the bar I would say that perhaps its not too bad if its your own. Your own is not too bad, but many a night in Aldershot I have had the misfortune of loosing a drinking game and had to down a pint :unsure: Like I said, your own is ok, a cocktail of 3 or 4 other blokes tends to make you reach some what, especially when its topped off with a hand full of ginger pubes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vipa Posted October 14, 2011 Report Share Posted October 14, 2011 Your own is not too bad, but many a night in Aldershot I have had the misfortune of loosing a drinking game and had to down a pint :unsure: Like I said, your own is ok, a cocktail of 3 or 4 other blokes tends to make you reach some what, especially when its topped off with a hand full of ginger pubes Just remembered ANOTHER reason I left the Army Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fortune Posted October 14, 2011 Report Share Posted October 14, 2011 Bush tucker man was good. Les Hiddins was a major in the Australian army and did two tours of Vietnam duty between 1966 and 1968, the first as a forward scout in the infantry. In 1987 he was awarded a Defense Fellowship to research survival in northern Australia. He was the principal author of the Australian Army's Combat Survival manual (1987). He was sent out to classify and document everything in the Aus. Country so that forces could live off of the land. This research turned into the TV series The Bush Tucker Man. The series involves Hiddins driving around in a Land Rover Paretie, then in later episodes Defender110 with his trademark Akruba hat, finding and describing native Australian bush food or "Bus Tucker". Ray Mears has a high regard for the Bush Tucker man and did some TV programs with him. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MM Posted October 14, 2011 Report Share Posted October 14, 2011 they are both very very different in what they do. its hard to compare the two. Ray is all about making the best of what u have, and enjoying your surroundings. He teaches you how to live in comfort. Grylls teaches escape and evasion. He can show you the best way of getting out of a situation. I even asked Ray Mears about this, and he was of the same thought. Although, i did also ask him if he could take Grylls in a fight. :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yankeedoodlepigeon Posted October 14, 2011 Report Share Posted October 14, 2011 On now ITV Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ack-ack Posted October 14, 2011 Report Share Posted October 14, 2011 . Although, i did also ask him if he could take Grylls in a fight. :lol: And he said? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MM Posted October 14, 2011 Report Share Posted October 14, 2011 And he said? he said he is not into fighting, as he is too busy. very diplomatic, as the whole room was laughing at my question. He did laugh though, so i was a bit pleased. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ack-ack Posted October 14, 2011 Report Share Posted October 14, 2011 he said he is not into fighting, as he is too busy. very diplomatic, as the whole room was laughing at my question. He did laugh though, so i was a bit pleased. Well thats a thinly veiled yes if ever I heard it. Good old Ray. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-Mongrel- Posted October 14, 2011 Report Share Posted October 14, 2011 Well thats a thinly veiled yes if ever I heard it. Good old Ray. My **** he could! I don't care how long BG was in the SAS, he was in, and that makes him a tough as **** trained killer! Mears would get marmalised!!! He may well be the more genuine of the two, but nice doesn't beat hard! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vipa Posted October 14, 2011 Report Share Posted October 14, 2011 My **** he could! I don't care how long BG was in the SAS, he was in, and that makes him a tough as **** trained killer! Mears would get marmalised!!! He may well be the more genuine of the two, but nice doesn't beat hard! BG was TA SAS, not regs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ack-ack Posted October 14, 2011 Report Share Posted October 14, 2011 My **** he could! I don't care how long BG was in the SAS, he was in, and that makes him a tough as **** trained killer! Mears would get marmalised!!! He may well be the more genuine of the two, but nice doesn't beat hard! Mears would do a splash down. Good night Vienna Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimbo1 Posted October 14, 2011 Report Share Posted October 14, 2011 ray mears` website for those interested...got some good outdoor kit on there....just a bit pricey some of it. ray mears Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wharf Rat Posted October 14, 2011 Report Share Posted October 14, 2011 My **** he could! I don't care how long BG was in the SAS, he was in, and that makes him a tough as **** trained killer! Mears would get marmalised!!! He may well be the more genuine of the two, but nice doesn't beat hard! My whippet is a trained killer. Could she give Ray Mears a hiding too? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gimlet Posted October 15, 2011 Report Share Posted October 15, 2011 You can't judge either character from their TV appearences. All TV is theatre, everything is staged. But to generalise, Mears seems to view the natural world as something to wonder at, Grylls as something to play with. On that score my sympathies are with Mears. Beware all 'bushcraft' products. The point of learning the skills of the back-woodsman, as Mears used to call it in his early books before some TV exec decided 'Bushcraft' would be snappier, is to learn to survive with what you have to hand, not what you can source on Google. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
njc110381 Posted October 15, 2011 Report Share Posted October 15, 2011 I like Ray mears. Don't like the other guy much, he's a bit of a miliatary fool. Ok if I had half an army chasing me with AK's then jumping off a cliff is going to give me a better chance, but I'm unlikely to ever be in that situation. Ray on the other hand is spot on. He teaches you how to live in basic comfort in situations anyone could find theirself in. A plane crash, even a car breakdown in a remote place and your phone has packed up could result in his stuff being useful. As for the fight, who knows. I do remember Ray having a competition type fight with some huge tribal guy once though - fair play if I came face to face with this dude I'd run a mile because he was massive, big warrior type! But Ray actually beat him. At the end they went through all the traditional bit before he said, he had two broken ribs! He does a lot of Judo apparently. I wouldn't take him on because I think he's harder than he looks. I'm going to look for the book mentioned above. Sounds interesting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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