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Samsally
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 Posted: Fri Jun 10, 2011 9:41 pm Post subject: |
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Well, I found it entertaining at least, Las.
Not educational, though. |
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Thy Brilliance
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| Posted: Fri Jun 10, 2011 9:57 pm Post subject: |
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| Lasairfiona wrote: | | Thy Brilliance wrote: | Flora and fauna are described along with local conditions and how to use them to your advantage.
That isn't education? |
| Thy Brilliance wrote: | | Entertainment. |
These things are not the same. It may be entertaining to say eating those red berries gives you better night vision but if it actually poisons you, it may be entertaining but not educational. If it is educational, it should also be entertaining but also _accurate_. One judges shows on the education while making sure the entertainment factor helps people to learn the content.
Once the entertainment factor becomes more important than the education, the educational label must be removed. Therefore if you are saying Man vs Wild is just for entertainment, why do you give a shit that I complain about its educational bullshit? |
If I recall, you weren't complaining about education at all.
You complained about lying. I explained that the TV series was made not to communicate reality, merely facts.
Discovery channel has classified this show as educational entertainment.
You can either believe them, or do what I do. Which is verify facts, something I do for fun. |
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Sam
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| Posted: Fri Jun 10, 2011 10:31 pm Post subject: |
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The show is shit, it doesn't 'teach' you anything, and it actually propagates false and bizarrely counterproductive notions about how to handle wilderness travel and/or survival situations and the conservation of energy, and Grylls should be ashamed for producing so much televised shit. It's so bad it has actually legitimately endangered children because they watched his show and tried to imitate his Survival Facts™ as demonstrated and went off trail and actually literally made it more likely that they would have died before help found them.
in the texas desert episode he concocts the worlds stupidest plan to "parkour" across the desert at something like 110 degrees and then spends a while almost dying in a harebrained experiment involving rappelling between two mounds he could have walked around. In the wide open fucking desert.
I even already talked about it here
| Quote: | Literally at one point he went from expressing how the desert must have been around 110 degrees, to an action-sequence where he tried to demonstrate how Parkour is an effective way to bound from rock to rock and increase the speed and efficiency of surviving hot deserts.
Yes, start racing and jumping around on rocks in a 110 degree desert survival situation. brilliant. remember: if lost in a desert, speed is your most valuable asset. If you race REALLY FAST out of the desert, you won't have to worry about water or the conservation of energy. start running. START RUNNING |
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Thy Brilliance
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| Posted: Fri Jun 10, 2011 10:48 pm Post subject: |
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| Bear wrote: | | "I suppose to bear in mind that this is a worst-case scenario show, and therefore, of course things have to be planned. Otherwise, it would just be me in the wild and nothing happening, you know, ’cause textbook survival says you land, you get yourself comfortable, you wait for rescue, you don’t do anything. It would be a very boring show. |
Why is this so hard to understand?
I literally explained just a few posts before that the only redeeming information provided by the show is the description of flora and fauna, and local conditions.
You watch this to be entertained.
That is the point of watching it. |
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Sam
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| Posted: Fri Jun 10, 2011 10:52 pm Post subject: |
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| I hope that's not supposed to be a response to my post (surprise surprise, it's unclear) |
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mouse
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| Posted: Fri Jun 10, 2011 10:52 pm Post subject: |
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that may work for you, since you say you research everything that the show says. but i suspect the majority of the audience does not. and having _some_ things that are factual, and a bunch of other that aren't is actually more dangerous than having everything being clearly Not To Be Taken Seriously - because knowing that some things are true makes people think everything he says is true.
and as sam pointed out - children watch this. children are really not researching what he say - they say "hey, that bear guy did this!" - and they go out and do it.
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Thy Brilliance
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| Posted: Fri Jun 10, 2011 11:02 pm Post subject: |
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That's dangerous territory you're going into here mouse, because if you start saying that children are affected by the things they watch, you can give credibility to statements about kids who start becoming more violent by playing violent video games.
Either way, it is the parent's responsibility to control the things their children watch. |
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Yorick
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| Posted: Fri Jun 10, 2011 11:21 pm Post subject: |
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I only watch Mythbusters for the breaking of shit and the 'splosions.
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Sam
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| Posted: Fri Jun 10, 2011 11:35 pm Post subject: |
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| mouse wrote: | | and as sam pointed out - children watch this. children are really not researching what he say - they say "hey, that bear guy did this!" - and they go out and do it. |
The children are kind of a fringe concern anyway. Really he's just part of a wider collection of things which are giving people a really bizarre and useless estimation of how to handle yourself out in the wild. Like, I watched a very bizarre set of arguments about Everest, how people just legitimately did not understand how if you're up in the death zone, and you can't carry yourself down the mountain, you're dead. Nobody can stop to help you. If they try, they're almost assuredly going to just end up dead themselves.
That's okay cause like 99% of these people aren't ever going to set foot off the grid unless it's into a nice pretty little camping spot next to the ranger trailer, but hey, there's that 1% and also it's just nice to not help us be so retarded at nature hooray |
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mouse
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| Posted: Fri Jun 10, 2011 11:39 pm Post subject: |
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| Thy Brilliance wrote: | That's dangerous territory you're going into here mouse, because if you start saying that children are affected by the things they watch, you can give credibility to statements about kids who start becoming more violent by playing violent video games.
Either way, it is the parent's responsibility to control the things their children watch. |
of course children are "affected" by the things they watch - that's how children learn to do things. they model their behavior on the behavior they see.
i'm not going to get into an argument about violent video games, i don't know enough about them.
and even a parent who monitors what their children watch might get fooled by gryll's schtick - hey, it's an outdoor show! it teaches survival!
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Thy Brilliance
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| Posted: Fri Jun 10, 2011 11:43 pm Post subject: |
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| If you go to Everest without having done your own extensive research about mountain climbing and snow conditions and rely only on sparse or misleading information from a tv show, then it's your own damn fault if you die. |
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Thy Brilliance
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| Posted: Fri Jun 10, 2011 11:50 pm Post subject: Aren't kids fooled by society all the time. |
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| mouse wrote: | | Thy Brilliance wrote: | That's dangerous territory you're going into here mouse, because if you start saying that children are affected by the things they watch, you can give credibility to statements about kids who start becoming more violent by playing violent video games.
Either way, it is the parent's responsibility to control the things their children watch. |
of course children are "affected" by the things they watch - that's how children learn to do things. they model their behavior on the behavior they see.
i'm not going to get into an argument about violent video games, i don't know enough about them.
and even a parent who monitors what their children watch might get fooled by gryll's schtick - hey, it's an outdoor show! it teaches survival! |
Honestly, if I had kids, I wouldn't let them watch the show, he gets naked much too often, and that's one schtick too many if you ask me. |
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Arc Tempest
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| Posted: Sat Jun 11, 2011 12:32 am Post subject: |
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Yay for getting paid to say stupid shit that can get ignorant people killed!
(I really hope Bear Grylls gets mauled by something, bear, lion, redneck, whatever.)
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Samsally
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| Posted: Sat Jun 11, 2011 12:35 am Post subject: |
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| So I got part way through trying to make a flow chart of this conversation before it gave me a headache and the urge to run around in 110 heat. |
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Thy Brilliance
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| Posted: Sat Jun 11, 2011 12:45 am Post subject: |
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| Arc Tempest wrote: | Yay for getting paid to say stupid shit that can get ignorant people killed!
(I really hope Bear Grylls gets mauled by something, bear, lion, redneck, whatever.) |
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I don't really have a problem with Grylls myself. He seems like a nice guy.
He's doing what he has to do to captivate an audience that craves explosions and action movies. Otherwise, few would watch the channel.
If you wanna blame someone, blame the audience. |
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