Survival among the least fit?

[SeaCat]

I just watched the second episode of the Alaska Experiment on the Discovery Channel and am loving it. It's actually too damned funny.

If you haven't seen it yet it's four distinct groups of people trying to survive with help in Alaska as winter sets in. (They're up there for three months.)

I'm watching this and laughing my ass off. Oh if only I could be chosen for something like this.

Cat

 

[OzoneRed]

Why in the world would anybody volunteer for a thing like this? It's COLD in Alaska in winter. Michigan is bad enough.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

You hearty types have my admiration . . . so long as it's from a long way off! As a certified California weather wimp, if palm trees don't grow there, I don't go there!

 

[SeaCat]

Okay so my wife and I were watching it again tonight. It's scary and makes no sense to me.

Two of the groups are suffering from lack of food. They have heavy caliber rifles and they are surrounded by Browm Bears. (They talk about how close the bears are and how scared they are of them.) Why in the eight names of hell don't they just shoot a bear and harvest it's hide, meat and fat?

Another group is up in the valley and surrounded by food, all of it the small four footed kind. They went out on a hunt and got a rabbit and a Squirrel. Now they are having second thoughts about this. WTF people? (Although the female in the group is kind of cute.)

I would so love to have been picked for something like this, but then again I might actually survive without a lot of drama which would make for lousy TV.

Cat

 

[JagFarlane]

Okay so my wife and I were watching it again tonight. It's scary and makes no sense to me.

Two of the groups are suffering from lack of food. They have heavy caliber rifles and they are surrounded by Browm Bears. (They talk about how close the bears are and how scared they are of them.) Why in the eight names of hell don't they just shoot a bear and harvest it's hide, meat and fat?

Another group is up in the valley and surrounded by food, all of it the small four footed kind. They went out on a hunt and got a rabbit and a Squirrel. Now they are having second thoughts about this. WTF people? (Although the female in the group is kind of cute.)

I would so love to have been picked for something like this, but then again I might actually survive without a lot of drama which would make for lousy TV.

Cat

This is the thing about reality tv. They act as if its really a survival show...but truthfully most of them have no clue as to what the hell they're doing. I remember laughing my ass off at Survivor and some of the shit they brought along in the first episode. Then rumor leaked out that the show was providing them with food in the meantime...no surprise

 

[Emerald_Dragon]

I would like to be on that show with my husband. He would so rock!!!!! Of course they would never pick him because he actually has a clue as to what to do!!

 

[carrie-on]

I would like to be on that show with my husband. He would so rock!!!!! Of course they would never pick him because he actually has a clue as to what to do!!

Same here. Hubby and live in the North woods of UP Michigan and it would be so easy to do something like that. Like Cat said, there wouldn't be enough drama for the network, unless it would be watching him take a bite of the heart and giving thanks to the animal for giving it's life for him.

I love Your av, Emerald. It looks very similar to the style that a friend of mine paints.