Survivor Nicaragua has just started on Aussie TV. The odd bits I have seen of earlier series had me convinced that they only chose the mentally challenged as contestants. They are people too stupid to realize that making sure your team wins eliminates the risk of being voted off.
Now they seem to be picking contestants from psych hospitals.
They’ve decided to go with a whole cast full of Russells this season instead of one big giant asshole.
I refuse to watch the show, and think it is the dumbest show on earth for pretty much the same reason …
Lets see, I vaguely remember that they totally ignored any suggestion from the guy who actually had some sort of survival training, another time some woman apparently read up on how to friction start a fire - but apparently she never actually practiced until she could do it properly and she spent like HOURS trying to start a fire to just totally fail…they built their camp in a wash, then got washed out after it rained and the water went whizzing back through the wash.
What got me was in the first season … they are on a beach in the tropics, with a can of rice, a sauce pan and a knife and were slowly starving to death … apparently the main complaint was that the rice was so plain they couldnt choke it down.
Fucking morons … you take the sauce pan, put salt water in it, and little sea critters that you catch in the tide pools after the tide goes out. There, salted rice pilaf. If it is too salty, adjust the saltiness by adding in fresh water until you get the proportions right. Or you can assign someone to sit there and boil down saltwater until you get a fistfull of salt you can keep on hand and add to the food to taste [keep turfing in more salt water as the level of water goes down in the pot, creating more and more concentrated brine until it is supersaturated enough to become sludge, then back off the heat and finish up drying out the salt] and assign someone to go around the edge of the jungle nibbling at leaves to see if they can find some that have flavor - those are called herbs… and that is probably how it was done in remote prehistory. Learn to spear fish, and dig for bivalves, and chase down crabs. You are stranded in some of the most food rich environment, I have no sympathy for people too dumb to figure out how to eat. If you know that you are going to be emulating a shipwreck, how about doing a little reading when you find out that you are going to be a contestant on basic survival practices, and maybe practice a little… firemaking, shelter making, food scrounging techniques :rolleyes::smack:
Great line.
Seriously. You have to wonder, do these people prepare at all? Do they know what area of the world they will be dropped in? And if so, how is it possible that they haven’t all researched the edible plantlife?!?
It makes me crazy, and I just can’t watch. My Dad had taught me more survival skills by the time I was five years old than most of these people have gleaned in a lifetime.
Y’all are staying hung-up on the name of the show. The show is the game, not survival in the wild. Out-play, out-last, out-wit, remember?
Althought I do agree with the OP that this year they seem to have selected some real psychos.
I’ve considered starting the Lare List of Absolute Minimums
1: If you’re going to be on Survivor know how to make fire
2: If you’re going to be on Hell’s Kitchen, know how to make risotto
3: If you’re going to be on Amazing Race, know how to drive a stick shift and buy a map
As has been observed, not knowing the very basics seems to indicate that either the contestants or the producers are not firing on all cylinders.