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muscles like this? posted:Discovery has canceled "Sons of Guns" after it's star, Will Hayden, has been arrested on multiple molestation and rape charges.
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On the subject of Mythbusters, was interesting last week to hear one of my university lecturers last week talking about the episode with the chopped up plane (the early episode where it looked like someone had taken a chainsaw to the fuselage).' It's quite a famous incident around here since it was one of our (as in the aviation academy I fly with) planes that got chopped up and was in the photos. The lecturer was head of the academy at the time and is still quite bitter since the university legal department vetoed the use of a big video interview they did with him about the incident and showing the location where it happened. Never got his moment of fame!
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muscles like this? posted:Discovery has canceled "Sons of Guns" after it's star, Will Hayden, has been arrested on multiple molestation and rape charges. The first season of that show was watchable, but it quickly turned into the ultra fake contrived storylines that those shows ultimately become.
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Aug 28, 2014 12:08
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At this point I'm split between just assuming it's terrible execs demanding the same thing over and over with the 'It'll work again!' mantra being repeated or some sort of summoning ritual for an elder god. Then again is there really a practical difference between the two?
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Aug 28, 2014 15:29
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I am disappointed that the station has yet to be renamed The Reality Show Station. Airplane Repo? Really?
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Fog Tripper posted:I am disappointed that the station has yet to be renamed The Reality Show Station. Amish Mafia. Kill me now. I try and stick to the educational portion; How it's made, how the universe works and I do enjoy some of the flagship reality shows still; Mythbusters and Deadliest catch.
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Aug 28, 2014 17:55
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I kinda wish MythBusters was scrapped entirely and just have Adam get his own show where he makes poo poo/props in his shop all episode. Basically his Tested videos as a full show.
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Aug 29, 2014 03:44
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Senor Tron posted:On the subject of Mythbusters, was interesting last week to hear one of my university lecturers last week talking about the episode with the chopped up plane (the early episode where it looked like someone had taken a chainsaw to the fuselage).' What was the chopped up plane myth?
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Kazak_Hstan posted:What was the chopped up plane myth? Probably seeing what happens when a spinning propeller crashes into another plane (3:30)
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Aug 29, 2014 03:52
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latest episode of Naked and Afraid was hilarious (Episode 10 Dunes of Despair)
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Tethered is the worst. Holy poo poo this is stupid.
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FogHelmut posted:Tethered is the worst. Holy poo poo this is stupid. Saw this on The Soup, disappointed to learn it's on Discovery.
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Oct 7, 2014 02:20
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I hope this dude falls off
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Nov 3, 2014 02:35
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Not that I expected him to fall... but that was pretty weak.
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Nov 3, 2014 03:03
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I'm so sick of that guy, I wish he'd fall off of something or maybe open a Wendy's or something.
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Nov 3, 2014 03:51
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Even if he fell it's not like you would actually see it. The thing would just cut out because they have it on delay.
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Nov 3, 2014 14:10
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muscles like this? posted:Even if he fell it's not like you would actually see it. The thing would just cut out because they have it on delay. 50,000 people with cell phone cameras. You'd see it from 30 diff angles eventually.
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Nov 3, 2014 19:39
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He's no Phillipe Petit. I'm just not impressed by walking on a tight rope, blindfolded or no. That poo poo's second-nature to that guy. Do some tricks on it or something.
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Nov 4, 2014 05:01
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On December 7th Discovery Channel is going to air a special wherein a guy is eaten alive by a giant snake. It's imaginatively titled "Eaten Alive" and he's supposed to be wearing some kind of special "snake proof" suit.
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Nov 6, 2014 05:06
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How's he getting out of the snake, because if its anything like the post-credits scene in Pacific Rim, I only want to see the part where he gets out of the snake.
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Nov 6, 2014 05:54
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Any snake big enough to eat a guy whole is prob strong enough to strangle the gently caress out of him beforehand.
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Nov 6, 2014 05:59
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Definitely for science and not some horrible sex fetish.
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So they have to find a preposterously large snake, capture the snake, provoke the snake, hope the suit holds up under the immense pressure from said preposterously large and angry snake, somehow entice the old and well-traveled snake into eating a very non-food-like bulky metal and rubber suit (with a guy inside it for no reason), get the snake to completely swallow him instead of immediately regurgitating the inedible item, keep the dude alive while inside the snake, take usable footage while inside the snake, then yank the dude out of the snake's belly. All without harming the animal in any way, as the guy claims in his tweets. I'm somewhat skeptical. I'm guessing it'll be 95% searching for the snake, 5% trying to coax the snake into eating him, failing, maybe getting up to his shoulders or something before calling off the stunt and jamming down a remote camera aka the normal way of getting video footage of snakes' digestive tracts.
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Nov 6, 2014 06:09
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OK, I hope that snake digests that dude 10 times more than I hoped the tightrope walker would fall off.
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muscles like this? posted:On December 7th Discovery Channel is going to air a special wherein a guy is eaten alive by a giant snake. It's imaginatively titled "Eaten Alive" and he's supposed to be wearing some kind of special "snake proof" suit. Someone's just seen Jon Voight in Anaconda  If you really want to impress me, tell me what the hell was that accent he was speaking with in that movie.
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Gorilla Salad posted:If you really want to impress me, tell me what the hell was that accent he was speaking with in that movie. Tommy Wiseu doing a Marlon Brando impersonation.
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The more I think about it, the more completely ludicrous it seems. Like, assume the snake completely finishes the hours-long process it takes to completely "suffocate," fit in its mouth (which has never been recorded, by the way), and ingest the guy (snakes don't just go *bwoop* *swallow*). So then how do they get him out? Yeah they've got a rope tied to him, so what? If you swallowed something, would some jerk tugging on a string be able to just pop it out of your stomach? Are they planning on half the crew grabbing the snake's tail while the other half plays tug of war with the rope attached to the swallowed guy? All without hurting the snake like he claims? Couple that with Discovery being really cagey with its promos and the lack of any preview footage and yeah I'm pretty sure this is just going to be a disappointing stunt so that guy can pimp his new book about how he's (directly quoting here) the "Indiana Jones of the Amazon."
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Nov 7, 2014 04:21
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The commercial they put out for it has him say he's going in head first so I predict that he gets his head kind of swallowed and declares it a success. It's definitely not going to be cartoon levels of snake lying there with a man shaped bump in its middle.
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Nov 7, 2014 04:27
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I predict that it's bullshit, like the megalodon show.
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Yeah, I really can't see this ending any other way then he gets his head in then his team sedates the snake and pulls him out. Or possibly the snake gives up/doesn't even try.
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Maybe it uses its powerful jaws and sharp teeth to just gnaw on his face for a while? I'd consider that a win, too.
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Nope. He's gonna go all the way in, and it'll be too late before anyone realizes there's something wrong, and the snake will fully digest him and then poop him out.
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Hazo posted:Couple that with Discovery being really cagey with its promos and the lack of any preview footage and yeah I'm pretty sure this is just going to be a disappointing stunt so that guy can pimp his new book about how he's (directly quoting here) the "Indiana Jones of the Amazon." 1. Indiana Jones did not care for snakes and would not have been down for being eaten by one. 2. Indiana Jones wasn't that stupid.
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Discovery sure is getting a lot of press about this in any case: http://www.cnn.com/video/data/2.0/video/us/2014/11/06/erin-dnt-moos-man-eaten-by-anaconda.cnn.html
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Zero One posted:Discovery sure is getting a lot of press about this in any case: http://www.cnn.com/video/data/2.0/video/us/2014/11/06/erin-dnt-moos-man-eaten-by-anaconda.cnn.html God, I can't stand regular news anymore. Other than the expert (and his wonderful teeth) I hate everyone in that segment. I don't think Discovery has anything worth anything anymore, other than Mythbusters and I don't have high hopes for that next season now that they got rid of the B-Team, which reeks of producer induced fuckery.
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Ariza posted:God, I can't stand regular news anymore. Other than the expert (and his wonderful teeth) I hate everyone in that segment. I don't think Discovery has anything worth anything anymore, other than Mythbusters and I don't have high hopes for that next season now that they got rid of the B-Team, which reeks of producer induced fuckery. Uhhh the build team was basically producer induced fuckery. They wanted younger seeming, more energetic people who do stupid things like electrocute Adam as a "prank". Cue years of Tory doing jackass-esque stunts. The new Mythbusters, from what I've seen so far, is a return to form if anything. That being said, I wouldn't be shocked to find out if this were the last season.
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ToastyPotato posted:That being said, I wouldn't be shocked to find out if this were the last season. They signed a seven-year contract in 2010, so we've got another three years to go.
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They should do a special throwback season where they mythbust everything they ever did on MacGuyver.
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Ariza posted:...the B-Team, which reeks of producer induced fuckery.
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For Mythbusters, I think it was also to pump out more episodes. Adam and Jamie doing all the work and presenting all the myths was great, but if it takes them two weeks to do one myth that is half an episode, that's a bad pace. If they don't need to do anything on the other myths in an episode, much better.
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