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sdr: I haven't seen it. However, my 11 year old son now has me addicted to the "World's Deadliest Warrior" show. They pit various foes against each other, like knights versus pirates, or the IRA versus the Taliban (no, seriously).

They show all the various weapons used and then plot out who the winner is by testing the weapons on dead pigs, bodies/torsos made of bone and gelatin and even appliances (again, really).

The show is fascinating (even if you don't always agree with the the outcome).

I'll check out the linebackers wrecking the Cessna. Sounds fun.

I'm a fan of 1000 Ways to Die. All true stories. Who knew there was so much creativity in folks finding bizarre ways to put themselves in harm's way?

I especially liked the guy who was in the hospital suffering from 3rd degree burns over his entire body because he fell asleep while smoking a lit cigarette. He's covered in gauze and in a wheelchair and bribes a nurse to let him go out back for 5 minutes to smoke a cigarette. Of course, he lights up, ashes fall on his gauze, which is soaked in highly flammable ointments, and he catches on fire. As he's flailing about, his wheelchair starts to roll down a ramp and eventually the fire ignites the oxygen tank attached to the back of his wheelchair and he blows up. Good stuff.

Allan
I have seen deadliest warrior's and it doesnt hold a candle to watching the Pumphrey Brothers destroy things. It's on a channel called G-4 which I had never heard of before I found these guys in a bought of late nite channel surfing. You could probably find them on You tube also.

sdr: I played middle linebacker, so I'll be sure to watch. We get G4 (I constantly catch my 11 year old son watching it late, when you have little hotties in thongs cavorting about), so I'll Tivo it.

Speaking of linebackers and running into things with your head: One of our outside linebackers used to impress girls by running headfirst into Coke machines full tilt and then pulling cans of soda out of the broken machine to give to the girls. He got a little drunker than usual and took a bad line on the machine one time. Spent three weeks in the hospital in traction for a badly sprained (nearly broken) neck and dislocated collarbone. That was the end of that particular stunt. He never gave up "sacking" mailboxes, though.

These guys will be right up your alley. The sibling rivalry is great and they are funny too. Each episode they have contest and the winner or loser gets to do something fun or the loser something stupid. Winners have gotten to throw TV's out the window. Losers have had to run through walls with metal studs or jumps off a 15 ft roof to try to snap the wings off the cessna.

Mindless fun..............

Allan,

I watched it and I call BS on that Canadian guy and I did not like the Knights v. Pirates. I come from a long line of Templar Knights. Also, I did not think the one with the Apache winning was accurate. I think I have too much time on my hands to watch the show.

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Aecetia: I agree! That knight would have eviscerated the pirate with that halberd! And don't get me started on the green berets versus the Soviet spetsnaz. I don't recall the Apache show, but I'm sure my son will know.

BTW, Teutonic Knights kick ass on Templar Knights! Except for maybe the Hospitalers.

HRB is actually a pretty entertaining show. Couple comments about it:

1. It's crazy that when doing all these stunts they don't wear any kind of face/eye protection at all. There was one episode where one of the guys breaks a sliding glass door/window by jumping through it headfirst. Those guys are nuts!

2. G4TV is a pretty low budget station. I'm wondering how they can afford to let the Pumphreys break all that stuff. Granted it looks like most of the buildings they destroy are teardowns anyways but still it's gotta cost a lot of money to make that show. Maybe G4 isn't paying the bill for it. Hope they make a season 2.

3. The nurse is pretty hot. They should show more of her :).

So I'm not the only one! and yes the nurse is a cutie.

Ok, found the trailer for the show on Youtube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJtYrS9G_0Q

This one's better

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vREPW_lji...

Hey Allan,

Maybe they should do Charlemagne v. Eric the Red.

Aecetia: Or Erik the Red versus Salah ah Din (Saladin).

Or Erik the Red versus one of the Great Khans.

Or Erik the Red versus Tamerlane.

Or James Carville versus Heinrich Himmler (sorry, I'm hating on Dems today).

@#$% is proof that aliens from outer space screwed humans and animals in the Bayou. He must have some real weird DNA,

I watch this show called "I shouldn't be Alive" and it is Gnarly. It has "re-enactments" of true stories and computer graphics of what's going on inside their dying bodies.
There's one episode where five people capsize their sailboat in the Atlantic and are stuck on a rubber dinghy for four days in the hot sun with no food and water.
Two of the guys drink sea water, then go crazy and jump off the dinghy and start swimming. They both get eaten by sharks, one of them gets eaten in a feeding frenzy of sharks right under the dinghy while the others hang on, trying not to get bumped off by the frenzied sharks.

One of the girls cuts her leg and then the wound festers in the urine soaked boat and she finally dies and has to be tossed overboard. The two remaining survivors who are almost dead get picked up by a Russian fishing boat and one goes on to become a motivational speaker. Awesome!

multiple thumbs up on the WORDLS DEADLIEST WARRIORS. all 3 of my kids are fixated on it. it has a kind of odd tone to it, like you expect the "experts to just throw down and start hacking away at each other -- or maybe you'd just kinda like them to stop tlaking smack and just throw down. but it is hugely entertaining and quasi-educational, sort of.

Something to look forward....Human Wrecking Balls-Season 2! Starts Wednesday at 8 pm on G4

Haven't seen the show on the Spetnazs but after seeing some Spetnazs officers in afghanistan (film... that is I am not in the armed forces) I about pee'd my self laughing... Man... they had some "rotund" guys...

For pure voyer pleasure I watch Special Operations Missions with Will Willis (Militray Channel)... One ex operator taking on a small size force of guys to achieve a mission... All done with simunitions and cameras installed on the guns... Many of the opponets are ex Rangers, SEALs and the like. Great Fun!

CE

We are living "Idiocracy" to be sure. When I was a kid we watched The Carol Burnett Show, Good Times, All In The Family, etc... There was no cursing, very little violence, and for sex people were satisfied with saucy double entendres (remember Match Game?) that went straight over the kids heads. We children of the late 60s/early 70s also loved reruns of the older shows like The Brady Bunch and The Andy Griffith Show, even though they were from an earlier time and seemed a little square. Now we all get our jollies watching people smash things or shoot and torture one another on "24". Truly amazing. I doubt a 10 year old today could make it through 2 minutes of Andy Griffith before reaching for the XBox controller or switching the TV to some military re-enactment on the history channel. Though these shows are heavy on talk and details, they never show you what bodies look like after they've been blown apart. Of course that would be in bad taste.

It's only a matter of time before the number one TV show in the US will be "Ow My Balls!"

CONCHO: I've said it before, "Idiocracy" should be required viewing for all American school kids, middle school aged and higher, and their parents.

Of course, I'm also being a total hypocrite, since I happen to love "South Park", "Family Guy" and the rest of the raunch-fest type shows, right along with my 11yo son.

This is a society that used to aspire to the Highest Common Factor and now we pander to the Lowest Common Denominator.

"Idiocracy" may be the scariest movie I've ever seen. We are headed there quickly and sometimes I think we've already arrived. Come to think of it our president reminds me a bit of Not Sure. I think the studio had to can that film because it was lampooning their core demographic.

"South Park" isn't even in the same league as most things on TV, it's actually very clever and thought-provoking. I guess not everything these days is bad. SP last week was great where they redefined the word "fag" to mean an obnoxious inconsiderate person riding a loud motorcycle.

I had to comment on that South Park episode. The guys that write for SP are spot on. My wife and I have always said that the guys with really loud motercycles just want attention. We happened to be switching past SP and saw that episode. We just about fell over laughing. The problem is now when we see harley riders going down the street we start the "RMMMM RMMMMM RMMMMing". Better than yelling out the window what the kids were calling them.

I love those old shows! Also a kid from the late 60s/early 70s.

It's sad that our kids don't have the same kind of quality programming we grew up with.

They do and its called Netflix. You can rent any of your old favorites and watch them with your kids. I do it all the time and they love them. We just watched "Its a Mad, Mad, Mad World" on Saturday which is still one of the funniest movies ever made.

If you like wanton destruction, nothing compares to a live Battlebots event.

Nothing.

"I shouldn't be alive" is an excellent show but it's just too heavy for me. Keeps me up at night.

I never actually caught an episode of the destrutive brothers, but I remember seeing a trailer for it. It sounds pretty funny.