SAS: Who Dares Wins

[Caddyshack]

Fundoreen said:

This has been a bit dull. Maybe the format is losing its shine.
I think it will help with selection as only people that are good a lumping stuff around in all weathers being yelled at will apply.
All the walter mitty types will think again and just go painballing a couple of times to get it out of their system.

The majority of people doing real SAS selection come from the Paras or Royal Marines so they are no strangers to hard outside life and will be mega fit.

You can’t just rock up at selection from your bank job, you have to be sent in from a military unit.

That said, many do fail the first day, as soon as they do the fan dance.

[Ayahuasca]

The barrels don’t look 40kg. 40 pounds maybe.

[p4cks]

Fundoreen said:

This has been a bit dull. Maybe the format is losing its shine.
I think it will help with selection as only people that are good a lumping stuff around in all weathers being yelled at will apply.
All the walter mitty types will think again and just go painballing a couple of times to get it out of their system.

Yeah I was thinking the same; it needs to be more like 'Bad Lads Army' from back in the day (episodes on YT, great watch!)

[Scabutz]

I think part of the problem is they are trying to cram too much in. Early series an episode would cover one task, maybe two plus interviews . This season is 2 or 3 things per episode, lots of DS talking. It's a bit all over the place.

Also none of the contestants seem that interesting. They are all pretty beige.

[p4cks]

I'm also sick of the sob stories and those with a personal quest to prove everyone (themselves) wrong

[mcelliott]

Ayahuasca said:

The barrels don’t look 40kg. 40 pounds maybe.

no way a slightly built female would lift one of those above the head and hold it.

[V8mate]

mcelliott said:

Ayahuasca said:

The barrels don’t look 40kg. 40 pounds maybe.

no way a slightly built female would lift one of those above the head and hold it.

They will definitely have been 'graded'; else why would they be individually numbered?

[Ayahuasca]

HTP99 said:

Digga said:

Lordbenny said:

When is Ant Middleton going to learn how to swear properly?

I find it almost impossible to watch now as his incessant f’ing drives me up the wall. He uses the word in the wrong place....such as ‘f’ing go and get your packs’ rather than ‘go and get your f’ing packs’.

And I’m sure if this was a real SAS training camp the ‘C bomb’ would be dropped on a regular basis!

It is lamentable and, if I may say so, unimaginative.

Anyone can fire out a few fks, but it takes real skill and profane dexterity to weave a "piss funnel" or "cock socket" into proceedings.

I find his swearing very cringy, forced and fake; much like when my youngest swears, I just roll my eyes as even at the age of 20, it still sounds as though she's doing it to show off!

When I was in the infantry (a long time ago) every other word was fk or fking. First time home on leave I said to my dad, ‘Would you pass me the fking Christmas tree lights please?’ In just normal conversation.

[Digga]

Ayahuasca said:

HTP99 said:

Digga said:

Lordbenny said:

When is Ant Middleton going to learn how to swear properly?

I find it almost impossible to watch now as his incessant f’ing drives me up the wall. He uses the word in the wrong place....such as ‘f’ing go and get your packs’ rather than ‘go and get your f’ing packs’.

And I’m sure if this was a real SAS training camp the ‘C bomb’ would be dropped on a regular basis!

It is lamentable and, if I may say so, unimaginative.

Anyone can fire out a few fks, but it takes real skill and profane dexterity to weave a "piss funnel" or "cock socket" into proceedings.

I find his swearing very cringy, forced and fake; much like when my youngest swears, I just roll my eyes as even at the age of 20, it still sounds as though she's doing it to show off!

When I was in the infantry (a long time ago) every other word was fk or fking. First time home on leave I said to my dad, ‘Would you pass me the fking Christmas tree lights please?’ In just normal conversation.

Yes, but using the previously quoted examples, Middleton would have said "fking pass me the Christmas tree lights".

[Halb]

Is that grammatically correct?

[LeighW]

mcelliott said:

Ayahuasca said:

The barrels don’t look 40kg. 40 pounds maybe.

no way a slightly built female would lift one of those above the head and hold it.

Funnily enough, we were talking about this at the gym last night. A few of us tried holding a 20kg olympic bar with two 10kg discs on above our heads for only a minute, and there's just no way that a slightly built person would manage it with a much more awkward to hold/control barrel for two minutes.

[V8mate]

LeighW said:

mcelliott said:

Ayahuasca said:

The barrels don’t look 40kg. 40 pounds maybe.

no way a slightly built female would lift one of those above the head and hold it.

Funnily enough, we were talking about this at the gym last night. A few of us tried holding a 20kg olympic bar with two 10kg discs on above our heads for only a minute, and there's just no way that a slightly built person would manage it with a much more awkward to hold/control barrel for two minutes.

The worst of it, is that barrel itself is probably less than 20kg. The balance is made up of water - you can hear it sloshing about inside - which must make getting the weight stable a nightmare.

[Halb]

V8mate said:

Ha! I've often been referred to as a polar bear.

The only thing that has diminished with age is poor circulation to my finger tips, so they get so, so cold, very quickly now. Gloves are useless; mittens preferable so that my fingers can snuggle up together

You should simply do what we civilised sorts do and stick them into ones grundies.

[pidsy]

Foxy is doing a tour in November - talking about his life in the service and explaining the behind the scenes stuff from the show. Tickets on sale Friday morning.

I hope it’s more interesting then Ants your was.

[WilliamWoollard]

V8mate said:

LeighW said:

mcelliott said:

Ayahuasca said:

The barrels don’t look 40kg. 40 pounds maybe.

no way a slightly built female would lift one of those above the head and hold it.

Funnily enough, we were talking about this at the gym last night. A few of us tried holding a 20kg olympic bar with two 10kg discs on above our heads for only a minute, and there's just no way that a slightly built person would manage it with a much more awkward to hold/control barrel for two minutes.

The worst of it, is that barrel itself is probably less than 20kg. The balance is made up of water - you can hear it sloshing about inside - which must make getting the weight stable a nightmare.

I'm sure I heard the words "up to 40kg" used when they first held up the barrel. They must be weighted to the individual, why else would they be numbered?

[pingu393]

pidsy said:

Foxy is doing a tour in November - talking about his life in the service and explaining the behind the scenes stuff from the show. Tickets on sale Friday morning.

I hope it’s more interesting then Ants your was.

He's on a programme about the Narcos in S. America. It's very good. Last night, he was talking to Pablo Escobar's enforcer. It was like watching two former enemy Battle of Britain veterans talking about their dogfights. Both acknowledged they had regrets, but just did what they had to do for the jobs they had chosen.

[Ayahuasca]

Shame the drag queen is out. As it were.

I thought he would do well, with his father being SAS, but he seemed to carry more than his fair share of the weight of the log and it did him in. A bit unfair, but them’s the breaks.

[mcelliott]

pingu393 said:

He's on a programme about the Narcos in S. America. It's very good. Last night, he was talking to Pablo Escobar's enforcer. It was like watching two former enemy Battle of Britain veterans talking about their dogfights. Both acknowledged they had regrets, but just did what they had to do for the jobs they had chosen.

Went to see foxy in Jersey a couple of years ago, it was ok nothing more, defo wouldn't bother seeing ant.

[LeighW]

mcelliott said:

pingu393 said:

He's on a programme about the Narcos in S. America. It's very good. Last night, he was talking to Pablo Escobar's enforcer. It was like watching two former enemy Battle of Britain veterans talking about their dogfights. Both acknowledged they had regrets, but just did what they had to do for the jobs they had chosen.

Went to see foxy in Jersey a couple of years ago, it was ok nothing more, defo wouldn't bother seeing ant.

My missus has read all of their books, she reckons Ant's latest book 'the Fear Bubble' is better than his first. To me, Ant comes across as a grade A bell end.

[mcelliott]

LeighW said:

My missus has read all of their books, she reckons Ant's latest book 'the Fear Bubble' is better than his first. To me, Ant comes across as a grade A bell end.

Watched his climb up Everest couple years back, getting stroppy with his sherpa, horrible man.