SAS are you tough enough

[GARRYOWEN]

Give her the sack.

[mercury]

At least he knew that he should use it , that other guy who walked in circles cos his gps was U/S should have taken at least one thing away from endurance

[Mince]

Respect for Stone does seem to wane once you see him appearing on anything they can lend the SAS name to. Not holding back, is he? His mugshot will be on lollipops next or the new face of Pepsi: Eddie Stone lives life to the max! Waddle waddle. It was also ridiculous they way they had him or the other celebrity instructors turn up in special ways i.e. cruising in on a chopper with his ray bans, or like that Barry Davies idiot, on a quad bike.
He might well be able to rip a man's throat out but he's still a bit of a sell-out. Some might say after all his hard work he's earned the right to cash in on it but it does come across as a bit undignified.

[mercury]

At the end of the day he's still ex forces and has to make ends meet

If anyone wants to make "RAF are you limp wristed enough" or similar give me a call

[Mince]

Ha ha yeah that's true. It must be pretty shi*e being in something like that for years then coming out to a much slower-paced lifestyle. From that point of view he's struck gold getting to re-live it on his own TV show. Anyway, I don't suppose dignity counts for f*ck all when you're strapped to a chair with an iraqi belting your 'manhood' for all he's worth. After all, operational effectiveness is the important thing, I would have thought, and huffing and puffing about the desert for the cameras ain't really gonna affect that for the rest of them.

[got1]

Mince,
I know who I would rather have beside me in an ambush in the desert. How operationally effective do you think the patrol would be with someone who is terrified of spiders. There are some really big ugly barstewards who have some bite and nasty after effects in the desert.

[Mince]

Ha ha yeah I know, that's all the enemy would have to do; chuck a tarantula instead of grenade and I'd spray my shorts! Oh Eddie save me!
I don't watch the show I only saw part of the first episode, decided it was a shower of the proverbial and continued a productive evening of doing bugger all elsewhere.

[Maverick00]

In a way its probably not an easy thing for Eddie to do. What I mean is he has to watch these people do what people perceive to be what the SAS endure in their line of work, but in reality what they are doing is probably only a fraction of what being in the SAS entails. i am merely speculating, but no civilian - no matter how fit - could do a show like that and claim to be 'tough enough' for the SAS.
I say good luck to Eddie for putting up with all the media bull**** surrounding the show and making some cash. If I even have a smidgen of understanding of what he's seen and done i sympathise with the bloke with putting up with what in his eyes must look like a bunch of undisciplined civvies with poor attitudes.

[Mince]

Yeah, well I suppose there is that. It's not like I've got a personal hate campaign against the man, I just think the show's getting a bit cynical i.e. stick a winged dagger on it and we'll make millions. I quite enjoyed the first one...

[andy_s]

at the end of the day he's just trying to earn a crust doing something he knows alot about, the real evil on tv is that jamie oliver..............

[Mince]

Yeah, I hate all that trendy shaky-cam crap. It's always olive oil and herbs. Gary Rhodes is much better. Or Gordon Ramsay, tearing the arse out of his underlings.

[freestyler_onli]

Eddie, John Mac and Barry have all done about.....oooh 5 different series of programmes together. In one i think he said that if you say things/reveal certain stuff about the SAS that you are banned from entering the barracks at Hereford-is that true?

One of my fave bits was on the last episode of SAS Survival Secrets-it was about the selection process. It was the bit where the candidates had to survive over Dartmoor i think-they had to get to the end point whilst being chased by a hunter group (dont ask me-i dunno what im on about). One fella thought he'd made it-as he saw the DS standing there-then as he emerged from the trees he got jumped and then his interrogation began!

[Ploggers]

It was the bit where the candidates had to survive over Dartmoor i think-they had to get to the end point whilst being chased by a hunter group

It's not hard to outrun a load of blokes with knackered knees and ankles!

[freestyler_onli]

Lol- i just pictured the scene-they thought theyd made it clear and the started to feel a little better-then it dawns on them its a trap and they realise whats about to happen.

[Mince]

A friend of mine's dad had to go through interrogation for some reason. He said they built a huge bonfire in a field at night, stripped them off, then started dunking them in the ice cold river and warming them by the fire alternately. He said it was really effective!