Does anyone else watch survivor? My wife and I used to watch it but after about 12 seasons of the same thing it got boring. Started watching this season last week. So anyone vaguely familar with the show knows they take these guys and gals and dumps them somewhere remote. They have to make their own shelters, they have to start their own fires.

If I was going to be on this show, I would be fine. I'm guessing most of the people on this forum would be fine. But if i was city born and raised and never stepped foot off the asphault and was going to be on a show like this i might try to prepare myself. Say go camping for a weekend. Maybe pick up and idiot's guide to backwoods survival.

Learn how to make a temporary shelter, and start a fire. Atleast these two things please.

So as the game progresses they have competitions and the winner usually gets a prize. Say food, or blankets, fishing gear, etc. The first tribe to win got a magnesium firestarter. Camping 101. They still couldn't start a fire. As they ignored it, I guess they didn't realize the block of shiney metal stuff the flint was buried in was flamable, b/c they totally ignored it. Then the guy takes the machete they were given and starts chopping at the flint at a 45 degree angle like he was sharpening a stake. he ended up chopping and destroying half the flint, and still didn't get a fire started.

pathetic.