"the colony" show on discovery channel ?

[FarmerChick]

You sound like SurvivorMan.....Lee sure puts himself in some pickles to survive...those are good shows.

Although this type of situation is extreme and I have trained in some adverse situations, I have never had to survive in such conditions. A safe house where were staying once did get compromised, but we escaped without detection and waited in a unsecured location for orders to find a new safe house where we could continue to gather intel and not contact the enemy.

IE: A training scenario, live

We were to do an extraction, where we we caught by the enemy but not captured. The enemy, a drug cartel had taken a high profile business man as a prisoner and was holding him for ransom. We set camp just a click away and went to meet with them everyday to work out a solution. On the second day, the man who said he was in charge wanted us to kill a pig he had. As I talked with the other men in my team, I didn't want to kill the pig for them to eat, they could have done that for themselves. I felt something odd about killing the pig, him wanting us to do it.

The next day, during a meeting another cartel member showed up. We learned that he was the leader and the pig the so called leader wanted us to kill was the leaders pet. If we had killed the pig, when the leader returned we would have been killed. After six days of meetings and hours upon hours of being unsecured, we traded the cartel a 40k speed boat for the business man. After they took the speed boat, we got our target, they were ambushed by another unit and the speed boat was taken back. The driver of the boat was killed by a sniper who was part of the ambush team.

Rangers are trained for many situations, I would also bring forward other skills that I learned as a civilian. But I think I would be a good team member in one of these shows, attitude and all. However, I also would be the one to split the team if some one else was as strong headed as myself, so maybe not.

WOW now that is not a life adventure I was expecting to hear back from you...COOL----you certainly have done alot more in your life than I had expected to hear.

so yes, this type of show would be up your alley, actually, probably more of a challenge. You sound like challenge is very important to you....that is a great thing. Challenge thru life makes it --a life worth living!!!

 

[nightshade]

In a group like on 'the colony' any average people thrown in would be pushed aside because of having no 'special talents', except maybe some muscle, cleaning up, etc. In real life, not everyone woud be able to count on having a doctor in the house.

You would simply not find me in a city.

I totally argee, I thought the show would have more substance to it I guess. But it is terribly easy to see though things like the magical goats to anyone that has ever been around a real goat and knows what it needs to survive. And the cast of perfect professions is just over the top for me. In a real situation you would consitter yourself lucky to have someone with well trained first aid in the area, an ER DR would be unthinkable to most .

 

[FarmerDenise]

I just started watching the show and SO and I really like it. Yes some things are just a little too coincidental, like finding the goat with a kid and have an inverter and all those batteries. And yes also the type of people they have.
But if you consider your immediate neighbors, what skills do they have. There might well be a nurse or other medical professional, an engineer type, a computer wizzard, a contractor etc.

If I think about my neighbors I have this scenario: myself, I know how to cook food from nothing, because I've had nothing. I know how to scrounge, I have a lot of medicinal herbal knowledge, learned from my family and books and experience, I have a knack for figuring out how to make stuff out of what is available. Those are just a few of the things I can think of at the moment. SO know how to weld and is a superb gardener. He knows a lot of the same stuff I do, but has a different mindset as to how to accomplish things. He also knows masonry and concrete work and construction work. When we work together, there is little we cannot do.
Our next door neighbors, Mr B worked for the railroad and was a haute carrier. He raised his family frugally and often had to make do. He has a wicked mind that figures out how to make stuff work. He has perfomed surgery on his kids pets and the critters lived and used to have a windmill in his yard to pump the well water and he is always making something out of nothing. His son-in-law is an automechanic. His daughter was in the armed services. She is very capable of making all kinds of stuff. She replaced the front of his truck when he got hit in an intersection by a driver running a red light. She had to weld the parts together in the rain. She is another unique thinker and looks at an old non working dryer and says "hay storage for the goats hay. Rats cannot get into it." Neighbor's DS may be mentally hadicapped, but he is an idiot savant with electronics.
The guy across the street is a police officer. The guy next door was a cobbler. One of the ladies on the other side from us does upholstery, the other one is a pain in the a$$, but she does know a thing or two. One neighbor lady in the back is a nurse.

I live in a city. We have an acre of land that we grow our food on and enough to sell. One of our neighbors had 1 1/2 acres and it is loaded with recyclables. Other neighbors have 1/4 acre lots or smaller. There is a 13 acre lot across the street.
Cities are not just concrete jungles. Remember the backyard chicken thing is really about people having chickens in the suburbs or in city backyards. I have lived in more dense city situations and there has always been a yard or balcony. There are parks and green strips of weeds if not maintained land. You could easily feed a goat in the middle of San Francisco, or in the Bronx of New York City.

So some of this is not really all that far fetched. And I am enjoying the show for what it is. More of an experiment of how people might react in a survival type of situation. I do think it would be harder to survive in a city than in the country. But mostly if you already live in the country and have things sort of set up.
I also enjoy watching how they make do and make some of the stuff. So I can also consider it educational.

 

[Wifezilla]

I keep missing the original airings but I am catching reruns here and there. It is an experiment, but a very interesting one.

 

[FarmerDenise]

I like that it is more of an experiment, nobody is going to get voted off the island on this show, yet
It does seem to be more a study of how people react to certain circumstances in a stressfull, possibly life or death situation.