I don't understand how people can go on Fear Factor

[Stabwound]

I was watching an old Fear Factor rerun yesterday and I have no idea how anyone can possibly do the eating competetions. The people had a bowl of blended maggots (half were still alive and moving) and a big plastic shake cup full of live flies with a big plastic straw in it. Then had to suck up the blended maggots and spit them into the straw/cup until it was full, then they had to shake it up and drink the entire mix of blended maggots and live flies. Several people managed to do it.

How in the name of god are people able to do this? I wouldn't even voluntarily TOUCH a maggot let alone drink a shake of blended ones.

I also don't understand how people don't get sick from some of the crap they eat. Egg nog made of 100 year old eggs and stuff.

Would anyone here be willing to go on Fear Factor and eat some of the shit they have to eat?

[Ewan]

Do they win money/naked girls ?

[NaiLed]

oh stop being such a sissy. maybe i'm just saying that because i'm used to handling maggots when i go fishing.

having said that, the eating tasks are the only ones i probably couldn't do. the other tasks seem pretty straightforward and sometimes even fun

[Stabwound]

I guess I should have explained for people outside of North America.

It's a gameshow where you do 3 "stunts" while competing against 5 others for a chance to win $50,000 USD. There is usually 1 "easier" physical contest, then the disgusting mental contest (usually eating something absolutely disgusting or laying/diving/being covered by something disgusting) and the last 2 contestants do the last stunt which is usually something like being in a cage and having to be the longest person to stay underwater without coming up or some kind of a rediculous race like running across a small 'bridge' suspended by 2 helicopters above water while you have to grab flags and bring them back and forth.

[dchao]

"When did reality, become TV?" - Bowling for Soup

[Exotic]

bowling for soup sucks

[PH]

It's a well-known fact that people will do stupid shit for money. This includes risking their lives and humiliating themselves on national television. I love the human race.

[Ewan]

Ok, firstly, fear factor is on in many other countries than the USA, there's a British version and I think European versions too.

Secondly, they don't risk their lives, there's loads and loads of safety precautions or they wouldn't be allowed to produce/show it.

Thirdly, fuck yeah I would do that shit for $50,000 (around £30,000).

[Stabwound]

You would drink a maggot/fly shake? Note that you have to actually eat/drink it.

[Ilya]

if i didn't have anything else to do, i would definitely go on it, even if there was no potential of a cash prize

ITS THE FUCKING TV, MAN!

[Ilya]

You would drink a maggot/fly shake? Note that you have to actually eat/drink it.

i would eat a person for 200 grand if (s)he was cooked.. $1 million if s(he) wasn't

[PH]

Maybe not on Fear Factor, Ewan, but I've heard of many people who have done stupid stunts (not even televised ones) on the promise of a cash prize. Needless to say a dead person can't collect a cash prize.

[Troll King]

Say what you want about reality TV but Fear Factor has got to have the more attractive contestants..

[Facetious]

yeah, thats what i was going to say. the girls on fear factor are ridiculously attractive, if nothing else. i hate watching the show, but i always instinctively stop on it because there's t and a all over the place. as far as doing the stuff is concerned, i could do the eating stuff no sweat, as long as it was the ground-up insect-type stuff. i have a really weird repulsion to rotten dairy, so as long as it wasnt that, i could do it. i couldnt do the swimming stuff really, though, not because im scared but because i really suck ass at swimming. other than that i think i could win.

[AcidBomber]

Hey, remember this, EVEN IF you managed to eat some shit in Fear Factor, doesnt mean you get the $50k USD automatically... other ppl can have a faster time than you <_<