Clueless, Overburdened, Muddy Trio

[Billie Bonce]

I guess they had to make it look like the Romans

Yes!!!! I vote for women that dressed like the Roman slave girls

[nachtjaeger]

I think a Roman Legion on the march could have built a log causeway across the mud, and rafts to cross the water, in less time than it took to film this nonsense.

Roman engineers would have had no problem building a road and/or bridge at that location.

[Nessie]

You may incriminate me in sexism again, but I absolutely can't understand the idea (other than damsel-in-distress fetish) when 3 unprepared women are sent to a hard, dirty, and somewhat dangerous job, while more than 3 men are doing nothing but explaining how difficult is the situation in which the women are.

I was surprised too, but for a different reason.

I know of very few men (outside this forum, that is...inside this forum, they all think only women should be in!) who would willingly stand by and watch women exhaust themselves doing this. Men are generally very fast to insist that men be the ones to do hard physical stuff.

It probably didn't matter much in this case. I don't think anybody knew their mudpits anyway. Those guys woulda got stuck too.

On the other hand, maybe there was a method to the madness. Being heavier and denser, with bigger feet (meaning, bigger footwear), the guys woulda got much more stuck than the girls ever could. Therefore, men were more useful on dry land. Their arm muscles were needed to pull out the smaller, lighter women.

If the situation was reversed, the guys in the mud would have been goners when the tide came in!

Then again...I know all that...but would they?

Nessie

[Boggy Man]

I wonder if snowshoes would have worked?

[Mike Nomic]

You may incriminate me in sexism again, but I absolutely can't understand the idea (other than damsel-in-distress fetish) when 3 unprepared women are sent to a hard, dirty, and somewhat dangerous job, while more than 3 men are doing nothing but explaining how difficult is the situation in which the women are.

I was surprised too, but for a different reason.

I know of very few men (outside this forum, that is...inside this forum, they all think only women should be in!) who would willingly stand by and watch women exhaust themselves doing this. Men are generally very fast to insist that men be the ones to do hard physical stuff.

It probably didn't matter much in this case. I don't think anybody knew their mudpits anyway. Those guys woulda got stuck too.

On the other hand, maybe there was a method to the madness. Being heavier and denser, with bigger feet (meaning, bigger footwear), the guys woulda got much more stuck than the girls ever could. Therefore, men were more useful on dry land. Their arm muscles were needed to pull out the smaller, lighter women.

If the situation was reversed, the guys in the mud would have been goners when the tide came in!

Then again...I know all that...but would they?

Nessie

Who goes on stage and plays music - the band or the roadies?

Who goes to the dig site - the archaeologists or the grunts?

I'm going to have to try and find the video of the entire programme (I'm sure I've got it here somewhere) and watch it again. I'm sure they weren't prepared for the extent of the difficulties they encountered with the mud, and the boats, etc were a firefighting afterthought.

Mike.

[Mike Nomic]

I wonder if snowshoes would have worked?

I very much doubt it. The upper 'layers' of the mud are almost liquid - at one point in the clip you can see a large dollop of mud that's been disturbed sliding away over the surface of the mud. Also remember that this is an estuary, and fresh copious supplies of mud are deposited twice a day.

When they built the Second Severn Crossing locally, they constructed a small dock to house the barges, etc that were used for getting the caissons out to their mid-river sites. In the space of a few weeks this dock filled with mud to a depth of about twelve feet, and thereafter a huge amount of time and machinery was devoted to removing it on an almost daily basis.

Mike.

[Billie Bonce]

I wonder if snowshoes would have worked?

I have seen a video on YouTube where a man used snowshoes for such purpose very effectively. But what have worked good in one place (i.e. one type of mud) may not work in another place. I guess, nobody tried that.

I was surprised too, but for a different reason.

I know of very few men (outside this forum, that is...inside this forum, they all think only women should be in!) who would willingly stand by and watch women exhaust themselves doing this. Men are generally very fast to insist that men be the ones to do hard physical stuff.

Different? I suppose it's the very same reason. The only reasonable explanation for me is that such behavior was the intended part of the show.

[Lady Of Mud]

Not sure if anyone has seen this yet but I found it on a small search around youtube ^_^

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMaKdlXz ... re=related

L.O.M.

[Aiko]

Ah, yes. We already had that one:
http://www.quicksandfans.com/bb/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=1981

But it was fun to watch it again anyway.

[Boggy Man]

Not sure if anyone has seen this yet but I found it on a small search around youtube ^_^

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMaKdlXz ... re=related

L.O.M.

That is the video clip that this thread is about, posted on Page 1 of this thread.