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I_AM_HE 6123 desperate attention whore postings
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02-09-05, 08:55 PM (EST)
 
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10. "RE: Giving Up - New Reality Trend?" |
LAST EDITED ON 02-09-05 AT 09:00 PM (EST)Osten - 7.6 (and every episode prior to learn what a wuss he was)
Jenna - 8.3
Sue - 8.6
marshall and lance were TAR 5.6, i think, but noone wrote that summary (I had 5.7, the week after) perhaps we should just not have episodes numbered 6, like hotels have no 13th floor... ETA - I think Osten may actuall be 7.7a, now that I think about it, but that partially rules out the evil 6 idea, so we'll pretend i'm still right  . yep, just checked and osten is indeed 7.7a, Jims' great 'Outwit, outplay, outcast' summary
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Seana 5044 desperate attention whore postings
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02-10-05, 10:58 AM (EST)
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14. "RE: Giving Up - New Reality Trend?" |
Thank you I_AM_HE! I'll be sure to give these a read when I have a moment.
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KObrien_fan 8360 desperate attention whore postings
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02-10-05, 12:44 PM (EST)
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18. "RE: Giving Up - New Reality Trend?" |
I, for one, don't mind it. It makes the shows more interesting and considering the stakes, it takes a lot of courage to quit. There seems to be a particular ethic in our society that quitting is always wrong, that it shows weakness or a lack of character. Many people find out in particular situations they are in that it was the wrong choice. Why should they have to stay?I disagree. It does not take a lot of courage to quit, it takes a lot of courage to persevere when the going gets tough. They all (reality contestants) knew the stakes going in. There is a definate start and stop to each race/game, so it isn't as though sticking it out and extra hour/day/week or whatever until you are eliminated will make things better by quitting instead of completing what you set out to do. Take Lena and Kristy for example from this years TAR. They got stuck in a haybale roadblock that either one of them could have quit during, but they both stuck it out and yes they were eliminated, but at least they didn't quit. Hayden and Aaron had been such a successful team. Why quit if you have maybe 10 minutes left to find the right lock? It's not like they would have had to stay up on the mountain for the entire night. Why quit at that point when they had come so far, what did they gain by quitting? It is one thing to quit your job in order to make a better life for yourself, or to give up trying to work things out with an abusive spouse, those kinds of things take courage. It is quite another to get on a reality show that lasts 39 days or whatever, and then quit part way in. 
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daddy brian 39 desperate attention whore postings
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02-09-05, 05:32 PM (EST)
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7. "RE: Giving Up - New Reality Trend?" |
I think if a contestant quits they should be given no money at all. It is a bad trend.
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MsShel330 695 desperate attention whore postings
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02-09-05, 08:20 PM (EST)
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8. "RE: Giving Up - New Reality Trend?" |
I started to play the TAR drinking game last night. Thank God that I didn't. I would have been unconscious halfway through the night.
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mikey 1150 desperate attention whore postings
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02-10-05, 01:35 PM (EST)
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21. "Aaron explains" |
LAST EDITED ON 02-10-05 AT 01:36 PM (EST)Here'san article with Aaron's explanation (although the person who wrote it had F/K mixed up with A/R:
http://www.themorningsun.com/stories/021005/loc_crumbaugh001.shtml
Crumbaugh said the Tuesday finale made it look like he and Hayden gave up. Not so.
Their team and the team of Freddy Holliday and Kendra Bentley, the eventual winners, were atop a mountain in China. The challenge had the women try to find a key to open a lock. There seemed to be 50 keys and 50 locks. But after nearly five hours and bloody, bruised hands, no key was found. Crumbaugh said that's when the producer gave the two teams identical options. Stay on the mountain and start again in the morning or take a clue and get a four-hour penalty. "We had traveled 17 to 20 hours on a train across China and camped out in the cold,“ Crumbaugh said. Their cab driver got lost and set them back two hours. Hayden had been working the locks five hours when Crumbaugh and she decided to take the clue. He told Hayden, "we'll have a race to the end and take the penalty.“ But just as he said that the other team member found the right key. "Our hearts sank,“ Crumbaugh said. "It literally came down to seconds to losing a million dollars.“
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okaychatt 2810 desperate attention whore postings
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02-10-05, 01:05 PM (EST)
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20. "RE: Giving Up - New Reality Trend?" |
LAST EDITED ON 02-10-05 AT 01:05 PM (EST)<stigma of a quitter Yep. The race is partially about persistence. Hayden had a bad day and threw a temper tantrum. Then she quit. That's not a sign of good character. ETF syntax. 
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