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"I'll say it once I'll say it again....this is not a TAR's but follow the ribbons contest"
HobbsofMI 16065 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Playboy Centerfold"
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04-06-05, 10:09 AM (EST)
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"I'll say it once I'll say it again....this is not a TAR's but follow the ribbons contest" |
I'm sorry but this whole leg was about 40 to 50 miles of driving of following the ribbons. What ever happen to getting a map and finding out where you need to go? Yes you’re in the bush so you can get some great shots of Africa but you got those same shots when they were on the main roads. Why don’t they just give these guys GPS units with the destinations mapped out because that’s what TAR’s has done with all the ribbons.The directions, I think TAR calls them clues, are so simple even to tell them they’ll be driving through a town before you get to the right water tower. Now if the teams were smart enough to read they might figure out that they need to go further plus I think the mileage is listed in the directions so why not watch to odometer? I’m I glad there is a lot less bunching but this TAR’s is just boring except for the scenery as usual and last weeks foot race. I’ve have never seen such a bunch of losers who can’t read directions. And Can Lenny and Squiggy say anything that is not inflammatory or bitchy? Oh how do I wan these losers to be gone because every time I hear or see them it’s like fingers on a chalk board. Ok…my rants done for this second because I have to go back to work.... created by Syren
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Seana 5044 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Playboy Centerfold"
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04-06-05, 10:35 AM (EST)
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1. "RE: I'll say it once I'll say it again....this is not a TAR's but follow the ribbons contest" |
How about this:You know how sometimes when, say, a candy company wants to make more money, instead of putting the price of their product up, they just put less in the box (or whatever)? OK, so... The producers didn't want the challenges to be so difficult, but then they couldn't have smart people, 'cause that'd be dull. So they got dumber people. Now the challenges still look hard and the producers don't have to put as much thought into everything. Everybody wins. No?
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Misty Twist 33 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Beauty Pageant Celebrity Judge"
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04-06-05, 12:53 PM (EST)
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3. "RE: I'll say it once I'll say it again....this is not a TAR's but follow the ribbons contest" |
Good I'm glad to see I'm not the only one who thought the challenges were stupid. The one question I have is why couldn't they just run over the branches the TAR producers strategically placed.....oops I mean "elephants" knocked over? Granted some of the branches were to big to just drive over but some were small flat ones and I would think with a jeep like that it could do some four wheeling. I guess the instructions said move move them out of the way. And nice promo TAR did that sd Rob and Amber had to go thru "Crocidile invested waters" Oh, no how will they ever accomplish that??? Whatever they were in a JEEP and it was like 20 feet wide. Stop leading us on TAR.....ALL THE CHALLENGES ARE STUPID!!!!!!!
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Seana 5044 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Playboy Centerfold"
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04-06-05, 02:41 PM (EST)
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8. "Where were the brothers?" |
From the Video section of CBS's Amazing Race page:Lost - :42 Brothers Brian & Greg lose their characteristic charm and laid-back attitude when they become lost in the bush. This just wasn't their day. Still Lost - :58 Brothers Brian & Greg, lost again later that day, regain their sense of humor even if they don't have a sense of direction. So, it was the brothers' inability to read the clue and find red-and-yellow route markers that lost them the race. (FTR - I didn't watch these clips) Also from that page, a fun video in which Phil gets lost on the way to pit stop, which I did watch. Their satelite phone was fuzzy and they couldn't use cell phones. It surprised me that Phil was driving. He said the toughest part was staying ahead of the other teams, so that he could meet them at the pit stop. Phil's da man.
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dajaki 1454 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Beef Jerky Spokesperson"
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04-06-05, 09:05 PM (EST)
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18. "RE: I'll say it once I'll say it again....this is not a TAR's but follow the ribbons contest" |
They also said that they spent 35-40 minutes chasing the oats around the pen before they milked them. That shouldn't have taken much time.
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AMAI 1254 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Beef Jerky Spokesperson"
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04-11-05, 10:23 AM (EST)
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21. "RE: The Brothers' problem" |
I think their main problem was they were following the freshest set of tire tracks.It wasn't shoved down our throats. Remember that at the beginning of the episode, the Bros mentioned talking to a bushman and learning "how to read tracks." Maybe it was a joke? I think that wherever they got the info, that is what they were doing. Working on the erroneous assumption that the team ahead of them, which had produced the freshest tracks, was on the RIGHT track, the Bros followed and invested alot of time into investigating the water tower, rather than reading the clue for themselves thoroughly first. They only read the clue properly when it finally dawned on them that there wasn't a clue box on the tower, under the tower or in the general vicinity of the tower at all, and that maybe, just maybe, they'd missed something. Had the Brothers not wasted all that time, I feel pretty sure they'd have been able to remain in the race. They started out only 10 minutes after Mere/Gretch.
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Starsfan 14 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Got Milk? Spokesperson"
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04-06-05, 05:05 PM (EST)
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16. "RE: I'll say it once I'll say it again....this is not a TAR's but follow the ribbons contest" |
yeah... so much skill went into last night =P the only "skillfull" thing they had the choice of doing was carrying those things on their heads, and R/A backed out of that =P unless you count driving as a skill ;/ this episode was so overly simplified everyone pretty much stayed in their rut and made no significant progress (besides Uchenna and Joyce) Sure Rob and Amber finished first, but they're like a minute (If that) ahead of Ron and Kelley. The only thing this leg accomplished was to knock off Brian and Greg.
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watermelon 184 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Blistex Spokesperson"
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04-07-05, 01:32 PM (EST)
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19. "RE: I'll say it once I'll say it again....this is not a TAR's but follow the ribbons contest" |
I agree. I'm not a Romber-fan, but I think their fame can be a hindrance instead of help at times, eg people stopping them for autographs and to talk to them. I think most people, when they see the production crew filming you and know that you're legitimately asking for help coz you're in a race, will be willing to help if you only ask. Heck, if even evil Jonathon can get help from locals, I'm sure ANY one of us can do the same if we're just willing to smile and chat. It's not hard to ask for help, and most people who get on the show aren't shy (otherwise they'd be boring to watch), making it easier for them to go up and talk to total strangers (compared to someone who's painfully shy, I mean).
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KLinDC 65 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Hollywood Squares Square"
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04-11-05, 01:19 PM (EST)
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22. "RE: I'll say it once I'll say it again....this is not a TAR's but follow the ribbons contest" |
LAST EDITED ON 04-11-05 AT 01:22 PM (EST)I personally wish they give clues about where they are suppose to go and have the teams figure it out themselves rather than being told to go from Point A to Point B. For example, a clue can be: Find your way to Jagiellonian University where the late Pope Paul John II studied and find the marker for your next clue. At least that way they teams' have to figure out they have to get to Krakow, rather than a clue telling them to go to Krakow. Or: Go to the site of the world's tallest building for your next clue. And so on and so forth. I do find the whole hand holding way of getting around rather tedious though. Of course it could be disastrous if temas guessed wrong and end up with several teams going off to wrong cities. But it would make for good drama.
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