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The following a taxi was a pretty common tack before, although it did drop off sharply a year or so ago. That's a welcome rule change.
I wasn't sure why so many teams thought they'd be coming back, unless they were under the impression that the boats would only be traveling a short distance rather than all the way across the city. Of course, after the first team did it, the others might see the waiting taxi and make a bad assumption.
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I'll admit to LMAO during the foot massage segment.
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Not me, that looked painful, I thought to myself
"Is this TAR or Hostel?" yikes. I thought the idea of massages was to make you feel good?
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I dunno, as a contestant, I would be prepared to be able to Rappel, climb with an ascender, and swim. It's kind of the folks on Survivor who get there and don't know how to make a fire... I think last night eps show that Tammy did take swimming lessons...
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I guess my girlfriend and I are the only ones who like the redheads, I think one(or maybe both) are hillarious, they are bitchy, but the stuff they say is funny.
I like Tammie and Victory also, but I like Asians, my girlfriend hates Tammie, not really sure why.
I have seen Larry David in action, and that man is an animal, and he has to be stopped.
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Because she had to pee..oh my freakin' god!
Now i'm going to have to contend with Miss Winning personality 2009 and her friend in the race to the finish.
Because she had to freakin' pee!
Unreal, just...wow.
In the race for a million, you know what you do when you have to pee? You pee yourself, that's what you do.
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I cheered (get it?) when Jaime and Cara finished ahead of the sisters. I'd been running and peeing on myself to get to that finish line.
Looking forward to the
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So glad the sisters went home, especially under the humiliating "pee" circumstances. At this point, I'm rooting for Tammy and Victor, but Jaime and Cara would be alright with me too. Never thought I'd be rooting against a deaf kid and his mom, but they've really gotten to be annoying over the last few weeks.
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I'm amazed that people could prefer Jaime, a woman with the personality of battery acid who shows nothing but contempt for other countries, ethnicities, cultures and languages, over a man who can't hear and can barely speak and his loving mother.
This TV season is heading towards certain doom for me, first that a-hole Coach might win
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I find that editing takes center stage in projecting the image that the producers/directors want to come across - especially in a show like
The Amazing Race. Therefore I'm not quite as harsh on any of the contestants as some others have been here (which, of course, is their right) because what we see is not always what we get. That said (and with the team I was rooting for - Mike and his Dad- gone) it would not surprise me if any of the final three teams won. The Cheerleaders are eye candy so I'm glad they made it to the final leg - although they also seem to personify all that is ugly about Americans abroad. Luke and his mom are the human interest couple this year for all the obvious reasons and the ugly side that they are showing is probably the result of creative editing to highlight some of mom's frustration. And Tammy and Victor seem to be the couple that the producers are trying to get to the finish line first. Young, energetic, resourceful, etc. I completely agree that being able to speak the language in China the past three weeks is one HUGE advantage - especially since one of the challenges seems to have involved being able to communicate in Mandarin during the restaurant scene. In fact, I'm surprised that such a blatant advantage was allowed since on the surface it appears to be very unfair. Of course maybe we are being played once more by the producers because it sure looks like they want us to believe that Team China is a lock.
If I were handicapping the finals I would think that Luke and Mom will emerge victorious, edging out Tammy and Victor while the Dallas Cheerleaders bounce their way in their bikinis to the finish in Hawaii. That way the underdog wins, the favorite surprisingly does not, and the villains get their comeuppance. At least that's the way I see it from a ratings point of view.
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