Comments on: TAR: Torture Times

By: hyp

hyp — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 05:13:42 +0000

Hehe, yeah. I refused to watch the third one until fairly recently because just thinking about the whining pissed me off. In particular “but I waaaaant to be a Jedi!!!!!” /end nasally, huffy 10 year old tantrum

By: velveetahead

velveetahead — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 05:10:08 +0000

Hahaha. I love the whining comparison to Attack of the Clones. That’s the Star Wars you are talking about right? I wanna get married! *whine whine whine* At least we know where Luke got his whining from.

By: hyp

hyp — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 05:05:53 +0000

I actually got to see this one, weeeee!!!! All I have to say is that Kisha has more patience than any person I have ever met or read about. I love my sisters to death but would have smacked somebody if they were acting like that. If I ever act like that, I myself would expect to be smacked, thrown in the water or smacked and thrown in the water.

Also, a twisted little part of me enjoyed watching the cheerleaders be tortured, ok not so little. This was a pretty good episode but all the whining reminded me of when I watched Star Wars Episode 2. This did not bring forth a warm fuzzy feeling.

By: velveetahead

velveetahead — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 02:43:32 +0000

I think they used to do it a lot towards the end, but I’m remembering last season just had a non-elimination before the final three or it was much earlier in the race. Or, I’m just remembering it wrong. Either way, it surprised me. I was also happy they didn’t get first place since they are so rude. I hate the Ugly American thing too! I don’t understand it.

I am still confused about the lack of swimming from the teams. I really didn’t think that detour would be that hard.

By: Steve

Steve — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 17:05:39 +0000

I thought they do that “it’s not really over” jive toward the end of every season, but I could be wrong. I was bummed because I was looking forward to seeing the sisters go down. I have a bad feeling that they’re going to make a comeback.

On the other hand, seeing the cheerleaders not get the win was redemption enough. I hate those bitches with the white hot fire of a thousand suns. I don’t know why they don’t get that people who live in a non-English speaking country have no obligation to communicate with them in English. If a Chinese person came up to them in whatever redneck state they’re from and asked them directions, would they be able to bust out a “I don’t speak Chinese” in Chinese? No freaking way.

That’s one of the things that’s always bugged me about the Amazing Race, though, is the Ugly American factor. When we were in Mexico City this past November, we were talking to our guide about when TAR had been there the year before, and she showed us where a couple of checkpoints had been. She said everyone there was super excited and in to it, but that they were really disappointed because some of the Americans seemed so disrespectful. Then we had to roll up our windows because she said a lot of tourists get car-jacked around there. Heh.

Dude. I can’t believe how many people can’t swim, but I grew up at the beach. Still, my wife is from Michigan and even though she just started swimming in the last ten years or so, she said she was never as pathetic as some of those people. Crazy. This is a skill that everyone should have. I don’t think you should be able to graduate high school without being able to swim. What if you fall in water??