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The Amazing Race - 4/26/2009 - (Live Commentary/Discussion)

Yeah, I was a little surprised that everyone aside from Margie and Luke proclaimed to be terrible swimmers ... I figured most people would consider swimming to be a basic skill one should learn, even if you live in, say, Kansas for example. :p

A lot of things that used to be common are no longer basics. Writing (as in basic sentence construction and decent penmanship), innoculations against disease, basic manners, being able to walk or play for fifteen minutes without having a heart attack.

Swimming's just another gone by the wayside, I guess.

--Ted
 
The not being able to swim thing is a bit ridiculous. We'd always take a couple of weeks a year in gym class for swimming. Nothing particularly organized, we mostly just played water polo, but god, it's not that hard to figure out.

Also WTF, black girls? 'They should at least be able to say "Me no speak English"'? Considering that they straddle the border of Ebonics land they should shut up. I'd like to see them try to learn Mandarin! :rolleyes:

It's a shame this leg isn't over, because if Kisha and Jen get back into the race I might have to vomit.

I don't like Margie and Luke. Yeah yeah, we get it, he's deaf. But you know what, he's not blind, so why the hell does he look like Richard Simmons half the time? And does it say somewhere in the deaf persons handbook that all your expressions have to be grossly exaggerated?

The cheerleaders are indeed 'ugly americans'. Hell, only one of them is even cute (the one that's always on the left), which is kind of funny considering they were NFL cheerleaders. Even though they can be pretty annoying I think I could stomach them winning, unlike Luke/Margie and Kisha/Jen.

Tammy and Victor are pretty annoying at times too, but they're pretty competent. Their Chinese seems pretty good (as far as someone who's not Chinese can tell anyway, they weren't constantly stuttering and pausing to 'find the words', so I take it they're pretty good speakers). They're smart, successful, and generally seem to treat people well enough (I don't count the occasional 'boohoo I thought we were working together but they TRICKED US!' stuff, since it's indeed a race. I would by far prefer these two winning at this point.

It's too bad my midgets racked up so many penalties and got eliminated. :(
 
^ I liked the midgets (especially because Michael looked oddly like a miniature Edward James Olmos), but they were terrible racers. They didn't deserve to win, and they were lucky to make it as far as they did.

As for this week, I found it a little dull. It wasn't bad, but there wasn't much to the tasks so I really couldn't get into it.
 
Yoda - Thank you.

As a non-PCist from WAAAYYYY back, I have to say it gives me faith in human nature that there are others out there who refuse to tow the party line and accept the fascism of PCness.

In fact, I heartily congratulate you ALL because in this week's thread and last week's there isn't one post from a bleeding heart idealist condemning anybody for "picking on the disabled person"(for the record, we weren't - we were discussing the behaviour of a sore loser, spoiled brat who wasn't getting his way......and oh yeah, did you know he's DEAF and that deaf people can do ANYTHING hearing people CAN.......that is, except "HEAR").


And yeah - we noticed the exaggerated gurning and mugging tonight, as well. As somebody who studied AUSLAN for a year, I KNOW probably more than many here how much expression comes into communication for deaf people. But, IMO, if you're deaf and an asshole, that doesn't exempt you from judgement. You're simply a deaf asshole - and trust me, I met quite a few of THOSE!!!


Luke is a spoiled brat who is not liking that people other than his family are not fawning over him and treating him as "special"(you can tell he is VERY used to this treatment). His acting out is typical of an indulged and cosetted child.
 
Yeah, agreed. I think most people feel that way actually. When Dallas made that comment a couple of weeks ago (at that Q&A thing I mentioned) about Luke using his disability as an excuse, people in the audience started nodding their heads and clapping.

It's really pretty irritating to watch Margie and Luke.
 
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