The Amazing Race has too many extraneous rules

Re: The Amazing Race has too many extraneous rules

feeds@yuku.com (florida) — Thu, 14 May 2009 23:57:38 GMT

ghostbusted wrote:
I guess this is as good a thread as any for a rules question I am wondering about. If a member of a team got hurt, twisted an ankle say, while in transit to a task or pit stop; would the rules allow a "Fern" to carry the injured person to the destination?

See Linda/Karen, Season 5 in Egypt.

Re: The Amazing Race has too many extraneous rules

feeds@yuku.com (aboutbreakingrules) — Thu, 14 May 2009 19:10:13 GMT

BetteVSJoan wrote:
I remember when Uchenna and Joyce pulled up to the final pitstop before Romber. They had no money to pay their cab, so they ran around frantically, asking people for money to pay the cab driver. So the rule about not paying a cab with your posessions has been in place a while, it's just that we haven't seen what the penalty is until now. I for one am glad they have these rules and penalties, it stops...

Re: The Amazing Race has too many extraneous rules

feeds@yuku.com (Dr Will Hatch two point oh) — Wed, 13 May 2009 19:09:10 GMT

Actually, all three teams had gotten penalties for extracting outside help(Only Ken could do the reward on his own). Since they all were penalized, really none of them were penalized. I'm watching TAR3(Ep 3) right now btw. Beam me up Scotty!

Re: The Amazing Race has too many extraneous rules

feeds@yuku.com (solesurvivor01) — Wed, 13 May 2009 19:04:10 GMT

ghostbusted wrote:
I guess this is as good a thread as any for a rules question I am wondering about. If a member of a team got hurt, twisted an ankle say, while in transit to a task or pit stop; would the rules allow a "Fern" to carry the injured person to the destination?

Well Zach got some locals to do that rowing a giant coconut-like boat detour (it was in Vietnam, right?) for Flo after she had...

Re: The Amazing Race has too many extraneous rules

feeds@yuku.com (ghostbusted) — Wed, 13 May 2009 16:05:30 GMT

I guess this is as good a thread as any for a rules question I am wondering about. If a member of a team got hurt, twisted an ankle say, while in transit to a task or pit stop; would the rules allow a "Fern" to carry the injured person to the destination?

Re: The Amazing Race has too many extraneous rules

feeds@yuku.com (florida) — Tue, 12 May 2009 18:04:02 GMT

Dr Will Hatch two point oh wrote:

Pulau Tiga wrote:

Dr Will Hatch two point oh wrote:
I enjoy all of those contingencies, thank you very much. The disallowment of ferns, bribery, etc is the equivalent of the HII and Final 3 on Survivor. They are plot...

Re: The Amazing Race has too many extraneous rules

feeds@yuku.com (Iku) — Tue, 12 May 2009 17:28:47 GMT

Dr Will Hatch two point oh wrote:

bubbybear wrote:
Coming into the race with a bag full of ipods and jewelry gives you a little more of an advantage than having travel experience.

What's wrong with that? If winning a game show is that important to them, let it ride(So to speak). Plus random recipients will become slightly...

Re: The Amazing Race has too many extraneous rules

feeds@yuku.com (Dr Will Hatch two point oh) — Tue, 12 May 2009 16:42:37 GMT

bubbybear wrote:
Coming into the race with a bag full of ipods and jewelry gives you a little more of an advantage than having travel experience.

What's wrong with that? If winning a game show is that important to them, let it ride(So to speak). Plus random recipients will become slightly richer.

I wouldn't approve of them being allowed their own cash money, however. One on the hand,...

Re: The Amazing Race has too many extraneous rules

feeds@yuku.com (Screerider) — Tue, 12 May 2009 16:28:08 GMT

It's like letting poker players play personal cards they brought with them to the table.

Re: The Amazing Race has too many extraneous rules

feeds@yuku.com (bubbybear) — Tue, 12 May 2009 16:24:48 GMT

Coming into the race with a bag full of ipods and jewelry gives you a little more of an advantage than having travel experience.

Re: The Amazing Race has too many extraneous rules

feeds@yuku.com (Dr Will Hatch two point oh) — Tue, 12 May 2009 13:28:45 GMT

Pulau Tiga wrote:

Dr Will Hatch two point oh wrote:
I enjoy all of those contingencies, thank you very much. The disallowment of ferns, bribery, etc is the equivalent of the HII and Final 3 on Survivor. They are plot devices designed by those too squeamish to let reality roll along as is.

Re: The Amazing Race has too many extraneous rules

feeds@yuku.com (Pulau Tiga) — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 15:33:45 GMT

Dr Will Hatch two point oh wrote:
I enjoy all of those contingencies, thank you very much. The disallowment of ferns, bribery, etc is the equivalent of the HII and Final 3 on Survivor. They are plot devices designed by those too squeamish to let reality roll along as is.

You can't let players use belongings to barter with because then...

Re: The Amazing Race has too many extraneous rules

feeds@yuku.com (oh ehm gee) — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 12:21:08 GMT

ghostbusted wrote:
Does The Amazing Race have any "Janelle/James style" rules concerning incidental contact?

Wasn't that "rule" that there was no rule (and incidentally, James has no leg to stand on considering he purposefully tried to hit Erika in the shin while she was lunging)?

There certainly wasn't a rule for the railway museum brawl in TAR6.

Re: The Amazing Race has too many extraneous rules

feeds@yuku.com (ghostbusted) — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 11:18:52 GMT
Does The Amazing Race have any "Janelle/James style" rules concerning incidental contact?

Re: The Amazing Race has too many extraneous rules

feeds@yuku.com (bryanpasa) — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 08:07:24 GMT
Lol! Calling someone a bitch is a penalty too! and fighting PHYSICALLY should not be tolerated also.

Re: The Amazing Race has too many extraneous rules

feeds@yuku.com (dragoondaniel78) — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 07:00:59 GMT

Ben Tucker wrote:
And even so, didn't they buy those shoes with race money anyways?

Yeah. In the Kazakhstan airport if I'm not wrong. And on the very same leg, they tried to barter it away. -.-

Re: The Amazing Race has too many extraneous rules

feeds@yuku.com (Ben Tucker) — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 05:18:39 GMT
And even so, didn't they buy those shoes with race money anyways?

Re: The Amazing Race has too many extraneous rules

feeds@yuku.com (Dan Down Under) — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 02:31:40 GMT
People really need to stop using Dandrew as an example. Their cabby didn't take their shoes, they kept them - hence it was a fail barter.

Didn't the cabby just accept their money?

Re: The Amazing Race has too many extraneous rules

feeds@yuku.com (MsJulieR) — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 00:56:23 GMT
remember when they took away all their money and possessions and made them beg in those poor countries.,..that was a low as you can get
so that was ok but this isn't...we just need to be told some of those rules
will there be a penalty for calling someone a bitch

Re: The Amazing Race has too many extraneous rules

feeds@yuku.com (wakwakwak) — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 23:44:03 GMT

FormerRacer13 wrote:
Sigh... I thought I did settle this.

As of the current season, it is a rule that you may not use anything you have brought with you for ANY kind of selling/trading/bartering. Anything you may come by once you have STARTED the race is fare game for selling/trading/bartering.

It is also a rule that you may NOT abandon a cab driver with no payment at all. (See Colin for the origin...

The Amazing Race has too many extraneous rules

feeds@yuku.com (Dr Will Hatch two point oh) — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 19:30:41 GMT

I've brought this up before, but seriously. Who cares if they use personal posessions?