Nah, Maria was the Asian one.
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I'm struggling with this latest episode
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Posts: 582 (11/02/09 7:18 AM) |
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BackBayBerries |
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Posts: 764 (11/02/09 8:27 AM) Registered user |
I have a problem with barbie and ken both doing the bell challenge. Is that allowed? I thought they would receive a time penalty at the mat but they
didn't.
How many legs on past TARs would have ended completely differently if both teammates did the roadblock together? It's fucked up, imo. |
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ag |
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Posts: 5877 (11/02/09 8:57 AM) Registered User |
Why didn't they ask some random guy to teach them how to swing a freaking hammer
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kdeec |
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Posts: 567 (11/02/09 9:44 AM) |
Yeah, did it specifically say that they couldn't have anyone else touching the hammer at the same time? Like if they got some strong guy to hold onto it
with them and swing? Maybe a penalty at check-in time at most....
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MasterDarkNinja |
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Posts: 2855 (11/02/09 5:10 PM) Registered User |
The bell part of the dance detour just seemed like the most random thing ever to throw in with a dance task. I mean seriously, how does ringing a bell like
that go with dancing? I can see eating the fish thing if it's a common thing to be eaten in their culture at those dancing events, but ringing the bell?
The bell part of the detour was definitely unfair, I was really disappointed to see the only all female go out just because women don't have enough upper body strength. The golf task also didn't seem too fair either based on how many attempts they made, and the lack of any footage of getting their ball real close but then failing to get it in because they hit it too hard or too far in one direction something. |
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 melicatsmom |
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Posts: 556 (11/02/09 5:28 PM) Registered User |
I don't think the bell challenge was unfair at all. If you noticed the guys ringing the bell they were putting a lot of back momentum into the hammer to
swing it down to strike the bell. Tiffany/Maria needed to lift the hammer higher and swing it hard to hit the bell, and they nearly did hit it a couple of
times. Besides, if they had managed to ring the bell and do that dance, one of them would've girlied-up and puked at eating the herring, whined for 45
minutes about not being able to do it, and still come in last (yes, Mika, you whiny little creature, I'm staring right at you).
Brian and Ericka should've received a second penalty for not riding the original bikes to the pitstop, because they didn't ride the bikes to the challenge. And Ericka's snapping at Brian was a Beauty Queen Diva moment--hey, your husband wasn't the one who couldn't count bells! What does that say when a Harlem Globetrotter who last week couldn't figure out the watch read 8:35 pwns you in a counting challenge?
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A Dying Clown |
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Posts: 11457 (11/02/09 5:37 PM) Registered User |
If you noticed the guys ringing the bell they were putting a lot of back momentum into the hammer to swing it down to strike the bell. But given the weight of the hammer, that's going to be a lot more manageable for them in the first place - Tiffany may not be a physics whiz, but I doubt she completely failed to consider lifting the hammer higher |
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CUBic Zirconiyum |
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Posts: 6747 (11/02/09 6:10 PM) Registered User |
How would lifting the hammer above her head be any more difficult than holding the hammer out directly in front of her, as Maria was doing, for example.
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hotchiemothcie |
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Posts: 992 (11/02/09 8:28 PM) Registered User |
It was clearly a technique problem because Tiffany's best strike was the second to last one they showed her make. It took her that long to figure out how
to do it right. Problem was, she was completely sapped of energy at that point and couldn't give much of an effort on the last strike they showed her
make.
And, well, Maria put on the kind of display of coordination worthy of Dan. |
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Boggle Deluxe |
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Posts: 1067 (11/02/09 9:15 PM) Registered user |
I agree with the OP. Two physical detours and having a F/F team suck at anything physical = robbed. They should have removed the silly hammer hitting thing.
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fainting goat |
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Posts: 332 (11/02/09 9:24 PM) |
CUBic Zirconiyum wrote: You guys are all retarded. She was doing that. Look: 
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Posts: 4039 (11/02/09 9:29 PM) |
...but that was after switching Detours twice, a swim back and forth in a chilly river, and two bike rides to the other Detour choice. Had they stuck with it
initially, they probably could've gotten it.
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mundo446 |
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Posts: 1471 (11/02/09 9:34 PM) Registered user |
Yea that was like her 70th try or something. She was so close that if she had done that initially they would have beaten it.
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kittymistress |
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Posts: 342 (11/02/09 9:45 PM) Registered User |
Sheesh. I guess most of the posters here don't understand that this was a DETOUR. They would have been fine if they had stuck to the golf challenge the
first time and figured it out. It was really more like croquet than golf anyway - they didn't need to be swinging the mallets like they were golf clubs. It
really wasn't that hard. The whole idea of a Detour is that if you can't do one task you can always do the other, but it might take longer. It
wasn't rigged so that they couldn't possibly do it. They did themselves in by switching back and forth.
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fainting goat |
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Posts: 334 (11/02/09 10:28 PM) |
kittymistress wrote: I think it took a lot of arm strength too to make it close to the hole within eight swings. I don't think the ball is supposed to leave the ground in croquet. In this game you have to hit it across a big field, so they are not very similar. |
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Vinsincere |
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Posts: 379 (11/02/09 11:14 PM) Registered user |
kittymistress wrote: This. |
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Boggle Deluxe |
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Posts: 1083 (11/02/09 11:21 PM) Registered user |
I wouldn't say rigged, just robbed. They switched back and forth because both were physically demanding and Maria couldn't do either, given how weak
she is.
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YemaGrl1988 |
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Posts: 8268 (11/03/09 12:33 AM) Registered user |
fainting goat wrote:Except a golf club weighs a hell of a lot less than a hammer does... |
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Art NL |
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Posts: 374 (11/03/09 8:56 AM) Registered User |
bryanpasa wrote:Apparantly. I'm Dutch and thought it that game was an universal game. But it seems it is not: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hendrik_Jut MasterDarkNinja wrote: The herring isn't either. :P It seems TAR just put a bunch of random Dutch things together and made a task out of it. But it was nice to see them eat the herring, it really isn't that bad. You just have to get used to it. |
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Riliss |
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Posts: 6019 (11/05/09 1:29 AM) Ugly on the inside |
Boggle Deluxe wrote:omg nu coke boggle <3 |
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