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Having met a few controlling bad-tempered people in my life, I thought Josh's inability to shrug and say, mistakes were made, I'm sorry she feels that way, or something more along the lines of what Nick said was a huge red flag. Instead it was just, bitches be crazy! I'm the nicest guy ever! Hopefully just a self-centred asshole though, and not so prone to angry moments that he genuinely doesn't remember what she's talking about. I don't watch regular Bachelor/ette so I only know our previous guests. Jared is so only here for the sun and free booze, in any season. Daniel makes me laugh. That Canadian accent is compounded by some hardcore mumbling, though listening to sone of our Olympians I guess it's a Millennial epidemic, hee.

The Warrant is All isn't my type of show, but I hadn't heard of Rantpocalypse. I'll check it out. Thanks!

It sounded a bit unlikely to me too, but I didn't know enough about it. Maybe Stéphane and Antoine are slowly increasing the details with each telling, and by the time Antoine's kids hear it, it will be 70 degrees. And like 1000 ducks!

Yeah, Jakk was supposed ro be non-quitable, so I think we're looking at a full-fledged retcon. Doesn't bother me, though, as the original explanation didn't make much sense. Addiction doesn't even work like that! So if she exchanged the habit for agency and a cute boyfriend, and perhaps eventually her first female friend in Lucy, I'm fine with it. I know I'm forever on accent watch, but Keon Alexander was very Montreal in Space, hee. And then we got a Bollywood sequence.

I listen to Afterbuzz and The Quad. Afterbuzz was the first place I heard the theory of the monk scarification being functional, iirc. And The Quad gets my love for having an all-lady panel. What are you listening to?

Emotional aggression? Emotional because she's a woman and aggression because, let me guess. Fuck you, Paulie. Victor doesn't have much of a Puerto Rican accent to my ear, but it was there on his h's, hee. He won the yach-oh-yach!

There's certainly a deforestation problem, but the wood and farmed products are sold all over the world. No economy is an island so when Peter Mansbridge was calling the Brazilians hypocrites for mentioning the environment last night I was just wondering if he has any mahogany furniture in his house. Or drinks soy milk.

I thought it was pretty fun to have the season end with Matt being the grownup who gets left behind. There was barely a hint of this self-sacrificing person at the beginning! I guess the stuff about telling Jules he would find the money for Ellard. And pissing off his hockey friends on behalf of that kid, but it was obvious they expected him to throw the kid overboard to save himself based on past behaviour. Matt was right, a judge would just ask Jules who she wants to live with. But he's determined to stick with the emotional generosity. What happened to Angie's father? *ominous minor chords* I hope for a second season, with many more digs at Jason Priestley having been famous in the 90s. See you then!

Yay, Meagan! And Yamauchi, all his gymnastic skill were so smooth. I thought the Circuit Board was an odd choice for a tv show obstacle. You couldn't necessarily see what was a right/wrong move, though the dead hang skills of those who succeeded were impressive. Especially the first guy through, he looked like he could hang there forever. "Yamauchi looking Gucci right there!" Akbar, you're a ridiculous dork but I love you anyway.

Jason Priestly has been retweeting good comments about the show and tagging in Global TV every time. Which is adorable, but it seems like he's uncertain too. Global hasn't even bothered to have an intern start a social media account for the show so idk. *worries* Ratings seem to be not fantastic but not basement, mid-top 30. I didn't really care about the mystery but I was soooo worried about Matt and Angie's partnership, lol. You could not have told me at the beginning of the season I would feel so invested. But I was practically holding my breath during the poker scene at the end. They're the cutest and I want them to solve way more crime together. Cop boyfriend asking Angie if she needed his help and then taking her at her word when she said no? also adorable. Why girlfriend didn't just move to Mexico for treatment was unclear. Nice wrap-up of things with the ex-wife, and evidence of Matt's new maturity that he wasn't just like, yay, car! I was totally expecting tv producer's ex to be a woman lol. But lgbt representation is something for the show to work on in the second season that is totally going to happen. :)

Yeah, I thought we were obviously talking stereotypes so I left out the air quotes around "manly". My apologies. It seemed like you gave a feminism-related reason for not liking Kelly and Kate re: fighting stereotypes so I was responding to that, no offense intended. I think how we talk about the teams is an interesting topic, just chatting, not mad or trying to make anyone else mad. This is the exact type of value judgement around interests I was referring to in my post? My mostly rhetorical question is still, so what if a Race team likes shopping. They're clearly playing it up for the cameras, anyway.

Frank is a jerk but I appreciate that he seems to genuinely feel bad for having led Bridgette down the garden path. Discussion question, would either of them be in a better spot if he'd let her nominate Nicorey like she wanted? James doing the rest of the house's dirty work bothers me so much! I don't think it gets him or Natalie anything useful going forward, and what if he needs somebody to trust him later in the season.

Well now we're about to bore everybody by discussing waves of feminism, lol. But I wouldn't expect Kelly and Kate to conform to ideals from before they were born. Liking makeup isn't inherently bad, and everybody pretending to be a man isn't necessarily the only way forward for women. We complain but there isn't this idea that they're automatically terrible racers who are letting down an entire gender and a waste of a team slot. Just that the dudebro teams are boring. Where female teams with more manly interests, hockey or softball or whatever, seem to be considered the ideal. That may not be what you're personally saying but overall in the fandom from season to season I feel like these ideas get repeated and it bugs me. So I loved to see Kelly and Kate coming in first, eyelashes and all.

Yeah, I've heard it in the wild. I think of it as urban slang more than age-related but I guess homeboy Paul thinks he's down, lol.

Yes, so true. They were practically grandma shoes, with the kitten heel. If a houseguest is hobbling I expect the shoes to be at least sorta worth it on the hot and sexy scale. Those just weren't. Tiffany has the same features as Vanessa but on a smaller/more delicate scale, leading to being more traditionally attractive. I don't think it's makeup or weight or anything, just an accident of genetics. Vanessa got the brains though. Which she's probably fine with, game theoretically speaking.

Eh. I think they're adorable, and I don't really get why girly reality contestants bother people so much? Unless we're also going to start complaining about dude teams that like to talk about beer and girls and home renovation. We get it, Gino and Jesse, you're manly men. Anyway I like that they'll squeal and run away from the live animals and then put their heads down and power through. Hope they get to go shopping, lol. But not too soon, there's plenty of race left. That was a serious detour imbalance, wow. Anne and Tanya don't think picking the karoake would have helped, but I'm not sure about that. Supposedly they're the worst map readers the show has ever seen, hee. http://m.torontosun.com/2016/07/20/the-amazing-race-canada-anne-and-tanya-fail-to-pull-off-miracle-win The softball girls apologising to the Vietnamese crowd for making faces at the bugs was adorable. Canadian cultural outreach!

Yes! A few months ago I held the subway elevator for a guy running down the street in New York, and he was like "thanks, your boy is running late for work". And I didn't yell I DON'T EVEN KNOW YOU at him because it was obviously an expression? The fandom is cracking me up and sounding like a pack of geriatrics with all the complaints about what is clearly slang. Da's message made me laugh, and trash talking isn't necessarily a huge crime where she comes from. At the same time I know she realised last year that she needed a better ability to play nice, so I'm disappointed she hasn't turned that epiphany into a more successful game. Tiffany is so pretty - and probably relieved - but I hate when they have to run out to Julie in shoes they can barely stand in.

Aka, the black episode! I was braced for more of the show pretending we're American with the black Toronto community, but they did ok with that actually. Minus the apparently nuyorican girlfriend of the deceased. Love me some Kardinal Offishall. T-Dot rockin' the party!

This ep is another example of me ignoring awkwardly delivered information because the show has a pattern. But I realised belatedly that the "my nephew is deaf/my daughter is blind" conversation was meant to be a clue to part of the con. French girl trying to bond over their (imaginary in her case) disabled teenagers. Lol. You can really tell the practice Jason Priestly has in kissing ladies on tv.

Yeah that was odd but I wrote it off at the time to the writing not always being great at working exposition info into casual conversation. See also, Jules is blind. Interesting to meet Shade's ex though surprised that minus the looks-based job she was not much of a trophy wife. Though maybe the idea was that she used to be a trophy wife but had grown up. And grew up before Matt did, as is often the case. Misdemeanour battery: not an actual Canadian charge, we don't say misdemeanour and felony at least. Rather summary or indictable. Saying husband two had a peace bond for assault or uttering threats would have worked. We have constables not detectives, also! Why so many loving shots of TTC streetcars if afterwards you're just going to quote Law and Order. Love Ennis Esmer but this episode sure showcased the downsides of having all the characters of colour ghettoised in police station scenes only. Not a single scene for either of the "detectives". Enjoying this show despite lack of research, will try to remember to stop by and comment. If my internet doesn't keep f'ing up when I try to watch, as it did this week.

Lol the pool looked lovely but I'd be terrified of being sternly frowned at by monks, or whoever. I know the common wisdom is to try and beast out the physical challenges rather than futz with skill-based things but I think with the dancing I'd just cross my fingers to get it figured quickly. Hauling heavy objects while directly under the hot sun looked way worse to me, idk.

Too Canadian on that one, Stéphane. Say it out loud! À pleine voix! Also: 53 degrees. http://m.torontosun.com/2016/07/13/the-amazing-race-canada-stephane-and-antoine-reveal-hatred-of-ducks-after-elimination Also the Social ladies coo over helpful papa Stéphane, they tell a sweet story about Jillian and Emmett, and Stéphane's body temperature out there reached 104 F? Jesus. Don't kill anyone, show. http://www.thesocial.ca/Culture/TheAmazingRaceCanada/After-the-Race-roundup-Stephane-and-Antoine It was weird we didn't get an in-show explanation of Stéphane's thinking, but retrospect he probably was not up to saying much.

Catching up on last night's AD: first scene is Bridgette telling Corey that she is too trustimg and believes in everybody. Girl, we know. Fucking Paulie really does swear a metric fuckton.

Interrogating someone about their personal habits is rude, in my opinion. Unless you're their mum or their doctor. Maybe the ladies should expect rudeness while filming but that's not the same as something being generally acceptable behaviour. Any one of us is shortening our lives at any moment. Did we all exercise today? Get 8 servings of fruits and vegetables? Floss? Take all your medication on time? How's your blood pressure? Cholesterol? Is anyone drinking too much alcohol? Or smoking weed? Doing harder drugs? Having risky sex? Did you know that's bad for you? It's bad for you! Here, let me roll my eyes and lecture you about it even though I barely know you. The knee-jerk reaction of anyone would be "leave me the fuck alone", and I don't blame them. If there's an emergency, call 911. Otherwise, Jules having an illness does not mean it's okay, or useful, to condescend to her like a five year old.

To clarify one thing, when I say the ED is Jules' own business, I don't mean she shouldn't expect to talk about it on the show. Talking more about the idea that Carole and Bethenny have a duty to be rude to her about it and are somehow rescuing her by doing so.