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As a foreigner living in England I asked about the definition of the biscuit and was told (by several different people), "when a biscuit goes stale it goes soft, when a cake goes stale it goes hard" which ignores the existence of cookies, but does still tie into the previous Two Spotted Dicks episode because it explains why even though the Brits treat Jaffa Cakes as biscuits, they're really not....

Am I the only one who misses getting to see the (oft-mentioned) "school-yard picks"? If Michaela is the one left out, I want to see who was chosen ahead of her and why. In the early seasons they showed every single pick, and it was a great insight into the alliances and strategies at the time. The second- or third-last person to be chosen is also quite interesting. Narrowing it down just makes it less fun.

Me too. Up until the moment Varner asked *that* question, I wondered if we might be in for an Ozzy oust, or at the very least a close vote. I know there's no way to get an honest response to the "who *would* you have voted for" question now, but it really did seem like there was some doubt there. That's what I don't get about the whole thing - if the question was Varner v. Zeke then it still would have been an awful thing to do, but you could reason that in a desperate moment Varner made a dumb decision while trying to discredit the person he was up against. But using Zeke's "dishonesty" about something totally unrelated to the game as an argument to vote out Ozzy? There was no way that was ever going to work, no matter how hungry or tired you are.

I absolutely agree that they could have edited it out of the TC. Instead of Probst having a straw poll on the spot, insist that everyone still does their written votes and have the producers push the cast to provide vague enough reasons that it doesn't make it clear what happened (or just show the names and not the reasons). But that only works if you think an issue of this magnitude wouldn't ever be mentioned again, and wouldn't affect the relationships for the rest of the season (and would never be mentioned in future seasons of Survivor). Up until Varner's unforgivable question/comment, there was a crack in the relationships in the tribe. People who thought they were in with Zeke started doubting him (even if they were still planning to vote Varner out and trusted Zeke more than they trusted Varner, there was definitely at least some concern.), but an event like this has to be a bonding experience. Or it puts a target on Zeke because now he has a compelling story to tell at final tribal council. Either way, you couldn't edit this storyline out of the show. The only way to remove it would be to not air the season, and it's too late for that.

The only way the whole "swap the bullets" nonsense (which was clearly just there to be "shocking", because it makes no sense) works to cover up the truth is if we genuinely believe that no-one has any video footage of the assassination. In reality, this would have been one of the most filmed events of the day/month/year and maybe (MAYBE) in the mayhem after the event it would have been 5-10 minutes before they had footage from 20 different camera angles/amateur footage playing on loop on every single tv channel and website. And you don't need to be a ballistics expert to tell the difference between someone shot in the neck/chin from close range and someone shot in the front of the head long-distance. That autopsy isn't fooling anyone.