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I live in the heart of Ben & Jerry's home region. Would I get in trouble with Local Boy Bernie if I try this?
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So that's what it looks like when Obama loses a vote.
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I envy those of you who are enjoying Debbie. She makes me tired all over. Couldn't bear watching Coach, couldn't bear watching Phillip, and I am exhausted by Debbie for all the same reasons.
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However from my observations he could have, just humanly, shown a little more concern, for anyone. Debbi right next to him was an obvious contender.
For all we know he had just turned away from talking to her, asking if she needed anything, or really anything else. She might have told him to leave her alone so she could rest in the shade in peace.
I think I saw Cydney drink from a bottle of cold mineral water after the RC, while everyone's in panic. I wondered why she was allowed to do that when Debbie was not given any?
Anna was holding a water bottle to the back of Tai's neck too. I think it's fair to assume they all had their fill of water while the medical guys were around.
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Doctor Joe was on the scene with a large team of medical people all over the place. These were people who knew each other and had worked together and knew where their orders were coming from. They seemed to be icing down Cydney and Debbie just fine, and Doctor Joe himself was tending to Caleb with a crowd around him.
Inserting Doctor Obama into this when he has no experience with this team and no task already awaiting him MIGHT cause something other than confusion, but I'm not sure what. If the medical team needed his help, they knew where to find him, but they already had Nick holding up Caleb's feet.
As for not looking concerned enough about Debbie? I think that's just begging for something to be angry with him about. He knew the situation was under control and staring at Debbie wasn't going to accomplish anything. For all we know, he was just scanning around at the other players in case anyone else looked like they might drop.
I think it's fine if you don't like Peter. But this is a pretty weak reason for it.
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That's awesome. I got to pet a leopard once (at a preserve in South Africa, after he'd gotten accustomed to being around humans -- his purr felt like putting my hand on a lawn mower engine), but that leopard was sort of half dozing. If he had been 5 times larger and staring me in the eyes, I would have been wigged way out.
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I might be an army of one here, but Debbie makes me tired all over. Knowing she's trying to be a role model for her kids makes some of her previous behavior more baffling.
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Well, shit. I guess the Cinnamon Challenge really CAN kill you.
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Everything you said makes sense, except that last sentence.... bc there is at least another medevac this season, so I believe it's a final 2. :D
Definitely :) but presumably at this point in the game, the show people don't know there will be more medivacs. (Though it would be SUPER interesting if they did...) :)
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So for tonight we don't know much except Cyndy and Julie don't go home, Caleb does. What was the last consensus on whether there would be a tribal/boot? If the challenge were finished and if Beauty lost, maybe they wouldn't have to go to TC. But if one of the other teams lost they would have to go anyway right? But do they even get to finish the challenge?
And is the merge next week?
If someone gets pulled from the game and there's a tribal boot, that leaves us at 13, which seems an unlikely number for a swap or a merge.
My guess is a medivac tonight, no tribal council, and then a swap into two tribes of 7 each. Then we're in two tribes for two to four weeks, then merge. That would give us a final three with a jury of nine to seven. (Seven seems low, actually. I bet they do nine.)
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This is a kind of strange season so far, I don't like anyone.
I like the quantitative strategist (Liz?) and the girl who had the anxiety attack in the first episode. I liked Jenny but mostly because she physically resembles an old friend I haven't seen in many years.
I'm pulling for Alecia to win just to see the looks on Scot's and Jason's faces.
I was hoping to like Debbie more than I do to this point. If I wanted to watch Walter Mitty, I'd rent the Danny Kaye movie.
But despite 2.5 hour so far, I don't feel like I know much about these people yet.
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I love the bromance between Caleb and Tai.
I didn't watch Big Brother, but I read enough on here to be apprehensive about Beast Mode Meatslab. But so far I've found Caleb kind of endearing.
It's wouldn't surprise me if the other shoe dropped soon, but this affability is nice to see.
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I never fully trusted Lisa either. Most of the "epiphanies," she has on Survivor, she had already said she had, and written books about. I thought every word she said on the show was about selling her books and promoting her own motivational speaker career. I guess I question the whole concept of people making a living based on telling others how to be just like them.
I agree about Lisa. There was something cloying and artificial. I don't know how much of that was constructed and how much was her attempt to say something meaningful for the cameras and retreating to tried'n'true previous thoughts. But I got as exhausted with her losing and then finding herself (whatever that meant to her) as I did with Dawn's histrionics. It's a shame Tootie isn't a Survivor fan.
I don't know what to think about Skupin. Disgust with a side of pity, I suppose. I don't envy him the demons he's fighting (and, apparently, losing to).
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Probst was one of his cheerleaders, wonder what he thinks now?
Or Lisa Welchel. Or Jesus.
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I watched the finale last night and Russell didn't cry! I feel cheated. It must have been the HvV finale where he cried.
He didn't cry, but his unhinged, whiny begging to get Natalie to sell him the title is almost as good.
For Quality Russell Tears, watch his exit from Redemption Island. You'll feel like licking your fingers clean. (Then look away the next time the word Hantz gets mentioned. If you haven't seen Brandon before, there is no happy ending down that road.)
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Second unpopular opinion: Ben is a far worse human being than Colton. Both are hateful and ignorant, but Ben is aggressive about it. There doesn't seem to be any information online about where he is now or what he's doing, so I'm going to assume he's in prison.
That is probably fair :)
I rewatched this too not long ago, and I had forgotten about Ben. He is definitely a toxic piece of work. I'm not quite ready to put him ahead of Colton, but that may only be because Colton was on my TV longer. I can put them tied for the top spot.
(Well... arguably behind Brandon, but I think Brandon is actually a decent guy who was struggling with some demons.)
I think this is him: https://twitter.com/browningben
Looking through his feed, there is little of substance. Not a surprise.
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I am kind of okay with a Black person deciding whether she has been the target of racism. I am also okay with her not covering for the person who subjected her to it. White people too often think that they have the right to be final arbiters of whether a Black person has experienced "real" racism. I am more than happy to skip that.
I think that's a fair point.
But I also think tossing that allegation out there on the national stage and then not saying anything else is potentially problematic. You could ruin someone's life.
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This was season 11 -- maybe they felt back then that someone who had done nothing but not pissed anyone off had an insurmountable advantage over someone who made moves but stepped on toes along the way? The Amber Effect?
I don't think that was ever true. But if it was, it's certainly not now. So it's odd to think of Lydia being perceived as a threat.
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I dunno. If he had any sense, he and Steph cut Danni at Final 4. Baffled as to why they didn't. Sure, Lydia was popular with the jury, but there was essentially no chance she wins the immunity. Ah well.
true enough. I wonder if they had a blind spot about Danni. Survivor is replete with people losing to the goat they brought along to the end :) it seems silly for anyone to bring Danni now, but their perspective was probably different at the time.
Why anyone would vote Judd out is a damn mystery, man.
I believed him because I was very surprised that Cindy didn't do that. Even without considering the game aspects of it, I can't imagine passing up the opportunity to give four other people each a car if it only, in essence, costs me one car which I didn't have to pay for to begin with. I'd be Oprah-ing it up too. "YOU get a car and YOU get a car and ..." As far as the game goes, she was pretty much screwed either way though. Either she keeps the car and gets voted out immediately with no regrets because the others are thinking, "yep, enjoy your sunroof, hope it was worth the million," or she gives everyone a car and gets voted out because she just bought a ton of goodwill with people who are going to be on the jury. The latter option seems smarter from a game perspective because I doubt she gets voted out at the very next TC; I think they would have felt beholden enough to vote out Lydia or Danni at that point and then get Cindy at the following TC. And you always want that extra three days because you never know what's going to happen.
This is a good example of why I would sandbag on the individual reward challenges if I was a post-merge Survivor.
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I liked Rafe (and Brian) because they were two of the very few people on that season who had any strategic game at all. Danni did too, and Gary Hawkins-Hogeboom, but we spent so much time with blockheads Judd and Jamie, All-Star Blockhead Bobby Jon, a surprisingly entitled Steph (her strategy was "be Steph") and underpowered stage prop Lydia. For me, the signal/noise ratio for this season was terrible.
I'm not upset to not have Brian and Rafe back on, but if they showed up again, I would be okay with it. It sounds like we're not going to see Danni again, so those two might be the next best options if you go back to the Guatemala well.
I have a lot of affection for this season, mostly because Danni was fun once she stepped into the spotlight. I think she showed to pick a loved one to visit that you were not going to lose your mind about. I think Danni's brother showed up, and she kept her game face on while everyone else was weeping into their buffs. And then she won the advantage at the next immunity challenge.
But the first two thirds of this was a tough slog.
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Cirie is always fun. I'm curious to read your views of Shane.
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I think you're right and they broke up soon after the engagement. If they were married that long there'd be more on the internet about it than that one imdb comment but I don't see anything. That imdb comment has got to be in error. It just was the one I saw first. lol.
I don't see how they could not still be rock-solid after that moving and not at all awkward and hard to watch proposal on the reunion show.
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Interesting. The Survivor wiki says they broke up after she found some texts from Alicia. It sounds like common knowledge on RHAP. But I have no idea how to confirm or deny anything.
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I too cringe at tv proposals but apparently Carolina must've been ok with it. They got married, and are still.
I think you're confusing David & Carolina with one of the other couples from Survivor. D&C got engaged but she called it off because he *might* have been doinking the ever-charming Alicia Rosa.
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S32: Michele Fitzgerald
in Survivor
I don't know what the situation was where Michele was with that tiger. But in my case, I was at an animal preserve filled with animals that had been injured or rescued from zoos or had been hunted/poached nearly to extinction. This was a large specialized game park in South Africa built expressly to help these animals survive when they could not survive on their own. The limited public access was to raise awareness and funding.
I was not messing with a leopard in a cage. I was visiting a leopard snoozing in the sun after a big meal. He had been born in captivity somewhere else and now was being pampered to the best of the staff's ability.
What SHOULD have I done? Or Michele, if she happened to be in a similar place with tigers?
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Back to Survivor, I am curious to see what the relationship is between Michele and Julia. I don't think we got a shot of them interacting at all, and they didn't seem to be colluding on a vote. Are they actually close but didn't interact in an interesting enough for TV manner? Or was Anna the glue?