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And I think Jeff's always thinking about production costs (to the viewer's detriment). Half a merge means forking up only half the food money. Not staying in one place, elaborate challenges, village visits and luxury spa get-a-ways are no more. I really miss old survivor.

The unrelenting pounding background noise and headache-inducing music is my biggest gripe against Survivor. I get sick of rewinding too and usually watch the challenges on mute with closed captioning because Jeff's non-stop banshee screaming makes me want to kill.

Sigh. Yet another couple of airheads who haven't done their homework and want to start a business in a tropical country already completely saturated with holistic "healers", spas, "life counselors" and yoga gurus. The realtor knows it's a doomed project but smiles and goes along for what is probably a very familiar ride - renting homes to half-baked dreamers.

It seemed like he was always playing to the camera. Bhanu acted as if Cecil B. DeMille was personally filming his screen test.

I would love it if Hunter won. I'm tired of winners like Yam Yam who might be funny around a campfire at night but would die in a week if actually marooned on an island. It's really nice to see someone athletic, smart and castaway-capable for a change.

It's tragic really. I don't care how talented a tattooist may be, the final result is beautiful skin covered in doodling. And the lady with the nose bull-ring - it's not doing her any favors.

This actually would have been a very clever idea. The solid parts of the inside bucket blocking the holes in the outside bucket. Being able to carrying one, now full bucket would mean each player could rest between buckets.

I think he could have made a small save by suggesting to his partner that they at least use the remaining time to collect firewood or coconuts so that they didn't arrive back at camp empty-handed. But that would never occur to him. He was just a sore loser - smashing the timer proved that.

Although in real life Tristan spent the war in North Africa tending to military horses, mules and camels, it's much more fun to think of him sashaying through Paris just as you described!

I wish Gordon had addressed the cook constantly wiping his sweaty, greasy, bald head with his sleeve. Ugh.

It's amusing how many players through the years have been legends only in their minds. The only two players that I can think of who were actually running the show quietly behind the scene were Richard from Borneo and Brian Heidik (who I disliked) from Thailand. Brian said in an interview that every night at bedtime he would run not only his best options and next moves, but the best moves for everyone else so he could cut them off at the pass.

Poor kid. My eyes still ache from rolling so hard when I heard that name. Mom should have consulted a dictionary first. Havok (destruction, devastation) does not carry a positive connotation. But she thought it would make him "strong". It made me think of that old Johnny Cash song, "A Boy Named Sue" where the father gave him the name Sue because all the teasing he would endure would make him strong and a fighter. Nice enough lady I guess, I just felt she was trying a bit hard to be Oh So Quirky.

I liked this house except for the location of that massive refrigerator. It stuck out 2' beyond the counter front and from the dining room side it had only about 12" of side wall screening it. I kept wanting to shove it backwards. It was an entity.

Utrecht I liked this couple. They were nice to each other and fairly reasonable in their wants. Anybody else pick up shoe fetish vibes from him? His eyes glazed a few times when talking about his collection, especially when he was lining up the shoes in the closet and tenderly nudged one shoe a half inch into place. 😃

Her age surprised me too. She came off rather cranky, dour and set in her ways for only 28.

I think it was Brandon believing that sitting in a game chair 16 hours a day occasionally lobbing an empty soda can into a nearby waste basket was a significant form of exercise.

Every season the producers are choosing weaker, flakier, more world-stupid players. This group in particular is an embarrassment to their generation. This is what you get when you have kids that think successfully down-loading an App or taking a great selfie is an achievement and a survival skill. Brandon seems like someone who struggles with normal at home let alone a challenging environment and Hannah stole a spot from someone who really would have wanted to be there - all for a hot meal, a pillow and a cigarette. My money is on the lady truck driver. At least she seems down-to-earth and has a tough real-world job.

Their former house was about 4,500 sq. ft.

It sounds like he's going for a lap pool which might be the best choice for a yard that's not too deep. The pool can be as long as they have length for but not usually over 10' wide. I really liked the exterior of that house.

True and state, state, state. Here, in Ventura CA, 25 miles south of Santa Barbara on the coast I doubt you could find any home except a manufactured home, for less than $500,000. Even post-war tract homes are going for $700,000+ these days.

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Tiny House ... Tiny baby (for now) I'd like to think that someday they will realize that when the sale of that tiny house fell through they dodged a big financial bullet. The mother had slightly more common sense than the father but between the two of them they still weren't operating at 100%. That baby will be walking very soon and there will be privacy issues too in just a few short years. Who thought squeezing a family into a box significantly smaller than a standard two car garage was ever a good idea? No one looking into buying one of these things ever mentions the logistics and headache of trying to change the sheets and blankets on a mattress that fits wall-to-wall and has only two feet of head clearance. They would ultimately be much better off applying their savings towards a down payment on a real house.

Glad to know I'm not the only one that thought calling a two-story house over a basement that was reached by a tall flight of front steps being called anything close to a ranch was very odd. Here, in the West a ranch-style home always means a single-story home with one or two steps up to the front door. One of the main perks of a ranch is the avoidance of steps and staircases.

You remember correctly. Back in the first few seasons Jeff barely commented at all during challenges unless someone made a great move or was knocked silly. And there was no ear-splitting background music/clanging noise for him to need to scream over either.

The choice of that sink by whoever built that house was a real head-scratcher. Nice airy kitchen, big window, lots of counterspace and then a 12" round sink - hardly large enough to wash a dinner plate in. Cairnes seemed like a very nice area to live.