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Maybe some play off the "purity ring" concept?

While watching a repeat of the recent Discovery/BBC documentary about the Titan sub, I saw promos for the next season of ExU. New season starts on Wed., June 18, 9p EDT. And speaking of that doc, there's a sizable segment with Josh talking about his experience with Oceangate, including lots of footage that would have been in the show had they gone through with it.

I heard it this way quite often from my grandmother: "'Ain't' ain't a word, so you ain't got to say it."

-house is the physical building. The roots are the institutions. Or: one can have a school in a jailhouse, and be jailed in a schoolhouse.

I've been avoiding the casting spoilers (not sure why; I just have been) but I'll be watching S50. Because even a bad season of Survivor is better than any season of Big Brother.

TBF: It wasn't all the teachers/admins; it was just the one, Mr. Feeney. But he was the main one from the start of the series. He was also a new student at first. It was only after getting into a verbal altercation with a college teacher/admin/Dean? that he got hired as an instructor at the college. He also started dating said t/a/D (bonus point since she was played by the actor's rl wife.)

To make it look like they're listening to the audience.

That's part of it. It also fed into the lie they were telling. If Shauhin actually had an idol to play and did so, and everyone else had voted for him, then his vote (for Eva) would be the only one to count. So throwing a vote at Mitch would "force a tie". Basically, it was a Plan Fake Voodoo. (Foodoo?) I did vote No Idols... but I'm absolutely sure there will be idols anyway. The only things I think the voting audience actually decided on were: the tribe colors, the Immunity Necklace design, and what the F4 challenge will be. Because those don't really matter. Anything that would actually impact the flow of the game; idols, advantages, twists, swaps, etc., will all still be decided by TPTB. And we'll never know if the poll results really indicated that the voters wanted things that way or not. True, but I give props to the editors for what they did in that scene. It was unique in the history of Survivor. This episode might be a backup Emmy submission (the earlier episode with Eva's reveal in front of everyone is for sure their primary). The closest thing like this before was the slo-mo and audio drop in the first episode of S44 right after Bruce slammed his head into an obstacle in the Marooning challenge. That was meant to bring us into what Bruce was experiencing, and I think that's what they were going for here with Joe. Didn't quite work the same, but I get it. I noted that the audio drops in both cases were triggered on forms of the word "paranoia". Helpful that both Kyle and Shauhin said those words for the equal triggers.

Well, bye-bye-bye-bye, Mitchell.

That she was using her actual voice instead of the affectation she used on BBT?

This is one reason why they rotate camp locations between seasons. Gives the environments a chance to recover. Plus, the later tribes don't always choose the same locations for their trenches as the prior ones. Notably, when the Green tribe on S46 was digging for an idol in the roots of a banyan tree (based on a clue planted by the person who had already found said idol elsewhere), one of the cast of S43 said that that banyan was where their Blue tribe first dug their trench. I recall a scene one season where a contestant describes one of the benefits of an aquadump as "the evidence just floating away". However, that is also one of the immediate drawbacks. The tides tend to take everything away though, so the ground is relatively solid. I doo apologize.

I've noticed more this season than ever before the number of Band-Aids on all of the contestants' bodies. Obviously they're getting regular medical attention. Long gone are the days of seeing open wounds and hundreds of bug bites that I remember from the early seasons. I'm assuming that along with the medical, they're also given at least basic hygiene care as well. There has always been a basic first-aid kit at every camp in every season of Survivor. The contestants are instructed not to mention it during the show, but many have talked about it in post-show interviews. The band-aids and any feminine hygiene products would be in that, along with simple OTC medications like aspirin (or equivalent). They also include condoms, just in case. And if a contestant has a disclosed condition that does not disqualify them from competing and requires a non-controlled medication (asthma inhaler, daily heart medication, etc.) then those medications are kept in the first-aid kit. Proper latrines, toilet paper, and oral hygiene products used to be tribal rewards, but those particular rewards have gone by the wayside. At present, tribes tend to have both a designated "hole area" and a location in the water for "aqua-dumps".

Fair. But really, that's just the interim steps between the two contrasting points. Meaning, I think we're on the same side of this argument and were just looking at different scopes.

Jury is forbidden to speak to the active contestants until FTC, and I don't think David is dumb enough to break that rule. (Other rules, maybe; but not that one.) So he'd say it was honoring Mary. But like his mean-mugging while on the bench, it's more "spotlight hogging" than anything else. Though the "honoring Mary" part goes against all the slagging off of her he did in all his post-game interviews.

Oh, I do not disagree with you. I was just speculating what Mitch and Kamilla may have been thinking at the time. "As long as it ain't me" can be a winning strategy, but it is hard to pull off. And I don't think Mitch could. Kamilla at least has the additional argument of her deliberately concealing her alliance with Kyle as a long-term strategic move. Also true. However, in order to have a (🤮) resume, you need to still be in the game. Survive tonight; Make moves tomorrow. Sometimes that's the only option you have. (Not that this was the case here, but I think you all get what I mean.)