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Mocha
Member
08-12-2001
| Wednesday, March 16, 2005 - 10:21 am
This team is annoying.
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Auntiemike
Member
09-17-2001
| Wednesday, March 16, 2005 - 11:11 am
'Childish' came to my mind.
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Julieboo
Member
02-05-2002
| Wednesday, March 16, 2005 - 11:18 am
Oh, I like them. Yeah, they did get into a childish spat, but they got over it pretty quickly.
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Yankee_in_ca
Member
08-01-2000
| Wednesday, March 16, 2005 - 11:53 am
For some reason, my dh can't stand this team. Every time they come on the screen, he makes a hmmpf noise or something like it. I'm not quite sure what about them makes him so annoyed, but it's there 
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Mocha
Member
08-12-2001
| Wednesday, March 16, 2005 - 2:55 pm
And that's why your dh and I get along so well Yankee lol.
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Lexie_girl
Member
07-30-2004
| Wednesday, March 16, 2005 - 2:57 pm
This team is annoying - but I'd rather see Lynn and Alex go first because they can be so hateful.
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Tntitanfan
Member
08-03-2001
| Wednesday, March 16, 2005 - 8:19 pm
How could anybody be lost in a CITY for an hour and a half? I can't imagine that it could take them than a few minutes to find someone with enough English to direct them. Had they been out in the countryside, then maybe it would have been a problem, but not in that big a city!
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Penpoint
Member
03-27-2001
| Wednesday, March 16, 2005 - 11:27 pm
I get a kick out of Susan and Patrick. They alternate between being rather nonchalant about this race and being quite intense. And there's this mercurial aspect in their relationship, quick shifts from tension-filled to comfortable.
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Seamonkey
Member
09-07-2000
| Thursday, March 17, 2005 - 12:07 am
Not very quickly, Julie.. they were ahead of the girl team when they started and by the time they left for the checkpoint the only thing that saved them was yet another wrong turn by the girl team. His little tantrum just about knocked them out of the race. I'm with Yankee's DH and Mocha..just very annoying and the son just ignores her.. like at the gas station where he was muffing the directions, while neither one of them noticed another car driving right by in the opposite direction. Usually it is helpful to note when other TAR teams are nearby. I was hoping they'd go tonight even though I also don't like the team that left.. they still had more to them
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Padivius
Member
08-21-2003
| Monday, March 21, 2005 - 12:10 pm
Tntitanfan: It's much easier to get lost in a city than in the country. In the city, there are lots of twisting/winding streets, lots of people, lots of other cars, buildings, etc. In the country, things generally tend to be easier to keep track of in your head.
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Tntitanfan
Member
08-03-2001
| Monday, March 21, 2005 - 5:33 pm
You are right, Padivius! My point was that there are lots of people in a city to consult regarding directions - a fact that this team failed to take advantage of!
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Seamonkey
Member
09-07-2000
| Monday, March 21, 2005 - 9:24 pm
I think they get so involved in bickering that they aren't being observant about their surroundings.. Surely it is a cardinal rule on TAR to try to be aware of the other teams and one of the teams went right past them when Patrick was getting directions.. in the opposite direction. Of course since that was the girl team (I think) then these two might have blindly followed them out of the way as well..
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Padivius
Member
08-21-2003
| Tuesday, March 22, 2005 - 10:47 am
Tntitanfan: That is very true! However, I'm not sure I would incriminate them based solely on the fact that they got lost once, regardless of whether they didn't take advantage of all the possible ressources. I don`t know, guess it just takes mroe than that to convince me. BTW: Hoorey for diplomatic, polite argument!
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Seamonkey
Member
09-07-2000
| Tuesday, March 22, 2005 - 12:23 pm
Hooray indeed, Padivius! I guess, for me, they are trying to hard to have a "story" but are merely annoying me. He's just not "Machiavellian" even though he badmouths Rob and Amber and they are each quick to bicker and that just impairs their teamwork no end. At the meat competition she needed to be quiet, but he REALLY needed to get going! The only reason they beat the girls at the end was the girls got lost, again! They aren't in the "bad guy" leagues for me, just no fun to watch.
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Padivius
Member
08-21-2003
| Tuesday, March 22, 2005 - 9:13 pm
OK, even I must admit that Patrick was extremely painful to watch this evening? Why does he always have to be harping on Susan like that? She's only trying to help him by giving suggestions with the dang horse. And what's with totally giving up? There was always the possibility of a non-elimination round (which I fully expected and was kind of surprised). He got on my nerves in tonight's episode.
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Seamonkey
Member
09-07-2000
| Tuesday, March 22, 2005 - 9:41 pm
Haven't see it yet, of course but, I wonder if they thought they were supposed to be the "battling mother and son".. I know she said they were "different". Oh well, Buh Bye! (I just hope that she comes around to realizing what a time they had! Or they get to know each other in sequester?)
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Tishala
Member
08-01-2000
| Tuesday, March 22, 2005 - 11:59 pm
LOL Sea. I was gonna come here to post "buh bye, now" but you beat me to it.
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Seamonkey
Member
09-07-2000
| Wednesday, March 23, 2005 - 12:59 am
We can both smile and give them the royal wave!
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Tntitanfan
Member
08-03-2001
| Wednesday, March 23, 2005 - 6:24 am
I think the problem was that she just couldn't step out of the mother role and into the partner role, and he couldn't step out of the rebellious kidlet role and into the partner role. Gus and Hera worked hard at this transition last time-
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Seamonkey
Member
09-07-2000
| Wednesday, March 23, 2005 - 10:50 am
Gus and Hera were much more pleasant and mature. Susan and Patrick are closer to the father and son team a few seasons back where the father was conservative and the son was gay, but those two, while starting out more at odds in their regular life, seemed to gain an appreciation for each other and the dad seemed pleased that his son was more mature than he'd given him credit for.. I thought Susan was less than gracious at the end, and Patrick could have moved two feet and comforted her.. so.. no growth seen on screen.
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Maris
Member
03-28-2002
| Wednesday, March 23, 2005 - 1:25 pm
Yep Sayonara. have to say I didnt like either one of them. Now all I want to do is say so long to Alex and Lynn and I will be happy.
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Bonzacat
Member
07-08-2003
| Wednesday, March 23, 2005 - 1:34 pm
That really was the most uncomfortable exit interview I've ever seen! If they were "happy to have been given the chance to grow closer" or "loved the Amazing Race experience", that was left on the cutting room floor. I was left with the feeling they might not even sit next to each other on the plane ride to sequestration.
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Texannie
Member
07-16-2001
| Wednesday, March 23, 2005 - 3:22 pm
It was an odd interview!! Where they on the Early show today?
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Seamonkey
Member
09-07-2000
| Wednesday, March 23, 2005 - 6:30 pm
I missed it.. was up way too late and didn't wake up until ES was almost over and then got right back into Schiavo.. Hopefully they came up with SOMETHING to say besides hating on Rob and each other.
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Spear
Member
08-06-2001
| Thursday, March 24, 2005 - 2:04 am
As far as I know, none of this season's eliminated teams have been on The Early Show yet. Last season, they waited until the 3rd team. I would have thought they'd start earlier this time given the show's improving ratings but ... TV Guide Insider has been interviewing all the teams though. Susan and Patrick's interview will probably show up next week.
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Seamonkey
Member
09-07-2000
| Thursday, March 24, 2005 - 2:08 am
I just watched this episode again while playing games and what a snotty comment about the juggler..
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Texannie
Member
07-16-2001
| Friday, March 25, 2005 - 8:43 am
Patrick says "we could hear on the walkie-talkies that" other teams were ahead. Generally, the only rule on The Amazing Race is "never give up." Many teams have insisted they were in last place, only to find that they were not. So watching Patrick essentially give up on this week's episode of The Amazing Race 7 seemed like another example of premature quitting. But Patrick's pessimism was backed by evidence we didn't see, he tells TV Guide. While waiting for a new boat, he says "we could hear on the walkie-talkies that they had found their clues and were on their way to the pit stop." He doesn't specify whose walkie-talkies these were -- productions or the boat crews' -- but clearly they knew how everyone else was doing. Additionally, Patrick says they waited two hours for a cab and "were even thinking that we'd have to get a hostel and check into the pit stop in the morning." Patrick also tells us why he hates Survivor's Rob so much: He says when he saw them, "I was so annoyed because I love the show and I was like 'Oh, my god, The Amazing Race is jumping the shark!'" He says it was great that, during the roadblock, Rob "got beat by two gay guys and a girl! [Yet] they're giving him credit for playing the game like Survivor. It's annoying, but there are a lot of people with their noses up Rob and Amber's buttholes. But that's cool -- that's what happens to media ." http://www.realityblurred.com/realitytv/archives/the_amazing_race_7/2005_Mar_25_patrick nice guy!!!!!!!!
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Cdbga
Member
10-04-2004
| Friday, March 25, 2005 - 10:12 am
Well, did they also hear on the walkie talkies that it wasn't a non-elimination leg? That's the reason you shouldn't give up even if you know you are last. Besides, he says that they heard on the walkie talkies that the teams had found clues and were on their way to the pit stop, not that they'd checked in. Who knows what could have happened to the teams between the Detour and the Pit Stop? As for his other comments...well, I think I'll just be good and not address those.
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Kitt
Member
09-06-2000
| Friday, March 25, 2005 - 10:21 am
That's why the teams being so angry at Rob is so silly - Patrick is happy that 'Rob "got beat by two gay guys and a girl!"', as if it bothered Rob. Rob didn't care about it, he's focused on doing his own thing. The only ones getting worked up about it are the other competitors.
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Seamonkey
Member
09-07-2000
| Friday, March 25, 2005 - 12:25 pm
I'd say attitudes like Patrick's are more a contribution to shark-jumping.. the way he came in billing himself as "Machiavellian".. then he saw that there was a person who could out-scheme Patrick any day and he wasn't with his Mommy.. And his interpretation of "beaten".. guess who is still there.. not the girl and not one gay guy (his characterization, NOT mine).
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Babyruth
Member
07-19-2001
| Monday, March 28, 2005 - 7:49 pm
Interview with Patrick, the self-described pessimist: Link to Advocate interview
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Seamonkey
Member
09-07-2000
| Tuesday, March 29, 2005 - 9:19 am
Good interview. He just comes across to me as an "unformed person".. like maybe he really doesn't know himself yet. Perhaps the race gave him some insight. Oh I found it highly interesting that he dropped out of college and seems to make it an issue that he never wants to finish, and I bet he isn't even aware that Rob does have an eductation, did finish.. I'd be willing to bet he thinks Rob is a redneck and he is more sophisticated and analytical.. Anyway, thanks for the link, BR.
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Seamonkey
Member
09-07-2000
| Tuesday, March 29, 2005 - 11:42 am
Oh and I found it just fascinating that for all his criticism of Rob, it turns out that Patrick was trying to not have to eat the meat, hoping the girls would arrive late enough, or he could convince them ALSO to wait four hours, which would put Patrick and Susan in good shape to beat out the girls without eating the meat. So he actually did want to quit and dragged it out for hours. And he mentions that (having eaten the meat and not feeling well) as why he was grumpy in their last leg of the race.
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Texannie
Member
07-16-2001
| Tuesday, March 29, 2005 - 3:01 pm
He just seems so much younger than his actual age.
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