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Mocha
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08-12-2001

Wednesday, March 16, 2005 - 10:21 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
This team is annoying.

Auntiemike
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09-17-2001

Wednesday, March 16, 2005 - 11:11 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
'Childish' came to my mind.

Julieboo
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02-05-2002

Wednesday, March 16, 2005 - 11:18 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Oh, I like them. Yeah, they did get into a childish spat, but they got over it pretty quickly.

Yankee_in_ca
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08-01-2000

Wednesday, March 16, 2005 - 11:53 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
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 :-)

Mocha
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08-12-2001

Wednesday, March 16, 2005 - 2:55 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
And that's why your dh and I get along so well Yankee lol.

Lexie_girl
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07-30-2004

Wednesday, March 16, 2005 - 2:57 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
This team is annoying - but I'd rather see Lynn and Alex go first because they can be so hateful.

Tntitanfan
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08-03-2001

Wednesday, March 16, 2005 - 8:19 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
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!

Penpoint
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03-27-2001

Wednesday, March 16, 2005 - 11:27 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
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.

Seamonkey
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09-07-2000

Thursday, March 17, 2005 - 12:07 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
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

Padivius
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08-21-2003

Monday, March 21, 2005 - 12:10 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
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.

Tntitanfan
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08-03-2001

Monday, March 21, 2005 - 5:33 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
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!

Seamonkey
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09-07-2000

Monday, March 21, 2005 - 9:24 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
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..

Padivius
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08-21-2003

Tuesday, March 22, 2005 - 10:47 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
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!

Seamonkey
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09-07-2000

Tuesday, March 22, 2005 - 12:23 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
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.



Padivius
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08-21-2003

Tuesday, March 22, 2005 - 9:13 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
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.

Seamonkey
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09-07-2000

Tuesday, March 22, 2005 - 9:41 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
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?)

Tishala
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08-01-2000

Tuesday, March 22, 2005 - 11:59 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
LOL Sea. I was gonna come here to post "buh bye, now" but you beat me to it.

Seamonkey
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09-07-2000

Wednesday, March 23, 2005 - 12:59 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
We can both smile and give them the royal wave!

Tntitanfan
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08-03-2001

Wednesday, March 23, 2005 - 6:24 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
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-

Seamonkey
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09-07-2000

Wednesday, March 23, 2005 - 10:50 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
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.

Maris
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03-28-2002

Wednesday, March 23, 2005 - 1:25 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
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.

Bonzacat
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07-08-2003

Wednesday, March 23, 2005 - 1:34 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
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.

Texannie
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07-16-2001

Wednesday, March 23, 2005 - 3:22 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
It was an odd interview!!
Where they on the Early show today?

Seamonkey
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09-07-2000

Wednesday, March 23, 2005 - 6:30 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
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.

Spear
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08-06-2001

Thursday, March 24, 2005 - 2:04 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
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.

Seamonkey
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09-07-2000

Thursday, March 24, 2005 - 2:08 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I just watched this episode again while playing games and what a snotty comment about the juggler..



Texannie
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07-16-2001

Friday, March 25, 2005 - 8:43 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
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!!!!!!!!

Cdbga
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10-04-2004

Friday, March 25, 2005 - 10:12 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
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.

Kitt
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09-06-2000

Friday, March 25, 2005 - 10:21 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
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.

Seamonkey
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09-07-2000

Friday, March 25, 2005 - 12:25 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
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).



Babyruth
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07-19-2001

Monday, March 28, 2005 - 7:49 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Interview with Patrick, the self-described pessimist:

Link to Advocate interview



Seamonkey
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09-07-2000

Tuesday, March 29, 2005 - 9:19 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
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.

Seamonkey
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09-07-2000

Tuesday, March 29, 2005 - 11:42 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
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.

Texannie
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07-16-2001

Tuesday, March 29, 2005 - 3:01 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
He just seems so much younger than his actual age.