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Reality TVClubHouse Discussions: Survivor ARCHIVES: Survivor XIX - Samoa ~ 2: Survivor XIX - Samoa: 6th Show, Oct. 22nd: Archive through October 30, 2009 users admin

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Lakecat
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10-01-2006

Thursday, October 29, 2009 - 10:29 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Lakecat a private message Print Post    
I like Russell and the one that looks like Kevin Spacey-----Dave.

Beekindpleez
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07-18-2006

Thursday, October 29, 2009 - 10:48 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Beekindpleez a private message Print Post    
Thanks, Lex! I've been on that couch so long, there's a great big dent in the cushion! HA!

Jeep
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10-17-2001

Thursday, October 29, 2009 - 11:58 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Jeep a private message Print Post    
BUMP
Scooch over....I want on the couch too!

Kitt
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09-06-2000

Thursday, October 29, 2009 - 12:07 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Kitt a private message Print Post    
Well maybe CBS was right to push him so much after all, if so many of you like him. He just comes across as all mouth and no trousers to me.

Panda
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07-15-2005

Thursday, October 29, 2009 - 12:56 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Panda a private message Print Post    
the thing with Russell is I kept reading about how he's the most evil player, etc and I think it sort of hyped me for the worst but I really don't think he is! On that couch/train from the get-go!

Askme_who_ur
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08-19-2006

Thursday, October 29, 2009 - 12:57 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Askme_who_ur a private message Print Post    
After last week when everyone was crying about being cold from the rain. He said bring it awn ! He is there to experience Survivor not for a vacation. the 90210 crowd just want some yoga time with pay.

He gives 110% each week. I really don't see him as being cocky. He just is in your face honest. Some perceive that as cocky. He isn't there to cater to the tribe mates either. They need to learn how to provide for themselves. He is there to win for himself and his family.

Roxip
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01-29-2004

Thursday, October 29, 2009 - 1:31 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Roxip a private message Print Post    
Well, still don't like him, but being the politically correct person that I am (HA!) I will certainly not stand in the way of your enjoyment of him...LOL!

Mimi
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04-30-2009

Thursday, October 29, 2009 - 3:09 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mimi a private message Print Post    
Panda I have said the same thing about Russell. Unless something is coming up to blow my mind, I don't find him to be a big villain.

Csnog
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07-18-2002

Thursday, October 29, 2009 - 3:22 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Csnog a private message Print Post    
I'm not sure where I read it but before the show started ER was listed as owning oil tankers.

He transports oil, doesn't drill for oil.

I may be wrong, also, I never considered him evil so far...If your there to play a game hold your cards close and keep your mouth shut.

We haven't had a woman winner in awhile. Won't this season either. Not since Parvati.......Well I guess 6 women isn't bad out of 18.

Pamy
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01-02-2002

Thursday, October 29, 2009 - 5:32 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Pamy a private message Print Post    
aahhhhh my heart is full seeing all the Russ love here tonight! <wipes a tear>

I also agree that I dont think he is big villian, he is a gamer and started playing the minute they told him he was selected. I think he is very smart and I bet he is not nasty outside the game.

Kitt
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09-06-2000

Thursday, October 29, 2009 - 6:19 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Kitt a private message Print Post    
He has a criminal record that suggests he at least was nasty outside the game (resisting arrest, stealing a car, two drug offenses) but I think I remember reading his last arrest was 10 years ago so maybe he's changed.

I don't think his criminal past has much relevance to how good he's playing the game, but it does give credence to certain less than pleasant elements of his character (bullying, intimidation) that we've seen.

Pamy
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01-02-2002

Friday, October 30, 2009 - 11:18 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Pamy a private message Print Post    
yes lots can happen in 10 yrs. Didnt he have kids within the last 10 yrs? I thought I read his dad was a pastor but when he said it last night I wondered if it was a lie.

Sammi
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03-31-2008

Friday, October 30, 2009 - 11:51 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Sammi a private message Print Post    
Everything he says is a lie, I wouldn't believe a thing that comes out of his mouth. I thought I read somwhere that he was a millionaire. If that's so I can't understand what he's doing there, he don't need the money.....

Roxip
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01-29-2004

Friday, October 30, 2009 - 12:00 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Roxip a private message Print Post    
I understand that to Russell it is a game. The only problem that I have with his type of game (and others before him) is that I think if you can actually stand there in a game and lie to someone's face (for no good purpose) and do destructive things to people who are for that moment supposedly your allies, then in your personal and professional life you can do the same things. IMO it is borderline anti-social behavior. He might be a prince of a guy in real life but I would probably not want to pursue a friendship with someone like that.

Lexie_girl
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07-30-2004

Friday, October 30, 2009 - 12:21 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Lexie_girl a private message Print Post    
What difference does it make if Russell is a millionaire? Last season (or the season before), they had that guy who was a multi-millionaire off granola bars (or whatever it was).

Bonbonlover
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07-13-2000

Friday, October 30, 2009 - 12:26 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Bonbonlover a private message Print Post    
I don't so much have a problem with Russell's lying to everyone... (I was also a fan of Will Kirby in Big Brother) ... but I don't like his gratuitous comments about the other players. "The stupid women" "They are all idiots" and his self-aggrandizing statements "I am the king" "I run this place" "If I want it done, it will be done" ... not my cup of tea.

Karuuna
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08-31-2000

Friday, October 30, 2009 - 12:30 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Karuuna a private message Print Post    
Bonbon, I'm with you. That stuff is over the top. It's not necessary, and not part of the game at all.

Spoton
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09-16-2005

Friday, October 30, 2009 - 12:48 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Spoton a private message Print Post    
(Dragging in another piece of the sectional to add to the couch...) I even love his smack-talk about everyone else (behind their backs, of course!) It's all a part of his persona, his shtick. Part of the reason I like him, is that he reminds me of a guy I worked with for years - rude, crude, totally polically incorrect!

I'm sad to see his little round belly grow flatter with the lack of food. I hope they fatten him back up for the next Survivor!!

Nerovh
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06-12-2005

Friday, October 30, 2009 - 1:24 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Nerovh a private message Print Post    
Russell lies waaaaay too easily for my taste. If he can do it this easily and naturally in a game, it makes me just not like him as a person. I know that I couldn't destroy other people's property without qualms the way he did, even in a game. I could probably muster up some lies if I really had too, but I wouldn't be able to do it with every other breath the way he does. And the insults about other people bother me as well. Smack talk is one thing, but the way he talks about "these idiots" and "these dumb--- women" is just much for me.

Mimi
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04-30-2009

Friday, October 30, 2009 - 3:55 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mimi a private message Print Post    
Bonbon I didn't like Russell's "stupid women" comments and some of the other things he said either, but to me he is just an idiot not a villain. Notice he says everything behind everyone's backs and not to their faces which makes me think he is more bark than bite.

I can actually watch him and not cringe, as opposed to that nutbar Coach on the last Survivor. I had to stop watching until he was voted off.

Costacat
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07-15-2000

Friday, October 30, 2009 - 4:28 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Costacat a private message Print Post    
What Roxi and Bonbon said. If he hadn't started out the show with his misogynistic statements about the women on his tribe, he might have started out with my having some respect for him. But the things he says and the way he says them, the way he lies and destroys other people's property... doesn't matter whether he's an idiot or a villain, he's pretty much unlikable to me. I thank goodness that I DVR this show every week so I can FF through his bluster. It's just not amusing to me.

Sallly
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10-24-2009

Friday, October 30, 2009 - 5:49 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Sallly a private message Print Post    
Can someone tell/remind me what Russell did to destroy someone's property? I missed the 1st ep, so I'm wondering if I missed it then.

Pamy
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01-02-2002

Friday, October 30, 2009 - 6:22 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Pamy a private message Print Post    
Roxip, the lying doesnt bother me within the game. I play poker and in the game I lie my ass off.

I find his smack talk funny. I am usually not a fan of nasty stuff like that but for some reason with him I take it as a joke.

The other tribe bad mouths Shambo, some of it much nastier than the stuff Russ says jet no one seems bothered by it. At least I havent read many comments about it. Plus! they are mean to her.

Pamy
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01-02-2002

Friday, October 30, 2009 - 6:26 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Pamy a private message Print Post    
Sally, he poured out everyone's water from their canteens and burned sox. We later saw one set of sox was Jaison's but I cant remember if he burnt anyone else's.

That to our knowledge is the only time he did something like that, if it did more of it they havent shown it and no one has mentioned it.

Biscottiii
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05-29-2004

Friday, October 30, 2009 - 6:28 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Biscottiii a private message Print Post    
Sallly, the very first night after they arrived in camp (in the dark) he put Jaison's socks and, I thought one other woman's socks in the fire. They had been drying over a stick by the fire. Given how serious infections or potential blisters can turn bad in that environment, that was serious property damage.

As the socks burned, Russell drank his fill from the water canteens and then poured all the remaining water on the ground. All while everyone was sleeping.