Archive through December 13, 2002
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Archive through December 13, 2002
Zipsdaddy | Sunday, October 06, 2002 - 08:21 am     Thanks Mssilhouette for saying what I have been feeling about Ted. I felt his response to Brian, and then to the group was totally appropriate so as not to divulge the rape Ghandia told him about. It was her confession to him that some people made her feel like she had brought it on, and he was defending her honor by keeping that secret for her. Ghandia may be playing him. She could have had a solid alliance with him to the end.... She didn't think it out very well... She is too emotional about the whole thing. One thing is for sure, the bickering continues, and the group will opt for one of them to go... most likely Ghandia. |
Alegria | Sunday, October 06, 2002 - 02:23 pm     Ted's a keeper. He dealt with the consequences as well as possible (uh, except for telling Ghandia that she was no-Ted-magnet). he would definitely be a person easier to spend time with over the long haul and is not high maintenance. I also liked him early on. |
Csnog | Sunday, October 06, 2002 - 03:16 pm     I forget what site I read of Ted's weight loss but it was from his home newspaper. Ghandia played the whole thing to the hilt to keep from being the next one sent packing. SMOKE SCREEN nothing more. What woman does not remove herself from a situation? Especially if she was a victim of a rape. Makes no sense to me. Ted had a lot to do with winning both challenges and I believe that Jan would not vote for him to go, along with Brian and Clay. Ghandia has screwed up several times while Ted has not. Ted is STAYING!! |
Hermione69 | Sunday, October 06, 2002 - 04:44 pm     I just wanted to respond to this-- "What woman does not remove herself from a situation? Especially if she was a victim of a rape. Makes no sense to me." Many women who are victims of sexual abuse-- whether rape, childhood sexual abuse, incest, or whatever- respond to men in very inappropriate ways. One of my best friends growing up was raped and she became extremely promiscuous in her twenties. I don't think we should use that Ghandia was raped as a yardstick for how she should have behaved. Humans rarely make sense when something traumatic has happened to them. Ghandia probably still has a lot of issues with men and her behavior with Ted certainly seems to support that. MHO and all that. I like Ted, even though I don't think he is blameless, and I would certainly rather see him stay. I thought that he handled the whole situation impressively well. I feel sorry for Ghandia, but certainly do not believe sympathy or pity or what-have-you a reason to keep her. |
Csnog | Sunday, October 06, 2002 - 05:27 pm     We are obsessing about this as much as Ghandia. The contestants have to go through a battery of tests and Ghandia herself was willing to show her "chi-chi's" to win IM. Why go to Helen and Jan after the RC? BUT before the IC. If she was so emotionally disturbed by what supposedly happened and we only have her word on it, WHY NOT MOVE AWAY and WHY forget to mention the apology? Does she want the other contestants to have to tip toe around her? I think it so but they won't do it. |
Gidget | Sunday, October 06, 2002 - 05:37 pm     Your point is well taken Hermione but if Ghandia is haunted by a past rape I'm surprised it did not come out in her psych evaluation. I mean a show that has strangers living in tropical hell for weeks, running around half dressed and God knows they hope for hanky panky... it makes ratings. Wouldn't such a show be interested in the sexual psychological health of the participants. I'm not saying you can't be on the show if you've been raped or abused. I'm just saying some people are able to work through such experiences and find a healthy place and good psychological testing would catch that. |
Hermione69 | Sunday, October 06, 2002 - 05:51 pm     Nothing that I said was in defense of how she behaved the next day with the tribe. I happen to agree that her behavior at that time was less than stellar. I was simply trying to give a different perspective as to why or how she may have gotten herself into the situation in the first place and why she may not have moved when it occurred. That is the part of her behavior to which sexual trauma of some sort may have contributed. On some level Ghandia is probably aware that she contributed to the situation and the way she behaved the next day was to try to, like you said, blow smoke to cover it up. I doubt, BTW, that these battery of tests are a perfect way to weed out people with problems. Look at some of the loonies we have had on reality TV shows! Since this is the Ted thread... I agree that Ted is staying and I think he should be the one to stay. (BTW and totally off topic, I love your username. The most popular book in my library right now is "Angus, Thongs, and Full Fronting Snogging." When we first distributed a list of our new books, several teachers came in to see the snogging book because they were convinced it was something dirty!) |
Hermione69 | Sunday, October 06, 2002 - 05:58 pm     I've been through tons of pyschological tests (errr, should I be admitting that?) for depression resulting from an abusive marriage and anyone with half a brain who wanted to "beat" the tests would know the right answers to give. Also, can I say "Justin of BB2"???? Just saying.... and shutting up now and going to the PITA thread..... |
Csnog | Sunday, October 06, 2002 - 06:00 pm     hehehe and I thought I was the only one who knew what it meant. |
Llkoolaid | Sunday, October 06, 2002 - 08:58 pm     My first impression of the incident was, Ted is a dog, but after reading and watching everything, I tend to believe him. Ghandia was all over him for the first week. She was completly relaxed with her hand on his thigh. She slept beside him every night. The signals she was sending out may have only been for friendship but to me they could have been seen as more by Ted. If he did do all that she said he did why did she not move as soon as it started. ( I don't really think that it was as bad as she said, the camera showed him pulling her close, do you really think they would have moved off them after that or film it and not show it. She brought it up to him, told him it made her uncomfortable, ( she had me on her side at this point). He apoligized and she hugged him. (made me go hmmmm) She tells the girls but leaves out the apoligy.(sp).( hmmmm again) She does the drama queen routine when she finds out that he told Brian nothing happened. (more hmmm) The more this goes on the more I think she is using whatever happened to get the focus for eviction of her. Ted owned up to what he did, explained that he was half asleep and thought it was his wife, he became more awake and realized he had done something wrong. He said he was going to talk to her about it himself to clear it up. When he was talking to Brian he said he made a mistake and rectified it. I think when he told Brian that nothing happened, he meant nothing big. Now I don't think it was right of Ted to be spooning with another woman, he is married. Ghandia is married also, so they are equally wrong here. I just think that whatever Ted did, he was half asleep and when he came more awake he realized that he was doing something to Ghandia and stopped. Ghandia should have moved when she felt the least bit uncomfortable. She stayed there, and didn't do anything. She stayed there the rest of the night. To me Ted's story sounds true, and I think that after accepting his apolegy Ghandia should have let it go. |
Riviere | Friday, October 11, 2002 - 12:59 am     Hang in there Ted!!! You big ox, what in the heck were you thinking of getting so close to a woman who professed she felt about you in a very similar way to her big, strong hubby, whom she missed after a scant few days? You know, the one parading half naked being touchy-feely and then spooning with you at night? Then there's this big 'incident' one night and you're practically some predatory perv just that quick. DUH.. My husband would never get into that mess. He has worked with women for years but never enters their offices alone, know why? He's privy to their confidential work histories. Right down to their alleged sexual harassment files showing when and where and how they were promoted and transferred to greener pastures.. He never fixes their equipment without at least 2 other techs, and preferably one of them another woman. It's gotten that bad in his profession.. Like you, he is a big guy, a la Tom Selleck, friendly, ladies find him attractive, secure. He's got to watch his every step these days! Any time a divorcee transfers in and meets him and then starts asking for him by name, that's a red flag. Ghandia was your red flag, Ted.. I don't think you have a chance of a win now, but hang in, help mend your tribe, and go home to your wife a wiser man? I agree you've done the right and honorable thing not to blab secrets Ghandia told you, but right there spilling her guts and pawing you that way within days of meeting? I could see that in a scenario of real survivors with little chance of going home again, but on a televised game show in the first week? Live and learn, Ted, sleeping with the enemy isn't the best idea you ever had..
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Webkitty | Friday, October 25, 2002 - 07:01 am     Why was Ted the only one last night who had little bits of debris sticking all over him? I kept shouting at him to take a dip or something! |
Tester | Friday, October 25, 2002 - 09:38 am     Webkitty, I did too. I finally decided that maybe he had been chopping coconut meat. |
Djgirl5235 | Friday, October 25, 2002 - 01:07 pm     Was it ever edited poorly though, because he looked at Brian the first time and he was all clean, the next shot of him has him covered in these little bits of stuff... Where was the in between?! |
Pollyanna | Friday, November 08, 2002 - 11:59 am     Nothing really spoiler-wise, but just a few comments I heard on the radio this morning... A local radio station (Durham, North Carolina) had a lady on that works with Ted. She mentioned a couple of things: One, he recently bought a brand-new expensive motorcyle, and two, he didn't show up for work the day after the Ghandia episode was shown (who can blame him?). She also said that he was really nice, smart, and pretty high up within the company. I know we hear lots of "well they just recently bought..." spoilers," and that the winner hasn't even gotten his/her money yet, but I just thought it was kind of interesting. |
Car54 | Friday, November 08, 2002 - 02:54 pm     I think Ted made at least final 3 and if he did, that means he got some decent money. There is also a spoiler that his brother went to Thailand for the family challenge and they won it. That was at the F5. |
Gina8642 | Friday, December 06, 2002 - 05:40 pm     I think Ted wins the car next Thursday. In next weeks promo I can see everyone in the back of the vehicle except Ted. To me, that means he's driving, and everyone got to go for a ride in his new car. |
Tabbyking | Thursday, December 12, 2002 - 01:07 pm     i thought i just won ted! my email said, "WIN A FREE GRINDER!"...and then i saw the small print, "and coffee samples, too." ah shucks... |
Ladytex | Thursday, December 12, 2002 - 01:16 pm     lol Tabbyking |
Mygetaway | Thursday, December 12, 2002 - 09:41 pm     Wow.. In Ted's final words at CBS he says he lost 60 pounds. That's a lot!! Ted's Final Words |
Tabbyking | Thursday, December 12, 2002 - 10:22 pm     i was amazed when he said to helen that he weighed 310!!! that's a mountain! he looked real good at the end. i laughed when clay saw himself and said something about being a 'little guy'. lol |
Seamonkey | Thursday, December 12, 2002 - 11:39 pm     Yes, Ted got the SUV, and the money and the experience, AND the equivalent weight loss of having a personal trainer for monthes.. good going, really. |
Squaredsc | Friday, December 13, 2002 - 10:11 am     im sorry ted is gone. he was one of my fav's. i really liked his personality. and wow he lost 60 pounds. i need to be on survivor. i was also proud to see that he was wearing a Morgan State University t-shirt. my alma mater(sp). gonna miss you big guy. |
Hermione69 | Friday, December 13, 2002 - 10:13 am     I liked Ted a lot. Farewell, Big Guy! You didn't do too shabby! |
Fluff | Friday, December 13, 2002 - 10:24 am     WE MISS YOU TED!!! |
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