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Cassie
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07-15-2000

Wednesday, March 17, 2004 - 8:27 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I did NOT like BR the first time, but I am enjoying him this time around. He's definitely good to have around for his tribe (and Amber!) Yes, he was arrogant towards Rupert tonight, but if you want real arrogance, look to Tattoo Man, Lex. I think the way he dealt with Ethan tonight was so slimy and down low. I'd take BR any day over Lex...Rob is easy on the eyes and is entertaining. Lex is downright creepy and is leading "his" tribe to definite defeat. He will never be the Alpha Male he so desperately wants to be and voting out all the guys on his tribe is a pathetic way to go about it.

Ladytex
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09-27-2001

Wednesday, March 17, 2004 - 8:46 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I'm another Rob fan. I liked him and Sean the first time around, too ....

Dee
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08-08-2000

Wednesday, March 17, 2004 - 10:22 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I like Boston Rob - with that humor, he makes for good TV.

Would I trust him if I was on the island with him? Would I trust him with my last $20? Would I even trust him walking my granny across a busy street? No... No... No!!!

But I'm enjoying him now!

Kappy
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06-29-2002

Wednesday, March 17, 2004 - 11:07 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Lol, Dee. I, like Caycaye was just beginning to think I could like him and then his tirade about his superiority once again.

Keep talking Rob. Keep letting everyone know you're the strongest and the best. Because we all know what happens to the strongest and the best.

Sunshyne4u
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06-17-2003

Thursday, March 18, 2004 - 2:20 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    

What's wrong with a litle humility.....I mean, everyone would have NOTICED Rob's eleven fish, without him rubbing it in so well........


This comment cracked me right up. Rupert had TONS of fans last season....regardless of his arrogant comments of superiority above the other men of his tribe ESPECIALLY about his prowness in fishing. Who could forget his hissy fit when the tip was lost>?? Childish and blaming is how it looked to me.
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I LOVED seeing Robfather go out and promptly catch a fish in like 10 secs...the LOOK on Rupert's face was hilarious. He was almost pouting. As Rob said, the constant comments about how Rupert was "such a great fisherman" was irritating. Now they }could now be put to rest LOL

Hermione69
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07-24-2002

Thursday, March 18, 2004 - 5:16 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I think Rob is great entertainment. I'm having a blast rooting for him in Adven's game. I see him this season the same way I saw Jonny Fairplay in S7... I think they are both completely aware of how they come across and I think they both play it up for that purpose. Rob knows that he has a brash mouth and a cocky attitude and as infuriating as that can be, the times I really cannot stand it are when it is coming from people that don't or can't see it in themselves. Rob can. Jon could. That makes it both more palatable and amusing, to me anyways. Rupert, I like him better now than I did last season, but he takes himself way too seriously for me to really enjoy. He doesn't seem to have that self-awareness/ self-deprecation that I saw in Jon and see now in Rob. I've seen Jon and Rob laugh at themselves. Rupert doesn't seem able to laugh much at himself. I think the ability to laugh at oneself is underrated.

Anyway, this is just what I get when I watch. I'm enjoying the heck out of the season. It will be interesting when they merge to see how the dynamics change. I wonder if that is the big twist coming up? Maybe it is a swap like in S4.

Kep421
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08-11-2001

Thursday, March 18, 2004 - 5:41 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I think the biggest difference between the perceived arrogance of Rupert and Rob is one inescapable fact.

Rupert has never openly made fun of anyone, or tried to make anyone feel less than they are. Arrogance aside, Rob is just plain mean to the others. He makes fun of those who don't meet his standards and finds it amusing to make people feel either small or uncomfortable in his presence.

I'm sorry...I can't find that kind of mean spiritedness entertaining.

Ddr
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08-19-2001

Thursday, March 18, 2004 - 6:07 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Kep, I totally agree with you.

Brenda1966
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07-03-2002

Thursday, March 18, 2004 - 9:35 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I'm a huge Rob fan and it did make me feel uncomfortable to see him making fun of Rupert. I'm a Rupert fan and I tend to think of that little boy who was picked on and felt like an outsider. Rupert has played that up. But Rupert is a man and he has taken glee in his ability to catch fish when others couldn't. Rob put him in his place last night.

Rob gave kudos to Rupert when he was fishing with a stick, but he was correct that having the spear changes things. Demonstrating that he could catch as many or more fish than Rupert wasn't the nicest thing to do (and strategically not the smartest), but he's a young guy with a BIG ego. He's winning challenge after challenge. His tribe is strong and he is clearly the leader. He does have a lot to boast about. Rupert has had a lot of failures this time: the hut, the raft, his team being split up.

Rob is going to have a lot of people gunning for his fall. This doesn't make me happy at all.

Hermione69
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07-24-2002

Thursday, March 18, 2004 - 9:46 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I totally understand what you guys are saying. I never said I liked his making fun of Rupert, but like Cassie, I was actually more uncomfortable with Lex last night. I guess with Rob, I see a twinkle in his eye where he can laugh at himself and probably make fun of himself as well. Right or wrong, that is my perception of him, but I understand completely why he rubs people the wrong way. He is very cocky and always has to come out on top. In the context of the game, I think he makes great TV. Rupert is probably a better person in RL!


March
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10-02-2003

Thursday, March 18, 2004 - 9:49 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Yeah Kep, you said it!!!


Sasha
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03-06-2004

Thursday, March 18, 2004 - 11:29 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I like Rob a lot, but I thing that both he and Rupert are battling for the role of alpha male. I don't see the competition as one sided with Rob out to get Rupurt. I think Rupert is trying to express his "power" as well, especially by babying the sling. I am sure Rupert would try to vote out Rob just as quickly as Rob would Rupert. Why not ... it's a million bucks. I think Tom was playing it very smart last night. As far as Lex and Ethan... I did think it was strange that Lex would talk to Ethan in that way and at that time. But I also found it disturbing that a grown man would react in that way. All this talk of Jerri not deserving to be there. Ethan life is not fair! I found him quite childish about the whole thing. I am ending by saying I watch this show because of Boston Rob.

Seamonkey
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09-07-2000

Thursday, March 18, 2004 - 8:33 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Last night brought back to me why I disliked Rob so much previously. He's funny, but he takes cheap and public shots at people. Hermie, I know what you mean about TV, but I just cannot get behind someone who gets a twinkle while making fun of someone. (maybe watching the biography show on the family of Saddam Hussein last night got to me when they showed how Saddam took his young sons along to observe and then participate in murders and tortures, as a learning experience. )

I wonder if Tom had to think that Rob is probably talking about HIM too...

Caycaye
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09-14-2001

Thursday, March 18, 2004 - 10:37 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
AMEN...Seamonkey...my feelings EXACTLY!!!

Sunshyne4u
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06-17-2003

Friday, March 19, 2004 - 1:54 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I never saw the Saddam Hussein Biography but your comment made me think.
All across the USA and Canada men are taking their young sons out to hunt and slaughter animals. I know that this is a lot different in many ways to the killing of people. However, the similarity is that Fathers expect sons to "harden up", stop being sissys and to show that they are "grown up" by performing their first killing.
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On farms, kids start butchering at an early age to 'get them used to it'. I, myself, was helping catch chickens, plucking them and gutting them as early as four yrs old on the farm. I can remember my sister and I playing dollies with the chickens after we plucked them (bouncing them on our knees)

I know this has nothing to do with this thread or topic but lately I have been going vegetarian...the thought of killing anything for eating bothers me. The thought of PEOPLE being killed REALLY bothers me as well. The culture of the Middle East is very foreign to us...I often think we can never really understand it if we have never lived it.
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ON TOPIC!! We shall see what happens next episode. This could be the end of the Robfather if he is mixed with Lex and his bevy of babes LOL

Seamonkey
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09-07-2000

Friday, March 19, 2004 - 9:22 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Sunshyne.. no hunting in my family but I know what you mean in general.

The A&E biography of the Hussein family was fascinating in a terrible way.. the making of monsters...