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Fanny

Thursday, October 24, 2002 - 12:20 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
ACK

Calamity

Thursday, October 24, 2002 - 12:46 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Oh now see, that's why I stayed away from that Canada topic!

As for Ian and Teri, it's beyond uncomfortable watching him harangue her. I can only hope that witnessing his yelling and berating might encourage a change in his behavior and attitude. (I'm assuming that it's upsetting to see himself act like that. I know I'd be horrified to watch a tape of myself having fit. Must keep that in mind next time I'm about to snarl at an inconsiderate driver.)

I did cringe at the "God Bless America" bellow, too.

Hummingbird

Sunday, October 27, 2002 - 01:47 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Can't stand his stupid, fruity hat.

Pamy

Sunday, October 27, 2002 - 05:56 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Hummingbird..I feel the same way! I keep wanting his wife to grab both of the flaps and pull it down over his mouth and say 'WHOYAA this!'

Seamonkey

Sunday, October 27, 2002 - 09:29 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
The hat IS annoying. I know it is really practical for sun but he wears it at night too.
Probably sleeps in it.

Bastable

Wednesday, October 30, 2002 - 07:02 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Ian is not a pleasant individual. I think we can all agree that he's abrasive.

But I want to say that I also don't like Teri! Did anyone see her throw her trash on the ground in Lisbon? "Oh, it's garbage. Leave it!" she barked.

U G L Y
A M E R I C A N S !

Csnog

Wednesday, October 30, 2002 - 07:59 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Teri seems to TOLERATE her husband and has probably done so for 21 years.

Bastable

Wednesday, October 30, 2002 - 08:01 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Csnog, I think she's actually been brainwashed into loving everything he does! Did you see that glazed expression of woozy admiration she had from the back seat once Ian had fixed the car? And that beady, smarmy, self-congratulatory look Ian had?

All they had to do was intercut that with a shot of Teri's garbage, still sitting in the dark on that Lisbon street hours later, and the picture would be complete.

Knightpatti

Wednesday, October 30, 2002 - 08:53 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Please send them home! I do not like either of them!

Chyang

Wednesday, October 30, 2002 - 09:02 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
These two remind me of my inlaws whos been married for a bit over fifty years! It's literally painful for me to watch them since my husband of 17 years started to show desires for me to be more like his mom after we moved back in his hometown! I would like to scream back at him every time he let out a degrading sounding remark, but have to consider inlaws' feeling and the children....

Bastable, may I please trouble you to explain "Team Great Santini"? There are more holes in my understanding of the American idioms than I know of. Please disregard all the spelling mistakes also. Thank you.

Whoami

Wednesday, October 30, 2002 - 09:11 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I wanted to hurl when I saw her glazed "he's my hero" look when he fixed the car THAT HE BROKE IN THE FIRST PLACE!!! Cripes! I hope they edited out the part where she told him, "I told you so, you <>. It was supposed to take diesel!"

Then, when she finishes the rappel (which she was very scared of in the first place), she tries to do a "yay for me" kind of thing, and all he can do is berate her cause there are teams in front of them and they have to "get moving."

Hummingbird

Wednesday, October 30, 2002 - 10:13 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
The Great Santini is a novel by Pat Conroy about a military man and his family. He is a total control freak! He held family military style inspections and kept his family to a regimented military lifestyle. There is also a movie made from this book starring Robert Duvall and Blythe Danner. The character reminded me somewhat of my own father.

Jimmer

Wednesday, October 30, 2002 - 10:15 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
They are not a likeable couple but I have to admit that I find them entertaining in a sick sort of way. The scene where he stopped to ask for directions and she was pushing the 90 lb. barrel up that gangplank was priceless. My wife and I were just laughing unbelievably.

To their credit they don't give up, and they are pretty tough and resourceful. But I still can't stand either one of them. They are the epitome of the stereotypical ugly Americans.

Tabbyking

Wednesday, October 30, 2002 - 10:18 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
i could see if they both missed the gas/diesel thing, but teri asked ian (i think of him as eeyen, but she said eye-en tonight) specifically if it took diesel and he didn't check, just said, 'no'.
i don't think michael and kathy ever figured out why their car broke down!

it was a little bit of a surprise when flo was so freaked out over the rappeling, because didn't she jump out of a plane on the first episode? she sure is a tiny little thing!

and poor jill falling and scraping her knees just after john vito warned her, 'be careful you don't break an ankle'.

i felt for aaron when he cried. it's hard enough to be stranded in america! i usually find i have a dog, cat and several kids with me when that happens!

the dyeing vats were pretty disgusting, too!

all-in-all, a pretty good show!

Seamonkey

Wednesday, October 30, 2002 - 11:40 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I could NOT believe that tonight, when she was ahead of him running to the pit stop he had the balls to yell at her to wait for HIM.. after all the times he has run ahead of her.

And tonight he didn't have the awful hat on for awhile.. and he still looked bad.

And yes, what a <> he was after the rapel.. sure he's done it before but can't he appreciate her effort?

Bleh.

Lycanthrope

Thursday, October 31, 2002 - 12:51 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Ian's an <>. Ian's a <>. No one likes this disgusting old man. But keeping him in the race is good for ratings. Every show needs a villain, and the rest of the group are all pretty likable. Even Aaron has some endearing qualities. At least Ian is a total <>. Someone you can really hate with reckless abandon. We really haven't had that on reality TV since TAR2 with Wil and Tara.

Cynthia57

Thursday, October 31, 2002 - 06:56 am EditMoveDeleteIP
The worst thing after she asked him if it used diesel was when the car broke down and he looked at the fuel valve and saw it was diesel, he said something about "we blew it." (Not sure of the wording but he put the blame on both of them when it was all his fault.)

Brenda1966

Thursday, October 31, 2002 - 07:01 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Can you imagine how he would have berated her if she was the one to put the wrong fuel in? Do you think he even thought for one second to say "Sorry I put the wrong fuel in -- I should have checked when you asked about diesel"?

I'm trying to think of one nice thing to say about him and all I can come up with is that he is determined.

Wiseolowl

Thursday, October 31, 2002 - 07:30 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Brenda , another quality that Ian has is that he's consistent.

Rissa

Thursday, October 31, 2002 - 08:03 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Was I imaging things or was Terri crying near the beginning? They were in the SUV and Ian was being his charming self, (it looked like whatever he said was heavily editted because he made a comment at the end that didn't fit in) and Terri was sitting in the back with those dark sunglasses.. wiping her eyes.

I thought the crowning touch on my high opinion of these two was when Ian just drained tens of gallons of unleaded and let it run down the highway!!!! I was thinking... God, let Ian be a smoker with a bad craving right now :) Topped only by his wife's "Oh, you dropped that.. no, just leave it there" comment about the trash. UGH!!

I read the boards and watch the shows much more closely then my hubby... he generally pops in about ten minutes after it starts and leaves as soon as he knows who will be evicted. So the whole "Mistake at a gas station" was news to him. When that first team started using unleaded, he seriously - 100% honestly turned to me and said ..What are they doing? Are they idiots? You can HEAR that the car is a diesel. RFLOL My only disapointment was that the ads I saw made it look like Terri/Ian were the only two to mess up with the gas {sigh}, would have been a sweet way to get rid of them.

Aunt_Bob

Thursday, October 31, 2002 - 08:32 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Wiseowl...very astute observation.ss

I have to give him his props though for fixing HIS blunder. Once he accepted reality...the fact that he screwed up...he didn't just sit there and wait for SOMEONE ELSE to come and bail him out! Granted, he did not admit to or apologize for his arrogance, verbally...but, by the mere fact that he moved his butt to the station and then got it under the vehicle shows that he accepted the blame and took the responsibility to remedy the situation. I know so very many people that make a boo boo and though it may be an honest mistake, will NEVER admit to it or TAKE RESPONSIBILITY for their actions. They figure, if they keep silent and just walk away quietly...no one will notice.

You will notice, I did not say he does not have flaws and issues, serious issues, but I did 'admire' that character trait he displayed in last night's show. In the same respect...I was appalled by the `crying over spilled milk` and the `somebody please come and fix this mess I got myself into but can not possibly use any trace amount of intelligence that I may possess to try and figure a way out of this when it is so much easier to sit here and cry and whine and give up` character trait.

Last thing: sometimes even arrogant determination gets you much further than no determination at all...Bren, I'm agreeing with your 'one nice thing to say about him...' sa

Brenda1966

Thursday, October 31, 2002 - 08:47 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Aunt-Bob, I was a little shocked that Ian seemed to handle the problem the best! No whining, just action. The other "unleaded" teams were looking quite hopeless and ready to throw in the towel. It's always disturbing when someone so awful as Ian shows a redeeming quality.

Rissa, I wondered too if Teri was wiping away a tear. He was being so mean, but I think she's used to it. I know I would have been crying!

I was shocked that he let that gasoline just pour out of the car. Where's a HAZMAT crew when you need one?

Not1worry

Thursday, October 31, 2002 - 09:00 am EditMoveDeleteIP
As much as I don't like Ian, I had to applaud his "MacGyver" techniques. He is definitely the type to fix the problem and not the blame. (Although he never gave Teri credit for her warning about the diesel). I do hope they get a fine for abusing the environment with all the gasoline. In fact, I'd like to see penalties for all trash-throwing, etc. 5 minutes penalty for every envelope that you leave on the ground.

Aunt_Bob

Thursday, October 31, 2002 - 10:22 am EditMoveDeleteIP
First...a little side note...I am not a happy camper at present due to the fact that I was unable to edit that large winking jester out of my previous post. I tried 100 times, with no success...it was a gif error...and I realize no one else gives a FMMF...but...I had to let that out...Now back to the business at hand...®

Rissa...I would NEVER wish harm to come to anyone L!!! Be careful...sht happens in mysterious ways J...and I would NEVER wish any mysterious sht to happen to you db!!!

The arrogant in arrogant determination was displayed quite adequately with the dumping of such a flammable substance with no regard to anyone’s safety. I was very concerned about others that might innocently happen by that spot and suffer the consequences of both I & T’s complete lack of social sensibilities. When you do things like this and like running through an airport hollering and riding in a taxi hollering and using one’s land as your personal garbage disposal...your social skills are null & void. But, I would like to add...this pertains to ANY and ALL that fit in the category, no matter what age, race, sex or COUNTRY you are from.

Oh...let us not forget the exemplary gamemanship he displayed when he tossed the animal skin over the exposed clue. (That was him, was it not?)


Imbewitched

Thursday, October 31, 2002 - 11:48 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Aunt_Bob - yes indeed, it was Ian that hid the clue. What a guy! NOT!