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Bastable

Saturday, June 07, 2003 - 01:59 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I think these guys' persistence in seeing themselves as outsiders has prematurely set them apart from the rest of the teams. It has become a self-fulfilling opinion. I think that if they weren't so paranoid about being disliked, they would be less disliked. And they wouldn't feel like they had to step on the other teams, either, if they felt a little better about themselves.

Fanny

Saturday, June 07, 2003 - 03:40 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I completely agree with you, Bastable! They seem to have a bit of a chip on their shoulders, pun intended. I want to like them but so far their attitudes aren't allowing that. Hope they lighten up & put their efforts toward playing the game instead of distancing themselves with their defensiveness.

Wendo

Saturday, June 07, 2003 - 08:30 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Self-fulfilling prophecy...hm...excellent observation Bastable. And, I think I agree with you. They anticipated being outsiders and, yet, din't give the other teams an opportunity to be inclusive...yep, I agree.

Crazydog

Monday, June 09, 2003 - 09:19 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Which one is the blondish one? He seems like a jerk. And why are all the other teams so bent on eliminating them? Do they see this team as the "two white males" team that is supposedly so much stronger than the others? What about David and Jeff? Why are they getting no attention from the others?

Calamity

Monday, June 09, 2003 - 09:48 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I think, but am by no means sure, that Reichen is the blondish one.

Phil's voiceover said that Monica & Sheree told R&C that the other teams wanted both R&C and D&J out.

Seamonkey

Monday, June 09, 2003 - 12:30 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
So, one wonders if Monica and Sheree are trying to help, or trying to stir things up a bit?

I think as two fit males on a team, they'd be a target.

Tishala

Wednesday, June 11, 2003 - 01:34 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
i saw Reichen in some modeling shots and he is a HOTTIE with abs to die for! *PURRRRRRRRRRRRR*

I like these guys--especially the way they don't let people with bad manners undermine them.

Tabbyking

Thursday, June 12, 2003 - 10:00 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
they have their own bad manners!

over-all, it seems some of these teams need to start paying attention to the instructions! first the duo who used their butts to get down the hill to get to the raft truck to get the raft to the top of the hill to go down the hill that jack and jill tumbled after... then these guys forget to take the ticket off the carriage. sometimes this game comes down to following the instructions, so hope they pay better attention. like getting a ticket for 'gmund' and not 'gmunden'. close, but no cigar!

Beachcomber88

Thursday, June 12, 2003 - 10:29 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Not sure what my thoughts are of these two. They seem to always be in the middle of some spat with one of the other teams. I didn't quite understand why Dave and Jeff were so upset with Reichen (? I still don't know which one is which) when he only came back with one ticket for the horse carriage. Why couldn't Dave and Jeff run for their own carriage?

Seamonkey

Thursday, June 12, 2003 - 10:36 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
And, why did Dave and Jeff, stand and whine when there was still a third available carriage to arrive (while they whined, someone else got that)

Spear

Thursday, June 12, 2003 - 11:30 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Ugh, these guys are definitely not nice. Last week's video clips on the CBS web site are finally working (although this week's aren't). One clip is "Teams beg for money" and Chip or Reichen (can't tell) calls a woman "old b*tch" behind her back when she refuses, politely I thought, to give them money.

Here is a link.

Crazydog

Friday, June 13, 2003 - 08:00 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Dave and Jeff had a pseudo-alliance with these two. Dave and Jeff were supposed to try and distract the other teams by talking, etc. and then when the carriages came, Reichen and Chip were supposed to book and grab two tickets. That's why Dave and Jeff were irritated. Although it seems to me that trying to distract the other teams would have been futile.

Last week I thought the blondish one (Reichen) was a jerk, this week I thought the dark haired one (Chip) was even more of a jerk. Especially in the way he and Millie were battling for the carriage ticket. And then whining that she bruised his poor lip.

Tishala

Friday, June 13, 2003 - 11:24 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Millie should have been thrown out of the game for assaulting Mr Chip. It was bad behavior perpretrated by a sexually frustrated young lady. I didn't realize virgins were so aggressive and poorly mannered. I wonder where they were raised....perhaps the flyover. Heeheee.

I hope it doesn't scar him!

Tabbyking

Friday, June 13, 2003 - 11:54 am EditMoveDeleteIP
more like the 'fly's covered'......

Crazydog

Friday, June 13, 2003 - 12:12 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I don't think Millie purposely meant to hurt Chip, she was just jostling for position same as he was. It was clear that she was embarrassed about drawing blood. I still don't understand why he felt the need to go and point it out to her, she was right, he was the one who pushed first.

I think it's hilarious that Reichen and Chip are apparently trying so hard to hide the fact that they are gay but it seems like everyone knows. It was funny when Monica or Sheree said something about how they feel like they have a lot in common because they are the only two minority teams, the two black girls and the two gay men.

Tabbyking

Friday, June 13, 2003 - 12:18 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
i thought she was apologetic, too, but then i swear she muttered "little prick" behind her paper, which negated the apology, as far as i'm concerned. lol

Seamonkey

Friday, June 13, 2003 - 12:24 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I thought he was actually trying to apologize.

Beachcomber88

Friday, June 13, 2003 - 01:57 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I'll have to rewatch the tape, but I didn't get the impression he was apologizing. I think he walked over there simply to point out to her that she bloodied his poor lip. That's why she responded that he pushed her first. For some reason, I remember one of the commercials showing this incident in slow motion. Am I just imagining that? If he wasn't such a sissy, he wouldn't have acted like a bloody lip was such a huge devastating injury.

Tishala

Friday, June 13, 2003 - 02:24 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Well, he actually HAS sex, so his lips are important. Hers are....well, as the song goes, "Take my lips, I want to lost them; take my arms, I'll never use them."

She physically abused poor Chip, like Steven did on Real World. I wish str8 virgins could settle their disputes with people amicably.

Crazydog

Friday, June 13, 2003 - 02:45 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I agree with your interpretation Beach. I thought he was walking over to her to say "look what you did to me you snotty little girl, if this keeps me off the cover of Teen People, I'm going to sue you".

I would hardly say that she physically abused him. And I would hardly classify him as "poor Chip" - he was by no means innocent in the incident.

I don't see how you could even compare this to Steven and Irene's "slap heard round the world" - there you had a girl sitting in a car, Steven simply went up and slapped her. Here you had two competitive people jostling for position, and there was a minor scuffle.

And what does her being a straight virgin have to do with it?

Tishala

Friday, June 13, 2003 - 02:56 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I'm responding to this issue with DEEP sarcasm, Crazy....an apparently unfunny joke.

Crazydog

Friday, June 13, 2003 - 03:27 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
oh my bad, I misinterpreted, sorry...

Beachcomber88

Thursday, June 19, 2003 - 11:49 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I despised Reichen (or was it Chip? Another team where I can't tell who is who) when he labeled Monica and Sheree as "The Supremes". They of all people should know what it's like to feel persecuted and should be more sensitive to that. You don't see any of the other teams calling these guys Siegfried and Roy. Does everyone know? Aside from tonight's "You go fast, honey!", Reichen and Chip certainly don't seem to act like your stereotypical gay couple.

Tishala

Thursday, June 19, 2003 - 11:53 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I don't see the problem with the Supremes comment, really. Like they are divas...and worthy of respect.

It';s not like....oh, I don't know....calling Reichen and Chip sisssy.

Seamonkey

Friday, June 20, 2003 - 12:13 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I have to agree, I didn't see anything wrong with The Supremes; I think C/R respect them.

I think C/R and T/J got a bum rap tonight.

Buncha whiney babies :)