# A new "Amazing Race" season starts Sunday **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 12, 2010, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-amazing-race-season-starts-sunday/528708 "2010-02-12T14:57:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![In\_Winnipeg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/a8b319/32.png) [@In\_Winnipeg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/In_Winnipeg)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2010, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-amazing-race-season-starts-sunday/528708/61 "2010-02-16T22:23:17Z")
Re “Danke” in South America: Maybe she found out that they were among an enclave of Nazis, still hiding out in South America. ---
**Author:** ![DrFidelius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drfidelius/32/3447_2.png) [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2010, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-amazing-race-season-starts-sunday/528708/62 "2010-02-16T22:40:22Z")
They were in Chile, not Argentina… ---
**Author:** ![Terminus\_Est](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terminus_est/32/3087_2.png) [@Terminus\_Est](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terminus_Est)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2010, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-amazing-race-season-starts-sunday/528708/63 "2010-02-16T23:05:11Z")
> [@DrFidelius](#): > > They were in Chile, not Argentina… China, Argentina, they all speak foreign over there, anyway. ---
**Author:** ![amarinth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3be4f8/32.png) [@amarinth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarinth)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2010, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-amazing-race-season-starts-sunday/528708/64 "2010-02-16T23:27:24Z")
The “Danke” I didn’t mind at all. To me, it didn’t look or sound or seem to be like she thought she was speaking in a relevant foreign language. It didn’t come across to me like saying “we’re in a race-o” in Japan and expecting it to mean something. ---
**Author:** ![Proudest\_Monkey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/proudest_monkey/32/13257_2.png) [@Proudest\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Proudest_Monkey)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2010, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-amazing-race-season-starts-sunday/528708/65 "2010-02-16T23:39:06Z")
> [@EllisDee](#): > > Basic Big Brother gameplay involves dopey physical challenges plus the occasional memory challenge: > > 1. The week starts with a challenge where everyone competes to be Head of Household. HoH can’t be evicted, and s/he nominates two people for elimination. > > 2. Couple days later the two nominees, the HoH and three random others compete for Veto. Winner can’t be evicted, and can take down (save) one of the nominees. If they do, HoH must nominate a new second nominee. > > 3. End of the week everyone but the HoH votes one of the two nominees out. > > Other than that it’s all reality show cliches, with making alliances and getting paranoid and backstabbing etc.. Next paragraph decribes how Jordan specifically managed to win. > > Through the first part of the game Jordan and Jeff hung out apart from the group and just snuggled. The second half of the game Jeff turned it on and started smoking everyone in the dopey physical challenges. The only reason he was sent home is because you can’t be HoH twice in a row. Jordan was kept around by everyone else because they figured she was a coattail rider who would guarantee them a win in the final two. However, Jordan stepped it up bigtime and won two legs of the crucial three-part final challenge, meaning she could choose who to bring in the final two. She smartly brought an even bigger coattail rider than she was. With nothing else breaking the tie, the fact that Jordan was sweet and kind and personable clinched the win over the hateful, meanspirited troublemaker with terrible hygiene she brought with her to face the final jury. (Last seven people eliminated.) Thank you for this. I was going to ask someone to summarize what J & J were like on Big Brother, and you offered up the perfect synopsis just from the brain waves I sent! (I’ve only watched a couple of BB seasons from start to finish, and was done for good when that evil dad and his skanky daughter started running the table.) Every time the cowboys were on screen, I heard Jake Gyllenhaal and Heath Ledger in my head. Trite and tacky of me, to be sure, but I’ve learned to live with my failures. None of the teams have really made much of an impression on me yet. Actually, I think I need to rewatch the entire episode since I had consumed several vodka gimlets by 8:00 – and I was so amped up over Phil telling them to travel safe and the frigging opening music that I was too much of a bleary, teary blob of emotion to sort out all the teams. Except for the “I can’t quit you” brothers. ---
**Author:** ![EllisDee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellisdee/32/4531_2.png) [@EllisDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EllisDee)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2010, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-amazing-race-season-starts-sunday/528708/66 "2010-02-17T04:15:03Z")
> [@Proudest\_Monkey](#): > > (I’ve only watched a couple of BB seasons from start to finish, and was done for good when that evil dad and his skanky daughter started running the table.) This past season with Jeff and Jordan is the only season I’ve ever watched, and I only watched it because a couple weeks into the season I flipped to Showtime2’s _Big Brother After Dark_ to see if there were any hot naked chicks running around. Jordan caught my attention quickly so I started watching the network show to see what was up. Jeff and Jordan quickly paired up, but unlike other reality show romances she simply would not put out. Seriously, it took him something like a month to get a first kiss. They were always very affectionate but also unbelievably chaste. (Lots of backrubs.) Combine their cute innocence with the fact that they were huge underdogs and it made them easy to fall in love with. For the first half of the game their friends all got picked off one after another leaving them alone and in the crosshairs of all the power players. Yet they managed to hold on and get Jordan the win. ---
**Author:** ![corkboard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9bcb4/32.png) [@corkboard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/corkboard)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2010, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-amazing-race-season-starts-sunday/528708/67 "2010-02-17T14:33:26Z")
I’m already sick of the bitchy gay bro and his dead-on impersonation of Miss Teen America, or whoever she is. Why would he still have that little speech memorized, what, four years later? Bitch. The lesbians also are already irritating me. Praying for a flight’s mechanical failure, then rejoicing when your prayers are answered, is sort of sick. I feel bad for the Big Dawg and his wife. It was over when he volunteered to do the cable walk. I’d love to see Nanny Triathlete kick some ass. And not only was the house painting thing funny already, but their paint was the exact same color as what was already on the walls! WTF!! ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2010, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-amazing-race-season-starts-sunday/528708/68 "2010-02-17T14:59:51Z")
> [@corkboard](#): > > And not only was the house painting thing funny already, but their paint was the exact same color as what was already on the walls! WTF!! Well, it’s the same color indoors, out of the sunlight. Of course, if it hadn’t at least been a shade of dark red, they wouldn’t have thought it was the right house in the first place. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-amazing-race-season-starts-sunday/528708.md?page=3)