# Amazing Race 23: Season thread **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 29, 2013, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazing-race-23-season-thread/669938 "2013-09-29T18:24:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2013, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazing-race-23-season-thread/669938/81 "2013-10-08T23:14:02Z")
> [@kiz](#): > > Either **Robot Arm** or I usually start the TAR threads (although in no way does that mean we have ultimate dibs on it) – I wasn’t online until after TAR aired this week, so I was looking around to see if anyone else would pick it up… I think I’ve only created the thread a handful of times, when it was episode time and no one else had started one already. I only saw episode 2 last night. That’ll probably be the pattern for the rest of the season; I’m curling on Sunday evenings. I was hoping for something a little more nautical on board the ship; climbing the rigging or coiling ropes, I would kill at a task like that. I’m kinda wondering how they got the clues into the big rocks of salt. As for Nicole’s trouble on the bicycle, could altitude have been a factor? The leg started at sea level, but I couldn’t tell how far up into the mountains they drove to get to that salt mine. A lot of the Atacama is at seriously high altitude. And it seemed like she might have been shifting wrong, going up a gear to make it easier, instead of down. ---
**Author:** ![Glazer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a88e57/32.png) [@Glazer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Glazer)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2013, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazing-race-23-season-thread/669938/82 "2013-10-08T23:17:24Z")
Defiantly wrong gear. She did a little better once Hubby changed bikes with her. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2013, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazing-race-23-season-thread/669938/83 "2013-10-08T23:24:51Z")
> [@Glazer](#): > > Defiantly wrong gear. She did a little better once Hubby changed bikes with her. Yes, but even before that he was trying to explain how to shift and she seemed to have it backwards. I think she was making it harder for herself, rather than easier. ---
**Author:** ![Glazer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a88e57/32.png) [@Glazer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Glazer)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2013, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazing-race-23-season-thread/669938/84 "2013-10-09T00:27:27Z")
Yes exactly. ---
**Author:** ![Duke\_of\_Rat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Duke\_of\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke_of_Rat)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2013, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazing-race-23-season-thread/669938/85 "2013-10-09T20:17:25Z")
> [@Saltire](#): > > The look on the face of the one who they asked, after rising from the water, “Can I hug you?” said volumes. > > “I spend most of my days breaking my back in an honest-to-God salt mine, and today I got to stand here doing nothing but watching bikini-clad Americans work. Then the half-naked blonde asks if I’d be willing to embrace her? Why, yes, I think I’d like that very much!” Ees a blow yab out of de questione? ---
**Author:** ![StarvingButStrong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/starvingbutstrong/32/335_2.png) [@StarvingButStrong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StarvingButStrong)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2013, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazing-race-23-season-thread/669938/86 "2013-11-04T13:55:01Z")
(Wow, slow thread this season) Anyway, that was one of the funniest and most humiliating challenges yet. I’m really surprised no on chose – or switched to – building a chandelier. Another unusual thing this season: They started out with five M/M pairings, and four of them were among the first five teams out. ---
**Author:** ![kiz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/7feea3/32.png) [@kiz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kiz)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2013, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazing-race-23-season-thread/669938/87 "2013-11-04T14:05:06Z")
> [@StarvingButStrong](#): > > (Wow, slow thread this season) > > Anyway, that was one of the funniest and most humiliating challenges yet. I’m really surprised no on chose – or switched to – building a chandelier. > Another unusual thing this season: They started out with five M/M pairings, and four of them were among the first five teams out. OMG, I completely flaked out yesterday starting the weekly thread! It’s been Hell Week at work 😛 Anyway, I completely missed the first half – I woke up to someone trying to warble with the Vienna Boys Choir (I don’t remember who), and I was like, “OMG, I’ve probably missed most of it!” Then I fell back asleep and missed who was eliminated. I don’t know if I should start a separate thread now… ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2013, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazing-race-23-season-thread/669938/88 "2013-11-04T14:09:55Z")
Pinky and NoBrain stealing J’Amy’s taxi wasn’t just rude, it was stupid. They gained nothing by doing it. All they did was paint an ever bigger target on their back. Pinky is mean for meanness sake, no redeeming qualities. ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2013, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazing-race-23-season-thread/669938/89 "2013-11-04T14:19:15Z")
Heads up - **zut** has a thread started for this week. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2013, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazing-race-23-season-thread/669938/90 "2013-11-04T14:32:01Z")
> [@Shoeless](#): > > Heads up - **zut** has a thread started for this week. > **[TAR 11/3: Choir Boy At Heart](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=706877)** > > Sigh. No thread - must be CBS’s fault for delaying it so long. Taxi Assessment: Stuck in the Desert and Officially Detained - or, Philiminated with extreme prejudice. Hoskote & Naina and Rowan & Shane and Chester & Ephraim and Brandon... [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazing-race-23-season-thread/669938.md?page=4)