Shit. I am not supposed to be laughing at work. That was funny, though.
True, though. I’ve known a few gay Number One Sons of immigrant Asian parents. The pressure to pass on the family name is insane.
Well, the impression I got was “I’m going to laugh at the deaf boy because I know he doesn’t like it” so I think there’s certainly elements of laughing at him because he’s deaf in there.
I think you’re introducing “at the deaf boy” into the equation without any justification. A more parsimonious explanation is that it is quite common to respond to someone who is antagonizing you by laughing at them.
Otherwise, if you want to just introduce extraneous stuff, you could say that they proposed laughing at him because he’s white, because he’s shorter than them, because he gets all pink when he exerts himself…
Unless there’s any evidence that they are bigoted in regards to deaf people, it’s erroneous to assume it’s there. It would be just as bad to assume that some criticism of Jen was made simply because she is black.
That could certainly be true. It was the impression I was left with, but that could be me reading more into the situation than is actually there.
I remember that book! That’s why I thought it was really cool when they had the roadblock with the cormorants. I was looking forward to seeing something I’d read about when I was a kid. I found myself being amused that, while Tammy could speak Mandarin, she couldn’t communicate with the birds.
I thought the ballroom dancing in the park was rather neat, too. I wonder, though, if the cheerleaders realized they were dancing, rather than performing a set routine. You see, it looked to me like they just saw it as a set of routine moves to perform and then stop, rather than the beginning of a pattern. They apparently didn’t understand that they had to continue until the music stopped. Now, I realize there are a lot of reasons for them to assume this, including their own backgrounds, and to them, dancing is probably something very different, but still, it seems to me like they may have been so focused on the task they forgot to have fun.
I will hand this to the stuntmen. Maybe it was just the way the show was edited, but they really seemed to be enjoying themselves on this last leg. They may have been doomed, but they went out having fun.
It’s kind of sad – if it weren’t for the kerfuffles at the clue boxes, I would have enjoyed watching this episode a lot more. People got to do some neat things in a part of the world I’ll probably never get to see. OK, so the challenges this time around don’t seem to have required as much thinking as in the last two seasons. It’s still a pleasant way to spend a Sunday evening.
I don’t care who was right or wrong, the whole thing looked fake exaggerated. It’s like when they get all fake excited when they read their next destination or act all fake happy when they’ve just won the lame prize. “As the winners of this leg of the race, you’ve won a… unicycle!”
What I don’t get is how both teams managed to walk right in front of the clue box at the salon, and both miss it. They both walked around like they were retarded; it’s no wonder they acted like tards when they spotted it.
The clue box behind a tree trunk so it makes sense that the racers would see the other prominent item in the area with the TAR colors, which happened to be a speed bump. Given the general confusion of a foreign environment, I think “walked around like they were retarded” is neither an accurate nor appropriate way to describe what happened.
Elimination Station implied that Team Stunt Doubles had caught up a lot. So either the HOH at the unaired bunching point severely helped the Stuntmen (and by implication severely crippled the other teams), or Team Cheerleaders messed up the Chinese Tango but good.
As best as I could tell, the Choreography task’s dance music was a tango. Someone with a sense of rhythm please double check this, because I’m wondering why the local extras were dancing a sort of one-step to a tango selection.
Because that high-pitched squeaky voice he shrieks in can sterilize frogs at 200 paces?
And I really, really loathe “Mommy Dearest”. Babe, cut the oedipal apron strings and stop with the hypocrisy. He can EITHER be a tough, macho, strong, independent man who, despite his disability can do anything a hearing person can do OR he’s your helpless little handi-capable muffin who needs to be hugged and coddled BY EVERYONE 'CAUSE HE’S SO VERY SENSITIVE at all times. You really can’t do both: John Wayne OR Jerry Lewis.
And frankly, as whiny as Luke is, “Bitch” is quite the compliment for that sniveling little puke.
No, the clue box had TAR colors, the speed bump didn’t, it was in front of the speed bump, they walked right in front of it, Lakisha walked around it and almost put her hand on it, Luke AFAICT, actually touched it and almost put his foot on the pedestal. They couldn’t have missed this or this. YMMV, I guess.
All I can figure is the clue box was so obvious they assumed it was an evil trick.
In the above examples, the tree trunk is wrapped in some sort of shiny yellow film. It is also directly between the clue box and the racers, blocking the box from view from the direction that the racers approached. There is also a lot of red objects in the shot and on the street in general. The TAR colors are on the section of the stand with the most narrow profile to the racers as they approached. It is also below eye level. On a busy street, with lots of colorful moving objects, people in a hurry do not normally sweep their eyes backward for overlooked objects. Unless you constantly (for hours on end) snap your head around, looking in every direction more than once, which I contend isn’t normal human behavior.