Ah, gotcha elf6c. I thought the spoiler you were referring to was “third member voted out of the tribe,” which sounds sorta like saying Chewing Gum loses again. Sorry for the confusion.
Dinsdale, I thought that was really an entertaining episode. The Ted-Ghandia thing is going down in Survivor lore for sure. I agree, however, that the overall quality of this year’s cast is not so good, and I bet this is the last time Burnett ever lets anyone else choose the teams.
This reminds me of a line from the film Bang which a friend of mine made. A gangster says, “I’m gonna cut off your nose and shove it down the mouth of your dick!” I love that line!
Anyway, I’m a bit late posting to this thread; but I have to comment on Soup Guy’s stupidity. They lost the fishing net??? What a bunch of idiots! Okay, the net looked too big for casting. I can see how leaving it in the water might catch some fish. But to take a nap? Jesus singing in a cabaret! “Oh, I delegated watching the net to Robb, so he lost it.” :rolleyes: And after they were searching for the net, wasn’t that a couple of the floats (presumably still attached to the net) right behind them? You know, the ones the camera zoomed in on and showed for many seconds.
And then there was the reward challenge. Robb is like, “We just lost because of a bunch of rules!” You know how he mocked the other guy by making a “stupid face” and making unintelligible noises? (“Arooohweeeru!”) That’s how I mock stupid people. I was doing that to him during the challenge and to both of the boneheads when they lost the net. It’s hard for me to fathom the stupidity of these people.
I tried the puzzle myself using six coins of different sizes. It wasn’t that difficult. They way Jed and Robb were standing around it looked as if they had just been asked to raise the Thanksgiving turkey from the dead.
Gonorrhea. What a drama queen! As people pointed out, she doesn’t do well in the challenges, che can’t think her way out of a cul de sac, and she’s vicious. If she thinks she is being a great puppet master, she’s mistaken.
But Robb is by far the most irritating person. (Fun to watch him screw up though.) If brains were nitro glycerin he wouldn’t have enough to blow his nose. He screws up the challenge and then blames it on a bunch of rules and then goes on about how tougher he is than the competition. He said he’s the “happy-go-lucky” guy. Fine. If you’re in a bar. But not when you’re supposed to be trying to win.
Helen. I like Helen. Being from a Navy family, I’m a little biased. But she’s just now realizing it’s a game? Come on.
Shi Ann is my favourite. The girl has brains. Too bad she’s stuck with some goobers who resent intelligence. I expected Jed and Robb to try to vote her off. I wonder what she did to piss off the blonde woman?
So far it looks like this season has some of the most inept “survivors” of any of the contests. Sure, people did dumb things in past shows, but these people are consistently stupid.
What fun. 
Stephanie, the blond woman, has been pals with Robb and Jed at least since Ep.2, so she may have been part of some unshown “slacker alliance”.
Thanks, Pantellerite. I guess the first episodes were such yawners that I missed it.
Johnny LA, Stephanie (the blond woman) was the one who slept outside the shelter along with Jed and Robb back in the last episode. I think they’ve got a Brain Trust Alliance going on. Mostly because it appears that they have to share the one they have between them.
When this started, in Ep 1, I thought Jed was one of the few people on that tribe with any common sense.
I was wrong.
And…um…I hate to do this, but I have to beg off on recaps for Survivor:Thailand. I have NO time. I’m kicking my job search into high gear, I have jury duty in the next couple of weeks, I have to get the house cleaned up for a relative’s visit at the end of the month, my mother may have lupus (they’re in the process of testing, but she has quite a few of the symptoms), and I’m getting to get online for roughly fifteen minutes at a time, if at all in any given day.
I apologize to those who wanted me to do recaps. I am, however, capable of short comments…they don’t take as much preparation or time to compose. 
I didn’t agree with Ted’s explanation because if he was asleep how come he knew so much about what he was doing?
I could just picture what was happening off camera…Knobb & Jed saying, “hey…what’s the cameraman lookin’ at?” Cameraman: “nothing…nothing…nope, nothing to see here”
ROTFLMAO!
I could not freakin’ believe the psychotic behavior of the Young & The Clueless during the immunity challenge. They had it in the bag; all they needed to do was either a) grasp the rule about attacking outside the zone; or b) not attack at all. But nooooo…
The Ted/Ghandia thing is kind of a microcosm of male vs female communication in general. Ghandia overcommunicated–she had an explanation and an apology from Ted; that might have been the end of it. But she also had a story that was too good not to share.
Ted, though, undercommunicated with Brian–conversation consisted of “nothing happened” (which I interpreted to mean, “we did not actually engage in intercourse”). “so it’s cool?” “it’s cool”. But then this turned into a telephone game, and Ted’s remark gets misinterpreted as a denial that anything happened. Pitiful.
Nice! Nothing pissed me off more than seeing her sit there on that rock, sifting sand through her hands while Ted was trying to explain what happened. At least give the guy the courtesy of eye-contact when he’s speaking. That was one of the most childish things I’ve ever seen. Next to her rock-tossing episode where every rock was accompanied by an epithet.
I think Ghandia’s trying to go for a sympathy vote (trying to turn Helen against Ted) based on the Ted situation, but what she forgets–as was evidenced by Ted’s awesome performance in the challenge–is that Ted’s a far more valuable member of the tribe due to his physicality. And Ghandia already showed she cracks under mental pressure (not like I wouldn’t, when people are yelling at me, but I’m at home, watching on the couch and not on that beach), and from what I recall hasn’t done anything outstanding in a physical challenge.
Confession: I’ve gone from despising this show (probably due to Richard Hatch’s ass-crack), to posting and actually hypothesizing about what’s going on. Mark Burnett is an insipid weasel.
Hehe! I have more than one alcoholic friend who will, between gulps from their beer, tell you in all seriousness that alcohol is an evil, evil thing.
Before this season, I swore that I would never watch Survivor…compared to my dear, sweet Big Brother, it didn’t even look that great. Then some evil people on this board lured me into Burnettland and now I’m hooked.
Oh, and to paraphrase Danielle from Big Brother 3, “Ghandia got to go!”
Yeah, she’s my favorite too. She was just adorable in that pirate challenge. “Should I push him off?” Little tiny girl crouching down, ready to pounce on these great big guys, and fully expecting to throw them off! I was hoping to see some fancy Taiwanese martial arts moves. Well, she got tossed easily, but at least she’s got guts!
Man, Knobbb just gets dumber every week. How could he not notice that the entire tribe was openly laughing at him (well, smirking, at least) while he was ranting after the R.C.? And what are the odds he’s going to realize that the fact that only the “outsiders” voted with him (one of whom is now gone) is a bad sign?
Probably the funniest moment of the show for me was when Ted was trying to calculate how much he loves his wife: “I am a hundred…and fifty…to two hundred percent happy with my wife!” Good, that’ll make her feel bettter.
I’ll be darned–“That Blond Woman” (Stephanie) didn’t vote for Shii-Ann after all:
The third vote for Shii-Ann came from… Jake? Can anybody offer any insight on this?
I’ll be darned–“That Blond Woman” (Stephanie) didn’t vote for Shii-Ann after all:
The third vote for Shii-Ann came from… Jake? Can anybody offer any insight on this?
Wow, that will teach me to assume who voted for whom. What the heck is Jake thinking? Maybe he is split outside of whatever alliance has been forming.
Tough to picture Stephanie being in it and not Jake. Maybe she just caught hint of the prevailing opinion and is trying to get back in their good graces.
???
I think that’s a mistake. They showed everyone’s votes during the end credits, and I’m damn near certain I saw Jake vote for Jed and Stephanie vote for Shii Ann. Anybody have it on tape?
Per the http://www.cbs.com/primetime/survivor5/]CBS Survivor: Thailand website, the people who voted against Jed were:
Erin, Ken, Penny, Shii Ann, Stephanie
Votes for Shii Ann were cast by:
Jake, Jed, Robb
Weird.
I went and checked the TWOP forum, and they concur: the CBS website screwed up. Stephanie was the third vote for Shii Ann.
Yep That how I remember the credits vote reveal- we even talked about it for a bit as to why Stephanie voted the way she did (par of the outcast alliance).
Robb though. Talk about clueless. :rolleyes:
I didn’t know people actually said “Dude” like that.
When speaking to a coed audience instead of a single male?
I’m still trying to figure out whether Robb and Jed were Beavis & Butthead or Bill & Ted.
Robb and Jed = Beavis and Ted
They’re a hybrid.
Glad to hear that CBS screwed up. Not only does the true Jake vote make more sense, it confirms what I also had originally thought.