# Your Bachelor predictions. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 25, 2002, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-bachelor-predictions/105628 "2002-04-25T20:43:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Morgainelf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@Morgainelf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgainelf)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2002, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-bachelor-predictions/105628/1 "2002-04-25T20:43:51Z")
Who will this loser end up with? My prediction - he’ll choose Trista, propose, and she’ll turn him down. What do you think? ---
**Author:** ![friggae](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/45deac/32.png) [@friggae](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friggae)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2002, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-bachelor-predictions/105628/2 "2002-04-25T21:04:54Z")
That is precisely what I think will happen as well. Gah! There’s too much good television on tonight - I’ll have to miss the first half hour of the “Bachelor Reunion Special”! I’m such a sucker for reality television. ---
**Author:** ![Abe\_Babe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3ab097/32.png) [@Abe\_Babe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Abe_Babe)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2002, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-bachelor-predictions/105628/3 "2002-04-25T21:26:09Z")
I predict that I won’t care this week either. I have never really cared for the whole reality TV deal. Now the Friends baby shower episode, that I’ve _gotta_ watch. ---
**Author:** ![Beadalin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3be4f8/32.png) [@Beadalin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beadalin)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2002, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-bachelor-predictions/105628/4 "2002-04-25T22:25:57Z")
Trista better take it. I can’t stand Amanda. In my office, one person is taping the Bachelor, one’s taping Survivor, and one’s taping Friends. We’re going to watch them together over lunch in one of the conference rooms. Woo hoo! ---
**Author:** ![Merlot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3e96dc/32.png) [@Merlot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merlot)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2002, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-bachelor-predictions/105628/5 "2002-04-25T23:12:58Z")
because Amanda will make sure she knows about _dessert_ in New York. 😉 But what do I know, my prediction was Shannon from the beginning. Yea, I’ve watched the whole pathetic show. Go ahead, shun me!😛 ---
**Author:** ![Lamia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Lamia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamia)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2002, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-bachelor-predictions/105628/6 "2002-04-25T23:45:12Z")
We all saw the truck from one of the local news stations parked outside the dining hall today, so we weren’t terribly surprised when a reporter approached us at the lunchtable. We _were_ surprised when she asked us if we’d seen “The Bachelor”. Friend 1: “Uh, I’ve HEARD of it…” Me: “The movie? With Chris O’Donnel? It sucked.” Friend 2: “No, the TV show. I’ve heard of it too…” Friend 3: “Me too, but I’ve never seen it.” Friend 4: “Me either.” So the reporter went to try her luck somewhere else. I guess it must be a freaking slow news day if they sent someone down to get footage of the opinions of college students on some show I’d never even heard of before. ---
**Author:** ![CrankyAsAnOldMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crankyasanoldman/32/11670_2.png) [@CrankyAsAnOldMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CrankyAsAnOldMan)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2002, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-bachelor-predictions/105628/7 "2002-04-26T00:40:48Z")
Yes, we’re actually wasting the tape recording this thing. I think he’ll pick Amanda but won’t propose. ---
**Author:** ![Slacker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6bbea6/32.png) [@Slacker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slacker)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2002, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-bachelor-predictions/105628/8 "2002-04-26T01:08:40Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Beadalin \* > \*\*Trista better take it. I can’t stand Amanda. > > In my office, one person is taping the Bachelor, one’s taping Survivor, and one’s taping Friends. We’re going to watch them together over lunch in one of the conference rooms. Woo hoo! \*\* I hope that’s over a few days. If not, get back to work! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Morgainelf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@Morgainelf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgainelf)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2002, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-bachelor-predictions/105628/9 "2002-04-26T13:37:39Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by CrankyAsAnOldMan \* > \*\*Yes, we’re actually wasting the tape recording this thing. > > I think he’ll pick Amanda but won’t propose. \*\* _DING DING DING_ We have a winner!!! After watching the second half of the special, and then the finale (yes, I had to watch Friends too) I was glad he chose Amanda. They seemed to laugh alot when they were together. It’s so hard to tell what really went on, because they manipulate our take on the dates with the way they edit the show. He could have had fun with Shannon too, but then they only showed you the tough parts of the dates. Who knows? Alex and Amanda were incredibly guarded on Good Morning America this morning too, so I still don’t feel like I know if they actually like each other or not. I think it was telling that during the special when they asked the other women who they wanted him to choose, only one said Trista. ---
**Author:** ![friggae](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/45deac/32.png) [@friggae](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friggae)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2002, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-bachelor-predictions/105628/10 "2002-04-26T17:36:39Z")
Ooh…so what happened on GMA this morning? I was going to tape it but the power went out before I went to sleep and couldn’t set up the vcr. Oh, and I’m never trusting the way the edit shows ever again. ---
**Author:** ![Cliffy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/59ef9b/32.png) [@Cliffy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cliffy)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2002, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-bachelor-predictions/105628/11 "2002-04-26T17:54:50Z")
Alex and Amanda were there talking to Diane Sawyer. They’ve been in touch with each other but they haven’t been able to see each other since the taping (two months ago) with the exception of a few weekends together. They actually still seemed pretty happy with the way things went (of course that’s partly just how Amanda is). I wouldn’t be surprised if they do end up getting hitched at some point, although it could go either way. Trista was also on the show but in a different room and the three of them never met in person (they only watched each other on TV). She seemed to have a rpetty health attitude about the whole thing, altough she claimed that she really did like him and by the end of the show she wasn’t just in it to win. –Cliffy