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Re: TAR 23: Bitch, Moan, and Squeal Thread **Spoilers Inside!**
« Reply #100 on: June 26, 2013, 10:08:09 AM »
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Don't get me wrong, I think Indonesia is a great country, and I loved that it finally got used, but 4 out of the last 5 seasons featuring at least one leg there??

I think my opinion is a little sour since the first two visits involved Eastern Java, and JUST Eastern Java

I guess Bandung is cool tho, and at least it isn't with 9+ teams this time... :res:

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« Reply #101 on: June 26, 2013, 10:13:56 AM »
I am really wondering if this could not be a last minute substitution. Conditions in Malaysia etc are not good for a leg right now.
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Re: TAR 23: Bitch, Moan, and Squeal Thread **Spoilers Inside!**
« Reply #102 on: June 26, 2013, 10:14:10 AM »
WHY Indonesia again?

WRP realized they missed out on a great country for 18 seasons and are now over using it.

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Re: TAR 23: Bitch, Moan, and Squeal Thread **Spoilers Inside!**
« Reply #103 on: June 26, 2013, 10:25:48 AM »
WHY Indonesia again?

WRP realized they missed out on a great country for 18 seasons and are now over using it.

Cheap labor for local crew could be one of the factors...

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Re: TAR 23: Bitch, Moan, and Squeal Thread **Spoilers Inside!**
« Reply #104 on: June 26, 2013, 10:27:27 AM »
WHY Indonesia again?

WRP realized they missed out on a great country for 18 seasons and are now over using it.

Cheap labor for local crew could be one of the factors...

I don't mind if its a new place which it is. On the plus side this is at the end of the race.


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Re: TAR 23: Bitch, Moan, and Squeal Thread **Spoilers Inside!**
« Reply #105 on: June 26, 2013, 10:35:21 AM »
I am really wondering if this could not be a last minute substitution. Conditions in Malaysia etc are not good for a leg right now.

I don't really think it's the 'last minute' one, but a subtitue probably, because Ryan Danz have gave us some insight and clue before the teams took off from USA...
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Re: TAR 23: Bitch, Moan, and Squeal Thread **Spoilers Inside!**
« Reply #106 on: June 26, 2013, 10:50:25 AM »
I'm quite worried about traffic jams, I went to Bandung last year in June and the traffic was crazy. Indonesian schools have breaks in June so there's a lot of tourists there at the moment.
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« Reply #107 on: June 26, 2013, 11:10:10 AM »
Indonesia again :res: :res: :res: :res:
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Re: TAR 23: Bitch, Moan, and Squeal Thread **Spoilers Inside!**
« Reply #110 on: June 26, 2013, 12:51:58 PM »
Indonesia is a big hop from Austria via Doha, but while I understand why it may seem to be too much to some, (as India was in those early seasons, along with China) to the average viewer of TAR in the US it is not as big a concern since it's a country most Americans are just plainly unfamiliar with. What I want is for them to do something with coffee (since Java is a common nickname for coffee in the US, and we all could use a pick-up or two with the time lag and Phil's jet lag!
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Re: TAR 23: Bitch, Moan, and Squeal Thread **Spoilers Inside!**
« Reply #112 on: June 26, 2013, 01:12:06 PM »
Indonesia is a big hop from Austria via Doha, but while I understand why it may seem to be too much to some, (as India was in those early seasons, along with China) to the average viewer of TAR in the US it is not as big a concern since it's a country most Americans are just plainly unfamiliar with....

I was once asked by the sophmores and juniors at high school during my exchange year in the US back in 2006, and they were asking me, 'where is Indonesia?' and then I asked them back, 'do you guys know Bali?!' and almost 90% of them nodding their head, meaning that yes they know.. So I explained to them.. 'Well, Bali is located in Indonesia, so if you know Bali that means you also know Indonesia, it is one of the provinces in the country.." and suddenly they're all laughing... :lol:

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Re: TAR 23: Bitch, Moan, and Squeal Thread **Spoilers Inside!**
« Reply #113 on: June 26, 2013, 01:18:59 PM »
BUNDUNG! BEACH LEG I GUESS! <3

OMG THEY MIGHT TRANSIT AT SINGAPORE IF THEY MOVE UP NORTH. #PRAYS

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« Reply #114 on: June 26, 2013, 01:23:44 PM »
Okay wait. They came down from North and apparently from Singapore? )-** :stare

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« Reply #115 on: June 26, 2013, 01:24:26 PM »
BUNDUNG! BEACH LEG I GUESS! <3

OMG THEY MIGHT TRANSIT AT SINGAPORE IF THEY MOVE UP NORTH. #PRAYS

It's Bandung, and unfortunately there's no Beach there...

And they are probably at Changi Airport Singapore right now waiting for tommorow's flight...

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Re: TAR 23: Bitch, Moan, and Squeal Thread **Spoilers Inside!**
« Reply #116 on: June 26, 2013, 01:26:57 PM »
BUNDUNG! BEACH LEG I GUESS! <3
Maybe you mean Bandung, Jobby. :)
Actually, Bandung is a landlocked city, so no way there will be a beach leg in Bandung. :lol: ;)
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Re: TAR 23: Bitch, Moan, and Squeal Thread **Spoilers Inside!**
« Reply #117 on: June 26, 2013, 01:29:25 PM »
Geez. Do none of y'all have a sense of humour?? :lol3:
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« Reply #118 on: June 26, 2013, 02:45:25 PM »
Geez. Do none of y'all have a sense of humour?? :lol3:

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Re: TAR 23: Bitch, Moan, and Squeal Thread **Spoilers Inside!**
« Reply #119 on: June 26, 2013, 11:23:31 PM »
Oh... my... gosh, Indonesia again? :wtf: That's like going to India five seasons in a row to me. At least take teams to the Philippines for heck's sake. They haven't went there for almost 15+ seasons! :tantrum :tantrum :tantrum I'm done with Indonesia and I never want to see it on the race again if they visit it this season as well. All the seasons that have featured Indonesia as a leg sucked in the end product (TAR19, TAR21, TAR22). I don't want that to be a curse like the 3rd leg curse people are talking about. For now it's... "Frequent flying to Indonesia, frequent failures in execution."
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Re: TAR 23: Bitch, Moan, and Squeal Thread **Spoilers Inside!**
« Reply #120 on: June 26, 2013, 11:27:36 PM »
Oh... my... gosh, Indonesia again? :wtf: That's like going to India five seasons in a row to me. At least take teams to the Philippines for heck's sake. They haven't went there for almost 15+ seasons! :tantrum :tantrum :tantrum I'm done with Indonesia and I never want to see it on the race again if they visit it this season as well. All the seasons that have featured Indonesia as a leg sucked in the end product (TAR19, TAR21, TAR22). I don't want that to be a curse like the 3rd leg curse people are talking about. For now it's... "Frequent flying to Indonesia, frequent failures in execution."
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Re: TAR 23: Bitch, Moan, and Squeal Thread **Spoilers Inside!**
« Reply #121 on: June 26, 2013, 11:39:49 PM »
Remembered years ago after Unfinished Business we were all like Y NO INDONESIA???

Now we are all like... Y SO MUCH INDONESIA??? :funny:

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« Reply #122 on: June 26, 2013, 11:50:24 PM »
Oh... my... gosh, Indonesia again? :wtf: That's like going to India five seasons in a row to me. At least take teams to the Philippines for heck's sake. They haven't went there for almost 15+ seasons! :tantrum :tantrum :tantrum I'm done with Indonesia and I never want to see it on the race again if they visit it this season as well. All the seasons that have featured Indonesia as a leg sucked in the end product (TAR19, TAR21, TAR22). I don't want that to be a curse like the 3rd leg curse people are talking about. For now it's... "Frequent flying to Indonesia, frequent failures in execution."
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Re: TAR 23: Bitch, Moan, and Squeal Thread **Spoilers Inside!**
« Reply #123 on: June 27, 2013, 12:03:27 AM »
I did part of a leg in Bandung I think! It would be in the fantasy games section <3

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« Reply #124 on: June 27, 2013, 12:04:15 AM »
They did cooking on heads, lion things, bull racing and pumping up balloons #ProudOfMyself

Don't remember the second leg Detour though.