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TAR14 EP9: 'Our Parents Will Cry Themselves to Death' (China)
ImANewUser:
--- Quote from: patlini on April 13, 2009, 10:11:01 PM ---re: the showdown
I was wondering if it was related to the Bangkok leg whereby Jen/Kisha and Margie/Luke were following each other. After M/L took off Jen/Kisha asked their Taxi driver if M/L's taxi driver gave him the wrong directions and he said yeah.
When in fact M/L had told their taxi driver not to tell J/K's taxi driver about the pedestrians who knew were the boat yard was.
J/K seemed pretty P**ed at M/L about this.
so maybe the showdown is a continuation of this.
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Whatever it's about, they better put them in the proper light (i.e., not make Luke look like the victim when he was the one who started it).
kaad:
--- Quote from: apskip on April 13, 2009, 03:36:56 PM ---Neobie,
Your ranking of Chinese cities appears to be fairly reasonable, although Guilin's metropolitan area is 51st in China. However, the better point of reference for me (and I think for most Amazing Race viewers, who are mostly in the U.S.) is to large cities of 600,000 in the U.S. On that basis, Guilin is comparable to El Paso, Milwaukee, Boston, Seattle and Denver. There are only 20 U.S. cities larger than Guilin. Its population may be medium-sized in the China pecking order but it would be large looked at from the U.S. perspective.
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:waves: I'm actually talking about its commercialize level, the size of it can be a factor, but not always. Like Hong Kong, a small region, but ranking in 7th of the top urban centers in China, Guilin hasn't made it to the top 20.(not even a city of Guangxi Autonomous regions), you can check it on wikipedia.
To conclude...China is much different than the U.S :duno:
realshowfan:
Hm...
Is it for sure that Mark&Michael will have to do their Speedbump in the salon? Usually the Speedbumped team goes somewhere else, right?
You know, if either teams Kisha&Jen and Luke&Margie are not last, shouldn't it be okay for them? I mean, there might be a conflict if they got to pitstop 1st/2nd, but L&M got a few prizes already, and if they're not 1st and last, they'd leave at almost the same time? It was there at the preview where Jen first called Luke a bit... You know what. lol Um...Can Luke hear that? Maybe he could read her lips, or maybe Margie told him, I dunno. :duno: My last theory is that basically Luke knew what Jen called him, and then maybe at pitstop that topic somehow came in and started the argument.
Moo:
--- Quote from: realshowfan on April 14, 2009, 04:27:11 AM ---Hm...
Is it for sure that Mark&Michael will have to do their Speedbump in the salon? Usually the Speedbumped team goes somewhere else, right?
You know, if either teams Kisha&Jen and Luke&Margie are not last, shouldn't it be okay for them? I mean, there might be a conflict if they got to pitstop 1st/2nd, but L&M got a few prizes already, and if they're not 1st and last, they'd leave at almost the same time? It was there at the preview where Jen first called Luke a bit... You know what. lol Um...Can Luke hear that? Maybe he could read her lips, or maybe Margie told him, I dunno. :duno: My last theory is that basically Luke knew what Jen called him, and then maybe at pitstop that topic somehow came in and started the argument.
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Last season, Dandrew performed their speed bump at the exact park where they spent having the shetland pony and detour. And with the lead of all other teams with Mark and Michael, I even feel that were going to have our first unused/unaired speed bump! :funny:
apskip:
Most of the time teams do travel by taxi to the Speed Bump. However, in AR13 the critical second Moscow episode Dan/Andrew did their SPEED BUMP right in Sokolniky Park very close to the Shetland pony lady giving out DETOUR clues. So there is precedence for a Speed Bump being at the same place. The key is that the task itself will be designed to take longer when there is no transportaiton needed.
EDITOR's NOTE - Thanks to Raymond, who knew what I meant from the second usage of Speed Bump in this post and advised me to make sure the first one was SPEED BUMP (originally ROADBLOCK, but that is not what I meant) too.
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