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Most Annoying Teams
kevin2012:
--- Quote from: georgiapeach on August 26, 2011, 10:42:23 AM ---
--- Quote from: kevint2010 on August 26, 2011, 03:07:40 AM --- But it's all not a big deal, as long as we all have a healthy dose of hate in our hearts. :hearts:
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Hate is a VERY strong word.... especially when we all know that editing is a powerful tool to sometimes portray only one side of a person during the race.
Y'all are welcome to share your opinions of why teams are annoying (note ANNOYING ...not hateful) based on how they were portrayed in the race itself.
But making discriminatory comments about racers because of their size, race, religion, politics, or sexual orientation will NOT be tolerated here.
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I couldn't agree more, I guess I went a bit overboard with my usage of the word "hate" (by it I meant annoying) and I am really, truly sorry for that. I am a very sarcastic person, so the end sentence was fabricated out of sarcasm and is not what I truly believe in, I may have spent too much time on Survivor Sucks and I can see now that it's clearly rubbing off on me, so once again apologies. It's shocking because I told myself that I am the kind of person that sees the good in people, but I've always known that scums exist on this planet, the people who don't deserve the world. The world's a tough place. The Amazing Race is an incredible tool to show people's true colors, even as they try so hard to hide it behind nice-ness and fake morals.
I also realized that some of my comments may be taken as discriminative and looking back on it, you're right. It's shameful because of my own background, being Eurasian and a part of both sides of the world I should know better and I know I do, it's just my dislike of stuck-up, snooty people that got to me, and it got carried away. so once again, I apologize for this, however the teams that I mentioned being my least favorites are unfortunately my real opinion, but I swear it has nothing to do with their size, race, religion, politics, or sexual orientation. It's just on their likeability, morals and values, entertainment factor, and competency. As far as the lesson of Yin and Yang go, opposites can't exist without each other, so with all the hate in our hearts also comes with just as much love and that is the lesson here. :hrt:
note: I've modified my posts to make them more appropriate, unfortunately the damage is already done :(
georgiapeach:
Thank you kevin, nicely said.
I am very fortunate to have been able to meet and get to know many of our racers personally.
And what surprised and fascinated me what was that some of the people "we loved to hate" while they were racing are often the most delightful and charming people in real life. The race (pressure, starvation, sleep deprivation) does strange things to the nicest of people!
GabyM:
--- Quote from: georgiapeach on August 26, 2011, 11:23:31 AM ---And what surprised and fascinated me what was that some of the people "we loved to hate" while they were racing are often the most delightful and charming people in real life. The race (pressure, starvation, sleep deprivation) does strange things to the nicest of people!
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Agreed. For example, on TAR7, Ray was portrayed as being this uber evil, arrogant villain, but in real life, he was pretty much the only person in that season who got along with every team and was often trying to play the peacemaker. And I've also heard from people that have met him, that Terence of season 13 is not the jerk that he was made out to be on TV. And what Peach said is true, let's not forget that this is a TV show, and that editing does play a significant part in what we believe the contestants to be like.
Although I'm surprised that Nick & Vicki haven't been mentioned as an annoying team. I still like Vicki, but Nick could give Chad a run for his money in the douchebag department :lol:
Belle Book:
--- Quote from: GabyM on August 27, 2011, 12:23:26 AM ---
--- Quote from: georgiapeach on August 26, 2011, 11:23:31 AM ---And what surprised and fascinated me what was that some of the people "we loved to hate" while they were racing are often the most delightful and charming people in real life. The race (pressure, starvation, sleep deprivation) does strange things to the nicest of people!
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Agreed. For example, on TAR7, Ray was portrayed as being this uber evil, arrogant villain, but in real life, he was pretty much the only person in that season who got along with every team and was often trying to play the peacemaker. And I've also heard from people that have met him, that Terence of season 13 is not the jerk that he was made out to be on TV. And what Peach said is true, let's not forget that this is a TV show, and that editing does play a significant part in what we believe the contestants to be like.
Although I'm surprised that Nick & Vicki haven't been mentioned as an annoying team. I still like Vicki, but Nick could give Chad a run for his money in the douchebag department :lol:
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I agree -- Vicki seemed just fine but Nick could definitely give Chad a run for his money in the douchebag department!
Belle Book
GabyM:
--- Quote from: Belle Book on August 27, 2011, 02:43:05 PM ---
--- Quote from: GabyM on August 27, 2011, 12:23:26 AM ---
--- Quote from: georgiapeach on August 26, 2011, 11:23:31 AM ---And what surprised and fascinated me what was that some of the people "we loved to hate" while they were racing are often the most delightful and charming people in real life. The race (pressure, starvation, sleep deprivation) does strange things to the nicest of people!
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Agreed. For example, on TAR7, Ray was portrayed as being this uber evil, arrogant villain, but in real life, he was pretty much the only person in that season who got along with every team and was often trying to play the peacemaker. And I've also heard from people that have met him, that Terence of season 13 is not the jerk that he was made out to be on TV. And what Peach said is true, let's not forget that this is a TV show, and that editing does play a significant part in what we believe the contestants to be like.
Although I'm surprised that Nick & Vicki haven't been mentioned as an annoying team. I still like Vicki, but Nick could give Chad a run for his money in the douchebag department :lol:
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I agree -- Vicki seemed just fine but Nick could definitely give Chad a run for his money in the douchebag department!
Belle Book
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Word. And the worst part was that Vicki was a pretty good racer herself, but she was dragging around 150 pounds of dead weight
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