First of all Barry wanted to say congrats to the San Francisco Giants who won some sort of ball sporting event and to a Panda who was named the MVP. An actual Panda?! If it’s not, I don’t want to hear about it!
Back to the spooOOOooky Halloween edition of our Amazing Race recap!
BOO! Scared yet? Good!
When last we left AR Bangladesh was disgusting, Team Tall & Tiny was out, Team Mama Mia was number one and we pretty much feel nothing about the rest of the teams. So let’s get started! BOOO!!
As we start the fifth leg of the race around the world we got behind the scenes a bit with James from Mama Mia whose dad has stage four cancer with no chance of remission. Wow…that sucks….James says it gives him even more motivation, to win for his dad.
They leave first. They’re on their way to the wholesale produce market Jatrabari Market. They have to find a vendor selling eggplant to get their next clue. Honestly, if it was me and they said my dad had no chance of remission and I went to a market in a foreign country I think I would be asking for any kinds of crazy herbal remedies they had. I’d bring bag a whole bag of crazy fish eyes and monkey brains and ground up tree bark from a gypsy woman, because hey, why not?
Food trucks are so 2011.
Mama Mia finds the eggplant dude and they are on their way to a ferry and their next clue. They’re not leaving Bangladesh yet? They just walked by a dead dong on the street! Come on, let’s move on AR! Oh wait did I say “dong?” Freudian typo. I meant DOG. Much more sad.
Choke out is second and Twin N’s are third and they brag about how they’re the only girl team left.
Roadbloack: Teams must build an ancient Bangladeshi scale to balance wood using rocks as a counter balance. AR keeps trying to tell us what to tweet about, for example:#Roadblock.
“We tried to warn our town of the dangerous roadblock, but Amazing Race’s Twitter account flooded our feed!” -Something you’ll never have to worry about.
Bangladeshi pole vaulting!
Mama Mia actually seemed to build the scale fast, but had some rope problems.
Team Twin N’s are in a cab and say that they have to beat the “goras” which is Hindi for white people. They say it’s not derogatory, and after a quick Google search, they’re right! It’s a word that refers to their chalky white skin and is not derogatory. Makes sense, I melt like butter when Barry talks about my chalky white skin and my fine spaghetti like sticky blonde hair. He’s such a sweet talker!
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Last episode, when Josh said he was a former drag queen named Aquadisiac, I popped out of my chair and ran to the bookshelf. I recognize that name. Josh Kilmer-Purcell is no goat farmer …he’s a bestselling author! His memoir, Not Myself These Days, is amazing. Dark, honest, humorous…unforgettable. I love that he found love, considering what he was tangled up in when he wrote it. *shudders* I do love how the Amazing Race portrays them as some backwoods goat farmers when he is as metropolitan as one can get. He worked at an ad agency for crying out loud. I didn’t see much of this episode (preoccupied with storm preparation) but I hope it was mentioned or somehow alluded to.
Off to read the recap…
@sarcasatire – they did say he works in the city 5 days a week and comes home to the goat farm on weekends. But all the other stuff has not been mentioned. Good find!
Great Recap! I Googled ‘gora’ and found that it is in fact a racial epithet used by folks from India especially when describing inter-racial marriage. I also have a theory as to why the Dong-Boys mentioned that they ‘are not eating.’ Could it be that they have not been able to bring their steroids with them…thus the weight loss? Makes sense to me.
Two things. First, because my grandmother was a patient at Beekman Hospital and my grandfather was a chaplain there, I was curious when I saw Beekman on their shirts. I went on Wikipedia and learned that the goat farmers atar on a reality show, something that I don’t think TAR has mentioned.
Second, pardon my ignorance. Why are Ryan and Abbie called Team Choke Out?
@Zwicker – read Sarcasatire’s first comment on this thread. And no TAR has not mentioned anything of the sort!
Thanks, featherhead. Zwicker, my guess is that it would make the beekman Boys a lot less sympathetic if the show revealed them for what they really are, millionaires, most likely. Or, at least very well off. They don’t have a sad story, and one is a doctor, the other a best-selling author and creative director at an ad agency.. yea, so reality dictates that they need to be known by their quirkiest trait. Voila! Goat farmers.
I feel a little hoodwinked! They were even talking about how they almost lost the farm and how poor they are. I’m a little pissed if you can’t tell. I hope they get eliminated next week, so there!!
I feel like the hoodwinking is more on the part of the Amazing Race producers. They milk and drum up sad stories to make the contestants seem sympathetic so we root for them and are more invested in the show. If there were a bunch of wall street execs running around the world, less people would watch.
Perhaps, its true that the goat farming business isn’t super successful and they may lose it…but I’m sure they have other things to fall back on like Josh’s advertising career, his books, and the fact that Brent is a doctor. Who knows, maybe they mentioned it and it was edited out. Josh admitted to being a drag queen which was mostly what his memoir was about. (He’s written others, but I’m Not Myself These Days was during a period of excess, alcoholism, and an admittedly dark, and disturbing love affair with a male escort. Riveting stuff. I kind of like them more now that I know who he is and what he went through. Weird, I know. lol)
I don’t find any of these couples sympathetic. Last season,I found several pairs. to root for. OK-I guess I felt happy the long haired hippies with the stage 4 cancer dad won the vacation. The dating divorcees looked like he needed to punch something and she was about to cry.,-because-after all-HE had expectations. Any one want to give a hand to the humbe Bangladeshis? You thought that that place was bleek to look at for 2 hours ? Have a little sympathy for the people who were born,will live their lives there and die there. I agree the place looks like the 7th circle of hell.I also remind you,they’re all muslims,not one is a terrorist,they were helpful and smiling
(I wouldn’t be-would you?) and they worked like those competitors every day.Did you notice-no women? There were a few under a burkha in the 2nd episode but generally-an estrogen free zone. That’s a shame. Dacca is famous for handloomed saris only made there and nowhere else. They are made on looms mde with those bamboo rods-which are used for a lot of things. They cost a lot,even in India and are woven without a pattern-freehand.The designs look like hand-embroidery.
http://www.sareeguru.com/acatalog/Daccai_Fashion.html This is a Dacca/Kolkata web link from the UK
The latest fashion.Fairly tacky color combos but-the picker must have been blind. Check out the sold ones-Those are the only good ones.
PS-Gora-Fairly insulting.Gori girl-female version.Tells me a lot about the twins. Don’t say Ghora-that means “horse”. A lot of things can be insulting said or sung the right way. “Sahlly” is sister-in-law-or bitch.You hear it in songs a lot. Clever little Desi boys.
Sari. So sari. I read that Gora is not derogatory; it’s a word that describes someone with white skin in THEIR language. Because I reckon ‘Caucasian’ or ‘white person’ is a term reserved for English speakers. If they were in Latin America, the term would be Gringo. In Ghana, it would be Abruni. Having dark skin myself, when traveljng abroad, I heard terms that described my skin tone (as it differed from the locals) and knew it was not derogatory, merely a description.
Morena, Negrita, Nega, Morocha, have all been used with affection by locals that I befriended abroad. And I’m sure Gora has been used the same way to describe a friend that one has met who hails from another country and looks quite different from them.
On the very first episode they mentioned the Beekman Boys reality show in their introduction. It’s on another network so they gave it a mention and then moved on. They don’t have time to do major profiles of the teams so they boil it down to the essentials and get on with the racing. I’m sure there is more to Trey and Lexi than football player and cheerleader but they edit for time.
Great recaps! I just caught up on the last few and you had me laughing out loud. Nice!
Hey, I love the recaps, but I have to let you know that because I haven’t been following your recaps from the beginning, I find it impossible to know which teams you are referring to with your nicknames. They used to be a little more obvious, but this week I’m finding them completely mystifying!
Great recap. Anyone who makes a “Firemarshall Bill” reference in 2012 is OK with me. (C’mere! Lemeshowyasomethin’!!!)
I’m coming around to hating the TwinNs. Will they PLEASE shut up? The problem is, outside of being annoying, they aren’t as jerky as some of the other groups. Just LOUD, but they aren’t derogatory about where they are.
I want the truckers out next leg. The Beekmans are whiny as hell, the TwinNs are annoying, but I cannot STAND that asshole trucker guy.
Unwise-According to a post by Texas coach Mac Brown, neither Trey nor Lexi is doing anything all that exciting with their lives. I think they are both in sales for local companies.
Perhaps Trey and Lexi weren’t the best example!
Maybe if you go back to Mike White’s season with his dad Mel. They scratched the surface with Mike’s career but didn’t give his full history. My point is the Amazing Race is more about the experience of the race than the racers themselves. Either way it was good to find out about Josh’s book. I may go seek it out now. Thanks for that info.
Gora or Sahlly. -Perfectly good words. But people say them with different inflection and meaning. I asked the expert-not Wikipedia. Gora as a white friend? no. India is a very ritualized country,much like Germany. Wives don’t use their husband’s first name. Women address strange men as \uncle\ or brother\. Not-repeat not white person. My children called everyone they met uncle or aunty.I’m simplifying. It’s much more complicted but Gyp will say I’m ranting and/or rambling rather than admit it’s too much info and she can’t follow.
In my family,my father-in-law had 6 siblings. My Mother-in-law had 9. This is common. Each Bengali is given a Good name at their Annaprasan or Mukhobhat and a regular name-for daily use. They also have a name for their order in the family and depending on which side they belong to ,a special ending to that name.
When I sent my Hilsha fish from Bangladesh to relatives in Kolkata,I had not only dig out addresses,but remember the Anjana was also Sejdi Pishi (7th aunt on father’s side) and to sign it Ranodeb (husband’s regular name) . Then Ranga Mashi (Mother’s sister ) was signed Khokon because that was their regular name for him.
No one remembers his real name. If I signed it they would be confused.
If I signed it Gori girl-there would not be a friendly jocular response. There would be complete dead silence and they would never get over the insult.Ever.
Don’t measure the rest of the world by America. We have not herded swine together.
Third world countries may not have much materially. But dignity is given even to the smallest and the poorest.
That seems to have escaped the twins. In their minds,those Bangladeshis are freer than you can ever hope to be.
Jai Bangla.
Um, KM, aren’t you a Gori? Because by all accounts, you aren’t from that part of the world yourself. So, as you admit, it’s a perfectly fine word, as I stated in my post…so your initial post about not liking the twins for using/explaining the meaning is pure BS, especially if you contradict yourself in your very next post.
And why you say one can’t have a Gora friend (and make this about gender and how women refer to men as if I couldn’t be referring to two men, a local and his Gora buddy. Then again, if you didn’t change the context, how else could you talk about yourself?) I wonder…how are you referred to all those Indian women you speak of when they are describing you their families? Not as their Gori friend? Sari. So sari.
And saying you couldn’t sign a package to your husband’s family “gori-girl’ because it would be rude, well…duh! Here in ‘Merika and the rest of the world, we usually sign letters with our name, not our physical description.
signed,
Cinnamon Brown
@sarcasatire I would click \like\ on your post if I could. And I just want to thank you, and Gypsy, for translating her posts because it gives me a headache when I try to read them and I don’t want my head to explode.
I didn’t really get the impression that the twins meant anything derogatory.
Cinnamon brown is a great color but it also makes me think of cinnamon toast. Which is a good thing. I like cheese toast, too, when it’s freshly grated sharp cheddar cheese.
@SarClassy, I totes agree with @linda for doing such a stellar job of translating KMese into English, especially since I don’t give a flying flack about her husband’s tenth cousin on the distaff side.
You are both well travelled and erudite. I once worked in an area of Chicago where my skin tone was different from the locals. Like you, I often heard a friendly greeting: “Hey Whitey!”
The 2 whitey hetro teams are boring. Please continue to post pictures of them so we know who is who. They’re so bland I forget what they look like.
I enjoyed this leg of the race. I’m finding Truckasaurus more and more likeable probably because I find Truckasaurus He-Man SEXY.
Goat boys seem to be loosing their desire to stay in the game. They both need to man up.
*Sigh*
Reread @KM’s ran– er comment. I find it difficult to connect having absolutely no interest whatsoever in the minutae of her in-laws’ lives with being ignorant.
We are here to discuss/snark about tv shows. Period.
Yet time after time, site after site we are sucked into reading about her personal life and then berated for not understanding her stream of consciousness diatribes that have nothing whatsoever to do with the subject at hand.
And then, like Gyp (!!!!!!!!!) we are abused for pointing out the fact that we are not here for a lesson on her much-degreed husband’s family.
Enough woman! We. Do. Not. Care.
Da
My ‘puter bit me.
Dare I say that KM has us BamBOOzled?
Lmao at Fire Marshall Beekman. Omg. Screenshots are awesome!
I can’t believe I am saying this, but I think I actually kinda, sorta, maybe like Team Dong. I know! But, they seem to be very friendly and nice to the locals (which is a lot more than I can say for some of these a-holes) and thus far they have tried to keep a positive, upbeat attitude and actually have fun. It was hate at first sight, but I may have *gasp* been wrong.
Twinnies! I was trying to figure out wtf they were yelling. I think that’s it. They are annoying, but I have to admit that they have pretty good attitudes, too. And even though I have to endure their screaming on my t.v., I do enjoy the way it pisses off the other teams.
I know I’m kind of alone in this, but I love the Twinnies! I think they are adorable and it is such a refreshing change from the couples thay just bitch at each other, country after country….endlessly… I also like Team Dong. They, too, are funny and engaging. I promise to stop assuming buff guys are mindless, boring, judgmen…maybe not. But I like them.
Great recap! That witness protection line still has me laughing!
I forgot to mention that I, too, like Team Dong and I’m very surprised by this because I fully expected to hate them. The only one I really dislike is Truckasaurus because he’s so rude to the locals.
I like the way the twins just tackle the problem but I really wish they would dial it down a notch or two.
I completely totally dislike Twinnies. Shut. The. Hell. Up. Already. You are annoying and you make my ears bleed. Although if that is what you are trying to do to your competitors, brilliant strategy I suppose. But take the mics off these two.
I like the Rockers – they are there, they are playing the game, they seem to be enjoying themselves. You go boys. And heaven help me, I’m liking Team Dong. I didn’t want to because I’m generally not a fan of strippers, but the one that talks a lot seems nice and they are nice to the locals (unlike Twinnies and Truckasaurus Ass).
Now, we had to watch it online this week – did I miss the part about everyones in law and aunts and uncles – I’m very confused by some of the comments and I’m afraid I missed something crucial in the show.
PS – What the duece is up with this Burger King ad that I have to type in – I haven’t had to do that ever and haven’t had to captcha in a while. They should know that I’m not a computer based on the semi-good grammar unlike the piss poor grammar of most spam bots.
I am done with the monster truck couple, just done! Eh, Beekman boys are okay, but start annoying me, too.
I actually like the other teams – I wasn’t sure about the James/Jaymes guys, but I DO like them. They seem pretty humble. The twins are annoying, but I don’t think they realize how annoying they are, which makes them kinda cute.
I like both couples, mostly because they really haven’t had mean meltdowns with each other – and I always like when the couples can make it on this race without descending into hatred and ugliness. And as for the Lawyer/Rocker – they also seem smart and I can enjoy their interaction.
You know who I could stand to lose next week? Anyone commenting on the boards and annoying me. Just saying.
@Chicken Lips – I hate the new captcha that has appeared… It’s new for me, too!
@Chicken, you are so pure and innocent and sweet. There you are trying to concentrate on the snarking at hand, which is our sovereign duty as Gasmii, and completely missed the insane rant that KartoffelMuter (sic) turned the site into an homage to herself and her in-laws.
In-laws and out-laws have nothing to do with the Amazing Race.
@KartoffIMuter:
” It’s much more complicted but Gyp will say I’m ranting and/or rambling rather than admit it’s too much info and she can’t follow.”
How many copies of, The Catcher In The Rye do you have on hand? Enough to have Homeland Security minitoring your house? LEVEL RED? I could care less if you want to talk trash about me but please, spare the Gasmii who love this show, the recapper and comments the insanity and attack me on my own turf. Being a bully in another schoolyard is boring.
NEXT!
Well said, Gypsy! You hadn’t even posted on this thread and she’s tossing around insults at you. She’s even chastising the recappers. “You thought that that place was bleek to look at for 2 hours ? Have a little sympathy for the people who were born,will live their lives there and die there.” Contradicts herself in the very next sentence. ” I agree the place looks like the 7th circle of hell.”
HAHAHA!! Pure entertainment. And Ridiculousness.
@SarClassy, Dante is shaking his head about now and thinking:
“More circles of hell? dayAmn! Who knew? In all my wisdom I just wasn’t prepared for KM.”
Why don’t you 2 just kiss? You know you want to. Dante isn’t shaking anything. And that’s not a contradiction. Have pity and it’s the 7th’s circle of hell. What is your problem with someone who sees more than one side? Go to Chicago and yell “Hey Whitey” again. We had a good laugh over that. In what neighborhood exactly? Tosser. Sit on a tack and Romney will have a “movement” for you.
So bizarre! It’s like word salad with her posts. Salad with pudding and goldfish crackers and pepperoni would make as much sense as these posts. I am probably poking the bear but this is ridiculous.
Thanks for the recap F&B
I like The Beekman boys because I grew to like them on their show. Very anal and very entertaining. (there is a pic of Josh in drag, with fish in the platforms of his shoes, too cool). The twins are KIlling Me! Not fond. Please leave! “Trucks are us” are on the way, I think..
“Dead dong”..Oh my! I chuckled myself silly for some reason and was hoping that you didn’t catch it and woke up the next day to a bunch of “hahaha dead dong” emails and posts
Just as an aside, concerning KM. This is nobody’s turf. There is no hierarchy here. It is an open group, available to anyone that wants to post, friends and strangers alike. Also keep in mind that it is a snark/humor site and sometimes our sense of humor is not the same.
TC, Robin
Word Salad, no let me quote this with proper acclaim:
“Salad with pudding and goldfish crackers and pepperoni would make as much sense as these posts. I am probably poking the bear but this is ridiculous”
Oh so very wise!
Yes, this is an open group. I guess we’re being told this on a thread where the person in question chastised the recappers for being unsympathetic but expressed the same \unsympathetic\ sentiments a few seconds later. I guess we should be reminded that this is an open group so that we may be more accepting of a poster who takes constant jabs at other commenters with no provocation whatsoever. I mean, where was \Gyp\ on this post before KM brought up her up? Nowhere. So, I guess we should remind Gypsy that this is an open group and perhaps she should get comfortable with being insulted on threads that she doesn’t even take part in. Because, clearly, that’s acceptable behavior.
@SSC, what do you say? Under the bleachers at 3 o’clock? Bring your chapstick! *puckers up*
Grow the hell up or dig your cheerleeding outfits out.Did you not graduate? Is that your problem? You’ve done nothing but insult be. You aren’t just childish,you’re downright Republican.Go buy some more people. all of you against 1- that sounds right.
Wow, I didn’t realize AR was so entertaining last week!
@SarClassy, 3:00 it is. You’ll recognize me by my big, er…
pompoms.
@Robin, you are correct. In fact, I have said the same thing to people who say nasty things to other Gasmii, especially when a ‘capper is attacked.
We do try to be polite, and we do like to have fun. But there is a history of KM’s attacking Gasmii and I have long ago lost my patience with her. She has told me that my family in Germany were lowlife scum (not a direct quote here) and that she has a children’s book ridiculing the people from my homeland. Isn’t that great parenting to have a child read a book that mocks and denegrates others?
I have read her rants, and she says nasty things about others. That just isn’t right.
There is no moderator, but we can try to be civil. And when she says silly things like two of us should play kissy face, well, why not have fun with it?
Her inane comments on other threads have brought the comments up over 100, and it gets to be fun to see how many times we can make it happen.
Thanks Gyp!
The comment \all of you against 1\ is designed to make the commenters feel bad for ganging up. However a person who is deliberately provocative is looking for exactly this result. It is attention they crave so maybe it is a mistake to do anything but ignore. But since this is not a mental health forum I believe we have the right to comment on anything that is put out there. And she certainly puts it out there.
@(un)Wise, you nailed it.
AND you said it so much better in a much shorter form than I tried to do.
@Unwise – I don’t feel bad about ganging up. As long as I’m in the gang, not on the receiving end.
I forgot to mention in my original comment (probably because I was desperately trying to remember the part of the show about in laws…) that I don’t like the Goat Boys either. When I read the ew.com article introducing the players, they were making a big deal about how I was supposed to know a team already because of their hit reality show. I never even heard of them (and I’m hip to some pretty silly reality tv even if I don’t watch), so I thought that maybe Truckasaurus Ass had a show on one of those “macho” stations like Speed or G4 or something. I think I don’t like Goat Boys because (to me) they act like EVERYBODY should know them and EVERYBODY should love them because they are in the unique position of raising goats and/or having a reality show. I guess their attitudes rub me the wrong way. I didn’t like Boofles (Rachel and Buhrendon) or Boston Rob and Ambah either for the same reason (I did like Jeff and Jordan though because I love Jeff and Jordan).
Oh Chicken Lips, I couldn’t STAND Boston Rob until he and Amber went on AR. Then, honestly, to watch how absolutely sweet, caring and kind he was to Amber made me love him. I feel like he is one of the reality show people who has a persona and a real life self – and seeing him with Amber made me think – \I could be this guy’s friend in RL.\ I don’t feel that way about many people on TV… (Except Jeff/Jordan – LOVE Jeff/Jordan!)
As for KM? She takes great pleasure in insulting everyone’s intelligence and views, in the most hysterical ways. I think Dr. Seuss is the only one who could truly understand her sometimes. Personally, I think it shows a decided *lack* of intelligence when you can’t use any valid logic – but instead throw out insults like \You aren’t just childish,you’re downright Republican. Go buy some more people.\ Um, because all Republicans are slave owners?
That’s incredulous and pretty ridiculous. If she’s going to lump people into broad categories, without any actual knowledge of these people, and act like a fool, then I say she’s opening herself up for the same snark that is handed out to those seen on TV.
I appologise to everyone. I was wrong…
Josh didn’t have fish in platform shoes! He had fishbowl boobs!
http://www.google.com/imgres?q=Aquadisiac+%2B+Drag+Queen&hl=en&sa=X&biw=1024&bih=597&tbm=isch&prmd=imvns&tbnid=pPOmJQkI1oLcXM:&imgrefurl=http://highkixx.com/2010/12/24/where-did-all-the-goldfish-go-the-fabulous-beekman-boy-and-his-drag-alter-ego-%25E2%2580%259Caqua%25E2%2580%259D/&docid=UY28uMzkhyan9M&imgurl=http://highkixx.files.wordpress.com/2010/12/images-11.jpg&w=179&h=256&ei=-A-XUJCbGIOY2AXs24CoAw&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=430&vpy=261&dur=4281&hovh=204&hovw=143&tx=88&ty=228&sig=112513244186040258047&page=1&tbnh=130&tbnw=92&start=0&ndsp=19&ved=1t:429,r:9,s:0,i:101
How can you not love Brendon and Rachel?
Brendon by himself could be OK. A bit thick, but not terrible annoying. Rachel by herself wears on on you but is tolerable. Rachel and Buhrendon together? My lord, pop my eardrums with a rusty serving fork and dig my eyeballs out with a dull spork.
That’s how I can not love Brendon and Rachel. You know what I’m talking about!
PS – boiled cabbage? Well I supposed it is better than fishy smell that I had yesterday…this new captcha is weird.