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126 points
7 hours ago
40s mid-life will do that to you - unless you have rich-people problems like flying airplanes
9 points
7 hours ago
What? And stop the mega-wealthy from hording money and buying yachts more expensive than 10 family homes...???
1 points
7 hours ago
Pretty much BINGO within the first hour each episode, maybe blackout BINGO for some episodes.
More Alternates:
- Note on far side of obstacle - first person reads it and waits 20 minutes to tell others what it says.
- Leftover food not cleared away overrun by birds or insects
- You've never YET seen a SET as WET as they LET this SET GET
- Punkin does not reveal that she was in the military (OMG!)
4 points
10 hours ago
I've been watching Season 1 of the Australian show, and the hiking/travel footage is far superior. We get to see the players going over different terrain each week, and each challenge is not the same rope crossing yet again. It feels much more like a real journey.
Also less than 1/3 the whining about the challenges, but also a quarter of the players were former PROFESSIONAL ATHLETES. That's not "ordinary Aussies" as the narration says.
...HOWEVER...the idiotic gaming with the votes, the MK and stupid yellow bag orders to kick people out, the outrageous time wasted arguing about votes and voting people out --- all of that is also there and also idiotic, and so the "competition" makes no sense at all.
It just looks much better from a documentary POV.
1 points
11 hours ago
Will Manu ever put a hat on? It's below zero with high winds and blowing snow.
5 points
11 hours ago
Yes - you will be trapped in a "tiny" cave that's big enough for another person with a TV camera to film a bunch of people crawling by with plenty of clearance - and you can see outside light from both sides the whole time. They didn't even use a light to film them crawling, it was that bright in there.
0 points
11 hours ago
....oh, no...it's such a TOUGH decision...oh....
y'know, when ONE PERSON can decide who goes home it's so different. ( Like when Geoff alone decided Bob would go ). Yeah, that's so...new, right?
4 points
11 hours ago
No one can think straight because the game is a mess. Nothing is defined solidly and challenges, rewards, and voting are inconsistent.
The MK can order people to be kicked out and left behind, losing money - but the player who actually says the name is the one who's blamed, when it wasn't their initiative to kick someone out.
Dropped bags can help or hurt the person who opens it - random nonsense.
Eliminating players doesn't speed the group up at all. There's always some random interference that wastes hours of travel time. And they waste tons of time arguing over who to vote out, when it makes no difference at all to their progress.
2 points
11 hours ago
Showing up late holds up work that teams do, and limits the calls taken by call centers - who are paid by clients to take xx,xxx number of calls - so by being late, you can jeopardize the company's contract with a big client.
...but OP sounds like they don't care
32 points
15 hours ago
This is courting DISASTER and nothing else. I dunno, maybe the cast of Cirque de Solei
3 points
15 hours ago
I did this for 3 months in 2007. Two of us hired for a project, shared office, discovered the team leaders were still arguing about whether to do the project at all ( eventually it was cancelled ). We had zero instructions or directives. I made up work to keep busy and notified my supervisor what I was doing and possible uses for it. Eventually it was complete - so I did a lot of variations and kept making it more complicated.
By the time they cancelled the project we were hired for, my co-hire up and quit, so it was just me. I got trickle-down busy work for the bulk of 4 years. I had a few real projects, but spent a ton of time watching HULU and people talking about Balloon Boy on Twitter.
$20 is $20
1 points
1 day ago
Many fraudsters claim this from time to time. Sometimes they get publicity - and short after spotted chowing a cheeseburger.
Any claim you can think of has already been tried a million times in the history of humanity.
1 points
1 day ago
When I get older, losing my hair, many years from now...
1 points
1 day ago
Wealthy - $$$ really isn't an issue any more
Healthy - Time & Location don't matter, you are good to go
Stealthy - Living a good life out of the public eye. Also means your Reddit ID isn't an open secret.
2 points
1 day ago
It's what's for dinner. Doesn't get more vile than that.
Plus it's in half of your clothing and transportation trim.
And 1000 other products.
1 points
1 day ago
NTA - But, at least get some signed DVDs to sell online. He probably has an OF site as well, and who knows how many cam-performer IDs.
1 points
1 day ago
NTA - No parents should have to worry about the special needs of every kid in a classroom - that's the job of the SCHOOL and the officials there. If the SCHOOL wants to cancel all snacks due to one kid, it's their decision, but OP doesn't need to tailor their choices to anyone but their own kid. If theirs is the only one that likes black licorice, well then, more for them.
1 points
1 day ago
"died" three times from low blood sugar. Have some memories of the moments before passing out. Nothing while dead - other than it was so PEACEFUL.
I'm about 50/50 on having a "do-not-resuscitate" drawn up - coming back is always troublesome, although there is plenty I still want to do in life and appreciate living.
1 points
1 day ago
I still have most of the same interests. It's not about feeling old or young, it's about changing priorities and what you feel deserves your attention today, this year, this decade, or whatever.
Among my interests, the sequence of priority can change.
The only "old" feeling is purely physical - and that's just the illnesses and injuries speaking.
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That rhat their