The Amazing Race has too many extraneous rules

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meatball77		#61	[-]
Posts: 11190 (04/13/09 3:49 PM) Registered user Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	And it's no crazier than Kisha and Jen leaving their backpacks and fanny pack at the first task and trying to check into the pit stop without their passports.
BetteVSJoan		#62	[-]
Posts: 829 (04/13/09 8:04 PM) Registered user Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	I remember when Uchenna and Joyce pulled up to the final pitstop before Romber. They had no money to pay their cab, so they ran around frantically, asking people for money to pay the cab driver. So the rule about not paying a cab with your posessions has been in place a while, it's just that we haven't seen what the penalty is until now. I for one am glad they have these rules and penalties, it stops people from playing dirty and trying to cheat and keeps the race at least somewhat classy and family friendly. This is why it keeps winning those Emmy's.
spragenspelt		#63	[-]
Posts: 2599 (04/13/09 8:07 PM) Registered User Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	Where are our former racers that post here...they could settle this. Paging Mrs Gaghan.
FormerRacer13		#64	[-]
Posts: 6 (04/13/09 11:35 PM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	Sigh... I thought I did settle this. As of the current season, it is a rule that you may not use anything you have brought with you for ANY kind of selling/trading/bartering. Anything you may come by once you have STARTED the race is fare game for selling/trading/bartering. It is also a rule that you may NOT abandon a cab driver with no payment at all. (See Colin for the origin of THAT rule.) BUT, so long as your cab driver says you are square, it's all good and you may continue. This is why Uchenna and Joyce HAD to settle with their cab driver in season 7. He was demanding payment. And this is why they could not just bail and run to the finish line. If the cab driver had just said "it's ok," they would have been fine. Much like K and J in this episode with their free cab ride.
wakwakwak		#65	[-]
Posts: 1420 (04/13/09 11:44 PM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	FormerRacer13 wrote: Sigh... I thought I did settle this. As of the current season, it is a rule that you may not use anything you have brought with you for ANY kind of selling/trading/bartering. Anything you may come by once you have STARTED the race is fare game for selling/trading/bartering. It is also a rule that you may NOT abandon a cab driver with no payment at all. (See Colin for the origin of THAT rule.) BUT, so long as your cab driver says you are square, it's all good and you may continue. This is why Uchenna and Joyce HAD to settle with their cab driver in season 7. He was demanding payment. And this is why they could not just bail and run to the finish line. If the cab driver had just said "it's ok," they would have been fine. Much like K and J in this episode with their free cab ride. Who are you please.....................
MsJulieR		#66	[-]
Posts: 5670 (04/14/09 12:56 AM) Registered User Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	remember when they took away all their money and possessions and made them beg in those poor countries.,..that was a low as you can get so that was ok but this isn't...we just need to be told some of those rules will there be a penalty for calling someone a bitch
Dan Down Under		#67	[-]
Posts: 4527 (04/14/09 2:31 AM) Registered user Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	People really need to stop using Dandrew as an example. Their cabby didn't take their shoes, they kept them - hence it was a fail barter. Didn't the cabby just accept their money?
Ben Tucker		#68	[-]
Posts: 1725 (04/14/09 5:18 AM) Registered User Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	And even so, didn't they buy those shoes with race money anyways?
dragoondaniel78		#69	[-]
Posts: 2210 (04/14/09 7:00 AM) Registered User Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	Ben Tucker wrote: And even so, didn't they buy those shoes with race money anyways? Yeah. In the Kazakhstan airport if I'm not wrong. And on the very same leg, they tried to barter it away. -.-
bryanpasa		#70	[-]
Posts: 859 (04/14/09 8:07 AM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	Lol! Calling someone a bitch is a penalty too! and fighting PHYSICALLY should not be tolerated also.
ghostbusted		#71	[-]
Posts: 946 (04/14/09 11:18 AM) Registered user Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	Does The Amazing Race have any "Janelle/James style" rules concerning incidental contact?
oh ehm gee		#72	[-]
Posts: 2523 (04/14/09 12:21 PM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	ghostbusted wrote: Does The Amazing Race have any "Janelle/James style" rules concerning incidental contact? Wasn't that "rule" that there was no rule (and incidentally, James has no leg to stand on considering he purposefully tried to hit Erika in the shin while she was lunging)? There certainly wasn't a rule for the railway museum brawl in TAR6.
Pulau Tiga		#73	[-]
Posts: 4956 (04/16/09 3:33 PM) Registered user Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	Dr Will Hatch two point oh wrote: I enjoy all of those contingencies, thank you very much. The disallowment of ferns, bribery, etc is the equivalent of the HII and Final 3 on Survivor. They are plot devices designed by those too squeamish to let reality roll along as is. You can't let players use belongings to barter with because then the richest race teams would be able to bring jewelry or other items worth a great deal of money and use those things to gain themselves a huge advantage over all the other teams who can't afford such race luxuries. The race is supposed to start out fair for all teams. It's what they do on the race that determines their placement. Rules like this are absolutely essential.
Dr Will Hatch two point oh		#74	[-]
Posts: 7890 (05/12/09 1:28 PM) Registered user Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	Pulau Tiga wrote: Dr Will Hatch two point oh wrote: I enjoy all of those contingencies, thank you very much. The disallowment of ferns, bribery, etc is the equivalent of the HII and Final 3 on Survivor. They are plot devices designed by those too squeamish to let reality roll along as is. You can't let players use belongings to barter with because then the richest race teams would be able to bring jewelry or other items worth a great deal of money and use those things to gain themselves a huge advantage over all the other teams who can't afford such race luxuries. The race is supposed to start out fair for all teams. It's what they do on the race that determines their placement. Rules like this are absolutely essential. No one goes into the Race with a clean slate. Some teams are more attractive. Others have more travel experience. Some are better at reading a map or have a better sense of direction or trajectory than others. The only games that are completely fair are ones of luck.
bubbybear		#75	[-]
Posts: 3176 (05/12/09 4:24 PM) Registered User Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	Coming into the race with a bag full of ipods and jewelry gives you a little more of an advantage than having travel experience.
Screerider		#76	[-]
Posts: 24482 (05/12/09 4:28 PM) Registered user Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	It's like letting poker players play personal cards they brought with them to the table.
Dr Will Hatch two point oh		#77	[-]
Posts: 7897 (05/12/09 4:42 PM) Registered user Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	bubbybear wrote: Coming into the race with a bag full of ipods and jewelry gives you a little more of an advantage than having travel experience. What's wrong with that? If winning a game show is that important to them, let it ride(So to speak). Plus random recipients will become slightly richer. I wouldn't approve of them being allowed their own cash money, however. One on the hand, who wants an American dollar bill these days?
Iku		#78	[-]
Posts: 244 (05/12/09 5:28 PM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	Dr Will Hatch two point oh wrote: bubbybear wrote: Coming into the race with a bag full of ipods and jewelry gives you a little more of an advantage than having travel experience. What's wrong with that? If winning a game show is that important to them, let it ride(So to speak). Plus random recipients will become slightly richer. I wouldn't approve of them being allowed their own cash money, however. One on the hand, who wants an American dollar bill these days? What's wrong with that? If winning a game show is that important to them, let it ride(So to speak). Plus random recipients will become slightly richer.
florida		#79	[-]
Posts: 861 (05/12/09 6:04 PM) Registered User Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	Dr Will Hatch two point oh wrote: Pulau Tiga wrote: Dr Will Hatch two point oh wrote: I enjoy all of those contingencies, thank you very much. The disallowment of ferns, bribery, etc is the equivalent of the HII and Final 3 on Survivor. They are plot devices designed by those too squeamish to let reality roll along as is. You can't let players use belongings to barter with because then the richest race teams would be able to bring jewelry or other items worth a great deal of money and use those things to gain themselves a huge advantage over all the other teams who can't afford such race luxuries. The race is supposed to start out fair for all teams. It's what they do on the race that determines their placement. Rules like this are absolutely essential. No one goes into the Race with a clean slate. Some teams are more attractive. Others have more travel experience. Some are better at reading a map or have a better sense of direction or trajectory than others. The only games that are completely fair are ones of luck. Anyone can learn to read a map and be direction-oriented, if they wanted to do so.
ghostbusted		#80	[-]
Posts: 972 (05/13/09 4:05 PM) Registered user Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	I guess this is as good a thread as any for a rules question I am wondering about. If a member of a team got hurt, twisted an ankle say, while in transit to a task or pit stop; would the rules allow a "Fern" to carry the injured person to the destination?

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