Culturally Preconditioned

Terrence is a whiny cunt. Watch him win this race.

Kelly and Christy are whiny cunts. Watch them win this race.

The four-eyed frat manbearpig is a whiny cunt. Watch him win this race.

Sorry I missed the recap for last week’s TAR13. Working the night shifts almost always throw me into some weird loop. I made some notes on the episode somewhere, but couldn’t find them.. but I thought it was pretty cool that they visited the Angkor Wat in the last leg. Teams arrived within an hour of each other at the pitstop and Aja/Ty were eliminated. Terrence/Sarah were incurred a 30-minute penalty at the beginning of this leg (so glad the word ‘pitstart’ was never used) because of a traffic offense.. although I’m not quite sure why the penalty was not incurred immediately at the end of the last leg.

In this leg, teams had to fly out to Delhi, India. Teams had to buy tickets at a tour agency before getting to the airport. Teams were all bunched up on the same flight, which is okay, I guess.. considering how close everyone were at the end of the last leg. Once in Delhi, teams had to find Moon Light Motors, were they received a clue.. that turned out to be a Roadblock (”who’s got an artistic flair”) where one team had to cover a taxi and paint it green. Dan and Andrew were the first to finish.. only to fuck it up again by not getting a taxi. I’m telling ya, these guys are the kings of losing-the-leads. I was actually slowly starting to root for them.. but I have come to the conclusion that they are a lost cause.

Once they finished the roadblock, teams had to make their way to Ambassador Hotel and search the gardens for an Indian Doormand who will give them their clue. And by ’search’, they mean.. head straight down to the hotel, and immediately spot the guy in costume standing right smack in the middle of the fucking garden. A detour is next, and teams had to choose between (1) Launder Money - where teams had to go to a banquet hall, create a necklace with Indian notes totalling to a specified amount.. basically too confusing even for me to explain, or (2) Launder Clothes - where teams had to go to a Dhobby and press 20 pieces of clothing using the traditional iron. You’d think this would be an obvious choice, but surprisingly enough.. two teams, Sarah/Terrence and Ken/Tina, chose to do the first one.

After the detours are done, teams head to the next pitstop, which is the Baha’i House. In the order of their arrival at the pitstop :

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All in all, a pretty mild episode.. and looks like they’ll be staying in India still next week. Boy, the franchise sure love shooting in India, don’t they?