It was bad enough he was so contemptuous of the other contestants, but he didn't give the judges much more respect either. You notice they didn't offer HIM any goodies or encouragement.
Stop means no. And no means no. So . . . stop.
Xander ,'Conversations with Dead People'
Non-Fiction TV: I Reject Your Reality and Substitute My Own
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Toddson - Aug 17, 2011 9:48:05 am PDT #17961 of 23273
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
sumi - Aug 17, 2011 9:52:56 am PDT #17962 of 23273
Art Crawl!!!
Yes, absolutely.
askye - Aug 17, 2011 9:56:19 am PDT #17963 of 23273
Thrive to spite them
"You have to humble yourself in certain situations, regardless of how great you know you are." Seriously omigod he's freaking delusional.
le nubian - Aug 17, 2011 9:57:41 am PDT #17964 of 23273
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Askye's disgust is giving me chuckles.
Toddson - Aug 17, 2011 10:16:12 am PDT #17965 of 23273
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Christian being sent off gave ME the chuckles. I'm mean that way.
askye - Aug 17, 2011 10:16:49 am PDT #17966 of 23273
Thrive to spite them
He's gone. I'm over it. I can deal with arrogance it's just the utter contempt for everyone else that's driving me crazy.
Plus I keep wondering - is this just an act, is he really like this? And if he is really like this - his way or the highway, no one else can be right- is that how he treats his kid?
Toddson - Aug 17, 2011 11:27:35 am PDT #17967 of 23273
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
After watching the Monday episode, I was thinking - one of the guest judges was Indian and another Israeli - shouldn't they have asked about any dietary restrictions? If the Indian is Hindu, wouldn't he have refused to eat meat? and if the Israeli kept Kosher, wouldn't she have refused to eat shellfish? or did they assume, since there was no warning up front, that there weren't any forbidden foods?
And, on that note, I had lunch (corned beef on rye with mustard - good, but not as good as it should have been) from a Kosher food truck.
sumi - Aug 17, 2011 11:57:28 am PDT #17968 of 23273
Art Crawl!!!
I wondered that too - but the Israeli judge ate the shellfish with no problem and the Indian judge ate the beef.
I have to say that I loved the teamwork that Adrien and Jennifer showed in the elimination challenge in the first hour.
Toddson - Aug 17, 2011 12:29:53 pm PDT #17969 of 23273
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
And Christian asking for flour! from Jennifer, when he'd been bad-mouthing her for weeks. As she said, "Karma's a bitch."
askye - Aug 17, 2011 2:50:37 pm PDT #17970 of 23273
Thrive to spite them
I kinda wish she'd just said "I have some but I'm not sharing" but then Christian would have probably gone off on what a bitch she was for not sharing and not being nice.
I did like Ramsay saying at the end to Christian that he (Ramsay) had earned the right to be arrogant and Christian hadn't. Which he didn't say so bluntly but I wish he had.
I have to say that just looking at the menus I liked Adrien's better and if I had a choice between the two that's what I'd have gone for. But Jennifer's entree was much more technical. I've never cooked quail but Dad does a lot (he goes quail "hunting") and it can go bad quickly since it's so small.
Jennifer's dessert really needed some kind of cake or cookie maybe a madeleine.