This thread is for non-fiction TV, including but not limited to reality television (So You Think You Can Dance, Top Chef: Masters, Project Runway), documentaries (The History Channel, The Discovery Channel), and sundry (Expedition Africa, Mythbusters), et al. [NAFDA]
Historically, some of the winning contestants on
Amazing Race
have gone so far in their race prep to take extensive notes about past challenges, when non-eliminations tend to be scheduled, not to mention memorizing facts about the lists of countries that they are likely to visit.
Minimally, I'd take an intensive ropes and climbing course beforehand even if I had to hire a private tutor. (I already know stick!) Also get a prescription for Ambien, so when there was an overnight train trip or whatever, I'd be better rested than my competitors.
And remember to bring a solar-powered calculator!
Not a TAR watcher, but I learned how to drive on a stick AND taught a couple of people how. It isn't difficult to learn. It takes an afternoon and a road with no traffic, which is how my father taught me. Or one night and an empty parking lot, which is how I taught Hubs.
The other important thing about teaching stick-shifting is that it shouldn't be the instructors car. That way they can remain calmer.
everyone who tells me it wasnt hard to learn to drive stick learned as a young adult! I have been driving the easy way for 20+ years! It will not be easy for me to learn a whole weird way!
But i would if i were cast on TAR!
lisa, don't forget that you know how gears work on a bicycle AND you can play instrument(s)! All of which will help!
And FWIW I didn't learn stick until my late 20s w/o those advantages.
My mother once tried to teach me to drive a stick shift on her car (MGB, fyi). After a series of lurching around the parking lot, she cried "my baby!" (referring to the car) and cancelled the lessons.
In later years, when she asked me why I'd never learned to drive a stick, I told her I was just naturally shiftless.
Yeah, I would have to learn how to drive stick and I would need to learn to ride a bicycle. I would be fine jumping out of planes and whatnot, and then I would be standing next to my bike crying. Oh, and to scuba. I can't dive. I'm naturally buoyant.
The other thing is we're pretty good these days about travel and navigating and everything, but that all depends on us having portable internet access everywhere we go. I was less calm in the travel days before that was available, and I would be less calm if it was taken away from me.
ALSO how insulting is it to have an Italy driving-centered episode which is the FORD product placement episode? Really?
The Voice: I felt sorry for Sara (h?) and the curly haired baker guy last night. They might as well have had "cannon fodder" or "red shirt" stamped on their foreheads.
right?
I loved the sandwich guy. He was outgunned for real, but he seemed like a really cool dude and his singing "partner" seemed to love him to death.
