Aw! FWIW, if you did the LJ version but not the DW, try the DW one -- it seems way more active, and people are definitely still posting their info and getting some response.
And, er. *kof* I never ask; I figure if someone's put their name in, they're okay with being added, so I just add them. If they add me back that's cool, but even if not, I've got more people to read, and if I comment on their journals they'll get to know me eventually that way. I think I've added more people than have added me for this, but there's a fair amount of reciprocation happening in both directions.
The theft was *so wretched omg*. There were three teams in a travel agency: Nadiya and Natalie, Trey and Lexi, and James and Abba. J&A had put their bags down, then picked them up to go talk to an agent, and didn't notice that the hundred bucks they'd gotten for the leg had fallen onto the counter (very neatly, even; it must just have slid out of a pocket in a backpack).
Nadiya and Natalie saw it, and where any other person EVER would have said "oh, hey, you dropped your money!", they just took it, saying "oh look, someone left their money" and giggling. They showed it to Trey and Lexi; Lexi was as amused as they were, and willingly went along with splitting it between them to "share the guilt". Trey was more doubtful, but let himself be talked into it. They never told J&A, who never once suspected that the money had been stolen by another team (because that is such an unthinkably crappy thing to do!); they assumed it had gotten lost in the cab or something, and that it was on them to replace it. They had to go out on the streets of Bangalore and beg for money, which they felt completely gross about, and did what they could to make it as non-gross as possible.
Meanwhile, the other two teams giggled about it off and on for half the episode. It was revolting.
I'd been rooting for the twins early on; I'm not a fan of their loud style or personalities, particularly, but they were motivated and strong and willing to do what it took, and I thought they were good racers. But that money-taking, man. That was the end. (They never got called on it because *technically* it wasn't stealing; they didn't take it from James and Abba's possession. They were just picking up "abandoned" money. But it was still completely gross, and even worse when they turned out to be the sort of people who expected everyone else to wait for them to finish their speed bump instead of taking advantage of an actual Race-induced advantage. Bleah.)
I don't think the Chippendales had any idea what the other two teams were like; for them it seemed to be all good-natured competition with no malice at all, and all I can think is they projected that onto the other teams.
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Date: 2012-12-11 02:00 am (UTC)And, er. *kof* I never ask; I figure if someone's put their name in, they're okay with being added, so I just add them. If they add me back that's cool, but even if not, I've got more people to read, and if I comment on their journals they'll get to know me eventually that way. I think I've added more people than have added me for this, but there's a fair amount of reciprocation happening in both directions.
The theft was *so wretched omg*. There were three teams in a travel agency: Nadiya and Natalie, Trey and Lexi, and James and Abba. J&A had put their bags down, then picked them up to go talk to an agent, and didn't notice that the hundred bucks they'd gotten for the leg had fallen onto the counter (very neatly, even; it must just have slid out of a pocket in a backpack).
Nadiya and Natalie saw it, and where any other person EVER would have said "oh, hey, you dropped your money!", they just took it, saying "oh look, someone left their money" and giggling. They showed it to Trey and Lexi; Lexi was as amused as they were, and willingly went along with splitting it between them to "share the guilt". Trey was more doubtful, but let himself be talked into it. They never told J&A, who never once suspected that the money had been stolen by another team (because that is such an unthinkably crappy thing to do!); they assumed it had gotten lost in the cab or something, and that it was on them to replace it. They had to go out on the streets of Bangalore and beg for money, which they felt completely gross about, and did what they could to make it as non-gross as possible.
Meanwhile, the other two teams giggled about it off and on for half the episode. It was revolting.
I'd been rooting for the twins early on; I'm not a fan of their loud style or personalities, particularly, but they were motivated and strong and willing to do what it took, and I thought they were good racers. But that money-taking, man. That was the end. (They never got called on it because *technically* it wasn't stealing; they didn't take it from James and Abba's possession. They were just picking up "abandoned" money. But it was still completely gross, and even worse when they turned out to be the sort of people who expected everyone else to wait for them to finish their speed bump instead of taking advantage of an actual Race-induced advantage. Bleah.)
I don't think the Chippendales had any idea what the other two teams were like; for them it seemed to be all good-natured competition with no malice at all, and all I can think is they projected that onto the other teams.