This season seem to have a lot of fakes...
John H
such a jerk was because he was playing the role of a villain? This season
seem to have people playing roles too, more than previous seasons. It's
like some of these teams decided, "Lets be the funny guys!" or "Lets be
adorable dorks," instead of acting like themselves.
The problem with playing the role instead of being yourself is, you
sometimes try too hard to fit the role and it comes off feeling weird.
Naturally funny guys don't have to try so hard to be funny, and even then,
you're not funny 100% of the time.
Frex, team Geek, "Blah blah blah about Mr. Wizard." OK, yes, we know you're
supposed to be the nerds, but you now what? mentioning Mr. Wizard doesn't
make you a nerd, noticing that the cane juice needed at least 2 days to
ferment enough to distill ethanol from would. If you were truly nerdy,
you'd have said something to that effect.
Team Hair and the slackers, yes, you're the goofs, just run the damn race
instead of trying to perform. If I had wanted stilted acting and lame
jokes, I'd watch Joey.
PeterL
John H wrote:
> I don't know, remember when Jonathon claimed that the reason he acted like
> such a jerk was because he was playing the role of a villain? This season
> seem to have people playing roles too, more than previous seasons. It's
> like some of these teams decided, "Lets be the funny guys!" or "Lets be
> adorable dorks," instead of acting like themselves.
Maybe they are acting like themselves. Also it's been discussed ad
infinitum here. It's all about the editing.
>
> The problem with playing the role instead of being yourself is, you
> sometimes try too hard to fit the role and it comes off feeling weird.
> Naturally funny guys don't have to try so hard to be funny, and even then,
> you're not funny 100% of the time.
>
> Frex, team Geek, "Blah blah blah about Mr. Wizard." OK, yes, we know you're
> supposed to be the nerds, but you now what? mentioning Mr. Wizard doesn't
> make you a nerd, noticing that the cane juice needed at least 2 days to
> ferment enough to distill ethanol from would. If you were truly nerdy,
> you'd have said something to that effect.
Er, it didn't take 2 days.
John H
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>
>>
>> The problem with playing the role instead of being yourself is, you
>> sometimes try too hard to fit the role and it comes off feeling weird.
>> Naturally funny guys don't have to try so hard to be funny, and even
>> then,
>> you're not funny 100% of the time.
>>
>> Frex, team Geek, "Blah blah blah about Mr. Wizard." OK, yes, we know
>> you're
>> supposed to be the nerds, but you now what? mentioning Mr. Wizard
>> doesn't
>> make you a nerd, noticing that the cane juice needed at least 2 days to
>> ferment enough to distill ethanol from would. If you were truly nerdy,
>> you'd have said something to that effect.
>
> Er, it didn't take 2 days.
Of course not, that's why the task didn't make sense. Ethanol is ethyl
alcohol. You have to ferment the sugar in the cane juice before you have
any alcohol to distill. Somewhere along the way, their juice must have been
replaced with a prefermented vial of juice.
I was thinking, "How the hell are you going to distill cane juice into
ethanol without waiting about a week for it to ferment?"
john
Barbara Bailey
>
>John H wrote:
>> I don't know, remember when Jonathon claimed that the reason he acted like
>> such a jerk was because he was playing the role of a villain? This season
>> seem to have people playing roles too, more than previous seasons. It's
>> like some of these teams decided, "Lets be the funny guys!" or "Lets be
>> adorable dorks," instead of acting like themselves.
>
>Maybe they are acting like themselves. Also it's been discussed ad
>infinitum here. It's all about the editing.
>
>>
>> The problem with playing the role instead of being yourself is, you
>> sometimes try too hard to fit the role and it comes off feeling weird.
>> Naturally funny guys don't have to try so hard to be funny, and even then,
>> you're not funny 100% of the time.
>>
>> Frex, team Geek, "Blah blah blah about Mr. Wizard." OK, yes, we know you're
>> supposed to be the nerds, but you now what? mentioning Mr. Wizard doesn't
>> make you a nerd, noticing that the cane juice needed at least 2 days to
>> ferment enough to distill ethanol from would. If you were truly nerdy,
>> you'd have said something to that effect.
>
>Er, it didn't take 2 days.
I suspect that if they had mentioned it, it would have been edited
out. TPTB don't want to have to explain that the cane juice they
poured into the still isn't the same cane juice they just pressed, but
instead is an equal amount from an earlier pressing that has been
allowed to ferment to transforn the sugars to alcohol.
Brent McKee
Either that or the initial fermentation process was occurring while the
juice was in the cut cane. Is that even possible?
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John H
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> Barbara Bailey wrote:
>>
>> I suspect that if they had mentioned it, it would have been edited
>> out. TPTB don't want to have to explain that the cane juice they
>> poured into the still isn't the same cane juice they just pressed, but
>> instead is an equal amount from an earlier pressing that has been
>> allowed to ferment to transforn the sugars to alcohol.
>
> Either that or the initial fermentation process was occurring while the
> juice was in the cut cane. Is that even possible?
Its possible, but highly unlikely. I've heard of some fruits fermenting
enough to give you a bit of a buzz. But I'm not sure if that can happen in
sugarcanes. The juice is bound up pretty tightly in the cane, any yeast
infection probably won't spread too far. Which is why you squeeze the juice
out in the first place.
When I was a kid, we used to raid canes off of this farm nearby. I don't
think I've ever heard of someone getting smashed sucking on fermented
sugarcanes. (Bear in mind, we used to make our own rice wine through
fermentation.)
john
Savage Lizard
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Exactly.
Savage Lizard
UCLAN
>>Either that or the initial fermentation process was occurring while the
>>juice was in the cut cane. Is that even possible?
>
> Its possible, but highly unlikely. I've heard of some fruits fermenting
> enough to give you a bit of a buzz. But I'm not sure if that can happen in
> sugarcanes. The juice is bound up pretty tightly in the cane, any yeast
> infection probably won't spread too far. Which is why you squeeze the juice
> out in the first place.
We had an apricot tree at the house in which I grew up. When the fruit
would fall off of the tree, it would land in ivy and be impossible to
find. A few weeks after a major wind storm, just walking in that section
of the yard would make me dizzy. And the birds that *ate* that fermented
fruit? Hilarious!
pe...@home.com
I can just picture some idiot actually trying this at home. Hope they
have enough money for a new car.
pepsi
Fvert
"John H" <chandin...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Team Hair and the slackers, yes, you're the goofs, just run the damn race
> instead of trying to perform. If I had wanted stilted acting and lame
> jokes, I'd watch Joey.
Actually, I get the impression if I toured their home cities with them
for a day that this is how they would actually be. The hippies would e
fun living and trying to make silly jokes and not taking themselves too
seriously and the Slackers would be complaining about life and work and
on the lookout for babes.
I don't think they are fakes. It is interesting how they are polarizing
the newsgroup. Folks strongly pro BJ and Tyler seem to be anti Eric and
Jeremy and vice versa.
Brian
--
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PeterL
Maybe those were fermenting where they were stacked on the ground.
They didn't just chop those canes fresh.
> john
John H
In order for them to be fermenting enough to distill alcohol, the cellulose
walls in the canes would have to be almost totally dissolved. That's highly
unlikely. If that was the case, they wouldn't be holding sticklike canes,
they'be be holding mush. It would probably be a lot easier to squeeze the
juice out of mushy canes, though. But as you saw on the show, that's not
the case.
john
Loren Pechtel
wrote:
I got to wondering about that myself and I think I see the answer: I
think the canes themselves were allowed to ferment.
Aaron Baugher
> I don't know, remember when Jonathon claimed that the reason he
> acted like such a jerk was because he was playing the role of a
> villain? This season seem to have people playing roles too, more
> than previous seasons. It's like some of these teams decided, "Lets
> be the funny guys!" or "Lets be adorable dorks," instead of acting
> like themselves.
I think part of the problem is that when you decide to apply for the
show, what's the first thing you ask yourself? "What's our hook going
to be?" Every team comes in with some unique attribute that got that
team selected over hundreds or thousands of others, and they got used
to pushing that hook for everything it was worth in all their
interviews along the way.
I suspect they're required to continue pushing it on the show, or at
least encouraged to with a lot of leading questions. For example, if
David and Lori decided to get a makeover right before the show so they
didn't look like nerds anymore, the producers would probably have
something to say about that.
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PeterL
Or maybe, just maybe, they are who they are and the producers picked
them because of who they are. Maybe there is no acting involved.