JR revealed that he had once lived in Taiwan and could speak Mandarin. He's full of surprises, that one. Full of something else too but I've already remarked on that enough. Despite his impressive language skills, he's still JR and therefore still managed to piss James off while translating a request from a little girl in a way James perceived as bossy. JR, I know you want to be seen as a hard worker now but it might be a good idea to model your behaviour after freakin' Dave.

The IC was really, really cool. Pretty much all the challenges have been really, really cool as a matter of fact, and I'm usually one who wants the challenges to end so I can get back to the scheming. There was armour and sling-throwing and random slo-mo like deleted scenes from a Zack Snyder movie. Failing won, as they often do, despite Frosti's promise that he would see the immunity idol soon. From afar only, dude.

Crazy versus lazy part 2

John Woo got down to business and tried to figure out which of Dave or Sherea they could afford to lose. Sherea, after all, had been lazing it up Jean Robert style, despite strong challenge performances. According to her, she was not going to work until she really, really needed to. Great, it's the Jean Robert strategy only without the actual lessening of the sucking as time wears on.

Still, Dave was a crazy workhouse who might kill them all in their sleep if they didn't listen to him. It was a tough choice for them. Or maybe not so tough. When TC came, it was a unanimous vote for Dave, despite Erik's assertions that Dave was a great leader. Yeah, compared to Kim Jong-Il.

In his closing words, Dave said he was proud of himself for playing with integrity. Dave, just because you managed not to kill any of your tribe-members does not mean you played with integrity.

Today's quote from Sun Tzu:

Crazy eyes and crazy smile
Aren't good ways to win affection
Working your tribe like sweating mules
Can lead to violent insurrection

If you must make your people slaves
Make sure your reign is autocratic
Cos they will vote your pale ass out
If the vote is democratic