10-10-2016, 01:16 PM | #231 | |
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Re: bending stereotypes
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If you do mean picking a physical fight that does bend the stereotype, probably to the point where you’ve actually broken the stereotype. Fiercely nationalistic Canadians who obsess over their heritage rarely feel the urge to pick a physical fight because they are supremely confident to the point where they feel that a physical fight “proves nothing.” On the other hand, Jeremy Slater’s portrayal of Sgt. O’Neil in the breakfast scene from The Devil’s Brigade is usually considered "spot on" as the basic solution for Canada’s “problem children.” Last edited by Curmudgeon; 10-10-2016 at 01:34 PM. |
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10-10-2016, 01:24 PM | #232 | |
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10-10-2016, 02:16 PM | #233 | |
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10-11-2016, 03:58 AM | #234 | |
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* == LARPS in the style of MET, i.e. without actual shooting and sword-swinging. Last edited by vicky_molokh; 10-11-2016 at 04:02 AM. |
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10-11-2016, 08:08 AM | #235 | |
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For example, Canada is utterly mad about hockey, but when the Canadian national team plays the American national team, it's quite possible the US wins, even though hockey is only the fifth or sixth most popular sport there. |
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01-14-2019, 09:50 PM | #236 |
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Re: bending stereotypes
A fantasy setting where ritual cremation is the norm for disposing of bodies.
Am I the only one who's bothered by the fact that people still do not cremate bodies after dozens if not hundreds of necromancers have been recruiting soldiers for their undead armies in the local graveyards??? |
01-14-2019, 10:56 PM | #237 |
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Re: bending stereotypes
European cultures that believe in vampires invented all sorts of methods to prevent reanimation... save the obvious cremation. So it's not that unrealistic.
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01-15-2019, 12:17 AM | #238 |
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Re: bending stereotypes
Expectation of bodily resurrection at the final judgment, the belief that the body was an integral part of the self rather than just a receptacle the soul inhabits in life, the general disfavor of cremation in several Middle Eastern cultures going back to Ancient Egypt and transmitted west via Judaism and to a lesser extent Zoroastrianism, and the connection of cremation with pagan rites.
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01-15-2019, 01:22 AM | #239 |
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01-15-2019, 06:56 PM | #240 |
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I remember one docu that had a camera crew in Eastern Europe find a body with a stake through it's heart because there were stories that it walked the night. The middle ages haven't ended in some places. In retrospect though I wonder if it wasn't a prank the villagers were playing on the gullible Hollywooders.
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