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10-09-2016, 02:20 PM | #222 |
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Re: bending stereotypes
Yeah, he did. MacGyver was a genuinely unusual character, esp. by TV standards. He was not helpless in hand-to-hand combat, but he was by no means an expert at it, nor a walking killing machine.
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10-09-2016, 03:47 PM | #223 | |
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The villain has been trained since birth in Ninjitsu while the hero once took a course at the Y, but has gumption. Sure he'll lose, but slowly and still have enough time to get away to fight evil another day.
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10-09-2016, 03:58 PM | #224 | |
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I'm partly serious. Sports fanatics have always fit the general criteria of geeks from obsessiveness to interest in minutia to often poor personal athleticism, but due to popularity of sports haven't been called nerds until relatively recently. I can't call anything requiring intense physical activity and agility geeky. The very concept of nerdy ninjas just makes me blink in shock.
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10-09-2016, 04:10 PM | #225 | |
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There must exist someone who is willing to read old Fetchbuchs, and wear mail in public who is also willing to break a sweat and get some bruises. |
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10-09-2016, 05:17 PM | #226 | |
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Some fields still don't. Most obvious case is the Navy Corpsman - many states won't even let them use their skills off-base when they encounter an accident... |
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10-09-2016, 06:38 PM | #227 |
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Re: bending stereotypes
Although I gather that Corpsmen usually have a pretty easy time with civilian EMT and paramedic training (or nursing school), and the GI Bill pays for that.
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10-09-2016, 06:47 PM | #228 |
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Re: bending stereotypes
There is no rule that says that the athletic child of geek parents is so because sports are cool. Perhaps he just thinks them fun.
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10-10-2016, 12:02 AM | #229 |
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Re: bending stereotypes
It's 2-3 years of repeating the training only to find out that the most useful 10% of your training is still off-limits... or so I've been told by ex-corpsman EMTs...
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10-10-2016, 01:52 AM | #230 | |
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