I don’t think I ever knew you were an Athletic Trainer, I know there is at least one other person on ST that was an AT at one point but I don’t think it was you. I could cover many many hours with AT stories, and as a second career I’ve only been doing this for going on 10 years. However, all of them have been in D1 football, soooooo, I have some stories, lol.
Yes, I have some stories of working football as one of the first group of female athletic trainers in the Big 8 (that’s how old I am). And some other shenanigans that would never happen today. Fun times!!
Being an ATC got me from Kansas to Arizona to Northern California, so I can’t complain.
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Skipping questions of topic - is this something you’d want to warm up for by talking for, say, 6-8 hours straight a few times at home? Or should you go into it fresh?
Watched the first two episodes last night, really liked it.
Much better than Gangs of London, strong cast, and it’s nice to see Ritchie do “serious” with just the right amount of his trademark character banter thrown in without veering into Lock Stock- or Snatch-type comedic.
Loved the series, need to rewatch the final episode. Some satisfying plot resolutions to take in properly.
Probably one of the best theme song/intros in recent TV history.
Continuing the digression. Just caught up watching Mobland. There was only one season of 10 episodes, yes?
Excellent cast. And once the ear adjusts to the accents it becomes possible to follow the dialog.
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Yes, 10 episodes.
And no ear is fully adjusting to whatever it is that Brosnan’s accent is supposed to be. They should have cast an Irish actor.
Ha! But isn’t he Irish in real life?
Yes, from Drogheda, just north of Dublin.
He and Maeve are well cast.
Which makes it all the more baffling.
I said to my wife, when Paddy Considine is the 4th actor on the bill, you’re dealing with a great cast.
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He was born in Drogheda (nearest maternity hospital) but he grew up in Navan about 15 miles away. I went to the same school as him : ) He moved to London in his teens.
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It’s kinda like Ben Affleck - he’s been in LA so long thats he’s lost his Southie accent. When he tries to use it, we’ll … doesn’t quite fuckin work, does it?
My dad left Italy over 50 years ago. He still sounds like he’s fresh off the boat.
I suppose his career didn’t depend on masking his initial accent, though.
I once met a Chinese guy that moved to the UK and was a few years in to learning English there. Between his Chinese accent, and learning UK English and slang, he was totally impossible to understand. I probably would have understood more if he just spoke to me in straight Mandarin.
Accents get locked in around young adulthood or just prior. It doesn’t matter how much time you spend in a different country after that, the flexibility to sound like a native is lost.
Asians (Chinese, Japanese, etc.), Italians, French, etc. – if they learn English during childhood they can speak English “clearly”, or like whomever they’re surrounded by (in addition to their native languages). If they pick up English later, they’ll always speak it with a “foreign” accent.
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Just binged this series while trying to recover from some bad sciatica.
Re: Maeve. I cannot un-see her character as an older but equally psychotic Irish version of MTG.
Fantastic series overall. Can’t believe it didn’t warrant its own thread. I liked how they brought back the 90s club banger Breathe by Prodigy in the closing scene of the first episode. Seems like that song and band are having a bit of a resurgence nearly 30 years later.
Casting, writing, acting were all superb.
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