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I have a theory that Brits have a sterile or generic American accent and that helps them fit into roles more easily. It's a subtle linguistic blank slate that allows the viewer to imprint the character into the actor more easily.

We aren't used to hearing someone manufacture an American accent so it sounds like an open book to us.

You pick up on the fact that Matt Damon is a Boston guy, or Leo is a Hollywood brat or Josh Lucas is a southern baw. But Michael Fassbender... he just becomes an unknown character when he speaks.

Meanwhile, they have the opposite problem when they do British work. They play some cop from Cornwall and the audience says, "he's clearly from Lincolnshire!"

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Nope you don’t. Unless it’s a cop, they just need to see your DOB.

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They scan the back of them with a barcoder now if you buy alcohol or tobacco. They don't trust the convenience store monkeys to do the math when it comes to subtracting your birthdate from the present.

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'm sorry if you can't prove that she had the murder weapon or even able to shoot a gun for that matter or even put her in the STATE at the time, you can't convict someone of murder.

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From what I understand, the documentary is painting her in a favorable light. They kind of glossed over the fact that she repeatedly called the victims, harassed them and threatened to kill them and that she openly talked about killing them one day in front of other witnesses, including her friends and children.

As far as the phone being turned off for 24 hours, that had only happened twice in the previous year - once during the weekend of the murder and a few months before when she allegedly broke into the home of the ex. They were able to place her in the state that weekend and she told her friend that she drove all the way there and broke in.

The gas cannisters could have helped her establish her alibi (I was camping in the wilderness and didn't want to run out of gas). But instead she lied about them - said she didn't buy them, then said she bought them for a friend, then said she bought them for someone in AA whose name she doesn't know even though every AA meeting starts with people standing up and saying "Hi, I'm Jane Doe and I'm an alcoholic".

Her alibi is also problematic. For starters, "I was camping by myself in remote areas" is always going to be a suspicious excuse. But OK, she's a flaky single person living in Colorado so maybe. But then she gave conflicting statements about where she went and the routes she took. Not surprisingly, nothing about any of her alibi statements could be verified.

The gun is more interesting. No records of her owning or attempting to purchase firearms. But the documentary is again disingenuous. They strongly implied - via crazy married couple - that the victims were killed with an Uzi (not a gun that is easy to obtain or operate for a novice). But there's no evidence it was an Uzi. They ammo was manufactured by the Israeli company that also manufactures the Uzi weapon, which fires 9mm. But that 9mm ammo can also be used in any 9mm handgun or weapon and 9mms are the most common gun.

The bottom line is this is a batshit crazy woman who almost certainly did it. The lack of a "smoking gun" or hard forensic evidence placing her at the crime scene makes prosecution more challenging, but not impossible. Plenty of convictions are secured on nothing but circumstantial evidence. But if someone wants to qualify that as reasonable doubt under the standards, I wont put up a fight. Especially considering the original investigator and prosecutor did some ethically shady stuff.

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why not have them speak Italian?

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Verona was an independent city state in the 1300s and there would have been a mixture of Venetian, Germanic and Latin dialects spoken.

I live in a subdivision with a pond where a group of geese have taken up residence. Every day the mailman parks in a certain spot and eats his lunch. He also brings a bunch of food for the geese so they know to go to that spot every day at lunchtime and wait for the mailman to feed them. Of course mail doesn't deliver on Sunday but every weekend the geese gather at the same spot all day waiting for their snack which never comes. After a while they get ornery and start biting each other and anyone who walks near. It's like their brains are just smart enough to know to go that spot every day at 1:00 but too stupid to realize that once a week is going to be a no show.

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If Jim Elway gets in why not Kurt Cousins

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Because neither one of them were as good as Don Marino.

Let's see Derrick Henry versus 100 Pop Warner kids.

PSA's entire business model is based on creating artificial scarcity in the market. They effectively grade on a curve and then entice people to play the lottery and hit paydirt like OP did. On top of that you have to pay membership fees and dues to use the service and on the rare occasions you do win their little lottery, they take a cut of your unrealized profits as described above. It's a scam.

In the way back days, kids put baseball cards in their bike spokes, handled them like a rented mules and then their parents eventually through them in the trash during a spring cleaning. On top of that the cards were manufactured on paper stock with some low paid alcoholic whose wife just left him operating the cutting press or the print roller. This natural form of scarcity created an organic value system - if a card happened to survive the horrors I described above, it became valuable as a collectors item.

Then the landscape changed - companies got better at manufacturing cards and nobody threw them away. The companies also flooded the market with millions of cards. So PSA became this de facto arbiter of value in an otherwise worthless market.

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As an adult, when I watch ROTJ after the first two, it seems to be a movie of noticeably lower quality.

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Same, but it was one of the first movies I saw in the theatre as a kid so it imprinted on me and nostalgia is powerful. But I also remember my older cousins who had stood in line to see Star Wars in 1977 were like "what the hell was all of that teddy bear and brother/sister shite?"

Francis Gary Powers, the famous U-2 pilot that was shot down over Russia during the Cold War also died piloting a helicopter for the same NBC station in Los Angeles.

The fuel gauge didn't properly register the amount of fuel so the pilots had developed a system for tracking what the gauge read versus what was in the tank. Then a mechanic fixed the gauge without recording it in the logbook. Powers took off thinking he had a full tank and then ran out of fuel. He supposedly might have landed safely but the chopper descended towards a school playground and he veered away.

One of the perks of the job is that if you have a psychotic break and kill one of your co-workers, it is really easy to dispose of the body and nobody will care anyway. So it's probably a great gig if you are prone to serial killer-ism.