Quickie Questions

It depends largely on the sport in question. Somebody who plays soccer/football at the top league of the nation likely would have a maid or similar person to do domestic chores, depending on the nation. They may or may not be live-in, but more often than not they do maintenance around the home, then go elsewhere to do the same. At some lesser paid sports, like Rugby Union, you may find the same, but usually it'll be a weekly thing if they do have a maid.

The key to that question is to look at how much they are paid, and work from there - if they earn say £50,000 a week, then yes. Around £2,000, potentially. There is also the question of how much a player has to train - some sports are more demanding than others, hence soccer and Rugby union can be a yes, but other sports which are less demanding are a no.

You're talking only about sports celebrities.

My postage stamps have a bunch of American patriotism buzzwords on them, including "Freedom" and "Liberty", which seems redundant. What's everyone's impression of the semantic difference between them?

"Liberty" is more of a philosophical term.

"Freedom" has a more mundane usage, in comparison. For example, it's more likely to see someone who's released from prison to be described as attaining freedom rather than attaining liberty.

The two are nearly interchangeable, though.

edited 21st Dec '14 8:38:34 AM by GlennMagusHarvey

When in the show chronology does the Game Of Thrones video game take place? (As in, does it take place between two seasons, or during a season, or...)

It takes place immediately after the Red Wedding.

So ending of season 3, I think? If the show chronology follows the books at all.

Is it legal for me to rip C Ds I bought and then burn new C Ds with rearranged tracklists from the ripped files, provided I don't distribute the new C Ds?

That question can't be answered without knowing what country's laws to consider.

In many places it's technically illegal but in practice nobody cares.

So for reasons from so long ago that I no longer remember them, my handle is Parable, but my page is redirected to my old name, Scholastica. How do I change it to Parable?

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Tropers/Parable?action=edit

Remove the redirect markup and put the content you want on the page there.

edited 22nd Dec '14 9:31:13 PM by Sixthhokage1

Muchas gracias.

Is there a difference between describing a woman as having "the face of a (mainstream) movie superstar/supermodel", and having "the face of a porn superstar"?

I think the latter is much more sexual in nature, with more focus on sex appeal.

And the former is essentially more "balanced"? Because I honestly can't see the difference between the two expressions, given that I have looked up images of porn star faces before, and they don't seem to have anything that sets them apart from A-list Hollywood superstar actresses.

edited 23rd Dec '14 10:32:39 AM by MarqFJA

I think they offer the same effect of conveying that a woman is conventionally attractive, but the latter seems to include gratuitous sexual connotations. Like, it just plants thoughts of sex appeal and stuff like that in your head, whereas the former doesn't.

... Ah, so if I see two people looking at a picture of a woman's face and find that they're arguing over how to describe her face's attractiveness (i.e. "face of a model" vs "face of a porn star"), I'd be justified in blandly telling them that they're making a mountain out of a molehill, because it's just verbal semantics and it could very well be that both descriptors apply equally depending on who you ask?

edited 23rd Dec '14 11:46:53 AM by MarqFJA

Do actors get salaries in between role contracts? If so, who pays them?

Generally no. You get paid if you're working, and you don't if you're not. If it's really important to somebody that you stay available, you might get a retainer.

Also you might get residuals if you had enough clout to get a percentage of the profits into your contract, I guess. But they're usually only a few cents per check.

I don't think actors are even paid for the time they spend going around promoting their projects, aside from whatever the talk shows pay as an appearance fee.

Often when I see D-Day show up in movies, video games or TV I see these big metal spike things that look like caltrops◊ scattered all along the beach. What are they for?

To stop tanks from advancing.

Tanks- from the ocean?

Yes.

Well, they could be transported by sufficiently large amphibious landing ships the same way infantry were moved over, right?

edited 28th Dec '14 6:53:22 PM by MarqFJA

They did that, too.

What pets did the pirates of the 17th and 18th century have other than your standard monkeys, parrots, cats, and dogs? Like did they have pet frogs or rats?