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I think we should be careful with J.P, guys. Get a scary dog to help guard your property!

The other day I saw a gif of Moriarty in the court room and gasp... I mistook it for a scene in The Great Game! What happened? I used to know every single scene and quote! To think it came from The Reichenbach Fall, the episode that broke me and sent me here in pieces (I thought he was really dead). Is it because I have moved on? No, it's not possible! Carol is still having problem with Photobucket. It must only have been half a year since the series, right? Anyway, I miss you all and I miss the forum where there are more of us bantering. I don't miss the weird time when the series was airing though, it was too scary for me with all the strangers and everyone was posting but no one was reading. Hope you are all well!

This revolution could be shorter than Anglo-Zanzibar War

All ducks and pussy cats please stay!

Yes, I do know what embroidery hoop is. We didn’t have it. I think back then when we didn’t have something, we just didn’t go out to buy it, because it was something ‘extra’ we could do without. I think my cross-stitch was also something very simple, most likely a handover from my older cousin. I only did a bigger scale, more serious one when I started working. I remember because we hung it at the office, my first job (we stayed in boarding house, so office made more sense) and I left it when I moved abroad and haven’t picked up that hobby again. The disappointment! But please, post it here I want to see I want to see. My friend made a turtle crochet for me, I think crochet is trending now, but I’d rather not try as I have too many neglected hobby. Anyway, this is Locky! I know it’s only my pathetic attempt to immortalize him. I have started making this last year or maybe two years prior. It started looking like a lizard, I don’t know where the photo is now, then I stopped for a long time before continuing it again, and now it’s finished just around the time I have to leave him tomorrow.

I have to admit I tried to read Shakespeare and didn't survive. It's too flowery and sophisticated for me. I am trying to eat healthier. Let me see what they have in the vegetable aisle. It has a point. Use contraceptive, people.

I was shifting through my old phone and found something. I believe I hadn't posted them, if I had I'm not sorry you get to see these again. I remember taking these pictures to post here, but something must have happened that I didn't. It dated back in 2019. These are postcards that came with something I purchased back then.

His vet recommended clothing at night when he had itch and scratching issue a while ago. I had never bought clothes for him because there was not need for that here, so I had to improvise using my old T-shirt with a rubber band adjustment at the back. (Of course I might not fit into this T-shirt now. Obviously.) The cute thing is I think it’s cozy for him, especially during colder hours. He has his cot and access to my bed anytime. He usually comes up after midnight to morning. I like to put blanket on him on normal days and he sleeps in it until it gets hot. I think he likes the T-shirt/blanket when the weather fits.

So what is the answer? Who is cooking? It was a fun day this morning, we tried to help newly hatched turtles get to the sea. It had happened a few times before along this stretch of beach we patronize often. Someone found the nest after his dog alerted him. This beach has a very wide shore (and the tide was low this morning), so it's not a safe area for hatchlings because there were many people, dogs, sand rakers, service vehicles, and even horses around, and the distance these turtles needed to make was very far. The dogs around us were curious, but they didn't disturb them except one, who wanted to play with them while they were swimming. (No turtles were harmed!) A few were already dead in the nest area. One was not moving on the shore, unlike others that were actively moving their limbs. Fortunately, when I put it in the water, it started to swim (although it took awhile) and continued swimming. We were there for a while and could confirm that everyone managed to fight the wave and make it to the sea. Hopefully, they will survive and thrive. P.S. And this happened in the beach I named after Locky (we can make suggestion in Google map and I did)

Where are those studies? If I wanted to prove the Earth is flat, I could also state there are hundreds of studies that weren't allowed to be published, because "someone" wants to cover the truth. Who would prove me wrong? The fact is, mass vaccinations are so effective that now people have the luxury to start denying their usefulness.

IT DOES! You guys are not going to be spared! Above is my dog Locky, he is ten now. This is him and his bestie. No kidding, the brown dog is his best friend and they are always happy to see each other. This is him again breaking into the bathroom and supervising my morning business.

Really hope it works, I found new image hosting website. I have tons, I mean tons of dog pictures.

An interesting Article. The Strange Persistence of First Languages https://nautil.us/the-strange-persistence-of-first-languages-235672/

I know this guy since he was a tiny puppy. He is technically still a puppy (less than a year with an adult-sized body). He has this obsession to groom me (those tiny harmless nibble) but he also likes to chew my arms. Helpless chews but can be painful after a while. Here he was trying to chew but after I growled at him he pretended not to hear me, act naturally as if nothing happened, and went back to nibbling.

Can’t wait to see more Mycroft! Or maybe Sherlock and John? I have a plethora of brushes in my place. Although the one if your link seems to have a more dense and natural fur (?) than the ones I have. The second link feels questionable to me, as I think the material can get into it and create a whole shenanigan! I can imagine the scenario that reminded me of the time when I made cross stitch and sew my pajama leg, only realizing it after it was way too late. I had to destroy my progress, because the other option was going bottomless. I think I can find something else, it’s time to make sure of the junks I kept around just in case. Have you tried cardboard? But I assume it would be destroyed soon enough.

You probably mean a foam block. Can be any kind of foam actually, it should only be thick enough so the needles don't go through. Normal foam tends to break down after a while, so I bought a brush https://www.google.com/search?q=felting+brush&client=firefox-b-d&sca_esv=bbe3debe957613b7&ei=8_jjaL3RDIaU9u8P56b9gA0&ved=0ahUKEwj9lrSriZCQAxUGiv0HHWdTH9AQ4dUDCBA&uact=5&oq=felting+brush&gs_lp=Egxnd3Mtd2l6LXNlcnAiDWZlbHRpbmcgYnJ1c2gyBxAAGIAEGBMyBxAAGIAEGBMyBxAAGIAEGBMyCBAAGBMYFhgeMggQABgTGBYYHjIIEAAYExgWGB4yCBAAGBMYFhgeMggQABgTGBYYHjIIEAAYExgWGB4yCBAAGBMYFhgeSLkWUMkIWOIScAJ4AJABAJgBY6ABmwOqAQE1uAEDyAEA-AEBmAIHoALIA8ICCRAAGLADGAcYHsICBxAuGIAEGA3CAgcQABiABBgNwgIWEC4YgAQYDRiXBRjcBBjeBBjfBNgBAZgDAIgGAZAGCroGBggBEAEYFJIHAzUuMqAHuCyyBwMzLjK4B7wDwgcHMC4xLjUuMcgHIQ&sclient=gws-wiz-serp But after a while it got clogged with fibres. So I used a fabric over the brush. Which made felting in "sea otter style" on a sofa too complicated. So I went back to foam, as I have a free supply. This one looks interesting too: https://www.amazon.de/Trockenfilzen-Nadelfilzen-Werkzeugsatz-Filznadeln-Werkzeugset/dp/B0CZDN6LBB/ref=asc_df_B0CZDN6LBB?mcid=584179af2eda36e1bd38b70885edd011&th=1&psc=1&hvocijid=6353910382325777204-B0CZDN6LBB-&hvexpln=75&tag=googshopde-21&linkCode=df0&hvadid=696184104678&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=6353910382325777204&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9042044&hvtargid=pla-2281435176138&psc=1&gad_source=1 It's funny, because I'm working on another figure - after several years' break and thinking I should get rid of the supplies. So instead of getting rid of anything, I bought even more supplies. 😬

@J.P I remember you made Mycroft’s felt doll which was very impressive. At that time I have only made a pengwing and dog in a cup, those very beginner level of craft that came with tutorials. and that is still my portfolio although I have an almost-finished WIP, Locky! I have collected his hair every time I brushed him and wanted to make his figurine out of his fur. I know this is only my desperate attempt to make him immortal but it’s a long project that I have been dragging with zero experience and knowledge except stabbing and stabbing. It started looking like a lizard but I can say it looks like Locky now. Will post pics sometime in the future. I know I have asked you before and you showed me the picture of your finger (not the one people usually show I know there is some kind of board to help because I saw them being sold together with felting kit. I have something that look like that white board (those that come with new appliance to protect the corners) but I’m not sure if that is the one and my lazy ass is too stubborn to look for them (I know I have it) so I kept stabbing myself again and again. I’m not sure if this is craft or self-torturing device. It’s hurt! I have those metal tip but it’s always easier to work with bare hands. So, I don’t know what this post’s purpose is. Even if you let me know what the protective board is, I’m not going to buy or look for it. So, do you have more Mycroft or other felt figurine? I’m always fascinated with others’ handywork. There was a time I was drooling with admiration because someone posted about the chainmail (yes those medieval thingy) they made themselves. Who doesn’t want chainmail! Okay, it’s my bed time. I have a long day. I haven’t drunk enough coffee today. It’s peopling day and maybe I’m exhausted that I remembered J.P’s Mycroft while I was stabbing myself. This sentence doesn’t come out well.

I had forgotten about this old fave thread and so thought I would revive it with this post. I am keen on crosswords and being a Holmesian just gave me the 6 letter solution to: Break, pause.

Thing I do for you guys… Now you made me turn to the Dark Side - I asked Grok: BTW: those kinds of "translations" happen when ppl trying to translate have NO IDEA about the other language and use simple dictionaries.

Google says: Dry Vegetables.

I hate to park next to an ahole, because when they leave, I'll be the ahole. I'm also unsure if I can be mad at that ahole, because they might not be the original ahole.

Caring is not an advantage as Mycroft would say

That must be frustrating. Some probiotic supplements could help but I assume you had tried it. Little things can add up, it's getting harder to eat healthier, and life can be stressful. Please take care. I sort of understand this, I think. I live in two places, and I stop gardening. Every plants I have now are the ones that survive on neglect.

Maybe in some languages, "pregnancy" and "flatulence" are described by the same word, like "a big belly" or something.🤪

Sorry to hear that. Is it occasional or permanent? Public toilet is a nightmare to me, that would confine me as well. When I was still active in mountaineering, especially for longer expeditions, we were supposed to do it outdoor. Number one is thankfully rare because of sweating, but when I had to do it, it was hard. I really needed to be sure there was no one around. For number two, we brought machete for digging, presumably like kitty litter theory, and FORTUNATELY, I never needed that. Yes, there was a week long expedition, but we stopped by a local house mid week and they had a toilet! For other times, I still believe in this method and it worked for me: every time I started a climb, at the foot of the mountain I would choose a small, solid rock and put it in my pocket. A senior taught me that. I never had the urge and always made it on time to the proper toilet. I swear by this. That is not an advice! It probably wouldn't be easy to find natural, solid rock in urban settings. To be honest, maybe I'd prefer nature than dirty public toilet. Yes, absolutely. Yuck. Since we are at that, and you have been cursed to read this far, in one of the expedition in a remote island one of our agendas was to built proper toilet for the villagers, on the LAND. What they had was outhouse on stilts in the ocean. Again, thankfully we occupied the town hall and there were toilets. So, besides other things, we spent time building these for them. They were thankful and all were good. However, we found out they never used them. Why? Because they didn't feel comfortable doing number two without the ocean view and gathering of fish underneath. I have to say it's a very green way and now that I type this, it doesn't sound that bad, does it?

Found on FB: English is what happens when Vikings learn Latin and use it to shout at Germans, and then the French shout back

Both.

You're so cool doing that VBS

I guess you don’t realize this has been a very big thing since a while ago. There are many suicides related to this. People don’t need to be advised, many are already doing this. Let me see if I can pull a quick example, here https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/oct/23/character-ai-chatbot-sewell-setzer-death This doesn’t only happen to teenagers or with AI. There are many examples of people having ‘relationships’ with objects, video game characters, anime. It’s not indirectly related, I’d say this is also why romance scam is still a very lucrative industry (and I believe those preying on elderly and vulnerable people should be flayed), because they target human’s loneliness, the difficulty of making connections with others, the disappointment with past relationship, or fear for the potential ones, which is the same reason many people might find companionship in AI chat-bot. It’s very sad actually. I’d say as an introvert, I think at the very least, we have some advantage on that. We are not easily lonely, because as you said, Carol, our heads are busy and we only need minimum interactions. It's annoying to see those post on Twitter 'Would you stay at home for a month for 100000 dollars?' This comes in many permutations, each more annoying than the other. I'd be filthy rich by now. WHERE IS MY MONEY?

This. And now the eradicated diseases have started to make a comeback, thanks to uneducated numbnuts. To my experience in seeing some arguments out there and unfortunately, from one family member, the Dunning Kruger Effect is really proven here.

It's a fascinating language actually, and I like it. Preposition drives me nuts as well. A kind hearted beta reader sketched for me the difference between perch on and perch in a tree. I used perch on, before my character is sitting of a branch, like a bird perching on, and it's 'right' when I checked around. Perch in is more like J.P an owl inside a hollow of a tree imho. However, according to her, perch on indicates my character is situated on the very top of the tree, while perch in is more suitable for my intention. She gave me a very cute sketch to explain that. It makes a lot of sense!

Yes, the middle one, and yes, Locky is named after Sherlock. I believe I joined in April 2015. Locky was born in May 2015, my friend asked me to adopt him in June/July 2015 (and to name him). At that time, I only had Sherlock in mind! Yes, the middle one.

My landline died on me a few years ago, even though I paid for it (comes with internet). Didn't realize it until I got a handed down handset that it no longer worked. I downgrade my internet anyway and got it of it altogether. The one in my family's house is still working. I think nothing beats the satisfaction of slamming down the receiver when we are pissed. Pressing a button with a controlled rage while gritting teeth is not healthy.

Now why didn't I think of that? Thanks! The photo puzzles me, though. Here in the US, that house would presumably be called a story and a half, since the floor space upstairs is clearly limited by the slope of the roof. So I guess I'm still puzzled. But I doubt that a thorough knowledge of a floor plan is necessary for understanding the novel, so I'll just try not to worry about it!

A friend just sent me links to AI-assisted Redneck Star Trek and Redneck TNG, which I find hilarious. (All starship captains should be required to wear their hair down to their shoulders!) (I meant to put this in the Star Trek Miscellany thread, but couldn't find it, which presumably means it's high time I got into bed.)

Let's not forget that at the pool Watson attempted to sacrifice his life for Sherlock by taking Moriarty hostage, telling Sherlock to "run" and thus escape. Upon seeing this, Moriarty informed John that he had shown his hand. Think about this statement by Moriarity....he had witnessed that Sherlock had a true friend with self-sacrificing agape love for Sherlock. Therefore Moriarty understood that the little amount of heart that Sherlock possessed could be touched by this friendship, and therefore could be a means by which Moraiarty could "burn the heart out of" Sherlock, by eventually making him choose between suicide and saving the life of his friends. But yes, I am still a bit puzzled by the death wish of Moriarty. But I wouldn't actually call it a death wish. I think Moriarty wasn't planning to kill himself initially. But as he pulled the trigger on the rooftop, I think he had become ambivalent about life or death. In fact, on the rooftop when he told Sherlock "you are me" and "bless you", I think Moriarty was revealing that he was self-deceived into some sort of euphoria about the heights of the cat-and-mouse game he was playing. In other words, his life had reached what he considered the highest possible life achievement: not just to have beaten Sherlock, but to finally fully realize exactly what kind of no-holds-barred genius Sherlock was. To realize that Sherlock was NOT boring or ordinary after all, but truly WAS extraordinary beyond anyone else alive...that Sherlock truly was his equal, and the only opponent worthy of the effort that Moriarty had made to trap him. Moriarty was standing on the top of the mountain, with the satisfaction of having put this person in checkmate who was truly greater than even he had known. He realized that the mouse he had caught was actually the only other cat like himself in existence. And this brought him to tears. I think this is why Moriarty says "you are me" and "bless you" to Sherlock. In a twisted way, Moriarty knew that he was finally understood...that there was someone else like him, who was his equal. And then because he had reached the highest possible height within his value system, nothing else in life would ever give him such a thrill again. Everything else would be pale in comparison, so he was ambivalent about taking his life. He had no problem sacrificing it all to cement the checkmate that he thought would cause Sherlock either to end his life or live the rest of his life in the guilt of having caused the deaths of his truest friends. But he underestimated Sherlock's rigorous planning for every contingency, and in truth ended up killing himself for nothing. It's interesting to consider that Moriarty overlooked that Sherlock's having set the venue of their showdown could mean that Sherlock was surrounded by accomplices and actors who could carry out a staged suicide.

We had recently moved from coastal southern California to Indiana. In order to keep our indoor-only cats reliably indoors, we learned to squeeze sideways through the front door, which generally worked very well. One day, however, our young California cat Daisy managed to squirt out, and heaven knows where she might have run off to. Quite fortunately, though, there was half an inch of snow on the porch. Daisy stopped dead in her tracks, clearly horrified, giving me plenty of time to scoop her up and take her back indoors. And she never ever tried that again.

Didn't "get it" till I read the second balloon. Reminds me of a joke (?) I read once, where a little kid wanted to read "that book about a boy and his pet dinosaur."

This is such an amazing idea imo

Mine is from "The Sign of the Four": “My mind,” he said, “rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. I can dispense then with artificial stimulants. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation. That is why I have chosen my own particular profession,—or rather created it, for I am the only one in the world.” Listen to Jeremy Brett deliver it here, at 5:25 (for some reason Granada put this scene into "A Scandal in Bohemia"):

Hi! Paris is plenty exotic enough for my tastes but I was ideally looking for stories written by a native of the setting

They left the mouse on her bed -- but if it wasn't quite as dead as assumed, it may now be hiding just about anywhere in the house. My mother finally learned to look carefully before she let the cat into the house. If there was anything dangling from Star's mouth, Mom would praise her lavishly through the screen, then shut the door.

If you can, watch 'Douglas Is Cancelled'. It starts a bit slow, but the finale is a punch in the gut. Terrific performances too. For some of you in Europe this URL might work. https://www.arte.tv/en/videos/115971-001-A/douglas-is-cancelled-1-4/

Well, hello again! This forum isn't as manic as it was at your last visit (less than a year after Series 3 had aired), but we're still here. As always, you're more than welcome to post in any thread that catches your eye, and/or to start new ones. Welcome back!