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Hahaha; I practically lived at Word Reference when I was at uni, Julia Mae! I love that place; it's so helpful to languages students

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Well I just thought it was unfair of me; someone else deserves a chance to create one of their own "Bluebell, John! I've got Bluebell, the case of the vanishing glow-in-the-dark rabbit. NATO's in an uproar."

Well, I have a huge phobia of doctors, so I tend to avoid them whenever possible. But I have just forced myself to register at my local surgery after having not been registered in years, and they've offered me a new patient health check, so if I take them up on it I'll mention the sleep thing. Thanks for the advice, Julia Mae

I know the answer, but I'll let someone else say it; I feel like I keep answering too much

A bit of both We would use the term, but not as generally as 'shopping'. If we wanted to emphasise the fact that we were shopping for food and not clothes or whatever, we might say 'doing the grocery shopping' or 'shopping for groceries'. Ah, I mean if I have a good night, I get 5 or 6 hours of sleep. But maybe 3 or 4 nights out of the week, I might only get 3 or 4 hours sleep. It takes me ages to fall asleep anyway. I also get vivid dreams, which leave me feeling drained and tired all the time, which is even more annoying when I can't sleep

Hahaha Well I am; it's just I have to be awake because I'm going to work soon Plus I suffer with insomnia; I usually wake up at about 6am and only manage to get around 5 or 6 hours sleep. Ooooo, I hope things go well for you! Glad to know I could help you with it! Alcoholic drinks with tea?! I'm not entirely sure what sort of drinks you mean; do you mean adding alcohol to tea, or tea to alcohol? I can't really think of anything like that whatsoever here; we add Baileys to coffee and things like that, but I've never heard of anyone using tea. Not at all! Honestly; if there's anything at all you need help with, let me know. I'm always happy to provide assistance!

Of course you can, Carol! 1.) Well, we'd be more likely to use the phrase 'do the shopping', but we do 'shop for groceries'. In fact, I work in a supermarket on the Home Delivery section, and when we're packing a customer's shopping into the crates for them, the bags go into the crates in a certain order, and that order is grocery, then frozen, then chilled. So 'groceries' refers to anything that doesn't go in the fridge or in the freezer. 2.) Yes, we would say we were having ice cream for pudding. But if 'pudding' is part of the name of the food you're about to eat, then it's most likely going to be sweet/savoury and made with flour. 3.) Carol's right; when you would say 'ass', we would say 'arse'. And 'ass' would be used to mean a donkey.

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Ah, okay... what you call 'pudding' is not at all the same thing here. 'Pudding' here, when you're talking about a dish rather than just an alternative name for dessert, is usually any kind of sweet or savoury dish made with flour (incidentally, it can also be a sausage, i.e. black pudding or blood pudding, but let's not get into that ). This might help: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pudding

Maybe I didn't express what I meant clearly enough; by 'getting his approval', I didn't mean it in a selfish way. I just meant that she'd want him to like what she got him, because it's important to her that he's happy.

Yeah, if it's 'bread and butter pudding' or something and you're having it after dinner, you'd be having pudding for pudding

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If I may just jump in with another BE observation... We use both 'pudding' and 'dessert' in BE, but 'dessert' is really only used for what you'd get at a restaurant (we also use the term 'sweet'). If you're having a 'pudding', you're most likely having it at home, after your dinner. 'Pudding' is the more informal term.

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I kind of think it might have been soppy, because she is a very soppy person, like Alice said. But at the same time, I agree with Carol in that she's too intelligent to get something too soppy for someone like Sherlock. She knows he wouldn't appreciate it, and I think she'd want whatever it was to mean something to him. She'd be trying to get his approval.

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Good point Carol! Now that I think about it, I definitely can't see Mycroft completely revealing absolutely everything about a little brother he so obviously cares a great deal about and worries about so much to a man he knows is highly dangerous to said little brother. So yes, it's probable that Sherlock isn't a virgin. Like I said before; I swing back and forth between my idea on the subject; I'm open to either answer. On the contrary; we're his biggest fans! We derserve to know every little detail about him

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http://ivyblossom.tumblr.com/post/38602205461/a-scandal-in-sexuality-sherlock-virginity-irene This pretty much sums up the way I'm thinking (except for the part about Sherlock possibly being in a relationship with John; sorry but I absolutely can't stand that idea. Can't two guys live in the same flat and be very close friends without people leaping to the conclusion that they're gay all the time?!)

This is one of the things I found most interesting about this episode, the whole 'Iceman and the Virgin' thing. With regards Sherlock being a virgin in the sexual sense, I go back and forth between agreeing that that's what it means, and then thinking it might mean more of a naive virginity, like Carol said. I understand completely why Sherlock's reaction to Mycroft saying 'how would you know' makes you think he might not be a virgin in the sexual sense, Carol; he definitely has a reaction to it, it's just working out what that reaction means. I have to say though, I tend to lean towards the opinion that the reaction was more a sort of surprise, and that kind of 'punched in the gut' feeling you get when an older sibling makes fun of you in front of your best friend. It would be interesting to see the script for that episode, because there was probably a direction given to Benedict to get him to react in that way specifically (slight raising of the eyebrows, etc.), or maybe he just decided to do that himself, but it would possibly give a clue as to whether there's any truth in the 'virgin' nickname. But yes, thinking about it, I would probably go along more with the idea that Sherlock really is a virgin, because Mycroft is the one person that would know him better than anyone else, and Mycroft would probably have a pretty good idea of Sherlock's romantic history. He could then have passed that information on to Moriarty (after all, he's supposed to have given Moriarty every little detail about Sherlock), and that's how Moriarty came up with the nickname. As for Mycroft being 'the iceman', I think to most people he seems to be exactly that. The only time you see his more caring side is when he's either alone, or with Sherlock or John. I would imagine it's an important part of his job to act as though nothing bothers him; you have to be pretty cool under pressure to do what he does.

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