Where is everybody from?

[Carol the Dabbler]

You'd love Southern California   -- they don't even need snow to snarl things up.

 

One time when we lived there, it actually did sort of snow -- well, little bitty sleet, just enough to be visible on the ground.  They closed the highway -- which made sense, because no one out there has the slightest idea of how to drive in the stuff.

[SherlockedCAMPer]

I figured if I ever moved far enough south and worked out of the home, I would call into work if there was ice or snow on the roads with the excuse of: I don't trust your drivers.  Even Minnesota shuts down after an ice storm to let salt do it's job on the roads.  (I've watched enough news footage over the years of drivers sliding in Texas after winter weather to laugh a little and know better than to drive down south after they have had winter weather.  Most of them don't have the experience and the DOT's don't have salt/sand for the roads.)

[Carol the Dabbler]

(I've watched enough news footage over the years of drivers sliding in Texas after winter weather to laugh a little and know better than to drive down south after they have had winter weather.  Most of them don't have the experience and the DOT's don't have salt/sand for the roads.)

Or snow plows, apparently. I once (which was enough!) drove through about four inches of slush on I-40 in the high-desert southwest. Every time I saw a semi gaining on me, I memorized the road ahead and prayed, because I knew I was about to be blinded by a wave of gelatinous material hitting my windshield.

 

It's not just the south, though. Our county seems to have snow plows, because every now and then they'll decide to use them. The rest of the time, though, they just let the snow pack down so that the local roads are basically a solid sheet of ice for the next week or so.

 

[Detective]

Hey i am new here, my englisch isnt as good as yours, so yeah.... Hi :-D

 

I am from germany, (live near dortmund).

[SherlockedCAMPer]

Hello Detektive to the forum. We have a few Germans on here.

[Bendydoodle Cantaloupe]

America is friggin' infinite, I swear. In Europe you can drive to two countries away in about an hour and a half, but in America you're like... the next city over.

[SherlockedCAMPer]

America is friggin' infinite, I swear. In Europe you can drive to two countries away in about an hour and a half, but in America you're like... the next city over.

Only if you live out in the middle of nowhere. It's more like the next county unless you are near a state line... But it's just about the same difference when there are 4 time zones for the continental part plus 2 more for Alaska & Hawai'i.

[sfmpco]

I live in California, and it takes probably 10-12 hrs just to drive from the border of Mexico to the northern border of the state.  And Los Angeles is pretty much one big city from the the Pacific Ocean to Palm Springs (east to west) which is about 100 miles and north to south in "greater Los Angeles" takes a few hours of city driving.  Worse in traffic... or if Obama is in town.  Once when he was in town it took me 2.5 hrs to go 3 miles to get home.  I was pretty ticked off as was the rest of the city.

 

From where I am now it's going to take me probably 3 days to get to Palm Springs by bike because I have nothing but city traffic streets to travel on with NO bike lanes (not that they help that much as they aren't protected lanes).  Then it's about 100 miles of empty desert to get to the border town of Blythe... oy.  

[Waendal]

Hello all! I am from the UK but am now living in Belgium. I have been aware of Sherlock for some time, but only started watching earlier this week. I just watched A Scandal in Belgravia so still have some episodes to watch before I'm fully caught up!

 

I have read of all of the books though and it's great to see the inspiration the show has taken from the books but with a 'twist'

[Carol the Dabbler]

Hello, Waendal -- welcome to Sherlock Forum!    Sounds like you'll fit right in!

 

I love your Avatar picture, plus it's a nice change of pace from all the Sherlocks around here.

 

 

I live in California, and it takes probably 10-12 hrs just to drive from the border of Mexico to the northern border of the state.  And Los Angeles is pretty much one big city from the the Pacific Ocean to Palm Springs (east to west) which is about 100 miles and north to south in "greater Los Angeles" takes a few hours of city driving.  Worse in traffic... or if Obama is in town.  Once when he was in town it took me 2.5 hrs to go 3 miles to get home.  I was pretty ticked off as was the rest of the city.

 

From where I am now it's going to take me probably 3 days to get to Palm Springs by bike because I have nothing but city traffic streets to travel on with NO bike lanes (not that they help that much as they aren't protected lanes).  Then it's about 100 miles of empty desert to get to the border town of Blythe... oy.  

 

I guess we're lucky to have lived in your area in the early 90's, well before Mr. Obama took office.  Back then, it took us only 2 or 3 hours on the freeway to make the nominal one-hour drive into LA.

 

[Caya]

Hi Waendal and welcome to the forum! Beautiful horse there (Arabian?) - is it yours?

 

Is LA traffic that bad? I remember Douglas Adams cracking a joke in one of his novels about the most helpless creature in the universe being a pedestrian in LA, but I thought he was being overly dramatic there.

[SherlockedCAMPer]

In the US, we complain about rush hour traffic in the major cities and most of us know that it is nothing compared to LA. We joke about LA traffic because some of our bad traffic would be considered good traffic out there.

[SherlockedCAMPer]

Hello Waendal to the forums. You'll fit in well with all of us newer Sherlockians.

[sittything]

Does LA have any decent public transportation?  Like NYC is terrible around rush hour, but they also have a ton of public transportation options.

[Carol the Dabbler]

I believe there might be some buses in LA, but nothing that extends into the suburbs and surrounding area.  There used to be a good commuter rail system (as there was in a number of other areas, including central Indiana), but that went out of business in the 1930's, due to a number of factors.  Now it's basically cars, cars, and more cars.

 

[Waendal]

Thank you Carol the Dabbler, Caya and SherlockCamper for the welcome (and for the nice comments about my avatar). Sadly it isn't my own horse, but I live in hope that one day I will own a horse!

 

There are some sections of the forum I will avoid until I've seen all of the episodes although I don't know when I'll get season 3, I actually went to the shop this morning to buy it but they didn't stock it :(  This is the problem with Belgium sometimes, as I don't think Sherlock is very well known here, nowhere sells the DVDs. Maybe I'll get it for Chrismas, I've dropped enough hints to my boyfriend! :D

[Carol the Dabbler]

I sympathize with your need to avoid portions of the forum, especially since we stopped hiding Series 3 spoilers sometime over the summer -- so you may now come across such tidbits just about anywhere on the forum.  If your boyfriend doesn't pick up on your Christmas-gift hints, you could order the DVDs from Amazon.  Their UK facility definitely has Series 3, and I assume that their locations in France, Germany, and the Netherlands do as well.

 

I believe there might be some buses in LA, but nothing that extends into the suburbs and surrounding area.  There used to be a good commuter rail system (as there was in a number of other areas, including central Indiana), but that went out of business in the 1930's, due to a number of factors.  Now it's basically cars, cars, and more cars.

 

I have discovered that there currently is a certain amount of mass transit in Los Angeles and vicinity.  Whether it's fairly new, or whether it simply doesn't extend out to where we lived, I have no idea.

 

[Bendydoodle Cantaloupe]

Thank you Carol the Dabbler, Caya and SherlockCamper for the welcome (and for the nice comments about my avatar). Sadly it isn't my own horse, but I live in hope that one day I will own a horse!

 

There are some sections of the forum I will avoid until I've seen all of the episodes although I don't know when I'll get season 3, I actually went to the shop this morning to buy it but they didn't stock it :(  This is the problem with Belgium sometimes, as I don't think Sherlock is very well known here, nowhere sells the DVDs. Maybe I'll get it for Chrismas, I've dropped enough hints to my boyfriend! :D

 

They've got Season 3 on Netflix, although I'm hoping to get my own copies of Sherlock so I can make gifs and fan videos.

[Waendal]

 

Thank you Carol the Dabbler, Caya and SherlockCamper for the welcome (and for the nice comments about my avatar). Sadly it isn't my own horse, but I live in hope that one day I will own a horse!

 

There are some sections of the forum I will avoid until I've seen all of the episodes although I don't know when I'll get season 3, I actually went to the shop this morning to buy it but they didn't stock it :(  This is the problem with Belgium sometimes, as I don't think Sherlock is very well known here, nowhere sells the DVDs. Maybe I'll get it for Chrismas, I've dropped enough hints to my boyfriend! :D

 

They've got Season 3 on Netflix, although I'm hoping to get my own copies of Sherlock so I can make gifs and fan videos.

 

 

Thanks for suggesting Netflix! I hadn't thought about that as they only started operating in Belgium a couple of months ago. I'll look into it.

[Carol the Dabbler]

Apparently Netflix offers different movies in different countries, but Sherlock is presumably a popular choice in most places -- though it may sometimes be dubbed into the local language.

 

[Bendydoodle Cantaloupe]

I never liked dubs, to be honest. The whole lips-not-matching-the-words thing always bothered me.

[Arcadia]

Yeah, me too. I prefer subtitles. Dubs sometimes subtly change what's actually being said. And I always like to hear the original voices.

[Carol the Dabbler]

Subtitles aren't always accurate either, unfortunately.  But at least then you get the original voices, and I agree that's a good thing.

 

[SherlockedCAMPer]

Subtitles are not always accurate in the original language either.

 

Another thing that gets me is when the audio & video are out of sink and it's not an overdub. My brain then tries to figure out which one is faster and ignores the rest of what I'm watching.

[Caya]

I find subtitles terribly distracting. My eyes wander there, even if I'm perfectly capable of understanding the spoken language, and I miss all the details. If I can't watch the original version, I'd personally rather take a dubbed one than a subtitled one.