You know your "Sherlock" obsession is bad when...

[sittything]

It's funny.  I was contemplating the other day how much more "together" I was in my 20's vs. now.  And then I realized that was before I really fell into the abyss of the internet.

[Boton]

Try to count Jim's finger tapping.

 

Re: Partita Number 1

 

When it frustrates you to count either Jim's or Sherlock's finger tapping, because there's no way Sherlock would have known from the start how long a rest was required to indicate a zero, and so you're sure he would have missed the first part of the code just figuring out the timing for the ones and zeros.

[Carol the Dabbler]

When this happened...

 

 

It's funny.  I was contemplating the other day how much more "together" I was in my 20's vs. now.  And then I realized that was before I really fell into the abyss of the internet.

 

Amen!  The internet is great when it enables you to find the information you need quickly, with no need to drive to the library or write a letter or make a phone call.  But then the time you just saved gets sucked down into a black hole, along with the rest of your afternoon.

 

On the other hand, I can't really blame the internet.  I don't just mean that I could choose to walk away from it, I mean that I was equally engrossed (euphemism!) by the original Star Trek, long before the internet was even dreamed of.  We mostly exchanged letters and published fanzines, but the overall effect was the same.  The really weird thing is that during the intervening decades, nothing grabbed my attention like that -- then wham!

 

When it frustrates you to count either Jim's or Sherlock's finger tapping, because there's no way Sherlock would have known from the start how long a rest was required to indicate a zero, and so you're sure he would have missed the first part of the code just figuring out the timing for the ones and zeros.

Just as well that it turned out to be a hoax! If Moriarty actually did have a universal key code, and if Sherlock had actually decoded it from watching Jim tap his fingers, that would be two impossible things for us to be irked at Moftiss for!

 

[SherlockedCAMPer]

When you look at the background pic of your mailbox app and the first word that comes to your mind is pengwings & you come here to post it because of Benedict's never going to live it down mispronunciation of penguins that you 1st heard about on here.

[J.P.]

Or maybe it is only us mis-hearing.

[SherlockedCAMPer]

Or maybe it is only us mis-hearing.

Not likely to have hundreds or millions of people mis-hearing including Keira Knightley. And Benedict has admitted that it was indeed a mid-pronunciation. If only it was us mis-hearing then he could have even more fun with it.

[Tunguska]

You know your obsession is bad when you are very excited to realize what your 'six degrees of separation' is from Benedict Cunberbatch and, thereby, all Sherlock cast and crew. (From Wikipedia: Six degrees of separation is the theory that everyone and everything is six or fewer steps away, by way of introduction, from any other person in the world, so that a chain of "a friend of a friend" statements can be made to connect any two people in a maximum of six steps.)

 

These are mine: family member who works in the music industry and has worked closely with the band Elbow - Guy Garvey - Mr. Cumberbatch. Lol, geek alert.

[sfmpco]

I have a shorter one... know a guy who is first cousin once removed from Ewan MacGregor who worked with Ben on Osage County. Same guy also worked with James MacAvoy on a film... and James has done 2 projects with BC.

 

Unfortunately, that first cousin thing... the family isn't terribly close.

[Tunguska]

Ewan McGregor? Wow, your connection beats mine any day - he's one of my favourite actors (although our connections are actually of the same length )! :D

 

It's fascinating how these things play out - makes me sing-song 'it's a small world after all'. I have another family member who, ah, holds a minor position in our government which connects me to the prime minister which then connects me to most world leaders without ever leaving my seat or knowing anyone remotely famous.

[Inge l-w]

Does it count, if you are doing research in the Archives du Ministere des Affaires Etrangeres in Paris, and you accidentally take a left turn instead of a right, and start walking down a carpeted corridor to find yourself face-to -face with the assistant minister, who, being almost as unfazed as Mycroft, politely asks you what you are doing in his office and why didn't the huissier announce you, and you flush beet-red with embarrassment, mumble your apologies and flee down the same plush corridor?

[Tunguska]

Lol! That most definitely counts in my book XD

[Carol the Dabbler]

Well, let's see -- I have a cousin-in-law-once-removed who's becoming involved in the British film industry.  He must know somebody.  :D

 

[jadpdr]

Not much cop his non-eating lark!

I had to go on two shifts back-to-back, so I worked 48 hours straight on green tea and water! Dehydration definitely NOT an option! Conclusion was, after a certain point your brain and your stomach disconnect, so you do not even think or daydream about anything solid, BUT it gives you a peculiar high and such clear- headedness that you perform as though you were rested and fed properly all the time! I have never done drugs, not even smoked a spiff in my life, but now I can empathise with his eating disorder. It is an alternative to getting a high, I suppose. Still, won't personally try it again if at all possible. Needs must, but as Dr Watson points out in SoT, there are limits!

[Shadow Dweller]

I see my glasses and immediately think about Mark Gatiss. Lens frame of my glasses is partial gunmetal colour (his eyes), black (general work wardrobe/town car/brolly) and a bit of silver (brolly again). Definitely need a dose of new episode soon (facepalm)

[Shadow Dweller]

When I see that monthly quota is almost zero but there's still eleven days to go until restarting. Ack, noooo..... *edition of being addicted to SHERLOCK & this forum* xp

[J.P.]

I see my glasses and immediately think about Mark Gatiss. Lens frame of my glasses is partial gunmetal colour (his eyes), black (general work wardrobe/town car/brolly) and a bit of silver (brolly again). Definitely need a dose of new episode soon (facepalm)

 

This is a little bit alarming, my dear. ;)

 

Quota of what?

[Shadow Dweller]

Quota for data (internet) for a month. We don't have unlimited data-plan around here.

[Boton]

 

On the other hand, I can't really blame the internet.  I don't just mean that I could choose to walk away from it, I mean that I was equally engrossed (euphemism!) by the original Star Trek, long before the internet was even dreamed of.  We mostly exchanged letters and published fanzines, but the overall effect was the same.  The really weird thing is that during the intervening decades, nothing grabbed my attention like that -- then wham!

 

 

 

 

 

That was my exact experience!  I was so into ST in the 1990s when I was in graduate school; I was collecting TOS episodes on VHS (!), and every night I'd watch at least one.  I'd watch one most mornings, too, while I got ready for work and class.  I budgeted my paltry graduate assistant pay so that every week when I got my groceries I could buy one ST novel, which I'd read immediately then spend the rest of the week re-reading my collection.  Everything was ST.

 

Then, nothing.  For like 25 years.

 

Then Sherlock.  And I had it under control until the night I watched HLV, and I was so excited and wound up and obsessed and I wanted to talk to people and I wanted to watch the entire series again and again and I wanted to read fan fiction and write fan fiction and buy things that remind me of Sherlock.  And I kind of treasure having this sort of obsession with a cultural phenomenon again.  It's nice.

[T.o.b.y]

Then Sherlock.  And I had it under control until the night I watched HLV, and I was so excited and wound up and obsessed and I wanted to talk to people and I wanted to watch the entire series again and again and I wanted to read fan fiction and write fan fiction and buy things that remind me of Sherlock.  And I kind of treasure having this sort of obsession with a cultural phenomenon again.  It's nice.

 

It's very nice! I never was a fan of anything before, really, although I've always lived half my life inside stories, be they my own or other people's.

 

I don't feel as if I'm missing out on anything or neglecting anything because of my fondness for Sherlock and sharing that fondness with other people. It's just a nice little extra in my life.

 

 

[besleybean]

I agree!

[J.P.]

No, internet has nothing to do with getting obsessed. It just can make your brain burst from information overload.

 

I was never a fan of a band or a certain actors etc until I was 21, when I went to see Platoon and left the cinema a different person. The obsession lasted for years and came back full blast twice so far. Then there was Viggo Mortensen phase, but that one came very slowly, and it was more about his artistic endeavors beside acting. Internet was a blessing in this case because it brought me together with people from around the world and we have had really mind blowing discussions, which wouldn't be possible in RL. But I also meet some wonderful people in person, went to Denmark for an exhibition and to the US for a meeting. 

 

Learning English behind school level was a great bonus.

 

 

Then Sherlock.  And I had it under control until the night I watched HLV, and I was so excited and wound up and obsessed and I wanted to talk to people and I wanted to watch the entire series again and again and I wanted to read fan fiction and write fan fiction and buy things that remind me of Sherlock.  And I kind of treasure having this sort of obsession with a cultural phenomenon again.  It's nice.

 

I love my obsessions. I think they are my version of Sherlock's cases. They make me feel alive. My brain pirouettes, flushes my system with endorphins, spits out all kind of crazy stuff and makes me do crazy things. Maybe I'm a kind of weird bipolar, even if I was told I'm not. As someone who is living in my own head most of the time anyway, it's like a journey to an exotic land. 

 

Still the impact of Sherlock was immense. The part of it was of course getting it all in during one weekend. I actually couldn't fully follow the story from simply not having time to digest the input (there weren't even commercial breaks). And hardly I saw the last part I wanted to see the whole thing again instantly. And talk to someone, grab someone by the collar, shake him and yell: have you seen this?! 

[J.P.]

Oh, yes. Today I was buying groceries in a mart when my attention was attracted by pink cases. One more reason to smile.

[Arcadia]

Puns! Aghgh!
 
For me it was Japanese anime. When I look back on it I'm amazed at the time, energy and money I put into it. I even went to conventions! Alone! Do you folks have any idea how brave that was of me?!?! Wouldn't give up a minute of it, except perhaps those (several) moments when I realized I was the only female in the room. Awwwwk-ward..... They were the nicest people, though, I never felt either unwelcome nor, er, ogled. (It probably didn't hurt that I was several years older than most of them.) ;) I did get asked to perform the female lead a lot in read-throughs, though, until they learned how awful I was.
 
Then anime went mainstream and the obsession wore off. Then Sherlock swanned into my life, and wham!

[Carol the Dabbler]

I had to go on two shifts back-to-back, so I worked 48 hours straight on green tea and water! Dehydration definitely NOT an option! Conclusion was, after a certain point your brain and your stomach disconnect, so you do not even think or daydream about anything solid, BUT it gives you a peculiar high and such clear- headedness that you perform as though you were rested and fed properly all the time! I have never done drugs, not even smoked a spiff in my life, but now I can empathise with his eating disorder. It is an alternative to getting a high, I suppose. Still, won't personally try it again if at all possible. Needs must, but as Dr Watson points out in SoT, there are limits!

 

I agree -- not the sort of thing I'd care to do except in emergencies.  If you ever have to do that again, though, you might consider skipping the green tea in favor of just water.  I believe that tea of any sort (including most herbals) is a diuretic, which kind of defeats the immediate purpose of drinking it.

 

Quota for data (internet) for a month. We don't have unlimited data-plan around here.

 

Well, that's one way to avoid spending all your time on the internet!

 

Puns! Aghgh!

 

Oops!  Did I miss one? 

[Shadow Dweller]

 

 

Quota for data (internet) for a month. We don't have unlimited data-plan around here.

Well, that's one way to avoid spending all your time on the internet!

Ballads of someone who is surgically attached to her phone and laptop on every waking moment :D