Sherlock's Fun Facts and Trivia

[besleybean]

Goldfish!

Actually she isn't.

She's one of these enigmas.

She's actually one of the brightest, talented and nicest people I know...

But she has these certain bind spots....though that's a whole other story!

[Arcadia]

Sounds like your friend and mine share the same genetic material. Lovely, bright people, but shockingly poor taste in television. :d

[besleybean]

(says in whisper: is yours also an Evangeilcal Christian, I'm suspecting to suppress other issues?!   )

[Carol the Dabbler]

There are several very active and enthusiastic members of this forum who are evangelical Christians, so that's not it.

[Arcadia]

(says in whisper: is yours also an Evangeilcal Christian, I'm suspecting to suppress other issues?!   )

 

Nope, she's Jewish. :D But I understand where you're going. Another friend is ... well, I don't think she's evangelical, exactly, I would say she's more of a fundamentalist Christian. And yes, a show like Sherlock turns her off, because it doesn't "make sense." But I don't think her "taste" is due to her religion; if anything, it's the other way round; fundamentalism works for her, because that's how she views the world anyway.

[besleybean]

I do apologise in advance(  )...

See my pal is so bright and rational in every other way, but then just turns the brain off when it comes to her faith ...

it brings her comfort.  But I can't help feeling if she dealt with other issues, she wouldn't need it!

[Arcadia]

I'm more like you, I suspect, but I get why faith means so much to so many people. I have another friend ... well, this one's more of an acquaintance, but I like her immensely ... who's a devout atheist. ;) And while her arguments make intellectual sense, I can't help but feel she's overlooking something vital by being so closed off to faith-based reasoning. There are some very rewarding aspects to faith, I admire it quite a bit when it's on the side of the angels. (See what I just did there? :D) I just can't quite achieve that level of it myself.

[besleybean]

(Sorry again!) I used to be really religious and very involved with the church.  I am now a militant atheist!

 

[J.P.]

Andrew Scott's Moriarty audition was so good we re-wrote the episode for him

[besleybean]

But of course!

Can't wait to see him in theatre next year!

[Van Buren Supernova]

I don't feel like opening a can of worm, but I believe you guys are civil :p.

Just a quick one..why show like Sherlock doesn't make sense to them? I don't get it.

 

 

[besleybean]

Well I think it's very complex with a lot in it.

Plus there are back stories and in-jokes...

if you don't watch from the beginning, it could be hard to follow.

[Carol the Dabbler]

Definitely! I am flabbergasted that quite a few people here hadn't seen any of S1 or S2, yet were able to follow S3 well enough to become addicted.

[besleybean]

Shows its quality, I suppose.

[Arcadia]

I know in my friend's case, it's just her personality. She's more comfortable with things that are straightforward and plainly stated; she mistrusts anything that requires puzzling over. I don't know why she's like that ... she's certainly intelligent enough to understand complexity. She simply doesn't like it.
 
Another friend, also a very smart woman, told me she didn't like TAB because it was "too complicated." I started to say "you have to watch it more than once," and she snapped, "I don't want to have to watch anything twice." So I shut up.  But for myself, I love shows that I can watch over and over, or books that I can read again and again. Why am I like that, but not them? Beats me. :P

[Van Buren Supernova]

Yes, me too.

If I want to watch one-time only shows, I'd watch Sesame Street.

 

I love when a show gets me thinking, and realize more and more things, and drive you nuts and make you want to talk about it. One and half years ago I even joined a forum for one. A forum! :p

a place where nuts gather!

 

Oh..previously I thought you guys said the friends say Sherlock doesn't make sense because of religion. Have I misunderstood?

But I fail to see any reason for that, although I'm obviously not the right person to ask.

[besleybean]

That wasn't what I was saying, can't speak for anyone else!

[Van Buren Supernova]

I must have misunderstood because it was said around the same time with some religion comment so I thought it was related. My bad. :p

 

 

Anyway, I think this image below is no longer spoiler.

 

 

 

Victorian ideal of beauty often involved a lot of bizarre method and dangerous substances.

 

Upper class white woman wanted even paler skin, as a symbol that their priviledged life allowed them to never working in the sun.

 

A famous beauty column called The Ugly Girl Papers advice included coating the face with opium overnight, and brisk wash of ammonia in the morning (ugh), mercury was also recommended as nightly eye treatment.

Because, eh, the desirable look was woman with watery eyes and pale skin, near-death look.

 

Some ways to make the eyes watery was using few drops of citrus juice, spraying perfume into the eyes (arghh) and using

dangerous belladona drops.

 

Pale skin, well of course, beside avoiding the sun by staying indoor or using appropriate clothing items for covers, the other solution was to use Dr.Rose's Arsenic Complexion Wafers, advertised as "perfectly harmless".

 

 

Well, make up was not the only solution to transparent white skin, some women also opted to bath in arsenic spring.

 

The crazier thing is, Victorian actually knew that arsenic is toxic and addictive, as it was not uncommon as murder poison, and arsenic was also known as dangerous dye ingredient for fabric and wallpaper for desirable green color (that is another story for silent murderer, Scheele's Green, claimed so many lives for its beauty)

 

Other dangerous substance used for beauty was, not limited to, lead, as material for paint and enamel used to coat their skin (probably when 'natural' arsenic way had failed).

[Arcadia]

Yikes! Still, I suppose a hundred years from now, our descendants will be amazed that we ingested poisons like caffeinated coffee and fluoridated toothpaste.

[Van Buren Supernova]

That is true, not to mention injecting poison into the face, and putting in foreign substance like silicone into your body, starving to look like skeleton or dying from d1et pills.

 

I guess people are not getting smarter eh... :P

[besleybean]

Yep, there are sadly no limits to the stupidity of humans!

[Van Buren Supernova]

The one I can't stop cringing is the dieting method by tapeworm. Shudder...shudder!!

[besleybean]

Do you mind?  I'm eating breakfast!

[Carol the Dabbler]

Not spaghetti, I hope! :D

[besleybean]

For breakfast?!

Nah, Special K, a cereal bar and a choccy bic(I know, but it's an eating day!)