Sherlock's Fun Facts and Trivia

[Carol the Dabbler]

Right the second time.  In Shaun he plays a radio announcer, and in Hitchhiker he's Additional Vogon Voice.

[Van Buren Supernova]

I will definitely miss that. Especially because my hearing is very questionable. :P

[Van Buren Supernova]

Let's have a fun one:

Fun fact about mamapapaBatch/mamapapaSherlock. Have I mentioned before that they are so adorable?

 

So in TEH, mamabatch complains about papabatch keep missing stuffs and suggests that he wears chain around the neck to keep his glasses.

Eventhough he comments that it would make him looks like Larry Grayson, he takes her advice.

(I also really like the exchange, him sitting there, smiling and helping his wife with the complaining )

 

 

 

 

Transcript from Ariane DeVere

[Arcadia]

Also, he wears the bowtie in real life too, to embarrass Benedict. Or so it's been said.

 

OMG, I just noticed that the new Evil Browser corrects my spelling as I type.

[Shadow Dweller]

Papabatch and mamabatch is wise, eyeglasses-chain is indispensable to those who often take glasses off then totally forgot where they put it last. *points to myself* If only GPS is accurate to centimeters. XD

[Arcadia]

I need a GPS on my cellphone. And my car keys. And my iPod. And my camera.....

[Carol the Dabbler]

Papabatch and mamabatch is wise, eyeglasses-chain is indispensable to those who often take glasses off then totally forgot where they put it last. *points to myself* If only GPS is accurate to centimeters. XD

Wouldn't that be great?

 

I once searched the entire house and still couldn't find my glasses ... till I reached into my pocket for my handkerchief ... and there they were!

 

I did buy a chain to put them on ... but now I can't recall where I put it. *sigh*

[Van Buren Supernova]

I read about the bowtie too :D, love his sense of humor, that is one horrendous bow tie. XD

 

I don't wear glasses, except when I'm riding, and I also misplace them all the time. The worst being losing 3 pair in less than two months. Got so angry with myself I settled with squinting all the way for couple of days to shield my eyes from sun and dusts but eventually get the replacement and force to make it a habit of putting them properly in my bag everytime..so far so good.

[Van Buren Supernova]

Feeling poor today?

 

Bank of England's vault is one of the most guarded and impenetrable vaults in the world.

It contains thousand of tons of gold and bombproof.

[Shadow Dweller]

Call the Beagle Boys, quick!

[Van Buren Supernova]

Beagle Boys! :D XD

 

 

Let's have scary one to start our week..

 

Dartmoor is indeed mysterious area with many myth, legend and unsettling stories.

 

One of the famous ones is set in Postbridge area; The Hairy Hand, that attack motorists and campers, trying to steer them off road or harm them, reported by many road users.

 

Another one is Kitty Jay's grave, a woman who committed suicide after becoming pregnant out of wedlock and left by her lover, the farmer son and disowned by the farmer family. By tradition she was buried at the crossroad. Her bones were later dug up and re-buried with modest grave in their present position.

 

 

Legend says fresh flowers always mysteriously appear on her grave, and there is sighting of mysterious figure in thick, black cloak (sherl?) kneeling beside the mound with bowed head and face buried in its hands.

[Arcadia]

Aha, so that's why Sherlock thinks he has to be alone ... he's still grieving over Kitty Jay. It's all so clear now! :p

[Van Buren Supernova]

Because of... guilt?

But... but Sherly is not that naughty, is he? Nope nope nope.

I'm sure he is just being emphatic. :p

 

You see, he is such a trusting man!

Sherlock has been talking to someone's else mum who(m?)

he thought was John's. He even suggested her to be John's best man.

[Arcadia]

That term "mum" sounds so funny, to my American ears. It sounds so casual, it's weird to hear it coming from the oh-so-formal Sherlock.

[Carol the Dabbler]

Perhaps you prefer the way dear p0ker-up-the-a$$ Mycroft says "Mummy"?

[Arcadia]

In terms of making me giggle? Yes! :d

[Van Buren Supernova]

Perhaps you prefer the way dear p0ker-up-the-a$$ Mycroft says "Mummy"?

In terms of making me giggle? Yes! :d

I know nothing about Mycroft when I watched SIP, so I had worse face than John and more than giggle for the revelation. XD (I love it so I went back and screencap them :p)

 

[Van Buren Supernova]

John wrote in his CV that he pays attention to details, yet he misspelled College.

 

 

[Arcadia]

[Van Buren Supernova]

(Looking at the gif for a long time)

(Try to think what it's for)

(Distracted by the gif again)

(Remember deadlines at work)

(Look at gif for a long time)

(He must be laughing..)

(Obviously...)

(Look at gif for a long time)

(At John..)

(Look at gif for a long time)

(Things start to get busy at work)

(Look at gif for a long time)

[Arcadia]

Just think of all the time it took me to find it....

 

Sherlock. Good for a laugh. Bad for productivity.

[Van Buren Supernova]

Just think of all the time it took me to find it....

Trust me. Time well spent. XD And thank you!

 

 

 

I want to post lighter one, but I don't have them in the desktop I'm using.

So..

Warning: Nerd Alert

 

We discussed this briefly in TBB rewatch sometimes ago. Sherlock dismisses Van Coon’s suicide, one of the reasons: he was shot on the right head’s side while he is left handed. I stand by Sherlock’s deduction (more on that later*), but there is such thing as cross dominant shooter.

 

There are roughly 30% cross-dominance or mixed handedness, means dominant eye and dominant hand don’t match.

 

Simple test to find out if you are one:

Eye Dominance Test

I am right handed with left eye dominance, found out about this not too long ago when a friend commented that I took picture by peeping through view-finder with left eye, while the rest using right eye and all of us are right-handed. Didn’t pay more attention to this (except thinking I’m weird – nothing new) until I somehow connected it back to how catastrophically lousy I am in shooting game (if I aim for your head, I’ll hit the wall. So nobody should be in the room if I aim for the wall. ), curiosity kicked in for further reading about cross dominance.

 

Cross eye dominance is tiny bit tricky in shooting department; it has very significant impact to target accuracy and a problem that should be addressed for people who need to master shooting skill.

Rarer case of left handed-right eyed (John could be in this category) only makes up to less than 4% of population, and female are more likely to be cross dominant.

There are couples of training methods for cross dominance:

1. learning to shoot using the hand on your dominant eye ‘s side (easier than overcoming eye dominance),

2. head positioning on certain angle to let your dominant eye takes control, or similarly, shoulder fire

3. positioning the gun at certain degree to bring the sights into the focal plane of dominant eye (which is not preferable because this results in bent wrist that reduces control of the gun)

etc

 

*Sherlock’s deduction that Van Coon didn’t shoot himself is valid based on:

- the low probability (which should add up to probably less than 2% left handed right eye dominance male)

- it’s very close range headshot when accuracy needed is minimal; using dominant hand is very effective for short range shooting even for cross-dominance shooter; it’s more likely that Van Coon would still use left hand even if he had cross dominance

- most probably he doesn’t base it only on the gunshot wound’s side, but shape and angle of the wound, and of course everything else found in Van Coon’s flat.

Dimmock was also very dismissal of Sherlock and refused to shake his hand (rude!), so Sherlock probably did quick deduction about this guy’s receptive level and pulled the quickest one to shut him up.

 

Love that obnoxious face. 

 

[Carol the Dabbler]

Interesting.

 

I think somebody also said that the military teaches everyone to shoot right-handed, so John would presumably have learned that way.

 

My father was naturally left-handed, but everything that he'd been taught to do (as opposed to picking it up on his own), he did right-handed.

[Van Buren Supernova]

My father was naturally left-handed, but everything that he'd been taught to do (as opposed to picking it up on his own), he did right-handed.

Good point. I went back to check and find John punches with right hand too, I suppose it is taught when he picked up some self defense in army?

 

In kickboxing, they teach us using both side of body equally. Maybe sometimes it depends on which side you are more comfortable with using force.

[Carol the Dabbler]

Could also depend on where the other person is standing (and where the camera is ;) ).

 

Also, just because someone is left-handed, that doesn't mean they do absolutely everything with their left hand. I am right-handed, meaning that I do virtually all fine-detail work with my right hand, but I have recently noticed that there are certain things that I do with my left hand, and am very clumsy if I try to do them with my right hand -- such as leafing through a stack of papers or (if you can believe it) picking my nose.