AliceI wrote:

He would note the age of my wedding rings and deduce that I am unhappily married, but he would be wrong there. I only say this because it struck me that in ASiP when he made that deduction I looked at my own rings and saw how dull they were. 

Based on his statements in ASiP, I think he'd only deduce you were unhappily married if your wedding ring was worn clean on the inside (due to removal) and/or you had other jewelry that was well cleaned. I suspect he'd take the not-cleaned-but-not-oft-removed ring as not really indicative of your happiness with your marriage in either way. He'd probably associate that with the lack of make-up and see cleaning the ring as not something high on your list of things to do, regardless of your feelings toward your marriage.

It'd be reasonable to expect John to have some experience facing situations of this nature. Even if not identical, a similar situation is enough to avoid the irrational responses. As to Sherlock, well.. with his intentionally different personality, assuming he is better at managing that kind of situation than most is reasonable.

An explosive so delicate it would detonate from sliding across the flooring in there would be at a risk for detonation from the wearer's movements. That's not really practical for that sort of vest. There are very stable explosives that could be chosen (such as C4 - though since they're in the UK they might get PE4 instead). While there's a possibility a pulled wire could cause an issue, that's relatively unlikely with the flooring in there. However, water can interfere with circuits and cause the trigger to fire, which would then set off an otherwise more stable explosive. It's not that the explosive would respond to being wet, but the wiring. Being immersed in water is rather different from having water (sweat, rain, whatever) fall on the wiring, so a different response from the device is reasonable.

We got some hail, but temps are around 12C and it wasn't big/bad enough to damage any of the cars. There were, of course, the barrage of collisions that comes with a storm around here, but we weren't directly involved in any of that.

Davina wrote:

My daughter has just made me a nice cup of tea in the Tardis mug she bought me for Christmas. Now I have to drink it without spilling it all over myself! (It is, without doubt, the most difficult mug in the world to drink from).

Love it!

My coworker has an odd complaint. He would like me to tell him when I'm about to pour my tea, if his headphones aren't already on. Why? The sound of the tea pouring into the mug sounds like someone peeing, and he finds it a disturbing noise in a workplace. Frankly, I find this hilarious, but also understandable. I tend to forget, at least so far, but I will try to remind him in the future.

In what context? I don't read enough of the fanfic to understand how it's used there. I know .au, as in the TLD, is for Australia, and AU can also stand for astronomical unit. But neither of these seem particularly relevant to Sherlock related fanfic.

I think Moffat is at least as essential to the show as Cumberbatch and Freeman. Like many of you, I've been watching Doctor Who as well. I can typically tell within the first five minutes of an episode if it's a Moffat episode, or if the episode has a different primary writer (this is changing as I've made it to the 11th Doctor, with Moffat now being head writer and executive producer, but the Davies days, I could tell). Moffat's writing style sucks me in and keeps me glued to the TV like few other things do.

The chemistry between Cumberbatch and Freeman is critical to the show, true, as it the quality and care of all of those who contribute. But looking at either, "They never had X person," or "They've lost X person to other projects," without Moffat, I wouldn't have cared about Sherlock.

And.... I go from rides in racing cars over the weekend to riding the bus to work! We're down to just one running vehicle between the two of us, and my boyfriend needed it to go to Dallas today. Unfortunately, public transportation here sucks. It'll take me about twice as long to get to work as it does when I take myself, and it'll take about as long as riding my bicycle, with less flexibility. But the bicycle doesn't have lights and it's dark on my way home these days, so the bicycle isn't an option. I'm charging up the kindle, though, and have my headphones for music. The bad part will be waiting in the cold for the bus - it's 5ºC, which in Houston, is cold!

Mattlocked wrote:

Concerning the simple going-off-topic thing my feeling was so far that there always is someone who leads back to the actual topic when posts run out of track. I don't know if anything more is needed here. Deleting any posts or closing a thread will just annoy the members. That would be sad.
And I know what I'm talking about. In another forum they started doing exactly that. Deleted posts and closed "difficult" threads.
The result was that a lot of very nice members left the forum because they got angry or just got unsure what they are allowed to write.
The general vibe/mood in that forum is still sad and everyone is insecure. Still many are considering to leave.

On a different forum I'm on, posts that venture off topic or into not family friendly areas are deleted, and the moderator who deletes them comments in the thread reminding people to stay on topic / family friendly as needed, mentioning they did some clean-up. If this needs to be done multiple times, the thread will be locked, with a similar explanation. Generally, the second clean-up includes a "don't make me close this," and either the third or fourth need for clean-up will result in the thread being locked. PMs are also sent to individual members as needed to explain things. This keeps everyone informed and helps to encourage understanding and working with the moderators. Of course, some people do still find it stifling and leave. Others would find not doing it offensive or find the noise:signal ratio poor - you're going to lose some of the audience with whatever choice is made.

Whatever decision the moderators make, IMO, communication is key. Communicating the basics of what's going on in non-accusatory language allows things to progress.

Is there a way I can completely turn off the fancy WYSIWYG editor? Clicking the "Source" button appears to let me type code, as I prefer, but it still interferes with things. I can't use my option (alt) key as I want - when I try to hit opt+0 (to type a degree symbol), I get an Accessibility Help pop up. I do not want this, I do not need this, I want to be allowed to use my keyboard as my OS is programmed to use my keyboard - it does everything I want and need.

ETA: Oh, good, I think I found it. When I go to my profile and click on Viewing Options, there's a "Show advanced message editor when posting." checkbox. I unchecked it and saved. On my first page load after that, I still saw the advanced editor. But after I clicked a few links and came back, the normal editor was back. Yay!