NW16XE wrote:

I have the exact opposite reaction. I find Sherlock captivating, but then when I saw a picture of BC out of character, I thiought, nope.

My favourite moments are Sherlock at his most childish and contradictory. I can always watch the whole bit from TGG, from shooting the wall to the 'domestic', again and again, it makes me smile. I especially like the solar system bit; Sherlock earnestly explaining to John he has no room in his head for intellectual rubbish and trotting out a bit of a nursery rhyme to illustrate his point. ( Wonder whether he giggled when tickled as a child, or got out his Encyclopaedia Brittainica and looked up the human nervous system. ) 

If he was tickled, he probably just gave the tickler that withering stare.

I like the shooting wall bit, but what stands out in my mind is the part in The Blind Banker where he's sort of dancing through the office to get that certain view... love that.

Ha! That gif made me laugh.

I've watched a couple of them over and over, Scandal in Belgravia and The Reichenbach Fall being my absolute faves.

I've not heard many perspectives on 9/11 from someone who doesn't live here in the States. I think all of us will remember where we were when the first plane hit--I was on my way to work as a supervisor at a bank, but it was still early and so things were still confusing. We were opening when the news came of what was happening, and none of us could keep it together. People were swarming the bank withdrawing all of their money, so my vault started running out of cash and I had to limit people to $1,000. Some guy screamed at and berated me because I couldn't give him his money, and I told him, "Sir, the last thing I'm worried about right now is your money or mine..." We all said the same thing you did, that it would start a war. Of course, in the early part of the day we didn't know if the war was already starting or what the heck was going on. It was very, very frightening.

Conspiracy theories piss me off, to be frank. And people who say we "had it coming" piss me off even more. It's getting better. It's not as raw as it was (though I still can't watch footage of the attack without sobbing), but I sincerely hope people don't dilute their feelings about that day so much that it just becomes a page in history to them. I think the only way to heal is for people to remember what it was like, and go from there.

Fetchinketch wrote:

I watched RDJ's Sherlock Holmes last night.  Perhaps I would have liked it, pre-Sherlock, but I rather doubt it.  I'm not a fan of special effects taking over a storyline.  There was about 30 minutes worth of plot in that movie.  Similarly, although I am a huge Three Musketeers fan, I wasn't interested in watching the latest one when I saw the special effects.  When they have the kind of detail provided by ACD or Dumas, why in the world do they need to be entirely special effect dependent?  At least give us enough storyline to keep my attention.  RDJ and Jude Law were both very good in the movie, but I was left wanting much more of them.

One thing I did enjoy was seeing little moments that Moftiss took right out of this movie, I'm assuming just for the fun of it.  Short snippets of dialogue or "rhododendron ponticum".

I really liked the first RDJ Sherlock Homes movie, but I fell asleep during the second. And I agree that the BBC version is superior. What interested me most about the movies was the actual characters of Sherlock and Watson, not the story lines. For the life of me, I couldn't tell you what the plot of either movie was.

I think I almost like this one better.



There are some really good shots from that play floating around.

LOVE Torchwood. I actually started with that show before I started catching up with Doctor Who. I definitely recommend it.

Davina wrote:

Morning all! My son has his driving test today. Keep your fingers crossed for him please (or press your thumbs together or whatever you do for good luck where you are from).

Good morning and good luck to him!

I'm sort of down because I have to go back to work tonight after having two days off. Only three nights on and then a weekend, but on that first night it's always hard to drag myself in at 2300.

Mattlocked wrote:

W-lan was just down for some minutes. I nearly went mad... 
But in tv they just said boys are mostly endangered. Probably right. 

I don't know...I could definitely qualify.

I have to admit that I didn't find him as attractive as most of the people here, not as Sherlock. I mean, he's a good looking man but he definitely had to grow on me. In real life, however he's downright sexy. I the slicked down look.

BTW, have you guys seen the new photos from Harper's Bazaar? Mmmmm...very nice. I believe that I saw them posted on here somewhere, but I can't remember where.

Davina wrote:

No need for box mixes for scones m'dears. Here's a couple of good recipes although they aren't in your funny cup measurement thingys so you'll have to do some converting. Recommend strawberry jam and clotted cream if you can get them or just butter on them when they are warm.

www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/scones_1285

www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/1729/ultimate-scones

I used to make pizzas with scone mixture as the base when the kids were small as it was a good way to get milk and eggs into them.

Good because there were no boxes of scone mix. I did see clotted cream though! Thanks!