@phantom: I totally understand you. At least there should have been a notice with a big apology and a date when it will be fixed (preferably very soon). (And definitely a phone number or else for wheelchair users to ask for help.) Don't feel bad. In your case, I would also have complained.

Now, compared to your condition, I shouldn't even complain...
caught a cold that decided to stick for three weeks now. I enjoy the attention I get from people looking worridly at me in the street and the lack of proper sleep. Not. And I'm fed up with sitting around, but my head is like jellygumthings, so nothing productive gets done. And I'm taking like everything that could help but nothing does... How do people do this. I'm like Sherlock in any fanfic - totally useless patient, and terribly grumpy :-/
(I'm even watching Germanys next top model and worried I will watch the Bachelor next, or even switch on RTL during the day... oh nooo. Germans will know what I'm talking about... killing brain cells systematically...)
 

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I hope you feel better soon, Whisky, with no more Gummibärchen brain (I think that's the word). Being sick sucks. Even if it's mindless entertainment, at least watching TV is a way to rest.

I don't even  know what tweak means / is.

Now I feel old ... :-p

Thanks. Yes, gummibärchen brain is a fitting word!

Yes, I think changing little things is for compatibility reasons mainly. I think it's their need to stay up to date, which for them is more important than to think about users who don't update to every little new thing there is or use older devices or just like the old interface. If it annoys users, it's definitely not very clever what they're doing   But then again, I don't know much about programming. Guess they cannot make it work for everyone.
Also, often I think they want to force users to update, in making the use of older devices/browser versions etc etc less comfortable. Or it's a design thing. I feel like design is really important nowadays. Everything has to look modern, apparently.
 

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Sherlock was on yesterday night -His Last Vow.
Dubbed (even though the voices are ok, it cannot compare, far from it, to the original).
When Mycroft says "You know what happened to the other one" the translator chose to have Mycroft say "vous savez ce qui est arrivé à notre aîné" (you know what happened to the eldest).

Given that this particular line has raised endless debates on its actual meaning, I find it offhand of them to have translated like that. As if they knew what was it actually meant.

And now I wonder. Do the translators of TV series know what happens next so they can give the best possible translation?

Yeah...Still, that's unprofessional to make such a decision, I think.

Watched TAB yesterday evening -so far, nothing out of the ordinary. In French, because Mum wanted to watch it as well and understand what was happening.
Now, we all know that the episode doesn't *really* take place in the 19th century. But we do get a strong 19th century vibe, don't we?
Well, not in the French dub. At all. That's extremely disappointing and more than a bit not good. Maybe they think that if they use too 'old', refined words, the French audience will not understand...But the general audience who watches Sherlock is not average, is it? They should have stuck more closely to the words, I think. There was a real gap here between 19th century setting and the words that were too modern.

Oh sorry, I hadn't seen it.

I needed to vent, but now that it's done, I'll go over there and have a more settled discussion about the topic.
Thanks

This isn't really a rant, but it's not good news or chit-chat either.
I have been feeling kind of funny, emotionally, for the last day or so.
Maybe it's because it's been busy around my house, renovations finishing and helping my mum get ready for her trip at the same time. I thought things were OK, but even though she left yesterday I still feel really sad that she is not around. I have never been this sad about it before. Even though it was exciting and fun to talk to her about what she was going to be doing, all afternoon yesterday and even a little bit today, I wish she had not gone. And I feel fragile. The littlest thing I read in the newspaper, which wasn't even that sad it was just a little unfortunate, made me cry. It wouldn't have made me cry normally.
And I feel like a pathetic friend. When I'm at university I miss my friends, but now that I'm home I am hesitant to contact them if they want to get together and do anything. I am contacting them right now, but some of them are busy and I feel silly for not asking them sooner since I have already been home for a month. I justify my waiting with the busy-ness, but it doesn't seem like enough. I'm scared of losing touch with them, but it's getting harder. A couple of them have summer jobs in the cities where their universities are, far away from here.
And I don't hate them for it, but I hate that it's so hard and I wish I was better at not letting time slip through my fingers.

Thanks.  I hope so, too.

I know what you mean. I have overheard conversations where I want to chime in or correct someone but didn't because I would have been barging into a conversation I wasn't supposed to be a part of.