Laugh it up, Fuzzball!

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Yeah, I might have watched a movie and gotten kind of mad.

My European Studies professor decided a few weeks ago to take a Friday and instead of following the syllabus, he spent the entire hour and a half comparing Hitler’s actions from a European perspective to that of what Trump is doing in America. He never repeated a single point, and even used video and photos like this to show the comparison.

To make things better, he had us do an in class assignment for participation points. He first played a clip on youtube of one of Hilter’s speeches, subtitled and 3 minutes long. He then played a clip of one of Trump’s rallies. Our assignment? Copy down every single sentence that matched in translation down on a sheet of paper or a word document that wasn’t repeated. The person with the closest amount to what my professor found got a candy bar.

My professor found, in just three minutes of a speech, that Trump matched 65 different phrases/sentences to that of Hitler’s translation. 

And when you’re arguing with someone about something social justice related and they can’t come up with any specific examples, keep in mind that they might have memory problems and this doesn’t necessarily mean you’re right.

me:

Okay, confession time: this moment, from A Study in Pink, has always really, really bothered me.

Sherlock, bored and annoyed that he hasn’t (yet) been brought in on the delightful “serial suicide” case, gets petty revenge by texting all the reporters, as well as Lestrade and Sally, at the police press conference, pointing out that Lestrade is “Wrong!” when he says the suicide victims must be linked somehow, that they have their best people working on it, and that “we are all as safe as we want to be”. 

Or at least that’s what we’re meant to think is going on.

Here’s why this scene has always picked my bum: 

We all know how much Mofftiss love patterns, and pattern behavior is especially required in a scenario like this. If you want your audience to believe that your main character can do something other people generally can’t or don’t, you need to establish a pattern of the character doing this sort of thing, or at least demonstrate that they have the skills/knowledge required to do it.

YET this is the ONLY time, in the entire show (11 episodes and counting, as I write this), that Sherlock has shown any sort of hacker* ability, or whatever sort of technical prowess it would require to get the numbers for a roomful of people you don’t actually know and text them all simultaneously.

BUT. I just had an epiphany. 

It wasn’t actually Sherlock who sent the three “Wrong!” texts. It was Moriarty (or an agent of his).