Mycroft is doing his very best to teach me how this works. It'S AN ic'm smarter than you phone. His fingers are a blur on the screen, and he's set up my emails a nd this blog and John's blog onto it. He's also pointed out numerous flaws in the software.
I feel very old. We didn't even have a phone in the house when I was little. Now I've got a work one and this thing the Yard set up the blackberry though. Only so the can bother me day and night though.
Well igot this far , now to change to the laptop. Did I do well, Mycroft?
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Passable. I'm uncertain whether to blame the errors in punctuation on the mobile phone or the user. I shall give the phone the benefit of the doubt.
If it's a touch screen, I'd blame the phone for the errors - but that's just me. Touch screens and I don't get along.
Good luck with the smart phone!
I'm sure it's the touch screen, yes. My hands are about twice the size of Mycroft's.
My help desk guys are always debating whether fat fingers counts as a user error or a device error. It's one of the only times I'm thankful for my very small hands.
I'll await my loving partner rushing in here to defend my hands - something along the lines of 'not fat, just manly' will do, Danger.
They are, actually. Manly that is, not fat. I like your hands.
I hate typing in my phone, it has a crappy touch screen. Your phone doesn't have a stylus? That might help with your punctuation. :)
Actually, one of them is still rather fat...I'm not sure fudge making is conducive to fixing smashed up knuckles. But neither is being leapt on by a bored Sherlock.
It doesn't have a stylus, no. Mycroft says that's because of the sort of touch screen it is (well, he actually explained more than that, but I think that's what it boiled down to?)
Learning the correct rules of the English Language would help with his punctuation.
Oh, you'll have to let us know how the fudge turns out!
And Mycroft, a note for you, my dear - every time you use a semicolon correctly, I feel a spark of joy; the former English lit prof in me claps her hands delightedly.
It's a sad reflection of society that a correctly used semicolon is a cause for celebration, rather than the norm. But thank you.
Clearly it's a device error then if it's not been built to accommodate your manly hands.
And thank you for the lovely mental image.
I hate anything with tiny keyboards, and I have small hands and fingers. Errors are inevitable with those things.
Surely someone else with unbroken fingers and youthful enthusiasm should be stirring the fudge? Like Sherlock? Or would he be too enthusiastic and messy at it? In which case, Mycroft ...
lawless523 - I have a feeling that Lestrade's mum and my mom come from the same school of cookery. It is a school where one of the top ten rules is: "No one under the age of twelve is going to be stirring the hot sugar, thank you!"
Mycroft - I'm always impressed with your superior punctuation and diction, but when poking fun at someone's grasp of the English language, one really shouldn't capitalize the "L" in language (unless, of course, this is one of those semi-obscure rules that just doesn't translate across the Atlantic). I do, however, entirely agree with you about semicolons.
Lestrade - You do quite well on the laptop. Perhaps save the touch-screen for emergencies?
--LV
(who's been reading a while, but just now got the nerve to comment)
Lawless - he did stir it for a while, but stirring is 'boring' apparently. Oddly enough i imagine the same amount of time spent eating won't be 'boring'.
Lady-Violet - I don't remember ever cooking anything much with my mum. Our house wasn't ever really organised enough for such things. She was generally busy having babies.
And the touch screen is just for when I'm out and about, to find out what my sister or boyfriend have been saying about me when I'm at work. Not that I'm paranoid.
And don't be scared about commenting. Unless you think it's how the insanity spreads. Which it may be. Welcome to the blog
I can see why Sherlock might find stirring boring. I would be tempted to tell him that eating fudge must be boring too, because without his help, the fudge isn't going to be made. XD
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