As I recall in the books, Holmes calls upon Watson several times specifically because he has a gun and can use it.

Yeah but even then that's one of the seemingly universal jokes about the military, that being folks smuggling out their service weapons. Great grandad's Colt/ Makarov/ Webley/ Beretta/ Luger/ et cetera. Pretty sure I've heard stories of soldiers jacking artillery back in the 1700s for similar reasons, have folks use and take care of a piece of equipment and they'll probably try to keep it forever, hell you can still find WW2 era junk that got smuggled out for basically that reason.

They make them out of literal cardboard now because drywall is too expensive. I wish I was joking. Look up cyfy on YouTube, he's a home inspector in Arizona and some of the million dollar+ homes he inspects are actual temu quality shitholes from big name builders.

Wow, really? Is it just country flags?

When I was in public elementary school we had old textbooks and one of them was trying to talk shit about the Soviets by saying that their educational system was creating robotic, unemotional children who obeyed instructions unquestioningly. They juxtaposed a picture of Soviet students standing uniformly with a picture of American students all doing different things. I questioned it at the time and said if they took a picture of us doing the pledge it would look the same as the commies. I sound 100 years old but this was only 20 years ago.

Central air and garbage disposals are amazing and should be the norm

ATLA ironically may have desensitised me to the pledge thing by trying to show it as a creepy thing in the Fire Nation school. Instead, it just became part of the narrative flow, which was somewhat opposite the intent.

Then again, I've probably come to associate it with singing shitty school songs and national anthems in Australia anyway.

Someone didn’t grow up in the Cold War era. They drilled that shit and followed it up with “duck and cover” in case the Soviets nuked us. As if your desk provided cover from the nuclear holocaust.

"Central air" is a term I only learned the meaning of recently, but American TV assumes everyone knows what it is. Which is fair, if you all have it.

It's why no one has air conditioning in a lot of Europe. You'd have to have a separate system for each room, it would get very expensive very quickly, or I can buy a fan for the equivalent of $20. I know in places like the south of Spain they actually do this, but it's not common.

It's seriously funny how freaked out people get from garbage disposals.
They're quite safe. They don't have spinning blades. They have something closer to a dull grater and arms on swivels that catch loose food and push it against the stationary grind plate.

You shouldn't put your hand in one because the little weighted arms are going very fast and could hurt your fingers if they got hit, but it's unlikely to push them into the wall.

They're great if you have proper sewage treatment, since it keeps the trash from getting stinky and it basically just gets turned into fertilizer like a more efficient, roundabout compost heap that I don't need to remember to poke.

a hand blender in my sink? TF?

Are you referring to a garbage disposer?

On the pledge, some of us know.

Hollywood celebrities and writers all have "Central Air". The rest of us know what it is, but we don't all have it.

I'd normally avoid correcting spelling, but these ones were confusing until I realized what you were trying to say. "I always thought that when heroes fought and threw things and people through walls it was an extra strong emphasis (I think?) of how strong they were." English is a stupid language.

Though walls aren't quite that easy to go through. Drywall is brittle enough to punch a hole through (though it probably won't be a clean hole), but there's still the frame and a second layer of drywall (for an interior wall, even more to go through if it's exterior) you'd need to go through for most north American walls. Movies will use prop walls, I'm guessing designed for that specific crash through them (like with a specific shape precut so it just tears away as desired when whatever passes through it) and extra effects like dust and debris added in post or thrown in from outside the frame.

Eh, they may be 'fragile,' but they're not 'human body gets tossed through by a breeze' level of fragile. I think when some friends of mine crashed into a wall in a drunken wrestling match at full force during a high school house party, they still only cratered the wall, not broke through or smashed it down.

They're made of gypsum most often, so they're fragile but not that fragile. I don't know that I've ever accidentally broken drywall.

https://youtu.be/_FJ8fG1pAzg

I currently have my foot leaning against some drywall and am tilting back in my chair. Not at all worried about it breaking. I can bounce about as much as I can without falling and it's solid.
We use it because it's cheaper, faster, pretty durable, easy to repair and paint, a decent insulator, sound blocker and most importantly fire resistant.
For almost all uses it's a better material.
It's less common where houses are older than the 50s.

Whenever we park (in an automatic), we set the parking brake, because we do Not like feeling that small jolt.

A surprising number of new cars these days just... don't seem to have a parking brake control? at all?? anywhere???

And the rest have it as a button instead of a manual thing you can pull if the computer goes haywire. What is the state of cars coming to.

-- Frost

I think that everyone is over complicating this.

When you see he has a gun in the mini-series, you're just reminded of how the he had a revolver in the books. You aren't going to think about it because he's supposed to have a gun. You just say, "Oh, he still has a gun."

I think the disconnect is probably between people who know Dr. Watson from the books, and people who don't know the books. The Sherlock mini-series is obviously targeted at people who never read the books. So it's entirely possible that they wanted the viewer to question its existence.

This particular series takes the characters and puts them in present day London, what was normal in the 19th century doesn't apply for the character in the example

The majority of the UK had guns readily available up until the great war.

[sic] there were no firearm restrictions in effect, but less than 1% of the population had firearms. The Firearms act of 1920 disarmed this percentage over fears of surges in crime, as well as worries that the working class would get too unruly

Sherlock is also armed in several of the original sir. Arthur Conan Doyle stories. Iirc most the time he borrows a revolver from Scotland Yard.

I have no knowledge about the UK, but I can say that was the case for Germany. Gun control in the modern sense only began after WW1 when large numbers of weapons fell into civilian hands.

In the 19th century, shooting practice was mandatory as part of the military system; reserve and conscription. Kinda like how it still survives in Switzerland. But as the UK rarely had a need for large land armies, the population was not militarized to such a degree.