glumshoe:

butterflyslinky:

glumshoe:

Every time I go to plug my phone in, I unwillingly think about that first episode of Sherlock where he looks at Watson’s phone and determines it must have originally belonged to an alcoholic due the scuffs around the charging port. 90% of that show’s “deduction scenes” were terrible, but that one was particularly bad. Who doesn’t struggle to plug their phone in, and how drunk do you have to be to manage to scratch up the metal casing with the charger?

It was a reference to the scene in “The Sign of Four” where Holmes deduces Watson’s brother was an alcoholic from the scratchmarks on his pocketwatch, where he wound it up every night.

I know, but it’s still a dumb scene. Scratches on a pocket watch make sense – they’re often made from soft metals like gold, and winding them with a key takes a bit of care. iPhones, not so much.

Tbh, replacing the pocket watch with a phone was a bad idea – who gets their initials carved into a cell phone?! A fancy wristwatch would have been more plausible.