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The latest Sherlock Holmes movie is over two hours of solid fanservice. My one critique is that they [spoilered] [spoiler] at the beginning (if/when you see it, you'll know exactly what I'm talking about) but the rest of the movie is just one awesome bit after another.

(It is apparently the weekend of "hey, there are movies in the theater that I actually want to see," go figure.)

Date: 2011-12-17 04:49 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] icedrake.livejournal.com
So I went and looked up the composition of embalming fluid.
Formaldehyde, methanol waitwaitwaitWHAT?!

Methanol can cause destruction of the optic nerve in quantities as low as 10mL, and is potentially fatal at doses of 30mL (and "usually fatal" at doses of 80-150mL). My dad the chemical engineer tells the story of a chemical plant in Russia that used to wash its pipes at night with ethanol. The night-shift drunks figured this out and would secretly siphon off and drink some of it. One night, the plant was out of ethanol, so they used methanol. Five people died.

Date: 2011-12-17 04:52 pm (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] lienne.livejournal.com
well, the bottle was labelled "formaldehyde" and some other stuff I didn't have time to read; maybe it was nineteenth-century embalming fluid and formaldehyde was the end of it?

Date: 2011-12-17 05:32 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] icedrake.livejournal.com
The problem is, methanol is toxic because it metabolizes into formaldehyde. I'm in the "Holmes is fucking with Watson" camp, because I prefer it to the "script writer failed at basic googling" camp.

Date: 2011-12-17 05:34 pm (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] lienne.livejournal.com
also it didn't really look like it was formaldehyde; it looked like it was vodka. XD

I mean not that I know what formaldehyde actually looks like

Date: 2011-12-17 05:40 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] icedrake.livejournal.com
All I have to go on is google images, but that suggests that formaldehyde is yellowish while the liquid in the bottle was clear. It also leads me to conclude that I need to brush up on my alcoholic beverages, since I failed to think of one that was completely clear. My shame is everlasting*.

*for extremely small values of "everlasting"

Date: 2011-12-17 05:43 pm (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] lienne.livejournal.com
I also cannot believe Watson would have failed to notice that, because formaldehyde and vodka sure don't smell alike

so clearly he was just playing along and the whole scene was a joke on all o us XD

Date: 2011-12-17 04:53 pm (UTC)
ext_27713: An apple with a heart-shape cut into it (emotions: mischievous)
From: [identity profile] lienne.livejournal.com
alternately maybe he labelled it that way just to fuck with watson

there is no limit to what Sherlock Holmes will do to fuck with watson

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