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[servesyouwright]

[ First, there's Phoenix's face. He's standing in one of the hallways of the station, so it's all pretty plain. He smiles, waves once, and gets straight to the point: ]

I have a very important question for you.

[ And the camera cuts to show a corner of the hallway instead, where an innocent stepladder is standing. ]

What do you call this object?

Comments

[servesyouwright]

I mean, you're not wrong, but ... A rope ladder or a wooden or steel ladder have the same general shape, right? They're straight. A stepladder isn't. So I think it's still an important distinction.

[ And not narrow-minded!! So there. ]

[astudyinviolet]

[ A rope ladder? Straight? A rope ladder is about as straight he is, which is to say hardly at all. Someone has clearly never tried to be a pirate climbing among the rigging. ]

A rope ladder doesn't always have the same general shape as a wooden ladder. It can roll up, flex in the wind, and requires anchoring for at least one end to properly function. I would argue then that the distinction between a rope ladder and a rigid ladder to be of greater importance than a wooden ladder and a stepladder.

[ Now he's just arguing to be arguing in petty revenge for something like this making him question his sanity. ]

[servesyouwright]

Never mind what you can do with a rope ladder-- A rope ladder will get you higher up. A stepladder will get you higher and make you safer than either a rope ladder or wooden ladder would do.

[ This isn't even what this argument was ever about for him and Maya. This is kind of fun. ]

[astudyinviolet]

So this is about safety and elevation now, is it? Then need I bring stairs into this argument as well? Stairs will get you higher up much safer than all previously mentioned ladders.

[servesyouwright]

No, no, I'm just saying they have different functions. Stairs won't get you to the ceiling lamp, and a ladder probably won't either. But a stepladder would.

[astudyinviolet]

Then if safety is not an issue, a chair would get you there as well.

[ Says the guy who will jump over a chair. ]

[servesyouwright]

Not as high.

[astudyinviolet]

... Exactly how high are your ceiling lamps to where that is a problem?

[ Even with Victorian ceilings being high up, that seems to a bit extreme. Or Sherlock is much taller than the other man. ]

[servesyouwright]

I mean, I guess it also depends on how low the lamp hangs.

[astudyinviolet]

And the type of lamp. How it creates light factors into how it's utilized.

[servesyouwright]

Not sure that makes a big difference for how to reach it.

[astudyinviolet]

A hanging lamp which uses candles requires by its very nature a need for access to light and replace the candles.

[ Look not everyone has electricity yet, okay? ]

[servesyouwright]

Oh.

I've never had to deal with a hanging lamp with candles. We don't really use those anymore.

[astudyinviolet]

Electricity then? Or is there a new technology that replaces it by your time?

[servesyouwright]

Electricity, yeah. I think pretty much everything runs on electricity.

[astudyinviolet]

[ No more using candles to deduce time or open windows in the future then. ]

I still maintain that, save for the most opulent of rooms, a chair can serve well enough to reach the ceiling to attend to a lamp.

[servesyouwright]

Sure, sure. But my point is, a stepladder has uses that a wooden or rope ladder doesn't, so the distinction is kind of important.

[astudyinviolet]

And yet if you say to get a ladder so that you can attend to a ceiling lamp, a person would get the appropriate ladder without needing that distinction said.

[servesyouwright]

W-well-- I mean, yes, probably, but-- If you don't have clear context, it's important.

[astudyinviolet]

And when, pray tell, would you need someone to know a specific ladder without knowing why?

Besides this arbitrary question to everyone.

[ Desk slam! What crime are you committing with your accomplice with a ladder?! ]

[servesyouwright]

Wh-- Why do you need to know the reason? Why would I say 'could I borrow a ladder to change the ceiling light' when I could just say 'could I borrow a stepladder'?

[ Seriously why is this guy getting so hung up on this. ]

[astudyinviolet]

I would ask why for the latter example. It's my business to know things of that nature, and the only reasons why someone would hide such a purpose tend to be of a nefarious purpose.

[ He grins, fully knowing how much of a nuisance he's being. ]

But I also recognize that consulting detectives meddle in much more than the average person.

[servesyouwright]

[ Wow. ]

Okay. So it's just you. So I'm actually right.

[astudyinviolet]

[ Future punching Sherlock is made all the more easier by being a brat here. ]

There are apparently more than just me as I am not a singular instance of myself.

[servesyouwright]

--sorry, what?

[ Excuse me?? ]