marysutherland | Sherlock/real life divide: not quite as broad as it should be

Most of the time it's clear to me that BBC Sherlock and its fanfic exist in a stylised fantasy world that has absolutely nothing to do with mundane reality. There are times, however, when I feel that although the plots may be unreal, some of the characters are a little too close for comfort, and I'm not so much inventing dialogue as overhearing it. Consider the following things I've heard/read in the last couple of weeks:

1) Colleague to visitor: "Would you like a Lithuanian chocolate?"

2) Another colleague discussing with me the arrangements for a book launch party for someone who is terminally ill with cancer: "Of course, it's going to be the elephant in the room, but at least not a suffocatingly large elephant."

3) Comments on one colleague's blog about X having also started a blog [anonymised]:

[Visitor] AB: Not mentioned on Facebook that I can recall. X needs to be pushier. Believe it or not!

Blog owner: I’ll be sure to tell him, from a safe distance :-)

X: It’s in the ‘about me’ box, A. Doh!

Blog owner: Ah, in that case I’ll be sure not to tell you!

X: There’s a difference between pushy and bolshy. I *do* need to be pushier. More than one person has told me that, believe it or not!