I'm sorry, what? 'allow it to take over all aspects of their life to the point where devoting attention to anything else is done reluctantly and resentfully'? As a model railroader myself, and someone who knows quite a few others, I must ask where you got this information? Because it's completely inaccurate and insulting.He then steps beyond this to N-gauge (1:144) in a passion of miniaturization. In this episode, Sheldon is persuaded to step down to the smaller 00-gauge (about 1:87). I gather before this, he was hooked on what we in Europe would call 0-gauge, which is big-scale: this is where you start thinking about having permanent way outdoors in a garden, or a small field. I've also caught up with an orphaned episode where he buys a disappointingly minimalist train set that just chugs around in a circle on a table-top. If Sheldon had a dedicated railway room (and here I wonder - why waste a spare bedroom on a pesky Room Mate?) he'd be in there 'all the time'' and nothing else would get done, not even the physics. Thinking about it, model railway fans, whilst not being complete obsessives, allow it to take over all aspects of their life to the point where devoting attention to anything else is done reluctantly and resentfully. So no, it's not out of character for him to not have a permanent setup. It's axiomatic that anything described as axiomatic is not axiomatic and very much a case by case (Irony!).

It would be out of character for him not to. Somebody as ubernerd as Sheldon must have a permanent layout somewhere that he is continually adding to, refining, and updating.

I'm pretty sure if his wife gets pregnant again he'll insist they move to a house with another spare room. One railway addict I know, told a baby was on the way (and where did he find the time to conceive? Or even marry?) elected to move to a bigger house - rather than surrender the spare bedroom where he'd installed his permanent way to the needs of a child. I've met railway buffs, I've seen their layouts, I've heard them described, very pointedly, as 'permanent way' - emphasis on the word 'permanent'. But it's axiomatic that model railway buffs have layouts which are as big and sophisticated as time and space allow. I don't think I've seen every episode yet - scheduling in Britain is erratic and definitely not in sequence. Sheldon is depicted as a train buff who visits model railway stores. The iceberg in question need not be real, as the point of drinking games is to drink, so they just make up any excuse they can get their hands on. Alternatively, someone yells out 'Iceberg!' and everyone takes a drink.Bit of a fail here! I've taken ferries from Britain to Norway and Denmark in winter - never seen an iceberg, not even once. They have melted in the Gulf Stream long before they can get into the North Sea. The Gulf Stream surges up the coast of Britain and Ireland drawing warm water from the Caribbean: while icebergs calved in Arctic waters do drift this south, this is where they come to die. This is a body of water in northern Europe with only two ways of entering it from the Atlantic: the northern gap between Scotland and Norway, or else via the English Channel to the south. Icebergs as good as never enter the North Sea. It must be a dry ship or a very teetotal party, then. Somebody calls 'Iceberg!' He explains to a worried Penny over the Internet link that there's no danger - every time somebody spots an iceberg, they have to take a drink. Leonard is depicted on board the research ship in the North Sea, at a late rowdy party.

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