Get Cumberbatched: It's the Benedict Cumberbatch Appreciation Society - here's your Starter For Ten

[LetUsPrey]

Hope this meets with your approval. It was getting a bit full on the other thread so we've extended and now need to decorate the new space.

For the walls.

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Just been on Twitter where the Cumberbitches are posting photos from when they met BC outside the National Theatre.

So cool!

Oh so close!

You'd just jump on him

I have decided that I don't like them because I am very and very shallow. So ner.

There's plenty of room on that bike for a passenger. Pressed tightly against him, arms wrapped around his waist....

[faints at the thought]

I've ridden pillion on a motorbike before. I'm willing to do it again.

So, on the bike I'd be behind him with arms round him. However, it'd be the reverse on reaching destination as he'd be behind me with his arms around me. I have given that second scenario a lot of thought. A lot.

Join the queue Prey. Join the queue.

. He'd be worth the wait though wouldn't he?

I'm off to bed now. See you in the morning.

Oh dear LetusPrey. You will be well and truly turned off if you saw him in Atonement! The chocolate offering is not the worst bit. Think of Alec offering Tess a strawberry in Tess of the D'urbervilles and it's the same sort of connotation!

Ver Ver of everyone who got to meet him.

I can just picture being on the back of his bike, riding through the countryside in the sun with my hair whipping wildly and v sexily. Then we'd find a haystack or two to ermm....roll around in

Here is a link to the person who coached him on violin. Can you believe she refused a ride on his bike?
earthobservingsystem.tumblr.com/post/15188532235/sherlock-on-the-fiddle

Just found this thread (and the other one)... you guys are a bad, bad influence!

That blog is fantastic...although she is a fool. No sane woman, or person, turns down an offer to ride with BC!

I may have missed this in the earlier thread, but I'll post it here just in case...

wabbitwanderer95.tumblr.com/post/15782615973/meeting-benedict-cumberbatch-the-full-story

Around Christmastime, BC took part in a "make a child's day" program and took a 16 year old with cystic fibrosis to London Zoo. Really sweet story, and great pictures!

Welcome Seraphine, yes we are a very bad influence

Someone posted a link to the day at the zoo on the other thread, it is very sweet.

Also, the violinist's blog is great . But how could she turn down a ride on his bike?? Silly woman!

I bet she has been kicking herself ever since.

Maybe he didn't have a spare helmet? I have to admit I'd think twice about getting on a motorcycle without one.

Alas...

Sorry about the repost - I ran across this thread last night and was trying to read it while my husband was here, and must have missed it. Poor man... he'd flip if he knew how much time I spent this week reading stuff about Mr Cumberbatch. I've had a bad asthma flareup this past month, and have spent WAY too much time on the internet. I haven't had a crush like this since high school, which was a very, very, very long time ago!

I'm trying to maintain a dignified repose about all this - I'm 40 years old with 2 small kids, and I'm certainly not interested in chasing down another man, but geez there's something about this guy that just ticks all the boxes. I am trying to avoid being an obsessive fan-girl (I have to say the name "cumberbitch" seems really insulting) but it's been kind of fun taking an interest in his career. It's really nice seeing someone who takes the craft of acting seriously - he's a smart guy, and he's not just a vacant piece of beefcake who can't string an English sentence together. Being good at his job really seems to mean something to him, which seems to be a rare commodity in the acting world these days.

I hope to God that Hollywood doesn't mess him up!

Don't apologise for the repost, you can never have too much Cumberbatch

I agree about the term "Cumberbitches", it's just undignified and BC himself is a little disparaging of it, though he did say they (the original group of girls) were vey lovely and he was flattered.

As much as I'm a goody two shoes, I would have got on that bike helmet or not. After all, no helmet means you just have to hang on a little tighter

I def would have got on the bike.

I used to go out on the back of my dads bike all the time, I went out once without a helmet because he drove past me by chance when I was waiting for the bus so he took me home. It was v windy!
Can you imagine holding on to BC for dear life, with your face buried in the back of his neck/ hair mmm that's v sexy.

Thanks Cavemum... you're sweet! Thanks for the welcome.

I've read so many articles who slag off his name - I can only imagine what he went through in school. I had a name like that when I was growing up... you know the kind, the sort of name that kids can't help but make fun of.

He who laughs last?

If you watch the video I posted on 16th Feb at about 7pm, you'll hear him talk about his nicknames at school.

As I later pointed out, I know the bloke that gave him the nickname .

Well, when I say "know", I actually mean I have very tenuous links to him

I hate the term "cumberbitches"-my feminist self can't let me say it! Can't imagine he would want a "bitch" anyway...

Anyway, I watched Hignfy again, and loved it, again :) it was a good panel as well.

Very quick hello as very busy at work.

1. I would have got on the bike.
2. Hate the term Cumberbitch.
3. Seraphine1 - are you me? (Obviously not because I'm a leetle bit older and have also recently had a mammoth sized crush on someone else - but still very very similar!)

Laterz!

Joining in (I love a list )

1 I would have asked for a 'sit' on the bike but without a helmet not accepted the lift [dull], but then again I don't find motorbikes sexy at all, even in connection with Benedict. Back in the day, though, when he rode a pushbike, I'd definitely have accepted a backie.
2 Don't mind the term Cumberbitch but don't consider myself one.
3 Don't really have a 3 but a list with only two points didn't feel adequate ... Oh, I know ? he DIDN'T win Best Actor for Frankenstein at the What's On Stage awards last night. He wuz robbed.

He would probably have been too much of a gentleman to wear a helmet while his passenger went without.
SO, the real question is: would you have let him lend you his helmet if he insisted??

Hmmmm. No. I don't think anyone should ride a motorbike without one.

Of course, I'm saying all this, being very sensible and all, but if I were really faced with this situation I'd quite possibly just leap onto the bike without thinking twice and throw my arms and legs round his waist and bite the back of his neck.