Stickies appearing in main looop

Hey chaps, you say that the stickies go into the slider, but not on the content of the homepage.

I found this was not the case.

I edited the main loop to this to achieve the functionality I was looking for:

<?php $the_query = new WP_Query( array( 'post__not_in' => get_option( 'sticky_posts' ) ) ); ?>
			<?php if ( $the_query->have_posts() ) :  ?>
				<div class="entries">
					<?php while ( $the_query->have_posts() ) : $the_query->the_post(); ?>
						<?php get_template_part( 'content', get_post_format() ); ?>
					<?php endwhile; ?>
				</div><!-- .entries -->
				<?php pinboard_posts_nav(); ?>
			<?php else : ?>
				<?php pinboard_404(); ?>
			<?php endif; ?>

Hopefully this may help someone else havbing the same issue.

Cheers team.