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I hope that people aren't letting the extreme behaviour of those they see indulging in wild parties, drugs etc letting themselves be put off enjoying a healthy social life.
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No way! I wouldn't let
those people affect what I want to do. I go out with friends, I spend time with family, I have a great job and help teach at school (ie: one on one work with students and whatnot). I even do a little extreme behavior of my own... but nothing that's going to hurt anyone, unless of course my grandmother has a coronary when she sees my hair tomorrow... (I put orange streaks in last night, and they AREN'T temporary). I hope she doesn't, of course... not too likely.
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Like Enca and Feanor, I was a complete dinosaur nerd in my younger years. By the age of 8, I had made up my mind to be a Paeleontologist, which was a never-ending source of confusion for those who asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. 
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Doesn't this sound familiar.... you see, it was mostly my brothers and Jurassic Park that got me into dinosaurs. It trailed off for a few years, but when I got into Geology and read a book on rocks front to back and discovered that the Spinosaurus egypticus was discovered by an amateur... let's just say that my dino-interest got renewed.
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And it's not just dinosaurs either. The Beatles' music and Monty Python both seem to present a common a link between many Downers too. Perhaps there is some explanation for a link between these things and Tolkien's works ...
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Why not start a thread on it, Saucie? You've listed Beatles' music (not my taste, for the most part, but still good), Monty Python (much to my taste), dinosaurs... what about shared activities, like Eomer-of-the-Rohirrim-stalking (his ego is fun to cuddle
)? It seems like we share not only interests, but ways of persuing them. I'd be interested to see what other connexions we've all got.
Fea