Top Ten Signs You're Addicted to the Barrow-Downs

[NightKnight]

Originally Posted by Nilpaurion Felagund

You know you're obsessed when you make unrealistic goals, like having a thousand posts before your D-Day (Death-Day) anniversary.

What's unrealistic with that? I have over 900 posts, and I've only been here for less than six months.

[Elennar Starfire]

When you're watching TV and suddenly saw this commercial of a cartoon, and one of its characters was named Starfire...and instantly one person pops into your mind...

*big grin*

[Everdawn]

Originally Posted by NightKnight

What's unrealistic with that? I have over 900 posts, and I've only been here for less than six months.

waves hands franticly** Its not about how many posts you have people! Its whats in them that counts!

[NightKnight]

Everdawn, they may not be the most intelligent posts on the forum, but I rule the Quiz Room.

[The Saucepan Man]

I rule the Quiz Room

*ahem*

'Tis indeed true, however, that active participation in the Quiz Room bumps up the post-count. After a year here, I had well over 2,000 posts, and many of those were courtesy of my extended and active participation in the Quiz Room shortly after I first arrived.

But Everdawn is right. It's not the size of your post-count that matters, but what you do with it.

[Vuelve]

8. The last pen you bought had to write in green ink because your eyes will now only read green letters

I have a pen that writes in green and I use it more often now after reading this.

You know you're obsessed when you make unrealistic goals, like having a thousand posts before your D-Day (Death-Day) anniversary.

And there's something wrong with this??See my Sig..

Peace,
Vuelve

[Amariden Ravenhill]

I am not quite a serious addict yet.....but I probably will if I join an RPG


[edit: don't attach pointless stuff.- Sharkû]

[Miriel Undomiel]

~when you use your friends computer -to get to the 'Downs- in her birthday party.
My stupid computer's got a virus

[Firefoot]

- When you change the color of your cursor to match the green font.
- When you are constantly just "checking in" to see if there is anything new.

[Sirithheruwen]

My sisters were playing "Who am I describing?" and I cought "really bad eyesight" and immeadiately I said Maeggaladiel (sp?) and The Nearsighted Elves Foundation! Needless to say, they looked at me blankly.

[Eomer of the Rohirrim]

When you're chatting to your friend about the Downs, he mentions that doug*platypus had responded to his post and agreed with him, and you congratulate your friend like he's just got married or something.

[THE Ka]

Originally Posted by Miriel Undomiel

~when you use your friends computer -to get to the 'Downs- in her birthday party.
My stupid computer's got a virus

THE Ka loves its friend Megan the BOOGERBEANS too much to do that... wait let me check... yep. i've done that before too.

[arcticstorm]

You are obsessed when you print off and hang Abercrombie's periodic table on the wall of your dorm room at college ad when you surf the downs instead of studying for finals.

[Captain Grishnahk]

You know your obbsessed when you can right fluently in the Runes of Daeron {the angerthas} (which i can do)

[Rune Son of Bjarne]

Originally Posted by arcticstorm

You are obsessed when you print off and hang Abercrombie's periodic table on the wall of your dorm room at college ad when you surf the downs instead of studying for finals.

Not only does it show that you are obsessed, but it gives me a reason for comming over there and beat you with a wet newspaper.

Start Studying ! ! !

[Hookbill the Goomba]

You actually plan for 'Downs Time' in your daily routine.

[Lhunardawen]

Originally Posted by Hookbill the Goomba

You actually plan for 'Downs Time' in your daily routine.

Guilty as charged. My everyday to-do list always has something Downs-related in it.

[Rune Son of Bjarne]

You travel half way around the world to be in one of the most magnificent citys ever, you are only 500 meters away from beaches and all kinds of fun, yet you still have to check what is going on at the downs once in a while.

[Eonwe]

You fully intend to join the next werewolf game, even though you can calculate an actaully percent your grade will drop as a result.

[Celuien]

You've been awake for about 30 hours, you're dead tired and have reading to do, and you're still clicking the refresh button on the forums index.

You work on posts by saving them in your email so that so you can work on them while away from home.

You once typed a fairly long RPG post on your tiny PDA screen while you were supposed to be listening to a lecture. Granted, it was a very borrrrring lecture that I had absolutely no interest in hearing and that had no educational value for me, but still...

[Thinlómien]

When you think peace has been restored, when Lalwende has reclaimed her place at the top of the reputation list.

[Nilpaurion Felagund]

How about 'Top Ten Signs You're Addicted to a Barrowdowner'?

Oh, brother . . .

[the guy who be short]

You spot Downer lookalikes on your way to school. I regularly see my Eomer and Orominuialwen lookalikes.

[Mithalwen]

You have a panic attack when some technical glitch means you can see the Downs but not post or read PMs. It happened this lunchtime but I don't know if the problem was with the computer I was using or the site. My hotmail inbox disappeared too..

[Hookbill the Goomba]

When you are walking around town and see someone in a large Snoopy costume and cry out (a little too loudly) "Its Eomer of the Rohirrim!"
I then had to explain to a friend of mine what I meant.

[Lhunardawen]

When five years after hating a book with passion, you read it - and actually enjoy it. Or them, for that matter. And one of the reasons you even considered reading them is to be able to understand an RPG character. This is partly your fault, Anguirel.

[Thinlómien]

You can help hysterical laughing when you read the following passage from LotR:

Gandalf's eyes flashed. 'It will be my time to get angry soon', he said. 'If you say that again, I shall. Then you will see Gandalf the Grey uncloaked.' He took a step towards the hobbit, and he seemed to grow tall and menacing; his shadow filled the little room.

But it's translated to Finnish: "Then you will see Gandalf the Grey face to face." and that's not half as funny as the English one...

[elronds_daughter]

...when your best friends are 'Downers you've never met.

...when the love of your life is a 'Downer you'd never met. (coughlalwendeanddavemcough)

...when you go away on vacation without internet access for a weekend, and you can't stop thinking that you should've posted that brilliant crazy caption before you left, because while you're away someone will either take your caption or change the picture!

Okay, so maybe that last one is just paranoia.

[dancing spawn of ungoliant]

Originally Posted by Thinlómien

You can help hysterical laughing when you read the following passage from LotR:

But it's translated to Finnish: "Then you will see Gandalf the Grey face to face." and that's not half as funny as the English one...

Ah, but seeing Gandalf face to face while he's uncloaked... that must be something.


You're addicted to the Barrow-Downs when you clean your desk and everywhere you look, you find pieces of paper, envelopes, old magazines and whatnot filled with scribblings such as LotR p. 615, Isildur IIIII I, #340 or Gurthang -> Nonnacedak. (I just recently found my notes from WW2. It was pretty cute. )

Originally Posted by JennyHallu

You know you're addicted to the barrow downs when you compulsively hit refresh and you're not even playing werewolf...

Or when you compulsively hit refresh although you are the only member online...

[Nilpaurion Felagund]

You spot Downer lookalikes on your way to school. I regularly see my Eomer and Orominuialwen lookalikes. (daga'y)

Heh, in youth church I often see Aimè, Hookbill, and Menel.

[Hookbill the Goomba]

You know you're addicted The Barrow Downs when you're like this...



Enough said.

[Diamond18]

You know you're addicted when...

You snatch every chance you can to get online at work, just to check on the progess of a Werewolf game, even though diddling around on a forum is NOT what you're supposed to be doing.

[Firefoot]

...when you go away on vacation without internet access for a weekend, and you can't stop thinking that you should've posted that brilliant crazy caption before you left, because while you're away someone will either take your caption or change the picture!

Nah, when I go on vacation I wonder if I won't just happen to meet a random Downer. No luck yet...

When on the rare occasions you happen to wake up in the middle of the night (like 3 a.m. my time) and decide to wander over to the computer and just to see what Downers are on at that time of night.

you debate with a person you don't really actually even know about the text color of the forum.

Or about the color of the smilies. <- this guy is mostly blue, sort of aqua <- this guy is definitely green.

[Diamond18]

Rolling eyes man is yellow!

[Lalwendë]

When you even go on walks to see Barrows!

It was not foggy, but there was bright sunshine, gales, hail and rain all at the same time and we had to shelter under the embankment of Arbor Low. Bizarrely, one side of the ditch was dry and I was able to sit on the ground, nice and warm, whereas if I stood up I almost got blown off my feet - but the Barrow Wight did not appear.

[littlemanpoet]

You've been around for a year and you notice your daily posting rate is visibly climbing....

[Rune Son of Bjarne]

When you after spotting a street named "Volosvej" (Volo's Way) start to search the naighborhood for other streets with Downer related names.

[Thinlómien]

When you meet a fellow Tolkien fan, you automatically think of recommendating the BD to them.

Unfortunately, last time I met two I didn't have the chance to brainwash them.

[Thinlómien]

You use your time doing things like this.

[Volo]

When you don't go to visit your family in Ukraine because they don't have a computer.