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Thinlómien
10-21-2010, 04:35 AM
Psst... this thread is for Barrow-Downs addictions, this (http://forum.barrowdowns.com/showthread.php?t=6062)one is for signs of LotR obsession. ;)

Galadriel55
10-21-2010, 03:26 PM
oooops! thnx

The Might
10-28-2010, 01:41 PM
When you keep coming back.

Galadriel55
10-28-2010, 06:46 PM
When every time you have to do research for a major essay all the information you need is right here, and all the rest will come by itself. :)

elronds_daughter
10-31-2010, 11:02 AM
When you keep coming back.

...in my case, after several years. Even real life has failed to keep me away. :)

Galadriel55
06-05-2011, 07:54 AM
You know you're addicted to this place, when instead of Hey there's a member with a username from LOTR/Sil/TH/etc you read the books and think Here's the name of so-and-so who's on the Downs.

Pathetic. :rolleyes:

Galadriel55
06-05-2011, 09:06 AM
When whatever you open Firefox for, you automatically go first on the 'Downs and then wonder how you got there...

That's what happens with my Explorer. I open the internet to do research but somehow instead of having "Google" I have "BD" on the page... :rolleyes::p

Edit: I have to add that before looking through the last few pages of this thread, I was OK with the word "modified". However, just now I encountered in one a certain website, and lo! I read it as "modfired". Is this a disease of some kind? :p

Pitchwife
06-08-2011, 11:05 AM
... spending your noon break at the uni cafeteria and finding a flyer from the Students' Committee (acronymed AStA in German), you start wondering what's happened in your RPG since you last checked.
... the first thought you associate with the name Aldarion is no longer "Erendis's husband" but "the phantom".
... reading a post by or mentioning Brinn, you have to remind yourself that this is not Mnemo but the real one.(to be continued when participant observation yields new material)

Galadriel55
06-08-2011, 11:37 AM
... the first thought you associate with the name Aldarion is no longer "Erendis's husband" but "the phantom".
... reading a post by or mentioning Brinn, you have to remind yourself that this is not Mnemo but the real one.
(to be continued when participant observation yields new material)

Lol, ditto! Especially with Aldarion. Also Gloredhel. Instead of thinking about a first age woman etc I think of the Swan Players etc. :D

And Celebrindal is no longer Idril's name for me! :rolleyes:

satansaloser2005
10-05-2011, 10:33 AM
There's one at every party--the downer that takes a happy moment and ruins it for everybody. Like ruining a great discussion about Peter Jackson's Hobbit movie by bringing up Meet The Feebles. We call those guys pessimists, and they can be real downers.

No, no they can't.

Aganzir
10-06-2011, 07:43 AM
No, no they can't.
Real Downers can and will ruin discussions that praise Peter Jackson. ;)

Today, I learned the first definition of flip-flopping (http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=flip-flop). It made me think of Lommy.

Kath
10-06-2011, 12:20 PM
Bahaha Agan! That gives a whole new meaning to Lommy's flip flops on ... ah ... everyone!

Aganzir
12-01-2011, 04:38 PM
After a week of staying with a friend and using her laptop while she's in class, the Barrow-Downs is her second most visited website.

Galadriel55
12-01-2011, 05:03 PM
After a week of staying with a friend and using her laptop while she's in class, the Barrow-Downs is her second most visited website.

:D

When subscribing to threads is pointless because you visit the Downs more often than your email.

Thinlómien
02-14-2012, 06:11 AM
Bahaha Agan! That gives a whole new meaning to Lommy's flip flops on ... ah ... everyone!So this is what you've been talking about during my absence? How nice! But if you dare say something like that about me in any ww game ever from now on, I'll get you lynched. :p

Nerwen
02-14-2012, 06:27 AM
Today, I learned the first definition of flip-flopping. It made me think of Lommy.

Never heard that one, and I wouldn't be surprised if it's bogus. A *lot* of Urban Dictionary's "definitions" aren't real– not even real slang, I mean.

Aganzir
02-14-2012, 03:54 PM
Never heard that one, and I wouldn't be surprised if it's bogus. A *lot* of Urban Dictionary's "definitions" aren't real– not even real slang, I mean.
I can't remember who exactly I learnt it from, but it wasn't Urban Dictionary. I think it was... a professor! :eek: ;)

Glirdan
02-14-2012, 10:56 PM
When you use your phone to check up on what's been happening and to play a game if WW due to lack of computer and Internet......not as easy as it sounds when you have auto-correct, although it makes for some very interesting sentences that never get posted :p

Galadriel55
02-17-2012, 10:58 PM
When a brief look at the Downs before school and a couple hours after become a habit.

When you start thinking in BD typing abbreviations (like Pee-Jay instead of Peter Jackson, LoteR instead of Lord of the Rings, The-Sil instead of The Silmarillion, You-Tea for Unfinished Tales, etc...:eek:)

Yes. Then you know you're addicted.

Galadriel55
02-19-2012, 10:15 PM
When anything really good or really bad/annoying happens, one of the first things that enters your mind is "I should post about this on the Shire/Mordor thread..."

Yes, my printer has just chewed on half a pack of paper, and I just spend 20 minutes wrestling it from it's teeth. And right when I finished I thought I should assign this to Mordor... but thinking of the Downs made me not mad again. :D

Eönwë
03-02-2012, 12:13 PM
When you start thinking in BD typing abbreviations (like Pee-Jay instead of Peter Jackson.
Just wanted to point out that Andy Serkis does that (have you seen the newest production video for the Hobbit?)

Galadriel55
03-02-2012, 10:35 PM
Just wanted to point out that Andy Serkis does that (have you seen the newest production video for the Hobbit?)

Heh, I'm not the only one I guess... But does he call the movie PJ is producing "tee-aych"? :D:D:D

Legate of Amon Lanc
03-14-2012, 02:52 PM
This is probably the best place to post about what happened to me today - even though it is not really a "sign", strictly speaking. It's, I think, a natural result of being a 'Downer (or in my case, being me).

Not sure if any of you are familiar with the computer game Star Wars: The Old Republic (or if any of you are even playing it). I am, and let's just say that it's a classic role-playing game where you have your character, who has a story which you are following in the game, all situated in the Star Wars universe (long time before the movies). Now I was playing a person acting as a spy who, as it comes, has to use secret codenames. So from time to time, you get a codename in which your character is addressed during some part of the game.

I would like to point out that all the dialogues with the NPCs (non-player characters) in the game are fully voiced and so it looks more like watching a movie than playing a game when you talk to someone.

This time, I came to some NPC who was about to assign a new task to me. He explained to me what I have to do, and then he finished the dialogue by saying: "Your codename for this operation will be... Legate."

For a few seconds, I was like: "What??? Did I hear correctly?" And then I completely cracked up. I mean, YES. That's possibly the coolest thing that might have happened to me there :D

It feels great to be called by your own name, you see ;)

P.S. Oh, I just recalled, when I am at it... the fact that the very same character's ship is called "the Phantom" is a minor detail. Now that I think of it... if I encounter one more 'Downer name in there, I might start becoming suspicious as to the identity of the creators of the game...

Boromir88
04-22-2012, 04:06 PM
Realizing the years of cross-posting on the Barrow-Downs, has now moved into crossing on other social sites. Like cross-messaging on facebook. And I don't just mean "Hi" crossing, I'm talking full 4+ paragraph message being crossed by both people. Then after the cross-messaging, replying "Edit: oops, cross-posted." :D

MCRmyGirl4eva
04-29-2012, 10:35 AM
Another sign: You join after stalking the site for a month :rolleyes:

Legate of Amon Lanc
04-29-2012, 10:57 AM
Another sign: You join after stalking the site for a month :rolleyes:

I think that's not so bad still. As far as I am aware, there are people who joined after stalking for many months or even year(s) (and who knows how many are out there who are doing that right now still. I am pretty sure there are some. Yes, I see you! Yes, I mean you! Join now! After you join, you can claim it was me who talked you into that).

And welcome to the 'Downs! :)

MCRmyGirl4eva
04-30-2012, 11:49 AM
You skip lunch at school to come on here (who needs food anyway?)

You speed through your online Bio project to come on here (Everyone knows about Survival of the Fittest: You don't need to prove it's real with Peppered Moths and the Industrial Revolution...)

Meneltarmacil
05-21-2012, 10:43 PM
You know you're addicted to the Barrow-Downs when revisiting LOTR makes you return after a three-year absence because you miss this place so much...*sniff*

Boromir88
05-22-2012, 01:04 AM
Menel!!!! You know what is fortuitous about your return at this time? 2012 Arda Cup is just about to get started. Pick your phantasy team now before it's too late. :D (Glad you're back too, of course. :) )

MCRmyGirl4eva
05-24-2012, 09:10 AM
You are on here in school, again, merely to check if anyone posted in the LOTR memes thread

You are angry when the school computers are reserved because you can't get on BD

Your dad is sick of you being on the computer at home

Galadriel55
05-27-2012, 03:25 PM
When the Downs are the only part of your daily routine that won't vary with the day or the season.

When you think "what would Downer X do/say about this?"

When you know what was going on on the Downs years before you joined but can't remember what homework you did yesterday.

When you can't wait for exams to start because then you'll have more time to spend on the Downs.

When you have so many points to make on this thread.

MCRmyGirl4eva
06-05-2012, 11:22 AM
When you are on here using a school laptop that is missing the C and M keys, but you still use it because you don't want to get a new laptop because to get up will cut into your BD time. ;)

Galadriel55
06-05-2012, 11:55 AM
When you're supposed to be studying for an upcoming exam. *sigh* The old story. :rolleyes:

MCRmyGirl4eva
06-11-2012, 04:37 PM
When you're supposed to be studying for an upcoming exam. *sigh* The old story. :rolleyes: :eek:

You shall not pass.

Neither shall I. I have a ton of overdue school/homework that I'm ignoring to be on here. :o At least I multi-tasked with my Bio project. LOL

TheGreatElvenWarrior
06-13-2012, 11:16 AM
Apparently that annoying exclamation mark that is on Big Lots adverts is called Lottie. I immediately thought of Loslote when I saw that, even though I haven't posted in how long?
Also, Google Chrome has that thing where it displays your six favourite/most visited websites and whenever the Barrow-Downs is not one of them, I go crazy getting it back on there.

MCRmyGirl4eva
06-17-2012, 01:18 PM
When you come on here merely waiting for toast to pop.

Galadriel55
06-17-2012, 02:01 PM
When you see a random stranger and think that s/he looks like DownerX. And then wonder what on earth s/he would be doing here now, since they live across the world. And only then tell yourself that no one decided to pay you a surprise visit. :rolleyes:

Aganzir
06-17-2012, 02:21 PM
During the year, I've seen several ladies who look like Esty, and it always makes me happy. I also see Shastas occasionally.

Galadriel55
06-17-2012, 02:37 PM
During the year, I've seen several ladies who look like Esty, and it always makes me happy. I also see Shastas occasionally.

I've seen a few Estys too, but not Shastas. My record of most "Downers" at once is when I saw a group of people, among them Nog, Greenie, tp, sally, and Boro. They were shooting fireworks on Canada Day or somesuch in The Middle of Nowhere, Ontario. They would have been as good as Gandalf, had they actually been Downers.

And then other Downers here and there.

This would have been ridiculously fun had I been making it up. But since I actually thought for a moment on that Canada Day "wait...there's a moot -- here?" this is actually quite sad.

MCRmyGirl4eva
06-17-2012, 05:45 PM
I tried to get a picture of my friend's One Ring, which, sadly, is silver, but it has the writing. However, she wouldn't let me. She's constantly afraid I'll steal it, so she doesn't take it off around me, but before she graduated, she was more than happy to sit there in SciFi/Fantasy class and let me pet the ring while crooning "my preessiousss", even though the other kids and Ms. Ferrara were gining us strange looks.

Galadriel55
06-17-2012, 05:49 PM
When you could do (and even have to do) a ton of different things, but all you end up doing is going back and forth from the BD homepage to Active threads to CP to the most recent post to reading old threads and repeat.

MCRmyGirl4eva
06-20-2012, 02:11 PM
When you come on here when you're only going to be dog-sitting for about ten minutes. :)

Galadriel55
07-09-2012, 04:48 PM
You read "Anfauglith" and think of the team instead of the place.


(Phantom is probably very pleased.)

MCRmyGirl4eva
07-12-2012, 09:18 AM
You are forcing your sister to type the messages for you because she refuses to give up the computer, despite her addiction. (Or you are just a slow typer)

You started calling your dad "Ada" and "Gaffer"

You actually start thinking in LOTR terms because you are on here so often, (Not to mention that you read and watch the movies very often, as well)

Galadriel55
07-20-2012, 09:32 PM
When you sit on the Palantir of Fortune thread at midnight, thinking "just one more letter"...

Also, when you sit in the living room for about 10 minutes, and reach for the family laptop to check the Downs there (although it's much more convenient to use the Internet on my own laptop).

And when you unexpectedly are out of town for a couple days your first thought is whether there is something I have to do on the Downs those days, to warn the others that I won't be around... *coughwerewolfcough*

MCRmyGirl4eva
07-23-2012, 03:17 PM
When you sit on the Palantir of Fortune thread at midnight, thinking "just one more letter"...

Hmmm... am I right in thinking of that time with my sister and I using Legolas's "Merry and Pippin with the wine at Isengard" quote? Or is it just because you do that all the time?

When you have successfully converted you best friend into an LOTR fan, and she in turn converted her boyfriend, so you are now attempting to make her join, and are working on converting her little sister.

(I got my BFF to read The Hobbit, but she can't read LOTR, it's too challenging for her. I got her into the movies, at least. :rolleyes: )

Galadriel55
07-23-2012, 06:56 PM
Hmmm... am I right in thinking of that time with my sister and I using Legolas's "Merry and Pippin with the wine at Isengard" quote? Or is it just because you do that all the time?

I do it quite regularly. :rolleyes: Especially when it's Foley's turn to do the quote, since she is online when it's about 11:30 or so my time...

MCRmyGirl4eva
07-24-2012, 02:57 PM
Aaah... Well, I'm in the US on the east coast G55, and I don't know what that means for you, so...

Galadriel55
07-24-2012, 07:23 PM
Aaah... Well, I'm in the US on the east coast G55, and I don't know what that means for you, so...

Well it means we're probably in the same timezone. Eastern, GMT-5 (well now -4 with all the DST changes...)? And I live north of you, where it's totally wild, not a decent human settlement, and polar bears roam the streets.


(ie Canada)

MCRmyGirl4eva
07-27-2012, 10:57 AM
Well it means we're probably in the same timezone. Eastern, GMT-5 (well now -4 with all the DST changes...)? And I live north of you, where it's totally wild, not a decent human settlement, and polar bears roam the streets.


(ie Canada)

LOL! I'm not that far south of you. I'm in the toss-tea-into-the-Atlantic-Ocean state. (Google, if you don't get it. It's an extremely famous event with an actual name)

You're addicted to the BD when you pop on here while you're dad's outside and you're supposed to be putting away groceries.

Galadriel55
07-27-2012, 02:27 PM
LOL! I'm not that far south of you. I'm in the toss-tea-into-the-Atlantic-Ocean state. (Google, if you don't get it. It's an extremely famous event with an actual name)

You basically live next door to half the Downers. Well not half, but a good bunch of them.



You are addicted when you know that you know way too much about other Downers, and think that they would not be surprised to know that.

Boromir88
07-27-2012, 02:31 PM
Well it means we're probably in the same timezone. Eastern, GMT-5 (well now -4 with all the DST changes...)? And I live north of you, where it's totally wild, not a decent human settlement, and polar bears roam the streets.


(ie Canada)

No Moose? :p

MCRmyGirl4eva
08-03-2012, 05:42 PM
No Moose? :p

The plural of moose is meese. Just being the nerd here who would know that LOL :) Not trying to be a jerk, really.

LOL! I'm not that far south of you. I'm in the toss-tea-into-the-Atlantic-Ocean state. (Google, if you don't get it. It's an extremely famous event with an actual name)
Anyone understand yet? ^ *Waits for stalkers*

You know you're addicted when you are passing up watching SHERLOCK HOLMES to be on here.

*Curls into ball and sobs. "What's wrong with me? I'm missing Sherlock Holmes! Robert Downey Jr! I have issues..." Tears out hair and keeps crying as nice young men in white coats ut her into a jacket that makes her hug herself and a nice cushy padded cell.*

Galadriel55
08-08-2012, 08:34 AM
No Moose? :p

Only polar bears. They like to play hockey on the sidewalks. :p

Anyone understand yet? ^ *Waits for stalkers*

I got it.

If I'm confusing you with my jests about the stereotypes, I live in Toronto, where most on the fauna consists of squirrels (most of them black!) and raccoons. And house pets.

MCRmyGirl4eva
08-08-2012, 08:42 AM
I have tons of black squirrels here. My elderly neighbor likes naming the squirrels who run around on the patio, and she keeps naming all the black squirrels "Blackie". All of the grey squirrels have real names.

MCRmyGirl4eva
08-15-2012, 03:08 PM
When you attempt to get on here on the tablet computers they have on display at Staples

Galadriel55
08-15-2012, 06:26 PM
When you start writing the word "down" with a capital D, because it's too similar to Downs, Downer(s), and the like. I'm just too used to writing words that start with "down-" with a capital D.

MCRmyGirl4eva
08-30-2012, 10:56 AM
it's only the second day of school and you're on here in class instead of doing your (limited) work

MCRmyGirl4eva
09-06-2012, 06:17 AM
When you're on while you're supposed to be Student Assisting in the school library.

Galadriel55
09-08-2012, 03:25 PM
When you PM Downers more often than you email friends, even those you haven't seen in over a year.

I might have said this before, but it's worth saying again: when subscribing to threads is pointless since you check the Downs more often than the email. :smokin:

MCRmyGirl4eva
09-13-2012, 03:23 PM
When you come on here to tell people you just got the Return of the King soundtrack from the library before bothering to tell people on Facebook. (I also got Artemis Fowl and the Last Guardian. Yes, it's a kids' book, but give me a break. I've been waiting for it for AGES, and I've been reading the series since the fourth one came out!)

Aganzir
01-03-2013, 04:54 PM
When you crack up at a Hobbit meme that has Thorin (totally just typed that as Thranduil though) hugging Bilbo because you've come up with about fifty related jokes about them during a short Barrow-Downs moot you've been having.

My heart will go on.

Gil-Galad
01-07-2013, 09:23 PM
Though I am far and few between posts, I still know the various going on's in the Downs thanks to fanatical stalking of Hookbill's Facebook.

Galadriel55
01-07-2013, 10:20 PM
When, upon seeing the words legate and squatter, you automatically add of Amon Lanc and of Amon Rudh to them (and then wonder what the hell those mountains have to do with the context...), capitalize those words, and bold them.

When you think of Lommy when seeing a penguin, and of Agan when seeing a lion.

When Nogrod is no longer a place, nor Anguirel a blade, nor Firefoot a horse, nor Heren Istarion an order.

TheGreatElvenWarrior
01-07-2013, 11:31 PM
My almost twelve-year-old brother says that he has a friend at school who is a member of the Barrow-Downs. When I asked him about it, he told me he doesn't know what his friend's username is, but he swears that he is a Downer. I look forward to having the mystery solved.

My brother has been talking a lot recently about the Downs, actually. After giving a report on Downs-happenings to my family the other day, our house has just been full of Downs-talk. Brother has been talking about the Hobbit movie and joining the Downs. We have had this talk before, of course. My answer was the same to him today as it always has been "you need to read LotR before you join the Barrow-Downs, otherwise you will be confused." I quite expect that once he has read Lord of the Rings in its entirety that he will join the ranks of the dead not long after. My addiction to the Barrow-Downs has manifested itself in my brother. I'm so proud! :D

Aganzir
01-08-2013, 06:02 PM
When Nogrod is no longer a place, nor Anguirel a blade, nor Firefoot a horse, nor Heren Istarion an order.
I recently got a Tumblr account and wanted to have a dwarf-related name for the blog. However, any form of Nogrod was out of the question, for obvious reasons.

Anyway, you all are too cute. Keep encouraging your brother, TGEW. :D

Aganzir
01-18-2013, 08:39 PM
When you stay up till five on the Barrow-Downs instead of Facebook or Tumblr or other such venues. You can't believe how happy this makes me for a change.

Morsul the Dark
01-23-2013, 06:05 PM
Overheard someone talking about "the Hobbit" and first thought was to post it here.

Galadriel55
02-04-2013, 08:12 PM
When you realize that the author of a book you read has the same first name as a Downer, and lives more or less in the same area, and even looks somewhat alike - and you get all excited and are about to send the said Downer a PM full of (truthful) praises of that book. Unfortunately, I just checked and the dates of birth don't match. Well bother.

HerenIstarion
02-05-2013, 06:07 AM
...when you look at your own join date and realize you're still here

Aganzir
02-26-2013, 02:53 PM
When you can't read about the Nandor and their leader Dan without thinking of a fellow Downer. :p (It wouldn't be so bad if it was some real Dan out there, but the fact it's Tolkien makes it impossible to ignore.)

Galadriel55
12-02-2013, 09:30 PM
I do some volunteering at a patient registration area in a local hospital, and every once in a while someone with a weird name/background comes in and provides some entertaining change to the routine. Today I was half-listening to some lady answering the routine questions, and I choked a bit when she said her last name was Shasta. The funny part was: I was sure something's not quite right, but it was the fact that Shasta is not female and not that he is miles away from here, which just goes to show that I will not be surprised if any of you spontaneously appear on my doorstep (but hopefully not in the hospital!). :D

Galadriel55
12-07-2013, 08:28 PM
When you cheer more for the TIG team most recent victory in the Arda Cup than for real sports events. :smokin:

Inziladun
12-09-2013, 01:28 PM
When in the course of the job you encounter someone with the surname "Dewight", and your first thought is of this guy (http://forum.barrowdowns.com/member.php?u=2). ;)

Aganzir
12-09-2013, 01:49 PM
It could also have been Gandalf or Saruman though!

Galadriel55
12-12-2013, 08:26 PM
When, while discussing Hamlet (if the King knows that Hamlet realizes that the King thinks Hamlet suspects him...) you think: Hamlet would already be a pro at this if he only played Werewolf. :cool:

Galadriel55
09-16-2014, 09:40 AM
When your first thought upon seeing your physics TA is that he looks like Legate!!! :eek: No, I'm serious! :D He has the same hair style and colour (though his is a bit shorter), same shape of face, same nose, mouth, etc. Even wears very similar rectangular glasses! Legate, you don't have any twins doing an upper-year physics degree in Kingston, by any chance? ;)

Tar-Jęx
09-16-2014, 05:37 PM
When you spend valuable imgur time on the Barrow Downs instead.

Galadriel55
09-17-2014, 09:23 PM
When you go here at ungodly hours, when you have so many readings and assignments that you don't even have time to check your email for VERY important messages... My priorities are in the right place.

Aganzir
09-25-2014, 03:53 PM
When, while discussing Hamlet (if the King knows that Hamlet realizes that the King thinks Hamlet suspects him...) you think: Hamlet would already be a pro at this if he only played Werewolf. :cool:
Werewolf taught me a lot about how to write academic papers.

For the record, I'm only ever good if I'm a villain. If I'm innocent, I play as if I were a wolf and pick a random suspect to attack. I'm personally aware of some minor inconsistencies in my arguments but I'm usually very convincing - aggressive and convincing - nonetheless.

This is how I got the top grade for my bachelor's thesis.

Mithalwen
10-22-2014, 05:42 AM
When the company you work for has a clent ref SPM and it is such a struggle to say S******* P**** Management rather than Saucepan Man

Galadriel55
08-06-2015, 07:39 PM
Werewolf taught me a lot about how to write academic papers.

You know, I think it wasn't so much Werewolf for me as all the other threads, where things are based less on interactions and Freud and reverse psychology, but rather on the arguments itself. Just posting a mini essay (or even a paragraph) in the Books / N&N forum (occasionally others... I recall a deep philosophical discussion going on during a game of Taters to Taters in Mirth) makes good practice for writing well from the first try. When I first joined, I used to just not be able to write well. I wonder why that changed. Suuuure, I had some good instruction. Riiiiiight. :D I'm serious - I learned how to write with good structure and good arguments from posting here. The Downs is mostly responsible in the raise of my English mark by about 10% in grade 9. (Should we put that as an advertisement? English school as well as wolfy dating site? ;))


Also, to add a different point, the other day,after a series of work-by-day-don't-sleep-by-nights, I was opening something on the computer and misread loading as Inziladun. Don't ask. Just... just feel honoured or something to hold such a deeply engraved spot in the depths of my mind.

Aganzir
10-09-2016, 10:21 AM
I want to talk about something.

Emojis.

The Downs smilies are, to me, the ultimate emojis. They cover a wide range of expressions that a lot of emoji sets lack. Most of all, when typing on my phone's Google keyboard or on facebook, I miss :p. It captures something happy and playful that the boring ;p most platforms use doesn't even come close to.

Then there's :o. There's no other emoji that shows the same amount of embarrassment; most others have hints of confusion or shock too. But not enough shock for situations that call for :eek:.

(cont.)

Aganzir
10-09-2016, 10:23 AM
Speaking of confusion, never have I seen as good a smilie as :confused:. There's absolute and total perplexion and bewilderment that I sorely need in other places than just the Downs.

And :rolleyes:! It's simply perfect for expressing that feeling of rightful resignation, and it's nowhere else to be found.

I also love :mad:. It's a face of rage that newer emoji developers don't seem to find us capable of. It would be such a stress relief to add it to the end of a long rant on facebook, but we're deprived of that pleasure.

(cont.)

Aganzir
10-09-2016, 10:25 AM
Finally, :cool: and :smokin:. There actually is an emoji that works well enough for those two (the smug one, you know which one I mean - not the sunglasses one because it just looks like it's on holiday). The problem is, it's not enough to cover the nuances these two do.

And honestly, who of us has never wanted to convey the images :Merisu: does in their everyday conversation?

All in all, could we please have an emoji keyboard with the Downs smilies?

Rune Son of Bjarne
10-09-2016, 02:09 PM
Okay, I am with you on this one!
:p is perfect to me, when you have just said something fun and a bit cheeky.

These emoji also takes me back to the time of msn, back when Glirdan introduced me to a laughing emoji that would turn into the letters lol.

Thinlómien
10-14-2016, 06:28 AM
Totally seconded! I believe I've actually saved the rolleyes image on my old computer to use elsewhere...

I also love :D which has a lot more mirth than the average laughing emoji without seeming a little deranged (like the crying and laughing emojis), and the ;) is a lot more humorous and warm than most of its counterparts. And :( looks devastatingly sad but fortunately I've hardly had any use for it.

Pitchwife
10-14-2016, 10:28 AM
When the site is down for 24 hours and in spite of not having posted anything of substance for months you feel like your hometown has just been bombed.

Since Agan, Rune and Lommy talked about emojis above (what a newfangled word; when did we stop calling them smileys?) I'd like to say a few things about message icons, which are another nice way of nonverbal communicarion and come handy for indicating the tone of the following post. I mostly use Thumbs up (signing approval, obviously, e.g. in cases when I can't rep somebody right now) and 1420! (the tankard - for festive occasions, like birthday felicitations in the rare case that I remember to post them) and sometimes the Pipe (which has a somewhat scholarly air for me as well as an almost Legate-like smugness); also the Silmaril instead of a light bulb for sudden insight. Sting, the Eye and the Arrow (strangely mislabeled Eye as well) have their uses as Gifted hints in Werewolf. What are your favourite ones?

Galadriel55
10-15-2016, 01:19 PM
I couldn't agree more about the smileys (and also about the words emojis ;)). I sometimes habitually type in the code for one of ours on a different site, and they either come out all wrong or don't translate to a picture at all - let alone such a unique picture as our Merisu or Rolleyes. :rolleyes: :Merisu:



Aside from that, you're also very addicted to the Barrow Downs when you can't resist clicking the button on your favourites bar on a regular basis even though you know it'll just bring you to a different site.

Pitchwife
10-23-2016, 04:51 PM
And honestly, who of us has never wanted to convey the images :Merisu: does in their everyday conversation?
So true! I just found myself using *merisu* in a Facebook comment, lacking an appropriate smiley (fortunately to a Downer, who'll understand).

Aganzir
09-25-2018, 05:04 AM
You keep coming back.

I wasn't going to have a two-year hiatus. I was just a bit busy at work. But you know how it goes with this thing that all things devours; birds, beasts, trees, flowers...

Anyway, here I am.

Estelyn Telcontar
12-11-2018, 02:04 PM
I have definitely become treeish, but this is still a vital piece of home on the internet for me. There are Downs-specific things that splash over into other areas - still being amused over funny pics of skwerlz, for example, or missing the : rolleyes : smiley...

Galadriel55
12-11-2018, 04:35 PM
Since Agan, Rune and Lommy talked about emojis above (what a newfangled word; when did we stop calling them smileys?)

And now there's also emoticons. Still can't tell the difference between them.

Fun fact: last year as the creative component of an application, I had to describe my favourite emoji. So I screenshotted the Down's emoji panel for them to see and wrote an essay on the Merisu smiley, with Rolleyes and Eek as runners up. Needless to say, I got the position. :Merisu:

THE Ka
02-23-2019, 08:49 PM
It's been several years since you last posted, yet you still have the old habit of lurking through the threads reading and simply enjoying every last bit. ;)

Love all of you, I promise I'll try to interact more over this year.

Inziladun
02-24-2019, 10:08 AM
It's been several years since you last posted, yet you still have the old habit of lurking through the threads reading and simply enjoying every last bit. ;)

Love all of you, I promise I'll try to interact more over this year.

A transition from treeish to Entish is always welcome. :)

Rune Son of Bjarne
02-25-2019, 11:51 AM
It's been several years since you last posted, yet you still have the old habit of lurking through the threads reading and simply enjoying every last bit. ;)

Love all of you, I promise I'll try to interact more over this year.

I think it would be awesome if some of the ancient wights would start to haunt the barrows again. Just on a semi-regular basis.

Legate of Amon Lanc
03-13-2019, 01:59 AM
A transition from treeish to Entish is always welcome. :)
I think it would be awesome if some of the ancient wights would start to haunt the barrows again. Just on a semi-regular basis.

Semi-regular being the key word. *looks at the differences between timestamps of the last posts*

But indeed, I second what has been said. And would certainly support the notion that Entish is better than treeish. At least from this particular perspective - nothing against trees otherwise (right, Ungoliant).

Galadriel55
04-13-2019, 08:23 PM
You're addicted to the Downs when classmates ask you about that black site with the sword at the top.

Also, the two hours of intense posting activity today were the happiest two hours in a long time (and quite possibly raised the average posts/day of involved Downers by a couple decimal points. :D That was a lot of posting!)

Morsul the Dark
04-15-2021, 07:58 PM
The length Your membership on the downs has bypassed the amount of time since you last talked to your father. Too Dark?

Your membership on the downs is old enough to drive.

Legate of Amon Lanc
04-16-2021, 05:04 AM
Your membership on the downs is old enough to drive.

Ugh, that is a terrifying way to put it. Thankfully it isn't there for me yet, but it could start preparing for attending a driving school.

ElentariGreenleaf
04-16-2021, 05:57 AM
When you come back after 14 years just to say how amazed and happy you are to find the site still going.

Inziladun
04-16-2021, 04:51 PM
When you come back after 14 years just to say how amazed and happy you are to find the site still going.

Welcome back!!

Thinlómien
04-17-2021, 03:26 AM
When you consider it a disgrace to discover the 'Downs isn't in the bookmarks or even the history on the browser on your new ish laptop...

...even though your profile tells you last logged in last summer, so it it really a surprise? :rolleyes::D

Morsul the Dark
04-21-2021, 05:46 PM
I wish I could post a screenshot. I just realized my phone is insisting that when I type in the Barrowdowns webpage I really mean “Tom Bombadil”. I’m not entirely sure how this autocorrect suggestion has come to be but... ok.

Galadriel55
04-21-2021, 05:51 PM
I wish I could post a screenshot. I just realized my phone is insisting that when I type in the Barrowdowns webpage I really mean “Tom Bombadil”. I’m not entirely sure how this autocorrect suggestion has come to be but... ok.

This is the most fantastic autocorrect that I have heard of! :D

Urwen
04-21-2021, 06:01 PM
I spell out character names.