Well, to keep to the topic, it happened that today I was reading a part of a book from which I am supposed to write a paper. The book is in English, and at one moment the author wrote this:

You can think of what I filled in that the writer's hunch said the poor Niebuhr was :D

When you have nothing to do so every 10 minutes you constantly check if there have been any new posts.

Oh, I know precisely in which "stage" you are currently, Eönwë :D I have gone through it too...

Now, there's one thing which I consider a rather scary sign of addiction, which I should as well post to the BD Dreams thread, but... I had a dream today which I don't remember, almost at all, but what I remember is that I posted on this thread about some sign of addiction... I don't actually recall what it was, but I remember it was quite serious. The most serious thing however was, that the dream was so vivid that I was not sure whether I really haven't posted that sign here...

I belive this is one of the most common signs of addiction, at least it is the one that has been mentioned the most. I think this is at least the third time I have read people mentioning on this thread.

Does that mean its got better or worse?;)

When you have a thesis proposal to do but every 10 minutes you constantly check if there have been any new posts. :D

Haha! We were walking in the city with Lommy, when I saw two girls (from our school) carrying a sign saying "I ♥ MAC".

Indeed, poor them, because we laughed at them quite a lot. :D Anyway, it was plain hilarious as the sign was very big and there was nothing else on it (except in very small print at the bottom).

No comment :D

Though seriously, I think it's been better for some time, however I am quite convinced it will return someday ;)

Oops... (who readeth, understand...)

Double-posting?
 

When you have BD dreams about five days in a row, and are somewhat saddened by the fact that you don't remember their content well and thus can't post them.

Also, when all of a sudden you start thinking of weird similitudes, like "He is thin like Lómien." :rolleyes:

Seconded. For the past couple of days, when I wake up, I can barely even remember who were the Downer-subjects of my dream no matter how hard I try, much less what happened in the dream. It's frustrating.

I never seem to have enough of those moments!:D

...and every time you check, you're tempted to add a post to the RPG that says

WILL

SOMEBODY

ELSE

POST

ngphwqzbgrffglnksnrg

I just realised that all this time, I've been unconsciously imagining Arthur Weasley as Nogrod.

:D:D *dies* Oh, the hilariousity. And I really have to admit there's a similarity! :D

Hopefully not plug collecting... :p

When you see an Irish pub called Finns - and think of Lommie and co.

When you see PM (for Prime Minister) and immediately think of Private Messaging.

Heh. Nice one. :)

I was listening to the TV and they were interviewing some random Finnish guy. I immediately looked up to see if it was Noggie. :rolleyes:

And was it?? :eek:

Hehe. Sadly no. Our lovely modgod and resident Tom Bombadil is MUCH more interesting than was this fellow. (It was the Travel Channel and the guy was like eighty)

I assign walks down the BD memory lane to Orthanc.

Whoops, wrong thread.

I was searching for something (still am, as I post this, actually) in the announcements subforum and couldn't help re-reading some of the threads every so often. It's time-consuming (and I'm supposed to be doing something else, but who here isn't? :p) but I'm having a lot of fun! Look, I even unearthed this for y'all. :) I'm quite sure Enca won't mind (even if she no longer wanders here)...

I work at a secondhand store where we accumulate a copious amount of clothes. I was putting away some of the said garments when I could have sworn I saw a shirt that said "Abercrombie of Rohan". I flipped back to it, but it had morphed to that other boring trademark. :(

I saw a van with the words "Mac tools" on it, and did a double take, then I thought: what is Mac doing in England?

When a friend has internet on his phone and while ordering a meal you decide that one just must try if one can enter BD by phone and post a post on the Addiction thread. Half way the post he was half way his meal, and then I pressed some button which deleted my whole message. :( I'm not getting such a phone.

Been there, done that. Well, gotten on the Downs via a friend's cell, that is.

I consider it a serious sign of addiction that I start laughing aloud at some seemingly ordinary passages of Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre. Like these:

:rolleyes:

HAHA! Now you have me doing the same thing! Blast....



The Day's over, and I'm still expecting posts for some reason. And nobody's even on IM, so I've got nothing to do....dagnabbit.

Well, I won't say this is about my addiction to the Downs, really...it's more about how much the 'Downs has meant for me (yes yes, take the sappyness out of Mirth, I know!)... On my high school class ring (I almost didn't bother to get one), I had inscribed on one side just below the stone my year of graduation very traditionally, and on the other, 'Durelin'.

Makes me more fond of it than I'd ever thought I'd be, in addition to the old name of my school being on there, too (they're changing locations after a looooonnng time, and so changed the name because the name was connected to the place...) Yeah, I think I'd answer to 'Durelin' if anyone ever started calling me that "in RL".

Awwww, that's cool, Dure.



Hehe is it sad that I answer to Sally on a regular basis? *shifty eyes*

Not any sadder than the fact that I still think of Mac as Mac...
then again, I can't pronounce his real name correctly anyway (now THAT is sad).

Speaking of Mac... I think it's a sign of addiction when you are watching a Germany - Poland football match and your thoughts go like "Ooh that one looks just like Mac... Hey he's German as well!" Here is a pic of him. (Actually he only looks like Mac from a distance and only when he looks grim or scowls at the camera, but still...) :D

Who else saw WW and immediately thought....well, you know....

The first month on the Barrow-Downs I was on almost 24-7 that bug got me good!


When you are driving around town and you see a sign that you think says Rikae and then you turn back and realize it said Rilke... And I thought for a moment that Rikae had come to my city...

Or when you and your friend were on the Downs so regularly that I started calling her Lauri and she called me TGEW... and when your sitting down at lunch and the only thing you can talk about is the Barrow-Downs!

George R.R. Martin is one annoying guy, having names like Moat Cailin, Lord Mormont and Lommy Greenhands in his novels. Gah, freak.

edit: And not only that but in the town of Turku there was a great big sign of Aga on some building, apart from having three or so boats floating together with names from Kurt Vonnegut's Deadeye Dick (ok, not Tolkien or BD, but I was reading that at the time).

I gather you haven't met Val yet (or Anguy)... ;):p

Aargh (again)! I truly wonder who leeked him information on Downers-to-be. article?

I think that all the time.

Hehe... but Metzelder always looks grim or scowls at the camera. :D

It seems like I'm owning a huge franchise and don't know it! :eek: There's a restaurant chain "Mac Steaks" in NY and a chinese restaurant "Mac Wong" around the corner here.

I need to sue all these people. *evil grin*

Is it a sign of non-addiction if I don't get what you're talking about? :confused:

Mac, WW! From what planet are you? :p :D

And iMacs. Did it happen to be intentional that you chose to be an apple farmer in the DW? ;)