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

[Galadriel55]

When your first thought upon seeing your physics TA is that he looks like Legate!!! No, I'm serious! 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-Jêx]

When you spend valuable imgur time on the Barrow Downs instead.

[Galadriel55]

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]

Originally Posted by Galadriel55

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.

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]

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]

Originally Posted by Aganzir

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. 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]

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 . It captures something happy and playful that the boring ;p most platforms use doesn't even come close to.

Then there's . 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 .

(cont.)

[Aganzir]

Speaking of confusion, never have I seen as good a smilie as . There's absolute and total perplexion and bewilderment that I sorely need in other places than just the Downs.

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

I also love . 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.)