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

Thinlómien · 05-27-2008, 08:05 AM

I was revising for an English exam some day last week and there were lists of words and prepositions that go with them. Under the heading "adjectives" and the subheading "of" there was the following list:

ashamed of
aware of
capable of
characteristic of
conscious of
guilty of
independent of
innocent of
jealous of
sick of
suspicious of
typical of

Need I say more?

Legate of Amon Lanc · 05-27-2008, 08:09 AM

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:

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...It is my hunch that Niebuhr...

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

Eönwë · 05-28-2008, 07:48 AM

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

Legate of Amon Lanc · 05-28-2008, 09:36 AM

Oh, I know precisely in which "stage" you are currently, Eönwë

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...

Rune Son of Bjarne · 05-28-2008, 12:56 PM

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Originally Posted by Legate of Amon Lanc

Oh, I know precisely in which "stage" you are currently, Eönwë

I have gone through it too...

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.

Eönwë · 05-28-2008, 04:09 PM

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Originally Posted by Legate of Amon Lanc

Oh, I know precisely in which "stage" you are currently, Eönwë

I have gone through it too...

Does that mean its got better or worse?

Legate of Amon Lanc · 05-29-2008, 02:43 PM

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Originally Posted by Eönwë

Does that mean its got better or worse?

No comment

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

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

Legate of Amon Lanc · 05-31-2008, 02:15 AM

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."

Lhunardawen · 05-28-2008, 07:28 PM

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Originally Posted by Eönwë

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

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

Volo · 05-29-2008, 11:44 AM

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

Thinlómien · 05-29-2008, 11:58 AM

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Originally Posted by Volo

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.

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).

Groin Redbeard · 05-31-2008, 01:00 PM

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Originally Posted by Eönwë

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

I never seem to have enough of those moments!

mark12_30 · 05-31-2008, 02:20 PM

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

WILL

SOMEBODY

ELSE

POST

ngphwqzbgrffglnksnrg

Lhunardawen · 06-04-2008, 04:08 AM

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

Thinlómien · 06-04-2008, 06:08 AM

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Originally Posted by Lhunardawen

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

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

satansaloser2005 · 06-07-2008, 07:06 PM

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Originally Posted by Lhunardawen

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

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.

Lhunardawen · 06-06-2008, 03:47 AM

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?

) 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)...

Oddwen · 06-06-2008, 08:24 AM

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.

Eönwë · 06-06-2008, 04:15 PM

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?

Volo · 06-06-2008, 05:10 PM

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.

satansaloser2005 · 06-06-2008, 05:18 PM

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Originally Posted by Volo

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.

A Little Green · 06-07-2008, 03:35 AM

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:

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It was from companionship with this baby-phantom I had been roused on that moon-light night when I heard the cry...

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There is no happiness like that of being loved by your fellow-creatures, and feeling that your presence is an addition to their comfort.

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Though haughty Hate should strike me down,
Right, bar approach to me,
And grinding Might, with furious frown,
Swear endless enmity.

satansaloser2005 · 06-09-2008, 10:37 PM

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Originally Posted by Kitanna in the Sigs Thread

I spent the last semester of school studying WWII. Many coming months of my life will be pretty heavily involved with research and papers regarding WWII and Nazi Germany. And yet it took Groin Redbeard's signature to remind me yesterday was D-Day.

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

TheGreatElvenWarrior · 06-11-2008, 01:00 PM

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Originally Posted by Eönwë

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

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!

Volo · 06-11-2008, 03:08 PM

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).

Thinlómien · 06-11-2008, 05:49 PM

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Originally Posted by Volo

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

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

Volo · 06-12-2008, 05:24 AM

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Originally Posted by Thinlómien

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

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

Rikae · 06-12-2008, 09:22 AM

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Originally Posted by satansaloser2005

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

I think that all the time.

05-27-2008, 08:05 AM	#1
Thinlómien Shady She-Penguin Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: In a far land beyond the Sea Posts: 8,093	Top Ten Signs You're Addicted to WW I was revising for an English exam some day last week and there were lists of words and prepositions that go with them. Under the heading "adjectives" and the subheading "of" there was the following list: ashamed of aware of capable of characteristic of conscious of guilty of independent of innocent of jealous of sick of suspicious of typical of Need I say more? __________________ Like the stars chase the sun, over the glowing hill I will conquer Blood is running deep, some things never sleep Double Fenris

05-28-2008, 07:48 AM	#3
Eönwë Flame Imperishable Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Right here Posts: 3,928	When you have nothing to do so every 10 minutes you constantly check if there have been any new posts. __________________ Welcome to the Barrow Do-owns Forum / Such a lovely place

05-28-2008, 09:36 AM	#4
Legate of Amon Lanc A Voice That Gainsayeth Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: In that far land beyond the Sea Posts: 7,431	Oh, I know precisely in which "stage" you are currently, Eönwë 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... __________________ "Should the story say 'he ate bread,' the dramatic producer can only show 'a piece of bread' according to his taste or fancy, but the hearer of the story will think of bread in general and picture it in some form of his own." -On Fairy-Stories

05-31-2008, 02:15 AM	#8
Legate of Amon Lanc A Voice That Gainsayeth Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: In that far land beyond the Sea Posts: 7,431	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." __________________ "Should the story say 'he ate bread,' the dramatic producer can only show 'a piece of bread' according to his taste or fancy, but the hearer of the story will think of bread in general and picture it in some form of his own." -On Fairy-Stories

05-29-2008, 11:44 AM	#10
Volo Silver in My Silent Heart Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: the great beauty Posts: 1,611	Haha! We were walking in the city with Lommy, when I saw two girls (from our school) carrying a sign saying "I ♥ MAC". __________________ Fenris Wolf The EVEN NEWER Barrow-Downs Photo Page

05-31-2008, 02:20 PM	#13
mark12_30 Stormdancer of Doom Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Elvish singing is not a thing to miss, in June under the stars Posts: 4,349	...and every time you check, you're tempted to add a post to the RPG that says WILL SOMEBODY ELSE POST ngphwqzbgrffglnksnrg __________________ ...down to the water to see the elves dance and sing upon the midsummer's eve.

06-04-2008, 04:08 AM	#14
Lhunardawen Hauntress of the Havens Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: IN it, but not OF it Posts: 2,538	I just realised that all this time, I've been unconsciously imagining Arthur Weasley as Nogrod.

06-06-2008, 03:47 AM	#17
Lhunardawen Hauntress of the Havens Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: IN it, but not OF it Posts: 2,538	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? ) 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)...

06-06-2008, 08:24 AM	#18
Oddwen Drummer in the Deep Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Next Sunday A.D. Posts: 2,145	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. __________________ But all the while I sit and think of times there were before I listen for returning feet and voices at the door

06-06-2008, 04:15 PM	#19
Eönwë Flame Imperishable Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Right here Posts: 3,928	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? __________________ Welcome to the Barrow Do-owns Forum / Such a lovely place

06-06-2008, 05:10 PM	#20
Volo Silver in My Silent Heart Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: the great beauty Posts: 1,611	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. __________________ Fenris Wolf The EVEN NEWER Barrow-Downs Photo Page

06-11-2008, 03:08 PM	#25
Volo Silver in My Silent Heart Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: the great beauty Posts: 1,611	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). __________________ Fenris Wolf The EVEN NEWER Barrow-Downs Photo Page Last edited by Volo; 06-11-2008 at 03:12 PM.