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

A Little Green · 12-08-2008, 11:16 AM

When you feel an urge to buy peanut butter even though you don't like it the tiniest bit, just because the package reads Skippy.

Gollum the Great · 12-08-2008, 01:45 PM

I am sure someone's mentioned this before, but reading through ancient Greek literature and start mistakenly reading things like: the moddess Athene. It's kind of funny in the juxtaposition of that modern term and the one of long ago.

Lindale · 12-09-2008, 10:41 AM

Lindale is finally admitting her addiction to BD because... she's posting here and there, more often than she checks her blog. And she's wondering if she's the only person from her part of the world still active in the Downs. I swear I knew at least three other Filipinos, and I'm willing to bet two are in my school... I wonder where they went.

Lhunardawen · 12-12-2008, 10:00 PM

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Originally Posted by Lindale

And she's wondering if she's the only person from her part of the world still active in the Downs. I swear I knew at least three other Filipinos, and I'm willing to bet two are in my school... I wonder where they went.

They're both still alive, I can assure you. Unfortunately, in this region of cyberspace, being alive is not exactly a good thing.

Lindale · 12-13-2008, 08:18 AM

Well Lhuna good to see a kababayan, finally someone na makakaintindi ng sig ko. Minsan naiirita kasi ako kapag hindi ko mabasa yung mga pinagsusulat ng mga Europeo dito. Now I guess sila rin, maiirita na hindi maintindihan ito. Or not. Cheers nalang.

Ooh lookie this, too.

Sometimes in my addiction to the Downs I wonder if I can ask somewhere or someone here something about German grammar--especially if I'm working on an assignment. Our insane professor sometimes ask us level-2 students to write papers in German about customs and stuff.

Legate of Amon Lanc · 12-14-2008, 11:33 AM

I'm quite amused by the fact that I'm posting from somebody else's account, from somebody else's home, from somebody else's country. Hehehee!

Oh, and Legate has an amusing brother.

-Volo of Amon Lanc

Legate of Amon Lanc · 12-14-2008, 11:35 AM

*points up* Well, I am sure you can make the picture yourselves on how it's going on around here...

Aganzir · 12-14-2008, 11:52 AM

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Originally Posted by Volo of Amon Lanc

Oh, and Legate has an amusing brother.

I wonder if it's a sign of addiction that your mother remembers not only Downers but also their siblings by their real names (although in her defence I could say those names are usually particularly funny

).

Thinlómien · 12-15-2008, 03:44 AM

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Originally Posted by Legate of Amon Lanc

-Volo of Amon Lanc

Now that reminds me of an old dream of mine...

Anyway, I think that even though greatly decreased, the amount of time I spend talking about the 'Downs with my RL-'downer friends is a bit worrying...

Groin Redbeard · 12-09-2008, 10:47 AM

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Originally Posted by Gollum the Great

I am sure someone's mentioned this before, but reading through ancient Greek literature and start mistakenly reading things like: the moddess Athene. It's kind of funny in the juxtaposition of that modern term and the one of long ago.

I've been there, Gollum!

It's also fun to make comparisons between ancient heroes and Tolkien's heroes, achilles the prideful Numenorean, Ajax the Dwarf, Diomedes the Elf! Oh the possibilities are endless!

Brinniel · 12-10-2008, 12:56 AM

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Originally Posted by Rune

What about recieving calls and text messaging?

For overseas calls, I don't think that's possible. Feel free to try as I'd love to receive calls or texts, but it probably won't go through unfortunately.

For now, I'll have to rely on Skype (which I still haven't actually downloaded since I bought my new laptop). Btw, more BDers should get a Skype account as it's a lot of fun...all you need is a microphone. The webcam is a bonus.

Groin Redbeard · 12-11-2008, 01:36 PM

A really bad sign is when you start acting more and more like your RPG character here on the Downs.

Gwathagor · 12-11-2008, 02:21 PM

Picking fights, are we?

Thinlómien · 12-11-2008, 02:24 PM

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Originally Posted by Groin Redbeard

A really bad sign is when you start acting more and more like your RPG character here on the Downs.

*will watch Groin - from a safe distance, though

- closely from now on*

12-08-2008, 11:16 AM	#1
A Little Green Leaf-clad Lady Join Date: Oct 2007 Posts: 1,571	When you feel an urge to buy peanut butter even though you don't like it the tiniest bit, just because the package reads Skippy. __________________ "But some stories, small, simple ones about setting out on adventures or people doing wonders, tales of miracles and monsters, have outlasted all the people who told them, and some of them have outlasted the lands in which they were created."

12-08-2008, 01:45 PM	#2
Gollum the Great Shade of Carn Dûm Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: The Pinnacle of my own might Posts: 386	I am sure someone's mentioned this before, but reading through ancient Greek literature and start mistakenly reading things like: the moddess Athene. It's kind of funny in the juxtaposition of that modern term and the one of long ago. __________________ 'It just shows you how true it is that one-half the world doesn't knows how the other three-quarters lives.' Bertie, The Code of the Woosters, by P. G. Wodewouse

12-09-2008, 10:41 AM	#3
Lindale Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: midway upon... in a forest dark Posts: 975	Lindale is finally admitting her addiction to BD because... she's posting here and there, more often than she checks her blog. And she's wondering if she's the only person from her part of the world still active in the Downs. I swear I knew at least three other Filipinos, and I'm willing to bet two are in my school... I wonder where they went. __________________ The heart does things for reasons Reason itself cannot comprehend. - Blaise Pascal Legal Madness.

12-13-2008, 08:18 AM	#5
Lindale Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: midway upon... in a forest dark Posts: 975	Well Lhuna good to see a kababayan, finally someone na makakaintindi ng sig ko. Minsan naiirita kasi ako kapag hindi ko mabasa yung mga pinagsusulat ng mga Europeo dito. Now I guess sila rin, maiirita na hindi maintindihan ito. Or not. Cheers nalang. Ooh lookie this, too. Sometimes in my addiction to the Downs I wonder if I can ask somewhere or someone here something about German grammar--especially if I'm working on an assignment. Our insane professor sometimes ask us level-2 students to write papers in German about customs and stuff. __________________ The heart does things for reasons Reason itself cannot comprehend. - Blaise Pascal Legal Madness. Last edited by Lindale; 12-13-2008 at 10:24 AM.

12-14-2008, 11:33 AM	#6
Legate of Amon Lanc A Voice That Gainsayeth Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: In that far land beyond the Sea Posts: 7,431	I'm quite amused by the fact that I'm posting from somebody else's account, from somebody else's home, from somebody else's country. Hehehee! Oh, and Legate has an amusing brother. -Volo of Amon Lanc __________________ "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

12-14-2008, 11:35 AM	#7
Legate of Amon Lanc A Voice That Gainsayeth Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: In that far land beyond the Sea Posts: 7,431	points up Well, I am sure you can make the picture yourselves on how it's going on around 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

12-11-2008, 01:36 PM	#12
Groin Redbeard Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Facing the world's troubles with Christ's hope! Posts: 1,635	A really bad sign is when you start acting more and more like your RPG character here on the Downs. __________________ I heard the bells on Christmas Day. Their old, familiar carols play. And wild and sweet the words repeatof peace on earth, good-will to men! ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

12-11-2008, 02:21 PM	#13
Gwathagor Shade with a Blade Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: A Rainy Night In Soho Posts: 2,512	Picking fights, are we? __________________ Stories and songs.