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11-25-2009, 06:27 AM
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Pilgrim Soul
Join Date: May 2004
Location: watching the wonga-wonga birds circle...
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Does anyone else find this thread depressing?
I have a growing list of Downers to avoid contact with because I already fall into their can't stand categories...
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11-27-2009, 10:23 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: A green and pleasant land
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11-29-2009, 03:45 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: ˙˙˙ssɐןƃ ƃuıʞooן ǝɥʇ ɥƃnoɹɥʇ
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11-29-2009, 06:14 AM
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Join Date: Dec 2001
Location: the big onion
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11-30-2009, 05:21 AM
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Pilgrim Soul
Join Date: May 2004
Location: watching the wonga-wonga birds circle...
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If Monday mornings tend to make you look about 15 years older with a drastically increased BMI and going grey... could be.... though I didn't look as good as you alas when I was younger, thinner etc
I do have vivid memories of being told not to dawdle but I think that is the fate of a youngest child... but I have protested in my time and anyone too keen on the possession of firearms scares the bejasus out of me. 
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12-29-2009, 03:17 AM
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Ghost Prince of Cardolan
Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: Amongst trees.
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Name (that you go by): Christina or Tina
Age: twenties Occupation: Assistant and occasional watcher of niece and nephews Future Aspirations: To own/live on a few acres out in the country/hills. Goal in life: I've always wanted a pet cow. Short term goals: For it to snow before spring time. Passion: The Outdoors Hobbies: Anything involved with being outdoors.... hiking, treasure hunting, camping... etc. Cooking, taking pictures, drawing, and painting. Famous for (okay this is where you get to brag about yourself): Nickname: Incognito, because I always wear sunglasses. Fave book: Russian short stories Fave movie: Princess Bride, The Goonies Fave sport: When I played - volleyball and track. Fave store: Any bookstore. Antique stores. Fave music: Rock, metal, alternative, Frank Sinatra - almost a little bit of everything. What you can't stand: Intolerance What you plain dislike: meat Who you admire: My mother What you most love to do: Be outside Your self-confessed flaws: I'm quiet and cold What intrigues/fascinates you: History, languages, bugs, animals.. What scares you: Insanity Quotation to live by: "Smile!" Additional comments: It is hard to choose just one favorite.. ....edit... ~ twelve hours later and... SNOW! xD
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03-02-2010, 08:45 PM
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Stormdancer of Doom
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: Elvish singing is not a thing to miss, in June under the stars
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Name (that you go by): Helen, Lindolonde
Age: pushing fifty Occupation: Systems analyst Future Aspirations: Publish an album... and get to heaven... see my sons enter college, or the military of their choice. Goal in life: Oh. See above. Short term goals: Jsut started a Masters Program. Passion: Ummm... I guess it's telling that I can't think of one. I think that is not good. Hobbies: Stamping; music; Tolkien. Famous for (okay this is where you get to brag about yourself): Guitar & vocals, on a small scale... Fave book: Right now? "Bolco Returns to the Shire". Fave movie: Secondhand Lions; LOTR trilogy; ... Fave sport: biking to the bus stop. I used to Mountain Bike. Fave store: Stamping stores.... Fave music: Hobbitons (Tra la la lally), Starlit Jewel (Elvish Lullabye, I sang of Leaves), a Stephen Oliver's BBC Tolkien (Gil Galad was an elven King) and (his mannish stuff was very mannish) and a little TOlkien Ensemble (Love their Galadriel and their Aragorn) (and their Ent and Entwife). What you can't stand: Politics, cruelty, arrogance. What you plain dislike: perfectionism Who you admire: My mother and my aunt and my dad What you most love to do: This sounds wierd but right now I'm rereading some of my old fanfics. I've forgotten most of it so it's like reading someone else's stuff. Your self-confessed flaws: Easily distra-- what was that? What intrigues/fascinates you: Today? Nothing. Stress is probably causing that. What scares you: a to-do list that is wayyyyy too long. Quotation to live by: "I would have despaired, unless I had believed I would see the goodness of God in the land of the living." Additional comments: Looking for Lorien around every corner...
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06-24-2010, 04:05 AM
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Mighty Quill
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Walking off to look for America
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Updated 17 January 2013
Name (that you go by): Tabitha, Tabby, Tutu, Baroness Tabitha of Sealand, Lady Great, and pretty much anything that is not 'Ickletabithakins' or any variation thereof. Age: Almost nineteen. Occupation: Baroness, Small business owner. I run a shop on Etsy. So far nothing has sold, but I've got time. Future Aspirations: Own a tea shop (I am thinking that it would be interesting to run a health spa/resort type of place with a focus on tea). I would love to work in a tea plantation for a year or two. Travel the world. Go to a ball. Design evening gowns. Own an English manor house. Travel back in time. Marry someone obscenely rich so I don't have to work if I don't want to.  Goal in life: To find a place in life where I am happy with myself and my surroundings, where I have close friends and trust. Where I don't have to worry about money. Short term goals: Attend university, travel to Finland (which could turn into the same goal, who knows). Make some money sounds good too. Add to my wardrobe so I can dress up in styles from all of my favourite periods of history. Garden, and grow organic food. Have the ability to start composting. Passion: Everyone knows that I love tea, Britain, Alaska, Tolkien, and Doctor Who. I also have an interest in fashion (mostly historical), food, history, and writing (mostly the act itself. I love calligraphy). Hobbies: Dressing up (currently searching for a Downton Abbey-esque ensemble), making tea, drinking tea, Downsing, gaming, not shopping, going out to eat, ballroom dancing. Famous for (okay this is where you get to brag about yourself): Knowing about tea. Being the loudest and most jubilant. Knowing more Bealtes songs (and general Beatles trivia) than many other people. Being obsessed with this weird website called the Barrow-Downs. <-- Apparently not much has changed. Fave book: The Lord of the Rings, the Slimarillion, the Hobbit, the Hitchhikers' Guide to the Galaxy, the Great Gatsby, Harry Potter, The Guernsey LIterary and Potato Peel Pie Society, The Harney and Sons Guide to Tea. Currently I am enjoying For All the Tea in China and My Life in France by Julia Child. Fave movie: Help!, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, the Lord of the Rings, The Holiday, The Adventures of Tintin. Fave sport: Ballroom dancing. Fave store: The Kobuk, Summit Spice and Tea, Barnes and Noble, Waterstones, the Twinings shop on the Strand, Etsy. Fave music: My current favourites: The Beatles, Ella Fitzgerald, Simon and Garfunkel, music one can swing dance to, and KLEF (a classical radio station in Anchorage). What you can't stand: Insanity (is not insanity doing the same thing over and over again expecting a different result?), girls who over bleach their hair and over tan (it looks trashy, so would they kindly stop?), frustration, injustice (oh, so many things can go under this category), abuse, prejudice against the environment. What you plain dislike: Peanut butter, and jam. Who you admire: My grandmother, J.R.R. Tolkien, Winston Churchill, my mum, Prince Albert (he was almost revolutionary for his time, and that's why no-on liked him besides his wife). What you most love to do: Dress up and have tea parties. I guess I am just a little girl inside. Your self-confessed flaws: My ignorance about most everything, my closemindedness, my tendency to get overly attached to my friends. <- Not much has changed here either. What intrigues/fascinates you: Earthquakes, the history of tea, history in general, women's studies. What scares you: Barnacles, the threat of moving away, the deep ocean, the thought of eternity and there not being a definite stopping point, the haunting notion that I am useless/worthless as a human being. Quotation to live by: "Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so." - Ford Prefect Additional comments: I have no sense of personal space, unless it comes to creepers on buses who look like Fidel Castro that try to smell my hair (that has seriously happened before). And I will tell anything to almost anyone who I have talked to at least once; I am overly trusting with my secrets, which is why I don't have any. I will talk on and on for hours and ramble about a few certain subjects, quite like I am doing here. 
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06-24-2010, 05:18 PM
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Newly Deceased
Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Middle Earth with a vaction house on Naboo (I know its starwars but IDC)
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a bit about moi
Name (that you go by): Nylah, Nylah-La-La, Ny, etc etc
Age:Teenyearsfool (: I is 15 Occupation:Student//Future Best-Selling-Author <33 Future Aspirations:....whaaaaaa? Goal in life:Go to college, Get my degree, marraige, my 7 kids (yes 7 :Merisu: ), And become an author Short term goals: Be the best me, and practice that clarinet giiiirl :) Passion:Writting&&Music<33 Hobbies:Music, Drawing, Writting, Fun,etc etc Famous for (okay this is where you get to brag about yourself): Being awesome :) Fave book: Either "The Outsiders," "Percy Jackson," or "The Fellowship of the Ring":cool: Fave movie: OoOoOoOoOoOo- Harry Potter, LotR, Percy Jackson, StarWars....yea I'm that cool :D Fave sport:BASEBALL <33 Fave store:hmmm....Hot Topic Fave music: ALL OF IT <33 Music is my liiiiiiife <3 But....Country would probably be it. What you can't stand: stupid people lol jk What you plain dislike: Justin Biber and Miley Cyrus Who you admire: Elijah Wood <333333 <333 (Frodo's mine chickas! ALL MINE :)) What you most love to do: Write and make Music Your self-confessed flaws: Stuff... What intrigues/fascinates you: Sci-Fi What scares you:Orcs....lol jk jk Quotation to live by: I have like a MILLION quotes Additional comments: I'm awesome so yea add me :D
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06-24-2010, 05:22 PM
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Newly Deceased
Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Middle Earth with a vaction house on Naboo (I know its starwars but IDC)
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a bit about moi
Name (that you go by): Nylah, Nylah-La-La, Ny, etc etc
Age:Teenyearsfool I is 15 Occupation:Student//Future Best-Selling-Author <33 Future Aspirations:....whaaaaaa? Goal in life:Go to college, Get my degree, marraige, my 7 kids (yes 7 Short term goals: Be the best me, and practice that clarinet giiiirl Passion:Writting&&Music<33 Hobbies:Music, Drawing, Writting, Fun,etc etc Famous for (okay this is where you get to brag about yourself): Being awesome Fave book: Either "The Outsiders," "Percy Jackson," or "The Fellowship of the Ring"  Fave movie: OoOoOoOoOoOo- Harry Potter, LotR, Percy Jackson, StarWars....yea I'm that cool Fave sport:BASEBALL <33 Fave store:hmmm....Hot Topic Fave music: ALL OF IT <33 Music is my liiiiiiife <3 But....Country would probably be it. What you can't stand: stupid people lol jk What you plain dislike: Justin Biber and Miley Cyrus Who you admire: Elijah Wood <333333 <333 (Frodo's mine chickas! ALL MINE )What you most love to do: Write and make Music Your self-confessed flaws: Stuff... What intrigues/fascinates you: Sci-Fi What scares you:Orcs....lol jk jk Quotation to live by: I have like a MILLION quotes Additional comments: I'm awesome so yea add me
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08-31-2010, 04:48 PM
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Emperor of the South Pole
Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: The Western Shore of Lake Evendim
Posts: 623
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Wow... 5 years ago seems like a lifetime ago, and that was the one I updated!
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06-17-2011, 01:07 PM
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Blossom of Dwimordene
Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: The realm of forgotten words
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Name (that you go by): It's unpronouncible in English, so writing it here will only achieve a "paper telephone" effect. But if you call me G55 in RL, I'll respond.
Age: 14 and a half Occupation: Grade ten student Future Aspirations: meet as many Downers as possible Goal in life: to find one Short term goals: too long a list. Passion: also a very long list, to be topped by (in no particular order): Downsing, reading, playing piano, climbing trees, climbing anything, snowball fights, chocolate, geography, and a bunch of other things that I don't remember at the moment. Hobbies: Downsing, playing piano, reading, bicycling, algebra, something else... Famous for (okay this is where you get to brag about yourself): that depends on where I am. At home I'm known for sitting in my room all day. At camp - for always being hungry and for eating apples off some wild crab-apple tree that grows near the campus. At school - for being in love with algebra. Here - I dunno, you say yourself. Fave book: I classify books into 3 categories: unworthy of my time and attention, excellent, and above and beyond. The last categoty is overflowing with books in both English and Russian. But I need one book... uhhh.. aside from Tolkien's... Gone With The Wind by Margaret Mitchell Fave movie: My favourite English movie is Love Story Fave sport: Probably volleyball and pioneerball Fave store: Dollarama Fave music: What I call the "previous generations' music", some classical, very little modern stuff What you can't stand: people who try to English-ise my name, and turn it into Eugenia or Jane or something of that sort. What you plain dislike: homework Who you admire: My mother and great-grandmother, JRRT, Jack London What you most love to do: nothing. Your self-confessed flaws: I exaggerate, I talk too much, I don't know what I want, I'm ridicuously lazy; I could go on for another page... What intrigues/fascinates you: just about everything. What scares you: responsibility and the unknown Quotation to live by: I have many, and they change with my mood, but if I had to choose one, it would be: Life is but a story. Make sure your own story is worth telling. Additional comments: I am weird.
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01-13-2013, 06:42 PM
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Blossom of Dwimordene
Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: The realm of forgotten words
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Name (that you go by): Still unpronouncable in English.
Age: 16 Occupation: Grade 11 student, tutor, sports coach (for very little kids...) Future Aspirations: meet as many Downers as possible Goal in life: travel the world Short term goals: finish my English assignment. Slightly more long-term... decide on approximately what I want to do in Uni and beyond Passion: climbing. Chocolate. Stuff. Hobbies: Downsing, playing piano, reading, trumpet, short-lived artsy inspirations... Famous for (okay this is where you get to brag about yourself): Being PessiMistic (yes, it has 2 capital letters), complaining, folding paper plates into origami, semi-falling from a 2-ish storey height and scaring everyone (but it was quite fun)... Fave book: a Russian book callef A Zori Zdes' Tihiye (The Dawns Are Quiet Here) Fave movie: A Russian movie called Ofitsery (Officers) Fave sport: Probably volleyball and pioneerball. Also love silks (the aerial ones - but what's the sport for them?). Fave store: Dollarama (still). Fave music: Russian Bard genre What you can't stand: still, people who try to English-ise my name, and turn it into Eugenia or Jane or something of that sort. What you plain dislike: popular things, if I don't see anything good in them Who you admire: My mother and great-grandmother, JRRT, Jack London What you most love to do: nothing. Your self-confessed flaws: I exaggerate, I complain too much, I rant, I'm sometimes (read: often) hypocritical... I leave things half-finished. What intrigues/fascinates you: mythologies, ancient history, etymology, languages, infinity and related things (time, space, universe, etc), the World Wars (the history, not... the other stuff  ).What scares you: University, and the prospect of studying for half my life. Quotation to live by: Life is but a story. Make sure your own story is worth telling. There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want - so true!! Additional comments: I am weird. That summs it up.
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01-13-2013, 11:26 PM
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Mellifluous Maia
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: A glade open to the stars, deep in Nan Elmoth
Posts: 3,489
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It's been... six years?
Guess I could get away with updating.Name (that you go by): Mom? Mom? Mom? Moooom! Age: Just came of age (as a hobbit). Occupation: Scholar, teacher, maker of pretty pictures. Future Aspirations: Grow 1000 potatoes. Goal in life: My own Wikipedia page. Short term goals: Download the misty mountains theme. Passion: Tolkien, music, trees, coffee. Hobbies: Reading, gardening, camping, trolling. Famous for (okay this is where you get to brag about yourself): Impersonating the seer in every game. Fave book: LoTR. 25 years and a master's in literature didn't manage to knock it off its pedestal. Fave movie: Pan's Labyrinth Fave sport: Skyrim Fave store: Etsy Fave music: Radiohead, Mogwai, Lindsey Stirling, Smashing Pumpkins, Florence + The Machine, Godspeed you Black Emperor. What you can't stand: The sound of chalk on a blackboard, or the (similar) sound of squeaking styrofoam. <- has not changed. What you plain dislike: Beer, small talk, and all TV. Who you admire: Several 'downers. What you most love to do: Paint. Your self-confessed flaws: Some might say I have a bit of a temper.  What intrigues/fascinates you: Other cultures, the arts, mythology, language, the human mind. What scares you: Decapitation is rather nasty. Also butterflies. Quotation to live by: "Make good art." http://zenpencils.com/comic/50-neil-...make-good-art/ Additional comments: Mith, you aren't made of styrofoam, are you? |
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01-16-2013, 06:23 AM
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Pilgrim Soul
Join Date: May 2004
Location: watching the wonga-wonga birds circle...
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Oh dear have I been squeaking annoyingly or is this a cunning ploy to discover if I weigh the same as a duck so you have an excuse to burn me?
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01-16-2013, 02:02 PM
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Mellifluous Maia
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: A glade open to the stars, deep in Nan Elmoth
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Just replying to your post at the top of the page - which I now realize is four years old! |
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01-17-2013, 05:15 AM
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Pilgrim Soul
Join Date: May 2004
Location: watching the wonga-wonga birds circle...
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Oh that is a relief. Had forgotten after so long. Not made of polystyrene but still a Shakespeare loving francophone who is freaked by gun obsession, dawdles and protests.
Lovely to see that a few out the young folk have achieved some of their ambitions.
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Mighty Quill
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Walking off to look for America
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My 2222th post!
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