1.You believe Lepanto had to do with an Italian army landing in Syria
2. You are confused as to why Hitler didn’t use his army in Ukraine and Sevastopol to support Warsaw into Moscow.
3. You spend more time talking to Germany than your wife/girlfriend
4. You can have a shelf for your collection of Diplomacy variants
5. When you wear red you want to play as Austria, etc
6. You memorized every region positions, abbreviating, and properties
7. You finished two games in one day
8. You are playing more than 10 games
9. All your base are belong to us
10. You go to your history and the first 50 sites are diplomacy site
11. You have read all of the articles in the DP pouch
12. You are confused when you get to Tunis it’s called Tunisia
13. You claim the Russians are cheaters since they have boats on BOTH coast of St. Petersburg
14. Your surprised when France does not control Spain and Portugal
15. You went to court for attacking an Italian talking about Trieste
16. You have a framed photo of a nine fleet convoy
17. You have fallen asleep on your keyboard playing Diplomacy
18. You send your kids (armies) to take the neighbor’s yard (German SC) so you can build a new fleet(Cruise Ship)
19. You called up the German President warning him of France stab in Fall 2009 and suggest him to move his army to Munich.
20. None of your friends trust you
21. When you describe your trip to Europe F Mao-Bre, A Bre-Pic…
22. You wonder why didn’t Germany in WWI didn’t invade Denmark and Holland for the SCs
23. You are surprised when you hear rumors about people going into Switzerland
24. You insist in History class that Germany did win WWI and controlled 18 SCs
25. Your favorite number is 18
26. you make lists about how to tell you've been playing too much diplomacy...
27. You evaluate how likely your mother is to stab you before talking to her.
28. you evaluate your school for invasion, were each room is a SC.
29. you learn world geography by conquering Europe
30. When you sit down at the computer for the first time that day, you check the progress of your games before you check your email.
31. You think this list is funny
32. You tell your friends to 'hold' here.
33. When you equate making decisions in your daily life to 'supporting' moves and a trip to the shops with your other half is an 'SC' just because you know that will keep her quiet.
34. Think your own map version, in order to include more detail and provinces for your country
35: You check your Diplomacy moves on your iPhone before you say good morning to your partner
36. You decide to go on holiday to Sardinia and Crete so you can claim them as yours... This map doesn’t allow it to happen in games
37. You schedule business meetings / holidays / school visits to territories on the bopard you have never visited before so you can claim your own personal '18' SCs
38. Friends who come to visit your house advise you on how you can arrange your PC so you can "play that computer game thing while watching telly"
39. You forget that the correct spelling of the country of Romania is not "Rumania" anymore.
40. You could draw Europe with 1914 borders with your eyes closed, but can't name any modern eastern European countries.
41. You forget that Egypt exists.
42. You think that it takes the same length of time to go from Norway to Ireland as it takes to go from London to Paris.
43. You get more annoyed with yourself for submitting the wrong orders than missing a question in an A-level exam just because you didn't check the back of the paper.
45. You think Ireland is part of Liverpool.
46. You never understand how traveling on land could be faster than traveling on sea
47. You develop a sense of paranoia around people from Austria.
48. You refuse to acknowledge the world outside of Europe.
49. When you argue with your wife and you suggest you DMZ the kitchen and she looks blank.
50. You check back every 5 minutes until that crucial reply from Germany comes through, you confirm, and check in every 5 minutes til they confirm again!!!! lol, well for a couple of my games it's been like that anyway.
51 You think Risk is for children (flame war incoming!)
52. You don't start a flame war over hearing someone say Risk is for children.
53. What you do becomes the opposite of what you say :P
54. You think your relationship with your girlfriend is lacking in diplomacy.
55. You cant stop thinking: "Is this the right time to stab his back".
56. You believe that no one believe a word you say.
57. You forget that Poland is a real country.
58. You think the only way to travel from Tunis to Syria is via a water route.
59. You try to find stalemate lines on a Risk board.
60. You try to find stalemate lines on a SCRABBLE board!
61. You think that it takes 18 units to conquer Europe when it actually requires
62. You tell the teacher that you need to check an important email during class but instead checked diplomacy.
63. You have closed an instant messaging system with your girlfriend so you can concentrate on saying just the right thing to that idiot Austria.
64. You no longer think France is worthless, but you do think Italy is.
65. You have taken at least an extra two hours to finish your paper because you were logged onto Diplomacy.
66. You think jokes involving turn of the century European power politics are funny.
67. You are surprised when your friends don't.
68. You do not acknowledge the existence of airplanes.
69. The days leading up to a guaranteed win are some of the best ever, even if everything else going on sucks.
70. You don't find it too odd that England controls Iceland in 1901 but France doesn't own Corsica and Italy doesn't own Sardinia.
71. You've considered multiaccounting just to see if you could get away with it.
72. When they send you to a full day class from work, without Internet, and in the hour you have for lunch, you go to a internet place instead.
73. You start applying your Diplomacy strategies to real life, and are disturbed at how well they actually work.
74. You cancel a vacation because there won't be internet access.
75. You get the promotion by lying and backstabbing a more qualified/senior co-worker.
76. being able to come up with 50+ ways to know you play to much diplomacy
77. you have an account on this site
78. Counting which one of these things you actually follow
79. Following more than one of these things.
80. checking the form every minute to see if this has been updated
81. First thing you do when you wake up is diplomacy, and the last thing before sleep.
82. Forgot the stove was on while checking diplomacy...and had to grab a fire extinguisher before dialing 911.
83. You forget how strange "support hold" sounds in everyday conversation.
84. Your favorite pick up line "I'll support you to Belgium, baby"
85. you take the slightly more expensive bus service to nyc so you can use their free wireless to check your games and press on your day trip
86. all you can think about during a day long meeting for work without access to internet is that maybe you didn't do the final update to your moves, and your ally will think you stabbed, when really you just fucked up and couldn't get to the internet when you figured it out.
87. your soccer team is turkey, and you get confused because your jerseys are purple, not yellow like you think they should be
88. (we miss this one) You can play a full diplomacy game in your mind
89. Variants fascinate you.
90. when you realize you have trouble counting past 18 because every number after that is irrelevant
91. you posted more than once on this thread
92. you are willing to sacrifice sleep for a live game....but the game never happened.
93 When you go to Vegas and play Roulette you only play number 18...and win of course.
94. When you are asked why you are opposed to the war in Iraq you explain that there is no supply center there.
95. When you hear the international news and your first reaction is 'what is the real story and who is supporting whom?'
96. You time your vacation travel around Face to Face events.
97. You really do think that EDInburgh is in England.
98. You describe your best friend as someone who you would trust to hand to the bank your mortgage payment in cash, but would not trust him to support you to Belgium.
99. When your wife is going to have a baby you go to 'support' class not Lemans Class.
100. When your know the borders of Galicia better than that of Montana.
101. You can spell Marseilles but not Connecticut.
102. When you break down the relationships in business into strategic alliances, tactical alignments and diplomatic channels.
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