my best 68 so far:
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. When you wear red you want to play as Austria, etc
5. You memorized every region positions, abbreviating, and properties
6. You are playing more than 10 games
7. You are confused when you get to Tunis it’s called Tunisia
8. You claim the Russians are cheaters since they have boats on BOTH coast of St. Petersburg
9. You are surprised when France does not control Spain and Portugal
10. You have a framed photo of a nine fleet convoy
11. When you describe your trip to Europe F Mao-Bre, A Bre-Pic…
12. You wonder why didn’t Germany in WWI didn’t invade Denmark and Holland for the SCs
13. You are surprised when you hear rumours about people going into Switzerland
14. You insist in History class that Germany did win WWI and controlled 18 SCs
15. Your favourite number is 18
16. You learn world geography by conquering Europe
17. 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.
18. You tell your friends to 'hold' here.
19. Think your own map version, in order to include more detail and provinces for your country
20. 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
21. You forget that the correct spelling of the country of Romania is not "Rumania" anymore.
22. You could draw Europe with 1914 borders with your eyes closed, but can't name any modern eastern European countries.
23. You forget that Egypt exists.
24. 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.
25. 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.
26. You think Ireland is part of Liverpool.
27. You never understand how travelling on land could be faster than travelling on sea
28. You develop a sense of paranoia around people from Austria.
29. You refuse to acknowledge the world outside of Europe.
30 You think Risk is for children.
31. What you do becomes the opposite of what you say
32. You think your relationship with your girlfriend is lacking in diplomacy.
33. You can’t stop thinking: "Is this the right time to stab his back".
34. You believe that no one believes a word you say.
35. You forget that Poland is a real country.
36. You think the only way to travel from Tunis to Syria is via a water route.
37. You no longer think France is worthless, but you do think Italy is.
38. You think jokes involving turn of the century European power politics are funny.
39. You are surprised when your friends don't.
40. You do not acknowledge the existence of airplanes.
41. The days leading up to a guaranteed win are some of the best ever, even if everything else going on sucks.
42. 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.
43. You start applying your Diplomacy strategies to real life, and are disturbed at how well they actually work.
44. You have an account phpdiplomacy.net
45. First thing you do when you wake up is diplomacy, and the last thing before sleep.
46. You forget how strange "support hold" sounds in everyday conversation.
47 When you go to Vegas and play Roulette you only play number 18...and win of course.
48. When you are asked why you are opposed to the war in Iraq you explain that there is no supply center there.
49. When you hear the international news and your first reaction is 'what is the real story and who is supporting whom?'
50. You time your vacation travel around Face to Face events.
51. You really do think that Edinburgh is in England.
52. When you know the borders of Galicia better than that of your country.
53. You have gone into denial of your addiction
54. You try to convince everyone you know that Diplomacy is the best game ever
55. The only colours you recognize are those on the map
56. PhpDip. is a bookmark on your web browser...even though you know the site by heart
57. you are convinced that you can get from Syria to St.P in the same amount of time as it takes to get from Kiel to Denmark
58. Whenever you talk about St.P, Spain, or Bulgaria, you naturally place (nc) or (sc) at the end. then your friends look at you weird
59. You forget that there are in fact, more than 7 countries in Europe
60. You have considered actually buying a real diplomacy board... but you dont know 6 other people to play with
61. You can type full length paragraphs on diplomacy, but your term paper that you have been working on for 3 weeks has only your name and class on it
62. You realized that you were going to bed an hour and a half ago, but you wanted to see what would happen after you finalized your moves
63. When you press 'p' in your address bar in Firefox, it already knows your going to phpDip.
64. Your wife accuses you of cheating. You wonder if she means meta-gaming or multi-accounting.
65. When the doctor mentions a Fleet enema, you wonder if he wants to join a match come time
66. Your favourite band is Franz Ferdinand...
67: You don't believe anything anybody says.
68. Your desktop background is your favourite Diplomacy win.
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