You decide to take the ferry because you think being convoyed will be faster than traveling overland.

When you play Monopoly you ask other players: "Support me into Park Place next Spring"

When you play Monopoly you keep bugging whoever plays as the battleship by saying he can't go into the inland territories.

When you play risk you try to attack an army of 10 with your army of 2 because you have another country with 2 nearby for support,

When you play soccer, you get the urge to shoot at your own team's goal.

You never go on vacations to countries in Europe that don't have supply centers.

The majority of your knowledge of European geography comes from Diplomacy, you ignorant North American. =)

When you suddenly realize that maybe all the world's diplomats have the same mindset as Diplomacy players, and you sink into despair, knowing that if this is true, there will always be war, until someone captures 18 supply centres.

You dream of convincing France and Italy to convoy your Turkish army all the way to the English Isles in a sneak cross-Europe stab, in which England has no hope for retribution. =D

You won't vacation in Spain, Bulgaria, or St. Petersburg, until the updated adjudicator is up in running, lest you be stuck there and forced to disband.

Your ultimate sexual fantasy involves a Diplomacy game that lasts until the current year.

You start to "bounce" people in real life, like when you're in line, or you're going for the last piece of pizza, or when you see another guy going for the girl you like.

But the true badge of a Dip player, is when you receive death threats from someone you've just stabbed, and you don't dismiss these as your run of the mill death threats, oh no, you take them very, very, seriously... You hire a bodyguard, install new locks, get yourself a handgun, and even limit your time spent out of your safehouse. But all the while, still playing the game to win. =)

Rofl, I like the ones about vacationing in Spain, bouncing people in real life, and the last one.

On a history test you write that Italy is the only Colonial power in Europe and they took over Tunis in 1901.

You think it takes a year to sail from Brest to London.

You think it takes three years to sail from Greece to Belgium.

You think it takes four years to drive from Portugal to St Petersburg.

You think it takes six months to get ferried from Portugal to St Petersburg.

You're confused when people refer to European regions by their modern names

You dream about managing to organise a convoy from Syria to St Petersburg (difficult when you can't support any of the convoys!)

You have a tattoo on your chest of your move which broke the Stalemate line in 1917 against Turkey and Russia.

You called your firstborn child Tyrolia, because she's special (and of great tactical and strategic importance).

You wonder how it ever took until 1914 for World War One to start. And when told the English were at Gallipoli, exclaim "An English army, in Greece? Not bloody likely!"

You accuse your boss of metagaming.

You scoff at Risk players. "Oh yes, that's like Diplomacy isn't it, but with 'dice'" [sneers]

You stab people in the back with butter knives. When prompted for a justification, you say "you didn't leave an army in Belgium, you were asking for it!"

...you are watching the news of the television and the anchorperson mentions Turkey" and sudenly you cried out loud ;"Those bastards, he keeping me bouncing me in BLA!!"

you decide the moves in your dream.

When you are bored during lessons, you think of diplomacy strategies

You start thinking of friendships as diplomacy alliances, always wary of stabs, always waiting for the opportunity.

You smile and agree moving your head as you read this post...

you read this in comp class instead of doing the assignment

You don't make new friends because you'll think that means you need to stab one of your old ones.

Cute. :-) As a long time wargamer & dip player (wow - at least 27 years...), while I always am interested in new games, the
``You scoff at Risk players. "Oh yes, that's like Diplomacy isn't it, but with 'dice'" [sneers]'' is totally on target. Both Risk and axis & allies were least favorites of mine because dip was simply better.

You go on holiday and worry about how your diplomacy games are going
You read this thread wondering what the ulterior motive was behind each post
You lie awake at night scheming and planning how you will convince your 'ally' that the 5 units beside his SCs are there for his own benefit and are in no way about to stab him

...when you wake up in a cold sweat because you realize that there is little possibility that you will NEVER win a diplomacy game in your lifetime and you will transform in to those losers that conform in coming 2nd or ...oh my god!!!, just surviving!!!

great posiiblity, that is

... when you spend 20 minutes trying to decide which unit to move and which unit to support it with.
... you end your date early to go home and check your games to see whos kept their promises and who hasnt.
... when you look in your history/global textbook and wonder where all the countries are.

...when u check posts more often than you're e-mails

your*

You find yourself wondering why the second world war didn't end when axis reached 18 SCs.

You draw the borderlines and names of the territories on the Diplomacy map on your atlas, or the map of the world in your school/college homework diary.

You get out of bed to correct a horrendous mistake...

(twice in the last week)

...when discussing international politics with friends and family you think that your opinion about the subject is authorative because you play diplomacy.

you think the europe borders are those of 1901....wondering about all those new nations called:Slovenia,Lithuania,Croatia etc...

...you tell your travel agent a North Sea crossing to Kiel from Britain couldn't possibly exist
...you won't accept connecting flights or train journeys through Switzerland
...you wonder why Ukraine has its own football team, independent of Russia
...you think you can travel from Sweden to Denmark by land
...you think Edinburgh, Clyde and Wales are all in England, and wonder why you get funny looks from those of Celtic origin when you claim so

You wonder why your friends claim your hometown is called 'Bristol' and in England, when looking at THE map it is most definitely in Wales!

You dream of the map of Europe in the color of the country you are playing.
You plan your life around times you will have access to the internet so you don't miss moves.
You always plan to get a live game of Diplomacy together with 6 friends but it always backfires because PHP is way to convenient
You wonder how D-Day was a success since convoys cannot give support.

@seattle:
You *can* travel from Sweden to Denmark by land. There's a big bridge or something. Point is, you could get an army across.

the bridge was built pretty recently though

-You wonder how the Germans flanked the Maginot Line in WW2 by moving to the north.
-You do not believe in the concept of land, sea, and air fighting.
-You do not believe in submarines.
-You still believe the world is flat.
-You wonder how the Germans and Napolean got caught up in the Russian winter.
-You think the Black Sea is a DMZ
-You know it is impossible to go around the world in 80 days.

-You do not go to Iceland.
-You find yourself counting houses in Monopoly and trying to add extra units on the board.

You discuss how best to contain Rait over DimSum

You scoff at Risk players because there are no SCs on their map.