Teenage crushes?
Balls to the teenage crushes, I have enough at age 22. I must have been a very late bloomer because through school I had exactly two crushes.

Both of them turned out to be suffering from The Gays. Either I was ugly enough to turn boys gay or, (my preferred explanation) I was attracted to fellas with softly spoken voices and a penchant for interior design.

So rebuffed, I resigned myself to a life of fancying Frodo out of Lord of the Rings. I was about 14, but that's still no excuse. I mean, not even Legolas or Aragorn, but bloody Frodo!

I like to think I've matured a little since then but I do get all snail-trail pants over Robert Downey Jr. It's a written contract between me and my fella that if Mr Downey wanted me then I could go. I'm not completely heartless though, he is all up in the bone for Amy Lee and I have kindly allowed him the same privilege with her.

Oooooh but that scene in Iron Man when he's making his first suit and is all sweaty and dirty and pounding a big hammer and you can see all his glorious arms and shoulders and and and.... phew...

And even in Tropic Thunder near the end, look at his EYES! Such gorgeous eyes I have never seen on a man.

NOMNOMNOM
(becky_bubbles, Thu 5 Nov 2009, 20:14, 4 replies)

There are few more tumultuous afflictions
than having a case of the Downey-Juniors; you're doing well to be not too afflicted by it.

As a desperately vanilla male, I'm surprisingly close myself - it must be infectious.
(nd1001 slamdunked my funk, Thu 5 Nov 2009, 20:41, closed)

I have one of those afflictions.
Just after I posted this story I realised that actually I had three teenage crushes.
But does the third count if he's a computer character?

Oh dear, repressed memory-ville here I come...
(becky_bubbles, Thu 5 Nov 2009, 20:45, closed)

If the computer character was Jet-set Willy
Then that is acceptable.

If it was Sonic the Hedgehog, I suggest you seek help.
(nd1001 slamdunked my funk, Thu 5 Nov 2009, 20:47, closed)

I don't know.
I'd happily give Guybrush Threepwood one.
( Maladicta, Sat 7 Nov 2009, 21:36, closed)