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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Edena_of_Neith" data-source="post: 895208" data-attributes="member: 2020">Humans seem to hate elves.  It seems to be a commonplace trait, especially in the Forgotten Realms, Dragonlance, Athas, and Aebrinis, to name a few worlds.  Now, why would this be?  How could humans hate flighty, frivolous, joyful beings like elves?  Here's why ...  Teenagers.  - - -  You do remember teenagehood, do you not?  Some staples of teenaged life:  Hi Dad, I'm having a party at the house tonight (read:  tomorrow the house will look like a herd of bulls tramped through it.)  Hi Dad, I'm going out and will be back at 11 (read:  I'll be back sometime tomorrow after you spend all night frantically looking for me.)  Hi Dad, I need to borrow the car (If you're lucky, you'll only sit scared half to death while your son or daughter is out.)  Hi Dad, I'm going out with that guy (read:  well, we all know what to read into that!)  Hi Dad, I need to use the phone (read:  3 days later, the phone company shows up thinking the line is out of order, because of the constant busy signal.)    Of course, what they DON'T tell you is even worse.  What you don't know, with teen-agers, is ... well, something you always find out the hard way, when it's too late to do a thing about it.  - - -  Now, in us human beings, teenagehood lasts for a mere 10 years at the most, from age 11 to age 21.    The worst of teenagehood seems to last only 5 years, from 14 to 18.  But in elves ...  Teenagehood lasts ... 70 YEARS.  (From age 30 to age 100.)  - - -  So, you live in a community of humans, and along come the elven teenagers.  Who are teenagers when you are a little boy.  Who are STILL teenagers when you are an old man.  And of course, their flighty, frivolous parents ... well, their parents aren't much better than THEY are, so you could hardly expect their parents to control these elves, could you?  And if possible, elven teenagers are worse than human teenagers.  Human teenagers grow up into somber, serious young men and women.  Elven teenagers grow up into flighty, frivolous young elves.  This is Reason Number 1 why humans hate elves.  It's the teenagers.  (And, if you really think about it, elven teenagers are worse than Dragonlance kender.  For the kender, are probably being restrained from learning magic and other such dangerous lore, but elven teenagers are encouraged to learn every kind of magic, every kind of stunt, and on and on.  So when the aspiring bladesinger crashes through your roof into your bed during the night, and then goes leaping through the window to escape your wrath, you know the drill.)  So, once more:  # 1 Reason why Humans Hate Elves:  Elven Teenagers  Edena_of_Neith  P:S  If you try to be serious and/or Real World in this thread, I'll have the Moderators pound you into snail's snot!</blockquote>

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