What do you assign to Mordor?

[Ibrîniðilpathânezel]

I definitely assign your doctor's nurse leaving a message on your answering machine four days after you've had a mammogram, and all it says is, "call me back" -- this late on a Friday afternoon, so you can't call back until Monday, and you know that last year, they left a message that said everything was normal. I may lose my mind before Monday....

[Nerwen]

I definitely assign your doctor's nurse leaving a message on your answering machine four days after you've had a mammogram, and all it says is, "call me back" -- this late on a Friday afternoon, so you can't call back until Monday, and you know that last year, they left a message that said everything was normal. I may lose my mind before Monday....

It's probably nothing, though, Ibrin. My mother had a false alarm like that earlier this year.

[Ibrîniðilpathânezel]

Oh, I know that the odds strongly favor it being nothing, but I am a chronic worrier, and though my therapist and I are working on that, the imps of the perverse are hard to shut up. I know that at the worst, it's probably a cyst, since I am already a cyst-y person, but... My mom spent nearly two years painfully deteriorating and dying from breast cancer. It leaves a mark. Thanks for the vote of confidence, it's appreciated.

And.....

Just got off hold with the doctor's office -- and it was a screw-up. They'd misread my permissions and thought they weren't supposed to leave messages. Everything's fine. Now I assign to Mordor idjits who think they aren't supposed to leave messages who leave cryptic and ominously uninformative ones instead. :p

[Galadriel]

Wow that's a long answer to ask for!
Well, I would start with sexists, racists, teachers who teach for the bloody MONEY, corrupt politicians, people who judge others based on their religion (including atheism), people who judge others on the basis of which college they went to, people who just think they are SO the cat's whiskers, people who are incredibly ungrateful for what they have and just keep saying 'my life sucks' when it actually rocks compared to most people, Stephenie Meyer (she killed literature), snooty people who think anything unrelated to science is useless (or vice versa), people who don't care about the environment...
Phew! There are also a few people who deserve to be cast into Orodruin, but that's a but too personal, so I wont say any more :p May Iluvatar burn their souls.

[Nerwen]

Stephenie Meyer (she killed literature)

Galadriel, as your alter-ego (points to screen-name), it's only fitting then that I should assign: looking for a present for my cousin, and finding that the "young adult" section of the bookshop is now wall-to-wall vampire romance.

*sigh*

[Loslote]

corrupt politicians,

Well, as Simon Cameron said: "An honest politician is one who when he is bought, will stay bought."

[Andsigil]

Well, as Simon Cameron said: "An honest politician is one who when he is bought, will stay bought."

Politicians are like a baby's diapers: they should be changed often, and for the same reason.

[Galadriel]

Galadriel, as your alter-ego (points to screen-name), it's only fitting then that I should assign: looking for a present for my cousin, and finding that the "young adult" section of the bookshop is now wall-to-wall vampire romance.

*sigh*

Arise, arise, Riders of Theoden! We must unite against evil! As I did stand my watch upon the stairs, anon methought there were sparkling vampires on the shelves! HENCE, HOME, YOU IDLE CREATURES! Get you home! Oh, you blocks, you stones, you worse than senseless things!
Sorry :p

[Gwathagor]

Politicians are like a baby's diapers: they should be changed often, and for the same reason.

Yeah, because they're full of...

[the phantom]

The first daughter of Hurin and Morwen.

[Urwen]

:mad::p:mad:

[Pitchwife]

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Does that mean you assign Spain to Mordor?:eek::p

[Urwen]

Nay,it means I disagree with previous poster!

[Loslote]

Nay,it means I disagree with previous poster!

Don't be silly! No one is allowed to disagree with The Phantom! :eek: "You shall rue the day you did not do all that the Phantom asked of you" and all that. ;)

[the phantom]

It's okay, Lottie. I'll allow someone to disagree so long as they realize that doing so makes them wrong. :p

[Urwen]

Come on.Lalaith in realm of Sauron?!

Have a little pity on poor child,for God's sake!

[Nerwen]

Come on.Lalaith in realm of Sauron?!

Have a little pity on poor child,for God's sake!

Oh, I don't know, Urwen, perhaps she feels at home there now. (http://forum.barrowdowns.com/showpost.php?p=628970&postcount=69)

[Andsigil]

I assign political correctness to Mordor, having seen some rather repulsive examples of it recently where I live.

[Loslote]

I assign political correctness to Mordor, having seen some rather repulsive examples of it recently where I live.

I'll second this one. Political correctness has always bothered me. :rolleyes:

[Galadriel]

You know what. I assign college applications (and preparations!) to Mordor! May they burn in the Hellfire of Orodruin! Taking Maths was the biggest mistake of my life ( I FAILED it in class XI), and now, I'm pretty sure no college in the UK will want to see something like that on a student's record, even though I want English Literature!

[Bêthberry]

Snow in May. :mad: :rolleyes:

Especially snow that cancels a weekend trip and party. :(

[Ibrîniðilpathânezel]

Nosebleeds. The kind that send you to the emergency room and require cauterization. And it had been such a nice day....:mad:

[Nerwen]

You poor thing! I didn't realise nosebleeds could get that bad.

[Ibrîniðilpathânezel]

You poor thing! I didn't realise nosebleeds could get that bad.

Oh, yes, sad to say. It's happened before. I have a weak blood vessel in my right nostril, and 6 years ago, it broke even more messily (took three ER visits to stop it). I'm not too happy with the fact that it bled again this morning -- took nearly an hour to stop it, but no ER visit needed yet. One of the joys of getting older and having severe allergies. Sigh.

[Lastande Took]

I assign political correctness to Mordor, having seen some rather repulsive examples of it recently where I live.

I third that. I also assign to Mordor: complicated regulations about getting a driver's license, bureaucracy, dirty politicking from any member of any political party, severe thunderstorms, heavy metal 'music', people who constantly use bad language for no good reason, and having to stop reading a book because you didn't see the bedroom scenes when flipping through in the library.

[Nogrod]

I will assign to Mordor US car rental companies and the competing websites trying to lure people to their pages chasing for the advertiser's favour with totally false promises...


Why can't they just say what is the real and final total cost?

Why can't they say what car are you getting in the end (how many people, how much luggage, what's the mileage)?


On site A they say you can rent a car at price X. They even give you a list of surcharges the price covers (like ten different ones) - but they don't tell you they have omitted the most costly ones...

Or on a site B they say X is the full cost you have to pay... but then there is the small print which says taxes b & c are not included and it's said nowhere how much they are (you need to find them out yourself).

In hopes of getting a possible six-seater Ford Escape with promised 28mpg on highway (to take Brinn with us to Geneva), you could end up with any random gas-devouring SUV (even less than 20mpg) with only five seats. And actually one search gave the mileage of Ford Escape as 22mpg! So who to believe? We'll be driving for 6000+ miles so the mileage is not an insignificant factor.

In hopes of getting a full-size car with comfort (like Chevy Impala) you either get a car with 28mpg or 21mpg; or you get a car with ample room to four big baggages or just for two... a premium car would have more or less assured extra-room for the luggage but the price would be accordingly high (at about 300$ more) - and the mileage would be accordingly bad... or how could you know?


Couldn't they get just real saying what they're selling to people? :mad:


PS: I'm "fourthing" the PC to Mordor!

[Lindale]

Twelve-year-old kids who try to mug you.

As I was waiting for a taxi this evening, a twelve-year-old boy tried to snatch my bag away. It was dark and rainy, but I caught up with him. Sad to say, with my PMS and my terrible toothache, emotion dictated me... I beat him before I took him to the police station. Since he's a juvie, the police didn't want anything to do with him... they couldn't even get his name without bypassing legal stuff. Worst thing was that there was nobody I could turn to at that moment!

[Inziladun]

Twelve-year-old kids who try to mug you.

As I was waiting for a taxi this evening, a twelve-year-old boy tried to snatch my bag away. It was dark and rainy, but I caught up with him. Sad to say, with my PMS and my terrible toothache, emotion dictated me... I beat him before I took him to the police station. Since he's a juvie, the police didn't want anything to do with him... they couldn't even get his name without bypassing legal stuff. Worst thing was that there was nobody I could turn to at that moment!

How terrible! At least you weren't hurt. It's unbelievable that the police were so hamstrung they couldn't even demand his name.

[Lindale]

How terrible! At least you weren't hurt. It's unbelievable that the police were so hamstrung they couldn't even demand his name.

Yes. I realized when I got home, I could have fared a lot worse--what if the kid had back-up? No amount of college-level ROTC could've saved me. :mad:

[Elfchick7]

Economy-crippling oil spills! That is what I assign to Mordor!

[Pitchwife]

Economy-crippling oil spills! That is what I assign to Mordor!
Seconded. (Although I'm rather more worried about the ecology-crippling aspect.)
(Come to think of it, I really should change my sig - it's becoming less funny with every liter spouting out of that damned hole.)

[Ibrîniðilpathânezel]

On a slightly less earth-impacting line, coming home from vacation to a flooded basement. I don't regret missing the terrible thunderstorms (bad ones make me twitchy ever since a near brush with lightning), but the water in the basement was not a nice welcome home gift. Thank God it was only rain water, not sewage, and nothing was seriously damaged.

[TheGreatElvenWarrior]

I assign having a lovely dream that I mysteriously appeared in Britain on a train, in London to be exact, with my grandparents. Then having to wake up from it. :(

I really miss England and Wales (Scotland we didn't go to).

[Laurinquë]

I assign having a lovely dream that I mysteriously appeared in Britain on a train, in London to be exact, with my grandparents. Then having to wake up from it. :(

I really miss England and Wales (Scotland we didn't go to).

I second that. I too continue having dreams where I am still in the UK, on a train and everything is wonderful.

I assign packing my things for moving, and my dislike for doing it. Now I shall get off the computer and get to work! :rolleyes:

[TheGreatElvenWarrior]

I second that. I too continue having dreams where I am still in the UK, on a train and everything is wonderful.

I assign packing my things for moving, and my dislike for doing it. Now I shall get off the computer and get to work! :rolleyes:Yes, a train going through that lovely green country, passing rows of beautiful brick houses, going from giant smog-filled city to tiny picturesque village. Ahh. I should assign that to the Shire!

Yes, packing and moving can all be sent to Mordor. Good riddance. No wait, I think that Mordor is too good for it!
Of all of the cruel and unusual punishments parents could lay down on their children, moving has got to be the worst. And all this time you think "What did I do wrong to deserve this torture?" :(

[Pitchwife]

I assign having a lovely dream that I mysteriously appeared in Britain on a train, in London to be exact, with my grandparents. Then having to wake up from it. :(
If you woke up before having to navigate your way around the London Underground, you should count yourself lucky.:p

I really miss England and Wales (Scotland we didn't go to).
So do I. Especially Wales. ++Cymru to the Shire

[TheGreatElvenWarrior]

If you woke up before having to navigate your way around the London Underground, you should count yourself lucky.:p

We were just about to go on the Underground, actually. But if you have a map the Tube isn't that difficult to navigate. Only the first day that you're in London. When we arrived we actually had a couple of people ask us if we needed help navigating. Ah, fun times.

So do I. Especially Wales. ++Cymru to the Shire
Wales has glorious scenery! We drove through it. Well, Wales has glorious scenery when there isn't a hedge or brick wall obstructing our view. :p

[Ibrîniðilpathânezel]

I miss Wales because we didn't go there when I was in Britain... oh, a long time ago. Going on forty years. England and Scotland we toured, and they were marvelous, especially since I was part of a touring choir and we got to perform in some magnificent places. If only we'd been there a bit longer... *sigh*

[TheGreatElvenWarrior]

I miss Wales because we didn't go there when I was in Britain... oh, a long time ago. Going on forty years. England and Scotland we toured, and they were marvelous, especially since I was part of a touring choir and we got to perform in some magnificent places. If only we'd been there a bit longer... *sigh*
Oh! Some of the churches in Britain are marvellous! They are old and lovely. I think that my favourite building is the Palace of Westminster, though. Gorgeous.

You can always stay longer in Britain. I don't think that anybody could stay long enough to see every grand thing there.

[Ibrîniðilpathânezel]

I will now assign tornadoes and their attendant thunderstorms. I just came up from the basement, where my husband is still vacuuming up rainwater, to try to get hold of my sister, who lives about two miles away. She lost power while we were talking (yes, I know you should get off the phone when it's storming, but she called first, and didn't know that there was a tornado heading her way). A tree came down in her backyard and hit her building, and she thought it was just strong wind. She's okay, thank God, but she still has no power, and I suspect it'll be a while before she gets it back. Lots of damage all over the place. I hope nobody was hurt -- and thank heavens for old fashioned land line phones that care naught for power failures and damage to cell towers.

[Lastande Took]

:eek: Tornadoes certainly go to Mordor, along with people who know how to use correct or at least passable spelling/grammar but don't bother to do so. It causes me almost physical pain to see mistakes like its/it's, your/you're, no capitalization or punctuation in something posted online - you get the idea.

[Dimturiel]

people who know how to use correct or at least passable spelling/grammar but don't bother to do so. It causes me almost physical pain to see mistakes like its/it's, your/you're, no capitalization or punctuation in something posted online - you get the idea.

Ah, yes, these spelling and grammar mistakes drive me up the wall too whenever I see them and I'm not even a native speaker. I second their assignement to Mordor.
I also wish to send floods to Mordor and the resulting train delays. Last week, my train was six hours late - which meant six more hours to spend in that train to the already thirteen I had to spend anyway. I'm also sending the conductor who was conveniently absent when we were all demanding an explanation. I still have no idea what exactly happened that made us so late.

[Inziladun]

I assign putting a new band on a wristwatch. Those spring pins could have been designed by Morgoth himself for our torment.

[Mithalwen]

Seeing your brilliant giant of a father diminished in mind and body with no hope of Gandalf coming to restore him.

[Galadriel]

I know what I assign today...a fight with my best friend over nothing. We were talking about the difference between the 'popularity' of a book and 'actual talent', and I gave the examples of Twilight and Harry Potter as popular books. Of course, she already knows I respect the HP series, but this time she kept insisting that I was deliberately trying to insult it, which I was not, and I said so.
She actually walked away in a huff O.O after saying that Lord of the Rings is as bad as Twilight...
Christ...

[Lindale]

I assign my credit card, which is (1) but an extension of my dad's and (2) not even useful when ordering stuff at Amazon. :( What else might be the purpose of my job then?

[Nerwen]

The film project I got casually involved with a few months ago and which I'm trying to find a way to exit from gracefully, as the script gets worse with each draft and it becomes more and more apparent that the "professional screenwriter" responsible for it is actually a.) inept, b.) not, in fact, professional, and c.) loony.

The woman's sheer nerve and determination I might assign to Orthanc, if I didn't happen to think it more the result of a prolonged manic episode than anything else.

This thing is going to crash and burn so badly... :eek: I mean, it may be the worst screenplay I've ever read, and that's saying something.:(

[Elfchick7]

I assign foolish work drama. We are not bratty children, let's stop acting them...*sigh*

[TheGreatElvenWarrior]

I assign this week.
I assign my life in general and the things which have happened. I assign the nastiness that the world threw up in our faces and sadness that has come over my friends; and especially assign being so far away from everyone and everything I know that I am no help at all to those who are closest to me. :(:mad:

[satansaloser2005]

I assign getting Hunter*moment of silence*'s new hard drive enclosure in the mail today, only to realize that I've misplaced my dinky screwdriver and thus can't open the contraption to put his little brain into it.

Also, nearly slitting my wrist with a steak knife trying to rectify the above. (I'm fine.)

[Nogrod]

I assign to Mordor the jet-lag that makes one's shaky daily rhythm into chaos...

[Blind Guardian]

I assign rap musik. Die! Rot in Melkor and Sauron's dungens!!! AAAHHHHHH! the only good thing they can do :P

[Andsigil]

Cretins who drive with the bass from their subwoofers loud enough to rattle windows.

I'd like to blast them with Flame of Arnor and then feed the remains to Carcharoth.

[Feanor of the Peredhil]

All four wisdom teeth out.

OW.

[TheGreatElvenWarrior]

It HAS been a bad week. Even for Downers...:(

[satansaloser2005]

All four wisdom teeth out.

OW.

*hugs you* I'm really hoping they knocked you out for it. I was blissfully incompetent (shut up) for nearly two days after I had mine removed.

[Feanor of the Peredhil]

*hugs you* I'm really hoping they knocked you out for it. I was blissfully incompetent (shut up) for nearly two days after I had mine removed.

Definitely knocked out.

And now eating pudding and drinking milkshakes, craving pizza or an apple or anything that needs chewing. :rolleyes:

[Bêthberry]

On behalf of Rune I assign to Mordor missing an international flight home and incurring extra costs. :eek: :mad: :(

Oh, and that little icon up there? It's a symbolic offer of beer.

[Feanor of the Peredhil]

It bears repeating, if only because accidentally ripping out stitches is even worse when it's in your mouth and you suddenly taste a lot of blood.

And you're in the car fast approaching a dirt road because you're escaping civilization for the night and you realize there's no tissues or gauze or anything in the car so you try to staunch the bleeding with a receipt from a grocery store as the person driving pulls over and tries to figure out how they can save you when they're not even sure what just happened except that you were happy and now you're freaking out.

Not... you know... that that happened last night or anything.

Also, house fires, and the scum of the earth that shows up after them offering you their 'services' for rebuilding.

[Durelin]

Wow...I clicked on this thread for the first time in ages upon ages with my teeth in mind (hoping at least to read others' woes to make me feel better about myself or something)... I had all four of my wisdom teeth out on the 20th, and just today found out that I have developed a dry socket.

I am going out of my mind not being able to eat real food.

So, second everything Fea has said, though when I felt some stitches rip out I was lucky enough to not bleed out....but I got a dry socket instead, so...bleh.

[Feanor of the Peredhil]

Poor thing! Everyone keeps telling me to avoid a dry socket, and for a while I was like, "Okay... um... so if I see one while I'm driving, I won't let it into my car..." because nobody explained what one actually is or how to avoid one. Then Mira looked it up for me earlier today, so now I feel super bad for you.

Barrowdowner Mouth Cripples unite! I discovered that if you get really good potato chips with lots of flavor (like baked salt and pepper flavored) and suck on them, it's almost like eating...

:(

[Ibrîniðilpathânezel]

Ripping out oral surgery stitches.... Yeah, a real delight. Especially when it happens in your sleep, and you wake up at three in the morning with a mouthful of blood and a blood-soaked pillow and nightgown. Happened to me a long time ago, but the memory remains quite fresh. :p

[Durelin]

Oh no Ibrin! :(

lol, Fea...and to think my mom bought some '5 layer mexican dip' or some such flavored pringles just before i had the surgery...perhaps they will have use after all!!

[Feanor of the Peredhil]

lol, Fea...and to think my mom bought some '5 layer mexican dip' or some such flavored pringles just before i had the surgery...perhaps they will have use after all!!

So guess which other 'Downer has a dry socket to deal with? :(

We should start a Mouth Cripples Club. Sauron could join... after all, he had to use some other guy as his Mouth, since his apparently quit working right ages ago.

[Nerwen]

I had to look up what a dry socket was– sounds seriously nasty.:(

[Durelin]

Noooooo! Poor Fea, only one I hope....

I'm really not sure what the magic is behind avoiding a dry socket. Bleh.

I think I'm back to the oral surgeon tomorrow to get more medicine in (mine all came out this morning...) Woo.

If we lived closer to each other, we'd have to go out for whatever we've been craving most, after we're both finally through all this. XD

[spirit_of_fire]

My sister. Making a mistake once or twice is fine, twenty or thirty times just isn't on.

[Lastande Took]

College applications.
Credit cards.
Stupid computers that need to end up in the shop every couple months and cost as nearly as much as a new computer to fix.
Writer's block.
Sithspit-awful fanfiction (Mary Sues and slash...shudder).
When every schedule at work says something different and you're just trying to figure out when the kriffing people are eating their lunch.
Buying a filmscore only to find that the track order on the CD is nowhere near what it was in the movie. ("Duel of the Fates" as track 2, anybody? That song isn't until the last 20 minutes of the movie, for crying out loud!)

[Nerwen]

After all the adventures in surgery and blood loss Downers have been having recently, I feel a bit pathetic making my own assignment of nose bleeds to Mordor, particularly as I've only been getting very trivial ones indeed– but still, so persistent! I had a cold for a few days three weeks ago, and it's been on ever since.:(

[Ibrîniðilpathânezel]

You certainly have my sympathy, Nerwen. Ever since the bloody gusher in May, every little spot of blood from the nose (which I get during allergy season from all the irritation) has me living in fear that I'll end up back in the ER.

I'll also add mosquitos to Mordor. One or more determined ones bit me five times on the same side of my body the other night, and as I'm allergic to anything insect (silk included), I have huge welts on my left arm, leg, and face. They hurt, they burn, they itch, and nothing short of ice packs and large doses of benedryl helps. I get to look forward to about a week of this. Hm, I think I'll assign allergies, too....

[Feanor of the Peredhil]

I think I'll assign allergies, too....

:(

Yeah...

[satansaloser2005]

HTML code. I've been arguing with it for an hour trying to help someone fix their LJ.


Actually, right now, I think I'll assign LJ too.

[TheGreatElvenWarrior]

HTML code. I've been arguing with it for an hour trying to help someone fix their LJ.


Actually, right now, I think I'll assign LJ too.
Poor LJ. What did it ever do to you? Other than eating your entries, destroying your HTML, being generally confusing, and being silly? :p

[satansaloser2005]

Poor LJ. What did it ever do to you? Other than eating your entries, destroying your HTML, being generally confusing, and being silly? :p

YES.


:cool:

[Feanor of the Peredhil]

When your body goes completely wonky in a very inconvenient and unwelcome way and you're informed by the professionals that you'll just have to wait it out because there's nothing that can be done.

And when they inform you this with a shrug.

Some day I'll be diagnosed with something treatable...

[Lindale]

Paying taxes to a government which does nothing but steal from the national coffers, and then send the most inept team of policemen and snipers to a crazy hostage drama involving a lot of tourists in a bus, several hours later. The story's still in CNN, I believe.

I assign my nation to the fiery chasms of Mordor and Angband as of this moment. I suppose even those from the First World feel this way every now and then though... :(

[Feanor of the Peredhil]

Poison ivy.

[Nerwen]

The stupid, minor things that can spark a massive row with my mother.

The latest– I swear!– was over whether O'Neill's trilogy is entitled "Mourning Becomes Electra" or "Morning Becomes Electra".

*sigh* It's reached the stage where I'm simply not allowed to contradict her– even in a low-key way– on any point whatever. Especially if I turn out to be right.

The thing is, she's such a kind, lovely person in the normal way of things, and I know this is all due to pressure she's under at work– but all the same, it's making it downright nerve-wracking to talk to her at all.:(

[Ibrîniðilpathânezel]

That's the pits, especially when it's your mother. I had a friend once who would never admit to being wrong about anything, even when the evidence was plopped down in front of her. Best concession she would give is "maybe you're right" — NEVER "maybe I'm wrong." And she talked like she was an expert in absolutely everything (she wasn't). It's tough dealing with people like that, and you've got my sympathy. At least I only had to see this person once in a while. When it's your mother.... *shudder*

[Nerwen]

It's tough dealing with people like that, and you've got my sympathy. At least I only had to see this person once in a while. When it's your mother.... *shudder*

Well, as I said, she's not usually like this, at all. But when she is, it's pretty hard to deal with.

[Galadriel]

Maths exams. They're the pits...
Actually, they're the pits of the seven Hells...

[Lindale]

My Boss!

But probably he's in Mordor right now anyway, cooking his country's traditional food from the fires of Mount Doom. He should return to his country and work there if he doesn't want to follow our country's laws and holidays.

[Galadriel55]

Newspaper routes. I took 2 routes this summer to get some extra money, and it was the worst experience in my life so far - putting all the flyers together and then going back and forth on the street throwing them on every driveway (I was supposed to put them nicely on the doorstep, but I stopped caring for that very soon), and then rubbing my hands for five minutes straight before all the lead came off them....

I more than agree with those people who said rap and those people who call LOTR (or Tolkien) dumb without reading it.

[elronds_daughter]

Three-hour-long rehearsals for my music department's Christmas concert...which no one is prepared for. Did I mention the first performance is two weeks away?

[Galadriel55]

Having to draw a to-scale-map of Toronto on a huge sheet of paper

[Galadriel]

Trying desperately to get some work done...only to be interrupted by someone every two seconds.

[Galadriel]

Having to draw a to-scale-map of Toronto on a huge sheet of paper

Ah. Painful. Almost as bad as calculating scores and putting them on graphs for a psycho project (and believe me, the scores are HARD. Everything needs to be reversed, and you have around three pages to refer to :p).

[Nerwen]

The following, which happened last week:

A client refusing to pay me for a job he'd commissioned, not because it wasn't up to standard, but because he had decided in the meantime that the money would be "better spent" on other things. No, he's not being a jerk, at least not on purpose– the man just doesn't understand that you can't do that. (I regret to say that I've had this happen before with amateur artists and the like– sometimes, no matter what they agree to, they seem to view the whole transaction as a game :rolleyes: )

The cat dying. She'd been poorly for a few days, and then I walked out on the back verandah and found her collapsed on the ground. I rushed her to the vet but he couldn't do anything. To tell the truth, she wasn't the nicest cat around, in fact rather a wicked little beast, but she was cute in her own way, and I'd got fond of her. I really miss her now. :( It seems to strange to pour milk, or cut a piece of cheese, without her damanding some, with a baleful yellow glare and the most threatening miaow possible...

Missing an important meeting, due to the aforementioned dying cat and to a certain party who couldn't be bothered arriving on time to give me a lift.:mad:

The computer dying. At least, it's currently in the electronic version of intensive care. I'm writing this on my father's machine.


Definitely one of those weeks. At least there was some good news at the end of it.

[TheGreatElvenWarrior]

Children that aren't supposed to exist. Life was already a living hell before... :(

[Pitchwife]

The cat dying. She'd been poorly for a few days, and then I walked out on the back verandah and found her collapsed on the ground. I rushed her to the vet but he couldn't do anything. To tell the truth, she wasn't the nicest cat around, in fact rather a wicked little beast, but she was cute in her own way, and I'd got fond of her. I really miss her now. :( It seems to strange to pour milk, or cut a piece of cheese, without her damanding some, with a baleful yellow glare and the most threatening miaow possible...
The death of a dear pet is always Mordor-worthy. My deepest sympathy, Nerwen! (My two toms send their condolences, too.)

[xMellrynxMaidenx]

I assign to Mordor....Mathematics in general. Because it gave me during middle and high school. I had NO problems with it in Elementary, but then they added the alphabet. :p

I also assign to Mordor... the Twilight Saga. There's a difference in being a devoted, loyal fan and being psychotically obsessive. (Now watch an avid despiser of Harry Potter post they assign HP to Mordor :p It never fails. And aside from that I'm not saying ALL fans are like that, just the majority of those whom I've had the...[I]pleasure of meeting.)

And someone on the first page said they assigned Jack Russells to Mordor...I, too, agree with this! There is NEVER a moment's peace in this house because of those yapping, over excited, horribly ill-tempered dogs.

And while I'm adding things to the list, how about hunters who apparently can't distinguish the difference between a dog and a deer. You couldn't even mistake them for coyotes!



With all of that off my chest, Nerwen I know exactly how you feel and I sympathize. I lost my cat whom I've had since I was in 6th grade to coyotes. It was, to say the least, devastating for me. :(

[Galadriel55]

My cat died a few years ago just after she had kittens. I was really upset about it. I know how you feel, Nerwen.

PJ definitely belongs in Mordor. May he rot there in the deepest hole he can find! Curse him till the end of his days! He has no right to ruin LOTR.
No offence to you, Mellrynx, but I'd assign math to Rivendell, if there was such a thing. I love working with the alphabet instead of real numbers. The one small part of ath I'd put in Mordor would be multiplying 5-digit numbers by hand.

[Inziladun]

Having an antibiotic that you've taken many times before with no trouble unaccountably start giving very unpleasant side effects.

[Arendil15]

Raving fans that are only excited for "the hot elf" Legolas and only remember him. All kinds of math....its frustrating and detesting. Anyone who looks at the books and rejects them without a second thought. All the "popular cool people" who are just jerks to everyone else.:mad:

[Galadriel55]

I've said this many times in various threads, and I'll say it again: may PJ rot in the deepest and darkest pit of Mordor until the end of his days!!! *and let us say: Amen* :)

"Anyone who looks at the books and rejects them without a second thought" - and may they join PJ.
Anyone who rejects the books without even looking at them - may they also rot there! For twice as long!

PS: if PJ somehow escapes this fate, may he be lynched by his own made-up Faramir!

[Mithalwen]

All the "popular cool people" who are just jerks to everyone else.:mad:

Forgive me if I am wrong, but I would guess from this comment you are still at school? This may be of little comfort if you have a long time ago until you escape compulsory education but the sort of people who are regarded as "cool" as teenagers - well surveys have shown that they will never have it so good again because the kind of snotty stuck up behaviour they display doesn't tend to make you popular in the grown up world and workplace.

So the non cool kids often get the last laugh, better education, quite possibly more interesting jobs, friends who actually like them for themselves not because they are flavour of the month.... the cool kids literally peak too soon. Hang on in there...

[Galadriel55]

Yeah! Mithalwen is so right! Even though I just started high-school and you could say that my education just started ;), all the bighead stuck-up cool guys from middle school are already half failing (well, they use the optiistic term: just passing:rolleyes:). After 8 years of receiving "jerk behaviour" from them it feels so good to beat them by like 15% in almost every subject...! Don't worry, Arendil15, when time comes it'll be the other way 'round with them :D

[TheGreatElvenWarrior]

Arendil15,
I've been relatively sheltered from the kids who think that they're the coolest things since sliced bread, due to the nature of my school and its being populated by nerds. But I can say that my experiences at other schools really suck. High school is a horrible time, and though there is nothing I can say to make it more enjoyable to anybody, Mith is right. People who are 'cool' really aren't, and they never will be. One must stick with their friends and fellow nerds just to get through this horrible time. The upside is that there are classes and such that you can take at other schools, at universities, and AP classes that are for students who want to do well and learn. There is always the option of a nice Liberal open optional (http://www.polarisk12school.org/)education (Shameless school-plug). ;)

[Galadriel]

I assign to Mordor....Mathematics in general. Because it gave me during middle and high school. I had NO problems with it in Elementary, but then they added the alphabet. :p

I also assign to Mordor... the Twilight Saga. There's a difference in being a devoted, loyal fan and being psychotically obsessive. (Now watch an avid despiser of Harry Potter post they assign HP to Mordor :p It never fails. And aside from that I'm not saying ALL fans are like that, just the majority of those whom I've had the...[I]pleasure of meeting.)(

I can sympathize with you. I am going through that torture right now. Maths. *shudder* I don't think I'll live.

Haha. The Twilight Saga. My old arch-enemy. Let's not even go there.

[Galadriel55]

I also hate Twilight. I don't understand how all my friends are upsest with it.
But, as I said before, I love math!

[Galadriel]

I also hate Twilight. I don't understand how all y friends are upsest with it.
But, as I said before, I love math!

Ugh for Twilight.
Double ugh for Maths.

[Andsigil]

I assign to Mordor the Sauronic devastation (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcV1dgIQHCA) wrought in California's Central Valley in the name of the Delta Smelt.

[Rune Son of Bjarne]

I am quite annoyed that over the last few days there have known the answer to a few "Quotes" and "Quiz" questions. Normally this would be nice, but I dare not answer since I did not bring my books with me to England. (This would make it quite difficult to come up with a new quote)

[Feanor of the Peredhil]

I'm supposed to be on vacation. Vacation isn't supposed to involve flu symptoms. Flu symptoms are supposed to be caused by the flu, not by your pillow. Pillows are supposed to cradle and love you, not inflict death upon you (unless you're Desdemona). Fail, hotel room, fail.

[Galadriel55]

I hate allergies! I'm sorry they ruined your vacation, Fea.

Ugh for Twilight.
Double ugh for Maths.

Yay for math.
Urgh for twilight.
Tripple Urgh for essays - I hate the guts of the person who invented essays, because now everyone has to write essays.:mad:

[Mithalwen]

Tripple Urgh for essays - I hate the guts of the person who invented essays, because now everyone has to write essays.:mad:

Mind you they may have blessed them at the time because it probably saved them from a surfeit of Vivas...

[Galadriel55]

Mind you they may have blessed them at the time because it probably saved them from a surfeit of Vivas...

Probably, but now they made every student suffer!:mad:

[Mithalwen]

Well I can sympathise - I have recurring nightmare that I have to do an essay for my degree - overnight about books I haven't read and all the rest of my cohort have already done. Even though I graduated longer ago than I want to admit to.

But I still think I would rather write a paper than do a viva voce.

[Galadriel55]

I also assign this half-winter-half-spring weather we're having in Toronto. I hate having to shovel "snow" (*cough cough... more like slush) when its raining on your head! Disgusting weather!

[Blind Guardian]

I assign this 80 degree heat! I'd fit nicely in Mordor.

Edit: Last two posts: :D

[Feanor of the Peredhil]

Imagine walking through the grocery store. And you see that fabulous yellow tag just below your favorite item. The yellow tag that suggests it's ON SALE! Woo hoo!

You walk quickly toward it. You grab the box of Annie's organic cheddar bunny shaped pasta. And before you celebrate not paying full price, you see that the price on the yellow sale tag is the SAME price as the normal price listed above it!

Those sneaks! Make you think you're getting a good deal when in reality you're getting the same deal as always!

[Galadriel55]

Those sneaks! Make you think you're getting a good deal when in reality you're getting the same deal as always!

Bad people, my preciousss, bad, nassssty, stupid cheaters!

Once I saw a tag like that said that there was a sale, and it did indeed have a sale. It was exactly $0.5 cheaper than usual. :D

[Blind Guardian]

You walk quickly toward it. You grab the box of Annie's organic cheddar bunny shaped pasta. And before you celebrate not paying full price, you see that the price on the yellow sale tag is the SAME price as the normal price listed above it!


I LOVE THOSE! You also eat organic?

[Feanor of the Peredhil]

I LOVE THOSE! You also eat organic?

Whenever it's feasible to do so. I was actually after white cheddar shells, but they were out, so I went with 'Arthur' themed noodles and bunny shaped ones, which stunned and delighted a pair of small girls. I like to eat things that only contain actual food products, and I like my ingredient lists on pre-made things to be only a few items long, if at all possible. I'm not horribly picky, and once in a while I'm still going to get one of those godawful fifty cent 'apple pie' things that have an infinite shelf life and are glazed with the sugar equivalent of crack. But I likes me apples to have no ingredients except 'apple' and my orange juice to consist of 'orange juice' and maybe, for diversity, 'pulp' and a smattering of 'water'. I like water. I don't like high fructose corn syrup. If you need to sweeten your oranges, you did something terribly wrong to the orange.

And the only tomatoes I'll eat are locally grown, because any tomato that's durable enough to survive the shipping and refrigerating process almost invariably tastes like cardboard. *twitch* But then, I live in the boondocks, so between the end of April and the end of October, I get all/most of my produce from farm stands anyway. Same goes for desserts: when you get your caramel glazed cinnamon rolls from an Amish bake sale every Friday, you can guarantee they're organic. :cool:

But on the subject of Mordor... The fact that it's not time for my favorite farm stand to be open yet! I have to wait almost two months still! Winter produce makes me sad. It's so flavorless. I'm a raw foods kind of a kid (mmm sushi), so when the options are either 'shipped from somewhere far, far away' or 'frozen,' I get sad because it's just not the same as having a brown paper bag full of sugar snap peas that you can eat while driving with the windows down.

[Nerwen]

This is going to sound rather petty and whiny, and indeed it is a pretty small annoyance in the scheme of things, but nonetheless:

Fake gift-giving. That is, the practice of buying someone a "present" with yourself in mind, then immediately asking for a long-term loan of said present. Really, who do they think they're kidding?:rolleyes: (Yes, yes, this just happened to me, of course– can't you tell?)

[Azrakhor Akallabeth]

Most Alsatians. Horrible, wolfy things...

All Jack Russells, without exception.

Vodka. That really is orc-liquor...

Dill. Foul, vile, evil, insidious herb...


HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAaaaaaaaaaaaha hhhhhhhhhaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahahHHHhHAHHHHHHHHHHHHHAAAA AAAAAAAhhhhhHHHHhHHAhHAaaAAAAAHAHAHHHAHAHAHAHAHAHA AAAAAAAh! Oh my. :confused:

[Azrakhor Akallabeth]

After reading some of this thread (and counting) I have to say that one thing is certain- true Tolkien fans are some of the liveliest, ultra-witty and intelligent bipedal (and otherly ambulatory) humanoids in all of Middle Earth. It's no wonder when the overly self-congratulating find the Professors work to be uninteresting. They appear to lack the depth to appreciate the richness of his. Such amazing men as he are not only extremely rare, but are (very nearly) responsible for making this life worth all the trouble (how many parenthesis is one allowed per paragraph?).

So, having voiced that scathing and abrasive opinion (concerning out-worlders), I must second the sentiments concerning all dullards who think Tolkien's work is boring (at best) and annoying (in the least), and the "Legolasites", or however one might pronounce it (sounds like parasites), who are only in it for the killer cool contact lenses and the sick snow sledding shield. These, without a doubt, come from Mordor as surely as will my (someday) future mother-in-law.

And to add my own personal bias- Anything that walks with more than four legs.

[Galadriel55]

Pssst - we put good stuff in this (http://forum.barrowdowns.com/showthread.php?t=11905)thread! ;)


Anything that walks with more than four legs.

Caterpillars are ok.

This is going to sound rather petty and whiny, and indeed it is a pretty small annoyance in the scheme of things, but nonetheless

Isn't it the little petty things that make up our daily troubles? ;)



Fake gift-giving. That is, the practice of buying someone a "present" with yourself in mind, then immediately asking for a long-term loan of said present. Really, who do they think they're kidding? (Yes, yes, this just happened to me, of course– can't you tell?)

How cheap and annoying! I feel really lucky that this didn't happen to me. Whoever did this to you has no brains.

[Azrakhor Akallabeth]

Re: Caterpillars are ok.

To WHOM it may concern;

PERHAPS, this ONE concession. But only because you're a serious Tolkienite, lol! :D

[Mithalwen]

People who switch off their brains when they switch on their technological devices and expect you to provide postcodes for their sat nav for buildings clearly marked off the main drag.

[Galadriel55]

Videos that take forever to buffer and then get stuck every four or five seconds. :rolleyes:

[Inziladun]

Tornadoes. It's been a terrible day for them in my neck of the woods. There have been many deaths. It's the grace of God that my community had no major damage.

[Galadriel55]

Glad you're ok, Zil!

[Inziladun]

Thanks, G55.

[Pitchwife]

/\
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I second that.

[Inziladun]

Thanks, mate.

As I said, I and my family were spared from any serious danger by chance. I second Bombadil's "if chance you call it", though.

[Nerwen]

I'll third it, then. So glad you're all right, Zil.

[Inziladun]

Thanks, Nerwen.

I've only spoken to Leyrana Silumiel (http://forum.barrowdowns.com/member.php?u=3184) once or twice via PM, but I think she was in Tuscaloosa, which sustained an incredible amount of damage. If so, let's pray she's all right.

[Galadriel55]

I assign computers that do crazy things behind your back.

My computer decided that it will have lots of fun erasing all the memmory and all the programs (even those basic ones like Word), and instead of showing a window for the internet it now covers the whole screen, without the blue border or anything, even covering the Start button... I'm practically banging my head against the wall trying to get it to work properly...and not succeeding, obviously... :mad:

[Elfchick7]

I assign uncompensated teachers' meeting on Sundays. I also assign Taiwanese parents who refuse to see when their children have serious problems all in the name of saving face.

[TheGreatElvenWarrior]

I assign public schools. I hate them, hate them, HATE THEM!! Where is my wonderful open-optional, student-led, RESPONSIBLE education when I need it the most? Oh right, it's four thousand miles away.

I go from one of the best schools in the country to a school in the state with one of the worst education systems (and, as a result, the worst graduation rate) in the country, and my mother tells me it's just as good as my real school. The nerve.

Take me to a place where the subject being taught wasn't something I learnt in seventh grade. I am a senior in high school, I am more intelligent than this for crying out loud! Stop treating me like an infant!

Okay, rant mode off. But seriously, people, this is a result of the most Mordor-assigning-worthy rubbish that has ever happened in my life, which is too personal to post on the internet, of course.

[Galadriel55]

Switching any school is hard. I have some experience with that - I haven't stayed in a single school so far for over 2 years. Hopefully I won't have to switch my high school, because I really like it. I can see myself putting up tantrums if I'm told that I have to go to a different school. If anything, you have all the right to rant.



I assign fake fire alarm drills. In my school there were two (!) today. We had to stand out in the cold for a half an hour just so that the teachers can see that we know where the doors are. It's stupid and annoying, and I missed part of my favourite class. :mad: I was lucky enough to have a sweater on, but some people were only wearing t-shirts. :eek:

[Mithalwen]

I'll second that.. I spent a term as an assistant matron (housemother) at a Prep school (ages 7-13). I was on sleep in duty in the Girls boarding house when an alarm went off at 3 am. It wasn't a drill and the urgency to get out was increased for me not only because the sleep in room was in the attic so I had furthest to go but because in addition to the regualar boarders who were all 10 -12 and relatively able to take care of them selves we had due to a family emergency a day girl from the nursery school staying for a few days.

So no sooner was I down the attic steps than the senior matron delivered the sleeping child into my arms and I had to make my way down several flights of stairs and across the gardens to the sports hall. Not easy to maintain one's dignity and modesty with such burden and even a slender 4 year old seems heavy and bulky when they are very sleepy and you have to carry them a distance and you are acutely aware that knee length dressinggown and night shirt don't seem long enough when you are about to join a group of near adolsecent boys,,

After that incident I pretty much took to sleeping in clothes when on sleep in duty which was just as well since I always seemed to get the fire alarms....

[mark12_30]

Tasteless and immoral poetry.

[Kath]

The M25. Nuff said.

[Mithalwen]

London's orbital carpark on a Friday night...been there done that.... fun not...

[Rune Son of Bjarne]

Going on the downs and finding a lot of your favourite threads revived, only to discover that it is purely spam posts.

[Galadriel55]

Finding out that your school internet system thingy blocks the Downs. :( Apparently it goes under the category of "games". Ignorant idiots!

[TheGreatElvenWarrior]

Finding out that your school internet system thingy blocks the Downs. :( Apparently it goes under the category of "games". Ignorant idiots!

I used to be able to be on the Downs all day long at school. In fact, in ninth grade, I had a study hall for an hour and a half every other day. Aside from running upstairs to bother Lauri, I would spend the entire time on the Downs and not do any of my actual homework.

Now I can't go on the Downs at school because they categorise it as FORUMS/CHAT. Bah. If kids can play flash games at school, I should be able to go on the Downs.

[Galadriel]

Weekends when you need to finish a ton of work and at the same time spend time with visiting family -_-

Edit: I am going to add: getting nasty shocks when you get back essays from your teachers.

[Andsigil]

I assign to Mordor the dystopic phenomenon of people driving with the bass booming in their cars so loudly you hear it inside your house.

It should be legal to sew these cretins into a sack of angry baboons, and then toss the sack into a tank filled with Congolese river fish.

[TheGreatElvenWarrior]

I assign bratty brothers. My brother threw a tantrum tonight because of ten minutes worth of work. In the process, he ripped my glasses off of my face and hurled them to the floor almost breaking them. He has anger management problems, and he can be seriously injurious in his fits of passion. I just don't know what to do about it besides retaliating with more violence. :(

[Galadriel55]

The book I was reading fell into a full bathtub yesterday. :o

A Feast For Crows was sacrificed in an offering to the Drowned God. But after the fan gave it the kiss of life it became kinda usable again, except that it feels weird. The pages don't feel like proper pages anymore.

[Aganzir]

The book I was reading fell into a full bathtub yesterday. :o

A Feast For Crows was sacrificed in an offering to the Drowned God. But after the fan gave it the kiss of life it became kinda usable again, except that it feels weird. The pages don't feel like proper pages anymore.
I seem to have repped you too recently to do it now, but know that your post made me laugh. :D

[Boromir88]

I seem to have repped you too recently to do it now, but know that your post made me laugh. :D

Seconded. Considering I'm about to start Feast of Crows too :)

[Galadriel]

[QUOTE=Galadriel55;662860]Switching any school is hard. I have some experience with that - I haven't stayed in a single school so far for over 2 years. Hopefully I won't have to switch my high school, because I really like it. I can see myself putting up tantrums if I'm told that I have to go to a different school. If anything, you have all the right to rant.

Ohh, my mum was in the same situation because her dad worked for the army. Must be really hard to keep up with friends :( I don't know what I'd do in your situation, because I'm quite introverted as it is! :p

I assign fake fire alarm drills. In my school there were two (!) today. We had to stand out in the cold for a half an hour just so that the teachers can see that we know where the doors are. It's stupid and annoying, and I missed part of my favourite class. I was lucky enough to have a sweater on, but some people were only wearing t-shirts.

There were three real fire alarms within two weeks at college last term :/ One was at 2 a.m. :(

Edit: Did I mention, someone set our oven on fire?

[Lalwendë]

The book I was reading fell into a full bathtub yesterday. :o

A Feast For Crows was sacrificed in an offering to the Drowned God. But after the fan gave it the kiss of life it became kinda usable again, except that it feels weird. The pages don't feel like proper pages anymore.

Listen. Way back in 1985 I was reading the Humphrey Carpenter bio of Tolkien in bed while enjoying a nice glass of warm Ribena and I spilled it all over my book. I was pretty upset about the book being forever stained purple but I was more worried about my mum going up the wall at the fact I'd been lying around in bed and spilling blackcurrant all over the sheets. So think yourself lucky ;)

Anyway, I came here to assign bus stop offenders. The ones who stand in front of you when you're waiting for the bus so your view is obscured and you miss the bus. And the ones who sit on the middle of the bus shelter seat so nobody else can sit down and they all have to huddle at the far end while madam luxuriates in having the whole bench to herself. And the ones who will not stand within ten feet of another person, so you get to a bus shelter that should cover fifteen people but one person needs so much personal space that everyone is rammed together in the three feet of space that Princess Touch Me Not allows them.

Of course, this would all be solved if I was not British and consumed with queue etiquette anxiety. ;)

[Rune Son of Bjarne]

Did I mention that in the summer almost all cellars in Copenhagen got flooded, I still had a few boxes down there (stored item that I did not bring with me to England).

Obviously it was the heavy stuff that was left. . . Heavy = Book/and comic books.

I lost for at least £800 worth, including the Luis Bermejo comic-book version of The Fellowship. . .

I know this is old news, but all this talk of wet books reminded me of the terrible event.

[Pomegranate]

Ha, bath tubs and books remind me of the time, almost ten years ago, when I was a happy little child and had just gotten the hold of a book that would practically change my life (sounds pathetic, but in fact, scarily true), The Lord Of The Rings. My excited self didn't put it down for the week or two it took me to read it, and this did include a trip to a bath. So my dear, dear copy of the book is from midway down double the thickness it is from midway up :/

And I came back to campus less than a week ago, first fire alarm was already before the lectures started and the second was about two days ago. All these new exchange student kids who don't know how to cook.

That is, catered schools that send their students abroad to learn life, and bathtubs, to Mordor with them!

[Galadriel55]

Listen. Way back in 1985 I was reading the Humphrey Carpenter bio of Tolkien in bed while enjoying a nice glass of warm Ribena and I spilled it all over my book. I was pretty upset about the book being forever stained purple but I was more worried about my mum going up the wall at the fact I'd been lying around in bed and spilling blackcurrant all over the sheets. So think yourself lucky ;)

My story is mild compared to yours. :D

And that reminds me of the copy of The Sil in my school library. It has a huge sticky brown stain on the back cover that seeped through the last pages. I don't know when or how it got there, but the possibilities are endless. Imagine the story that would make! :eek:

[Legolas]

School loan-related debt. Every penny of it.

[Galadriel]

Annoying words that stick in your head and DON'T go away. I'm learning beginner's Italian, and one of the first words I learned was 'il cocktail'. I want to bash myself over the head with a frying-pan because I can't get it out of my skull :(

[Galadriel]

The book I was reading fell into a full bathtub yesterday.

Wasting beautiful water? Naughty, naughty!

Just kidding :D

[Galadriel55]

Annoying words that stick in your head and DON'T go away.

Ooohhh, I so agree. I always have something stuck in my head. Sometimes it's a song, sometimes a random sentence, and sometimes an even more random word. It just repeats itself over and over again. :(

Just now I have the word "juxtaposition" bouncing off the walls of my skull. I have no idea why. :(

Wasting beautiful water? Naughty, naughty!

Befouling it with ink and paper. :D

[Galadriel]

Befouling it with ink and paper. :D

:eek: *Le gasp!*

[Rikae]

I assign World of Warcraft to Mordor - let Sauron deal with Deathwing. Oh, and on a totally unrelated note, I also assign my half a year or so absence from the 'downs.

[Galadriel55]

I assign French spelling. Seriously, if you want to say "boku", don't write "b-e-a-u-c-o-u-p". And that's not even the worst of it - there's about an infinity of letter combinations that make "eh" sounds. If you want to say ey, so write ey, don't write é, et, es, est, er, ez, ai, ais, ait, aient,, some more that don't come to mind right now, and, worst of all, eaient! Why so many ways to pronounce the same sound, or almost the same sound? Waste of letters.

/rant out.

Also, accents. Never got the point of having so many. Can't even tell the difference between them: é è ê ë, they're all just eh to me. Though Ëonwë would probably disagree with me on this one. ;)

[Pitchwife]

I assign French spelling. Seriously, if you want to say "boku", don't write "b-e-a-u-c-o-u-p". And that's not even the worst of it - there's about an infinity of letter combinations that make "eh" sounds. [...] Waste of letters.
English isn't exactly in a position to complain about this, you know? (http://www.spellingsociety.org/news/media/poems.php)
Besides, doesn't it say something about a language that it expresses the notion of "much" or "many" with a word literally meaning "a fair cup"? Which is of cause lost in a strictly phonetic spelling.

Also, accents. Never got the point of having so many. Can't even tell the difference between them: é è ê ë, they're all just eh to me. Though Ëonwë would probably disagree with me on this one. ;)
Äccents åre græt. Äccents åre gôrjeous. We løves 'èm, my prëcious, yés we dó.:p

[Eönwë]

Also, accents. Never got the point of having so many. Can't even tell the difference between them: é è ê ë, they're all just eh to me. Though Ëonwë would probably disagree with me on this one. ;)
It's just there to tell you that you're meant to pronounce the vowels separately.
And yes, it's Eönwë.

Äccents åre græt. Äccents åre gôrjeous. We løves 'èm, my prëcious, yés we dó.:p
*cough* (http://joelcornah.webs.com/apps/photos/photo?photoid=95075704)

[Galadriel55]

And yes, it's Eönwë.

*cought* :o Yes, um, I *cough*definitely*cough* know accents, you can tell.

[Galadriel]

I assign French spelling. Seriously, if you want to say "boku", don't write "b-e-a-u-c-o-u-p".

FRENCH spellings? English spellings are worse. You can never tell if the 'h' is silent, if the 'c' is a 'c', an 's', or a 'k', if 'ch' is actually 'ch' or just 'k', if the 'x' is actually an 'x' or a 'z'...:Merisu:

[Galadriel55]

FRENCH spellings? English spellings are worse. You can never tell if the 'h' is silent, if the 'c' is a 'c', an 's', or a 'k', if 'ch' is actually 'ch' or just 'k', if the 'x' is actually an 'x' or a 'z'...:Merisu:

No, that's English pronounciation. :D


I guess I see the languages differently because I learn new English from storybooks and new French from the teacher. And when the teacher says, for example, "spell sais", I'm more likely to write c'est or s'est or just plainly ce or se.

In English, though, I'm ok with spelling the words but sometimes have the wrong pronounciation. I still pronounce "treachery" as treechery, not trechery, and "bury" as bury, not bary. Just because I read those words before I heard them.


Or let's put it simpler. I know English, I don't know French. :D

[Andsigil]

I love the English language, ever since I began studying Latin, Spanish, and Japanese.

This attempt by the Normans to smash the square peg of French into the round hole of Anglo Saxon which began a thousand years ago has become what multilingual, non-English speakers have assured is the hardest language to learn in the world.

I've collected a few quotes about English over the years:

“The word ‘good’ has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.”
-G. K. Chesterton

“English grammar is so complex and confusing for the one very simple reason that its rules and terminology are based on Latin, a language with which it has precious little in common.”
-Bill Bryson

To write or even speak English is not a science but an art. Whoever writes English is involved in a struggle that never lets up even for a sentence. He is struggling against vagueness, against obscurity, against the lure of the decorative adjective, against the encroachment of Latin and Greek, and, above all, against the worn-out phrases and dead metaphors with which the language is cluttered up.
—George Orwell

[Galadriel]

[QUOTE=Galadriel55;666718]No, that's English pronounciation.

Oops! Yeah, sorry :p And it's 'pronunciation' ;) I'm usually not bothered by English spellings, but the pronunciation is just...confusing :confused:

Or let's put it simpler. I know English, I don't know French.

I wish I knew French.

[Galadriel]

I love the English language, ever since I began studying Latin, Spanish, and Japanese.

I hate getting envious :(

[Galadriel55]

And it's 'pronunciation'

Ooops. Yeah. Well. Umm. Yeah. :rolleyes:

That's why it all belongs in Mordor - spelling and pronunciation together!

I wish I knew French.

Ditto. If I knew it I woudn't have to learn it. :D

/stupid silly mood

[Mithalwen]

I assign French spelling. Seriously, if you want to say "boku", don't write "b-e-a-u-c-o-u-p". And that's not even the worst of it - there's about an infinity of letter combinations that make "eh" sounds. If you want to say ey, so write ey, don't write é, et, es, est, er, ez, ai, ais, ait, aient,, some more that don't come to mind right now, and, worst of all, eaient! Why so many ways to pronounce the same sound, or almost the same sound? Waste of letters.

/rant out.

Also, accents. Never got the point of having so many. Can't even tell the difference between them: é è ê ë, they're all just eh to me. Though Ëonwë would probably disagree with me on this one. ;)

But if you simplify the spellings you lose the clues to meaning. the e circonflex usually indicate an s has been lost along the way. Th differences make things easier not harder.

Look at the American simplifications. Why bother changing plough to plow if you continue to spell snow snow....

and on that subject, what I really want to assign to Mordor is that the knee I injured over a year ago and thought healed has is clearly only ok in mild weather - Winter has suddenly and finally kicked in and it has become a highly effective thermometer. I know how cold it is by the degree of pain it gives me. Age creeping up on me...

[Galadriel55]

But if you simplify the spellings you lose the clues to meaning. the e circonflex usually indicate an s has been lost along the way. Th differences make things easier not harder.

That's true, spelling enhances the meaning. But it makes learning just that much harder.

and on that subject, what I really want to assign to Mordor is that the knee I injured over a year ago and thought healed has is clearly only ok in mild weather - Winter has suddenly and finally kicked in and it has become a highly effective thermometer. I know how cold it is by the degree of pain it gives me.

There's something going on with knees around the Downs lately... :(:(:(

[Mithalwen]

Woulnd't wish it on anyone... but to be fair I have always had wonky knees and now a variety of issues as well as plain old excess wear and tear are factoring in... sometimes it' the mileage not just the years...

[Galadriel]

I assign hypocrites and abandoners. Gosh, I sure do feel like Fëanor at Alqualondë right now! :mad:

[Galadriel]

I also assign stress.

[Galadriel55]

I assign disorganised teachers that make you stay afterschool to make up a test and then forget to leave a test for you. :mad:

[Boromir88]

unconsciously leaving your deodorant in the refrigerator all night.

Not that it's awful, but I'm concerned of how mindless you have to be leaving objects in the fridge...that shouldn't go there. Car keys and remotes are one thing...but your deodorant? I'm scared.

[Galadriel55]

Aw, Boro, at least the fridge smells nice... :p:D

Leaving objects in the weirdest places is just like me. I do worse things, sometimes; I look for objects that I'm holding in my hand. I do that all the time, and it's the most annoying time-wasting thing to do. And it's also embarassing when you can't find something in class and start panicking and asking around, and after everyone says apologetically that they haven't seen it you realise that you're already holding it...:rolleyes:

I also assign my sister's habit of dumping books where she reads them. She reads no more than 3 at a time, yet the kitchen, the living room, the car, her bedroom, and even some closets are littered with her books. Moreover, when she reads she bends the spine. Wherever I go I see ugly bent up books. She started reading the Felloship about half a year ago, but she doesn't know where it is now. To look for it I'd have to turn over the entire house. No wonder she lost it!

[Lalwendë]

Spine bending should go to Mordor, definitely. Sometimes, a spine gets damaged over time, you can't help that, but to do it deliberately makes me wince. I used to scan books for the guy I used to work with (he is blind) and of course paperbacks had to be broken in order to go on the scanner. He used to laugh at me wincing and break them for me first - I had to go and make a pot of tea while he did it. On the other hand, my brother used to go mad when I borrowed his Tolkien books in case I damaged them, and my mum had to make sure we had a set each - they still ended up bashed and broken though. It's a sad life, being a paperback book.

[Oddwen]

unconsciously leaving your deodorant in the refrigerator all night.

Not that it's awful, but I'm concerned of how mindless you have to be leaving objects in the fridge...that shouldn't go there. Car keys and remotes are one thing...but your deodorant? I'm scared.

I've never had mine in the fridge, but I've used cold deodorant before and it isn't pleasant. :eek:

[Bêthberry]

I've never had mine in the fridge, but I've used cold deodorant before and it isn't pleasant. :eek:

Makes me wonder what Boro did with the beer. :eek::D

[Galadriel55]

I assign daylight savings time. Vile, vile thing. Just leave the time alone, will you? It works well enough without people muddling with it. Europeans have it the right way. DOWN DOWN WITH DST!

[Lalwendë]

I assign daylight savings time. Vile, vile thing. Just leave the time alone, will you? It works well enough without people muddling with it. Europeans have it the right way. DOWN DOWN WITH DST!

Hah, not in the UK, they want to impose even more 'daylight savings' on us so we have no GMT any more, despite the fact that north of Birmingham it wouldn't get light until 10am in winter and then be dark by 4 anyway, so we'd spend our lives outside work and school in darkness. So I'm going to be like Ned Stark and send southern-centric decisions to Mordor too ;)

[Rune Son of Bjarne]

I assign daylight savings time. Vile, vile thing. Just leave the time alone, will you? It works well enough without people muddling with it. Europeans have it the right way. DOWN DOWN WITH DST!

Wasn't Germany the first place to introduce "daylight saving time"?

[Mithalwen]

We have DST and every so often Parliament debates moving forward to GMT+1 and "Double summer time" . France I know has DST (though confusingly I don't think they change at the same time as us). I have a friend whe maintains the whole problem in the UK could be resolved buy merely extending Summer time for all but December and January... but he is a card carrying eccentric (even by my standards) so I don't know if he is right or just a bit crazy....

However when I went around America by train after I graduated I lost track of time on the long haul legs - I went from Seattle to New York with only a very short break in transit in and 3 overnights on the train. I had a watch with dual time so I always knew what time it was at home but for where I was I wasn't confident withing 2 hours...

[Galadriel]

I assign daylight savings time. Vile, vile thing. Just leave the time alone, will you? It works well enough without people muddling with it. Europeans have it the right way. DOWN DOWN WITH DST!

AGREED. *waves flag dramatically*

[Galadriel55]

Spring allergies.

When the first and the last reps in your UserCP are blank. :confused:

[TheGreatElvenWarrior]

Spring allergies.

I understand wholly. I have been ill and tired and generally feeling terrible since last Sunday. We had to go get not one, but three medicines for cold/allergy/flu/whatever. Two of them were for the allergies, one for the extra cold-on-the-side-thing, and I still can't breathe. The worst part about this is that it is now a two-week break from school and everything terrible, and I am ill. This always happens. I assign [I]that[I] to Mordor.

[Mrs. Boffin]

I would assign bullies to Mordor. Any bullies. Schoolyard, workplace, religious, political...I don't respect those who think they should be allowed to pick on people who are different or weaker.

[Galadriel55]

I understand wholly. I have been ill and tired and generally feeling terrible since last Sunday. We had to go get not one, but three medicines for cold/allergy/flu/whatever. Two of them were for the allergies, one for the extra cold-on-the-side-thing, and I still can't breathe. The worst part about this is that it is now a two-week break from school and everything terrible, and I am ill. This always happens. I assign [I]that[I] to Mordor.

Oh my!... My case is nothing compared to yours. I don't take any medications. I just have a runny nose and itchy throat and eyes for about a month. Not as bad as what you're having, though. And I'm still anticipating an increase in it, since things are just starting to bloom...

I would assign bullies to Mordor. Any bullies. Schoolyard, workplace, religious, political...I don't respect those who think they should be allowed to pick on people who are different or weaker.

Quite an orcish thing indeed.

[Inziladun]

I assign disagreements that by all reason should be trivial matters, yet still manage to cause bitterness and acrimony beyond any predictable level.

[Lalwendë]

Julian Fellowes. I've watched him manage to turn the story of Titanic into Crossroads tonight. He needs to spend a long time editing all his scripts and Mordor is now a quiet place to do so.

[Lalwendë]

Panic buying. :rolleyes:

[Mithalwen]

Seconded. I am now having to decide if I use what petrol I have left looking for an open petrol station or conserve it and hope it calms down. But there are only 2 petrol stations in a town of over 25k people.

[Galadriel]

I don't respect those who think they should be allowed to pick on people who are different or weaker.

Lol, I think it's the bully who's really weaker. There's no such thing, IMO, as a superiority complex - just a badly covered inferiority complex.

[Oddwen]

Having one day in the week when you can sleep in, and spending the entire night completely unable to sleep.

[MCRmyGirl4eva]

Fans of any Disney Star (Justin Bieber, Miley Cyrus, Jonas Brothers, etc.)

The Disney Stars themselves

Bad pro wrestlers (Like CM Punk: Undertaker, Rey Mysterio, and Edge are safe.)

Lady Gaga

Lady Gaga fans

My sister (love ya, K!)

My aunt's church (There's religion, then there's overkill. You don't need to go 3 times a week!)

All Math teachers. Geometry sucks.

My freshman year science teacher. (If I knew what to do next, I wouldn't ask for help. Standing there saying "OK, you've done this and this, what do you do next" isn't going to help!)

I like vegtables... don't send them to Mordor. Send Feta cheese instead...

[Lalwendë]

Samantha Brick can go to Mordor. She really will be the most beautiful woman around there.

[Mithalwen]

People who trade in their brains when they get a sat nav. Who won't listen to simple directions and say they will use the sat nav even when they previously got very lost and nearly missed a funeral following the sat nav when three simple directions would have got them there....especially when they always want you to find the postcodes for them.. and especially when they posess a Duke of Edinburgh Gold Award and have done a four day expedition in remote terrain and there fore should reasonably be expected to read a streetmap...not that you need one for this particular journey. Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrgggggggggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhh hhhh

[Galadriel55]

I know exactly what you mean! People follow their sat nas (or GPSs, as we call them here) like robots. Plus, those GPSs are often outdated, or they don't show things to the detail that you need. And if the GPS gets the route right, it's probably a route by the slowest and least convenient streets - when you can go just a block farther but get there much faster as a result. And the most annoying thing about the latest inventions is that they speak! Every two seconds in that annoying voice: "right turn in: 200m", "right turn in: 100m", "right turn in: 50m"....just shut it already! We get the point!

I think that if you need something to tell you which way to turn in X meters, you really shouldn't be at the wheel.

[Mithalwen]

I swear I am tempted to get the post code of somewhere up a narrow lane... what is so hard about take the second turn on the right after the roundabout? Is that so difficult? Fair enough I can see it might be useful in some circumstances but this person comes down here regularly and everytime she whines for post codes for places that don't have them because they are in a forest or a fort on a spit in the sea and they are all well signposted. Gah..

[MCRmyGirl4eva]

I assign people who buy costumes for Halloween, rather than making their own. And people with cutsy costumes; it takes all the fun out of Halloween! and cheaping out on candy, that too. It's not a fun-size candy bar unless it's big enough to conceal a razor blade!

Yeah, I've begun working on my costume, in case you haven't noticed... (The Witch-King of Angmar) :rolleyes:

[Mithalwen]

You are making me a little nervous here... is this early preparation for this year or harbouring resentment from last and "big enough to hide a razor blade in" is a somewhat sinister reference unit of measurement....:eek:

[Galadriel55]

The obsession of children aged 3-12 with Pokemon. The attachment has it in a nutshell.

[Meneltarmacil]

I'd like to assign calculus to Mordor, along with my calculus professor from last semester.

[Nerwen]

The obsession of children aged 3-12 with Pokemon. The attachment has it in a nutshell.

What? Is Pokemon *still* going?:(

[MCRmyGirl4eva]

New Pokemon suck. Send then to Mordor. I loved Pokemon when I was little, then it turned to $h!t. You turn around and ask a 10 year old what they think of Charmander, and they're like; Who? :mad: Sauron and his orcs and men can play with Pokemon cards and watch the sucky new episodes.

Meowth ROCKS!

Pika-Pika, peeps ;)

You are making me a little nervous here... is this early preparation for this year or harbouring resentment from last and "big enough to hide a razor blade in" is a somewhat sinister reference unit of measurement....

^ Last year, we had a huge snowstorm here in New England, and trick-or-treating was rescheduled for the next Saturday. It sucked, and only about 15 people had candy. :( I always make my own costumes, and all that work was barely even worth it last year.

[Galadriel55]

I'd like to assign calculus to Mordor, along with my calculus professor from last semester.

What? Nooo!!! Calculus is fun!

What? Is Pokemon *still* going?:(

Well, it's died down a little bit where I am. At least I don't see kids running around comparing cards that say Pokemon on them.

[littlemanpoet]

So this thread's still going strong. :D

I assign Texas summer heat to Mordor. Blech!

[mark12_30]

Good heavens, you're in Texas???

I assign audits and inspections and the related stress to Mordor.

[MCRmyGirl4eva]

I assign the suckiness of walking out of school to beautiful weather, then having it be sprinkiling as your bus drives home, the walking from the bus stop to your apartment in POURING FREAKING RAIN that soaks all the way through your coat and your shirt.

A little rain doesn't bother me, but this was more than a little rediculous. I walked inside, and the first thing out of my sister's mouth was; "Hey, look! The drowned rat's home!" :o

[Galadriel55]

So this thread's still going strong. :D

Always something or someone that makes you grit your teeth together. :D

I assign Texas summer heat to Mordor. Blech!

I assign utter lack of summer heat in Toronto.

[Lalwendë]

Yes, there's always something in the world to upset us all ;)

I assign whoever invented the following: polystyrene, shrink wrap packaging, Discovery fajita spice mix, and my new bugbear - coathangers.

[littlemanpoet]

If I can have "lack of summer heat" in Toronto, take me there! Even if it is in Mordor!

Oh, and every time it rains in Texas, it hails too, and threatens to tornado. So hail and tornadoes can be assigned to Mordor, too.

[Mithalwen]

I assign utter lack of summer heat in Toronto.

It is bucketing with rain here ..... again.... at least I will find out if the repair I made to a leaking skylight at the weekend has worked! No great rush to collect the sandals I ordered though...

[Galadriel55]

I think we can all safely assign weather in general to Mordor. Whatever it is, chances are we're not happy with it. :D

[Lalwendë]

The only weather that belongs in Mordor is sunshine, because it's boring unless you are on holiday. And too much snow, which is just a nuisance.

The Atlantic low hitting the UK right now is amazing. Torrential rain, wind and interesting weather charts for me to geek out over. With a bit of luck, I might have some swollen rivers to look at again in a few days. British weather belongs firmly in The Shire. :cool:

[Galadriel55]

The only weather that belongs in Mordor is sunshine, because it's boring unless you are on holiday. And too much snow, which is just a nuisance.

Hmm... Today's the first day in about a week that I've seen the sun come out and stay there for the whole day. It's been all clouds. And this year I was *still* waiting for a snowfall in April. In a sense, we didn't have a winter. I think you'd love Torontonian weather. :rolleyes:;)

[Mithalwen]

I could do without the kind of teach the car to swim type weather we had today....

[MCRmyGirl4eva]

I assign high school final exams. Especially math exams.

[Galadriel55]

I assign high school final exams. Especially math exams.

I love high school exams! They leave me more free time than I ever had during the year! Especially the math exam.

[Vardamir Nólimon]

Those people that saw Star Trek (2009) for Chris Pine, LOTR for Orlando Bloom, or any other amazing movie simply because they wanted to swoon over an actor. Especially if they take up space at a midnight showing. If you're going to do that, rent the movie later and stop wasting our time.
Also, people that post infactual information in public places, people with terriable grammar that don't bother to check it. This is both online and in speaking.
I have to agree with Galadriel55. I love exams.

[Mithalwen]

Also, people that post infactual information in public places, people with terriable grammar that don't bother to check it.

How do you feel about those who don't check their spelling? :Merisu:

Welcome to the downs.

[Galadriel55]

I second Mith: welcome to the Downs, Vardamir!

[Galadriel55]

I assign doctors who change you a certain amount for a test, and then charge you just as much to put their signature on a form.

[MCRmyGirl4eva]

People who are major homophobes, racists, and sexists, as shown in the things they say, and then claim that they AREN'T racist, sexist or homophobic.
*cough*my dad*cough*

Seriously? "All Puerto Ricians need to go back to Puerto Rico" is pretty racist sounding to me, but he STILL claims not to be. Jerk.

Still, don't get me wrong. I love my father, but he can be infuriating.

[Oddwen]

I assign whichever designer decided that shirts with patterns or sequins may only have the patterns or sequins on the front of the top. That abrupt stop at the shoulders and sides looks shoddy off, and even worse on.

Sometimes, there just aren't enough sequins.

[Galadriel55]

I assign whichever designer decided that shirts with patterns or sequins may only have the patterns or sequins on the front of the top. That abrupt stop at the shoulders and sides looks shoddy off, and even worse on.

Oh, I agree with you 100%!!! It's like they sew on the front of one shirt to the back of another!

[Aganzir]

People who are major homophobes, racists, and sexists, as shown in the things they say, and then claim that they AREN'T racist, sexist or homophobic.
*cough*my dad*cough*

Seriously? "All Puerto Ricians need to go back to Puerto Rico" is pretty racist sounding to me, but he STILL claims not to be. Jerk.
Next time, ask which country you should go back to that your ancestors came from. ;)

[Inziladun]

Work issues that follow you home, especially on a weekend. :mad:

[Aganzir]

Work issues that follow you home, especially on a weekend. :mad:
Think on the bright side - as long as it isn't criminals walking on your lawn, it could be worse. ;)

[MCRmyGirl4eva]

Next time, ask which country you should go back to that your ancestors came from. ;)

I'd love to go to Ireland. Thanks for the idea, Aganzir! I'll try it! ;)

[Inziladun]

Think on the bright side - as long as it isn't criminals walking on your lawn, it could be worse. ;)

Truly a fresh perspective. :D

[Galadriel55]

Think on the bright side - as long as it isn't criminals walking on your lawn, it could be worse. ;)

Criminals walking in your house, kidnapping food from your fridge and gruesomely murdering it with their teeth? And they keep parking their bottoms on the wrong side of the sofa. While probably playing Minesweeper on your computer illegally. :D :D



Never mind.

[littlemanpoet]

I assign to Mordor being totally alone in a strange town and state for months.

[MCRmyGirl4eva]

I assign having to wake up early all week, then looking forward to sleeping in on Saturday and Sunday, but your biological clock wakes you up at 6 AM, even though you've been running on nearly zero sleep all week :mad:

[Mithalwen]

I'd love to go to Ireland. Thanks for the idea, Aganzir! I'll try it! ;)

Only problem with visiting Ireland (and I have an "Easter Rebellion" surname) is that it is the only place I have been to that was wetter than England... the only time I have been in a plane and it has skidded on landing.. and then becuase I had gone to a friend's ordination into the Church of Ireland I had a very "Father Ted" experience...

[Galadriel55]

I assign having to wake up early all week, then looking forward to sleeping in on Saturday and Sunday, but your biological clock wakes you up at 6 AM, even though you've been running on nearly zero sleep all week :mad:

I hate that you want to sleep any day you have to wake up early, and can't sleep when you can sleep in...

Only problem with visiting Ireland (and I have an "Easter Rebellion" surname) is that it is the only place I have been to that was wetter than England... the only time I have been in a plane and it has skidded on landing.. and then becuase I had gone to a friend's ordination into the Church of Ireland I had a very "Father Ted" experience...

I've read too much of Gone With the Wind and Scarlett to believe anything bad about Ireland... :D


ncidentally, I'd like to send to Mordor people who are overly passionate about political correctness, racism, and pretty much any other thing like that. I'm not saying that racism is ok, but you have to admit that, however equally you respect (or not) people, they are still different, and you're not going to make them any more the same. I get aggrevated by extremist anti-racists, anti-sexists, environmentalists, and -- you know, all these "popular causes". It's now what they do but how they do it.

[MCRmyGirl4eva]

I assign people who don't ahve the common decency to LEAVE YOUR BEDROOM when they have gas. Yeah, it's a natural bodily function and all that, but I seriously don't need my carpet, curtains, bedclothes, and clothes smelling like your @$$!

[Boromir88]

ncidentally, I'd like to send to Mordor people who are overly passionate about political correctness, racism, and pretty much any other thing like that. I'm not saying that racism is ok, but you have to admit that, however equally you respect (or not) people, they are still different, and you're not going to make them any more the same. I get aggrevated by extremist anti-racists, anti-sexists, environmentalists, and -- you know, all these "popular causes". It's now what they do but how they do it.

This...this reminds me of something I meant to assign to Mordor a couple months ago.

One morning I woke up to a message that put me in a sour mood, because it was a "Here is how boys behave, and here is how Men should behave," with a conclusion that no "men" will do this, and therefor, we are all boys and suck. It was insane and if anyone is dying of curiosity for the full story, shoot me a message and I'll forward the story.

Anyway, what I'm assigning to Mordor is the expectation males need to be the "disney prince" by always being their knight-in-shining armor/rescue the pretty damsel in distress. It's asinine disney-movie plot for a reason, because it's not real and completely unhealthy. Guys are humans too, if you want a solid one, be a confident and self-dependent lady. Then you'll have no problems finding the guy who will always be there to support and love you for your decisions as an equal. Not one who has an unhealthy rescuer complex which sets up just a different form of a screwy possessive relationship.

*ahem* I'm good. I promise, just remembered this from a couple months ago. :rolleyes:

[Aganzir]

Only problem with visiting Ireland (and I have an "Easter Rebellion" surname) is that it is the only place I have been to that was wetter than England...
I misread this as "better than England," and for a second my thoughts went like "Wait, I didn't know Mith was that patriotic...?" :D

Anyway, what I'm assigning to Mordor is the expectation males need to be the "disney prince"
I think they'll only be my type of males after spending some time in Mordor... :smokin: ;)

And since I'm here, I could as well assign the irritating and persistent cough that's been bothering me for over two weeks now.

[MCRmyGirl4eva]

That sucks, Aganzir.

I assign allergy medicine that makes you drowsy, and cats that shed all over your clothes.

Actually, I take back that last comment. I love my kitties too much to send them to Mordor.

[Galadriel55]

Decisions. Decisions. Did I mention decisions? Oh, and decisions too.

Every time I make an important decision I feel like crying afterwards because I've clearly made the wrong choice - even though it usually turns out ok and I know the latest one will be ok too. Really, sometimes I wish I lived in one of those dystopian novels* where there is some sort of committee/government that makes all the decisions for the people. Would make my life so much easier.


*not very seriously, though. Only when yet another decision makes me really depressed.

[TheGreatElvenWarrior]

I assign pets dying to Mordor. We brought in a pretty little stay cat last August and she died on Saturday. I cannot begin to describe the grief it has caused. I am running away from the empty feeling, but it catches up to me every time I look at her favourite places to nap. It is one of the saddest feelings a person can ever feel, I think.

[MCRmyGirl4eva]

I assign pets dying to Mordor. We brought in a pretty little stay cat last August and she died on Saturday. I cannot begin to describe the grief it has caused. I am running away from the empty feeling, but it catches up to me every time I look at her favourite places to nap. It is one of the saddest feelings a person can ever feel, I think.

My sister and I, back in 2001, talked my dad into letting a stray cat inside in winter to keep it from freezing to death. She more or less adopted us, and in April had a litter of kittens under my dad's bed. She left a few months later, and my dad got rid of the male cats. That's how we have Fluffy and Kimberly.

[Galadriel]

Anyway, what I'm assigning to Mordor is the expectation males need to be the "disney prince" by always being their knight-in-shining armor/rescue the pretty damsel in distress. It's asinine disney-movie plot for a reason, because it's not real and completely unhealthy. Guys are humans too, if you want a solid one, be a confident and self-dependent lady. Then you'll have no problems finding the guy who will always be there to support and love you for your decisions as an equal. Not one who has an unhealthy rescuer complex which sets up just a different form of a screwy possessive relationship.

*ahem* I'm good. I promise, just remembered this from a couple months ago. :rolleyes:

Haha. Frankly, if I met a Disney kind of guy, I would run away and name him a stalker. :D I despise the 'knight-in-armour' idea, because it's so patronising to women. So, we can't be our own helpers? Oh, joy. Why can't there just be a relationship based on mutual respect? :(

[Galadriel]

People who are major homophobes, racists, and sexists, as shown in the things they say, and then claim that they AREN'T racist, sexist or homophobic.
*cough*my dad*cough*.

Hypocrites are the worst, meaning no disrespect to your Gaffer. :D

[MCRmyGirl4eva]

That random half day at the end of the school year when you've got nothing to do and forgot to bring a book.

[Nerwen]

I assign pets dying to Mordor. We brought in a pretty little stay cat last August and she died on Saturday. I cannot begin to describe the grief it has caused. I am running away from the empty feeling, but it catches up to me every time I look at her favourite places to nap. It is one of the saddest feelings a person can ever feel, I think.
I know just how you feel...:(

[MCRmyGirl4eva]

I assign losing your library card. I can't find my student ID, so I don't have a photo ID to get a new one. I'm going to be dying of boredom ALL SUMMER

[Galadriel55]

I assign losing your library card. I can't find my student ID, so I don't have a photo ID to get a new one. I'm going to be dying of boredom ALL SUMMER

Don't they accept things like passports or citizenship cards?

TGEW, I second Nerwen in that. You have all my sympathies.

[MCRmyGirl4eva]

Don't they accept things like passports or citizenship cards?


Don't have them. SUCKS TO BE ME.

[Galadriel]

I assign losing your library card.

I assign not having one in the first place. :D Yes, I am obsessed...

[MCRmyGirl4eva]

I assign having your friends promise to call, and they don't :(