What do you assign to Mordor?

[Inziladun]

The Orc who ran over my mailbox and lacked the decency to own up to it.

[MCRmyGirl4eva]

Little red bitey spiders and other bitey bugs

[littlemanpoet]

Crickets in summer in Texas - invading my home in large numbers. Big, black, ugly things - I thought they were roaches!

[MCRmyGirl4eva]

Parents who yell at you for being a drama queen, then go and do so themselves

[TheGreatElvenWarrior]

I assign the little red roach bugs that were in the bathroom at the swimming pool. They were terribly gross and when I saw them, I ran out of the bathroom half dressed from disgust.

[Mithalwen]

Parents who yell at you for being a drama queen, then go and do so themselves

Seconded.... mother of my godson who is totally neurotic and hypochondriac about her own health decided godson was being a drama queen when he complained of pain until she googled and discovered that it was potentially very serious. Fortunately it wasn't since it was one of those things where time is of the essence.

[MCRmyGirl4eva]

Having your dad take away your keys in a fit of drama. Now I can't leave the damn apartment without permission.

And I also assign google-ing potential health problems. That just leads to paranoia. Just see a doctor.

[Lalwendë]

I assign to the deepest depths of Mordor all primary schools which assume that mothers do not also hold down important jobs and think it's OK to mess us about because we can just drop the duster, hang up the pinny and rush off to school.

[Galadriel55]

I assign to the deepest depths of Mordor all primary schools which assume that mothers do not also hold down important jobs and think it's OK to mess us about because we can just drop the duster, hang up the pinny and rush off to school.

Oh yes! Also primary school teachers that think that parents don't work at all and don't bother with knowing anything about their child's work. And teachers who can't deal with a little misbehaviour from children so they phone/email/write a note home about it asking the parents to deal with it - every freaking time it happens!


As you can probably tell, I have one particular teacher in mind...

[Lalwendë]

Oh yes! Also primary school teachers that think that parents don't work at all and don't bother with knowing anything about their child's work. And teachers who can't deal with a little misbehaviour from children so they phone/email/write a note home about it asking the parents to deal with it - every freaking time it happens!


As you can probably tell, I have one particular teacher in mind...


And also ones which pitch to the lowest common denominator and assume we do not know the importance (or simple pleasure) of reading with our kids! As soon as I start being lectured my hackles go up.

Our local school has promised a home visit to all parents, so I'm hoping they feel stunned into submission by all the books crowding our living room. Or is that a teeny bit evil? :D

[Kath]

As a teacher should I now assign over-involved parents? :p

But no, I am assigning useless landlords. Need something fixing? Better ask a month before it actually breaks if you want it fixed any time before Christmas.

[MCRmyGirl4eva]

But no, I am assigning useless landlords. Need something fixing? Better ask a month before it actually breaks if you want it fixed any time before Christmas.

Tell me about it. My landlord is absolutely useless. Also, I used to know just about everybody in the building. But when he became landlord, all the decent people moved out, and a bunch of nutjobs and freaks who have severe mental health problems moved in, and they seriously scare me sometimes. My neighbor keeps yelling about Hitler at three AM. And not in a "he was an @$$hole" way, he's yelling "HI HITLER!". He isn't even saying "Heil", it's seriously, "Hi"

[Lalwendë]

As a teacher should I now assign over-involved parents? :p



I had a scary, worrying experience there today... However, I did get to have a quick go on a piano. I wasn't permitted to have a go, but I had a go nonetheless.

And I also assign miserable mums who think it's a truly shocking thing that I would see a barely used piano in a school classroom and immediately think of quickly playing some nursery rhymes to entertain my four year old. I guess I'm a bit weird for ladies content to check their phones for texts while waiting (hoh, they haven't even seen the real Lal start yet!), but we did briefly have excellent fun for two minutes so our time at school today wasn't entirely wasted. :D

[Kath]

I'm sorry you had a nasty time Lal, I did see your FB status. Sounds ridiculous! We've got the new R intake in tomorrow and they're definitely going to be having fun! Parents are still being duped though - no way are there going to be 4/5 adults in with their children as is being pretended tomorrow.

[Mithalwen]

And I also assign google-ing potential health problems. That just leads to paranoia. Just see a doctor.

YEs but it was only after googling that his mother realised he might need to see a doctor ..she really is demented.. I know the lad did fake appendicitis to get out of ski school a while back but in this case it did seem to be genuine... becasue well I can't imagine it was fun having an icepack applied. :cool:

[MCRmyGirl4eva]

I assign the severe lack of active people on this site. :(

On my sister's behalf, I assign random guys you barely talk to who ask you out over Facebook, and somehow know where you live...

One does not simply ask a girl out over Facebook.

[Mithalwen]

It will perk up. And yes that sounds deeply creepy.

[Rune Son of Bjarne]

.

One does not simply ask a girl out over Facebook.

Quite right, you use facebook for the preperational work, figure out her rutine and interests so you can accedentally run into her and pretend to have a lot in common.

Facebook has made stalking so easy, that it feels like cheating.

This too sounds deeply creepy... and is.

[Inziladun]

I will now assign this current week. One thing then another...where's Lórien when you need it?

[Lalwendë]

I assign the primacy of sport over culture to Mordor. And Wimbledon specifically. I think I assign it every year. Well then, this year it can go to the Void.

Fuming tonight as a much anticipated and hyped new production of Henry IV Part 1 was shunted around the schedules to make way for tennis. That's Shakespeare. Our national Bard. Eventually, it started an hour later, though even the evening news bulletin was sacrificed, ladies' tennis being more important than the news on a day when a chunk of Russia is drowning and half the UK is also under water (alas, not SW19).

Anyway, it was splendid - I've seen Henry IV Part 1 more than a few times and this was the best yet. And the cast was amazing - Jeremy Irons, Tom Hiddleston (also known as Loki), Julie Walters, Maxine Peake, Harry Lloyd (Viserys Targaryen), Alun Armstrong, his son Joe Armstrong, Michelle Dockery (Lady Mary in Downton), Robert Pugh (Craster)...and an excellent full on, nasty battle scene. Lasses knocking balls about a lawn is better than that? Maybe on Planet Mad in the Galaxy of Insanity :D

[dreeness]

Weak tea.

Cheese that doesn't taste like anything.

Idiot neighbors that let off fireworks at 3am, then run out of fireworks and start trying to skeet-shoot beer cans in the pitch dark.

Weak onions.

[Galadriel55]

Hearing "Dawn Hill" when you're expecting the announcement of "Don Mills".

Children with attitude issues.

"No", comming from such children.

[littlemanpoet]

women in labor in tv and movies. 'nuff said. ick :p

[Galadriel55]

women in labor in tv and movies. 'nuff said. ick :p

I should have expected that. :D;)

[Mithalwen]

Rather worse for the women going through it for real :rolleyes: And I say that as someone who went drinking with an Obstetrician at an impressionable age and got put off for life...

[MCRmyGirl4eva]

Quite right, you use facebook for the preperational work, figure out her rutine and interests so you can accedentally run into her and pretend to have a lot in common.

Facebook has made stalking so easy, that it feels like cheating.

This too sounds deeply creepy... and is.

Ummm...

My sister and I are never on our Facebooks. In fact, when I actually went on and looked at my information, it said I was still in a relationship with a girl I broke up with two years ago, and it also said I was fifteen... I'm seventeen now!

Sis was only on to talk to her friend because since she (her friend) was away visiting her family in a different state, calling would have been pointless.

[crescendo.]

I assign getting dumped.

Oh and the sister MCR is talking about is me...

[MCRmyGirl4eva]

I assign fathers who kick you off of the computer because he needs to do his homework, and then doesn't do his homework.

[Aganzir]

I assign getting dumped.
By the guy who asked you out over Facebook? :p

[dreeness]

Ovaltineys. (http://www.ovaltine.co.uk/en/article.asp?chco_id=25&item_index=3)

:p

[Lollipop010900]

What shall i assign to Mordor...
Hmmm lets see...

My evil 8 year old sister,
My mother's stupid dog who sleeps on my bed,
All those idiots who don't read Lord of the Rings,
All those idiots who don't watch Lord of the Rings,

Hmmm...
There had better be a lot of space in Mordor...

[MCRmyGirl4eva]

Welcome, lollipop!

I assign cold feet. It's like, -6 degrees Farenheit in this room.

[Child of the 7th Age]

"I assign Texas summer heat to Mordor. Blech!"

Boy do I agree! Littlemanpoet, where are you in Texas?

[Mister Underhill]

Child posts after many a long year? I definitely do not assign that to Mordor. Nice to see you, Child!

Though I should talk. I've been little more than a lurker around here for a while now.

Keep cool out there, you guys!

[crescendo.]

I assign you admin quitting and deleting her account leaving you to struggle to figure out the html and css as well as fixing everything else that got broken.

By the guy who asked you out over Facebook?
LOL, no, by my girlfriend of nearly a year

[White Lady of Rohan]

My dog. I do believe he is possessed.

[littlemanpoet]

Welcome to the Downs, White Lady of Rohan. Nice moniker - almost surprised it was still available! :)

[Mithalwen]

Seconded...it is always a joy to see a name that indicates a bone fide fan rather tham a spammer:)

[Galadriel55]

Thirded! Very nice nick, White Lady! :)

[MCRmyGirl4eva]

WLOR, welcome! Nice name, as stated before. (several times)

I assign your friends having to leave while you're still having fun and haven't gotten bored of them yet. :(

[littlemanpoet]

Credit cards and all their fine print and exceptions. 'Nuff said. :mad:

[Kath]

Having to move classroom. To the point of transferring all the reading books from one room to the classroom next door. Pointless and time consuming.

Accidentally winding your slightly more obliging colleague up by throwing a strop about all the stuff living in the new classroom that has nothing to do with that class and pretty much chucking it out while she watches in horror.

Deserting a tip of a room due to feeling unwell, leaving said lovely colleague in the middle of the massive mess.

[MCRmyGirl4eva]

Bitchy sisters. (crescendo.)

[Galadriel55]

Falling ill like Mordor at the least convenient moment (as if there is a convenient moment at all). :rolleyes:

[crescendo.]

I assign not being able to find the movie you want to see

[mark12_30]

Waiting for news. And waiting, and waiting, and waiting....

Do I call? ........:( for the forty-second time?

[Mithalwen]

"Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear" ...as long as the person you are phoning can be trusted to let you know ASAP then no.. you will feel you are doing something but it is probably just upping the stress overall...

[MCRmyGirl4eva]

Stephanie Meyer

[Galadriel55]

The freaks at the TV chanel who decide to put a commercial on when Russia is entering the opening ceremonies of the olympics. Blasphemous Canadian TV!

[TheGreatElvenWarrior]

I assign nightmares to Mordor. They are truly the stuff of Mordor. In tonight's episode of TeaGEW's Mind Hates Her (and Everybody Else, for That Matter) our young heroine finds herself running and hiding from she knows not what. Her great escape takes her to a never-ending claustrophobic maze of underground tunnels without a map, and she's pretty sure it's the sewer. How will she escape? Find out in part two of her adventures of terror later on tonight.
I have really bad dreams every night. It doesn't matter what I dream about, there will always be something that scares the pants off of me, so I've trained myself to wake up and not put up with the BS that my mind puts me through every night. I hate that I have to do this, but I don't think they've found a cure for brains raping dreams. Really, if I could get a night's sleep without something terrible being the premise of my dreams, I'd be happy. Is this normal? Does anyone else have nightmares all the time? I was pretty sure that all of this was supposed to stop after I "grew up", so why do they continue?

[Nerwen]

Er– TGEW, sure you haven't simply been playing too many videogames?

[Lalwendë]

If you are aware you are dreaming and can wake yourself out of one then that's lucid dreaming, and if you can harness that and 'train' your mind, then you can change your dreams and even explore the dream world! :cool:

[TheGreatElvenWarrior]

Er– TGEW, sure you haven't simply been playing too many videogames?
The funny thing is that I haven't played any video games for weeks.
If you are aware you are dreaming and can wake yourself out of one then that's lucid dreaming, and if you can harness that and 'train' your mind, then you can change your dreams and even explore the dream world! :cool:
Cool. I shall attempt this.

[littlemanpoet]

Barring Lalwende's supremely great idea, perhaps there is post traumatic stress your brain is trying to find its way out of?

[TheGreatElvenWarrior]

Barring Lalwende's supremely great idea, perhaps there is post traumatic stress your brain is trying to find its way out of?
That could definitely be the case. A lot of very upsetting things have happened in my life over the past two years and sometimes I have a hard time handling it.

Today I learned that my father doesn't have enough money to pay our mortgage by himself anymore, so later on this week he has renters coming in to live in our house. Renting one's home out should not be this hard, I know, but this house has been in my family since my grandparents bought it when my mother was a girl and letting someone else live in my home, even for a little while, feels like intruding. The worst part is that I knew this was coming, I just wish that it didn't happen now. This whole situation can go to Mordor. All of it. I'm just done with being disappointed.

[crescendo.]

Idiots who use their cell phones in class.

[MCRmyGirl4eva]

BTW...

The previous post was by me. I didn't realize that my sis was signed in. LOL. Fail.

[Galadriel55]

Having to leave about 15 minutes before the Werewolf deadline. Every single time a Day starts. >< :mad:

[MCRmyGirl4eva]

*hugs G55*

Burnt cookies, and sisters who steal your chocolate

[Galadriel55]

When you see that you're the only Downer online. Not even the invisible people are around. :(

Edit: huh, while I was posting two other people appeared. *crosses fingers for a new post*

[Galadriel55]

I would assign the stores/shops that write $x.99 instead of just rounding it up a penny and having a nice round number. Why do they have to write $4.99 instead of $5.00?

Except that if I would assign that, all the shopping would be done in Mordor.

[MCRmyGirl4eva]

having your assigned parking space be under a tree full of strange berries and pigeons that poop all over your windshield. Then, having to work on the truck while laying on all those strange berries, and every time you sweep, the pigeons move around and knock down more berries. What's worse is, the berries have pits in them that dig into my back.

[littlemanpoet]

I would assign the stores/shops that write $x.99 instead of just rounding it up a penny and having a nice round number. Why do they have to write $4.99 instead of $5.00?

Except that if I would assign that, all the shopping would be done in Mordor.
It's psychological. You're more likely to buy if you see the smaller first number. Scientifically proven in studies, of course. Secondarily, because of sales tax. Everybody knows it's going to be over $5 anyway.

[Mithalwen]

I would assign the stores/shops that write $x.99 instead of just rounding it up a penny and having a nice round number. Why do they have to write $4.99 instead of $5.00?

Except that if I would assign that, all the shopping would be done in Mordor.

Apart from Marks and Spencer (but that is not JUST a shop;)). They realised that we aren't stupit and did away with that a long time ago. Also here the ticket price is what you pay unless it is somewhere which deals mainly with trade where they may show ex-VAT price.

So when I first went to the states and was ignorant of Sales Tax I thought it was rip off a tourist time..

[Galadriel55]

So when I first went to the states and was ignorant of Sales Tax I thought it was rip off a tourist time..

Haha, yes, here if it says it costs $0.99 they really mean around $1.12. :rolleyes:

[crescendo.]

I assign people who say that they are fat when they are skinny. You wanna know fat, look at me! I am fat... not you

[Galadriel55]

I assign people who say that they are fat when they are skinny. You wanna know fat, look at me! I am fat... not you

I do agree about skinny people complaining all the time that they are fat. I have a feeling they do that just to hear that they are not, in fact, fat.

On a similar note, I want to assign people who complain endlessly about being fat (with or without basis), but do nothing about it; continue eating sweets instead of proper food, continue not doing any physical exersize, etc.

[Boromir88]

You just need to know gentlemen like me who will approach it logically.

"Do we accept that I am lean? Oh we do...great. Give me one of your skirts and shirts, if I wear this around all day, you must agree never to say you're fat again in my presense. Deal?"

(Yes this did work with a friend...not sure what I would have done if the clothes didn't fit, but they were actually kind of perfectly comfortable)

[littlemanpoet]

Thing about skinny people saying, "I'm fat," two things are going on at once: (1) they are allowing the predominant culture to dictate the terms of their worth; (2) they are actually saying, "I don't like myself."

[Mithalwen]

Realisin that the lyrics of Gilgalad was an elven king which I love in the Stephen Oliver setting, fit almost perfectly to the anodyne theme tune of a fairly dire sitcom and getting it as an earworm
http://youtu.be/aHtBUeXoyv4

[Galadriel55]

A friend lived in my room for a month.

a) I have never been in the same house for so long with such a spoiled, helpless, and brainless girl of my age before. It was a nightmare.

b) My room was never so amess, even when I had clothing on the floor from a month ago. Ever heard that you leave things as you found them? :rolleyes:

c) Not only are my things all over the place, but there are things from the kitchen, the office, the bathroom, and other rooms of the house lying in every corner. I'm glad she used them when she needed them, but how about putting them back once you're done?



I think that after that one month of her visit I need a year of recovery.

[MCRmyGirl4eva]

I do agree about skinny people complaining all the time that they are fat. I have a feeling they do that just to hear that they are not, in fact, fat.

On a similar note, I want to assign people who complain endlessly about being fat (with or without basis), but do nothing about it; continue eating sweets instead of proper food, continue not doing any physical exersize, etc.

My sister is going to Mordor? Okay.. I'll have a room to myself, then.

[Meneltarmacil]

Having just started a new semester in college, I've already decided that Calculus needs to be sent straight to Mount Doom.

[MCRmyGirl4eva]

Having just started a new semester in college, I've already decided that Calculus needs to be sent straight to Mount Doom.

G55 doesn't allow math to be sent to Mordor, or else I'd send every math teacher above Grade 5

[Galadriel55]

Calculus belongs in Numenor. :cool: (I actually think this location is quite fitting)

G55 doesn't allow math to be sent to Mordor, or else I'd send every math teacher above Grade 5

That's quite right. :D

[MCRmyGirl4eva]

You're a nerd, G55!

[Galadriel55]

You're a nerd, G55!

Do I therefore belong in Mordor? ;)

Really, though, I've never considered myself a nerd (books are cool but there's more to fun than books) but I'm the only person in my English class who enjoys doing Shakespear plays as a part of the books we study. :rolleyes:

[Oddwen]

I assign that annoying squishy sound your jaw can make sometimes when you're chewing. It's riiiiiight at the top next to the ear canal so I can hear it really well. And I've got some delicious chewy bread with real garlic in it. :(

[Mithalwen]

Seconded...also the click sound your eyelids make when they close...

[Boromir88]

I assign that annoying squishy sound your jaw can make sometimes when you're chewing. It's riiiiiight at the top next to the ear canal so I can hear it really well. And I've got some delicious chewy bread with real garlic in it. :(

My parents would revise this to "why does your jaw crack when you chew! Stop it!" (as if I had some type of control over the crackiness of my jaw), :rolleyes:

[MCRmyGirl4eva]

Eating cereal while listening to music, and all you can hear is yourself chewing.

[Kath]

Lesson observations and the stress they cause. I would be less stressed if it wasn't the exact same topic as last year which I messed up big time.

[TheGreatElvenWarrior]

I assign accidentally getting my bank account numbers confused so that a check gets lost. :( For some reason my account numbers get jumbled in my head and I get confused. I hope that I don't lose my check forever. If I did, I would be sick.
I put it in the night deposit yesterday, and I wrote the numbers on the slip jumbled. It was a holiday today, so I don't know if it will get into my account or not. Hopefully it does.

[MCRmyGirl4eva]

Having your school create a pointless advisory thing, which nobody has any choice about, then having them give you a teacher whose class you failed as an advisor.

[Rune Son of Bjarne]

People signing up for a game, and then forgetting about it.

[Galadriel55]

My English class. We had a chance to have a quiz and an in-class essay (basically a test). Which would have takes 2-3 hours max altogether. But no, they have to vote on doing an assignment (4-6 hours right there) and an at-home essay (I'd give it minimum 5 hours). Stupid, stupid, idiotic decisions, you stupid classmates!

Not only that, but the assignment is a presentation as well as a written paper, and it is to be done in groups. In addition, my group doesn't want to do anything that requires work.


Just why does all my class except for a couple other individuals think this is easier than to write some 6 short paragraphs in the matter of 2 hours? :rolleyes:

[Lalwendë]

Donald Trump. Orcish through and through, and has clearly never seen Local Hero. :(

[morwen edhelwen]

Psychopaths.

[Galadriel55]

Your internet being down for the past half a week - and likely to be down for another week or so. :mad:

I'm not dead, people, only my internet is! :p I will probably have 10 pages of posts to catch up to when I can open the web from my own computer... But I WILL be back! :D

[Galadriel55]

Getting your hands covered in superglue. It's kinda hard to type this condition. I only wanted to fix that thing!

[MCRmyGirl4eva]

Sorry, all of you Canadians. We won't be popping in for a four-year sleepover after all.

(edited by moderator to remove political content)

[Mithalwen]

Developing an ominous sore throat just as you recovered from the last pestilence

[Kath]

A complete inability to go to bed at a time that means I won't be exhausted tomorrow. Might need to start getting to grips with afternoon naps at this rate.

[TheGreatElvenWarrior]

I assign getting a job that has pretty good benefits, getting excited about it, going to orientation, and then getting a call telling me that in order to work for the company I have to work on my day of rest. :( What am I going to do?

[MCRmyGirl4eva]

Sorry, all of you Canadians. We won't be popping in for a four-year sleepover after all.

(edited by moderator to remove political content)

^ Fair enough. Don't want to start any fights.

[Galadriel55]

Today and toDay. Today for RL reasons, toDay for WW reasons. :( It's too depressing.

[littlemanpoet]

Obstructionist and (not merely un- but dis-) dis-helpful suppliers. :mad:

"Dis-helpful" oughta be a word. :p

[Pomegranate]

Getting ill in the middle of everything-happens -season.

Coming back from a trip to see that loads of interesting things have happened in a WW-game but that you have also been lynched (and due to something that could've been explained easily, had you been around).

[Lollipop010900]

All those idiots who refuse to read LotR because the think its too long :eek:

... I guess its their loss...

[Inziladun]

A flat tire and unbelievably stubborn lug nuts. But to the Shire with my neighbor who dropped everything to come help out.

[littlemanpoet]

All those idiots who refuse to read LotR because the think its too long :eek:

... I guess its their loss...

Or the folks who have seen the movies and are afraid the book will ruin their experience. :confused:

[Mithalwen]

Myself .. I realised I had developed one of my darling late mother's more irritating habits when on receiving Christmas cards in unfamiliar hand I examined the exteriors closely for clues (postmark etc), speculated to myself as to who it might be for a while before doing the obvious thing and just opening it.... why couldn't I have inherited her skills at reverse parking?

[Galadriel55]

Myself .. I realised I had developed one of my darling late mother's more irritating habits when on receiving Christmas cards in unfamiliar hand I examined the exteriors closely for clues (postmark etc), speculated to myself as to who it might be for a while before doing the obvious thing and just opening it.... why couldn't I have inherited her skills at reverse parking?

That's what I usually do upon receiving mail. Wonder who might have sent it. :) In fact, I do it every time I get a rep point. I look at the thread, and then try to decide who could have written what about it in the comments before I actually read it.

On this note, I assign organisations (usually charities or communities of some sort) that send you random cards and stickers for membership. I get real mail every once in a half a year, so I'm always excited if I get anything, and usually that's just yet another card saying nothing in particular from some long-forgotten community camp thingy.

Also, I assign just barely umbrella-worthy rain and wind that nearly breaks the said umbrella. And the whole fact of rain in mid-December. There's a reasons all Christmas songs have the word "snow" in them!

[Galadriel55]

Picking a book to read because it sounds like something you'd like, and approving very much of it until about half-way, just to realize that the summary hasn't told you the main thing that you won't like about it at all.

[Galadriel55]

The end of the world. It was very disappointing. :p

[Mithalwen]

Ah well as TS Eliot said not with a bang but a whimper.

I assign creepy Christmas cards from someone you haven't seen in well over a decade.

[Galadriel55]

Those times when you see something falling. You know it's falling before it actually falls, and you know how to catch it, but you can't. Either because you're too far away and running for it will result in you colliding into it, or because your arms are full of stuff and catching one thing will result in five more falling down, or for whatever other reason.

[Boromir88]

Facebook's newsfeed...the chronological listing of friends' stories can cause mass confusion.

Necessary background first: I'm watching the Browns-Broncos NFL game. Broncos are handily winning...One of my friends (Browns fan) comments to another friend (Broncos fan) "Congratulations." As I'm watching the game, I assume that's what they're talking about, so I comment "yeah this is going to get real ugly really fast."

*Continue scrolling down newsfeed, blissfully unaware of the mistake* until...

"Oh...crap...Bronco's friend announced he's engaged today!" Annnnd...now I'm the scumbag who said "This is going to get real ugly really fast."

*shakes fist at newfeed*

[Morsul the Dark]

When your closing you're locked door fully aware you don't have keys but close the door anyway.

When you go to a Christmas Party with your wife and she's having a blast with the adults and as always your designated to Watch the kids...everyone's kids.

[THE Ka]

Talking to an old friend after three months of no word or sight, and within two minutes they ruin the ending of The Hobbit film they know you have yet to see. Instead saying it's nothing since 'you already read the book!'. Sigh...

[THE Ka]

Or the folks who have seen the movies and are afraid the book will ruin their experience. :confused:

... I ... I don't even. No. :(

[Galadriel55]

Writing a presentation that is twice longer than it is supposed to be. But it's all important! :(

(By the way, if you ever have to analyse a book and you're given a choice, do A Student of Weather by Elizabeth Hay. There's so much to analyse I can't fit it into my time frame :))

Also, I assign having burns in the most random places.

[Morsul the Dark]

A friend texting you text back right away ... no response for an hour.

[Lalwendë]

High Speed Rail lines, ripping up dozens of ancient woodlands and the lovely green English countryside, and taking away people's businesses and homes, all so someone can get to a meeting or go and spend their money in London ten minutes more quickly than they already can. When we can't afford it in the first place. And there's nobody to vote for who will stop it all. It should be in Orthanc really because it's truly Sarumanian, but it's got more shades of Sauron because of having no say in the matter. :(

[THE Ka]

I'm assigning a very despicable person who is holding my only and very old copy of The Hobbit hostage. While with any other book I'd probably just go and buy another copy, this copy means more because of memories and such.

It's conflicting, because I'm thinking of having my brother pull a Bilbo and smuggle it out of their lair, but I don't want him blamed/questioned in the process.

[THE Ka]

High Speed Rail lines, ripping up dozens of ancient woodlands and the lovely green English countryside, and taking away people's businesses and homes, all so someone can get to a meeting or go and spend their money in London ten minutes more quickly than they already can. When we can't afford it in the first place. And there's nobody to vote for who will stop it all. It should be in Orthanc really because it's truly Sarumanian, but it's got more shades of Sauron because of having no say in the matter. :(


It could be more Sarumanian and possibly even worse, or Wormtonguian, if they held a pseudo 'public meeting' over it then announced at the end that, 'Oh and by the way, none of your votes into this matter today count towards the actual process.'
Been to one of those over the useless destruction of an old-growth forest for a new suburb nearby. It's been entirely empty plots for eight years now.
Folks seem to forget that on an island or peninsula that space is limited and having such a naturally beautiful space surviving for that long should be appreciated.

[Galadriel55]

People who decide to have group hugs in the middle of a staircase, dawdle in doorways, and just create traffic in the school hallways. Also, those who take their time finishing a conversation with a friend when walking down the aisle of a bus. There's people behind you, sheesh!

[Ardent]

High Speed Rail lines, ripping up dozens of ancient woodlands and the lovely green English countryside, and taking away people's businesses and homes, all so someone can get to a meeting or go and spend their money in London ten minutes more quickly than they already can. When we can't afford it in the first place. And there's nobody to vote for who will stop it all. It should be in Orthanc really because it's truly Sarumanian, but it's got more shades of Sauron because of having no say in the matter. :(I would put this kind of bullying down to Mordor too, Saruman's scouring of Isengard and The Shire being echoes of the desolation of Sauron and Smaug.
I worked for a local Wildlife Group at the time when Thatcher-the-Dark was pushing through development of Buisness Parks on green-field sites. We did help to preserve a few SSSI's with rare orchids or newts living in them, but the urban farm (Merry Hill Farm) went the way of Sandyman's Mill.

However, I'm not sure why I assign this to Mordor. The idea that one gets no vote is hardly an objection because no-one in ME, outside the White Council, got a vote either. Even at the meeting of the races in Rivendell it was Council members Elrond and Gandalf who had the last word, and the occupants of Lorien did not consult with Nimrodel before moving into her home.

When we complain that our voice has not been heard aren't we simply complaining like Boromir:

"Will you not at least let me make trial of my plan? Lend me the Ring!"

.

[Aganzir]

People who decide to have group hugs in the middle of a staircase, dawdle in doorways, and just create traffic in the school hallways.
Aww but because of things like this, Frodo and Sam managed to escape the orc troops! :p

[Andsigil]

I assign the people who idolize Christopher Dorner. They are the orcs of this world.

[Galadriel55]

Aww but because of things like this, Frodo and Sam managed to escape the orc troops! :p

Which is quite a bad thing from the orc perspective. :p

[THE Ka]

Co-workers who have the magical prowess to catch a stomach flu in less than a night, in order to avoid a busy morning shift.
Just a tad envious that the planets were not aligned and the magical flu didn't pay me a visit at work last night. :o

[Galadriel55]

Physics lab reports. Need more writing than essays for English class. Take a page from chemistry, physicists - you don't have to write three pages explaining how to mix two solutions together! Why do you want that amount of writing for something simpler and much more basic, that doesn't even require any special knowledge or terminology? :rolleyes:


Also, getting your email inbox spammed by a spammer that doesn't even advertize anything :confused:. The message is always asking me to add the person on facebook or messenger, but the person's name and screenname change regularly. So does the wording of the email and the email itself. Which makes filters kinda useless... :(

[Saurondil]

Genetically modified food. If Yavanna had meant us to have GM food, she would have produced it.

[MCRmyGirl4eva]

Having to share a room with a sister who doesn't go to bed for hours after I do. She always wakes me up, then I spend FOREVER trying to get back to sleep.

[Lalwendë]

Fangirl geek misery. Being Human has just finished for ever on BBC3 and I actually feel a bit empty and miserable about it. :( Lord forbid how I'd feel if Doctor Who was ever pulled...

[Nerwen]

Genetically modified food. If Yavanna had meant us to have GM food, she would have produced it.
No offence, Saurondil, but... what does that mean?:confused:

[MCRmyGirl4eva]

The Burger King down my street. Generally, BK isn't too bad, but the one in my city is TERRIBLE!!

[Legate of Amon Lanc]

Floods, even though they should rather belong to Orthanc (they have their own experience with floods there, after all, and Mordor might welcome a little water here and there, but that's more akin to Sam's wish that the snow from Caradhras goes to the Shire). But the mess they make is definitely something Mordor would deserve (and the Nazgul in it would appreciate, too).

[Inziladun]

The unerring ability of "holidays" to be so much more hectic and stressful than the rest. :rolleyes:

[littlemanpoet]

Hypertension. :eek::mad:

[Inziladun]

Snow and ice, especially when no one saw it coming. :(

[Morthoron]

Snow and ice, especially when no one saw it coming. :(

-16 degrees Fahrenheit this AM in Michigan. But we're expecting a warm-up to perhaps +17 degrees by this evening.

I'm going to the beach. I'm going to get a great parking spot. :D

[Inziladun]

-16 degrees Fahrenheit this AM in Michigan. But we're expecting a warm-up to perhaps +17 degrees by this evening.

I do feel grateful that it isn't worse. For me personally, it's more of an inconvenience than anything else.

I'm going to the beach. I'm going to get a great parking spot. :D

Highs here Saturday might get in the 60's! I'm breaking out the tank tops and flip flops. :cool:

[Morthoron]

-16 degrees Fahrenheit this AM in Michigan. But we're expecting a warm-up to perhaps +17 degrees by this evening.

I'm going to the beach. I'm going to get a great parking spot. :D

Highs here Saturday might get in the 60's! I'm breaking out the tank tops and flip flops. :cool:

Yes, but I'll still have a better parking spot.;)

[Galadriel55]

-16 degrees Fahrenheit this AM in Michigan. But we're expecting a warm-up to perhaps +17 degrees by this evening.

We've been wavering between these temperatures for two weeks now. Every time I think it might get above -10C, it gets colder again. Now it's also windy. I've been permanently wearing a scarf over my face like a Talibani. You give me the good spot, or I'll shoot.

:D

[jallanite]

Phonetics should go to Mordor. Including all people who actually like phonetics. They scare me.

J. R. R. Tolkien obviously had to deal with phonetics in his professional career and obviously enjoyed it. I am also one of the people who actually like phonetics. So, as another example, is Tolkien author John Garth. Who I would send to Mordor is people who post a request for the pronunciation of some word but then ask that no-one use phonetics to give the pronunciation.

The difference between English and American spelling should go to Mordor, too. Honestly, why couldn't you keep it at one system and vocab?

Again, Tolkien was a linguist who knew about such differences. And there are more supposedly correct spellings than two for many words. British English has the currently taught version, used in European Common Market documents, and the Oxford English Dictionary system, used in United Nations documents and in many academic documents.

Also, the expression sanguine about definitely does not belong in a happy land. Nobody knows what that means, anyway *sulks*

The word is often used, and I think that most who use it think they know what it means. Just look up the word in a dictionary if you have doubts and really don ’t know. See http://www.thefreedictionary.com/sanguine , or http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sanguine , or http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/sanguine or various other sites that will provide an answer more quickly than it took you to type the question in your post.

And evil, sarcastic, sadistic teachers - who say you argue like the American president - should be assigned to Mordor immediately.

I have sympathy for teachers who must deal with what you think is an argument.

[Elyna of Rivendell]

My swimming coach would feel right at home in Mordor. Especially after tonights session.. Yuck.. :(

[Galadriel55]

When school cancels ski day... after you leave home early to get there on time.

[Inziladun]

Knee-jerk reactions from local government officials that inconvenience thousands of people. :rolleyes:

[Galadriel]

General foolishness on my part, which frequently leads to elevated anxiety levels. Not good. :o

[Galadriel55]

Being online on the Downs alone with two spammers. :eek:

Evil universities. :(

[McCaber]

Not having enough time. For my wife, for my friends, and for the Downs.

[Galadriel55]

Squeaky breaks on your bicycle.

[Aganzir]

Squeaky breaks on your bicycle.
I can so relate to that! I could add brakes that barely work so especially if it's wet, you have to be very careful if you don't want to be hit by a car, and which get so rusty that if your bike stands still for two days, you'll have to use violence on the rear brake.

I need to do some fixing.

*imagines orcish bike crashes on the plains of Gorgoroth due to faulty brakes*

[Lindale]

I assign Google right now, and the fact that I don't understand what I'm doing wrong for it to say that there's too much traffic in my computer/network/I-don't-know :mad:

[Andsigil]

I assign to Mordor the speech pattern known as "vocal fry (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vocal_fry_register)" (lowering one's voice and creaking to sound like Ke$ha).

Fingernails on chalkboards sound better than girls speaking in vocal fry. Cats mating sound better than grown women speaking in vocal fry- especially when combined with overuse of the word "like" and high-rising terminals (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_rising_terminal).

Ugh.

[Inziladun]

McAfee anti-virus. I don't use it, but they're sneaky about inserting free "tools" (https://forums.adobe.com/thread/667123?tstart=0) into popular updates of other programs. That's twice now I've had to uninstall and reinstall the anti-virus I am using because of them.

[Inziladun]

My clumsy, ham-fisted attempt at fine electronics repair.

[Inziladun]

I will assign my continual state of impatience, one of my most significant faults, in the hopes that I can do a better job of mastering it.

[Inziladun]

Wasps, clearly of the fauna of Mordor. I'll sting them back, yet. :mad:

EDIT: Should I also assign the fact that the past 4 posts on this thread have been from me? ;)

[Galadriel55]

EDIT: Should I also assign the fact that the past 4 posts on this thread have been from me? ;)

Definitely, but only because of the lack of enthusiastic complaining.

I assign course selection, difficult babies, and movies that won't load and get stuck every couple minutes.

[William Cloud Hicklin]

New Zealand film directors.

[Inziladun]

Going to the trouble of a live chat with a customer service rep, only to find all you had to do was click one simple button on the website. :rolleyes:

[Galadriel55]

Going to the trouble of a live chat with a customer service rep, only to find all you had to do was click one simple button on the website. :rolleyes:

Trying desperately for several hours to create a network connection to the campus wifi, both using various buttons and manually, failing, dragging your computer to the tech help desk, only to find that your idiot computer somehow connected to the wifi completely on its own while you're standing in line. I still don't know how it did it considering that it refused to do so even with my promptings the past couple days. Also, did it have to wait until I was practically at the help desk?

[Galadriel55]

200+ page notes. :eek: My printer is gonna go on strike!

[littlemanpoet]

Office cubicle "rabbit warrens." I got moved into one two weeks ago and my introversion is not liking it one bit. :mad:

[Zigûr]

This isn't really dastardly enough to assign to Mordor, but I think I'll assign an English text book for 10-14 year olds (or so) I was looking at today at work which asked students to view and write an introduction for the LotR films, but named two characters from the opening as "Saron" and "Gollom".

Putting the disservice to the text aside, how unprofessional is it to not bother researching the correct spellings of the names of fictional characters in an educational publication?!? I believe another title in the same series set the Star Wars films as science fiction texts for study and named the primary antagonist from them as "Emperor Paladin". Utterly pathetic.

[Nerwen]

That's pretty funny, actually, Zigur. "Let's show these kids today we're hip to all that sciencial fiction they watch on that, you know, interminet thing."

[Mithalwen]

Leaving aside the despair that an English textbook is referencing the films, I don't think this is quite as bad as the biology textbook that said that penguins were part of the staple diet for polar bears...

[Galadriel55]

Speaking of English textbooks, my sister and I decided that English (and Lit) classes in school are just gone to Mordor, and we set out on a quest to educate ourselves about all the great books school ignores in favour of mediocre modern ones with "good themes". So perhaps by the age of 30 I will consider myself a well-rounded and well-educated individual. :( My biggest problem now is that once I finish these books, I want to discuss them with someone, and no one else cares enough to read them. :(

[Galadriel55]

Wet shoes!

Also, that one place in a lecture hall that is lower than everything else so all the rainwater, spilled coffee, and other common liquids tend to accumulate there.

[Nerwen]

Starlings broke into my roof yesterday and they're building nests there and thete's heaps of them and they just. won't. shut. up.:mad:

[Mithalwen]

Try a goshawk. That will sort them out.

[Nerwen]

I don't know, there's quite a few goshawks around here and they don't seem interested...

[Inziladun]

I don't know, there's quite a few goshawks around here and they don't seem interested...

Around these parts we have "critter control" businesses that specialize in wildlife removal and sealing homes against further invasion. They aren't cheap though, and I suspect it's the same if they operate in your neck of the woods.

Years ago we had a problem with mockingbirds building a nest in our chimney, culminating with one flying down into the fireplace and being unable to get out. It took a section of chicken wire mortared into the top of the chimney to end that issue.

[Galadriel55]

Years ago we had a problem with mockingbirds building a nest in our chimney, culminating with one flying down into the fireplace and being unable to get out. It took a section of chicken wire mortared into the top of the chimney to end that issue.

Oh, we used to have a squirrel live on our balcony. She was very sweet and we almost tamed her, but then she discovered that she can bite through the screen on the balcony. One day we come home to find her in our kitchen, a jar of peanuts knocked over and half the plants dug up. We would find peanuts tucked into random places around the house for weeks afterwards. My father got a new screen that was made of some harder metal, but squirrel teeth were harder still. Eventually we had to remove her nest completely cause she was just way too good at getting into our house when we weren't looking. Also, the nest was making moisture seep into one of the walls, so it would have had to go anyways.

[Mithalwen]

Years ago we had a problem with mockingbirds

I always thought Harper Lee's opus was overrated and I suspect it was of no use whatsoever http://gagnamite.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/theres_nothing_in_here_on_how_to_kill_a_mocking_bi rd.jpg

[Nerwen]

G55, in my old place it was like that with brushtail possums. They'd come in through the cat flap and raid the fruit bowl.

Here, it's more varied. Bats, for example, last autumn, and it's started again now it's spring- I think they're coming after moths. I wouldn't mind except the cat kills them.

[Nolwë_Namiel]

The Blue Jays drive me crazy in the fall because my neighbours have filbert (hazelnut) trees along our joint fence. When the nuts ripen, the Jays crack them open by tapping them on my roof. The first year I lived in the house I couldn't figure out what the noise was. LOL

[Zigûr]

This evening I shall assign my Argonath bookends that came with my Extended Edition of "The Fellowship of the Ring", which I started actually using as bookends for the first time this year and both of which have completely failed to stop books from falling over.

Should have expected no less from film tie-in junk. They're based on the film design, of course, so they represent Elendil and Isildur rather than Isildur and Anárion, which probably explains their uselessness - they lack the weight and solidity of authenticity to the original text behind them! :smokin:

[Galadriel55]

Course schedules that mean half the time you have to eat lunch when most people have dinner, and half the time when most people eat breakfast. :(

When the weather can't decide if it wants to rain or snow. On the same topic, old floppy umbrellas that turn inside out at the merest hint of wind.

[Rune Son of Bjarne]

Returning from holiday and not having the following day off work.

[Pitchwife]

^I second that.

I assign drivers on the fast lane who know perfectly well that you'd like to overtake that truck in front of you but step on the accelerator as soon as you indicate.

[Zigûr]

This is a bit literal, but on the side of my apartment building which my balcony faces (our other side has a nice view of a river, a park and central Sydney) there's an abandoned lot from a failed building project which is extremely Dagorlad/Morannon-like: a waste of rusted metal and great piled-up heaps of blasted stone. When it flooded after a series of recent rains it didn't do much to improve its appearance. It might be in need of being subjected to a time when "the Great Sea should enter in and wash it with oblivion."

[TheGreatElvenWarrior]

I just realized with one evening to get work done, that I forgot to do an assignment earlier on in my class. I have to do that tomorrow night, and post to the class discussion, clean my room, and pack for a long weekend in South Carolina. This is all in one night. I am so upset. I knew I was missing something, but I was blissfully unaware of the paper I haven't written yet. Thankfully it's only supposed to be two pages, which I can write quickly. But I have to say that the APA styling can be obnoxious. :rolleyes:

[Galadriel55]

I just realized with one evening to get work done, that I forgot to do an assignment earlier on in my class. I have to do that tomorrow night, and post to the class discussion, clean my room, and pack for a long weekend in South Carolina. This is all in one night. I am so upset. I knew I was missing something, but I was blissfully unaware of the paper I haven't written yet. Thankfully it's only supposed to be two pages, which I can write quickly. But I have to say that the APA styling can be obnoxious. :rolleyes:

I know what you mean. *pats*

[Galadriel55]

Scumbag technology.

Computer works perfectly when all I need it for is procrastination. As soon as I actually need the computer at a certain time, it refuses to turn on.

First time that happened, it wouldn't turn on in the campus library for 15 minutes, which made me late for a meeting.

Second time, I was supposed to use it to write an exam, and it wouldn't turn on for the whole evening.

Last time, I had to use it for a presentation. It was working fine in the few days past, and even on the presentation morning, but come the critical hour - nope, turning on is too much trouble for this piece of metal rubbish.

I am fond of my computer, but it can really be a jerk.

[Corsair_Caruso]

Dissertation writing. I have never read or written so much about Professor Tolkien in my life, and although I still love his writings and his contributions to the world, I would prefer to be done writing about him academically, for a while.

[Nerwen]

The Horrible Thing That Screams in the Night.

Really, I don't know what it is. It sounds like a mixture of a yowling cat, a screeching bird and a whinnying horse, with sometimes a touch of demonic laughter thrown in, and sometimes a sort of whimper. I think it can fly. It's the most horrible thng I've ever heard and if I didn't know better I'd say it was a literal denizen of Mordor.:eek:

[Inziladun]

The Horrible Thing That Screams in the Night.

Really, I don't know what it is. It sounds like a mixture of a yowling cat, a screeching bird and a whinnying horse, with sometimes a touch of demonic laughter thrown in, and sometimes a sort of whimper. I think it can fly. It's the most horrible thng I've ever heard and if I didn't know better I'd say it was a literal denizen of Mordor.:eek:

Is Yoko Ono accounted for? :D

[Nerwen]

Is Yoko Ono accounted for? :D
Oh that must be it.;)

[Pitchwife]

To Mordor the orkish attack on a merry gathering of dancing fairies wherein 49 people were killed and many others wounded in Orlando, Florida. I feel we should let our Downer friends in the LGBTQIA community know that we're with them in their shock and grief.

[Inziladun]

Telephone scammers. Had a message at my home number from the "IRS" threatening court action for supposed tax evasion. If I had time, I'd call them back with my Silmarillion in hand and when whomever picked up, just start reading to them. ;)

[Marwhini]

Orange Orangutans wearing Ferrets or blond Stoats on their heads....

I suspect he thinks Mordor is where the Good-guys all live, though.

MB

[Galadriel55]

Course selection process. Especially when you have to pick a number of courses from a list, and three quarters of the courses conflicts with the couple mandatory courses on the timetable. Dear university scheduling office or whoever you are, are you doing this on purpose to prevent students from graduating on time? :rolleyes:

[Galadriel55]

Having to write self-flattering entries on applications. I am only the most awesome candidate you can ever imagine. Blargh.

Also, I discovered I didn't know how to spell "Bristol boards". :(

[TheGreatElvenWarrior]

The US presidential election. This election cycle is giving me so much anxiety.

[Pitchwife]

^You're not alone.

[Galadriel55]

Echoes of that battle have reached the ears even of this hermit. I've just accepted that it's going to be bad for me regardless, and I'm glad I don't have to make this decision. :D (but my condolences to those of you living below the 49th - or west of Yukon. ;))

[Inziladun]

I assign all presidents, prime ministers, rulers, and regents who put the interests of self and party above the common good.

[William Cloud Hicklin]

The US presidential election. This election cycle is giving me so much anxiety.

Yes, Lotho Pimple vs Ted Sandyman is rather a Hobson's choice for us hobbits.

[Nerwen]

That's funny, because to my mind Donald Trump is more equivalent to Sauron. It's really no contest.

I am breaking my normal rule about never discussing politics here: please, Americans, at all costs do not vote for this freak. You have the rest of the world bloody well terrified.:eek:

[Andsigil]

That's funny, because to my mind Donald Trump is more equivalent to Sauron. It's really no contest.

I am breaking my normal rule about never discussing politics here: please, Americans, at all costs do not vote for this freak. You have the rest of the world bloody well terrified.:eek:

Odd, I didn't think it was your rule; I thought it was a forum rule that politics weren't to be discussed here. But, hey, if we're allowed to make exceptions, because reasons (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/because_reasons), well, I've got a manifesto or two that I'd love to post.

By the way, I'd caution you and any other non-Americans against trying to tell Americans how to vote. "The Guardian" found out the hard way in '04 that such efforts have a way of backfiring (http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/politicselections/vote2004/2004-11-04-brits-letters_x.htm). ;)

[William Cloud Hicklin]

That's funny, because to my mind Donald Trump is more equivalent to Sauron. It's really no contest.

I am breaking my normal rule about never discussing politics here: please, Americans, at all costs do not vote for this freak. You have the rest of the world bloody well terrified.:eek:

Only problem with that otherwise excellent advice is that the alternative is..... Hillary Clinton.


In a democracy, each party devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule — and both commonly succeed and are right. --H L Mencken

Rarely has that quip been as applicable as in this election. Can we just cancel it and have a do-over?

[Galadriel55]

Being betrayed by Google Docs. You work so long on formatting your equations, and adding diagrams, and then it refuses to download or copy both into normal Word! And you have to do the work from scratch. I trusted you, Google Docs!

[TheGreatElvenWarrior]

It happened. We have a terrible president elect. I'm scared.

[Mithalwen]

That is democracy for you. Democracy means you are liable to end up with Boaty McBoatface.

[Galadriel55]

Rumour has it the Canadian immigration services are completely flooded by US applicants. :D

[Mithalwen]

Hmmm, have you considered building a wall to keep out people seeking a better life North of the border?

[Galadriel55]

Hmmm, have you considered building a wall to keep out people seeking a better life North of the border?

Normally the hockey and the polar bears keep them out.

[littlemanpoet]

Robocalls that don't identify their source up front. :mad:

[Inziladun]

Robocalls that don't identify their source up front. :mad:

Agreed! My go-to response to any number I don't recognize to let VM handle it.

[Galadriel55]

When your computer does this at whim. It also has a pink colour scheme available. The other day it gave me a plaid pattern of green and pink stripes. Perhaps it's in the Christmas decoration spirit. It's a good computer and it served me faithfully, but this is getting ridiculous.

[Pitchwife]

You know, this is actually quite appropriate:

As he lay there, thinking and getting a hold of himself, he noticed all at once that the darkness was slowly giving way: a pale greenish light was growing round him.

(The same can, course, not be said of pink or tartan.)

[Mithalwen]

When time catches you up and you will never get the chance to put things right.

[Inziladun]

Snow and ice. I know, many people deal with it regularly and are used to it. In my neck of the woods though, it's a hassle.

[Galadriel55]

Snow and ice. I know, many people deal with it regularly and are used to it. In my neck of the woods though, it's a hassle.

On that note, winter rain. I'll take snow anytime. :D

[Morthoron]

On that note, winter rain. I'll take snow anytime. :D

I think you're right. Cold rain or sleet is far more miserable than snow.

[Galadriel55]

When booking a simple ticket requires restarting the computer, fixing the internet connection multiple times, getting into a fight with the bank account thingymajig, selling your soul to the devil - and even so, only getting it after 10 or so tries.

[Inziladun]

Plagues of Morgoth!

Specifically, my nearly week-long (and still going) sinus infection and my daughter's "flu-like" virus. :(

[Galadriel55]

Plagues of Morgoth!

Specifically, my nearly week-long (and still going) sinus infection and my daughter's "flu-like" virus. :(

He does love pulling out the bioweapons this time of year. :(


Accidentally falling asleep for half a day when you had a ton of stuff to do.

[Galadriel55]

When your bank card randomly blocks your card purchases. It has happened before on occasion, but now I'm trying to make important purchases online and not a single one is going through because the bank refuses to transfer the money. Flipping idiots! There's nothing even wrong with the card, there's enough money on it and everything, they're just being obnoxious. 'Oh, we didn't realize you were using your card abroad!..' Idiots! I've been using my card abroad for months now and you were letting me. But every once in a while you went 'nah, suspicious, someone must be using her card to buy potatoes', and blocked specific transfers. Now you're just blocking everything. Stupid, stupid bureaucrats, who must be in cahoots with whoever collects the money for international calls - because emails are not secure enough to confirm I do not have an official block on my card. Nasssty, mean, fat idiots!

Sorry, I just need to vent. I know it's the system that's doing the mess, not the individuals working there, but seriously!

[Boromir88]

Speaking of banks...when your bank says you cant move money out of your savings account anymore, or else they will just cancel your savings account and put it all in checking...because of some obscure federal banking law that deals with money laundering.

[The Sixth Wizard]

Definitely those "fresh food and recipes to your door" delivery companies like HelloFresh (I think they have different ones in Europe and the USA). Anything that creates two kilos of cardboard and plastic waste per delivery, takes all the challenge and creativity out of cooking, and encourages people to spend less time shopping for food and more time working falls squarely in with the hypermodern industrial devilry of Orthanc and Barad-dur.

[Galadriel55]

Definitely those "fresh food and recipes to your door" delivery companies like HelloFresh (I think they have different ones in Europe and the USA). Anything that creates two kilos of cardboard and plastic waste per delivery, takes all the challenge and creativity out of cooking, and encourages people to spend less time shopping for food and more time working falls squarely in with the hypermodern industrial devilry of Orthanc and Barad-dur.

I never got the point of those. It's a lot cheaper and more practical to look up recipes yourself, if you don't know them, and buy products in the grocery store. I may not be quite ready to assign them to Mordor, but they always seemed too much like 10 Easy Ways To Swindle People. Bill Ferny, perhaps?

[Galadriel55]

Falling sick on the most important day of the week. My housemate gets sick - it's on a short day, attendance is not taken at these classes, and they are all recorded. I get sick and have to miss a day - mandatory classes with attendance, a hands-on lab, most confusing lecture is not recorded, and two meetings take place. Wonderful timing! :mad:

[Inziladun]

Influenza. Even after I got the vaccine like a good citizen. :(

[Nerwen]

Ants.:mad:

I am in so much pain.:(

[Inziladun]

Waiting for the air conditioning repair people to show up, in July heat.

[Formendacil]

Waiting for the air conditioning repair people to show up, in July heat.

Miserable! We had the power go out yesterday afternoon (in 95°F with humidity outside and a 10-day infant inside). Mercifully, it came back in what was probably only ten second or so, but... man, those were a looooooong ten seconds.

[Inziladun]

Yeah. Ours went out Sat. the 14th. Didn't want to call anyone on the weekend because of the outrageous surcharge, and now there's apparently a horde of people in the area with the same problem.

[Demloth of Dol Amroth]

Social Networks

[Inziladun]

One hundred degree heat indices in September (and in three months I'll be complaining about it being too cold ;)).

[Inziladun]

One hundred degree heat indices in September (and in three months I'll be complaining about it being too cold ;)).

To exposit and add, having central a/c break down again, and fully sympathizing with Gollum's loathing and fear of the Yellow Face.

[Galadriel55]

That satanic pen that is super uncomfortable and unpleasant to write with and that you want to throw out already, you're just waiting for the ink to run out... but it will never run out. YOU'RE STUCK WITH THE PEN FOR LIFE NOW.

[Inziladun]

That satanic pen that is super uncomfortable and unpleasant to write with and that you want to throw out already, you're just waiting for the ink to run out... but it will never run out. YOU'RE STUCK WITH THE PEN FOR LIFE NOW.

At least you aren't literally stuck with it...unless...it develops a Sauronic will of its own and attacks? :eek: :p

[Inziladun]

A major plumbing problem for the past couple of weeks, and new a bent car wheel courtesy of a hole in the road.

[Merrymatt]

A glowing green palace on a volcanic spire, surrouded by orcs and warg dens strewn across the sides.
Although I might add in a Palantir on a spiked throne and a warg pup at side

[Rune Son of Bjarne]

Deleting private messages on the downs.

I have no use for that paper telephone or werewolf message, yet it hurts every time i delete one.

Not to speak of the anguish if i remove an old pm from a long since inactive member...

In this aspect I am a hoarder and always have a total of at least 19 messages lying around.

[Galadriel55]

Isildur Curses.

I recently succumbed to the Isildur Curse by playing around with the Stone of Erech - that is, I meant the User CP. I decided it's time to update the prehistoric email I had registered to a legitimate one, and - well, I turned into a ghost (ie I still could log in, but I could not post or do anything else). It was very scary.

Moral of the story, kids: don't play with Erech stones, don't try to fix what isn't broken, and most importantly, check the spam folders of your emails for BD messages containing simple instructions for resurrection back to life- that is, back to death.


Deleting private messages on the downs.

I found a way around that. I send a PM to myself, with quotes containing the PMs I do not want to part with. Clears up space without losing the info. Have a dozen for the price of one!



It feels so good to be able to post again! :D

[Rune Son of Bjarne]

I found a way around that. I send a PM to myself, with quotes containing the PMs I do not want to part with. Clears up space without losing the info. Have a dozen for the price of one!



It feels so good to be able to post again! :D

Now that's true a life hack.

I tip my hat to you.

[Morsul the Dark]

Isildur Curses.

I recently succumbed to the Isildur Curse by playing around with the Stone of Erech - that is, I meant the User CP. I decided it's time to update the prehistoric email I had registered to a legitimate one, and - well, I turned into a ghost (ie I still could log in, but I could not post or do anything else). It was very scary.


Why I’ll never update my email even if I haven’t used the one I signed up with since middle school early high school latest.

[Galadriel55]

When the browser changes the way the bookmarks bar looks, and now everything is a little too far to the left, and it looks off-putting, but you can't even remember what was there before - was there anything in the far left of the bar taking up space? Did the bookmarks just start further right, not at the very edge of the page? Or am I just going crazy? We may never know, but until I get used to this new layout it's gonna drive me crazy. Not to mention that every time I "reach" for the BD bookmark by visual/muscle memory, I end up hitting email instead.

[Rune Son of Bjarne]

I assign getting a change password reminder just prior to a three week vacation.

There is no way in Mordor I am remembering that password when I return to work.

[Inziladun]

I assign getting a change password reminder just prior to a three week vacation.

There is no way in Mordor I am remembering that password when I return to work.

It's not really secure, but I pretty much have to write passwords down somewhere, be it on a bit of paper in my wallet, or on my phone.

[Rune Son of Bjarne]

It's not really secure, but I pretty much have to write passwords down somewhere, be it on a bit of paper in my wallet, or on my phone.

My main motivation for changing jobs every other year, is that I can recycle passwords. :Merisu:

[Galadriel55]

My main motivation for changing jobs every other year, is that I can recycle passwords. :Merisu:

Can't remember a password - well, must be time to quit. :D

[Galadriel55]

Getting woken up 5 times by spam calls when trying to sleep after a night shift. It's a veritable onslaught of spam. Anyone else assaulted by the bots today?

[Inziladun]

Getting woken up 5 times by spam calls when trying to sleep after a night shift. It's a veritable onslaught of spam. Anyone else assaulted by the bots today?

I turn my phone off at night. My wife has hers on Vibrate, and we just make it a point to check it if we happen to wake up during the night. :)

[Rune Son of Bjarne]

Getting woken up 5 times by spam calls when trying to sleep after a night shift. It's a veritable onslaught of spam. Anyone else assaulted by the bots today?

Yup, I get a ton of calls from the UK, mostly in the afternoon.

[Formendacil]

Getting woken up 5 times by spam calls when trying to sleep after a night shift. It's a veritable onslaught of spam. Anyone else assaulted by the bots today?

If I bought solar panels for all the spam calls I get trying to sell my solar panels, I'd be able to power spaceflight...

I also consign to Mordor spam texts--either my cell number has been released into the wild or the randomiser bot has struck gold; either way, I am now being frequently promised all sorts of endowments for my, er, manhood.

[Galadriel55]

If I bought solar panels for all the spam calls I get trying to sell my solar panels, I'd be able to power spaceflight...

I somehow landed on the dining table of a Chinese bot which sends recorded messages, and if I don't pick up the phone it leaves them in the voicemail - which is more annoying because I have to go through the trouble of erasing them to clear the notifications on my phone. If I listened carefully to every Chinese recording I got, I would probably know the language by now, but I usually don't get past "nihau". What a waste of everybody's time - botting people who don't even speak the language of your advertisement. :rolleyes:

For a while I was trying to emulate my troll hero, James Veitch (an example (https://youtu.be/4o5hSxvN_-s) of his fine work). But you can only troll live spammers, you can't troll bots with recordings! And the rare time it's a living person, they are usually not in possession of sufficient English to understand they are being trolled, and it just goes nowhere.

[Andsigil]

This scene is from Mordor.

https://twitter.com/TheMiddleborne/status/1554678568524943361

Galadriel never picked up a sword in any Tolkien story. Not even once. She didn't have to because her massive power and wisdom were always implied, like the power of water held by a dam. It was briefly revealed, only once, when Frodo offered her the Ring.

‘And now at last it comes. You will give me the Ring freely! In place of the Dark Lord you will set up a Queen. And I shall not be dark, but beautiful and terrible as the Morning and the Night! Fair as the Sea and the Sun and the Snow upon the Mountain! Dreadful as the Storm and the Lightning! Stronger than the foundations of the earth. All shall love me and despair!’

She lifted up her hand and from the ring that she wore there issued a great light that illumined her alone and left all else dark. She stood before Frodo seeming now tall beyond measurement, and beautiful beyond enduring, terrible and worshipful.

This whole thing is just a (Marvelverse) square peg, sledgehammered into a (Middle Earth) round hole.

[Alassë Estel]

All Snakes.- Also known as "Satan's Tape Measures" or "Nope-Ropes"

All Spiders- Yes, even the ones that 'eat harmful pests'. THEY are harmful pests.

Intense Study Of The English Language At The Age Of 10- Don't diagram the sentence any more! Just put it's mutilated corpse to rest!

Rats- You can say what you like, I still think they were responsible for the ol' Bubonic.

Ads- The others might be controversial, but we can all agree that the orcs deserve to be interupted every 90 seconds by The Mouth of Sauron's ad for re-election.

The Legolas-Tauriel-Kili Love Triangle- This one needs no explanation.

The Mithril Subplot- I was going to just assign Rings of Power, but I don't really want to offend people who might have enjoyed it (after all, I enjoyed Peter Jackson's The Hobbit movies), so I will just assign my most disliked part. I mean, think about it. It would be like if someone said:

A: "We are all dying from cancer, but I have the cure.... It's gold!"

B: "Well, okay. It seems kind of odd that a generic metal, however valuable, just happens to cure cancer. But this is going to save thousands of lives! So let's get busy. I mean we are going to need to adminster this cure to the entire population. Wait, are we going to inject them or do they eat it."

A: "Uh, neither. They just have to be exposed to it. Bathed in it's light."

B: "Okay, that's a bit strange. But, great! Wait, what about the people who have already been around gold?"

A: "Well, I guess they are good to go."

*some time later*

B: "We don't have enough gold. We just have this one little piece. So, I am thinking we just line 'em up and hold it up, they just walk by and Bam! Immune to cancer!"

A: ... Orrrrr, we could just forge like, three rings or something, and three of us get one and Bam! Immune!

B: Oh, yes. Three of us having golden rings will definitely cure the entire population of cancer.