What do you assign to Mordor?

[Kath]

Nah, it's just easier to complain! :D

I assign prickly heat rash. Please, stop the itching!

[Rune Son of Bjarne]

It is like this song by a band called TV2. "Kom lad os brokke os" (come lets complaint)
They go on to sing "it is what we do best" and "it is probably what makes us feel good" (maybe good should be best)

[shieldmaiden4xsword]

I assign to Mordor......hmmm...... journals that resist ink.

[Lalaith]

I assign those awful skin-tight knee-length hipster shorts that have been fashionable this summer.
They are so unbelievably unflattering that only one woman in a thousand can carry them off. I keep seeing young girls, with what would in normal clothes be perfectly decent figures, rendered completely lumpen and ghastly by these things. (Especially when phones, ciggie packets or wallets are shoved into the back pockets - shudder)
The designers who dreamt them up should be sent to Mordor too for their misogynistic unkindness. And, quite frankly, the best friends of the wearers, too, for letting them go out dressed like that without saying anything.

[shieldmaiden4xsword]

I agree. I also assign to Mordor those jeans for guys that are designed to show 5 inches of boxers. For goodness sakes, i DO NOT want to see that!!!!

[Lhunardawen]

The fact that this thread has twice as many posts as assigned to the Shire... we are clearly glass half empty people..... :(
Let's say I'm bitter and seeking revenge, but you're assigned because I've already posted that somewhere in this thread. tgwbs assigned me for the same reason, but not for the same subject.

But I'd rather say that I just want my mum in Mordor with me. :D

Anyways...I assign my Anthro 10 prof. I normally wouldn't assign specific people to this place...

Well, you just did. Twice.

Umm...yeah. Anyways, but this one, he's just really, really...argh.

And I assign the deathly sweet smell of formalin. 1.0 M ammonia and formalin. The poor Mordorians.

[Farael]

I assign Lhuna for assigning one molar Ammonia to where I have been assigned before... I know I haven't been posting much on the 'downs lately, but I couldn't pass up a chemistry assignment (no pun int... ok, fine, I did it on purpose)

[Rune Son of Bjarne]

No one assigns Lhuna, no one !

You just made my list of enemies. Wich after a game of survivor, is growing suprisingly long. . . ;)

[Feanor of the Peredhil]

Caffiene addiction (and subsequent crash in the middle of my first World Religions class).

Lecture-based classes.

OTC pain killer tolerance.

When people unnecessarily sweeten iced tea. Green tea needs no mass quantities of sugar! It's like drinking syrup. Eew.

White dorm walls. That I'm not allowed to paint. :(

[the guy who be short]

I also assign to Mordor those jeans for guys that are designed to show 5 inches of boxers. For goodness sakes, i DO NOT want to see that!!!!It's lovely when people say "nice boxers" to you. :p I don't see this vendetta people have against men showing boxers - I don't claim to understand fashion, but it's hardly a hideous sight.

On a more serious notes, I assign When People Are Kicked Out of Colleges. It doesn't seem fair that the second kindest, nicest, sweetest guy I know is forced to leave when complete idiots are allowed to stay. There's more to people than their grades. These poor selection processes are upsetting.

[THE Ka]

White dorm walls. That I'm not allowed to paint. :(

Eek gads! White walls are a threat to my existence, I truly understand where you are coming from.

Since they seem to want to keep you in a containment cell of torture that you cannot paint, try covering most of the walls with things you like, or best of all, a montage or collage of your favoured colours. :)
Don't try to become boxed in, when stuck, just make your own. :)

~ Ka

[Feanor of the Peredhil]

Eek gads! White walls are a threat to my existence, I truly understand where you are coming from.
Whether I call myself an Art Ed. major or an English/Linguistics double major, I still have this... thing... with white walls. They aren't allowed. I'm actually very seriously considering asking my RA if we can paint one of the walls... if we paint it back at the end of the year. Mural, anybody?

[Volo]

Broken bicycles...
And days on what everything seems to go wrong, but to somebody else seem comical...
And both of those even Mordorer...

[Orominuialwen]

School scheduling mishaps. Having 4 study halls in a row is not cool. :( Neither is having to drop 3 classes (only one of which I wanted to drop in the first place) just to fit my French class into my schedule. I was really looking forward to Astronomy & Jewelry Making! :mad:

[piosenniel]

Viruses that lodge in your lungs; make your joints ache, your head swim . . . & by extension the patients who never listened to their mami when she told them to cover their coughs . . .

~*~ Pio, the peakéd

[the guy who be short]

School scheduling mishapsHear hear!

I have to go to a different college, with crummy teaching, to study Psych. Why can't I have the lovely teacher who is not only competent at passing on information, but also treats me as an equal and will happily chat about her uni days or the last time somebody asked her out.

[THE Ka]

I'm actually very seriously considering asking my RA if we can paint one of the walls... if we paint it back at the end of the year. Mural, anybody?

You should! :)

Best of luck Fea!

~ Ka

[Rune Son of Bjarne]

I assign having to use crap earphones, because someone thought it would be a great Idea destroying you sennheisers !

I know I sound spoiled, but when you use your earphones as much as I do, it becomes a quite annoying thing.

[littlemanpoet]

I was really looking forward to Astronomy & Jewelry Making!Jewelry Making? Is an actual class? Offered in high school? A vocational trade, is it? Or is it fluff? Just curious....

Oh, and I assign to Mordor the orc-ization of education. :p

[Volo]

I assign having to use crap earphones, because someone thought it would be a great Idea destroying you sennheisers !

I know I sound spoiled, but when you use your earphones as much as I do, it becomes a quite annoying thing.

Agree! Especially when you have to wear a bicycle helmet (yes, you have to wear one) and can't use big earphones. Now my little earphones broke because a friend rotated them...

[the guy who be short]

Oh, and I assign to Mordor the orc-ization of education.I assign unfortunately having to acknowledge the downward spiral of education. My Maths teacher was talking about how, in his day, A level maths students did 7 modules instead of 6. Though the content was the same, there was more.

I suspect it is much the same in all subjects.


I will also specifically assign Anti-Semitism. Dear me, the idiots we have to cope with.

[Lalwendë]

Jewelry Making? Is an actual class? Offered in high school? A vocational trade, is it? Or is it fluff? Just curious....

Oh, and I assign to Mordor the orc-ization of education. :p

I assign unfortunately having to acknowledge the downward spiral of education. My Maths teacher was talking about how, in his day, A level maths students did 7 modules instead of 6. Though the content was the same, there was more.

I suspect it is much the same in all subjects.

You can all, quite literally, blame me.

Meh! :D

[Mithalwen]

I assign unfortunately having to acknowledge the downward spiral of education. My Maths teacher was talking about how, in his day, A level maths students did 7 modules instead of 6. Though the content was the same, there was more.

I suspect it is much the same in all subjects.


I will also specifically assign Anti-Semitism. Dear me, the idiots we have to cope with.


Alas it is... I cannot believe how little my god-daughter has to read for A-Level English.. and she gets to do Captain Correlli's mandolin not slog thorugh a Dickens ;) .... I may disown her for not "getting" Jane Austen ....

I assign Aged Parents buying large domestic appliances without getting home delivery thus necessitating yours truly to extract said large appliance from a small fiat and get into house and having to refuse neighbours offer of help due to house looking as if it had been ransacked by burglars......

[Feanor of the Peredhil]

Fire alarms and being asleep when they go off. Talk about disorientation.

[Mithalwen]

Boarding school fire alarms that go off when a, you are on sleep-in duty, b, have a fouryear old pre-prepper boarding for a few days because of a family emergency, c, have not had the forthought to wear PJs / sleep in clothes.

She may have looked like and elf child but even delicate fouryear olds are heavy when sleepy and you have to carry them a couple of hundred yards to the gymnasium, where you then have to try and maintain your modesty in nightshirt and knee-length bathrobe in front of a hundred adolescent boys *shudders at the memory*

[Kath]

Wet hair slowly dripping down the back of your clean pyjamas and in turn your nice warm back, because you're too lazy to go find a towel. Well, they're two flights up!

Oh and friends who couldn't be on time if they're life depended on it. :rolleyes:

[shieldmaiden4xsword]

xanga malfunctioning. It's been doing that all morning. argh

[Lalwendë]

having had to break a fabulous spiral spider's web today in order to get to the dustbin. I have loads of Orb Weavers in my garden and there was a monster sized one (you could see her eyes) that had made a web right in the way, no way of ducking under it either. So i had to break the poor thing's web. :( What was amazing was that she'd rebuilt it in the next 2 hours!

I'm also assigning the way that a pint makes you really hot. Why? I've even got ice in it for goodness sake!

[Rune Son of Bjarne]

having had to break a fabulous spiral spider's web today in order to get to the dustbin. I have loads of Orb Weavers in my garden and there was a monster sized one (you could see her eyes) that had made a web right in the way, no way of ducking under it either. So i had to break the poor thing's web. :( What was amazing was that she'd rebuilt it in the next 2 hours!


I would assign that as well, but for totaly different reaons.

[Lalwendë]

Ah well, I do like spiders. Not least because they eat nasssty flies!

Something else for Mordor:

Monday morning. 6.15 am. I am on leave. So why do I wake up then? Especially when it would normally take a troupe of Uruks running through the house to rouse me for work? Why? Why?

[Rune Son of Bjarne]

Monday morning. 6.15 am. I am on leave. So why do I wake up then? Especially when it would normally take a troupe of Uruks running through the house to rouse me for work? Why? Why?

It is a punnishment for destroying fabulouss spider web, I am sure. . .
:p

[The Saucepan Man]

having had to break a fabulous spiral spider's web today in order to get to the dustbin. I have loads of Orb Weavers in my garden and there was a monster sized one (you could see her eyes) that had made a web right in the way, no way of ducking under it either. So i had to break the poor thing's web.Which reminds me ...

I assign that awful tickly and rather creepy sensation that you get (or at least I get) when you walk into a strand of spider web at head height.

Every morning, I cut across some woodland near our house on my journey to the station. The place is alive with Orb Weaver spiders, some of them (like the specimen identified by Lal above) veritable monsters. So much so that I have taken to nicknaming the place Mirkwood.

In any event, at that time in the morning, most are trailing their webs in commencement of the web-building process and so the path through the wood is transected by numerous webby strands and, in some places, fully formed webs. Having walked into such strands on numerous occasions, I have taken to picking up a suitable stick at the start of the forest path and holding it in front of me until I reach the road on the other side.

Luckily, the path is not well-used. But were you to happen down it on a weekday morning, you would be confronted with the strange sight of a bespectacled gentleman, rather like a latter-day (although slightly taller) Bilbo, wearing a suit, carrying a briefcase in one hand and waving a stick in front of him with the other ... :D

[Lalwendë]

Luckily, the path is not well-used. But were you to happen down it on a weekday morning, you would be confronted with the strange sight of a bespectacled gentleman, rather like a latter-day (although slightly taller) Bilbo, wearing a suit, carrying a briefcase in one hand and waving a stick in front of him with the other ... :D


:D

This makes me think of the episode of The League Of Gentlemen where the three businessmen decide to take a short cut through the woods to their awayday in a hotel, and it all ends up a bit like Deliverance.

I can see another big Orb Weaver right now, hanging in a web strung across the front garden. And for arachnophobes, there is a monster sized house spider living under the bath, where he ran when I tried to catch him the other night (He because its the males who wander around the house).

[Child of the 7th Age]

LICE

:D "Nuff said.

[Macalaure]

I want to assign flyers to Mordor.

You can't park your car anywhere near the university without having one under your wiper at the end of the day. And of course you only see them when you're already sitting in the car!

I'd also like to assign the woolice that flood my flat this summer. No idea where they come from. I had to deal with an invasion of ladybugs some years ago. Nature's funny, sometimes.

And walking through spiderwebs deserves a co-assignment. Bah! *shudder*

[Farael]

Finally getting inspired enough to write a little for the RPG you have been meaning to get started for a couple months and never finding the inspiration only to be serously SERIOUSLY rattled by some creepy dude who has nothing better to do with his life than to text message and then call random people on their cellphones and say erm... unappropiate things. It's probably just bad luck he chose my number, but the thought that it might not be chance is REALLY driving me nuts.

I assign creeps to Mordor... but real creeps, not poorly understanded introverted people who have no social skills... I'm assigning people who have no better thing to do than to get "kicks" out of making other people feel uncomfortable and harrassed.

[Lalwendë]

I love electrical storms and we've just had a huge, sudden one, complete with fork lightning, sudden gales and torrential rain. I've been running from window to window to get a good view. But I'm not at all happy that my fillings are now all tingling and my mouth feels like I've been chewing silver foil - that goes to Mordor! :(

[ninja91]

You know what else goes to Mordor? Writing cramps and sores. And those darn fruitcups that explode in your face at lunch. :mad:

[Lhunardawen]

Finally getting inspired enough to write a little for the RPG you have been meaning to get started for a couple months and never finding the inspiration only to be serously SERIOUSLY rattled by some creepy dude who has nothing better to do with his life than to text message and then call random people on their cellphones and say erm... unappropiate things. It's probably just bad luck he chose my number, but the thought that it might not be chance is REALLY driving me nuts.

I assign creeps to Mordor... but real creeps, not poorly understanded introverted people who have no social skills... I'm assigning people who have no better thing to do than to get "kicks" out of making other people feel uncomfortable and harrassed.
I can only nod my head with this.

Anyways, here's my advice for today: NEVER break your glasses. At least wait for the holidays before you do.

With that said, I assign breaking my glasses when the term still has a month to go. I'm so used to wearing them and just take them off right before sleeping (sometimes I even forget to), so walking around without them makes me feel like a zombie. A horribly myopic, astigmatic zombie. I even had to skip school today because it would be completely useless to be there without practically seeing a thing...

I also assign the whole process of having them replaced. How could it be that complicated? And finally, I assign finding out that my vision is not getting any clearer. :(

[piosenniel]

Doctors whose hand writing is so tiny and crabbéd that it's impossible to decipher what it is they want done . . .

~*~ Pio

[Kath]

Doing something to your arm, possibly sleeping on it while it was overextended, and having it ache continuously for about three days. Added to that, the strange looks you get when walking around carrying your arm because that's the only way it stops aching.

[Celuien]

Doctors whose hand writing is so tiny and crabbéd that it's impossible to decipher what it is they want done . . .
Oh dear. I suppose that would also apply to students (whose notes were co-signed to activate) whose handwriting is equally bad. Back to Mordor I go, at least until 2008, when all of my reports will be typed. :D

I assign unfriendly competitors. Specifically those who attempt to sabotage your applications by attempting (unsuccessfully in this case, fortunately) to make you look bad in front of the program director, but this person's other forms of sabotage equally belong to Mordor. :mad:

[Macalaure]

Sitting under a tree while a pigeon sits directly above you.

I'll leave it to your imagination what happened... :rolleyes:

[Anguirel]

This response from teachers to being handed work:

(Glance at length) "Too brief. Re-do."

Quantity not quality ahoy, and a good deal of extremely tedious re-notetaking...

[Volo]

Going to a museum to hear a guide telling you to cut your hair! The nerve! :mad: (Not that my hair is really popular anyway, that's the reason I keep it, being a rebel at something is some fun, if you can bear the laughter.)

[Feanor of the Peredhil]

Anything that seemed 'like a good idea at the time'. I think I'm permanently put off of caramel lattes. :(

[Kath]

So called friends that don't even bother to turn up to a leaving party, and so upsetting another friend who is going to uni tomorrow and won't have had a chance to say a proper goodbye now.

[Taralphiel]

Finally waking from the dream of a lovely weekend to realise tomorrow is Monday. And that means 5 straight days of terrible work. And 5:30 AM starts.

I'm not a morning person. May I assign that to the Shire too? :P

- Tara

[Feanor of the Peredhil]

Magic eyes, rolled 'r's, and a childhood and adolescence of repressed memories of my Spanish teacher trying to drill a weird Venezuelan rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr and my eyes trying to hard to be unfocused. :(

[Lalwendë]

Richard Branson. He who runs our cross country rail services, or at least makes a big show of doing so while he prats around in hot air balloons, the bearded buffoon. The last four big journeys I've made have been on Virgin services. One caught fire from York, another was crammed going to York as some carriages were out of order due to stuck doors. Going down to Oxford the train was late into Brum, leaving us less than 10 minutes to run through New St station with heavy bags, up and down stairs to make the Oxfrod connection. Then last night the train was full even when it got to Oxford, and we faced a three and a half hour journey unable to get to the toilet or snack bar and constantly having to move cases as the luggage racks were crammed full. Everyone was most polite until we got to Sheffield when some fool decided he would rather me run my suitcase over a poor dog's paws than step back to allow us to pass.

None of this happens on the London trains, a decent service not run by that fool Branson.

I also assign the Stalinesque block of accommodation at Somerville College that was like Prisoner Cell Block H, complete with blood stained curtains, paper thin walls and one measly pillow per bed. I can't imagine the disappointment of the new undergraduate arriving expecting medieval splendour in the city of dreaming spires and finding they'd been put up in something straight from Benidorm. Obviously built to give public school Gels that comprehensive school 'experience'. ;)

[Mithalwen]

Actually more like to make them feel at home ...remember if you have been to public school you are meant to find Prison a doddle...... :D

[Anguirel]

Weird. St Anne's is the one actually dubbed Cell Block H by the undergraduates of my acquaintance...

[Lalwendë]

Actually more like to make them feel at home ...remember if you have been to public school you are meant to find Prison a doddle...... :D

Ah, so the roots of Jeffrey Archer's problems have been revealed!

I did find the concept of shared bathrooms a bit odd. It's something I have no trouble with on a temporary basis, due to childhoods on campsites, but the thought of it long term seems weird; maybe those of us who have been to boarding schools feel much more at home with the idea than us comprehensive kids used to our private toilets complete with luxury Andrex and stack of newpapers (for Dad)? ;)

Weird. St Anne's is the one actually dubbed Cell Block H by the undergraduates of my acquaintance...

I saw some vile 60s blocks at the back of Christ Church too, so be warned. I understand Magdalen has the nicest accommodation but also the most expensive. We stayed in the St Edmunds Hall annexe earlier in the week, which is a B&B in summer and this was very nice, and clean too (Isis House if anyone wants a travel tip for next summer).

[Kath]

Really, really, really bad timing.

And lack of wireless.

And showers that don't disconnect.

People who yell "Wasted!" at you because you knocked over a glass.

Regretting not spending that little bit more on an en-suite.

Useless hooks.

Being bullied into going out.

Yes folks, today I am being a grumpy misanthrope. I'd like non-Ftf contact only for the next few hours please.

[Naria]

Stuffy nose, sore throat, coughing, and the chills. Yup...that's right I have a cold and it's been getting worse as the day goes on. My children always get sick at the beginning of the school year and bring it home. Blasted virus! :(

[JennyHallu]

You have kids????

I thought you were younger...maybe my age.

So there's a consolation...you look really young in writing, babe.

[the guy who be short]

Accidentally pulling a leg off a daddy long legs whilst trying to remove it from the home. Weird how I can eat cruelly raised chickens without a second thought but that made me cringe.

[Rune Son of Bjarne]

hmm I see that daddy longlegs like the danish stankelben, is a name for 3 different animanls. If it was a crane fly don't worry about it, they can loose their legs to avoid getting eaten by a bird.

I never buy chickens that have been treated poorly, but I kill daddy longlegs with little hesitation.

[Naria]

I thought you were younger...maybe my age.

So there's a consolation...you look really young in writing, babe.

Hey hey....I'm not all that old ya know! Okay okay...well maybe ;)

And I'm not quite sure how to take the last comment there....hmmmm :p

[JennyHallu]

:D :cool: You can take it howe'er you please, dear Naria.

I assign the shed my dog is in. I brushed her yesterday and got enough fur to make another kitten, which might explain the kitten's fascination with said fur. It's enough hair that it looks like my fuzzy Gracie ought to be bald after brushing...but no, more hair, most of it loose.

[Feanor of the Peredhil]

Accidentally reading a dozen or so pages of this:"Well," seyde Sir Epynogrys, "syth that ye loved La Beall Isode, loved she ever you agayne by onythynge that ye cowde wyte, othir ellys ded ye ever rejoyse her in ony plesure?"

Instead of a dozen or so pages of this:

So it misfortuned Sir Gawain and all his brethren were in King Arthur's chamber, and then Sir Agravain said thus openly, and not in no counsel, that many knights might here...

[Mithalwen]

Ah, so the roots of Jeffrey Archer's problems have been revealed!

I did find the concept of shared bathrooms a bit odd. It's something I have no trouble with on a temporary basis, due to childhoods on campsites, but the thought of it long term seems weird; maybe those of us who have been to boarding schools feel much more at home with the idea than us comprehensive kids used to our private toilets complete with luxury Andrex and stack of newpapers (for Dad)? ;)

.


Well Jeffrey Archer didn't actually go to boarding school - I rather think that was one of the creative amendments to his CV - and my Pa was warned to be wary of Mr Jeffrey Rat when he was in practice in Oxford forty years ago....

Well my state school had the "Bronco" style grease proof paper type paper with "Hampshire County council Now wash your hands " printed on it .... now that was something that belonged in Mordor ..

[Lalwendë]

Well Jeffrey Archer didn't actually go to boarding school - I rather think that was one of the creative amendments to his CV - and my Pa was warned to be wary of Mr Jeffrey Rat when he was in practice in Oxford forty years ago....

Well my state school had the "Bronco" style grease proof paper type paper with "Hampshire County council Now wash your hands " printed on it .... now that was something that belonged in Mordor ..

Well there's two things for Mordor anyway! Jeffrey Archer and Izal toilet paper. Funny how certain things never seem to stick to either.... :D

I'm assigning to Mordor irrational fear of getting pecked by birds. I've been in Bakewell today and was feeding some geese and swans right out of my hands. Um, how can people think they could hurt you when they have spoon shaped beaks? The one of the bigger geese came up and decided he was going to hiss at me for some unknown bird reason, prompting me to stand there saying "go on then, tough guy, let's see what you're made of". He was all mouth. It gave the pensioners watching a laugh anyway. ;)

I'm also assigning Vicki Pollard style shop assistants. Grrrrrr................ :mad:

[Rune Son of Bjarne]

I assign e-mailing 5 friends you have lost contact with over the last month and not reciving on reply. (it has been a week)

[Laitoste]

I'm assigning to Mordor irrational fear of getting pecked by birds. I've been in Bakewell today and was feeding some geese and swans right out of my hands. Um, how can people think they could hurt you when they have spoon shaped beaks?

I did get bitten by a goose once, when I was really little...I don't think it hurt much, though. Just the shock...

Anyway, I'd like to assign visual illusions. They're cool, but I had a 3 hour Psych lab on them today, and I came away with a painful headache. :(

[Lalwendë]

I did get bitten by a goose once, when I was really little...I don't think it hurt much, though. Just the shock...

Anyway, I'd like to assign visual illusions. They're cool, but I had a 3 hour Psych lab on them today, and I came away with a painful headache. :(

I used to gather the eggs from the chickens when I was little, and sometimes you'd get pecked as you put your hand under the hen and into the lovely warm nest to get the egg, but they don't hurt.

And yes, optical delusions as my mother calls 'em. Hmm. I send Magic Eye pictures to Mordor because I can't see the things as I've got astigmatism; I remember being effectively shut out of a whole youth craze many years ago. :(

[Anguirel]

Leaving your history books in the library, realising too late, running over in a state of dubious habillement and staring at your vitally important tomes through the locked grille...

[Farael]

And yes, optical delusions as my mother calls 'em. Hmm. I send Magic Eye pictures to Mordor because I can't see the things as I've got astigmatism; I remember being effectively shut out of a whole youth craze many years ago. :(
And I assign learning just now why I could never see those darned things.

[Firefoot]

Heartily seconded, Farael.

I assign people who (a) call you while they're doing something else and then only really talk to you about that: i.e., I'm playing a video game... I just died... so? Why'd you even call me? and (b) call someone else just to talk while you're at their house (especially when you're the only one). It's incredibly rude.

Also, people who are always out to make a buck out of insurance or some such.

[Lhunardawen]

And I assign learning just now why I could never see those darned things.
Wait...I have astigmatism, but I could see them. :confused:

I assign people who park their cars blocking the ramp for the disabled. It just makes my blood boil, seeing that.

[Farael]

Wait...I have astigmatism, but I could see them. :confused:

I assing having confirmed by a reliable source that the cause why I can't see those darned things cannot be credited to something as simple as astigmatism. Thus showing that, once again, it was my fault :p

What'd I do without you Lhunie? good thing I assigned you to Mordor, my current abode, a couple times over a couple things

[Kath]

Rain. :( I have to go out in it to wander aimlessly til I find a Tesco, and then walk back in it carrying heavy bags.

[the guy who be short]

I assign books getting wet. They were in my bag. I was under an umbrella. And they still got soaked. Les Fleurs du Mal, just bought last Friday from Oxford. A library book, L'Etranger. My new writing pad, now 400 pages of blue blobs where margins used to be. Not to mention much of my French folder. Stupid downpours.

[Lalwendë]

Rain? you don't know the meaning of it. ;)

I had to stand outside in the pouring rain today wearing a chiffon top under a thin cardigan while a mechanic from Green Flag tried to jam open the thermostat on my car, as it basically suddenly turned into one big pressure cooker as there was no water going through the engine. Least I could get away without a bath tonight. ;)

[Oddwen]

I wish to assign my brother for agreeing to work 'til close instead of just 'til midnight. It wouldn't be so bad if I wasn't the only person who could drive my stick-shift OR if we all hadn't gotten up early to go to breakfast OR if I wasn't tired enough to cry OR if he had asked me. BLAH!

I also assign being too tired to type straight. And picking out U-nails from nasty wet algae-y wood with the only available flathead screwdriver that we didn't sell in the yard sale or drop in the duck pond, while remembering pounding each nail & staple in many years ago, thinking back then "Boy, I'm hammering more of these in than I should, I'd hate to pick these back out again!".

Also, I assign breakfasts Out. In restaurants. Nearly everything on the menu is eggs or filled with cheese & sausage, none of which I like.

I also must throw in sore throats, from colds or breathing night air or straining it from screaming in Gandalf's voice, it's very annoying when I'm trying to sing in my car and can't quite sing an entire Disturbed or Breaking Benjamin song because I start squeaking or rasping or hurting at the fun parts.

But most of all, I assign my drum set being packed away, except for the bass drum which I cannot find a box to put it in. I miss playing! I dream of playing! Especially now, when I'm grumpy. :(

[Lhunardawen]

Harry was right, giggles should be outlawed...not that I should be expressing my agreement with him in a Tolkien website. But just think: isn't it really becoming of Orcs to giggle? Or imagine Sauron himself giggling - what a sight (and sound) it must be.

Have I told you that I'm making this assignment because I just realised that I giggle too much, and for the weirdest reasons?

[Kath]

Knowing you have to go and wash your hair, but being so comfortable and lazy that you just cannot be bothered.

[Laitoste]

Having to spend $15 at the bookstore on an umbrella and Post-It notes.

The impending stress of a busy week: 1 four page paper on the stability of slavery in the antebellum South, 1 500 word essay for Spanish (in Spanish, claro), not to mention 200 word essays on a movie and a cultural activity for our "videodiarios" and a"synthetic oral activity", 1 3-ish page paper on either Erasmus or Luther, plus a debate on the opposite in class, and, now, reading Chaucer untranslated. I wouldn't mind any of these, but crammed all together the way they are... :eek: And this is only September!

[JennyHallu]

Oddwen, for disliking cheese.

Cheese is good.

[Laitoste]

Obnoxious little formalities you have to pay attention to while writing, such as the literary present. Okay, so I get that when Solomon Northup (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solomon_Northup) wrote something about slavery in his book, he is still saying it and needs to be in present tense, but when something happens in the book, that needs to be in past tense, right? I get really confused--especially in history papers. Also, citations can go to Mordor. I obviously have never experienced slavery, nor have I ever seen it practiced. All the stupid little numbers cluttering up my "beautiful" prose! :(

[littlemanpoet]

Having to mow the long, long, green, green stuff after an 11 hour workday. (sigh)

[Saurreg]

Middle aged, lower middle echelon civil servants who only aim to knock off at half pass five and make problems for you simply because they don't want to do extra work and are willing to procrastinate until the last minute and then get you to submit a proposal to resolve the issue by an unreasonable dateline before attempting to reject it to cover their backsides until you threaten to take the matter up to the department director... :mad:

It's times like these that you feel like resigning from your current job, applying to join the same government body as said civil servants and requesting to be sent to their department to be appointed their supervisor. :mad:

[Nogrod]

These people who try to infiltrate the forums with their adds on iPods and other equipment... :mad:

[Rune Son of Bjarne]

The song "It started with a kiss" not because it is a bad song or I don't like the music.

It just affects me in a way emotionaly that is rather uncomftable.

[ninja91]

Speaking of songs, I cannot stand that god-awful "Holla back girrl" song. It drives me insane...

[Kath]

Days that can't make up their minds. I'm going to be cold today, no actually I think hot, hmm maybe rainy, oh no I preferred hot, now I want to be cold again. Grr, I refuse to carry three different tops and an umbrella just to deal with the changing weather.

[the guy who be short]

I assign Missing Umbrellas! And subsequent rain!

[Volo]

I assing myself

EDIT: to escape confusion: I don't mean WW in any way...

[Saurreg]

The song "It started with a kiss" ...

Mr. Brightside by the The Killers? Girls at my side of the world are crazy over them. Meh, I kinda like their beats and rifts myself. :D

[doom_hammer]

I'd like to assign terrorism.

[Kath]

Uncomfortable seats. Especially when you have to sit in them for about 11 hours.

[littlemanpoet]

School shootings. :( Sick minds filled with hate and revenge.

[Luinilwen]

Fun haters.

[The Sixth Wizard]

I and every last one of my friends.

Current affair shows and talkback hosts!!

Those fake smiles people give you that aren't even symmetrical.

[Oddwen]

Have I assigned Derek Jeter yet? I should. He's overrated, extremely overrated. He's a mediocre player. He pirrouettes like a girl. He plays for the Yankees. He's extremely smarmy & smug looking. He's ugly. I hate looking at him. I hate hearing about him *every* five minutes on ESPN.
What I do love to hate is hearing my brother screaming at all the articles featuring his bloated image & flaunting his piddling averages as if he were some sort of second Babe Ruth. Bah humbug, Jeter.

Can I also assign the Detroit Tigers for pretty much blowing it just when they hit the top? Yeah. That's loyalty for ya.

[ninja91]

I assign the people who join the forums to sell me junk I can get anywhere else for $1,000,000 less. I cant stand them.

[Kath]

Having to wait 20 minutes to ask one simple question that takes 20 seconds.

When your mouth aches as you try to eat.

[the guy who be short]

When it hurts to speak...

[Volo]

When it hurts to be...

[ninja91]

... a salesperson.

[Kath]

Unwanted suitors, and all the problems that come with them.

[Volo]

Not having anybody (friends, family) around who you could physicly meet. :(

[Laitoste]

The fact that the bagel I'm eating tastes somewhat like a biodegradable napkin. That's what I get for taking food out of the cafeteria. :rolleyes:

[Saurreg]

Unwanted suitors, and all the problems that come with them.

Awwwwwwww....

*Dumps flowers into a bin and walks away crestfallen.*


:D

[Kath]

Awwwwwwww....

*Dumps flowers into a bin and walks away crestfallen.*
Come back Saurreg! I'll take the flowers. ;) :D

I'm assigning days where you can't work out the temperature.

Also, slow internet connections, grr.

[ninja91]

I assign Immanuel Kant, because I have seen true beauty more than once.

[Imladris]

German Midterms and all the declining of past/future/present verbs and adjective endings that are determined by gender among other things that tend to make the brain explode.

[Celuien]

Away to Mordor with door locks that break and leaved you locked in behind them!

Fortunately, I'm on the smaller side and this was one of those dressing room type doors with a fairly large space underneath, so I made my escape by slipping under the door.

I also assign sliding across a floor that is probably disgustingly filthy. *shudders*

[Saurreg]

Poor Celuien. I know how it feels. One time my section got locked out of our bunk in specialist training centre, boot camp. And to get add to the dilemma, it was the weekend bookout and the three tonner truck was waiting to take us to the ferry terminal. I was nominated by my section mates to go through another section's bunk, climb out their window and enter ours to unlock the door. :rolleyes:

[Feanor of the Peredhil]

I assign when the elevator doors shut, but not all the way, leaving you stuck inside an unmoving metal box that's suspended at least seventy feet above the bottom of the shaft. *shiver*

[Celuien]

Oh no, Saurreg. Locked doors that shouldn't be locked are awful, and it sounds like that was a particularly bad time and place to encounter one!

And I assign nominating people to take on unwelcome tasks.

[Lush]

Student loans. :eek:

[the guy who be short]

As a soon-to-be student, may I ask why, Lush?

[Formendacil]

As a soon-to-be student, may I ask why, Lush?

Because when you're done being a student, you have to pay them off...

As for me, I assign car troubles. Specifically, car troubles resulting in said car not moving and needing very expensive replacement parts.

And to Mordor with making important decisions regarding communities. Is there a right way?

[Lhunardawen]

I assign myself for not knowing how to use a sphygmomanometer. I was practising on my mum the other night because she just had high BP that morning, and the way I heard it her diastolic pressure was registering on 20! So on a related note, I assign not being able to hear anything through a stethoscope.

For something really serious, I assign suddenly hearing from high school batchmates that another batchmate just passed away, because of an autoimmune disease. He's too young...way too young... :(

[Volo]

One of your best friends showing off by smoking (also stronger stuff) and offering you snuff, telling you how a water bong works and would I want to try after school. My class is full of drunkards to be. Not even nice or witty in any way... I really hope for something better next year in the upper secondary school or whatever you call it there.

[Rune Son of Bjarne]

English trains for two reasons.
1. Not enough space for the legs
2. Toilets that resembles the ones of a Danish public school! (not good at all)

Oh yeah and English keyboards. . .well they are annoying when you are not used to them.

[Firefoot]

Not being able to find your driver's license.

[Mithalwen]

I assign when the elevator doors shut, but not all the way, leaving you stuck inside an unmoving metal box that's suspended at least seventy feet above the bottom of the shaft. *shiver*

Could have been worse - One of the secretaries where I worked last year got trapped in the lift but instead of being rescued by a dishy and hunky fireman she was rescued by a short and puny solicitor with killer halitosis...

But I assign people who think their fame and wealth gives them the right to pick out a child to adopt like a fashion accessory "cambodian babies are sooo last year ...has to be an african "

[JennyHallu]

At least they're helping that child.

And Fea, in my dorm in college we used to sit in the elevator lobby and listen to the screams of whoever'd gotten stuck in the elevator. You could hear them clearly on all eight floors.

[Lalwendë]

English trains for two reasons.
1. Not enough space for the legs
2. Toilets that resembles the ones of a Danish public school! (not good at all)

Oh yeah and English keyboards. . .well they are annoying when you are not used to them.

Ah, the joys of Virgin trains perhaps, 'run' by my 'friend' Richard Branson (http://forum.barrowdowns.com/showpost.php?p=489556&postcount=1550)? May his socks be forever holey and his beard filled with itchy lice...

[Rune Son of Bjarne]

I don't remember if they where "Virgin Trains" but I did see alot of them, so it is a definite possibility.

(Chester Zoo only sell Virigin Cola, I guess that is his doing as well. Although that is not really annoying)

[THE Ka]

English trains for two reasons.
1. Not enough space for the legs
2. Toilets that resembles the ones of a Danish public school! (not good at all)

Oh yeah and English keyboards. . .well they are annoying when you are not used to them.


Well, I hope it wasn't this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdkT9sGRw_E) bad...

Hope your trip goes well, or much better. :)

~ Ka

[Kath]

Being ill when you have an essay to be handed in tomorrow, and due to said illness have only written 400 words of the requisite 2000. :eek:

Why do I think I'm not going to be sleeping today? Oh right, because I'm still procrastinating!

[JennyHallu]

This conversation:

My Mom: Oh...did we tell you the date of Grandma Rainwater's surgery?
Mom: Tuesday, October 24
JennyHallu: Um.
JennyHallu: WHAT surgery?
JennyHallu: I'm always missing the essential bits of info
JennyHallu: grrr
Mom: She has had a heart valve with issues over the last 20 years.
Mom: It finally got to the point where it must be replaced.
Mom: So she is having open heart surgery a week from Tuesday.
JennyHallu: thanks for the prompt info
JennyHallu: No one told me she was having surgery
JennyHallu: and that's a pretty big one

I'm so sick and tired of being so far from home and so out of the loop. I'm scared for my grandma...it's my great-grandma, and she's 81, and I'm absolutely furious that no one told me. This was Sunday...and it's been all I've been able to think about all week.

And I can't be there.

[Elonve]

Being I love with a Bloke. (A really nice ,sweet, funny, shy one) Everybody knows how much you adore him...

except him of course!!!! :mad:

Why are boys so blind?
________
Kitchen Measures (http://kitchenmeasures.com/)

[Macalaure]

Having your cockatiel to be put down. :(

Twenty-one he was...

[Rune Son of Bjarne]

I assign my inability to acknowledge that I have feelings for sertain peolpe and even if I do realise it, I cannot get my act together before it is to late.

[the guy who be short]

1) Making a social retard of myself.
2) In front of hot guys.

:rolleyes:

[littlemanpoet]

Be yourself.

But who am I?

Augh, the angst of searching for one's identity. I'm glad that stuff's all done, but I feel sorry for you teens. Assigned to Mordor it is.

[Kath]

Homesickness.

[Feanor of the Peredhil]

The depressed realization half way through a 1 1/2 hour long midterm review class that you've been daydreaming and haven't the foggiest what he's been saying about what's on the biggest test of the term... you know... the one that'll make or break your grade.

[Thinlómien]

The whole situation.

[Macalaure]

Seconded...

[ninja91]

...the flu.

[Lhunardawen]

The paranoid fear of being (about to be) sick.

[Kath]

People not phoning when they're supposed to!

[Taralphiel]

The glorious embarrassment of falling down the stairs and hurting your foot.

Added to which is:

Being on the phone with someone at the time of said fall. Knowing not only that they are probably laughing at you, but also that your silliness in not concentrating on the stairs but on the conversation (and the armful of washing on the other hand) is what caused the tumble.

Oh, and not being able to wear a sneaker on that foot. *curses*

Graceful, aren't I? *giggle*

- Tara :)

[littlemanpoet]

You may recall that cell/mobile phones were assigned to Mordor pages and pages ago. This is one reason why. ;)

I assign not getting enough sleep and trying to fight off the latest bug, be it cold or flue, and feeling absolutely drained from the combination .... while working a full 8 + hour day ... and my shipping supervisor is playing chicken with stuff that has to go out TODAY but isn't even the building yet! :eek:

Assigned it is.

[Rikae]

I assign to Mordor the combination of the following things (not necessarily the things individually):

A 5 page essay on 4 Nabokov books, only 2 of which you've read, AND
another 5 page essay with missing page numbers that need to be retrieved from 10 different books AND
An enormous charcoal drawing midterm, due in one day, that isn't going well, AND
another short essay on Venetian art AND
a Northern Renaissance Art midterm to study for AND
about ten loads of laundry AND
a sink full of dirty dishes AND
four Halloween costumes to make AND
it all needs to be done on a Sunday, which means church & taking the kids to religious ed as well.

:eek:

[Rikae]

I send Magic Eye pictures to Mordor because I can't see the things as I've got astigmatism; I remember being effectively shut out of a whole youth craze many years ago. :(
I'll second that!

[Azaelia of Willowbottom]

I hereby assign the business of college for preventing me from logging on to the Downs for so long!!

I assign unclear essay prompts that force me to attempt to read the teacher's mind.

I assign the characteristic about me that says that though I don't fall often, I fall hard when I do...

And by the same token, I also assign falling hard for a guy who probably only sees me as a friend...when he sees me at all.

...And the girl who hates me for it.

I assign my face for blushing when I don't want it to...silly fair skin...

I assign the awkwardness of visiting home after a month or so of being away at school...I feel like I don't fit either place.

I assign drama that should have ended with secondary school being carried over and multiplied here in the college setting. bah. I thought we were adults, but some of us clearly aren't.

[THE Ka]

I assign unclear essay prompts that force me to attempt to read the teacher's mind.

J'aussi!

Even worse, when they change their mind about where I want titles, works cited, ect, after you've turned in your wonderful polished final draft... Sigh, professors...

~Ka

[High King Fingolfin]

John Steinbeck novels.

Being stuck in the Detroit airports, like Oro and I were for 4 extra hours last thursday.

[Feanor of the Peredhil]

Derrida.

[Thinlómien]

John Steinbeck novels.
Haha, really? I'm just reading Of mice and men for school. It's not that bad, not that it'd be very good either, but it's diffcult to say since I haven't read it yet to the end.

[Farael]

I assign biochemistry, and analytical chemistry.
The first may not be so bad if our prof was a bit better... mind you, he's HILARIOUS, but at the end of the lecture you sit there and wonder... what exactly did I learn

Analytical, on the other hand, is a nightmare. I am probably one of the clumsiest men in the whole of creation... and I'm supposed to be precise to 0.03ml??? on top of that, we are not even allowed to use the "new" equipment which makes it far easier. There's a lovely mechanic pipette bulb that you control by flipping up and down a little switch... I can use those to perfection... but use my index FINGER to stop one end of the pipette while carefully letting it drip, slowly enough that I'll manage to stop it RIGHT when the meniscus of the solution reaches the mark is.... well, impossible. For me.

Not to mention the fact that we are not allowed to wear gloves, and now my fingers are consistently dark purple (silver nitrate stains) or yellow (hydrochloric acid burns).

[the guy who be short]

Getting a C in an exam which your teacher agrees you should have got an A in ("The examiner must have been drunk!"). It being too late to have it remarked.

[Kath]

People who just will not take the hint.

If I've stopped replying to your messages it's because I don't want to talk to you. If I've turned my phone off to stop you ringing me it's because I don't want to talk to you. That does not mean turn up at my door and ask me if I'm ok! I'm fine! Or at least I would be if you would leave me alone!

/rant :o

[Anguirel]

Suitors again, I'll bet!

Proud icy maiden, forenamed Kath
That such manifold beauties hath
Pause as you rend at loving pleas
Come on, listen, I'm on my knees...

Ahem.

[Lalaith]

I decided to give Grapes of Wrath a bash this summer.
Blimey O'Reilly.
Fingolfin, I feel your pain.
Derrida, ditto.

[the guy who be short]

While we're condemning John Steinbeck to a lifetime of misery in Mordor (Cameo, anyone?) I'll add my voice to the call. I was forced to read Of Mice and Men two years ago; it wasn't bad but the analysis was incredibly dull.

[Oddwen]

I'll assign the preparations for moving and cleaning up 17 years of crap. Especially the stuff I remember saving because "I might need it" or "I can think of a million and one uses for that!"

And also being without internet access for nearly three weeks.

And my brother too, who is sitting beside me as I type and mocking the Barrow-downs. Yes, I do say mocking. Go to Mordor, Sam. Do not pass go, do not collect Mr. Frodo.

[Volo]

Earphones breaking, again, for no reason that I see...

[the guy who be short]

Suddenly being in charge of an essembly for a couple of hundred year 10s and 11s in about a week. Eeek. :eek:

[Rikae]

To Mordor with deadlines!

[Lhunardawen]

I assign biochemistry, and analytical chemistry.
The first may not be so bad if our prof was a bit better... mind you, he's HILARIOUS, but at the end of the lecture you sit there and wonder... what exactly did I learn
I suppose this means Biochem as a subject isn't really that bad in itself?

Analytical, on the other hand, is a nightmare. I am probably one of the clumsiest men in the whole of creation... and I'm supposed to be precise to 0.03ml??? on top of that, we are not even allowed to use the "new" equipment which makes it far easier. There's a lovely mechanic pipette bulb that you control by flipping up and down a little switch... I can use those to perfection... but use my index FINGER to stop one end of the pipette while carefully letting it drip, slowly enough that I'll manage to stop it RIGHT when the meniscus of the solution reaches the mark is.... well, impossible. For me.
And here I thought it's perfectly okay to miss the mark by a few micrometers or something. Maybe that's why we always get weird results when we titrate. Heh. And I can sympathise with the pipette use. Have you ever tried having to use a malfunctioning aspirator? I send that to Mordor.

Not to mention the fact that we are not allowed to wear gloves, and now my fingers are consistently dark purple (silver nitrate stains) or yellow (hydrochloric acid burns).
I had to use a dripping pipette once and spilled some sodium hydroxide on my hand. Thank goodness we were using a very dilute solution.

Ehem. Anyways. Poor Kath. They can really be that dense.

I'll assign the preparations for moving and cleaning up 17 years of crap. Especially the stuff I remember saving because "I might need it" or "I can think of a million and one uses for that!" Even cleaning up after just a year of school is hard. I've regretted disposing of countless notes thinking I would never use them again, so now I'm hesitant to throw anything away.

[Feanor of the Peredhil]

The unfairly pervasive and nauseating smell of popcorn.

[Oddwen]

The unfairly pervasive and nauseating smell of popcorn.
Nooooooo!! How about the smell of that horrible fake butter instead? In fact, let me sign the aisles in stores where they offer cleaning supplies & scented candles.

And I assign to Mordor the feeling that I'll be young, beautiful and desireable forever. It's a good feeling, but it's a lie.

[High King Fingolfin]

If anyone can help it, never read The Pearl. It goes on the list of all time worst books I've ever read. We're reading Of Mice and Men in English right now, and as usual I finished it early. I extremely disliked the ending.

[Kath]

Allergies! Hate 'em, especially when they continue even though the allergen has gone. Bah humbug.

[Lalaith]

Hmm, yes. Microwave popcorn, its taste and smell, belong in Mordor.

Real popcorn, done in the old-fashioned way - dried kernels cooked in oil in a pot on a stove, then salted while still hot - should be given a place of honour on any Hobbiton menu.

[THE Ka]

If anyone can help it, never read The Pearl. It goes on the list of all time worst books I've ever read. We're reading Of Mice and Men in English right now, and as usual I finished it early. I extremely disliked the ending.

My sympathies with you about The Pearl. It begins quite nicely, and the middle development of the theme makes sense, but the ending is quite sparce...
The only Steinbeck that I've actually found a continuing message is in The Winter of Our Discontent, but it was too old-school humanist for me to like.

~ Ka

[Lhunardawen]

Ear-splitting high-pitched voices. From a boy. :rolleyes:

[Farael]

Ear-splitting high-pitched voices. From a boy. :rolleyes:
Now now.. what did Nilp do this time? :p

I assign apathy, specially from oneself towards important things like studying.

[Rune Son of Bjarne]

Apparantly he produced some Ear-splitting high-pitched voices.

[Erunámo Séreturion]

I assign Buckley's (tm) Cough Syrup to Mordor. Not that I dont like it...

[Thinlómien]

Almost falling asleep in chemistry lessons because of being so tired. I had to pinch myself to keep awake. I should really concentrate on lessons right now since the exam period is soon and I have no idea how I'm going to survive the chemistry exam. And concetrating during the lessons is not helped by the fact that chemistry is so boooring. :(

[Macalaure]

I assign the minutes that pass between thinking your car has been stolen ( :eek: ), and remembering that you parked it somewhere else ( :rolleyes: ).

[High King Fingolfin]

Originally posted by Macalure
I assign the minutes that pass between thinking your car has been stolen, and remembering that you parked it somewhere else.
I went through a similar incident when I thought I had my coat stolen from the downstairs of my church, only to realize my mom had taken it up for me.

[Feanor of the Peredhil]

Snow. I forgot how much milder the weather at school is. It's rainy and gray at school. It's snowy and lighter gray here. I don't want to drive in this after having been car-less for months! It's not even fun snow... it's the snow that is slush when it falls, slush when it hits, and slush when it turns the roads into murky brown slides sided by deep washed out ditches from the recent rain. Eew.

[littlemanpoet]

I assign to Mordor the grammatically illogical expression:

"I could care less."

The dolts who say this clearly mean "I could not care less", but are apparently too unconscious to realize they're screwing it up.

What's worse is that the expression is becoming the more common in the language. :rolleyes:

Look, folks, if you "could care less", it means that you actually could care less than you do, which means that what you are saying is actually the opposite of what you mean. Get it!?!? :rolleyes:

Nincompoops.

[Rikae]

I assign New Line to Mordor, and this link will explain why: http://www.theonering.net/staticnews/1163993546.html

[Kath]

Public transport. Though only for today because I'll need it again tomorrow!

It took far too much effort to get back to uni today. Should have been three train rides with easy crossovers and a bus ride but no, various people in London had to go on strike so everything was delayed and so full you couldn't even move. When I got off at Clapham Junction I nearly took another person with me because we were so packed in I couldn't get out without her backing almost the whole way off the train.

Oh! And then I had to wait a full half hour for the bus, in the freezing cold I might add.

[Rune Son of Bjarne]

Everything is annoying when it does not work. . . I think Public Transportation is a brilliant thing/idea, but it is very annoying when it is under-funded.

[ninja91]

That durned old trimester schedule at school...

[Farael]

Loosing my wallet, and having my father kindly chew my butt off over it. Minus the kindly part.

Now that I know that no-one has used my credit card in the last 24 hours, I'm not sure what upsets me more, loosing my wallet and all the lines, paper work and fees I'll have to pay, or the fact that my dad seems to perversely enjoy being a *censored by Farael's common sense* when there is nothing I can do about it.

I assign loving fathers that sometimes forget that one is old enough to deal with the consequences of one's own mistakes.

[Lhunardawen]

Nope, Farael and Rune, it wasn't Nilp. Though he could do produce those too to annoy me, if he thinks it's worth the effort.

I assign missing so much when you're gone for a week, and when you finally have the (short) time to catch up, you don't even know where to start.

[Feanor of the Peredhil]

I assign my computer bluescreening mid-way through Diamond's really awesome death scene. I Control-C'd it the second I realized what was happening, but the copy didn't hold when the system shut itself down. :(

[Feanor of the Peredhil]

December. As a general sort of thing. It came in with a night of illness followed by a day of feeling better, followed by a night of illness followed by a day of feeling better; two separate issues.

It came in with a cold front. I'm frozen from the inside out.

It's the last week of classes.

Christmas.

It's just not fun.

[Kath]

Rain. I don't mind it so much in summer when it's warm, or if I know there's a nice warm bath waiting for me when I get home, but when you get soaked knowing you're going to be damp the rest of the day it's just nasty.

[Beleg Cuthalion]

I like the look of this thread.



To mordor and the flames of Amon Amarth I assign;

Most of the people I've met in my life

Messing up my practicing

Realizing the day before my lesson that despite working all week that I don’t seem to have accomplished anything http://webpages.charter.net/connectingzone/think/31.gif

My net connection cutting out when I’m try to watch funny vids

And grapes with seeds in them.

[Farael]

Exams... a biased measurement of an arbitrary level of knowledge that ultimately yields unfair results.

[Kath]

Waking up at 9 for an exam that won't happen until 2 due to a slight brain error in reading my timetable.

[Feanor of the Peredhil]

Waking up at 9 for an exam that won't happen until 2 due to a slight brain error in reading my timetable.How about waking up at 7:30 to edit the paper you finished at 2:30 that needs to be handed in at 9:00 and-- eek, gonna be late to my final. :eek::rolleyes:

[Feanor of the Peredhil]

Nasty spiteful people who are actively TRYING to get me in trouble at work for almost no good reason at all.

You'd think that getting me reprimanded once (yep, deserved it that time) would be enough, but to continue it! What did I ever do to them?!? :(

[FeRaL sHaDoW]

due dates who needs them ???

[Mithalwen]

Nearly knocking oneself out on the door to the loft room. Just have to be grateful that I have thick hair and a hard skull and fell backwards on to the landing not downstairs .. why am I so clumsy?

[Firefoot]

Having finals two weeks after Christmas vacation. We go away, forget everything, and then have to have it rammed back down our throats to take the exams. :rolleyes:

[Mithalwen]

Realising there is not much point in accepting the offer of a free bunch of mistletoe :(

[Lalaith]

Doing paperwork. Being behind on paperwork. Doing paperwork while everyone else is having fun. Realising there is so much paperwork that you will have to spend tomorrow on it, as well.
:(

[Kath]

Wisdom teeth coming through and causing pain! At least only one of them is hurting.

[Elonve]

TOEFL- Burn in Mordor :mad: :mad: :mad:
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[Boromir_bg]

The whole slow and ignorant mass of fools in the state bureaucracy should be sent in Mordor.
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Die ganze Menge von dummen Bürokraten sollen zu Mordor geschickt werden.
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Всичките игнориращи глупаци от гилдията на бюрократите трябва да бъдат изпратени в Мордор.
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州の官僚主義の愚か者の全体の遅く、知らない固まりはMordoru で送られるべきである。
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Here,I wrote it in four languages,hope it works...

[Oddwen]

We have...the most horrible vaccuum in the world...

The hose setup is ridiculous. I'll vaccuum a whole huge room, to find out the hose had come disconnected and I have to do it over again. There is no suction worth mentioning at all, so I can never tell if the hose is disconnected, or if it's going full-force.

I just carried it down two stairs, and so help me it dumped a load of rocks all over the floor.

*weeps*

[Rikae]

I assign to Mordor:

Delayed flights that mean you could have joined what looks like it's going to be a spectacular game of Werewolf, with several fantastic players including the legendary Nilp...:( If you had only known sooner.

[Amras Oronar]

To Mordor I assign:

RPG n00bs in half life 2 deathmatch, I just hate it when those buggers ruin a good server with there bloody RPG's :D

[Elonve]

Having to be a bridesmaid for a family-friend and the colour of the dress is a hideous bright pink that looks fine on her pale sister but awful on my olive complexion. And the material is shiny and sticks to your skin and makes my gluteus maximus(which I unfortunatley inherit from my mothers side...) look HUGE... :eek:

That'll be all... :(
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[littlemanpoet]

The whole slow and ignorant mass of fools in the state bureaucracy should be sent in Mordor.
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Die ganze Menge von dummen Bürokraten sollen zu Mordor geschickt werden.
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Всичките игнориращи глупаци от гилдията на бюрократите трябва да бъдат изпратени в Мордор.
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州の官僚主義の愚か者の全体の遅く、知らない固まりはMordoru で送られるべきである。
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Here,I wrote it in four languages,hope it works...Good effort. Problem is, the nature of bureaucracy is to create Mordor wherever it is, so I'm afraid it always does work, just not how we want it to. :rolleyes:

[Mithalwen]

Due to a circumstances too tedious to relate I have been without a functioning washing machine since Sept - so I have been using the laundrette which isn't a bit deal other than it results in having more damp washing than I have capacity to dry inside or with tiny tumble dryer .. so I decided to use the dryers at the laundrette for th big important stuff...

Of course some moron had to leave (Why????) a biro in the tumble dryer I put my work tops in...not the one with dark towels in.... I loved spending the evening making not entirely successful experiments with various stain removers and handwashing.... :mad:

[Thinlómien]

I assign having flu all the time.

I was ill in Christmas time and now I think I've fallen ill again. :(

[Volo]

Insomnia.

[Kath]

Insomnia.

Seconded! How I hate that.

[Volo]

Seconded! How I hate that.
Too late, you thirded.
It sure is something that would be nice to get rid of.

[Lalwendë]

Having to be a bridesmaid for a family-friend and the colour of the dress is a hideous bright pink that looks fine on her pale sister but awful on my olive complexion. And the material is shiny and sticks to your skin and makes my gluteus maximus(which I unfortunatley inherit from my mothers side...) look HUGE...


Alas, the lot of many a young bridesmaid is to wear an excess of satin (a fabric that should have been banished to Mordor already) all in the noble cause of making the bride look better. One day, should you so wish, you will get to have your revenge by dressing your own bridesmaids in peuce sateen... ;)

I'm assigning ITV which I dearly hope goes out of business soon as its programming is becoming truly sickening. Tonight we have had soap 'stars' (they are possibly 'stars' in Scunthorpe but that's it) 'singing' and pretending to be Shania Twain (I imagine Shania will be laughing her socks off), and Reality Begging. So at last, as the LCD TV set becomes a staple in homes across the nation, so does the LCD TV show (LCD meaning Lowest Common Denominator). :(

[Rikae]

I assign to Mordor:

The bus ticket machine next to Marble Arch tube station that ate my last £4.

The train on the Jubilee line that had me in fear of my life with it's abnormal level of noise and turbulence.

The coffee machine in Belsize Park hostel that either gives you half a cup of coffee, or causes the coffee to overflow.

Airplane seats. Not the one I sit in, but the one in front of it!
:D

[Thinlómien]

I assign the situation that looks like being without a net access home the rest of my life. (Or at least as long as I live with my mum.)

[Volo]

I assign the situation that looks like being without a net access home the rest of my life. (Or at least as long as I live with my mum.)
Move to some friend who has a broadband connection... :rolleyes:

[Thinlómien]

Move to some friend who has a broadband connection... :rolleyes:Haha, a good idea. Though friends tend to want that I do something else than hang in the net.

Or maybe I could tell my mum: "If you won't get us a net access, I'll move to my father's place and it will be you who I'll be visiting on weekends."
:D

[Farael]

Cold that chills you to the bone and does not go away, even when you get home.

I also assign more precisely windchills of -30 degrees and below (curiously enough, -30 C is almost -30 F... I won't bother with the exact conversion). Up to -20 to -25 it's ok... cold, but when the mercury closes in to -30 degrees it's when things start to get ugly

[Oddwen]

I assign walking around the house with one sock on.

I can stand walking around with one shoe on, because I know there's going to be a difference in my stride and the height of that foot, but with a sock there's just no warning.

I'll walk across a tile floor, and the foot with the sock will be warm, but then the bare foot will be cold, and then I step onto a rough carpet and one foot stays the same, and the other feels every bump.

And stairs are the worst. I find myself stopping and trying to remember which foot goes next.

Yes, I'm blonde, what of it?

[Volo]

Coughing, especially in public.

And Panther-sweets that taste good but have an effect of increasing the coughing.

[Kath]

Stepping in water on the kitchen floor. Having a wet foot is not nice.

[Thinlómien]

Coughing, especially in public.

And Panther-sweets that taste good but have an effect of increasing the coughing.Thank you. They didn't even taste that good.

[the guy who be short]

I assign vectors in all their ways, shapes and forms.

I assign position vectors, unit vectors, direction vectors, and whatever the difference between them is.

I assign how the modulus only matters sometimes. Seemingly at random.

I assign vector products. I assign scalar products.

*Breathes*

[Elonve]

Children.
They always seem to have jam on their hands. Even when there isn't any jam in the house, they get jam on their hands. I just can't deal with jam hands.

So I actually ban 'Jam-hands' to Mordor... :D
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[Mithalwen]

so I don't expect sympathy...

I assign still not having filed my tax return, and worse still not having ordered a comprehensive calculation guide even though I have remembered all the trouble I had last year...

And the fact that I put myself through this misery when if I had got my act together and written in the (literally)half dozen necessary entries by Sept. they would have done the calc for me...and saved me trawling through 50 pages to confirm the easy assumption that it will be the same percentages as last year, and the year before that...

And the knowleged that it is even more unforgivable in the light of how I earn my living...

So basically I assign myself ...but I think someone already did.... :rolleyes:

[Lalwendë]

You might be assigning yourself again if you don't get it in well before the deadline of 31st January as it looks like there is going to be a nationwide, service wide strike that day, too.

Meanwhile on a similar note I assign people you work with (so not your good self ;)) who have no conception of the importance of time and deadlines as they have wasted my whole day. I may as well have stayed in bed. :(

[Mithalwen]

You might be assigning yourself again if you don't get it in well before the deadline of 31st January as it looks like there is going to be a nationwide, service wide strike that day, too.




I WILL get it in ..too poor and too mean to risk a fine and besides it is a surefire way of getting the revenue to be interested in your fiscal affairs for the rest of your days.. even so I am a bit prone to be sending it guaranteed next day delivery.... it is only cos I am scared of getting it wrong .. I have to say all the Revenue bods I have dealt with in recent years have been super helpful and friendly ..pity I was traumatised by earlier dealings.......

Oh I love deadlines ..that whooooooooooooooshing noise as they go rushing by is delightful... ;) Actually it is a life time failing ...I wouldn't say I work best under pressure ... more don't work unless under pressure :( ..all my uni essays were handed in by the skin of my teeth and my dsisertation was completed on 3 weeks of 2-3 hrs sleep a night fuelled by rocket fuel coffee and (legal) herbal tranquilisers .... I really don't recommend it to anyone...it took 3 weeks before I stopped twitching ( even allowing for various other crises which you will have to get me hogwhimperingly drunk at Oxenmoot to find out about ;) ).

[Tar-Meneldur]

Well really it is Sauron and his orcs and trolls, but I other things were to be put in it would have to be, ummmm, cheaters at anything sports you name it.
oh, and people who always come up to you and they always think that you know who they are even if you don't have a clue as to who they are.
I hope you got that.

[Volo]

I hate to say it, but I assign our au pair. She is the most helpless and dumb person to have set foot in this house. Not only does she mess everything else up, she also makes my computer crash. And her childlish optimist is the most anoying thing ever... :/ And to think that she went to university and studied psychology... :rolleyes:

[Elonve]

Static electricity.

Not only does it give me terriable shocks, it makes my unmanagable hair go everywhere.... :(
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[littlemanpoet]

I assign Psychology. Less is known about the human mind than the "experts" like us to think.

[Farael]

I assign Psychology. Less is known about the human mind than the "experts" like us to think.
I can't quite say that I second your assignation (assignment?) but what I do assign is the attempts at studying psychology as if it was an exact science. While there is no doubt that chemical imbalances in our body are somehow associated with our moods and feelings, I resist to believe that something as beautiful as love, or as wonderful as laughter is caused by some or another hormone rampaging around.

[Kath]

I assign Psychology. Less is known about the human mind than the "experts" like us to think.
I feel that I should argue against that, but after 5 hours of lectures today I'll second the assignment - I never even had time for lunch!

[the guy who be short]

Traitor, Kath! Betrayer of thy mother's kin!

So it falls on me to defend Psychology...

Actually, psychology is incredibly inexact. Any study will have flaws. Usually huge gaping flaws that people can jump on and rip apart in essays. It all seems so futile.

*Throws in towel*

You win, Elempi.

[littlemanpoet]

You win, Elempi.*Elempi bows graciously* My thanks, Tegwubs. ;) I have nothing against Neurology, however; I just wouldn't assign it to the Shire, as it might be overlooked by practical hobbits and get mixed in with the ale and find its way into the latrines behind the Green Dragon of Bywater. :p

[High King Fingolfin]

People on other forums that post threads before they're done with the first post, but instead of going back and editing the first one, they just start a new thread with exactly the same name.

[Celuien]

Days when you'd have been better off not getting out of bed. :(

[Volo]

Days when you'd have been better off not getting out of bed. :(
Especially if it's a Day1...

[Oddwen]

Sitting down on a warm seat is pretty annoying. Especially toilet seats.

Even weirder though, my sister will be sitting in my Dad's computer chair, and she gets up and I get down, and the seat & mouse are still cool. So I also assign my vampire sister.

[Celuien]

Especially if it's a Day1...Undoubtedly...

[littlemanpoet]

I assign to Mordor, or consign to aitch ee double toothpicks, for that matter (it belongs there), the entire U.S. Health system, with all of its ridiculous health insurance red tape, especially when one has to switch coverages, switch doctors, make sure the old doctor and insurance coverer realizes what's going on even though you already told them, such that the new doctor will actually see you for your 3pm appointment. :rolleyes: Grrrrrrrrrrr.... :mad:

[Lalwendë]

The NHS isn't much easier, even though it's free and no insurance companies (who are not amongst my favourite things either) are involved. Try getting a dentist when you move to a new area...and woe betide you ever seek to change your doctor if you are unhappy with them.

I actually assign to Mordor Doctor's Receptionists as they're growing increasingly like little Hitlers these days. You ring up for an appointment and not only do they sigh and bark at you because they've had to actually pick up the phone but they make it as difficult as possible for you to get an appointment. "You can have one three weeks on Thursday. I don't care if you are dying." Then if you want one sooner they ask you what's up with you and get the 'ump when you refuse to tell them and quite rightly point out that they are not the Doctor and as such are not qualified to judge if you are 'sick enough' or not.

This is only one of the receptionists. The rest are quite nice. But that felt good all the same. ;)

[ninja91]

I assign backstabbing friends.

[Formendacil]

My assignment follows the theme of doctors and government bureaucracy...

I assign the bureaucracy of the our government-subsidised CBC, which somehow decided that the last fifteen minutes of Ken Dryden's hockey jersey retirement ceremony ought to run on into Doctor Who's timeslot.

[Kath]

I assign finding out you have to fundraise to get £150, and having no ideas on what to do!

In fact, if anyone does have any ideas please PM me!

[Durelin]

I assign "real world math."

Math beyond addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division are completely separate of the "real world" in my mind. When I look at a ladder leaning up against a house, I don't think of taking a derivative. My apologies.

Give me two apples and two oranges and I can tell you how much fruit I have, but....

[CaptainofDespair]

Give me two apples and two oranges and I can tell you how much fruit I have, but....

Five?

Now, I shall assign False Away Messages to Mordor. They are tricksey.

[Celuien]

The health insurance system not only belongs in Mordor, but I'm also sure it was invented there too.

By the way, I'd like to point out that this does not assign me to Mordor, since as a future radiologist, I won't be involved with the process of switching doctors. How refreshing. :p

[Laitoste]

When the one person you thought wouldn't forget when you had made plans not showing up for them. That can go to Mordor and never come back, as far as I'm concerned. :(

[Elmo]

In my country we actually call Glasgow Rangers fans 'orcs' so I suppose Mordor would be the best place for them :D

[Mithalwen]

Losing one of a precious pair of earrings when you were trying to put them away safely - A tell-tale butterfly fell out of my jewellery roll as I went to put it away and I can't find the earring - it is tiny ..and my bedroom is in utter chaos - looks like I have been burgled. Althought they are sapphire I don't mind the money so much as that they were my last birthday present from my mother :( So I am praying hard to St Anthony.... in the hope it will surface.

update St Anthony did his stuff - I found my earring!!! So happy :D

[Lalwendë]

I assign to Mordor the sick, twisted, evil freaks who post deeply unpleasant links on your blog comments and do not even have the guts to sign themselves - which tells me how full of malice they really are. May they burn slowly in some especially viscous lava...

:mad:

*note - and don't go looking for said links, for as soon as I spotted them they were gone. Ha. :D

[Feanor of the Peredhil]

They are distinctly unwelcome in my world, in my dorm, most specifically in my room. I'm controlling my phobic desire to bleach everything I own and move out, but the little monster is wandering. I saw him a couple minutes ago, crawling out from under my bed with his toxic little tail slithering behind him, but then he disappeared under my room mate's desk. It's not cool that I'm paranoid to turn off my light. My day tomorrow starts at 8:00 and doesn't end until somewhere around midnight. I need sleep! :(

[Thinlómien]

Unreliable people and waking two hours too early in vain.

[Mithalwen]

I need sleep! :(

You need a cat... :D Even to borrow one for a few hours would probably do the trick... we got our last cat because of a mouse .... said cat was adorable but couldn't catch a cold ..just had enough wit to follow the thing and then lookat me pathetically as if to say "what do I do now?" ..but the mouse went ... it may have died laughing.... :D

[Boo Radley]

I assign nepotistic bosses. Bosses who although require regular employees to have at least two years experience in their field, be trained in their field (with at least a bachelor's degree) and go through a lengthy interviewing process, but hire their children whose only qualification is the correct genetic material (In their opinion).

Not that I'm speaking from first hand knowledge of course.

[Lalwendë]

You need a cat... :D Even to borrow one for a few hours would probably do the trick... we got our last cat because of a mouse .... said cat was adorable but couldn't catch a cold ..just had enough wit to follow the thing and then lookat me pathetically as if to say "what do I do now?" ..but the mouse went ... it may have died laughing.... :D

Well I have one proven 'mouser', who dealt a fell blow to a poor likkle mousey in my kitchen a while back. However her brother is a little more effete and doesn't care for killing mice - when the deceased mouse's spouse appeared (they always live in pairs, how sweet ;) ) and she was chasing it round the dining room like a maniac, it ran over her brother's paw and he merely lifted his foot up and shook it as if to say "eyuw!".

We have mice in our office.

I send mouse poison to Mordor because it's nasty. Humane traps and/or cats are far better.

[Feanor of the Peredhil]

I send mouse poison to Mordor because it's nasty. Humane traps and/or cats are far better.I tried humane traps and they didn't work. I'd be sitting at my desk and glance over to see little Jèsus (named thusly so he wouldn't hurt me) meandering out from under my bed, thus proving that monsters do indeed exist under there.

My suitemates convinced me that putting out poison isn't killing them, it's encouraging natural selection; if they're dumb enough to eat poison, they don't really deserve to live.

But what actually worked was a high-frequency sound thingy that plugged into my wall.

Quite frankly, I'd have preferred a cat.