What do you assign to Mordor?

[Lalwendë]

The problem with poison is they eat it, die and then rot somewhere, which causes a right pong! At least if a cat gets a mouse it kills it in one fell swoop, well mine did anyway...and then batted it around wondering why it didn't want to play.

Mind you I felt quite sorry for the poor little thing when it was dead. I suppose the same fear for me would be induced by beetles and cockroaches - eyuw! :eek:

[littlemanpoet]

A great biking experience gone awry.

One of the first days above 50 (F) in Michigan, so I get out the bike and go for a nice ride. First major intersection I want to go through (think American traffic directions now), one car wants to turn left onto the street I'm coming out of (still moving mind you) so I decided to turn left myself since she has to wait for oncoming traffic; but there's a car coming from the opposite direction that wants to turn RIGHT onto my street, so I brake and put my foot down, the momentum and braking combination of which, upon impact, throws my left hip out of wherever it's supposed to be at all times. "Ooooghh.... yowtch". Well, I'm not going to let that stop me. I continue for a 3 mile bike ride to the nearest branch of our financial institution, and get a rear flat tire there. Well, at least I'm here at the credit union so I walk my bike to the ATM and get ready to deposit the check .... which my wife has forgotten to sign. Ahem. Well. This is been a completely worthless endeavor. Yay. So I walk my bike back three miles to home, again giving serious consideration to the benefits of the hated mobile phone. And have my wife sign the check. She is not in the least sympathetic, having worked a full 8 hours and not in the mood to apologize. The nerve.

Hip's still giving me problems. Grrrr.

[Lalaith]

Humane mousetraps are actually nothing of the sort. Unless you check all of them, every few hours, the poor little things die in there of hunger and thirst which is far worse than the short sharp shock of the conventional mousetrap.
I remember my father-in-law, a tender-hearted life-long vegetarian, so mortified to find the tortured emiacted corpses of meeces in the "humane" traps he had overlooked.

[Lalwendë]

Ours is by the Litter tray though, and that's not the kind of thing you tend to leave unchecked for very long, so any wee mices are safe in my humane trap. :eek:

I send to Mordor the evil that is setting the clocks forwards in Spring. I lose an hour! This is unfair! :(

[littlemanpoet]

Hear hear! to sending daylight savings time forward leaps to Mordor. They are an insidious evil and should be scrapped. People used to get up with the sun and go to bed with its setting. That's the natural way. It's the way things are in the Shire. I'm sure of it. ;)

[Boo Radley]

Acid reflux. Acid reflux should definitely be sent to Mordor. And ear hair.
Oh, wait... and high cholesterol!

Hmmm... maybe you're all learning a wee bit too much about me...

[Celuien]

I send to Mordor the evil that is setting the clocks forwards in Spring.
Assignment thirded! It's a nuisance and I have serious doubts about energy savings since the hour of darkness is just shifted to the morning. I find it more depressing to wake up the extra hour before sunrise. :rolleyes:

On that note, I'll assign waking up before dawn...and then falling asleep shortly after making it home at sunset.

[Feanor of the Peredhil]

Awkward moments that arise when your room mate has a boyfriend and they didn't expect you back so soon. :eek: :rolleyes:

[Oddwen]

I assign my inability to learn that I should not roar, scream or in fact try to sing or perform stressful voices when I am trying to recover from a sore throat.

[Feanor of the Peredhil]

Migraines. Missed classes. And this one professor who is demanding a doctor's note that I don't have because I don't go to doctors, particularly in the middle of the night just because I can't sleep. :(

[The Squatter of Amon Rûdh]

Perhaps you should throw in draconian professors who demand doctor's notes. :smokin:

[Mithalwen]

The fact that random, err random people decide to talk to me at random .... why this woman decided I needed to be told how to make cheese sauce with creme fraiche I don' t know ... but she told me...four times before I managed to escape... :confused:

[Kath]

Delays at airports. Sitting on the floor surrounded by hundreds of people and feeling hungry enough to eat airport food is not my idea of a good time.

[Volo]

Wellcome back Kath! Hope the trip was bearable.

[Thinlómien]

Wellcome back Kath! Hope the trip was bearable.
Agreed. Though unfortunately for you it's spring here - at least in the south. And Kath, you've got to report to me about your trip! :D

*evades the chat skrewl*
I assign ending TV programmes. Now that the BBC miniseries Jane Eyre ended yesterday and Idols (the Finnish version) is going to end this week, will I have to do something more sensible at Tuesday and Thursday evenings? :confused: :D (I normally don't watch TV at all so this period of following two TV shows has been quite extraordinary for me...)
But it's really a pity - especially as the Jane Eyre series was really good...

edit: just logged to LJ... I think there might be report enough!

[Rune Son of Bjarne]

The fact that random, err random people decide to talk to me at random .... why this woman decided I needed to be told how to make cheese sauce with creme fraiche I don' t know ... but she told me...four times before I managed to escape... :confused:
I belive assigning friendly people with little social skill to be a slight overreaction. . .

(the same goes for lonely people with little social skill)

[Kath]

edit: just logged to LJ... I think there might be report enough!
Uhuh! Even though it was spring there was snow enough and it meant we had gorgeous days which was wonderful for learning to ski and the trips we went on.

But I assign huge piles of washing up. So dull.

[Lalwendë]

Accidentally painting a spider blue. It had a blue head and blue legs. I feel dead guilty. :(

[Mithalwen]

I belive assigning friendly people with little social skill to be a slight overreaction. . .

(the same goes for lonely people with little social skill)


No she was scary and bordering agressive - and having worked with adults with learning difficulties, it takes quite a lot to faze me. And I am very kind and patient with say old ladies who are clearly lonely and am prepared to have little chats in checkouts and on trains etc... but being actually accosted is a bit different... and she went on and on and on...... I really was a bit unnerved

[Lalwendë]

Oh yes, and I also assign the temporary madness which grips hold of people as Easter approaches and the shops are packed. The supermarket is only closed for one day yet people seem to think the apocalypse is upon them and have to fight over the bread. I mistakenly didn't shop online this week and went this morning instead and regretted it as endless people shoved trolleys into me so that I finally snapped and yelled at one offending woman. Alas, the shop assistant behind me thought I was shouting at her and I had to apologise to her so the object of my annoyance didn't even get my sharp tongue.

One more thing to add to the long list of reasons why Easter is my least favourite festival of the year.

And another is Easter present ads. What's that all about then? When I was a kid you got a couple of small chocolate eggs and the 'privilege' of spending four days in a cold caravan in the middle of a muddy Yorkshire field without any TV for entertainment, and a lecture about how you should 'think yourself lucky, I only got a boiled egg for easter when I was a child". Presents?!

[Mithalwen]

Well having given up alcohol for lent I am rather looking forward to it ;) - especially dince it looks like good garden weather.... I rather objected ot Tesco's exhorting me to celebrate Easter since the 4th January - before twelfth night - clearly they can't tell Christmas from Easter :rolleyes:

[Isabellkya]

What do I assign to Mordor?

My sister's dogs.. the boy dog has a habit of urinating on my leg every time that I see him; and the girl dog gets uber anxious and urinates.. everywhere. They also have a fetish for markers.. so they chew them up and run around with random colors across their faces and paws.. (they are white.)

Umm, selfishly angry complainers. My coworkers who are always angry at everything, and thus go around complaining about every little thing all day long. They also feel the need to insult and belittle everyone else, to try and make themselves superior. A person can only hear soo much before they truly go insane.

[Elfchick7]

-Allergies
-People who assume they know everything about you after a single encounter with you
-People who think killing babies is a right
-Graduation invitations that need to be addressed...
-graduation robes
-jobs with co-workers who have a problem with people who smile
-shots (as in injections)
-Friends who get drunk especially those who do it illegally
-People who argue from an emotive position instead of a logical one

The list goes ever on and on.....

[Lalwendë]

Well having given up alcohol for lent I am rather looking forward to it ;) - especially dince it looks like good garden weather.... I rather objected ot Tesco's exhorting me to celebrate Easter since the 4th January - before twelfth night - clearly they can't tell Christmas from Easter :rolleyes:

I only wish there was something as exciting to look forwards to.

I'm assigning the vague sense of boredom that sets in when TV ads are pushing 'excitement' down your neck when there's no excitement to be had at a very boring time of year. I've already exhausted the traditional possibilities: repaired car, done the garden, done painting, housework, been to B&Q...There's no way I'm venturing anywhere near the cinema or the Peaks this weekend judging by the slavering hordes I've already had the misfortune to encounter. Nowt on t'internet, nowt on TV. I'm now resorting to watching Countdown and seeing if I can make rude words up from the letters Carol puts on the board. I begin to understand why Christmas haters moan so much. I think I will retire to a deckchair in the garden and fill my face with bacon butties and mugs of strong tea to counteract all the chocolate and sugar, before having a nice nap...no doubt to be rudely awoken by someone having a stinking barbecue. It's a poor do when you're excited by the prospect of cooking a roast dinner in three days' time. Moan moan moan...
;)

[Bêthberry]

Well having given up alcohol for lent I am rather looking forward to it ;) - especially dince it looks like good garden weather.... I rather objected ot Tesco's exhorting me to celebrate Easter since the 4th January - before twelfth night - clearly they can't tell Christmas from Easter :rolleyes:

Had a good laugh at a sign outside a local Anglican church all this winter:


Now open between Christmas and Easter.

Oh, and what do I assign here?

How about a snow storm that mixed flurries with whiteouts and came with temperatures plummetting below 0 celcius? All the sprouts of early spring blooms are covered.

No fun doing Easter egg searches outside in this weather. :(

[Feanor of the Peredhil]

I assign all of the stupid little things you have to deal with when your life gets spontaneously rescheduled. Like what do you pack when the weather's been fluctuating between 20 and 70 degrees and you don't know if you'll be home for two days or ten? Or should you just assume you'll be stuck there and have your paycheck sent home? But if you're only there two days and your pay's mailed, it means you have to wait to get paid, and if you're there ten, you miss your finals, but...

It's obnoxious.

And the stupid finger prick when you give blood. I have a black bruise throbbing just under the skin inside my arm due to a complication that meant I couldn't even finish, but my finger hurts! :mad: :(

[Neithan Tol Turambar]

the Federal Government
United Nations
Internatioal Monetary Fund
ACLU
Amnestsy International
Hollywood

[Lalwendë]

I assign being woken at 6.30 am by your cats running through the house with all the grace of a herd of elephants, screeching with feline rage and then having a proper fight beside my side of the bed. This is even worse seeing as I was fresh out of a nightmare involving next door's rabbits breeding into infinity during a riot by Somali refugees, all to the soundtrack of Phil Collins' worst excuses for 'music'. I had to sit in a darkened living room for a full hour before I could speak. :eek:

No I had not been eating cheese. ;)

[LjósÁlfr]

I assign both TV's in my house being used by my parents and brother so that I cannot watch Stargate :rolleyes: :eek:

[Oddwen]

I assign forgetting things that you've promised to do...and then deciding while you're half-asleep to abandon the Plan B you promised yourself you'd do. :(

[Brinniel]

The second draft to my research paper which is due tomorrow at 8:30am. It's 11:20 and I still have made no progress. Looks like it'll be another all-nighter...

Stupid me and procrastination. Bleh.

[Pointeiscool]

I assign being too shy to initiate conversations with people in real life/on IM. It's such a pain, but I can't get over it. :o

[Thinlómien]

Really, before I used to have a flu about three times a year (I think that is normal/good resistance), but since last August I've had a flu every month. (Well, except it skipped last month. Should I be grateful?) Right now I'm snuffering my April flu. *sneezes* Oh, this really sucks...

edit: Omg, I wrote "snuffering" when I should have written "suffering"... anyway, it's so appropriate that I'll let it be... :D

[Lalaith]

My barking mad insomniac computer-obsessive brother. We've just had him to stay and foolishly put him up in a room with two computers, including Mr Lalaith's pride and joy, a custom-built machine.
He spent his nights "sorting out" the computers, without asking us first.

As a result of which the custom-built one nearly died and is still very ill indeed, Mr L is going to have to take a day off work to sort it out.
Meanwhile my computer annoyingly cleans out every cookie overnight so I have to re-log into everything each morning, my address bar no longer stores my internet history which means I can't get onto my favourite sites quickly, and worst of all I can't cut and paste stuff from net pages which I need to do for research, because of some insane security system he's installed.
"Don't you find the computer so much easier to work on now," he said delightedly.
NOOOOOO I DON'T YOU MEDDLING PRANNET.
He's gone home now. I swear I heard the poor computers cheer as he left.

[Volo]

Mp3-players, for breaking.

Shops, for not selling ordinary CD-players.

[the guy who be short]

I assign First Capital Connect. Along with whoever voted to nationalise the railways. I got to the station 5 minutes early, but their stupid new machines that replaced the perfectly good old ones wouldn't give me a ticket. So I missed my train. Then, when I got the later one, it smelt of burning for the whole journey. And, on top of that, the prices are exorbitant.

[Lalaith]

Nationalise? Privatise, surely.....

[Lalwendë]

I assign First Capital Connect. Along with whoever voted to nationalise the railways. I got to the station 5 minutes early, but their stupid new machines that replaced the perfectly good old ones wouldn't give me a ticket. So I missed my train. Then, when I got the later one, it smelt of burning for the whole journey. And, on top of that, the prices are exorbitant.

The clue is in the name of the company: First. Also known round these parts as Worst. They are on a par with Virgin for being useless. That train probably was on fire, it happens quite often to me these days. I guess that means I'm assiging Richard Branson again. And the wider First company, the greedy swine.

[Kath]

Whatever bizarre illness I'm suffering from this time. I thought it was just my wisdom teeth playing up again but I don't think all my symptoms can be explained by that.

Also owing people money. I hate it.

[Elmo]

People who give u anonymous negative reps especially if they're blank :mad:

Rangers fans (I think I may have placed them here before but meh there are lots of them)

My modem (always turning itself off for short yet irritating periods of time)

English football hooligans or as I like to call them amoeba in replica shirts

Soaps, Coronation Street, Eastenders, Dove, the lot, I can feel my brain melt just watching them

News Corporation, enough said :mad:

[Rune Son of Bjarne]

The "typo" thread. . .the longer it has been there the less I like it. It seems like it is only there so that people can point fingers at each others!

Maybe it is only because I have always had poor spelling abilities and therefor are very touchy about my spelling.

[the guy who be short]

Nationalise? Privatise, surely.....Er... yeah. Whoops!

The "typo" thread. . .the longer it has been there the less I like it. It seems like it is only there so that people can point fingers at each others!Everyone makes mistakes with their spelling, so no need to feel touchy. Though I assign misuse of the typo thread; if you can't make a joke about it, there's no point mentioning it! In this case, it will just offend whoever made the mistake.

You can't deny the greatness of "the guy who be shot" or "the gut who be short" though. :D

[Thinlómien]

Sorry, Rune. :o I didn't think you'd be offended by that.

But I'm sorry I can't take the typo thread too seriously since nowadays about one third of the typos posted there are made by me... :D

I assign boring people who never make typos. ;)

[Feanor of the Peredhil]

I assign waking up and seeing snow and remembering that this time last year, I was probably sleeping. But a few hours from this time last year, I was definately outside in a skirt and t-shirt, enjoying the beautiful sun...

Confound global warming and the fact that it isn't actually warm!

[Estelyn Telcontar]

(Pssst to those talking about the typo thread - we don't usually mention the name of the one who made the mistake; that saves them from feeling put on the spot.)

[Elmo]

Confound global warming and the fact that it isn't actually warm!

It's beautiful in Dundee probably thanks to our old friend CO2 :cool:

[the guy who be short]

I assign the frankly bizarre proposal to combat global warming by limiting greenhouse gas output.

"Hey, all these gases we're pumping into the atmosphere are slowly heating the planet up!"

"I've got an idea! Why don't we continue to pump even more of the same gases into the atmosphere, but at a marginally slower rate! That'll beat global warming for sure."

[Elmo]

Alas, alas, its probably the best we can do

[Volo]

And I bet we won't do even that... :rolleyes:

People who don't bother doing small but harmless things, especially if that is the reason why they don't do them.

[Farael]

Perhaps you should throw in draconian professors who demand doctor's notes. :smokin:
Well, I don't know if Feanor does, but I sure do. One of my greatest fears now come exams time is that I'll be sick enough for it to affect my performance on the exam, but not really sick enough to go to the doctor.

I guess that if you go to the doctor anyway he'll give you a note (though you have to pay for it, which actually makes sense.... discourages getting notes just 'cos)... but I'm not one who particularly enjoys putting more stress on an already overwhelmed system unless it's necessary... and a fever and headache is NOT.

[Rune Son of Bjarne]

I was not offended by what you wrote Lommy. . . .

Everytime I see that someone has posted in the typo-thread I just get nervouse and start thinking "it is probably me again". For the last 6 months I just chose to ignore the thread, but for somereason I decided to look at it again when you posted.

This just reminded me of my general dislike for the thread, it is not like I cannot see the funny in me calling Galadriel a cleaver. . .

[Brinniel]

-The fact that at my college one cannot receive more than three unexcused absences or you will fail. (And yes, being sick does count as unexcused...I think the only time absences are excused are for religious reasons or if you are hospitalized or something like that.)

-The confusing process of getting a visa. Apparently, I'm going to need one for next year, but I don't really understand anything about getting one. At least, I'll have another month or so to figure this out. Still...garr...

-Oh yes...and PMS. I think most females will feel the same way on this one... :rolleyes:

BTW Rune- there's no need to be touchy about typos. It add charm to your character. :)

[Thinlómien]

I was not offended by what you wrote Lommy. . . . Good, because I was slightly afraid you were...

(Pssst to those talking about the typo thread - we don't usually mention the name of the one who made the mistake; that saves them from feeling put on the spot.)Oh, thanks for saying that aloud, Esty! Because now I realised I write it every time! :eek: (Even though I'm aware of that "rule".) I don't do it to be nasty of course, or to point fingers at people, or not even to point out who said it, but because I'm used to mention who I quote so it kind of comes automatically. But now that I've realised it I can leave it out in future. :) Hmmm... they say you learn something new every day!

And now I assign the awareness of the Chat Swerl approaching at a monstrous speed! ;)

[Thinlómien]

I assign messing up with giving reputations...

[Brinniel]

I assign telemarketers. Especially the people who call your cell phone of all things.

Example:

*phone rings. I answer*

me: (not sure who it is) Hello?

telemarketer: (cheerfully) Hi! Do you currently own a Visa card?

me: mmm...yeah...

telemarketer: Well, I wanted to let you know you are eligible for a sweepstakes to win a free weekend get-away and other prizes worth up to $20,000. All you have to do is-

me: (irritated) Yeah, well I'm not interested.

telemarketer: Wait...you haven't even heard me out yet! I-

me: I said no!

*call ends*

So yeah, I know it's your job and all to annoy people, but that doesn't mean I can't assign you to Mordor....so take that!

[Rune Son of Bjarne]

I assign messing up with giving reputations...
I was wondering why I had not recived my reputation points from you yet. . .:p

[littlemanpoet]

Please, friends, do consider using Private Messages when and if your thoughts are directed to one individual. Wouldn't want the nasssssty chat skwerl to get ya. ;)

Assignment: James Bond simply is not supposed to fall in love. Meh. I care not how smart and alluring the femme is. Granted, one of the better movies but ... meh. Yes, I still enjoyed the flick. :rolleyes:

[Kath]

Doing something weird to your knee so that whenever it bends in a certain direction, or even sometimes for no reason at all, you feel a sudden sharp pain that really hurts!

Oh, and losing your hairband when you could really do with having it.

[Feanor of the Peredhil]

Assignment: James Bond simply is not supposed to fall in love. Meh. I care not how smart and alluring the femme is. Granted, one of the better movies but ... meh. Yes, I still enjoyed the flick. :rolleyes:
Hey, I watched that today!

I'll assign... um... when I sneak a sweet to my little cousin after her mom says no and then, as soon as she finishes eating, she tells her mom I did it. :D

[Rikae]

I can think of 3816 miles/6140 kilometers I would like to assign to Mordor.

[Volo]

I could assign much more than that, Rikae... :D

[Luinilwen]

Injuries that hurt for a very long time. I had my hand crushed last April and it still hurts, but the doctors say nothing's wrong. Better assign stupid doctors too.

[Orominuialwen]

The combination of wind and a wraparound skirt. Fortunately, I realized the embarrassing posibilities before anything happend and held it down, but still! :eek: :o

[Kath]

Landing on people. I know I'm not that heavy, but when I've just been thrown in the air and am heading back down toward them it must hurt when I whack them with whatever limb I've flung in their direction.

Also, being able to do something fine on Saturday and then screwing it up the next time you try it.

Finally, having something you were looking forward to cancelled because no one else actually bothered to sort themselves out.

[Oddwen]

People who switch price tags right in front of me. No, that's not 4.99, it's 49.99, sir! Oh bwar-har, that's right, you're not getting a deal today! And I know you switched tags on everything else in your stupid cart because you do it all the time! GRR!

And don't lie to me, lady - that did have a box. I know, because I put it out two hours ago! My lead cashier and I were admiring it! GRR!

[Meneltarmacil]

Cold snaps in spring. Seriously, It's been 70 degrees (F) out here and I've been wearing shorts, yet then I've got to get out the jeans and long-sleeved stuff! Can't the weather at least be a little more consistent?

[Celuien]

Ants. Swarms of ants irritated by the use of a garden hose near their colony. Swarms of ants that proceed to swarm up the person holding the hose. And bite. Or sting. Or whatever it is that ants do.

Ouch.

[Rune Son of Bjarne]

Loosing most of your hearing on one ear for as long as 2 months.

[Aganzir]

Loosing most of your hearing on one ear for as long as 2 months.
I'll second. I've never lost my hearing for that long time, but almost always I have a flu I lose my hearing for some days, some weeks, it depends. And it's horrible.
A few months ago my other ear was almost deaf for two or three weeks. It was so frustrating. :(

[Rune Son of Bjarne]

It might not be for 2 months. . .So far it has been 3 days, but my doctor told me today that it would be at least a week before any improvement happened and it would probably not be back to normal before another mont maybe 2.

[Beleg Cuthalion]

Snow in may...http://www.clicksmilies.com/s1106/natur/nature-smiley-12.gifhttp://www.clicksmilies.com/s1106/sauer/angry-smiley-055.gif

[William Cloud Hicklin]

-Oh yes...and PMS. I think most females will feel the same way on this one...

Females?!??!!!?? What about males who live with females.....?

[Finduilas]

Talking on the phone, and phones in general. I never sound like myself, and neither does anyone else :rolleyes: . Terrible, uncomfortable things, phones are.

[Rikae]

The impeccable timing of computer, browser, DSL and/or Skype crashes. I swear, computers are sentient...and sadistic. :mad:

[Nogrod]

I will assign to Mordor the slow days when you can't accomplish anything you should do...

[Finduilas]

I will assign to Mordor the slow days when you can't accomplish anything you should do...

Hear, hear!

[Brinniel]

The impeccable timing of computer, browser, DSL and/or Skype crashes.
Ugh...I really hate it when I get dropped calls on Skype...that can be very annoying.

Speaking of computers...

I assign the technical problems I'm having with getting my wireless running on my laptop. I'm still stuck on the family computer and it very frustrating for both me and my parents, who are tired of me hogging the computer all the time...

Oh, and I assign working double shifts at my summer job, especially during the busiest days...they're really doing a number on my feet.

[Macalaure]

The impeccable timing of computer, browser, DSL and/or Skype crashes. I swear, computers are sentient...and sadistic. :mad:
Seconded! :rolleyes:

[Volo]

Having a feeling that everything you had on your computer is deleted. Scary.

[Rune Son of Bjarne]

Then you should try actually deleting everything by a mistake. . . .that goes to Mordor!

[Volo]

Yeah, Rune, something like that seemed to happen. All the texts, pictures, music, all gone...

If any of you (especially Kath, Aganzir and Lommy) have any files that are connected to me (WW texts, other texts, etc.), could you please send them to me (i_h8_mcdonalds@hotmail.com).

[Lhunardawen]

The general feeling of laziness and apathy towards almost every single aspect of life, except, weird as it sounds, academics. Wanting to break away from that feeling but it's just so overpowering!

On a related note, trying to resuscitate (re-kill?) yourself but practically giving up upon seeing just how much you missed all those months.

Gah.

[Orominuialwen]

Governments that cannot give their citizens passpports after 11 weeks of waiting. It really sucks to drive most of the night and wait all day and be strung along by various government employees until it's finally too late to make your flight, only to face a three-and-half hour drive home to show up at the airport in the faint hope of being able to get a refund. :mad: :mad: :mad:


(Obviously, the second part of my signature does not currently apply!)

[Brinniel]

Oh, that's absolutely terrible, Oro. I'm sorry to hear that. Will you not be able to go at all then? :(

The passport application process really is quite horrible. I applied for my passport several weeks ago, and they told me I wouldn't be able to receive it until around August 16. That means 12+ weeks of waiting! :eek:

[Volo]

Huh. I've been waiting for 5 years to get my Finnish citizenship. Why? The authorities lost my application because some yit quit his job and forgot my application.

They better get it done soon, because in less than two years I'll be sent to the Ukrainian army or I'll have my Ukrainian passport taken (if I appear in Ukraine). And I deffinitely don't want to grow a spine that way!


Anyway, more to the topic: I assign the wierd combinations of "bicycle-computer-finger nail" and "bicycle-rubbish bin-finger nail" leaving the connection of these items to the readers imagination.

[Lhunardawen]

My university's registration process, adding matriculation, and the unfortunate fact that second years and third years are of the lowest priority. And the people in charge not being wise enough to post the procedure for add mat just in case there are some students unfamiliar with the process.

Walking from building to building to building and waiting for three hours, being forced to skip a class in the process, for a step in the procedure that you can actually do yourself.

5:30 to 7 PM classes in airconditioned auditoriums having soft leather seats. And having a hoarse-voiced-talking-to-self Jigglypuff for a professor. Combine that with having come from a Microbio lab class in a building 10 minutes of walking away, and the temptation to sleep is simply overwhelming.

[Elonve]

Hives.
________
Kitchen Measures (http://kitchenmeasures.com/)

[Kath]

Losing your mobile at the most inconvenient time. I've come up to Guildford for the weekend so I can see my old housemate before she disappears back to Malaysia but because I've lost my phone the only way I can contact her is by getting her number from someone else. I assumed I could do this at our new house because I supposed someone would be in, but no one was, so I am now on campus, in the library, on a computer trying to Facebook her so she at least has my number.

It's all so confusing! And to make matters worse I don't actually have a room at the house because they're currently fixing the patio windows that make up one wall of my room. I'll probably end up in someone elses room at this rate.

So, basically ... argh!

[Lalwendë]

I assign rubbish news. Sheffield is currently drowning, the rivers have burst their banks and the RAF are having to rescue people in the lower Don Valley, as buildings are falling down due to the water, the steel forges are apparently at risk of exploding - and peak flood is not til 11pm. davem was sent home at 4.15 it was that bad, but you turn on the news at 6pm and what do they witter on about? The Leeds 'Fun Run' and rain spoiling Wimbledon - news - we don't care about the tennis! It's completely trivial! :mad:

And I assign climate change.

I've spent most of the day trying to stop water running into my dining room through the actual walls it's been raining so hard, and I'm lucky because we live atop a hill. We still cannot get hold of davem's mam at all.

However I assign my luck in having had a day off, to the Shire! :)

[Mithalwen]

Get a grip Lal, you shouldn't let trivial little things like death and destruction get in the way of the really important things in life... :rolleyes: New balls please!!!!

So I assign rain spoiling Wimbledon, though at least I am not there, doing some agressive sunbathing on Henman Hill and hoping that the rain stops before Cliff sings....

But I should be making a move before Christchurch gets impassable......

[Lalwendë]

Get a grip Lal, you shouldn't let trivial little things like death and destruction get in the way of the really important things in life... New balls please!!!!

So I assign rain spoiling Wimbledon, though at least I am not there, doing some agressive sunbathing on Henman Hill and hoping that the rain stops before Cliff sings....

But I should be making a move before Christchurch gets impassable......

Bah. I'm about to check out the 10 O clock news and see if they have given this story some air time unlike the shameful showing at 6pm - BBC News 24 and Sky are now on permanent coverage from Sheffield so they ought to be sorted out now. It's quite exciting in a way watching the RAF rescuing people and you can hear the choppers in our bathroom - it sounds like 'nam.

You'd be pleased if you'd been shopping in Meadowhall, it's cut off - a whole night in the shops, oooh ;) I'd be making a beeline for the House of Fraser bed department...scarily, I often go there on a day off but I was too tired today!
:eek:

Thankfully davem had the sense to get home early or he'd be sleeping in the city centre under a bin bag or something. Alas, a boy was swept to his death in the river at the bottom of our hill, at teatime tonight. :(

EDIT: Disgraceful! 7 whole minutes on the story. This is Britain's 4th biggest city - is it any wonder we shout about the North/South divide?! Grrrrr....if this was happening in Chipping Sodbury there'd be a helpline set up and a one hour news special....

On the plus side I got very excited to see the Sea King rescuing folk from the office I used to work in by the Don, and a shot of the Sheaf by the bottom of our road, approx 12 feet above normal levels...

[Estelyn Telcontar]

Lal, the Sheffield flooding got at least a brief mention in the news here in Germany - glad to hear that you two are well, though our sympathies go to those who lost loved ones in the catastrophe.

[Lalwendë]

Lal, the Sheffield flooding got at least a brief mention in the news here in Germany - glad to hear that you two are well, though our sympathies go to those who lost loved ones in the catastrophe.

We've got no bother apart from a leaky window, but davem's mam has had to resort to sandbags as their village is flooded.

I think Mattius will be perfectly fine where he lives, too, in case anyone's wondering! :)

Glad to hear at least the news in Germany gave it some airtime! I'm still a bit shocked at the blase attitude of our news stations - just to add insult to injury last night's ITV news featured the tragedy of a flooded field in Gloucestershire. How terrible that some blades of grass may have been harmed, in contrast to the ruin facing businesses here - even the vast Meadowhall shopping centre is under mud and water, we face having no post for a week and worst of all....the Bertie Bassets factory was flooded so no Licquorice Allsorts! ;)

[Thinlómien]

I assign mosquitos.

[the guy who be short]

I assign the North-South divide. Even though I live in the South. I'm nice like that. :pI also assign contradictory clocks. Do I trust the 8:20, the 8:23 or the 8:25 one?!

[Lalwendë]

I also assign unfounded rumours. There's one going round that Ulley Dam has now breached (it hasn't...yet) due to some electrical surges which mean we are being told not to use electricity if possible, which is raising a bit of panic because when/if it does go, all our electricity will be knocked out as the main substation lies in the path of any floodwater! :eek:

I also assign sanguinity - we are far too prone to this here, which is why so many people were caught out on rooftops yesterday, assuming it would 'all come to nowt'. I've even heard one or two people being overly bullish today. Or maybe that's just down to something else 'bullish' that folk can be prone to? ;)

[Elfchick7]

Exactly! Unfounded rumors are the worst, except for when people decide that I have started the rumors based on nosy assumptions. I rarely make assumptions and almost never share them with others. *sigh* Some people... Definitely a Mordor experience.

[Lalwendë]

Straight to Mordor for:

Parking Wardens who have been ticketing cars abandoned in the floodwater on Monday - people cannot start the things and drive them away, they are having to wait for limited tow truck services. And to Mordor with tow truck services charging through the nose for people to shift ruined, flooded cars.

Electricity wasters as half the city is now on rolling blackouts due to limited power. Plus the electric company for not choosing my workplace postcode to black out today ;)

Selfish bosses who are expecting people who cannot get to work on time or even at all to make the time up! And those who are expecting some reward for having got in - I've been in but I don't expect a medal for it.

[Mithalwen]

I assign the North-South divide. Even though I live in the South. I'm nice like that. :pI also assign contradictory clocks. Do I trust the 8:20, the 8:23 or the 8:25 one?!


Sweetie, you still live in the North as far as I am concerned ..... :rolleyes:

[Orominuialwen]

Oh, that's absolutely terrible, Oro. I'm sorry to hear that. Will you not be able to go at all then? :(

The passport application process really is quite horrible. I applied for my passport several weeks ago, and they told me I wouldn't be able to receive it until around August 16. That means 12+ weeks of waiting! :eek:

Yeah, my family ended canceling the trip entirely. We're still waiting to see whether we'll be able to get back the ~$4,000 we paid for plane tickets. :(

[Feanor of the Peredhil]

Ticks.

I'm paranoid from walking through weeds to get to a paddock. Pretty horses, yes, but I'm wearing a skirt and a tank top and somebody just mentioned ticks and how I ought to check for them and now I swear I've got the little critters crawling all over me.

Eew.

[Feanor of the Peredhil]

Bug bites.

Because while it's cool that I fell asleep reading Dracula and I woke up to find a crescent moon shaped series of bitemarks that looks like some cool nocturnal beastie was taking a nibble out of my belly, whatever it was set off an allergic reaction to the rest of the world and it's itchy, and I'm allergic to most allergy medications. :(

[Lhunardawen]

Mixed signals - especially from guys, and the resulting awkwardness. They're bad enough as it is, but why does it have to involve someone with whom I'll be working in Microbio lab for the whole term?

Falling asleep on the living room floor, suddenly waking up to realise that, and remembering that you were supposed to be working on a Microbio lab report.

I'm almost tempted to assign Microbio for indirectly causing these, but it's too cool for Mordor. :cool:

[Rune Son of Bjarne]

, and I'm allergic to most allergy medications. :(

allergic to allergy medicine. . . .that is tragicomic.

I would probably laugh a bit if I did not know how awful alergies can be (and mine are not even that seriouse) and how much I love that medication.

[Lalwendë]

That special kind of trouser spoiling fear that only comes with being driven at breakneck speed on a surreal route around the city centre by an elderly taxi driver who has an uncanny knack of making the car constantly lurch from side to side, ranting all the while about tax, braking hard behind other drivers, cutting up lorries on roundabouts, yelling about women drivers and going "Eh?!" at everything you say. In a torrential rainstorm.

:eek:

[Rune Son of Bjarne]

Travel agencys messing up your tickets!

[Nogrod]

I assign to Mordor unexpected delays that pile up from little things requiring you to do this and that to actually make you unable to accomplish anything you would wish to for days or weeks.

[Celuien]

Rainstorms that lead to cancellations of barbeques and fireworks displays.

[Lalwendë]

This Live Earth nonsense. I agree with the message but the coverage is appalling - I've sat there for two whole hours through some truly miserable tripe (including a dreadfully flat Chillis performance) to hear Metallica and they not only missed the beginning while they showed Enrique Ingelsias but they cut off Enter Sandman to show some highlights!!!! Blasphemy or what?! :eek:

:mad:

[Rikae]

CD players from "The Family Dollar" that inexplicably stop working 2 weeks after you buy them, and can't be returned.

Having your daughter spend her third birthday at her father's house.

The. Horrible. Bright. Sunshine.

[Rune Son of Bjarne]

Why can't they be returned?

I don't know the american rules, but if the flaut was already there when it came from the store we have a two year guarentee. . .and it is them that has the burden of evidence.

[Rikae]

It depends on the store; Family Dollar won't let you.

[Rune Son of Bjarne]

Is there no national standard?

It is weird. . .so they are allowed to sell you broken goods and there is nothing you can do about it?

[Rikae]

Yep; all you can do is stop shopping there. Which I will do, trust me.

Hmm...maybe I should assign my country to Mordor; but I don't think it would fit. I guess I'll assign Mordor to the US! :smokin:

[Feanor of the Peredhil]

Working afternoons. It tosses my entire day. Working on a Saturday afternoon means not having time to accomplish anything during the day, spending the best hours inside, and leaving late at night too tired to do anything but collapse into bed. :(

And worse... the hour leading up to when you're supposed to be in work. What am I supposed to be doing when I only have twenty minutes before I have to walk out the door?

[Elfchick7]

Family events that are scheduled at the last minute so I have to miss them b/c of work. *grumbles* *prays for patience*

[Morthoron]

Politicians, particularly those in the U.S., should be assigned to Mordor. I am dreading the upcoming presidential elections and the political dog-and-pony-show that is trotted out every four years with the same lackluster crew of misbegotten candidates who speak around issues (in keeping with the aims of their corporate patrons), while retaining the stilted status quo.

I am reminded of a quote Mark Twain wrote over a century ago that still holds true:

Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.

[Feanor of the Peredhil]

The way one simple government transaction inescapably means several others, and any goverenment transactions mean paperwork and signatures.

The way I never fit into categories properly so I actually have to talk to people to make sure the fine print does or doesn't apply to me and they're invariably confused about what I'm talking about because they've "never encountered this problem before."

[Volo]

Though this is (probably) already assigned, Harry Potter spoilers in livejournal. Shame on you!:mad:

[piosenniel]

The cancer that is stealing my friend away bit by bit, moment by moment.....

[Finduilas]

Chickens. If you've never taken care of twenty laying hens(that don't lay), who get out all the time(and often try to get back in but can't figure out how), you won't understand my complete dislike of them. And then I have to go and feel guilty every time one of them dies, or gets killed by a dog. Humph.

[the guy who be short]

Having one eye that's red and gooey and seems impervious to eye-drops.

[MatthewM]

Extreme drunken foolishness

and even more so,

people who do not signal while driving:mad:

[Finduilas]

Having one eye that's red and gooey and seems impervious to eye-drops.

Poor fellow! What happened?

[littlemanpoet]

The fool who ran the red light and hit my coworker while walking across the street - at the light - while the pedestrian sign said "walk" - who is, thankfully, merely bruised and battered and cuncussed and a good deal shaken - and missing work (where he's needed badly, but first things first, of course).

[Finduilas]

Again poor fellow! So no broken bones? Aren't cuncussions bad?

[the guy who be short]

Poor fellow! What happened?
Seasonal Allergic Conjunctivitis. Thankfully nowhere near as bad this year as when I firs got it two years ago. The world's not so bad... :)

[Feanor of the Peredhil]

Driving through suburbs when you're used to either highways or back country roads. People parked on both sides of the road, unsupervised kids on bikes, pedestrians that ignore crosswalks and favor jumping out from behind shrubbery, hedges that obscure stop signs...

[littlemanpoet]

Again poor fellow! So no broken bones? Aren't cuncussions bad?Head split open in back actually. Stapled by the EMS folks. He'll survive and probably be much more cautious in the future.

[Orominuialwen]

60+-year-old men who wear very small cutoff shorts in public. They were far shorter than anything I, as a teenaged girl, have ever worn.

Ew. :eek:

[Feanor of the Peredhil]

Doorbells. I probably shouldn't hate them as much as I do, but they always, always ring at the most obnoxious times.

[Lalaith]

Staying with mothers who refuse to throw anything out of their fridges, ever...and the fizzy pickled herrings from last Christmas that you accidentally eat from therein....bleugh, bleugh and bleugh again.

Note to self....remember to check all sell-by dates on anything that comes from that fridge, before consuming....

[Finduilas]

Staying with mothers who refuse to throw anything out of their fridges, ever...and the fizzy pickled herrings from last Christmas that you accidentally eat from therein....bleugh, bleugh and bleugh again.

Note to self....remember to check all sell-by dates on anything that comes from that fridge, before consuming....

Must say I agree with that, except that it is my Grandma.

[Estelyn Telcontar]

I assign heavy rains that flood basements, thereby providing an evening's entertainment of mopping up the water therein. Maybe the heat in Mordor would dry everything up nicely!

[the guy who be short]

I sympathise, Esty.

Parents: Let's extend the house! Yay! The garage can be moved to the bottom of this big ole slope here.

Clever move. :rolleyes:


I also assign those constant debt adverts on daytime TV. "Hey, you, do you wanna get into EVEN MORE debt? Yeah? Call this number!" And why are they always on kids' TV, anyway? Do kids have debt...?

[Finduilas]

Mold. Especially when it gets on cool books, like an old atlas, your only greek mythology book, and nature books with awsome pictures. *sob*

[Kath]

Clouds, cold and the possibility of rain when it's supposed to be summer! Come on weather, I know this is England but you don't have to prove the stereotype. :(

[littlemanpoet]

I'll take your clouds, cold, and rain any time. This summer in the American Great Lakes region it has been regularly dry and above 90. Until a very lovely wet/cold spell for a few days. It was nice to see green grass growing for a change. So.... to Mordor with climatically incorrect weather. :p

[Folwren]

Aye, same where I live, Elempi. It's been miserably hot and miserably dry. Our pond is nearly empty.

Drought belongs in Mordor.

-- Foley

[Elfchick7]

Hot, humid weather. It's supposed to be 94 Fahrenheit outside but it feels like 120 Fahrenheit. :mad:

[Beleg Cuthalion]

Getting sick in August! Of all times to get sick, none stop clouds, rain and the temperature hanging around 15 C. Be GONE, and trouble me no more! I assign you all to Mordor! BAH!!!

(Normally I like clouds and cool weather) :mad:

[Brinniel]

I'm going to have to agree with those who assign hot and dry weather.

Right now, Idaho has the most acres burning in the entire United States (16 fires and 787,342 acres). Five counties have been declared in a state of emergency. Some areas are so smoky you can hardly see and I have even seem flames consuming the foothills with my own eyes.

Any rain that does come only last for ten minutes. I miss the rain and would love to have the kind of rain you other guys are having...

[Lalwendë]

I also assign those constant debt adverts on daytime TV. "Hey, you, do you wanna get into EVEN MORE debt? Yeah? Call this number!" And why are they always on kids' TV, anyway? Do kids have debt...?

No, but the parents watching with the nippers sure do once they've shelled out for expensive prams, cots, clothes, safety systems, gubbins with Winnie the Pooh on it, etc. etc. All on reduced wages. ;)

I assign that ad where the mum berates her teenage son for not being interested in the fact that she's just changed her car insurance. I'm 36 and I'd also come over all sullen and uninterested if my mother started on about how excited she was that she was thinking of changing her car insurance.

I also assign Three for selling a deaf pensioner a mobile phone they did not want by exploiting the similarity of the word 'three' to 'free'. That's low.

[littlemanpoet]

I'm going to have to agree with those who assign hot and dry weather.

Right now, Idaho has the most acres burning in the entire United States (16 fires and 787,342 acres). Five counties have been declared in a state of emergency. Some areas are so smoky you can hardly see and I have even seem flames consuming the foothills with my own eyes.

Any rain that does come only last for ten minutes. I miss the rain and would love to have the kind of rain you other guys are having...:eek: In other words, parts of Idaho actually look like Mordor. Michigan is so far faring better than that, although the upper three Great Lakes are losing too much water to Erie due to human dredging efforts around Detroit - which, by the by, belongs in Mordor.

[Finduilas]

Snapping turtles. They eat ducklings..:(

[the guy who be short]

Erm... I eat ducks. Is that really so bad? (Do not answer if you are Fea).

Seeing as I'm here, I should probably assign something lest I be accused of chat... Mispronouncing French words in front of people who know French can go to Mordor. Happened at interviews, happened in front of my ex-teacher... it's just no fun.

[Finduilas]

Erm... I eat ducks. Is that really so bad? (Do not answer if you are Fea).


Well, considering what I had for dinner just last night...

But it is somehow different when they are babies, and when it eats twenty in one year. Three of my female ducks had each had about 4 ducklings, and not a single one lived over a month. One of them tried raising another group, but they too were eaten. She wandered around for a few days, looking very confused, quacking mournfully. It is one of the saddest things I have ever seen an animal do. This year I am keeping the mother and her (at least) 10 ducklings in the barn till they are big enough not to be swallowed whole.

[Rikae]

Middle-aged female professors*.

I think, after an hour and a half of sitting in her classroom without a winter coat, I may be suffering from hypothermia... I certainly never looked quite so much like my avatar!

*no offense - hey, I'll be one myself someday.

[Elfchick7]

three hours of trig!!! O_o

[Lalwendë]

I assign constantly feeling ill, hot, in pain, stiff, swollen, brain-dead, grumpy, fed up and scared. :(

Having idealised images shoved down your throat only makes this even more annoying so that you just want to tell the media/health services/do-gooders/just about everyone to clear off... ;)

[Orominuialwen]

Fire ants. I stepped in some while walking around barefoot last night, and now my feet are covered in horribe itchy red bumps. I guess I never realized how horrible insects get in warmer climates!

[smeagollives]

I assign constantly feeling ill, hot, in pain, stiff, swollen, brain-dead, grumpy, fed up and scared. :(

Having idealised images shoved down your throat only makes this even more annoying so that you just want to tell the media/health services/do-gooders/just about everyone to clear off... ;)

What happened?

[Oddwen]

What happened?Mustn't...jump...all over that...

She's expecting a baby. :D


I would like to assign the painful and tedious switch to and from computer platforms, and the monetary and other reasons why the switch from the superior platform had to be instigated.

Oh, and please take Vista with you when you go.

[Elfchick7]

I assign bickering roommates who refuse to address their real issue so they just act like spoiled children!

[Feanor of the Peredhil]

Having completely written an entire paper, looking up the final citation that's supposed to blow away my readers with my brilliance (and finally swing an A from a professor who always gives me Cs)...

And discovering that I overlooked one single sentence fragment in the story ("their old debate, and indeed the only debate that ever happened in their country") that completely (and I mean completely) destroys my main support for my thesis. Fourteen words out of like a hundred pages and a third of my paper's trashed.

:(

[Annatar]

I assign the animated LoTR and Hobbit movies to Mordor, as well as Christmas carols.

[littlemanpoet]

I assign the animated LoTR and Hobbit movies to Mordor, as well as Christmas carols.

Okay, the movies I can understand. But Christmas carols???? :eek: ;)

[Quempel]

I would assign little yippy yappy dogs, but they are probably already in Mordor.

[littlemanpoet]

I assign getting a rock thrown at my windshield by one of a pre-teen gang as I drove down a residential street in the inner city. And I suppose I got off lucky with only a cracked windshield.

[TheGreatElvenWarrior]

I'm going to have to agree with those who assign hot and dry weather.

Right now, Idaho has the most acres burning in the entire United States (16 fires and 787,342 acres). Five counties have been declared in a state of emergency. Some areas are so smoky you can hardly see and I have even seem flames consuming the foothills with my own eyes.


Thats Kinda like, up by Fairbanks, Alaska like two years ago... my "clan" as we call it, went up there to go blueberry picking, but there were no blueberries...:(

Having idealised images shoved down your throat only makes this even more annoying so that you just want to tell the media/health services/do-gooders/just about everyone to clear off... ;)
Ack! Lot's of commercials, get this do that and blah, blah, blah. Especially aimed at teenage girls (ahem), but I don't give into those ads.
I assign bickering roommates who refuse to address their real issue so they just act like spoiled children!
Hehehe, a couple years ago, there was a kid in my class that was whining thatI only get $50 dollars a week for my allowance Heck, I don't even get an allowance. I had to buy my books with babysitting money...
I would assign little yippy yappy dogs, but they are probably already in Mordor.

Hehehe... My friend, Katherine said at Denali National Park(Alaska, USA, where I live) or whatever it is, she said that those yap dogs in the summertime during the tourist season, they are eagle food. Katherine said the eagles just come down and pick them up and eat them... Those dogs were never seen again. Just picture Gwaihir doing that!



This is what I assign to Mordor...
Loads of math homework, staying up to 11:00 at night doing math homework, and still not being done with math homework. Plus two days later, my family's cat dying, that we've had for 12 years...

[Orominuialwen]

Overdue history papers that loom over your head and taunt you with the fact that your grade is dropping every day that you don't finish and turn the darn thing in...:(

[Thinlómien]

A student councelling course that takes all your time and forces you to make some decision what are you going to do after the upper secondary... :eek:

[Mithalwen]

Mentally pacing the corridors of a distant hospital hoping for good news
Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear...

[davem]

Fr those who didn't get Mith's point there, Lal's in labour at the moment so we're in the hospital. We're both fine but very bored waiting for something to happen. And I'm typing this on a tiny unresponsve rubber keypad on a Patienline terminal.

I'll keep you all updated.

[Feanor of the Peredhil]

Though it's nothing compared to Lal & Dave's Mordorism...

Wisdom teeth. I don't want them! It was a devoutly unwelcome discovery, let me tell you. :(

[Valier]

I assign selfish people to Mordor. And friends who no longer feel like friends. Also I assign puppies....yes puppies, they are super cute but impossibly hard to train to not pee on the carpet.

[THE Ka]

Trying to write an american government research paper about ideological exclusion, over the past eight years, when you live in the current government majority trying to keep such news as tightly under-wraps... Ugh! >_<

I guess I can wait fifty years, until it's just a collective 'bad memory'... :(

Though, this is nothing compared to previous Mordoresque experiences, hope all is well for Lal. :)

~ Understanding Citizen Kane Ka

[Farael]

Rather than "writer's block" I'd like to postulate the "student's block" for a luxury, all expenses paid trip to the cozy fires of Mt. Doom.

Yes, the student's block... a term I just coined (though I'm sure it has been said before) for that moment where you feel that if you read just ONE more word about (insert topic of study here) your brain will turn into mush and drip out of your ears.

[Volo]

To Mordor with different mobile phone models! :/

[Elfchick7]

confusing/inconsistent friendships.

[Rune Son of Bjarne]

war, people dying too young, people jumping out infront of trains. . .this month in general.

[littlemanpoet]

Work problems being about people instead of the problems. :rolleyes:

[Elfchick7]

Trigonometry

[Kath]

Those days where it's not quite raining but it is raining enough that every time you go outside you end up damp and cold because you haven't realised it's quite wet enough for an umbrella. This is especially irritating when you come down from the north to the supposedly sunny south and it springs grey clouds and weather like this on you.

[Folwren]

End of Daylight Savings. When I get home from work, there's less than an hour of daylight left! No good and makes me very cranky when I have to cut my horse training session short. :mad:

[littlemanpoet]

Net-Servers that crash twice in a week, stopping everything dead. Also, I assign trying to stay busy while the server gets fixed so that when it comes back up everything for the rest of the day is breakneck urgent. :mad:

[Kath]

Having a cold that just will not quit! I've been sniffing away for over a week now and I'm getting very tired of it.

[Brinniel]

Pulling an all-nighter to write a script that's supposedly due, only to find out that very class has been cancelled.

Aargh! Why couldn't I find this out before I sacrificed my sleep?!

Excuse me while I go back to bed...

[Elfchick7]

A cold that returns in full force every two weeks. *ugh*

[Oddwen]

Sore & swelled throats that last for nearly three weeks...and the fact that I can't do my customary & random squeaky voices & singing during this. :(

[Thinlómien]

I assign being late...

I've kept doing it for the last several weeks. I'm always at least a few minutes late for school (or then I arrive right at the minute when the teacher comes). It wouldn't trouble me that much but my absences on the attendance lists may soon look quite troublesome... :( (We have a system in which you get one absence mark if you're three times late for a lesson - not that bad, I know, in many places you don't even get in if you're late. :eek: But not too nice anyways.)

[Feanor of the Peredhil]

November rain, Walt Whitman, and the word 'fresh.'

[Kath]

Our union. They wouldn't give us a table to have our cake sale so we had to set up somewhere else at a moments notice. I wouldn't have minded so much because we were a bit last notice with it, except for the attitude of the guy dealing with us. He was such a very rude word.

[Rune Son of Bjarne]

Maybe it was just him that was something wrong with. . .I mean a union that is not the essense of good, well that is just unheard of.

Anyways I assign this computer for being so damn slow and my self for forgetting to go on the Downs. Maybe I should only assign my memory, but it is easier to assign all of me as I am sure I contain alot of thing belonging in Mordor.

[Oddwen]

I assign socks that are too tight, that you have to fight to get off...maybe I overreact, but I can't stand not being able to remove my socks right now...

Wet clothes are close behind.

[Feanor of the Peredhil]

The car breaking down on the way to a wedding.

And consequently not getting to the castle (yes, castle) in time for the wedding.

*grumble*

[Elfchick7]

Rarely getting to see dear friends and getting to have good conversations with them even less.

[Lhunardawen]

This has probably been done before, but I assign Physics. I can never beMordor Physics enough. Even when I think I had understood the basic concepts, I always find myself staring at the problem set, wondering how in the world to solve anything.

I'm sure Sauron himself spent a bit of time effortlessly figuring out what the magnitude and direction of the net electric field is at the summit of Mount Doom due to the charges from his gigantic spotlight up Barad-dûr. :rolleyes:

[Aganzir]

I assign the exam week and especially Civics.

The most stupid thing I've done for months was to take an extra course of Civics, and even voluntarily. The teacher is very, very old (actually she's going to retire after this period), and the lessons were quite boring. Now I should be studying for the test which is tomorrow, and I don't really know anything about the subject because I spent the lessons in reading books and drawing rather than listening to the teacher. At the moment I wish I could feed my dog with the textbook.

Luckily, I'll have only language exams left after that, and they're always easier.

[Thinlómien]

I assign the exam week and especially Civics.Now that you've started, I may possibly follow your example. I assign the exam week and Swedish. I really don't feel like studying Swedish right now. (That's why I'm here instead. :rolleyes: ) Even though you managed to cheer me up, the idea of your dog eating your book is just too funny. :D

And I'd also like to assign the person who has smeared this computer screen with her oily fingers. Too bad it's about 50% chance it was me myself. :rolleyes: Even though I suspect my sister...

[Aganzir]

Men svenska är ju ett jättekul språk!

I might try to feed it to her after the exam, but I doubt she'd eat it; she's far too selective. But if she will, I promise to take a photo and give it to you so you can look at it every time you study Swedish. :p

[Rune Son of Bjarne]

I assign MGP Junior (nordic)

[Orominuialwen]

I assign my friend who has gone off somewhere without telling anyone for the past 10 hours, leaving us all wondering where he's gone and starting to worry very much...if he's not in actual trouble, then it was just plain inconsiderate of him. :(

I also assign my utter inability to write a 5-page history on time...this is my second one this semester, and they've both been late.

[Valier]

I assign blizzards!! We just had a small one and DANG!! was it cold. Way too early to have to bundle up with a touque(winter hat for all you non Canadians:p) and Mitts in November.

[Thinlómien]

Talking to an old friend after a long while and realising you hardly have anything in common anymore.

[Kath]

Talking to an old friend after a long while and realising you hardly have anything in common anymore.
I've had that Lommy. If you want to stay friends what you have to do is find things you can both start to like. It takes a bit more effort, but it was worth it in order to stay friends with the girl who was once my best friend. :)

I'll assign my ridiculous sleeping pattern. I'm getting fed up of not being able to get to sleep til 5 in the morning.

[THE Ka]

Worrying battling with growing apathy, who's inflating frustration's ego.
That is what I can personally assign to the depths of Mordor with glee. :p
I imagine others who are reaching the end of their semesters (quarters for other college/uni folks of the world) are feeling the same way.

Talking to an old friend after a long while and realising you hardly have anything in common anymore.

Ouch, know that feeling too. Best bet is to take the advice of Kath, sometimes you can turn things around for the better of you both.

I tried that with an old friend this summer. Didn't really work out exactly since we were both working, but it was nice to talk and know that he's gotten out of all the trouble I'd previously known him for.

~ Ka

[Volo]

Talking to an old friend after a long while and realising you hardly have anything in common anymore.

I'm going to do this today, nearly, I don't even know the person really, but...

[Mithalwen]

The complete inability of anyone on my father's side of the family to give or take a competent and coherent message.

I will spare you the tedious details but my aunt rambled so much that it was about 6 phone calls later that I finally discovered that my sister had broken her elbow not her leg in the accident she had originally called to tell me about .... either she needs elocution lessons, I need a hearing test or one of us is going barmy... I know where my bet is going.... :rolleyes:

[Thinlómien]

Not being able to sleep for unknown reasons.

Coffee. It tastes bad and I can't drink it without adding heaps of sugar and lots of milk to it.

Being sure you'll be tired when you shouldn't be.

Or maybe I should just say this morning in general.




... and looking at this post, I may assign turning grumpier all the time as well. :D

[Elfchick7]

People in the dorm room above mine who decided that Dance Dance Revolution and Clog Dancing are appropriate at one in the morning.

[Elmo]

Sorry I thought you wouldn't mind ;)

[TheGreatElvenWarrior]

My horrible friend, who put me in her horrible post about the bestest looking LotR characters.... which of course I was kinda wondering what you guys were thinking about that, but shes the one who wrote it! ROBI!!!!!!!!!!

[Brinniel]

Getting sick during the most critical week of the semester. Having to write a 15 page epic and a 4 page explanation of it by tomorrow morning. It's no fun pulling all-nighters when you're all sniffly and coughing. :(

[Kath]

Discovering just how slow your internet is at home compared to what you had at uni. I'm back to it taking a full minute for a page on the 'Downs to load. That's going to make werewolf interesting. :rolleyes:

[McCaber]

2 finals within 20 minutes of each other on a Monday morning. Definitely not healthy.

[Lalaith]

Airlines that lose your suitcase.
Looks like I´ll be spending Christmas in my mum´s dressing gown...

Even more Mordorish, airlines that after two days still have NO idea where your suitcase can be, and the fact that going away at Christmas for a fortnight inevitably involves having packed most of one´s most treasured and expensive clothes. Eg my beautiful Ghost collection, carefully amassed over years of careful saving and sales-shopping....probably lost forever into the Cracks of Doom that is Heathrow baggage handling.

*sob* This is the worst Christmas ever.

[littlemanpoet]

To Mordor can go staying healthy every day at work for four years running, only to catch cold during Christmas break. Ugh.

[Lalwendë]

That usually happens to me so you have my sympathy :( Make the most of the festive overload of satsumas, sprouts and parsnips, oh and nuts too - my top tip for colds is in fact peanuts :)

I send to Mordor not having enough room in my house for all the guests, food and presents. We are doing shifts on space on the settees so the little one does not have to spend all his time in his baby seat!

[Kath]

Oh agreed lmp, half our house is ill!

[TheGreatElvenWarrior]

Having a cold that just will not quit! I've been sniffing away for over a week now and I'm getting very tired of it.
I am going for about a month now, it sucks

Getting sick during the most critical week of the semester. Having to write a 15 page epic and a 4 page explanation of it by tomorrow morning. It's no fun pulling all-nighters when you're all sniffly and coughing. :(
Maybe you should do that earlier than the night before your paper is due!

Getting a D+ in your Social Studies class because you went on a stupid vacation and you have things due that never show up to the teacher, which also happens to be the director for the plays and musicals in your school and you are in them both!

[Mithalwen]

Getting a nasty bout of flu over Christmas and starting Christmas day with a trip to Casualty rather than early service....(not for the flu but siblings post-operative infection).

[THE Ka]

Having your car suddenly decide that christmas day night is a good time to have engine failure, in the middle of a snow storm, after it's been into the shop... :mad:
Plus, having your mum go into the hospital, and trying to make it back home in time to make everything ready when she gets out of surgery, with the same car.

My ungrateful automotive child...

[Mithalwen]

Eg my beautiful Ghost collection, carefully amassed over years of careful saving and sales-shopping....probably lost forever into the Cracks of Doom that is Heathrow baggage handling.

*sob* This is the worst Christmas ever.

At least you got your Ghost back - I am still grieving for the Ghost frock my sister shredded by putting it in the washing machine at 1200 revs - and wondering if I could possibly repair it ... only bally time she has lifted a finger while staying and she decides to trash my best frock ..

[Lalwendë]

Stomach bugs on New Year's Eve. I HATE New Year's Eve, it's actually worse than Easter and everyone knows how interminably dull I find that; NYE has the added problem that you cannot just ignore it without resorting to copious amounts of alcohol. So this morning my stomach decides to wake me by making me be sick all over myself and I have eaten nothing more than ruddy dry toast.

:mad:

[littlemanpoet]

NYE has the added problem that you cannot just ignore it without resorting to copious amounts of alcohol. Why not? :confused: One could simply go to bed, wot?

[Mithalwen]

Stomach bugs on New Year's Eve.
:mad:

I am not a great NYE person because I am usually ill (becasue I am usually on holiday and the bugs I have staved off because I have been too busy to be ill finally catch up with me) and nothing happens near enough to walk to or interesting enough to drive and stay sober for. So I either make a point of going to bedbefore 12 (about the one night in the year! ) or stay on the sofa and sip champagne/ cocktails. I do like Easter - less pressure, nicer food, less financially crippling and friends can take priority over family. And it is the start of my favourite time of the year.

[Lalwendë]

Why not? :confused: One could simply go to bed, wot?

I'd do just that but the gorilla next door likes to let off large amounts of fireworks. Not in one big five minute display like everyone else, oh no, he's tight-fisted and spaces them out to go off every five minutes until gone 1am. This is not good when you live in a terraced house. It sounds like they're going off in the bedroom :(

I'll have revenge at around 5 or 6am when the little one is hungry. I shall make sure his basket is placed by the wall...mua-ha-ha...

[Brinniel]

Maybe you should do that earlier than the night before your paper is due!
What, me the famed procrastinator? Never! :p
Though I had actually started earlier in the week, and I would've done during then if I weren't sick all that time. My illness dragged on for a whole two weeks...horrible, horrible! But at least I do tend to work better under pressure, and I think I got a decent grade on that paper.

Continuing on, I assign:

Airlines. And airports. Particularly LAX which is the worst airport I've ever been in. Living in airports for two days and not knowing whether you'll get to go home at all is so NOT fun.

But at last, a very disgruntled me did make it home (thank goodness). Note: a person should not make it to their destination two days after their luggage does.

And from there I should also assign leaving again less than 24 hours after getting home. But that's a whole other story. Let's just say I've had a very crazy holiday traveling experience. :rolleyes:

[Thinlómien]

A throat infection that makes eating difficult and more or less painful. (Just the perfect illness for Christmas-time... :rolleyes: )

[Lhunardawen]

That sudden snapping back to reality that is having to go back to school on the second day of the year (because classes start on the third), and realising that although the holiday break was not really as short as you thought a couple of weeks would be, it was...unproductive. In an academic perspective, anyway.

[Rune Son of Bjarne]

Exams on the 3rd of January.

[Lhunardawen]

Exams on the 3rd of January.
Ouch. *hug*

And I thought a Physics exam on the 9th was bad enough...

[Volo]

The lack of chili sauce, that itself goes into the Shire for making anything not only taste tolerable but quite often good. Then again it might belong in Orthanc for being quite addictive and spoiling your taste.

[Feanor of the Peredhil]

Waiting. Probably I should add impatience for good measure, since that's really what's getting to me.

[Lalwendë]

Norovirus.

:mad:

[Farael]

Professors who do not care about their students. Look, i don't expect a prof to make it EASY for me, but at least make it FAIR when something happens that would affect my performance.

[Folwren]

Headaches that won't go away. :confused:

[McCaber]

Leaving a wedding reception only to witness the aftermath of a car crash where my friend totalled both his and the other driver's cars. It's not as bad as it could be, though. If his car five more feet forward, he would've been dead or seriously injured.

[TheGreatElvenWarrior]

A boy I've nicknamed Beautiful (see "What Do you Assign to the Shire" thread)

[Finduilas]

Frozen water pipes!:mad: This is our third day without running water. Luckily, my brother has lately bought a house pretty close to us, and we can get drinking water, and water for other necessities, from there.

[FeRaL sHaDoW]

Night shifts :mad:

[TheGreatElvenWarrior]

Yeah, my mom works in the medical field and she has to work night shifts, it sucks!

I assign the little Terrorist who sleeps at my house (A.K.A) My little brother!:mad:

[Aganzir]

Buses that are late. Buses that leave the station in time when you're late yourself (and not even your own fault but the previous bus driver's). Buses that are late when you're in time yourself.
Just add there a blizzard and you know how my day has been.

[Oddwen]

Shocks that leave you feeling you've been kicked in the chest...changes that you don't understand...changes you can't understand or accept...fears that others won't understand you not understanding...growing up...just...stuff.

[Groin Redbeard]

Corrupt politicians!

[Dimturiel]

I haven't assigned anything to Mordor for over a year...Seems I've been a good girl:Merisu:

I don't know whether this has not already been assigned to Mordor, but anyway here I go: I'd like to send Phonetics to Mordor, and also the people who decided to make it a subject that we should study during our first year in college. I'm also sending my future Phonetics exam (which is surely going to be hell) to become one of the most effective torture methods of Sauron.

This being said, Dimturiel goes back to cramming her head with nasal consonants, intonation, cardinal vowels and the like

[Lalwendë]

I assign that special sense of deep mortification you can only get when your kid shows you up and makes people think you are a bad parent. Like yesterday when a researcher from the Uni came round to ask me some questions for a project I'm helping with and the little one decided to have a full-on screaming fit complete with red face, tears, going stiff and that special, ear splitting yell, that lasted about quarter of an hour. :o

[Mithalwen]

I assign that special sense of deep mortification you can only get when your kid shows you up and makes people think you are a bad parent.

Lal.. every adult knows babies cry - either because they know from experience or it is a reason why they haven't had any!

It doesn't make people think you a bad parent. Responding to the kid sounding his barbaric yawp by smacking his head against a wall would make them think you a bad parent....

He has just got a sense of humour :rolleyes: unsurprisingly...:p

[Rikae]

Always gifted, never cobbler.

[TheGreatElvenWarrior]

The nassty auditions for the spring musical at my school, we have to do this crazy dance...

[Lalwendë]

Lal.. every adult knows babies cry - either because they know from experience or it is a reason why they haven't had any!

It doesn't make people think you a bad parent. Responding to the kid sounding his barbaric yawp by smacking his head against a wall would make them think you a bad parent....

He has just got a sense of humour :rolleyes: unsurprisingly...:p

Ah but it does make you feel bad, like everyone's 'staring' at you when your child shrieks. I used to sit and tut myself until I realised that babies aren't angelic little things but are very noisy, smelly and grubby and will put you off curry sauce for life. But still cute of course ;)

And I'm assigning that I've just noticed this will be post 1992 and that makes me feel old as that is when I graduated from Uni and that's flaming well 16 years ago...

[Mithalwen]

I must admit that while I realise there is not a lot you can do about a tiny baby, I do find it annoying when small children are allowed to run riot in shops and the parents make absolutely no effort to stop them, or worse smile indulgently... on the other hand my mum used to think "poor little thing - how could that woman shout at that child so?" ..and then she had us.... :D

[THE Ka]

I do find it annoying when small children are allowed to run riot in shops and the parents make absolutely no effort to stop them, or worse smile indulgently... on the other hand my mum used to think "poor little thing - how could that woman shout at that child so?" ..and then she had us....


For both those reasons, I have to second that strongly.

I was a terrible child when I was little, and my brother almost had his name legally changed to 'Attila' by the age of four. Not to make him look unique in the weird name craze that happened during the 90's, mind you...:rolleyes:

As for things that need to be send to Mordor, job-wise, employers with rather nasty people skills. I understand having a bad day, but picking up and yelling in the phone, and then slamming it into the caddy doesn't say much in the way of your character.
I guess I was too polite when putting in a resume by asking permission from the all-mighty manager first. :rolleyes:

Oh well, I still have an interview somewhere else, just goes to show I guess. :)

~ Reflective Ka

[Kath]

Going to the doctor just to placate your neurotic mother and ending up with an appointment to see the blasted asthma nurse. I mean, where's the point! I haven't seen one in years because I've had this since I was 18 months old, I've lived through pretty much every aspect of it, I'm on a drug that has all but cured me and this woman who is supposed to give me advice probably doesn't even have asthma and is quite likely to have been in that field of medicine for less time than I've had the damn thing!

*breathes*

Sorry, but for goodness sake. This woman is so lucky I'm not seeing her today, I know it's not her fault but I would have been so defensive.

[Oddwen]

I assign the JERKS who (accidentally?) donated a used syringe to my thrift store - yeah, thanks a lot, one of my co-workers now has to deal with those tests on top of moving to another state. Plus, I hear that it's the third time that a used needle has been found at the GWs in this state - we're all sleeping better in our beds now, thanks a whole lot.

My co-worker should have been more careful yes, but who expects a hypodermic needle in an aquarium? :mad::mad:

[Elfchick7]

People who accuse you of thinking that you know what everyone else is thinking. You can't even make that accusation without doing what you're complaining about!

[Rune Son of Bjarne]

I spend a lot of time translating this song and I did it on LJ, but because I was not completely satified with some of the translations I did not post it. . . My computer for somereason close down the web-browser and for some reason LJ has only saved half of the song and of course it is the last part that is tricky. . .now I have to spend atleast another hour re-translating.

I cannot figure out if I want to assign my self, the computer or LJ to Mordor. . .

[Kath]

Aching. 2 full hours of dance practise including going over motions always leaves me with a sore back, and doing about 6 hours of walking today didn't help!

[TheGreatElvenWarrior]

The nassty document that failed to print that my mom wants like right now...:mad:


I'm going to eat our printer!!!!!!!!!:mad: