What do you assign to Mordor? [Archive] - Page 9 - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

Aganzir

02-18-2008, 02:10 PM

The climatic change. January was 4 degrees (celsius) warmer than average this year, and there has been practically no snow at all. And I have been thinking that the last few winters were somewhat warm! I want the proper winter back. :(

Another thing that Mordor needs is my friend's dog of which I promised to take care while my friend is on a trip. Even though she barks and whines all the time, plays with annoying squeaking toys, wants to go out in the middle of the night and constantly teases my own dog, I guess I'd manage with it.
But - it seemingly didn't matter to my friend that she has inflammation of the eye at the moment, and it's so very very nice to notice she has infected my dog now. That means I must take my dog to the vet's tomorrow (which isn't cheap either), and therefore I won't probably have time to see a friend I haven't seen in ages.
Needless to say, I'm pretty, ah, annoyed. I guess I should be angry with the friend rather than the dog, who is sleeping on my bed and looking cute, though.

Mithalwen

02-18-2008, 02:22 PM

Parcels that cost very nearly as much to send as the contents did to buy.
Being so full of static electricity that not only do you shock yourself on every metal surface but your key sparks when you go to lock your car!!! ~I haven't had a static problem for years - since the nasty nylon carpet at work has been a constant for a few months now I can only assume it is related to having washed my hair twice yesterday and using a this special hair masque to stop the chlorine at the swimming pool turning my hair green...

Rikae

02-18-2008, 03:20 PM

Parcels that cost very nearly as much to send as the contents did to buy.

Oooh, seconded. Or worse, Fed-Ex that charges $37 to mail a $5 card, if you don't want it to take two weeks... :mad:

MatthewM

02-18-2008, 05:00 PM

Random fools who flip you off while stopped at a red light for no reason.

McCaber

02-18-2008, 06:54 PM

The sidewalks I had to use to get to class. Maybe the inch thick sheet of ice will melt in Mordor.

Thinlómien

02-19-2008, 07:15 AM

The climatic change. January was 4 degrees (celsius) warmer than average this year, and there has been practically no snow at all. And I have been thinking that the last few winters were somewhat warm! I want the proper winter back.Seconded.

I could also assign disturbing nightmares. I dreamed about a huge red goldfish that was dying and I tried to save it, but I couldn't and it was a rather disgustingly detailed dream. Then, I woke up and for a fraction of a second the red rose pattern in my sheets looked a bit too much like a dead goldfish. It was rather unpleasant.

Legate of Amon Lanc

02-19-2008, 07:20 AM

Seconded.

Thirded, thirded.

This is no winter. There was some more complex cover of snow that remained on the ground for no more than two or three days this year.

Wow... this is the first time I assign something to Mordor. This one deserves it, though.

The sidewalks I had to use to get to class. Maybe the inch thick sheet of ice will melt in Mordor.
And this is simply unfair. We should make a change-trade with some people around here.

Rikae

02-19-2008, 08:28 AM

Fourthed (?) on climate change. You used to never see the ground between November and March around here, but now, half the time, there's no snow at all. I think my kids will never see a proper winter -- I wonder if I'll ever have another chance to build a snowman with them or take them sledding.

Finduilas

02-19-2008, 08:59 AM

but didn't you get a ton of snow last year? Am I right in thinking your are in New York? I thought they got buried...

Azaelia of Willowbottom

02-19-2008, 09:41 AM

I'll fifth the climate change. There's no snow at all, and yesterday it was up towards 60 degrees out. This is New England! That's not normal!

I went skiing last weekend, and the conditions were terrible--they'd clearly tried to put down a layer of powder, but because of the temperature and the recent rain, it was really rough going and even icy in patches, unfortunately. *grumble* I miss real winter.

Rikae

02-19-2008, 11:31 AM

but didn't you get a ton of snow last year? Am I right in thinking your are in New York? I thought they got buried...
We got one proper snowstorm (school cancelled, etc.) Just one! That is very wrong.

McCaber

02-19-2008, 12:07 PM

Just to spite you I feel like assigning the 75+ inches of snowfall my city's gotten this winter, but I like it too much.

So I'll just assign chem labs instead. You'd think they would be significantly more awesome than they turn out to be.

Macalaure

02-19-2008, 01:13 PM

This is no winter. There was some more complex cover of snow that remained on the ground for no more than two or three days this year.Be glad that you had any snow that remained at all. A few flakes over here, none that would have survived on the ground. :(
And what's worse: it's already been the same last year!

Maybe we should assign the climate to Forodwaith? If that doesn't help....

And this is simply unfair. We should make a change-trade with some people around here.I already asked Rikae whether she would be willing to send me some of her snow, but she refused. :rolleyes:

Rikae

02-19-2008, 04:34 PM

I already asked Rikae whether she would be willing to send me some of her snow, but she refused. :rolleyes:

Like I said, we can't spare any! :eek:

Kath

02-19-2008, 05:39 PM

I love that fact that you're used to having any snow at all! I live in England, so much as a few flakes is a cause for a snow day. :rolleyes:

But I assign myself for being just so tactless this evening. I went out with my friends for a birthday dinner and they gave me a present which was this gorgeous cami top from a catalogue I like. Unfortunately I already had it, but rather than tell a small white lie and just say thank you I told them I already had it. I really could kick myself sometimes. They were so disappointed and I really didn't need to tell them! There's no way that they would have known I already had if I hadn't said and I just so, so wish I hadn't but there's no way to change it now. I'm so cross with myself.

Mithalwen

02-20-2008, 12:53 PM

We used to have snow.... I remember my Dad struggled in to work one snowy day and arrived just in time to hear his boss (who lived in the same village) phoning in to say that the roads were impassable and it would be impossible for him to get in only to get the response "well Colin (my dad) has just got in...". Boss arrived about an hour later......

Any way I assign panic attacks ..... haven't had one for years and my stress levels must have just tipped .. only mild but not fun....:(

MatthewM

02-20-2008, 02:56 PM

We got one proper snowstorm (school cancelled, etc.) Just one! That is very wrong.

Indeed. I am in New York, Long Island in specific, and we have had little to no snowfall, and it didn't stick when it fell. Mordor indeed.

Rikae

02-24-2008, 08:29 AM

WWII (the war, not the werewolf game) and its unfailing ability to take over conversations. :rolleyes:

(Not that it wouldn't belong in Mordor anyway.)

Kath

02-24-2008, 09:47 AM

WWII (the war, not the werewolf game)
I suspect that part of the sentence belongs in the Addicted thread, just for the fact that you have to clarify it. :D

But I will assign housemates who don't wash up. I'm not a clean freak, I leave my washing up on occasion too, especially if I've eaten just before I go to bed. But I do not leave it for a full week and then fail to claim responsibility for it.

Brinniel

02-25-2008, 06:26 PM

What's with all the people complaining about warm weather? I've been touring Europe for a month now and I feel quite lucky that I haven't encountered any bad weather except for when I'm back on campus taking classes. People kept telling me Europe is constantly cold and wet during this time of year, but lately it's been warm and sunny. I'm definitely going to appreciate this unusual weather while it lasts. :)

On a completely different note...

I assign having your entire time in Paris ruined because some jerk swiped your digital camera on the very last day in a restaurant. :mad: Over the last ten days, I took about 300 pictures in London, Liverpool, Ireland, and Paris. Cameras are replacable (though expensive), but my photos will never be. :(

Also, I assign getting a blood blister the size of a penny on your heel so that it makes it difficult to walk properly...

Mithalwen

02-27-2008, 03:39 PM

Losing your bank card. THis wouldn't be so bad if I hadn't already left it at teh supermarket on Thursday and couldn't retrieve it until Saturday (needed my passport which I didn't have on me when I discovered the loss... funnily enough since ... since Iwas only going to work). This time I didn't know where I had left/ dropped it so had to cancel which involved a long call with someone with a funky accent in an offshore call centre. And of course the only place I could thinkI had left it was a petrol station in a tiny hamlet in the forest poised on the county boundary and a bit of a grey area as to which Post town it belonged to... I can't believe I was so careless so soon after losing it and getting it back... :(

Lalwendë

02-28-2008, 11:43 AM

Pathetic injuries which hurt more than they should. Like paper cuts and stubbing your toe. There's a new one I have had the misfortune to discover when I was trying to get the lid off a pot of cheese spread the other day. I ran my thumb under it and there was some foil sticking out and now I have a nice deep cut in the top of my thumb, rendering it useless and which keeps splitting open again and ruddy well stings! :mad:

I also assign rubbish TV scheduling. Who in their right mind schedules a documentary about fantasy when Torchwood is also on at the same time?!

And I assign bad losers. Namely the grown men who went up our road after United lost - yelling, effing and jeffing and stupidly, throwing things like bins and chairs into the middle of the road where they would have caused car accidents if I hadn't gone out to move them.

Mithalwen

02-29-2008, 03:57 PM

Myself for being so miserable, grumpy and depressed that I am annoying myself. Oh and being made to feel that four months hard slog was a complete waste of time just at the moment when I should have got the sense of achievement.

THE Ka

02-29-2008, 09:46 PM

Who in their right mind schedules a documentary about fantasy when Torchwood is also on at the same time?!

That I can agree with! I came across Torchwood awhile ago and now I try to watch it as much as I can (which isn't much, I never have time for the tele, but still...).
I had a similar conflict with Torchwood being on at the same time as a documentary on Serbia's Balkan brass festival in Guca, I couldn't decide which one to record but I ended up recording Guca because I doubted it would ever be shown again and I could not miss Boban Markovic.

I assign to Mordor having to handle people who have trouble distinguishing between power lust and a simple request, and I being too polite to them.

... Which puts them on edge and then they make things even more difficult.
All I needed was a transcript, not your soul, or job... :(

Sometimes I wonder if age really has anything to do with maturity, or admitting that you're having a bad day.

Also what can go to Mordor is the random bout of rain after two weeks of lovely clear skies and sun. Then again, I guess I ask for it when I live in a "rainbelt"...:rolleyes:

~ Ka

Rikae

03-09-2008, 07:41 AM

Airports.

THE Ka

03-11-2008, 02:43 PM

Kath

03-11-2008, 02:47 PM

Being sore ... again ... I am not a fan of back basing.

A Little Green

03-11-2008, 03:00 PM

Doing too many courses at the same time, leading to a situation where your days at school are long and tiresome (I don't mean boring - it's interesting really, it's just tiring) enough to make you think you have "earned" an evening of lazing around or else are just too plain tired to do anything, which leads to never doing your homework which leads to the days being more tiresome since it's harder to catch up if you haven't worked in the evening at all... :rolleyes:

Bah.

I should have done something like a million things today but ended up doing only one.

Meaning more work tomorrow, meaning more work the day after tomorrow, meaning eventually more work for the weekend, which is in practise more work left undone, which ends up as more work for the exam week.

And no, I'm not stressed.

:D

Mithalwen

03-20-2008, 03:25 PM

Failing to do anything much constructive in you long awaited time off because you have develkoped and unhealthy fascination for programmes featuring Kristian Digby ..... I need help..really

Eönwë

03-22-2008, 10:08 AM

SATs

McCaber

03-22-2008, 10:50 AM

I'll assign the over a foot of snow we just got on the first days of spring. But it does make up for all the lame years we've had in the recent past.

Finduilas

03-22-2008, 11:05 AM

I'll assign the over a foot of snow we just got on the first days of spring. But it does make up for all the lame years we've had in the recent past.

Hm. We got nine inches of rain instead.

Mithalwen

03-22-2008, 12:21 PM

Easter being colder than Christmas is weird (given that I am in a temperate region of the Norther Hemisphere) - even I am boring of my habitual black and long to wear pretty flimsier fabrics ... lighter shoes ..and I have a porch full of bedding plants that will freeze to death (as will I) if I try to plant them.

But mainly just now I would like to assign new, high-tech non stick cake tins that stick like billy-oh.
If anyone has a better idea for a fragmented lemon drizzle cake than a citrusy trifle could you PM me ASAP...:rolleyes:

Azaelia of Willowbottom

03-23-2008, 08:19 PM

Having a nastry flu virus incubate in your body for nearly two weeks, then deciding to set up camp and throw a party in your stomach, nose, joints, and head on your workday...:mad:
I hate being ill, not only is it boring, but you always have an avalanche of work to do afterwards. Plus, finals are coming up.
Grrr!:(

Ugh. Seconded. This just happened to me this weekend. It almost knocked me out in the middle of my last class on Friday, so none of my weekend plans could happen, and I didn't get any work done at all. I'm going to have to ask for extensions on some of my assignments, now. *sigh*

Feanor of the Peredhil

03-24-2008, 10:18 PM

Chemical burns. Because you can't do a whole lot about them except pretend like they don't hurt and try not to let your coat sleeve rub your skin even rawer. :(

Elfchick7

03-24-2008, 10:42 PM

unbeatable colds!:(

Mithalwen

03-28-2008, 04:02 PM

The fact that love is blind - when it concerns one of your oldest friends and a git of high order (control freak with no social skills) .... aieeeeeeeee ..it is like watching an accident unfurl and not being able to do anything about it because noone listens do they? So then the fact that love is blind, deaf and causes insanity...

Rune Son of Bjarne

03-28-2008, 04:23 PM

I second that. . . I lost a dear friend to "love"

Not that I refuse to see him or anything, but he sees no-one but her, he used to be a very social person with lots of friends and he have just the one.

I do not understand why. She does not treat him well, they are not dating anymore and because of her he started seeing a shrink.

:( :rolleyes:

Mithalwen

03-28-2008, 04:39 PM

MatthewM

03-28-2008, 06:09 PM

People who make me angry!

McCaber

03-28-2008, 07:23 PM

The Wisconsin basketball team. They just fell apart under pressure. I thought they were better than this, but apparently not.

Nerwen

04-03-2008, 07:17 AM

The ankle injury which is currently making me limp around like Brandir the Lame. It hurts.:(

A Little Green

04-03-2008, 11:30 AM

The ankle injury which is currently making me limp around like Brandir the Lame. It hurts. Hope it'll get better soon, dear. *hug*

I assign studying biology while being half-asleep. (So the solution? Go to the 'Downs. :rolleyes:)

Dimturiel

04-03-2008, 12:14 PM

The thirteen-hour train journey that I am about to make tonight. Also the fact that it's the fourth time I've been home since I've started university and leaving is as hard as ever. And this annoying homesickness can go to Mordor as well.

Rune Son of Bjarne

04-03-2008, 08:51 PM

THE Ka

04-03-2008, 10:53 PM

The ankle injury which is currently making me limp around like Brandir the Lame. It hurts.:(

Ugh!:( Know that feeling all too well. Here's hoping that you recover soon, even if ankle injuries seem like they take forever to finally heal. My best wishes, no one should have to deal with ankle problems, and they definately belong in the deepest pits of Mordor.

~ Hoping Ka

Nerwen

04-05-2008, 01:11 AM

Thanks. It's starting to get better now.

McCaber

04-05-2008, 12:26 PM

My alarm clock. If it weren't for its malfunctioning, I would be at a disc golf tourney right now.

Oddwen

04-16-2008, 06:31 PM

I'd like to assign those stupid songs for children sung by overly "happy" adults...seriously, why are you so happy to be singing about math? Or sharing? Or vehicles? Sober up! Learning is a necessary experience, not a fun one!

Only slightly less worse are the children who sing songs for children - they get one or two up-and-coming solo children to feature who you can just tell that their mothers tell them they're something sooooo special and that they have star quality every day. And that the kids themselves believe it and you can hear it in their smarmy self-absorbed voices. Singing about math.

And Saturday morning Christian radio station kid's programs - why on Earth do you cast some adult as the "stupid" child! You can TELL that it's an man doing a very stupid voice that anyone can do easily and possibly less annoyingly and less grown-man-making-more-than-I-do-sounding-like-an-idiot-ish! Cast a real child why don't you!

Also, I assign losing your place when trying to communicate a thought that may or may not be important.

Brinniel

04-23-2008, 02:15 AM

Forever leaving a castle you've called home for three months. :(

I'll miss it...

Macalaure

04-23-2008, 02:06 PM

I assign my computer, which has decided to no longer display all pictures shown on a web page....

....on the day Paper Telephone ended. :(

Mithalwen

04-23-2008, 02:37 PM

Really stupidly annoying and pointlessly unhelpful people.

Especially those who require a 30 minute phone call in order to be informed that :

their letter threatening action if not paid by return has taken a fortnight to arrive

all but one of the invoices (and that one is only just overdue and hasn't been received anyway) have been paid

that the account is substantially in credit.

I wouldn't mind so much but it turned out that there have been half a dozen equally lengthy attempts to inform them that these invoices have been paid.

Oh yes - they added a late payment charge... So tempted to counterbill for my time on hold.

And I won't name names but this isn't some one man band company but a multinational market leader worth several billion ....

Eönwë

04-23-2008, 03:41 PM

I assign my computer, which has decided to no longer display all pictures shown on a web page.

Seconded

Macalaure

04-25-2008, 10:54 AM

Do you assign your own or co-assign my computer? :D

THE Ka

04-25-2008, 11:05 PM

their letter threatening action if not paid by return has taken a fortnight to arrive

Ugh, I hate that too!

I'll recieve a letter (or even recorded phone message!) after the due date of anything, though usually these are events I'm being asked to attend, etc. Then, I recieve a complaint about it. :rolleyes:

I guess with things such as this universally, people have come to the concensus that there's a gigantic telepathic social network that only they seem to use, and shame on you for not noticing...

The older I become, the less I understand people. That I assign to Mordor too...:rolleyes:

~ Now where's your professionalism? Ka

Eönwë

04-26-2008, 03:36 PM

Do you assign your own or co-assign my computer? :D

Both!:p

Thinlómien

04-28-2008, 12:59 PM

I assign having too many things you either have to or want to do... gah.

Brinniel

04-28-2008, 05:31 PM

Money....or rather, the lack of it. :rolleyes:

Eönwë

05-01-2008, 02:40 PM

SATs revision which prevents your Downs-time

Kath

05-01-2008, 05:48 PM

Unhelpful train station people who seem to have made it their aim in life to make your journey as difficult as possible.

Nerwen

05-01-2008, 10:54 PM

1. The university library staff. I had to book a camcorder from them to shoot my short film, and I got permission from the Multimedia department and everything– and then when I got there on the day they said, "Wait, you were meant to get this other form signed that we didn't tell you about. Now all we can give you is this cheap little handycam. Sorry." Not only that, but they told me I could pick up the thing at 10 AM on Sunday– when, as it turns out, the library doesn't open until the afternoon!:mad:

2. The fact that I have such an overactive imagination that every time I go to the doctor/dentist/optometrist for a checkup, I start thinking that this time they're going to find I have a terrible, incurable disease and I'll wind up in one of those "please donate your blood/organs/bone marrow and give this poor dying girl a chance of life" ads. I'm that pathetic! :rolleyes:

Volo

05-05-2008, 10:52 AM

I am very annoyed that the copy of Supernatural Fairy Tales: The Progressive Rock Era is too scratched to be copied on my computer. Why! Why!! Why the prog rock?? :(:(

davem

05-05-2008, 11:51 AM

You discover that one of the formative TV series of your childhood, Arthur of the Britons, http://homepage.ntlworld.com/p.thorpe-willett/arthur/arthur.htm has just been released on DVD in a four disc set, & you grab the thing off Amazon & sit in front of the TV remembering the first time you saw it 36 years prevously,aged 12, having rushed home from school (no VHS in those days) in order to catch it.

And its just as good as you remember & you sit there with a big silly smile on your face...

So what is it about the experience that needs assigning to Mordor? You're looking up stuff about it on the web & discover that Michael Gothard, who played Arthur's foster brother Kai in the series (this is him - on the right on the DVD cover http://www.networkdvd.net/product_info.php?products_id=575 committed suicide in 1992.

Nerwen

05-09-2008, 09:54 AM

Waking up to find that my beloved little cat died in the night. I'm so upset– he was the cutest little thing, and I don't even know why he died... he just wasted away overnight... :(

Mithalwen

05-09-2008, 01:11 PM

I am so sorry Nerwen. He sounds to have been "a very fine cat indeed"...:(

Nerwen

05-09-2008, 01:28 PM

He was... and meanwhile his totally evil sister looks like she'll live forever. It just isn't fair.

Mithalwen

05-09-2008, 01:55 PM

It isn't. It really isn't.... My cousin got brother and sister kittens and the tom is a handsome fellow and a nice enough cat but little Tiggy was absolutely adorable. And she was the one who got hit by a car.. even though her brother was the main instigator of mischief.

I hope I am wrong - but is it possible he was poisoned? He seems to have gone downhill very fast. Not necessarily deliberately - though alas some folk do hate cats so much but maybe he took a poisoned rodent?

Nerwen

05-09-2008, 02:35 PM

No, I'd been keeping him inside because he had a sore on his leg– but it was healing up nicely. Then yesterday he was looking thin and seemed a bit sick, but nothing drastic– he wasn't feverish or anything– then he just died. It was weird. I've had old cats die that suddenly, but he was young.

Mithalwen

05-09-2008, 02:59 PM

Poor kitty..... I am at a loss.... apart from the kitten that died of internal bleeding after a fight all my own cats have fortunately had near Numenorean spans before Anno Domini caught up with them.

So sorry, the only comfort I can offer is that I have observed that the houseless Fea of beloved cat haunt their old home.. for a while you catch sight of tails disappearing around doors....

Lhunardawen

05-09-2008, 10:49 PM

I'm so sorry to hear that, Nerwen. :(

Let me assign nasty pervs who take advantage of the fact that passengers are pressed closely against each other in public transport.

Mithalwen

05-10-2008, 09:38 AM

Poor Lhuna - that is indeed most horrible .... :(

Brinniel

05-14-2008, 02:14 PM

Returning to your home country only to see the negative parts of it. Now that I've been to Europe, I find myself so much more unsatisfied with the United States.

Oh, reverse culture shock... :rolleyes:

Rikae

05-14-2008, 04:17 PM

Brinn - seconded. I felt the same way both times I came back to the US from Europe.

Rune Son of Bjarne

05-16-2008, 02:56 AM

I assign my old and truly awfull DVD-player. . .it has always had its problems, like it would at least once per movie skip or pause as if the DVD was scratched regardless of the state of the DVD, but that I could live with.

I was watching the fellowship of the ring and it was at the very end in Lothlorien when it just stops all together, now it won't play any DVD at all.

Kath

05-16-2008, 03:50 AM

Throwing apple juice everywhere, and I mean everywhere, just as you're about to settle down and watch a film.

Mithalwen

05-16-2008, 06:43 AM

Malevolent colleagues.

Azaelia of Willowbottom

05-16-2008, 07:11 AM

I assign this sore throat that had all winter to arrive, but instead decided to show up right after I get home and start hanging out with friends again. Ugh. :(

Thinlómien

05-18-2008, 11:56 PM

Either this morning, this English course or public transport. I think "bad luck" would be the best choice, though. :(

Volo

05-19-2008, 01:03 AM

I was overly enthusiastic about Noggie being in Romania and having no philosophy lesson that I woke up two hours later and when got to school got reminded that philosophy is the second lesson and not the first, which was civics. So now I have two hours of hanging around to survive. :/

Thinlómien

05-19-2008, 02:12 AM

Volo

05-19-2008, 10:38 AM

Poor Volo. :)
Thanks. I think your situation was worse. Though I did come to more annoying situations later today: my mother disided to give away my old bycycle even claiming that its tyres were full. Well, the bike is in a horrible shape and I think that anybody who cares about something shouldn't ride it. Some extra stress...

kementari

05-21-2008, 12:05 AM

I absolutely hate rainy days that aren't freezing cold nor just wet. It's that muggy feeling that I detest...

:o Personally I think rain is soo over rated

Folwren

05-21-2008, 08:27 AM

Horses that won't be caught until AFTER you've spent an hour chasing them! And then she stands all nice and quite. "Oh, you wanted me?"

Volo

05-26-2008, 12:07 AM

Total fail! I woke myself up at 6:50 and went to school just to notice that my math exam is tomorrow and I should be asleep this very moment.

Lhunardawen

05-26-2008, 08:27 AM

Financial disagreements between friends. :(

And the guilt that comes with being unable to do something you want to do just to keep the friendship undamaged, even if you really shouldn't have to do it.

THE Ka

05-26-2008, 08:37 PM

*Being crispy, dehydration, doctors taking an hour to poke and prod to tell you that you already know what to do, and finally starting to shed like a lizard.

*Allgeries, when no tree pollen can be found.

~ Krispy Ka

Groin Redbeard

05-31-2008, 08:19 AM

Negative reps sent by someone hiding behind a fake name!:mad: I just got a rep. from a thread in which I got in a heated disscussion, and now more than a month later I get a negative rep. signed by a Downer who doesn't exist! The reason for the rep. was because I didn't use intelligent language! All cowards who don't have a life are assigned to the most remote regions of Mordor.

Kath

06-01-2008, 07:24 PM

Trying so hard not to be spoilered for the results of I'd Do Anything and doing so, so well and then still get spoilered anyway. I so wanted it to be a surprise. :(

Mithalwen

06-02-2008, 11:31 AM

I hope you weren't disappointed by the result though. Without wanting to get slanderous.. Jodie seemed to get closer to the "tart with a heart" side of Nancy... :cool:

Kath

06-02-2008, 05:46 PM

No I must admit that right from the beginning I saw her as being Nancy. I thought Sam had got very good by the end though so I wouldn't have minded if she'd won, but Jodie was perfect right from the start and only ever improved.

Nerwen

06-03-2008, 12:11 PM

Detached eyelashes that get stuck under your lids.

TheGreatElvenWarrior

06-10-2008, 07:45 PM

I'll assign holding one of your children (or a grandchild) as a baby in a rocking chair in the nursery as they fall asleep and looking into the depth of those innocent and beautiful eyes before they close to enter the never-realm of dreams.
I assign to Mordor the exact opposite, when you are handed a baby that is crying and hungry and it doesn't like you, and it won't go to sleep and it won't calm down because it's so P.O.ed at you and it's mom...:mad:

Detached eyelashes that get stuck under your lids.
That Sucks! I have really long eyelashes, everyone always compliments me on them, but what they don't realize is that every hour I'm picking at my eyelashes again because they got in my eyes...

Mithalwen

06-11-2008, 06:43 AM

Football. Specifically on the television, when you naively assumed that your country not being involved might mean the stuff wasn't going to be rammed down your throat ad nauseam. Beyond tedious.

At least we are saved the rampant nationalism this time so it doesn't look like half the country is going to a BNP rally.

Just hope the weather holds so I can spend the time in the garden.

TheGreatElvenWarrior

06-11-2008, 12:43 PM

Football. I second that!

Brinniel

06-12-2008, 02:24 AM

Spiders. Especially ones that jump or crawl on you. Even the thought of it sends shivers down my spine...

I hate spiders. :mad:

Nerwen

06-12-2008, 05:29 AM

So I'm guessing you find Tolkien's work a bit traumatising?

Lhunardawen

06-12-2008, 01:27 PM

I assign take-home diagnostic essays to be handed over at the fourth day of classes, diagnostic quizzes on topics you're just about to learn in class so naturally you don't have any idea about but turns out the results of which will be recorded, and the fact that the first week of school is busy and tiring enough to give you a serious case of Downs withdrawal.

Brinniel

06-12-2008, 01:51 PM

So I'm guessing you find Tolkien's work a bit traumatising?
Nah. Just real life experiences and memories of real life experiences with spiders freak me out. There are dozens of spiders of all shapes and sizes that live in my home...it's not fun at all.

Rune Son of Bjarne

06-12-2008, 02:01 PM

I assign Pre-Industrial Societies

TheGreatElvenWarrior

06-13-2008, 11:06 PM

I don't really like spiders either Brinniel... But I can't stand snakes! Even garter snakes! I was riding on my Papa's lawnmower tractor today out in his yard and there was this little snake that slithered as fast as it could across the lawn... It scared me half to death (Or not death...;)) It was scary...
I live in a place with big moose that could kill you if you bug them, wolves, and bears that could rip your head off... I'm not scared of big animals, just snakes...

Nerwen

06-13-2008, 11:20 PM

Better not visit Australia, then!

Lush

06-15-2008, 06:41 PM

My sad thoughts, my cockroaches, and my deadlines, into the Mordor repository.

*clink*

Rune Son of Bjarne

06-16-2008, 12:24 PM

weltschmerz

TheGreatElvenWarrior

06-16-2008, 12:27 PM

Better not visit Australia, then!Well, now that you mention it, I guess that I don't want to go to Australia then. Too bad...

Brinniel

06-16-2008, 04:55 PM

Better not visit Australia, then!
Heh, the funny thing is that Australia is place I'd love to visit...as it is part of my heritage. Then one of my friends just had to creep me out with stories of all the poisonous creatures that live there. :rolleyes: Meh, if I ever were to visit Australia I think I could endure it...as the experience of traveling would make it totally worth it. :cool:

At least I don't mind snakes. The little garter ones in particular don't deserve to be assigned to Morder as they're actually kind of cute. Whenever my cat catches one (always unharmed), I love to pick it up and put it back in its home because those snakes always tickle my finger and I can't help but laugh hysterically. I think the only thing about snakes that's scary is the element of surprise when they slither out of nowhere...that always makes me jump a bit.

Continuing back on topic....

I assign dropping and breaking one of your souvenirs from Prague. :( It was a blown egg so as much as my mom thinks she can glue pieces back together, there's no way it can possibly be fixed. You know, I managed to keep that egg safe all the way back on the train to the Netherlands then on several flights back to the US...only for me to drop it as I'm trying to find a place to put it. I'm so mad at myself about it...I've been rather clumsy lately dropping drinks left and right. Not to mention, I broke something in a similar manner last December...

TheGreatElvenWarrior

06-16-2008, 08:46 PM

Snakes are just so creepy... I'm thankful that there is no snakes in Alaska...

Anyway, breaking things are not good. I broke the lid of my very expensive bone china teapot while reaching into our china cabinet to get some tea out of my tea caddy... so sad.

Groin Redbeard

06-19-2008, 11:48 AM

Aganzir

06-29-2008, 05:12 PM

All kinds of flying monsters, except for birds. Especially flies that wouldn't die despite being hit several times with a swatter.

THE Ka

06-29-2008, 05:32 PM

Having a lovely day out in the sun, reading under a tree... When a bird flies over and poops on one of your favourite books. A lot.

Hear me birds, you have lost your feeder with special treats outside the garden indefinately.

~ Ka

THE Ka

06-29-2008, 05:51 PM

Drivers Ed!:mad: We just finished taking drivers Ed classes and I can't believe what a waste of time it was. All the teacher made us do in the class room was take a bunch of tests, which she didn't grade, and tell us to study on our own! I do so hate government programs!

I would be completely satisfied if my parents would drive me everywhere, but unfortunately that's not going to happen. :rolleyes:

My friend took a class like that, and they didn't even show her how to change a tire or check engine fluids... Tisk, tisk.
I'd try finding a relative who either has enough experience or is in a profession that has them driving everywhere and most of the time (ex: commercial driving). Usually relatives are the best form of 'study'. ;)

~ Ka

TheGreatElvenWarrior

07-01-2008, 01:35 AM

I assign not being able to go to sleep even though you are increadibly tired and when you finally get to speep at 3:00 in the morning, you wake up ready for the day at 7:30... I haven't been able to go to sleep until aftermidnight for the past week and a half and not wake up before 8:30.:mad:

Thinlómien

07-07-2008, 03:30 PM

Mosquitos. Boredom. People who think they can abuse at others when they don't know anything about the state of things.

Oddwen

07-07-2008, 05:56 PM

I'd like to assign hearing the phone ring when it isn't ringing. I work part-time at a Christian radio station, and most of the music that plays is worship music. I suppose it's the abundance of tambourines that makes the difference, but it drives me crazy because I'm staring at the silent phone and hearing it ring! Grr!

Eönwë

07-22-2008, 01:38 PM

When you spend time (and your school makes you revise) for some national tests (SATs) and all of one subject's papers go missing. (If you don't know what I'm talking about, look at these (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/7508193.stm) three (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/7513685.stm) links (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/7519108.stm).)

*slaps ETS*

Kath

07-22-2008, 02:01 PM

Oh yeah I heard about that happening Eonwe. Just look on the bright side if you can and be glad it wasn't something like A levels so you wouldn't even know whether you'd got into uni!

I shall assign unpredictable weather. When I left this morning it was gorgeous sunshine so I dressed for it, when I came back it had turned rather chilly. It irritating to be summery and yet carry an umbrella and a jumper!

Aganzir

07-22-2008, 02:48 PM

I would like to assign people with stupid whims - or rather the whims. Especially if they have something to do with my precious little laptop. Or net connection.

As a matter of fact, I have had several dreams in which the person in question (my father) was Sauron.

Eönwë

07-22-2008, 03:33 PM

I shall assign unpredictable weather. When I left this morning it was gorgeous sunshine so I dressed for it, when I came back it had turned rather chilly. It irritating to be summery and yet carry an umbrella and a jumper!

Yes, that is the problem with England. We get the good old British weather!

THE Ka

07-22-2008, 04:07 PM

People who lull me into a false sense that they're fairly okay customers, then they binge on drinks from the bar and don't pay for a single one.:mad: To top it off, they're 'regulars'. I hate first days...

Feanor of the Peredhil

08-04-2008, 11:21 AM

I assign - with great conviction - the fact that if I hadn't had to take so many useless general education 'liberal arts' classes (which taught me - guess what! - things I already knew), I would have had time to take classes worth taking and I wouldn't feel like I was two semesters short of a totally useless degree.

I also assign standardized testing. I really thought I was done after the SATs. :(

Rikae

08-07-2008, 01:32 PM

Kath

08-08-2008, 02:04 AM

Racism from people who should know better. It doesn't matter whether you've lived in the country or seen a few families from it, racism is racism and there is no excuse. Passing this on to your children as acceptable is also inexcusable.

Lindale

08-08-2008, 09:51 AM

Professors who assign impossibly thick books in a very short time. Come on. Sentimental Education in three days?! No wonder most turn to Sparknote. bwahahaha.

Also, this habagat, or southwest monsoon that makes the weather utterly unpredictable. One moment it's impossibly hellishly hot, the next, you're stranded because you left your darling umbrella at home. T_T

TheGreatElvenWarrior

08-12-2008, 01:47 PM

I assign not being able to meet other BDers and having to be stuck at home when you could be out, and plus I assign watching Doctor Who with the little brat in my house...

Aganzir

08-15-2008, 09:51 AM

The matriculation exams. My own laziness to study. Being constantly tired. Control freaks.

It's only been five days of school and I feel dead already.

THE Ka

08-16-2008, 06:21 PM

Coworkers who tell you not to finish a task until they're done with something, then tell you to finish it, and when you ask if they're done yet, just repeat that you should do it... and then, when you start doing it, yell at you because they aren't done.

Ach, reminds me of working on Sunday nights... The mess never ends and the tasks are like bacteria.

I assign becoming too confortable in my misanthropy. Working again with a mass amount of the public has made me despise all age groups universally more than I probably should.
Also, having customers trying to hit on you at work as you stand there in workclothes splattered with food and any other random stains. Yeah, I'm definately on the market guys...:rolleyes:

~ No, I despise your foul attitude equally Ka

Feanor of the Peredhil

08-26-2008, 02:44 PM

The cost of school books for the coming semester. Are you serious? Fifteen books for ONE class!?

That's got to be something cooked up in the fiery places of the world...

Lindale

08-26-2008, 02:46 PM

The cost of school books for the coming semester. Are you serious? Fifteen books for ONE class!?

That's got to be something cooked up in the fiery places of the world...

Poor you. And then there was me complaining, when asked for five books for half a semester: a Flaubert novel, portions of Das Kapital, Manifesto, and a couple of art books. Which I'm all assigning to Mordor by the way. I don't like Marx, he makes a point but that's just that--he just makes a point.

Feanor of the Peredhil

08-26-2008, 03:06 PM

Poor you.

I barely got them to my apartment by myself. I needed help to get them all upstairs in the bookstore. Twenty-three books thus far, not including the one text book my room-mate already has a copy of, and the two philosophy text books that aren't in yet. :(

Lalwendë

08-28-2008, 03:44 AM

Being so stressed that you feel sick should go to Mordor. On top of worrying yourself into insomnia about finding and then affording childcare (even though in your heart you do not even want to dump your son in childcare because you know how much you hated it as a child) you come home to find that the evil neighbour you despise has started works on their house without the common courtesy of informing you - it's a nightmare. Plus you've grown to hate where you live (no family around and a neighbour with the manners of a pig) and all you want to do is move a hundred miles away and know how difficult it will all be to achieve... :(

Feanor of the Peredhil

08-28-2008, 09:29 AM

I assign ultimatums and people who think it's wise to try to bully me with one. Really, they've known me long enough that they should have guessed I'd pick the option they'd like least.

Brinniel

08-31-2008, 01:44 PM

I assign msn messenger. No joke, it's been acting very odd lately and I've become increasingly frustrated. When I leave/go to bed I will sign completely out before closing up my laptop. But somehow when I'm away msn will sign itself back in (and my settings are set so that it shouldn't automatically sign in) and people message me thinking I'm online. And I feel bad for missing them because I don't want them to think I'm ignoring them. :(

Sometimes I feel like there's a ghost in my computer...

Lalwendë

09-01-2008, 01:53 AM

I assign my cat, who has done a poo in my handbag. :mad:

Alright, it is sort of funny.....;)

TheGreatElvenWarrior

09-01-2008, 12:01 PM

I assign my cat, who has done a poo in my handbag. :mad:

Alright, it is sort of funny.....;)How does that happen?

Eönwë

09-01-2008, 12:46 PM

How does that happen?
Well, er, cats are quite agile and flexible.

Lalwendë

09-01-2008, 12:55 PM

Well, er, cats are quite agile and flexible.

Mine is just mucky :(

I also assign to Mordor wondering whether to throw out the bag, which is quite a cool one. And the way the cat gives you that whole 'big eyes' look once found out.

Mithalwen

09-09-2008, 11:17 AM

People who pointlessly and thoughtlessly destroy your confidence.:(

Lalaith

09-09-2008, 12:03 PM

Where? Who? *glares*

Mithalwen

09-11-2008, 12:45 PM

Colleague. Though on top of the other stuff it didn't help. Just went home and cried, got about 3 hrs sleep ... not good.

Nogrod

09-12-2008, 03:48 PM

The situation when the Who's online says 1 member 0 guests.

Alone in the cyberspace... alone in the net... *shivers*

Lalwendë

09-12-2008, 04:14 PM

The situation when the Who's online says 1 member 0 guests.

Alone in the cyberspace... alone in the net... *shivers*

Yeah, imagine the mayhem you could cause....mua-ha-ha ;)

I assign having to go to bed at night when your head is buzzing with a zillion ideas and things. If I had been born as Tolkien or Blake or someone I would be justified in staying up all night writing mad things.

Oddwen

09-12-2008, 06:52 PM

I'm certain that this won't sit well with everyone, but I'd like to assign waking up to (especially) AC/DC in the morning. In fact, I would be happy to just send the whole of the nineteen-eighties to Mordor, my birth therein notwithstanding.

Also, I would like to follow all stubbed toes, wether or not they lead to broken bones, and reoccured injuries thought long laid to rest.

Brinniel

09-12-2008, 11:09 PM

Gollum the Great

09-14-2008, 05:55 PM

I assign being forced to eat garbage when you could eat something decent.

-Getting behind in school

-Putting up with idiots. If we have don't have enough asylums, we should make more.

-Teachers who don't teach much.

Lindale

09-14-2008, 11:32 PM

I assign being forced to eat garbage when you could eat something decent.

However do you judge garbage from decent food? :D Microwavables compared to real food cooked with mom's/the wife's/the gf's love?

Feanor of the Peredhil

09-15-2008, 05:15 AM

The price it pays to be a media production student. When the teacher told my film class that there's a good chance we'd be spending $500 over the semester, I couldn't help but cry a little on the inside. And that's not including the $25,000+ tuition per year!

Wow, that's it?

You should have heard my mom's enthusiasm when I told her that my first choice grad school would, in total, cost about half the price of one year where I am now. :rolleyes:

Speaking of, I assign around half of campus congregating outside the president's house to appeal [loudly, for a week] to his generous side and get him to give us a [traditional] day off. We all know he has no generous side...

Lindale

09-15-2008, 12:11 PM

I assign my own not being able to dance even a very simple waltz, and the fact that my eighteenth is approaching faster than it should and I have yet to practice the violin pieces I am supposed to play for the guests' horrible entertainment, and that my birthday falls on the exact same date that I have three exams on a row so that my party has to occur three weeks later. And that I am born into a family that regards old traditions too much--eighteen roses! Where the hell do I get eighteen men to give me roses and to dance with me? :(

Yes, I'm sure I want to assign these to Mordor, not Orthanc. Besides, I've always asked the father to give me a car or at least a really good piano and not a traditional debut.

Kath

09-15-2008, 12:32 PM

Having a cold. It's been a while since I've had one this bad and I forgot how much it wears you out! And when you're that tired you become really sensitive to the slightest thing as well so you just spend all your time mildly upset. 'Tis probably quite lucky I'm out of that werewolf game or I'd either have been (non-literally) biting people's heads off or just crying! :D

Brinniel

09-16-2008, 10:46 PM

Wow, that's it?

You should have heard my mom's enthusiasm when I told her that my first choice grad school would, in total, cost about half the price of one year where I am now.
Well in all fairness, I was just estimating. :p I looked it up and apparently the tuition is now $28,352 per year to be exact. And that doesn't include room and board. Add that in and the total becomes approx $40,000.
But goodness, how much does your school cost? And I thought I was suffering...

I assign something I know a lot of other Facebookers would like to assign: New Facebook. I've managed to wiggle my way out of using it up until tonight...and now it seems I'm stuck. I've always been someone who's a bit weird about major format changes, and this one particularly bothers me. Mainly because it's slower and the layout's clunky. Though I think what bothers me most is the fact it's not centered. I don't know why I'm so adament about having things centered, but if the designers at least fixed that I wouldn't feel so annoyed...

Feanor of the Peredhil

09-17-2008, 05:38 AM

tuition is now $28,352 per year to be exact. And that doesn't include room and board. Add that in and the total becomes approx $40,000.
But goodness, how much does your school cost? And I thought I was suffering...

$32,000 tuition, $10,100 room and board as of this year. Then you add fees (another grand and a half on average). Then you can go buy your books (I spent around $700 this term). Worst part? I don't even like my school.

Lindale

09-17-2008, 10:45 AM

I assign to Mordor that the fact that most of the books I need right now from the library are either on loan, lost/damaged, and long overdue. I hate our school. :(

Laurinquë

09-17-2008, 08:39 PM

I assign good books to Mordor. They call out to you, begging you to read them when you know you should be doing homework or cleaning, or for that matter sleeping. The same can be said for The Barrow-Downs and Facebook.

Lalwendë

09-18-2008, 03:16 PM

I assign Capitalism because it's caused a certain bank takeover which is making us worry about the certainty of our household income. :mad:

Lindale

09-19-2008, 05:00 AM

I assign Capitalism because it's caused a certain bank takeover which is making us worry about the certainty of our household income. :mad:

poor you.

Mithalwen

09-19-2008, 06:13 AM

I assign Capitalism because it's caused a certain bank takeover which is making us worry about the certainty of our household income. :mad:

But without capitalism I wouldn't have an income at all....we can't all work in the public sector....

Feanor of the Peredhil

09-21-2008, 08:17 AM

When the people you live with are all mad at each other. Not just "she forgot to do the dishes AGAIN." Door slamming nobody's talking to each other tangible angst mad. :(

Kath

09-21-2008, 08:21 AM

Stupid, evil, rubbish Firefox. I downloaded it last night because I wanted to watch a film and I had to download some codec that only worked with Firefox etc, etc, and now I've got viruses and trojans and security alerts popping up left, right and centre which had never happened before. It's driving me insane. Anything I do to try and make it better only asks me for money ... think it might be time for a trip to the computer shop.

Feanor of the Peredhil

09-21-2008, 08:24 AM

Stupid, evil, rubbish Firefox.

That's so strange... I've used Firefox almost exclusively for the past several years and I've never had anything of the like occur.

Kath

09-21-2008, 08:25 AM

That's so strange... I've used Firefox almost exclusively for the past several years and I've never had anything of the like occur.
Well I wish I had your good luck with it! I don't even know why I did something so stupid. I saw what having that programme did to my sister's computer and yet still thought it was a good idea to put it on my own. :rolleyes:

Lindale

09-21-2008, 08:29 AM

Stupid, evil, rubbish Firefox.

You know, after I downloaded FF3, my AVG-Free has caught a damn lot of trojans. And I'm too poor to buy any real antivirus, oh! I just make it a habit to save all my papers in my Yahoo mail, because the important files in my computer are just my papers and my pictures.

Kath

09-21-2008, 08:31 AM

Yeah everything I couldn't stand to lose is on a memory stick as of last night so I just have to keep that safe now! It's all so irritating though, and to get it fixed is going to cost me money I do not have - so onto the list of things going to Mordor can go being unable to find a job!

Lindale

09-21-2008, 09:40 AM

I assign those little pimples that grow right on the nostril. Hurts all the time, no matter how small they are.

Feanor of the Peredhil

09-22-2008, 10:58 AM

Writer's block and every fool who says it isn't a real affliction.

A Little Green

09-24-2008, 10:33 AM

Since no other Finn has done it yet, I'll have to assign the fact that twisted young men keep shooting innocent people for no apparent reason.

The Elf-warrior

09-24-2008, 06:35 PM

I second your assignment, A Little Green.

On a far less somber note, I assign spilling whiteout just before work to Mordor. It's very difficult to clean up. I still have some traces of it on my finger.

Lindale

09-25-2008, 04:14 AM

Since no other Finn has done it yet, I'll have to assign the fact that twisted young men keep shooting innocent people for no apparent reason.

that is something rather universal. There are a lot of cover-ups done here about young men and gang-wars in places like Tondo, Manila.

I assign the typhoon Ofel that has made my internet connection crappy, and brought about a brief flashflood and heavy rains just the exact moment I was in line waiting for the jeep home.

skip spence

09-25-2008, 08:14 AM

Since no other Finn has done it yet, I'll have to assign the fact that twisted young men keep shooting innocent people for no apparent reason.

Apart from the actual deed, which chills me to the bone, I also assign the media coverage of the event to Mordor. By presenting the guy´s own images posing with a gun etc. he gets exactly what he wanted (or at least what I imagine he wanted): fame and front page coverage. For once he is in the limelight and the one everybody is talking about, a thought which is a revenge of sorts I guess in his twisted mind - I imagine him as a disregarded loner.

Although he won´t get to enjoy being famous this sort of media coverage will only make similar insane deeds more likely in the future. Whatever happened to serious journalism?

I also assign faceless bureaucracy to Mordor along with the heavy hand of law striking down on people not deserving it.

On a lighter note I also assign moving to Mordor, and then I mean the process of moving - especially cleaning your old place up - and not moving into a nicer, bigger place with belongs in the Shire.

Thinlómien

09-25-2008, 08:49 AM

Greenie & skip, I totally agree with you.
I'd also like to assign studying, or alternatively, being tired of studying...

Lindale

09-26-2008, 09:29 AM

I assign the impending hell week and the mountains of papers and examinations it brings about. And on my birthday I have two exams and a paper due. Off to Mordor! The papers and the exams and the sadistic professors! Bwahaha!

Rikae

09-29-2008, 05:45 AM

Well, like I said, German grammar belongs to Mordor - or at least the cases do. Not the language as a whole by any means, but I'm convinced Germans make up their grammar as they go along.

Also to Mordor:
weighing 60lbs more than you're supposed to, waking up at 4 am every day, heartburn, having blood drawn all the time, and other 3rd trimester fun....

buying a new, expensive pair of shoes for your daughter to wear to school and having her lose them two weeks later...

realistic paper butterfly mobiles brought home from school and hung in the kitchen of someone with severe Lepidopterophobia :eek:... I'd take it down, but I'm afraid to touch it...

and student loans that only come halfway through the semester!

Lalwendë

09-29-2008, 05:54 AM

Well, like I said, German grammar belongs to Mordor - or at least the cases do. Not the language as a whole by any means, but I'm convinced Germans make up their grammar as they go along.

Also to Mordor:
weighing 60lbs more than you're supposed to, waking up at 4 am every day, heartburn, having blood drawn all the time, and other 3rd trimester fun....

Oh I can sympathise with that one. I wasn't one of these floaty yoga mums playing whale song to the 'bump', I was more the sort who sat in a flustered heap on the sofa going "Bring me more crunchy nut cornflakes and quickly!" :D

Rikae

09-29-2008, 07:25 AM

floaty yoga mums playing whale song to the 'bump'

I feel like I should probably be able to sing the whale song myself. :D

*struggles to get off the beach... er, out of her chair*

Hmm... crunchy nut cornflakes. I wonder if we have those here -

Rikae

09-29-2008, 12:35 PM

Double posting in this thread is sad, I know, but I have to assign the professor who told us three weeks ago we needed to write three responses to each "work" by today, and only clarified yesterday that, in his version of the English language, "work" means chapter, not book.
:mad:

*types frantically*

Lalwendë

09-29-2008, 01:38 PM

I feel like I should probably be able to sing the whale song myself. :D

*struggles to get off the beach... er, out of her chair*

Hmm... crunchy nut cornflakes. I wonder if we have those here -

Be warned, over consumption of crunchy nut cornflakes and ice cold milk (and probably also green tea, haribos and mango - I normally hate mango, why?) results in 11lb 4oz babies. :eek:

Lindale

10-01-2008, 11:29 AM

Well, like I said, German grammar belongs to Mordor - or at least the cases do. Not the language as a whole by any means, but I'm convinced Germans make up their grammar as they go along.

I don't yet assign German cases to Mordor, but I assign gender. Makes me go crazy and wish to whack my professor with a broken chair leg. Which reminds me, our final exam on my level-2 German is bis morgen früh... scary.

I assign to Mordor that librarian and the photocopier at the College of Music today, who refused to entertain me despite being first in line just because I come from the Arts and Letters, letting the students of CoM first just because they're wonderful performers or such... maybe I should suggest that in our library and photocopy center we ban altogether students from the CoM?:mad:

Mithalwen

10-04-2008, 11:45 AM

Seasonal affective disorder... It is pouring with rain, I feel miserable, my bones ache, I am comfort eating and my hair is doing that scary curly thing it does in reaction to rainwater. Oh yes and I have just sighted the first mince pies of the season.

Please can I hibernate? Or emigrate... just to get away from the endless damp greyness of an English winter and shops starting Christmas on 1st October.

Eönwë

10-04-2008, 12:34 PM

Endless dark grey skies, interspersed with rain.

edit: I somehow managed to cross-post with Mith- don't ask me how

Aganzir

10-04-2008, 03:30 PM

Being constantly tired despite sleeping more than enough.

Cramps.

Mood swings.

Legate of Amon Lanc

10-04-2008, 04:06 PM

Being constantly tired despite sleeping more than enough.

I assign not being tired despite not sleeping enough, and consequently, being tired at the moments when it's not appropriate.

Thinlómien

10-06-2008, 02:59 AM

Mood swings.I have a horrible urge to post something like "Agan's mood swings" but that would be rather evil, wouldn't it? :D (Besides, assigning them to Mordor would be overreacting for my part...)

I would like to assign being increasingly slow in getting things done. It's both laziness and a sort of perfectionism - it's a dreadful combination, really.

Lindale

10-06-2008, 03:10 AM

Being born a girl (well, just today, and maybe this time next month).

An exam on post-colonial critical theory on my birthday, precious!

Two big papers due the day after my birthday. My, I wish to be Gollum tomorrow and strangle my professors and hack their accounts so that I can just write a 1.0 on my transcript.

And the fact that I couldn't overdose on coffee because of my hyperacidity. Now, of all times that I need to stay awake despite the boringness of Edward Said! Oh, all of you off to Mordor!

mark12_30

10-06-2008, 11:32 AM

Losssssst thingsssssessssss. Ssssssssssssssssss.

Eönwë

10-06-2008, 12:50 PM

Having a cold that's not serious enough to count as "sick"/"ill" but still is horrible and causes headaches and light-headedness. For 3 weeks. More annoying than anything else.

Lindale

10-06-2008, 12:53 PM

Having a bad cold that's not serious enough to count as "sick"/"ill" but still is horrible and causes headaches and light-headedness. For 3 weeks.

Shouldn't you be seeking help now, Eonwe?

I assign Edward Said for starting Orientalism, to Mordor, and may he rot there for all eternity. Throw in Daddy Karl (Marx) as well. And all those intellectuals, who are the cause of my pain.

Rune Son of Bjarne

10-06-2008, 01:14 PM

I assign Edward Said for starting Orientalism, to Mordor, and may he rot there for all eternity. Throw in Daddy Karl (Marx) as well. And all those intellectuals, who are the cause of my pain.
That just hurts

Lindale

10-06-2008, 01:29 PM

That just hurts

Aww, Rune. Maybe after my exam I'll throw Daddy Karl back to Isengard. But not right now. He belongs to Mordor right now. For all his lovely ideas, which I have to study in relation to Said, Bhabba, those people whose names I can't pronounce.

Feanor of the Peredhil

10-06-2008, 03:37 PM

Having to get up and function when you'd rather be lingering in your very warm and invited bed, enjoying that hazy delirious quality tangentially associated with napping.

Aganzir

10-07-2008, 05:24 AM

I have a horrible urge to post something like "Agan's mood swings" but that would be rather evil, wouldn't it?
Yes. I would hate you for the rest of my life.

Being born a girl (well, just today, and maybe this time next month).
Only "this time next month"?
Add there PMS when you're angry, moody and annoyed with everything and everyone twice as much as you would normally be for about two weeks a month. Hey, that's half my life!

Lindale

10-07-2008, 05:56 AM

Only "this time next month"?
Add there PMS when you're angry, moody and annoyed with everything and everyone twice as much as you would normally be for about two weeks a month. Hey, that's half my life!

Unfortunately the family and the boyfriend say that I am able to contain my being evil during these... periods. That, or I am just evil all my life. Bwahaha.

I assign to Mordor my own mother not remembering our birthday, preciousss. :mad:

Mithalwen

10-07-2008, 10:15 AM

Only "this time next month"?
Add there PMS when you're angry, moody and annoyed with everything and everyone twice as much as you would normally be for about two weeks a month. Hey, that's half my life!

Not forgetting the tearfulness, and sugar cravings and myriad other minor annoyances.

And it is a big fat lie that it gets better as you get older - it doesn't. Evening primrose oil helps but I keep forgetting to take it and remain feral :cool:

Now how long, do you reckon it will be before a male ventures back on to this thread in the face of overwhelming rampant female hormones ... mwahahahaha:D

Feanor of the Peredhil

10-07-2008, 10:38 AM

Not forgetting the tearfulness, and sugar cravings and myriad other minor annoyances.

Salt cravings. The sudden revelation that everybody in your life secretly hates you but is simply too polite to say anything about it.

mark12_30

10-07-2008, 01:01 PM

Salt cravings. The sudden revelation that everybody in your life secretly hates you but is simply too polite to say anything about it.

Are you sure it isn't PMS...? now THAT is worth assigning to Mordor.

mark12_30

10-09-2008, 06:01 PM

Being scheduled for a one-hour chance to do a presentation on your year's work, getting there late because of your own stupid fault, and having gotten there late, half your audience needs to leave early: and so suddenly instead of a one-hour presentation, your year's work is now down-to-ten-minutes.Go.

Ssssssssssss.

Lindale

10-09-2008, 08:32 PM

Naw I remember an old Alanis Morissette song about that one, Mark...

Oh I assign living in an unfortunate wreck of a country that knows only MCR for foreign music. Not that our musical heritage sucks (the Filipino classics are classic for a good reason!) but the contemporary is crap. Why can't Tarja invest here! That I am not limited to asking my dad or my other relatives get me the cds for birthday or Christmas...

*sulks in a corner away from kids with smudged eyeliners and very weird hair*

Diane C

10-10-2008, 06:18 AM

I assign Windows Vista, Office 2007 and Visual Studio 2008 - all useless and full of bugs and bloatware. Even Sauron himself would probably dispair after a while

Lindale

10-10-2008, 08:02 AM

I assign Windows Vista

Gee, Diane, you make a user of Windows XP 2003 feel quite good. :D

Groin Redbeard

10-10-2008, 10:03 AM

Throw in Daddy Karl (Marx) as well. And all those intellectuals, who are the cause of my pain. I can second that, Lindale. I also assign Marxist professors who give you a failing grade on a paper just because you disagree with Marxism and are promoting the designs of Capatolism! I assign teachers who indoctrinate you instead of teaching you! :mad:

All the universities in this nation stink! The only good colleges left are the Hillsdale College and the military institutes.

Gollum the Great

10-10-2008, 01:01 PM

Aganzir

10-10-2008, 04:08 PM

I assign Windows Vista, Office 2007 and Visual Studio 2008 - all useless and full of bugs and bloatware. Even Sauron himself would probably dispair after a while
That's why I switched to Linux. ;)

I can second that, Lindale. I also assign Marxist professors who give you a failing grade on a paper just because you disagree with Marxism and are promoting the designs of Capatolism! I assign teachers who indoctrinate you instead of teaching you! :mad:

All the universities in this nation stink! The only good colleges left are the Hillsdale College and the military institutes.
While I do not wish to turn this thread into a political debate, I must say that giving you a failing grade just because you disagree with the teacher sounds pretty unlikely to me. Are you sure it was not because of the fact that you disagreed but the way you disagreed? Say, if you were a teacher and someone wrote a paper strongly criticizing Capitalism without giving (in your opinion) proper reasons for it, would you be tempted to give them a failing grade? ;)

Diane C

10-10-2008, 04:20 PM

I would also like to offload commercial terrestrial TV to Mordor!

Gollum doesn't know the depths of torture & misery until he's watched ITV1 for a day, especially Daytime TV

Lindale

10-10-2008, 07:44 PM

I can second that, Lindale. I also assign Marxist professors who give you a failing grade on a paper just because you disagree with Marxism and are promoting the designs of Capatolism! I assign teachers who indoctrinate you instead of teaching you! :mad:

All the universities in this nation stink! The only good colleges left are the Hillsdale College and the military institutes.

I'll take that as the term-paper-hangover, wherein suddenly philosophers and thinkers you love reading about you just suddenly want to toss into the fiery pits of Mordor because you just hafta articulate things and your interpretations on them.

If you are saying that your professors (I assume you're in US or Europe?) indoctrinate you instead of teaching you, try University of the Philippines, Diliman campus (the other campuses are sissies!). :D A semester would perhaps drive you insane. Our college is notorious for producing the likes of founders-of-Communist-parties and students who would eventually go to the mountains as guerillas against the government, usw. Try googling Jose Ma. Sison, formerly a professor of English. But I also have one professor, and I'm almost tempted to write his name, who does not have a political stance, and it reduced him into a thing-of-the-past, a professor never promoted, despite his good teaching skills and his lifetime ambitions to learn Aramaic (to read the Bible) and to go to the places his heroes Aeneas and Odysseus have been (which I think he already has done).

I for one am not Marxist, but I enjoy reading Marx once in a while. In fact I became so amused with it I actually decided to take German as language elective so that I can read it in its original language.

And now that I've gotten past all my papers and exams, Edward Said and Daddy Karl no longer belong in Mordor! Yay! They'll be back here maybe next semester.

But if you want a Marxist into Mordor, then Althusser. Really large nutcase. I suppose geniuses are all nutcases. Which should relieve me a bit. :D

Lindale

10-12-2008, 08:48 AM

Domestic violence is something assigned to Mordor, no questions asked, no excuses needed. And above all, no traditions blamed--it's tradition for the men to discipline their wives! DV is DV is DV is DV and shall be DV till the end of the world.

Mithennor

10-13-2008, 03:07 PM

hear, hear!! I whole-heatedly agree with you

additionally I also assign:

*sorority girls
*gross stupidity (though I might be repeating myself here)
*country music
*Hannah Montana
*My university's president
*Peppers
*my crazy (abusive) ex b/f
*the mechanic who ruined my alternator.

Feanor of the Peredhil

10-15-2008, 06:33 AM

I assign lit and art theorists and critics.

Because of everything I've ever read (a lot), that which is written by these people is most likely by far to contain untranslated quotes in other languages and alphabets. Seriously, guys? Okay, well, I'm sure that sentence just totally explained everything you've otherwise been trying to tell me, but if you're going to assume your audience speaks/reads English, what with the fact that you're writing your essay or book in English, then WHY are you including untranslated fragments of French and Greek? Because 'it loses something in the translation'? Yeah, well, it loses everything in the lack of translation because if you not only don't know what the words mean but can't even figure out what they words are, you're probably not gleaning a whole lot of meaning. *angst*

Groin Redbeard

10-15-2008, 07:52 AM

I'll take that as the term-paper-hangover, wherein suddenly philosophers and thinkers you love reading about you just suddenly want to toss into the fiery pits of Mordor because you just hafta articulate things and your interpretations on them.
Nay, I don't think it's even necassary to write about Karl Marx in an marketing class! The professor told me to my face that I was "ignorant of the genius of Marx" and that he would not tolerate me writing about a "corrupt" system of marketing! It that's not indoctrination than I would like to know what is.

Yes, you're right Gollum. I was speaking out of frusteration back then and I'm sure that there are lots of great Universities in the America, but private colleges are better. :)

*country musicNot all Country Music I hope,:( just the newer rockier bands.

Lindale

10-15-2008, 09:21 AM

Nay, I don't think it's even necassary to write about Karl Marx in an marketing class! The professor told me to my face that I was "ignorant of the genius of Marx" and that he would not tolerate me writing about a "corrupt" system of marketing! It that's not indoctrination than I would like to know what is.

One cannot deny the "genius" as your prof put it, of Das Kapital. I'm even taking German so I can read it in its original. Having full or nearly-full knowledge of what Marx theorizes about the system of capitalism is not the same as screaming Revolution! Workers of the world unite! Why, if I did that, I'd be destructing myself, being a very small-time "capitalist" (I manage bazaars every Christmas or whenever an occasion presents itself, which is not a very rare thing). Marx gave a very good theory of economics that rivalled Adam Smith with his theory of the invisible hand and the unpredictability of market forces.

Don't worry Groin. Every single day of my life at UP Diliman, I meet red-heads who keep screaming revolution! but who end up deconstructing themselves anyway. It's not only you who's annoyed at those revolutionaries who in fact just dwell in their darling ivory towers. Yay for sembreak!

Gollum the Great

10-15-2008, 02:37 PM

Morthoron

10-15-2008, 03:10 PM

Rock. Anything that has no rhythm or beauty, no worth-while attributes and -when in a generous mood- can best be described as "catching", distracts one from his duty and mocks or plays down upon lawful authority is best for orcs. I can't believe any person with any form of honour would lower himself to listen to that trash.

Hmmm...as far as rock, I wouldn't assign as Mordorion a slap at authority like The Who's 'Won't Get Fooled Again', Dylan's 'Hurricane' or 'Masters of War', Peter Gabriel's 'Biko' or The Clash's 'London Calling' (Mordor is fascistic and despotic by design; ergo, there can be no dissent against authority). Revolt against authority is not Orkish, particularly when authority is often Sauronish itself. As far as rock lacking rhythm, beauty or other attributes, which genre are you referring to, as the term 'rock' encompasses innumerable offshoots and branches?

I would like assign the 2008 Presidential Debates to Mordor. Never have so few said so much about so little. Like the Roman god Janus, the politicians face in opposite directions but are joined at the hip, mutually mouthing specific sound-bytes palatable for their partisan public.

Lalwendë

10-16-2008, 04:56 AM

Diane C

10-16-2008, 05:26 AM

A one-way ticket for Paris Hilton & Jodie Marsh. I think they'll both fit in to their new surroundings in down-town Mordor.

Rikae

10-16-2008, 06:47 AM

Aww, Rune. Maybe after my exam I'll throw Daddy Karl back to Isengard. But not right now. He belongs to Mordor right now. For all his lovely ideas, which I have to study in relation to Said, Bhabba, those people whose names I can't pronounce.

Oh, Bhabha. :rolleyes: Did I mention that some of those "works" I was assigned two weeks ago were written by that lovely fellow? To Mordor with him and all his beloved jargon!
I also assign the practice, on the part of politicians, of attempting to show one's alignment with the ordinary 'folks' by invoking the most insulting and shallow set of stereotypes ever gleaned from network TV... :mad:

Morthoron

10-16-2008, 06:58 AM

I'm happy to go to Mordor though, if my record collection must be sent there - I couldn't live without it! :eek:

That was exactly my thought when reading the offending post, and it was the reason I asked GtG exactly which genre was being referred to. Conversely, I'd like to know which form of music GtG feels is 'correct' as far as having attributes worthwhile enough to save it from the slag heaps of Mordor.

Gwathagor

10-16-2008, 08:23 AM

skip spence

10-16-2008, 08:47 AM

Yeah, rock belongs in the Shire, although I bet an Orc-band out of Mordor could do decent trash metal if only Sauron would allow them but he wouldn't - Sauron hates rock'n'roll!

Country music

Country music I assign to the Shire too, but then I mean real country music, not Garth Brooks and his likes who belongs in Mordor together with lawful authority. Stick it up to the man! :smokin:

Btw, wasn't the pounding, sexually alluring rhythm (and Elvis' pelvic thrusts) the very thing about rock'n'roll that offended 'respectable' people most back in the days?

No rhythm or beauty in rock... *sighs and shakes head*

Lindale

10-16-2008, 08:50 AM

Rock. Anything that has no rhythm or beauty, no worth-while attributes and -when in a generous mood- can best be described as "catching", distracts one from his duty and mocks or plays down upon lawful authority is best for orcs. I can't believe any person with any form of honour would lower himself to listen to that trash.

Gollum, please don't tell me you're including Nightwish or anything like that lovely Finnish group with a lovely Swedish singer in your list. Nah, on second thought, it's metal, isn't it? :Merisu: If you do, the most I can do is tell you, don't listen to rock if you don't like it but don't tell anybody else not to listen to it.

Though if you're referring to MCR or its likes, I wouldn't have a problem, but maybe Volo might.

Maybe there are crapheads out there who listen to rock all day and do nothing else but breathe and bang their heads, but there are also decent people who like rock. In my senior year at high school we used some rock songs to discuss sound.

Oh, Bhabha. Did I mention that some of those "works" I was assigned two weeks ago were written by that lovely fellow? To Mordor with him and all his beloved jargon!

My prof did some "dumbing-down" of Bhabha when we discussed it, relating to postcolonial theory eros and fetishism. It was so fun and made a hell lot of sense, I never bothered to read the original text, but I attempted twice. :D

skip spence

10-16-2008, 09:11 AM

I also assign the practice, on the part of politicians, of attempting to show one's alignment with the ordinary 'folks' by invoking the most insulting and shallow set of stereotypes ever gleaned from network TV... :mad:

But if they didn't, what would happen then? People always complain that politicians lie, scheme, polish everything up and never tell them the whole truth or gives a straight answer to anything. But if a politician once in a while speaks straight from the heart and gives the people a naked truth the media pounces on it and all hell breaks loose. To Mordor I assign the fact that people in general actually want the kind of politicians they get.

Morthoron

10-16-2008, 09:28 AM

But if they didn't, what would happen then? People always complain that politicians lie, scheme, polish everything up and never tell them the whole truth or gives a straight answer to anything. But if a politician once in a while speaks straight from the heart and gives the people a naked truth the media pounces on it and all hell breaks loose. To Mordor I assign the fact that people in general actually want the kind of politicians they get.

Politicians that cater to the lowest common denominator serve the dining public in shallow bowls.

Lindale

10-16-2008, 09:28 AM

But if a politician once in a while speaks straight from the heart and gives the people a naked truth the media pounces on it and all hell breaks loose. To Mordor I assign the fact that people in general actually want the kind of politicians they get.

Oh, would that I see that politician at least once in my lifetime. Though to be fair, I think this guy (http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/inquirerheadlines/nation/view/20080113-111988/Gov-Ed-Panlilio-is-Inquirers-Filipino-of-the-Year-2007) would be close to that. :D

Kath

10-16-2008, 10:26 AM

Fillings. :(

Feanor of the Peredhil

10-16-2008, 10:40 AM

Groin Redbeard

10-16-2008, 10:41 AM

Fillings. :(

I feel your pain. :(

Lindale

10-16-2008, 11:32 AM

Wrongfully assuming your professor wouldn't have papers due two class periods in a row. Realizing your wrong assumption two hours before class... when you haven't even done the reading yet that you're supposed to write about. :(

Yeah, that kinda sucks... when that happens, I feel like committing seppuku already, or just plain jumping from the fourth floor of our building. But worse is when it's a major exam, and you had no idea until two hours before the class--that's the exact moment when I want to just meet Morgy in the Void rather than risk tarnishing my record.

Lalwendë

10-16-2008, 01:54 PM

Though if you're referring to MCR or its likes, I wouldn't have a problem, but maybe Volo might.

All this 'emo' stuff can go to Mordor (it's not 'rock' to me, sorry emo kids) but my Pixies LPs can only go there over my dead body :eek:

I am assigning stupid people at work who ask stupid questions.

Feanor of the Peredhil

10-16-2008, 02:44 PM

I'll defend Metallica like it's my job. Same goes for Opeth. And I've recently fallen completely in love with Dropkick Murphys, so hands off.

Gwathagor

10-16-2008, 02:46 PM

And I've recently fallen completely in love with Dropkick Murphys, so hands off.

As long as you don't try to tell me that they are the heirs apparent to The Pogues.

Peregrin Took

10-16-2008, 04:24 PM

People who do not signal in their cars. Horrendous. Biggest pet peeve. Road Rage Danger.

Feanor of the Peredhil

10-16-2008, 05:06 PM

As long as you don't try to tell me that they are the heirs apparent to The Pogues.

Immortal nature precludes the necessity of heirs.

Lindale

10-16-2008, 06:16 PM

I'll defend Metallica like it's my job. Same goes for Opeth.

Opeth.... *drools* About Metallica, I don't really care too much, never got too much into it, but I can share your sentiment. :D

My, Gollum the Great sure has sparked a lot of replies...

Morthoron

10-16-2008, 06:39 PM

My, Gollum the Great sure has sparked a lot of replies...

That usually occurs when a poster infers that a large number of folks on the forum lack honor.

As long as you don't try to tell me that they are the heirs apparent to The Pogues.

I don't think any one band can be rightly acclaimed Pogue-apparent. There are several Poguelets who have touched on their style: Dropkick Murphys represent the wild side, The Waterboys the more lyric (at least on Fisherman's Blues and Room to Roam), and etc., but the band's style variations are too manifold. Unfortunately, what made the Pogues great is what also led to their demise, or at least to the loss of Shane MacGowan's teeth.

Gwathagor

10-16-2008, 09:23 PM

I don't think any one band can be rightly acclaimed Pogue-apparent.

Certainly not. While I will continue to maintain that The Pogues are inimitable, there are a few bands whch approximate aspects of their style or spirit even more closely than Dropkick Murphys: Josh Lederman Y Los Diablos, The Tossers, and Filthy Thieving Bastards (I'm thinking of this song (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5FrtP3KI-8) in particular). Even Flogging Molly seems more Pogue-like to me than the Dropkicks. I'm not familiar with The Waterboys, though. I should take a gander at them on youtube.

Diane C

10-17-2008, 10:02 AM

The so-called Credit Crunch

Lalaith

10-17-2008, 12:51 PM

Hey, can't you just see Merry and Pippin kicking their heels up to "Sally Maclennane"? :smokin:

As for this bizarre debate about rock...well music is just music. There´s fantastic stuff to be found in every genre. And dreadful stuff. My personal mordor music would range from classical like Boulez (nails down a blackboard) MoR like Celine Dion and (sorry guys) quite a lot of metal which I just don't dig.
But surely it's a question of taste, not honour.

Eönwë

10-17-2008, 03:39 PM

Lindale

10-18-2008, 08:09 AM

I assign to Mordor colorless contact lenses that make it almost impossible for me to know if they're on the right side up. Also, rubbing and storing and all those trouble to maintain them. I never know how others manage to love it. :(

Gollum the Great

10-18-2008, 10:11 PM

A great deal has taken place since I posted.

First of all, when I spoke of no honour, I referred to music (if it can be so called) which included all of the characteristics I mentioned, not necessarily all rock. I do not listen to rock and I have scarcely studied the topic to any degree, and so I am obviously in no position to criticize the whole. What rock I have heard and what I am told of it compels me to avoid it, its very nature is to me repellent (though apparently not to others;)).

Morthoron

10-19-2008, 02:23 AM

First of all, when I spoke of no honour, I referred to music (if it can be so called) which included all of the characteristics I mentioned, not necessarily all rock.

Ummm...no, you directly insulted the people who listen to it, along with the music itself:

I can't believe any person with any form of honour would lower himself to listen to that trash.

Perhaps actually thinking about what you post prior to typing it may prove helpful in the future.

I do not listen to rock and I have scarcely studied the topic to any degree, and so I am obviously in no position to criticize the whole. What rock I have heard and what I am told of it compels me to avoid it, its very nature is to me repellent (though apparently not to others;)).

So, let me get this straight, the rock form has been in existence for over 50 years, but in that time you have failed to notice that there are a strikingly wide array of genres in the form -- perhaps more variations than in any other type of music? Again, I ask what songs or artists you are referring to specifically, and in which monastery are you cloistered?

Rather than this continued ambiguity, I suppose it would be of assistance to the rest of us lower mortals if you would condescend to tell us what music you prefer, because, as a musician myself, I know and have played alongside plenty of classically-trained and/or jazz-influenced artists who would neither make such outrageous statements, nor debate attributes of music without first laying the groundwork for such a discussion with specifics.

Otherwise, your diatribe has little merit.

skip spence

10-19-2008, 03:05 AM

Politicians that cater to the lowest common denominator serve the dining public in shallow bowls.

If the dining public knew what they were eating, would they be able to stomach it I wonder?

Jeez, I just watched a few youtube-videos of Sarah Palin and her ignorance and stupidity shocked me (I haven't payed much attention to the US election so far). Even old GWB comes across as a sharp tool compared to her. It's absurd really, like the worst kind of Disney-movie, having a simple "hockey mum" who probably believes Dinosaurs roamed the earth together with men 6000 years ago running for vice president. I mean, she could be just a heartbeat away from being the President soon enough. :eek:

Lindale

10-19-2008, 08:21 AM

If the dining public knew what they were eating, would they be able to stomach it I wonder?

From my point of view most of us mere mortals we've been doing so for a loooooooooong time. :D Well you Americans must vote properly, as the fate of most little third world states and the rest of the world anyway lie with the nutcases you place in your White House.

Feanor of the Peredhil

10-19-2008, 08:42 AM

Okay, guys: we're getting needlessly offended, and therefore offensive. Everybody is allowed an opinion, and the offending post was qualified later by the writer who said quite clearly that he didn't mean to insult people.

Let's be adults, shall we? And just let it go... Otherwise we risk our Great Beings of Power taking the thread away.

Aganzir

10-19-2008, 09:42 AM

Gollum, please don't tell me you're including Nightwish or anything like that lovely Finnish group with a lovely Swedish singer in your list.
To Mordor with Anette Olzon.
On firing Tarja Nightwish lost all the speciality they ever had - now they're just an ordinary rock band. It was Tarja's voice that made them extraordinary.

As for Sarah Palin (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/uselection2008/sarahpalin/3194405/Sarah-Palin-could-have-been-invented-by-Monty-Python-says-John-Cleese.html)...

I assign getting the worst flu ever on holiday.

Estelyn Telcontar

10-19-2008, 10:21 AM

http://forum.barrowdowns.com/images/chatskwerl.jpg

This thread is on the brink of being off-topic by its very nature. Its quest is even now on the edge of a knife. If it ends up spawning discussions on music, politics or religion, it will definitely be closed. Please express your opinions in a friendly, personal manner, preferably without indicating that others must needs agree with you.

And once more just to make sure everyone understands: NO POLITICS!!! American politics are already overwhelming the news for those of us who (gasp!) live in the rest of the world - and I assure you, there is a rest! Let's keep the Downs politics-free, please!

Oh, and may I take this opportunity to send off-topic discussions that turn personal to Mordor. And politicians who act similarly...

Feanor of the Peredhil

10-21-2008, 12:15 PM

I assign having multiple textbooks for a single class, both of which give conflicting information on the same topic.

Example: my take-home contemporary art history midterm asks who started a certain kind of art-making.

Textbook One says that two men 'pioneered' it in like 1951.

Textbook Two says that a third man was 'the real originator,' and he did it between WWI and his death in 1948.

So if two men pioneered it but a different man was the real originator, which guy do I write down on my very important test as being the correct answer to the question?

:mad:

Inziladun

10-21-2008, 03:02 PM

So if two men pioneered it but a different man was the real originator, which guy do I write down on my very important test as being the correct answer to the question?

It's been a while since I've been an academic test-taker, and I know embarrassingly little about art, but I would say if the question asks who started something, and you are told someone in particular was the "real originator", that person should be the correct answer, since his work was done prior to that done by the "pioneers".

*DISCLAIMER*
Inziladûn shall be exempt from all liability according to local applicable laws if Inziladûn's advice is:
A. Not taken, though it would have been correct.
B. Taken, wildly wrong, and causes substantial turmoil and lifelong agony.

Kath

10-21-2008, 03:22 PM

Or, if it's not a multiple choice thing, write down that so and so says this person but so and so says this person. If you show evidence of outside reading you're more likely to get marks. Then add your own thought on which of those you think is more likely correct (as you say, the originator) and surely that makes an appropriate degree level answer?

Otherwise - it's just one question, revise the stuff with concrete answers? :D