What do you assign to Mordor?

[Feanor of the Peredhil]

Originally Posted by Dimturiel

You are so right, Kath! And I also wish to send straight to Mordor those that make fun of you and find the fact that you are gasping for breath very amusing.

With them can go the idiotic Phys. Ed. teachers that have had you as a student for years and yet, as you're trying to explain that your other teacher (the one who witnessed it) told you that under no circumstances were you to continue trying to run a mile outdoors in the June sun after you had an asthma attack (without an inhaler!) half way through, she tells you that you are simply being obstinant for walking back. What an idiot.

But to follow that much as a brick would not is going to work in a hundred degree greenhouse twenty minutes later.

And hovering parents. The kind that want to know exactly what you're doing online. So they stand behind you and watch.

[the guy who be short]

But to follow that much as a brick would not is going to work in a hundred degree greenhouse twenty minutes later.

Living in Britain, I thought you means Centigrade for an instant. Amusing mental image of a melted Feanor.

In response to Kath and Fea - All parents, from adolescence to an age we haven't quite reached yet, should go to Mordor. They can come back once our hormones make us like them again.

Am I allowed to do return tickets?

[Feanor of the Peredhil]

Eighteen isn't the age where you start to like them again? Must be not, since I bickered with my mom this morning, flip out at my dad every two days or so, and can't wait to go to school where they can't keep an eye on me and fret when I don't get home until (God forbid) 8:30.

[Kath]

Fea I'm beginning to think there's some kind of connection between us here because your experiences both with idiotic PE teachers who do not seem to get the concept of asthma and parents who do not get the concept of not being neurotic are practically identical to my own. Except that my mother is slightly worse having had a panic attack when I wasn't home by 6!

Oh and the reading over your shoulder thing? They do that when I'm on MSN, having private conversations. I of course can't listen in while they're on the phone so how is that entirely fair may I ask?

[Feanor of the Peredhil]

Yes, but I was out with my brother. Going to see a movie. It's not like I was out with some untrustworthy axe-murderer. *sigh*

Axe-murderes, though uncommon, can also go to Mordor. Surely they'd brighten the scene.

EDIT: Just like with AIM. "That window is flashing. Why don't you click on it?" *cough* "Because dad, I'm moping to my best friend near midnight about my relationship troubles and I don't want you to see." *another long-suffering sigh*

[Holbytlass]

Originally Posted by the guy who be short

In response to Kath and Fea - All parents, from adolescence to an age we haven't quite reached yet, should go to Mordor. They can come back once our hormones make us like them again.

Thank you, I need a vacation!! School won't start for my children for another week!!

Originally Posted by SpM

Off to Mordor with offspring who don't fully understand the difficulties of being a parent, or that part of being a parent is a constant, never-ending and sometimes irrational worry over their children, or that when they seem to be spoiling your fun they usually only have your best interests at heart ...

Of course, they don't understand.

Originally Posted by Feanor

:And off to Mordor with adults who seem to think that moody teenagers are going to care one whit about the difficulties of being a parent. If they didn't want to worry endlessly, they shouldn't have had kids.

Then I curse/bless you, Feanor, with at least one of thine own issue (in good time) so that you can experience the indescribable feeling of loving someone so much, more than any other person including your own parents, that you would live for them, die for them, even perhaps kill for them but above all else make (what appears to) them miserable in the short-run so they can be happy and alive in the long-run.

Originally Posted by Kath

Since we're on the subject, I would like to send any adult that thinks any negative thought a teenager has is due to hormones and just being moody rather than considering even for a second that said teenager might have a reason for this negativity past that of their age.

Of course it's hormones! You forget, we were once teenagers, too!


I send to Mordor: S.O.L's Standard Of Learning tests, that pigeon-hole children's intellect and enslave teachers to teach "to the test" rather than important things.

[Feanor of the Peredhil]

Originally Posted by Holbytlass

Of course it's hormones! You forget, we were once teenagers, too!

I don't believe it. If our parents ever truly were the teens they claim to be, they would remember that we aren't always wrong, and even if we are, to let us learn from our mistakes instead of carefully banning us from making any and then getting mad when we do.

You know... I can so vividly imagine teenagers and parents warring in Mordor.

Oh, you know what else goes there? That dreadful phrase I'm sure every teen here has heard:

"You are judged by the company you keep."

Just because some of my best friends in high school were stoners doesn't mean I'm one, and it doesn't make them bad people. Some of the best friends I've had are labelled sketchy by "those who love me".

Oh, and also people who think that a Straight Edge lifestyle means you've got a gang mentality and are willing to beat the tar out of people who follow the opposite sort of life.

[the guy who be short]

Originally Posted by Fea Halfelven

That dreadful phrase I'm sure every teen here has heard:

"You are judged by the company you keep."

Ugh, I know. That phrase infuriates me. Unfortunately, my vocabulary seems to have gone out the window (it is very hot) so I won't speculate further on the idiocy of that particular teacher.

Heatwaves go to Mordor. As do Coldwaves, or whatever normal people call them.

Oh, and Fea, I believe you'll only be able to carry one person back... *Delights at the expression of hopeless horror on Fea's face*

[The Saucepan Man]

So we are sending to Mordor those who act out of a genuine sense of love, devotion and duty simply because, on occasion, they can get it wrong, even though nobody (no, not even those who are parents) is able to exercise perfect judgment and get things right 100% of the time?

On my reading of LotR, that seems rather back to front to me ...

Perhaps we should just send all teenagers to Mordor for a limited period so that their parents may take a well-earned break. As TGWBS pointed out, Brat Camp is already there to take care of the most troublesome of them. And the variety of teachers, school subjects, tests and exams that have been sent there will keep the remainder occupied.

[Kath]

Or maybe we should send all parents to Mordor. That way they can have a break from their kids but said kids don't have to spend their time there!

[The Saucepan Man]

Originally Posted by Kath

Or maybe we should send all parents to Mordor. That way they can have a break from their kids but said kids don't have to spend their time there!

I refer you to my earlier answer (#305).

Tsk! I don't know! Typical teenagers. Always answering back their elders and betters ...

*ducks barrage of hormone-fuelled missiles*

[littlemanpoet]

Originally Posted by Feanor of the Peredhil

And hovering parents. The kind that want to know exactly what you're doing online. So they stand behind you and watch.

Did you type that while they were watching?

[The Saucepan Man]

Off to Mordor with offspring who don't fully understand the difficulties of being a parent, or that part of being a parent is a constant, never-ending and sometimes irrational worry over their children, or that when they seem to be spoiling your fun they usually only have your best interests at heart ...

[wilwarin538]

Braces can go to Mordor, I want to have nice pretty teeth, but they're so uncomfortable.

Rap music.....I hate rap music, to Mordor you go.

Bar chords...hardest notes to play on the guitar, go join the rap music.

Notice how this thread lasted longer then the "What do you assign to the Shire" thread? This is a good place to rant.

Having my four worst subjects all in the same sumester can go to Mordor.

Having my best friend change schools cause he's out of the school district can go to Mordor. (I'll miss ya Glirdy )

I'm done....for now.

[Feanor of the Peredhil]

Originally Posted by The Saucepan Man

Off to Mordor with offspring who don't fully understand the difficulties of being a parent

And off to Mordor with adults who seem to think that moody teenagers are going to care one whit about the difficulties of being a parent. If they didn't want to worry endlessly, they shouldn't have had kids.

[Eomer of the Rohirrim]

This argument is quite ridiculous and I suspect you both realise it. The solution should be obvious to all: Both parents and children must be sent to Mordor, for the benefit of me.

But I'm noticing that quite a few things I like are being sent to Mordor. It's probably easier if I just go.

For the record, I've still not been sent to Mordor (compare that with Saucepan and certain others who have been sent dozens of times). Ah! I'm so desirable...

Anyone else still happily unharrassed in the Shire?

[the guy who be short]

Anyone else still happily unharrassed in the Shire?

I assign Eomer of the Rohirrim to Mordor. Just to see if he has more fangirls than Johnny Depp.

[wilwarin538]

I assign Eomer of the Rohirrim to Mordor. Just to see if he has more fangirls than Johnny Depp.

Its probably a tie, or atleast I hope so.

I send CaptainofDespair to Mordor, for sending Johnny Depp to Mordor.