What do you assign to Mordor?

[Elfchick7]

I assign uncompensated teachers' meeting on Sundays. I also assign Taiwanese parents who refuse to see when their children have serious problems all in the name of saving face.

[TheGreatElvenWarrior]

I assign public schools. I hate them, hate them, HATE THEM!! Where is my wonderful open-optional, student-led, RESPONSIBLE education when I need it the most? Oh right, it's four thousand miles away.

I go from one of the best schools in the country to a school in the state with one of the worst education systems (and, as a result, the worst graduation rate) in the country, and my mother tells me it's just as good as my real school. The nerve.

Take me to a place where the subject being taught wasn't something I learnt in seventh grade. I am a senior in high school, I am more intelligent than this for crying out loud! Stop treating me like an infant!

Okay, rant mode off. But seriously, people, this is a result of the most Mordor-assigning-worthy rubbish that has ever happened in my life, which is too personal to post on the internet, of course.

[Galadriel55]

Switching any school is hard. I have some experience with that - I haven't stayed in a single school so far for over 2 years. Hopefully I won't have to switch my high school, because I really like it. I can see myself putting up tantrums if I'm told that I have to go to a different school. If anything, you have all the right to rant.



I assign fake fire alarm drills. In my school there were two (!) today. We had to stand out in the cold for a half an hour just so that the teachers can see that we know where the doors are. It's stupid and annoying, and I missed part of my favourite class. I was lucky enough to have a sweater on, but some people were only wearing t-shirts.

[Mithalwen]

I'll second that.. I spent a term as an assistant matron (housemother) at a Prep school (ages 7-13). I was on sleep in duty in the Girls boarding house when an alarm went off at 3 am. It wasn't a drill and the urgency to get out was increased for me not only because the sleep in room was in the attic so I had furthest to go but because in addition to the regualar boarders who were all 10 -12 and relatively able to take care of them selves we had due to a family emergency a day girl from the nursery school staying for a few days.

So no sooner was I down the attic steps than the senior matron delivered the sleeping child into my arms and I had to make my way down several flights of stairs and across the gardens to the sports hall. Not easy to maintain one's dignity and modesty with such burden and even a slender 4 year old seems heavy and bulky when they are very sleepy and you have to carry them a distance and you are acutely aware that knee length dressinggown and night shirt don't seem long enough when you are about to join a group of near adolsecent boys,,

After that incident I pretty much took to sleeping in clothes when on sleep in duty which was just as well since I always seemed to get the fire alarms....

[mark12_30]

Tasteless and immoral poetry.

[Kath]

The M25. Nuff said.

[Mithalwen]

London's orbital carpark on a Friday night...been there done that.... fun not...

[Galadriel]

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Originally Posted by Galadriel55

Switching any school is hard. I have some experience with that - I haven't stayed in a single school so far for over 2 years. Hopefully I won't have to switch my high school, because I really like it. I can see myself putting up tantrums if I'm told that I have to go to a different school. If anything, you have all the right to rant.

Ohh, my mum was in the same situation because her dad worked for the army. Must be really hard to keep up with friends I don't know what I'd do in your situation, because I'm quite introverted as it is!

I assign fake fire alarm drills. In my school there were two (!) today. We had to stand out in the cold for a half an hour just so that the teachers can see that we know where the doors are. It's stupid and annoying, and I missed part of my favourite class. I was lucky enough to have a sweater on, but some people were only wearing t-shirts.

There were three real fire alarms within two weeks at college last term :/ One was at 2 a.m.

Edit: Did I mention, someone set our oven on fire?

[Galadriel]

Weekends when you need to finish a ton of work and at the same time spend time with visiting family -_-

Edit: I am going to add: getting nasty shocks when you get back essays from your teachers.

[Andsigil]

I assign to Mordor the dystopic phenomenon of people driving with the bass booming in their cars so loudly you hear it inside your house.

It should be legal to sew these cretins into a sack of angry baboons, and then toss the sack into a tank filled with Congolese river fish.

[TheGreatElvenWarrior]

I assign bratty brothers. My brother threw a tantrum tonight because of ten minutes worth of work. In the process, he ripped my glasses off of my face and hurled them to the floor almost breaking them. He has anger management problems, and he can be seriously injurious in his fits of passion. I just don't know what to do about it besides retaliating with more violence.

[Galadriel55]

The book I was reading fell into a full bathtub yesterday.

A Feast For Crows was sacrificed in an offering to the Drowned God. But after the fan gave it the kiss of life it became kinda usable again, except that it feels weird. The pages don't feel like proper pages anymore.

[Aganzir]

Originally Posted by Galadriel55

The book I was reading fell into a full bathtub yesterday.

A Feast For Crows was sacrificed in an offering to the Drowned God. But after the fan gave it the kiss of life it became kinda usable again, except that it feels weird. The pages don't feel like proper pages anymore.

I seem to have repped you too recently to do it now, but know that your post made me laugh.

[Boromir88]

Originally Posted by Aganzir

I seem to have repped you too recently to do it now, but know that your post made me laugh.

Seconded. Considering I'm about to start Feast of Crows too

[Lalwendë]

Originally Posted by Galadriel55

The book I was reading fell into a full bathtub yesterday.

A Feast For Crows was sacrificed in an offering to the Drowned God. But after the fan gave it the kiss of life it became kinda usable again, except that it feels weird. The pages don't feel like proper pages anymore.

Listen. Way back in 1985 I was reading the Humphrey Carpenter bio of Tolkien in bed while enjoying a nice glass of warm Ribena and I spilled it all over my book. I was pretty upset about the book being forever stained purple but I was more worried about my mum going up the wall at the fact I'd been lying around in bed and spilling blackcurrant all over the sheets. So think yourself lucky

Anyway, I came here to assign bus stop offenders. The ones who stand in front of you when you're waiting for the bus so your view is obscured and you miss the bus. And the ones who sit on the middle of the bus shelter seat so nobody else can sit down and they all have to huddle at the far end while madam luxuriates in having the whole bench to herself. And the ones who will not stand within ten feet of another person, so you get to a bus shelter that should cover fifteen people but one person needs so much personal space that everyone is rammed together in the three feet of space that Princess Touch Me Not allows them.

Of course, this would all be solved if I was not British and consumed with queue etiquette anxiety.

[Rune Son of Bjarne]

Did I mention that in the summer almost all cellars in Copenhagen got flooded, I still had a few boxes down there (stored item that I did not bring with me to England).

Obviously it was the heavy stuff that was left. . . Heavy = Book/and comic books.

I lost for at least £800 worth, including the Luis Bermejo comic-book version of The Fellowship. . .

I know this is old news, but all this talk of wet books reminded me of the terrible event.

[Pomegranate]

Ha, bath tubs and books remind me of the time, almost ten years ago, when I was a happy little child and had just gotten the hold of a book that would practically change my life (sounds pathetic, but in fact, scarily true), The Lord Of The Rings. My excited self didn't put it down for the week or two it took me to read it, and this did include a trip to a bath. So my dear, dear copy of the book is from midway down double the thickness it is from midway up :/

And I came back to campus less than a week ago, first fire alarm was already before the lectures started and the second was about two days ago. All these new exchange student kids who don't know how to cook.

That is, catered schools that send their students abroad to learn life, and bathtubs, to Mordor with them!

[Galadriel55]

Originally Posted by Lalwendë

Listen. Way back in 1985 I was reading the Humphrey Carpenter bio of Tolkien in bed while enjoying a nice glass of warm Ribena and I spilled it all over my book. I was pretty upset about the book being forever stained purple but I was more worried about my mum going up the wall at the fact I'd been lying around in bed and spilling blackcurrant all over the sheets. So think yourself lucky

My story is mild compared to yours.

And that reminds me of the copy of The Sil in my school library. It has a huge sticky brown stain on the back cover that seeped through the last pages. I don't know when or how it got there, but the possibilities are endless. Imagine the story that would make!

[Legolas]

School loan-related debt. Every penny of it.

[Galadriel]

Originally Posted by Galadriel55

The book I was reading fell into a full bathtub yesterday.

Wasting beautiful water? Naughty, naughty!

Just kidding

[Galadriel]

Annoying words that stick in your head and DON'T go away. I'm learning beginner's Italian, and one of the first words I learned was 'il cocktail'. I want to bash myself over the head with a frying-pan because I can't get it out of my skull

[Galadriel55]

Originally Posted by Galadriel

Annoying words that stick in your head and DON'T go away.

Ooohhh, I so agree. I always have something stuck in my head. Sometimes it's a song, sometimes a random sentence, and sometimes an even more random word. It just repeats itself over and over again.

Just now I have the word "juxtaposition" bouncing off the walls of my skull. I have no idea why.

Originally Posted by Galadriel

Wasting beautiful water? Naughty, naughty!

Befouling it with ink and paper.

[Galadriel]

Originally Posted by Galadriel55

Befouling it with ink and paper.

*Le gasp!*

[Rikae]

I assign World of Warcraft to Mordor - let Sauron deal with Deathwing. Oh, and on a totally unrelated note, I also assign my half a year or so absence from the 'downs.

[Galadriel55]

I assign French spelling. Seriously, if you want to say "boku", don't write "b-e-a-u-c-o-u-p". And that's not even the worst of it - there's about an infinity of letter combinations that make "eh" sounds. If you want to say ey, so write ey, don't write é, et, es, est, er, ez, ai, ais, ait, aient,, some more that don't come to mind right now, and, worst of all, eaient! Why so many ways to pronounce the same sound, or almost the same sound? Waste of letters.

/rant out.

Also, accents. Never got the point of having so many. Can't even tell the difference between them: é è ê ë, they're all just eh to me. Though Ëonwë would probably disagree with me on this one.

[Galadriel]

I assign hypocrites and abandoners. Gosh, I sure do feel like Fëanor at Alqualondë right now!

[Galadriel]

I also assign stress.

[Galadriel55]

I assign disorganised teachers that make you stay afterschool to make up a test and then forget to leave a test for you.

[Boromir88]

unconsciously leaving your deodorant in the refrigerator all night.

Not that it's awful, but I'm concerned of how mindless you have to be leaving objects in the fridge...that shouldn't go there. Car keys and remotes are one thing...but your deodorant? I'm scared.

[Galadriel55]

Aw, Boro, at least the fridge smells nice...

Leaving objects in the weirdest places is just like me. I do worse things, sometimes; I look for objects that I'm holding in my hand. I do that all the time, and it's the most annoying time-wasting thing to do. And it's also embarassing when you can't find something in class and start panicking and asking around, and after everyone says apologetically that they haven't seen it you realise that you're already holding it...

I also assign my sister's habit of dumping books where she reads them. She reads no more than 3 at a time, yet the kitchen, the living room, the car, her bedroom, and even some closets are littered with her books. Moreover, when she reads she bends the spine. Wherever I go I see ugly bent up books. She started reading the Felloship about half a year ago, but she doesn't know where it is now. To look for it I'd have to turn over the entire house. No wonder she lost it!

[Lalwendë]

Spine bending should go to Mordor, definitely. Sometimes, a spine gets damaged over time, you can't help that, but to do it deliberately makes me wince. I used to scan books for the guy I used to work with (he is blind) and of course paperbacks had to be broken in order to go on the scanner. He used to laugh at me wincing and break them for me first - I had to go and make a pot of tea while he did it. On the other hand, my brother used to go mad when I borrowed his Tolkien books in case I damaged them, and my mum had to make sure we had a set each - they still ended up bashed and broken though. It's a sad life, being a paperback book.

[Oddwen]

Originally Posted by Boromir88

unconsciously leaving your deodorant in the refrigerator all night.

Not that it's awful, but I'm concerned of how mindless you have to be leaving objects in the fridge...that shouldn't go there. Car keys and remotes are one thing...but your deodorant? I'm scared.

I've never had mine in the fridge, but I've used cold deodorant before and it isn't pleasant.

[Bêthberry]

Originally Posted by Oddwen

I've never had mine in the fridge, but I've used cold deodorant before and it isn't pleasant.

Makes me wonder what Boro did with the beer.

[Galadriel55]

I assign daylight savings time. Vile, vile thing. Just leave the time alone, will you? It works well enough without people muddling with it. Europeans have it the right way. DOWN DOWN WITH DST!