What do you assign to Mordor? - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

Lathriel · 09-04-2005, 06:04 PM

and VIRUSES

Feanor of the Peredhil · 09-04-2005, 09:18 PM

Idiotic bees. I can understand a bee stinging you if it flies near and you hit at it and act frenzied and spastic. I can understand a bee stinging you if you step on it barefoot or something of that sort.

What I can't understand is why it had to randomly fly into me, panic, and sting me in the wrist. In the very spot that I rest on the desk as I write. In the very spot that is driving me mad with a very vague itch/ache as a result.

I'm developing a strong dislike of bees simply because of this Fool of a Bee that couldn't see the much larger than itself obstruction in it's path.

Kath · 09-05-2005, 07:39 AM

UCAS applications. In fact everything to do with trying to figure out where to go to University and all the stupid form filling you have to do. Personal statements are the work of Sauron ad should be thrown into the Crack of Doom, as should online forms because I can't figure out what I've written and what I have left to do.

So maybe I should just send myself to Mordor, then no more worries!

Feanor of the Peredhil · 09-05-2005, 07:46 AM

Collegiate insomnia. How can it be that a group's best intentions of going to bed at 10:30 have them out until 11:00, doing homework until 12:30, talking until 1:30, and finally falling asleep just in time to catch maybe six hours of winks before breakfast and class?

VanimaEdhel · 09-06-2005, 02:04 PM

Hence why I decided not to go to the frat party I was invited to last night, Fea. You should know better! The best-laid sleeping plans always go awry in regards to sleeping if you're out during college. Meanwhile, I did go to bed at 10:30. The phone call from a friend at about 1 a.m. wasn't my fault.

But I do assign general heat to Mordor. I much prefer being a little cold and having to cover myself than being hot, down to a tank top, and having nowhere to go from there. Guess it's good I'm going to college here in New England, then.

Lalwendë · 09-08-2005, 07:46 AM

I hereby send to Mordor the witch who sits at the other side of my office. She has an 'issue' with the fact that on our side we like the flourescent lighting switched off and takes delight in blatantly ignoring the names on the light switches and blasting us with evil, flickering, headache-inducing yellow light. I have therefore taken the step today of ringing the building's electrician and having the offending lights permanently switched off. *evil grin* And she has a laugh like a Warg.

Lyta_Underhill · 09-08-2005, 08:19 AM

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Besides, suppose a group of Mordor assignees had to hold a conversation through the mangled translation service...

Hahahaha! This brings to mind all sorts of things! Mainly the experience of the hobbits with Orcs. Pippin is surprised he can understand their speech at one point, mainly because orcs speak so many different dialects that they have to use the Common Speech when talking to each other. If only there were such a common speech in today's world... I imagine it would be either English (which thankfully I already know) or Chinese (that'd take a thousand years, although I can say "Good morning.")

All this babble about Babel--an amusing incident also comes to mind about a convention where two girls met and one spoke only Japanese and Klingon. The other English and Klingon. The two conversed in Klingon! (I think I should assign common language to the Shire, though...)

Or thanking God that all the people that worked in your graduate lab spoke English, even though they were from Japan, Korea and Africa! The postgraduate lab was populated by a Chinese man (who had an extremely good sense of humor!) and an East Indian, but they spoke English too...I was so blessed! But now I don't work in a lab...

Anyway the point to all that must have been the frustrating nature of having no common language, and yes, sometimes I wish the babble would go to Mordor!

I don't know if this has been mentioned, but I often wish "political correctness" would head on off to the Shadowland, because it seems that is where it came from!

Oh yes, in parting, People who believe that they are the only important beings in the universe and who subsequently walk all over me, and the social conventions that say I must endure it with politeness.

Cheers!
Lyta

09-04-2005, 06:04 PM	#1
Lathriel Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Wandering through Middle-Earth (Sadly in Alberta and not ME) Posts: 612	and VIRUSES __________________ Back again

09-04-2005, 09:18 PM	#2
Feanor of the Peredhil La Belle Dame sans Merci Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: perpetual uncertainty Posts: 5,517	Idiotic bees. I can understand a bee stinging you if it flies near and you hit at it and act frenzied and spastic. I can understand a bee stinging you if you step on it barefoot or something of that sort. What I can't understand is why it had to randomly fly into me, panic, and sting me in the wrist. In the very spot that I rest on the desk as I write. In the very spot that is driving me mad with a very vague itch/ache as a result. I'm developing a strong dislike of bees simply because of this Fool of a Bee that couldn't see the much larger than itself obstruction in it's path. __________________ peace

09-05-2005, 07:39 AM	#3
Kath Everlasting Whiteness Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Perusing the laminated book of dreams Posts: 4,533	UCAS applications. In fact everything to do with trying to figure out where to go to University and all the stupid form filling you have to do. Personal statements are the work of Sauron ad should be thrown into the Crack of Doom, as should online forms because I can't figure out what I've written and what I have left to do. So maybe I should just send myself to Mordor, then no more worries! __________________ “If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”

09-05-2005, 07:46 AM	#4
Feanor of the Peredhil La Belle Dame sans Merci Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: perpetual uncertainty Posts: 5,517	Collegiate insomnia. How can it be that a group's best intentions of going to bed at 10:30 have them out until 11:00, doing homework until 12:30, talking until 1:30, and finally falling asleep just in time to catch maybe six hours of winks before breakfast and class? __________________ peace

09-06-2005, 02:04 PM	#5
VanimaEdhel Etheral Enchantress Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Wellesley College! Posts: 1,461	Hence why I decided not to go to the frat party I was invited to last night, Fea. You should know better! The best-laid sleeping plans always go awry in regards to sleeping if you're out during college. Meanwhile, I did go to bed at 10:30. The phone call from a friend at about 1 a.m. wasn't my fault. But I do assign general heat to Mordor. I much prefer being a little cold and having to cover myself than being hot, down to a tank top, and having nowhere to go from there. Guess it's good I'm going to college here in New England, then. __________________ "I think we dream so we don't have to be apart so long. If we're in each others dreams, we can be together all the time." - Hobbes of Calvin and Hobbes

09-08-2005, 07:46 AM	#6
Lalwendë A Mere Boggart Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: under the bed Posts: 4,737	I hereby send to Mordor the witch who sits at the other side of my office. She has an 'issue' with the fact that on our side we like the flourescent lighting switched off and takes delight in blatantly ignoring the names on the light switches and blasting us with evil, flickering, headache-inducing yellow light. I have therefore taken the step today of ringing the building's electrician and having the offending lights permanently switched off. evil grin And she has a laugh like a Warg. __________________ Gordon's alive!