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

Feanor of the Peredhil · 08-15-2007, 06:42 AM

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

Lalaith · 08-15-2007, 12:45 PM

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

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

Finduilas · 08-15-2007, 12:54 PM

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

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

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

Estelyn Telcontar · 08-21-2007, 01:19 PM

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

the guy who be short · 08-22-2007, 04:39 AM

I sympathise, Esty.

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

Clever move.

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

Finduilas · 08-22-2007, 10:09 AM

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

Kath · 08-22-2007, 10:13 AM

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

Lalwendë · 08-23-2007, 07:45 AM

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

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

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

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

Finduilas · 08-23-2007, 09:40 AM

Snapping turtles. They eat ducklings..

the guy who be short · 08-23-2007, 11:52 AM

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

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

Finduilas · 08-23-2007, 12:43 PM

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

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

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

Rikae · 09-04-2007, 10:49 AM

Middle-aged female professors*.

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

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

Elfchick7 · 09-04-2007, 04:09 PM

three hours of trig!!! O_o

Lalwendë · 09-12-2007, 02:32 PM

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

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

Feanor of the Peredhil · 09-22-2007, 04:49 PM

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

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

Annatar · 10-04-2007, 11:28 AM

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

littlemanpoet · 10-06-2007, 06:06 PM

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

Okay, the movies I can understand. But Christmas carols????

Quempel · 10-09-2007, 02:07 PM

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

littlemanpoet · 10-09-2007, 03:45 PM

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

TheGreatElvenWarrior · 10-09-2007, 11:16 PM

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

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

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

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

Ack! Lot's of commercials, get this do that and blah, blah, blah. Especially aimed at teenage girls (ahem), but I don't give into those ads.

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

Hehehe, a couple years ago, there was a kid in my class that was whining that

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I only get $50 dollars a week for my allowance

Heck, I don't even get an allowance. I had to buy my books with babysitting money...

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

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

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

Farael · 10-11-2007, 10:30 PM

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

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

Volo · 10-15-2007, 12:51 PM

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To Mordor with different mobile phone models!

:/

Elfchick7 · 10-15-2007, 12:54 PM

confusing/inconsistent friendships.

Rune Son of Bjarne · 10-24-2007, 04:52 PM

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

littlemanpoet · 10-24-2007, 08:44 PM

Work problems being about people instead of the problems.

Elfchick7 · 10-25-2007, 09:15 AM

Trigonometry

Folwren · 11-06-2007, 09:06 AM

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

littlemanpoet · 11-06-2007, 09:30 AM

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

TheGreatElvenWarrior · 12-08-2007, 02:27 AM

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

Brinniel · 12-13-2007, 01:09 PM

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

08-15-2007, 06:42 AM	#1
Feanor of the Peredhil La Belle Dame sans Merci Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: perpetual uncertainty Posts: 5,517	Doorbells. I probably shouldn't hate them as much as I do, but they always, always ring at the most obnoxious times. __________________ peace

08-15-2007, 12:45 PM	#2
Lalaith Blithe Spirit Join Date: Jan 2003 Posts: 2,779	Staying with mothers who refuse to throw anything out of their fridges, ever...and the fizzy pickled herrings from last Christmas that you accidentally eat from therein....bleugh, bleugh and bleugh again. Note to self....remember to check all sell-by dates on anything that comes from that fridge, before consuming.... __________________ Out went the candle, and we were left darkling

08-21-2007, 01:19 PM	#4
Estelyn Telcontar Princess of Skwerlz Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: where the Sea is eastwards (WtR: 6060 miles) Posts: 7,500	I assign heavy rains that flood basements, thereby providing an evening's entertainment of mopping up the water therein. Maybe the heat in Mordor would dry everything up nicely! __________________ 'Mercy!' cried Gandalf. 'If the giving of information is to be the cure of your inquisitiveness, I shall spend all the rest of my days in answering you. What more do you want to know?' 'The whole history of Middle-earth...'

08-22-2007, 10:09 AM	#6
Finduilas Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Home. Where rolling green hills and clear rivers are practically my backyard. Posts: 595	Mold. Especially when it gets on cool books, like an old atlas, your only greek mythology book, and nature books with awsome pictures. sob __________________ One (1) book of rules and traffic regulations, which may not be bent or broken. ~ The Phantom Tollbooth

08-22-2007, 10:13 AM	#7
Kath Everlasting Whiteness Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Perusing the laminated book of dreams Posts: 4,533	Clouds, cold and the possibility of rain when it's supposed to be summer! Come on weather, I know this is England but you don't have to prove the stereotype. __________________ “If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”

08-22-2007, 04:39 AM	#5
the guy who be short Shadowed Prince Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Thulcandra Posts: 2,343	I sympathise, Esty. Parents: Let's extend the house! Yay! The garage can be moved to the bottom of this big ole slope here. Clever move. I also assign those constant debt adverts on daytime TV. "Hey, you, do you wanna get into EVEN MORE debt? Yeah? Call this number!" And why are they always on kids' TV, anyway? Do kids have debt...?

08-23-2007, 09:40 AM	#9
Finduilas Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Home. Where rolling green hills and clear rivers are practically my backyard. Posts: 595	Snapping turtles. They eat ducklings.. __________________ One (1) book of rules and traffic regulations, which may not be bent or broken. ~ The Phantom Tollbooth

08-23-2007, 11:52 AM	#10
the guy who be short Shadowed Prince Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Thulcandra Posts: 2,343	Erm... I eat ducks. Is that really so bad? (Do not answer if you are Fea). Seeing as I'm here, I should probably assign something lest I be accused of chat... Mispronouncing French words in front of people who know French can go to Mordor. Happened at interviews, happened in front of my ex-teacher... it's just no fun.

09-04-2007, 10:49 AM	#12
Rikae Mellifluous Maia Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: A glade open to the stars, deep in Nan Elmoth Posts: 3,489	Middle-aged female professors. I think, after an hour and a half of sitting in her classroom without a winter coat, I may be suffering from hypothermia... I certainly never looked quite so much like my avatar! no offense - hey, I'll be one myself someday.

09-04-2007, 04:09 PM	#13
Elfchick7 Wight Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: In the Greenwood Posts: 201	three hours of trig!!! O_o __________________ "Yesterday is history. Tommorow is a mystery. Today is a gift from God. That's why it's called the PRESENT!"

09-12-2007, 02:32 PM	#14
Lalwendë A Mere Boggart Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: under the bed Posts: 4,737	I assign constantly feeling ill, hot, in pain, stiff, swollen, brain-dead, grumpy, fed up and scared. Having idealised images shoved down your throat only makes this even more annoying so that you just want to tell the media/health services/do-gooders/just about everyone to clear off... __________________ Gordon's alive!

09-22-2007, 04:49 PM	#15
Feanor of the Peredhil La Belle Dame sans Merci Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: perpetual uncertainty Posts: 5,517	Having completely written an entire paper, looking up the final citation that's supposed to blow away my readers with my brilliance (and finally swing an A from a professor who always gives me Cs)... And discovering that I overlooked one single sentence fragment in the story ("their old debate, and indeed the only debate that ever happened in their country") that completely (and I mean completely) destroys my main support for my thesis. Fourteen words out of like a hundred pages and a third of my paper's trashed. __________________ peace

10-04-2007, 11:28 AM	#16
Annatar Pile O'Bones Join Date: Oct 2007 Posts: 22	I assign the animated LoTR and Hobbit movies to Mordor, as well as Christmas carols. Last edited by Annatar; 10-04-2007 at 11:33 AM.

10-09-2007, 02:07 PM	#18
Quempel Haunting Spirit Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: In a flower Posts: 97	I would assign little yippy yappy dogs, but they are probably already in Mordor. __________________ Lurking behind Uncle Fester

10-09-2007, 03:45 PM	#19
littlemanpoet Itinerant Songster Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: The Edge of Faerie Posts: 7,066	I assign getting a rock thrown at my windshield by one of a pre-teen gang as I drove down a residential street in the inner city. And I suppose I got off lucky with only a cracked windshield.

10-11-2007, 10:30 PM	#21
Farael Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: In hospitals, call rooms and (rarely) my apartment. Posts: 1,538	Rather than "writer's block" I'd like to postulate the "student's block" for a luxury, all expenses paid trip to the cozy fires of Mt. Doom. Yes, the student's block... a term I just coined (though I'm sure it has been said before) for that moment where you feel that if you read just ONE more word about (insert topic of study here) your brain will turn into mush and drip out of your ears. __________________ I prepared Explosive Runes this morning.

10-15-2007, 12:54 PM	#23
Elfchick7 Wight Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: In the Greenwood Posts: 201	confusing/inconsistent friendships. __________________ "Yesterday is history. Tommorow is a mystery. Today is a gift from God. That's why it's called the PRESENT!"

10-24-2007, 08:44 PM	#25
littlemanpoet Itinerant Songster Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: The Edge of Faerie Posts: 7,066	Work problems being about people instead of the problems.

10-25-2007, 09:15 AM	#26
Elfchick7 Wight Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: In the Greenwood Posts: 201	Trigonometry __________________ "Yesterday is history. Tommorow is a mystery. Today is a gift from God. That's why it's called the PRESENT!"

11-06-2007, 09:06 AM	#27
Folwren Messenger of Hope Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: In a tiny, insignificant little town in one of the many States. Posts: 5,076	End of Daylight Savings. When I get home from work, there's less than an hour of daylight left! No good and makes me very cranky when I have to cut my horse training session short. __________________ A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading. - C.S. Lewis

11-06-2007, 09:30 AM	#28
littlemanpoet Itinerant Songster Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: The Edge of Faerie Posts: 7,066	Net-Servers that crash twice in a week, stopping everything dead. Also, I assign trying to stay busy while the server gets fixed so that when it comes back up everything for the rest of the day is breakneck urgent.

12-08-2007, 02:27 AM	#29
TheGreatElvenWarrior Mighty Quill Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Walking off to look for America Posts: 2,230	My horrible friend, who put me in her horrible post about the bestest looking LotR characters.... which of course I was kinda wondering what you guys were thinking about that, but shes the one who wrote it! ROBI!!!!!!!!!! __________________ The Party Doesn't Start Until You're Dead.

12-13-2007, 01:09 PM	#30
Brinniel Reflection of Darkness Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Polishing the stars. Well, somebody has to do it; they're looking a little bit dull. Posts: 2,983	Getting sick during the most critical week of the semester. Having to write a 15 page epic and a 4 page explanation of it by tomorrow morning. It's no fun pulling all-nighters when you're all sniffly and coughing. __________________ Nolite te bastardes carborundorum