What do you assign to Mordor?

[Durelin]

To counter some attacks on the male gender (), I assign living in an all girls suite. Too lacking in testosterone. Yes, I'm serious.

And personally a ruddy big sword has its attraction...

[Feanor of the Peredhil]

Originally Posted by Durelin

And personally a ruddy big sword has its attraction...

I very much agree.

[Lalaith]

I am prepared to make an exception for Alex Kapranos

Ah, but he is clever with it, innit?
I assign guitar solos, as we are on the subject. I have no problem with guitars, men, women or goats playing guitars....but solos are tiresome in the extreme.

But chiefly, and the reason I am here tonight, is to assign finger wounds.
Specifically, slicing savoy cabbage with a very sharp knife while watching Strictly Come Dancing, and cutting right through the thumb and nail, vertically, about half an inch down.
My parents were staying and both are doctors, so I didn't have to go to casualty, they could deal with it on the spot. Bloody lucky really because everyone else in the house was just jumping around going "yuk, ew, argh".
Oh and because there are so many nerve endings in the fingers you go into shock when you wound them. As I did. For most of the evening. *shudder*

[Ibrîniðilpathânezel]

Originally Posted by Lalaith

But chiefly, and the reason I am here tonight, is to assign finger wounds.
Specifically, slicing savoy cabbage with a very sharp knife while watching Strictly Come Dancing, and cutting right through the thumb and nail, vertically, about half an inch down.

Oh, I'll second that one, and third, and fourth it. I did something quite similar a few days before Christmas last year, and it's only the most recent in a series of such incidents between me and instruments with edges. I've sliced off the tip of a finger with a rotary cutter, snipped the webbing between fingers with industrial shears, punched clear through nail and finger with sewing machines at least three times (of course the needle broke on the way back out, not in), had a rusty needle lodge itself until a fingernail while packing up my late mother's sewing supplies... Yes, finger injuries are incredibly painful, and I'm hard put to decide if the pain of the wound was worse than the pain of the novocaine injections on the palm of the hand and between the fingers. I understand your family's feelings of "eewh" quite well. And you were lucky to have skilled help on hand. In the rotary cutter incident, I had to wrap up the hand, clench it into a fist to keep pressure on the wound and hold it over my head while driving one-handed to the emergency room (the nearest of which was about 15 miles away). Maybe it's not such a bad thing that I don't a lot of sewing, these days...

[Nerwen]

Originally Posted by Morthoron

That may be so, but from personal experience I have yet to meet a member of a band who did not have a date after the show.

An aspect which Guitar Hero strangely ignores...

(No, I have never played it, but my cousins do.)

Anyway, I certainly can't complain about the strange attraction us girls have to musicians... otherwise I doubt my parents would have got together at all.

Lalaith and Ibrin.... Owwww. That's all I can say...

[Volo]

Originally Posted by Lalaith

I assign guitar solos, as we are on the subject. I have no problem with guitars, men, women or goats playing guitars....but solos are tiresome in the extreme.

Most, not all. They're risky that way, although not objectively bad.

[Rune Son of Bjarne]

Originally Posted by Volo

Most, not all. They're risky that way, although not objectively bad.

A bit like fantasy books

[Legate of Amon Lanc]

Mindless, conscience-lacking fundamentalism. In all its forms.
A thing that makes even otherwise good people just empty machines without thinking, and if they are to talk, they see just blindly their point and do not wish to allow anything else, just because it would shake their views and opinions, which stand on the grounds too weak to support them actually.

[Gwathagor]

Yes.

[Eönwë]

Originally Posted by Legate of Amon Lanc

Mindless, conscience-lacking fundamentalism. In all its forms.
A thing that makes even otherwise good people just empty machines without thinking, and if they are to talk, they see just blindly their point and do not wish to allow anything else, just because it would shake their views and opinions, which stand on the grounds too weak to support them actually.

I agree.

[Feanor of the Peredhil]

Mistakes that result in my discomfort. My school keeps mistaking my apartment for the one across the hall and yesterday they unnecessarily replaced my showerhead (which was amazing, and could be set to different levels of intensity, and which was my favorite part of my apartment).

And it's not just that they took away my amazing showerhead, they replaced it with one that has only one setting-

And that one single setting feels like being sprayed with boiling sleet! It hurts!

Not happy. No not happy at all.

[TheGreatElvenWarrior]

I assign political parties! I'm so tired of the RabidRepublicans and the DeliriousDemocrats, they drive me INSANE!

[Feanor of the Peredhil]

The temptation to give a 'literary' story a 'genre' ending.

I've been reading too many 1930s pulps, I think... I so badly want the little girl to be all, "Quin, you are my father."

But a move like that will result in my teacher being all "I'm disappointed in you, Laura. You have such a great tone, and such command over storytelling devices, so why did you take such an easy way out in the end?"

Blah blah blah.

Mostly I just assign getting almost entirely through a story and having zero idea how to end it neatly.

[Rune Son of Bjarne]

I assign chosing the wrong sauce for you KFC meal.

[TheGreatElvenWarrior]

Originally Posted by Rune Son of Bjarne

I assign chosing the wrong sauce for you KFC meal.

That is the worst thing that could ever happen?