What do you assign to Mordor?

[Mithalwen]

Originally Posted by Lalwendë

I assign Capitalism because it's caused a certain bank takeover which is making us worry about the certainty of our household income.

But without capitalism I wouldn't have an income at all....we can't all work in the public sector....

[Feanor of the Peredhil]

When the people you live with are all mad at each other. Not just "she forgot to do the dishes AGAIN." Door slamming nobody's talking to each other tangible angst mad.

[Kath]

Stupid, evil, rubbish Firefox. I downloaded it last night because I wanted to watch a film and I had to download some codec that only worked with Firefox etc, etc, and now I've got viruses and trojans and security alerts popping up left, right and centre which had never happened before. It's driving me insane. Anything I do to try and make it better only asks me for money ... think it might be time for a trip to the computer shop.

[Feanor of the Peredhil]

Originally Posted by Kath

Stupid, evil, rubbish Firefox.

That's so strange... I've used Firefox almost exclusively for the past several years and I've never had anything of the like occur.

[Kath]

That's so strange... I've used Firefox almost exclusively for the past several years and I've never had anything of the like occur.

Well I wish I had your good luck with it! I don't even know why I did something so stupid. I saw what having that programme did to my sister's computer and yet still thought it was a good idea to put it on my own.

[Lindale]

Originally Posted by Kath

Stupid, evil, rubbish Firefox.

You know, after I downloaded FF3, my AVG-Free has caught a damn lot of trojans. And I'm too poor to buy any real antivirus, oh! I just make it a habit to save all my papers in my Yahoo mail, because the important files in my computer are just my papers and my pictures.

[Kath]

Yeah everything I couldn't stand to lose is on a memory stick as of last night so I just have to keep that safe now! It's all so irritating though, and to get it fixed is going to cost me money I do not have - so onto the list of things going to Mordor can go being unable to find a job!

[Lindale]

I assign those little pimples that grow right on the nostril. Hurts all the time, no matter how small they are.

[Feanor of the Peredhil]

Writer's block and every fool who says it isn't a real affliction.

[A Little Green]

Since no other Finn has done it yet, I'll have to assign the fact that twisted young men keep shooting innocent people for no apparent reason.

[The Elf-warrior]

I second your assignment, A Little Green.

On a far less somber note, I assign spilling whiteout just before work to Mordor. It's very difficult to clean up. I still have some traces of it on my finger.

[Lindale]

Originally Posted by A Little Green

Since no other Finn has done it yet, I'll have to assign the fact that twisted young men keep shooting innocent people for no apparent reason.

that is something rather universal. There are a lot of cover-ups done here about young men and gang-wars in places like Tondo, Manila.

I assign the typhoon Ofel that has made my internet connection crappy, and brought about a brief flashflood and heavy rains just the exact moment I was in line waiting for the jeep home.

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Since no other Finn has done it yet, I'll have to assign the fact that twisted young men keep shooting innocent people for no apparent reason.

Apart from the actual deed, which chills me to the bone, I also assign the media coverage of the event to Mordor. By presenting the guy´s own images posing with a gun etc. he gets exactly what he wanted (or at least what I imagine he wanted): fame and front page coverage. For once he is in the limelight and the one everybody is talking about, a thought which is a revenge of sorts I guess in his twisted mind - I imagine him as a disregarded loner.

Although he won´t get to enjoy being famous this sort of media coverage will only make similar insane deeds more likely in the future. Whatever happened to serious journalism?

I also assign faceless bureaucracy to Mordor along with the heavy hand of law striking down on people not deserving it.

On a lighter note I also assign moving to Mordor, and then I mean the process of moving - especially cleaning your old place up - and not moving into a nicer, bigger place with belongs in the Shire.

[Thinlómien]

Greenie & skip, I totally agree with you.
I'd also like to assign studying, or alternatively, being tired of studying...

[Lindale]

I assign the impending hell week and the mountains of papers and examinations it brings about. And on my birthday I have two exams and a paper due. Off to Mordor! The papers and the exams and the sadistic professors! Bwahaha!

[Rikae]

Well, like I said, German grammar belongs to Mordor - or at least the cases do. Not the language as a whole by any means, but I'm convinced Germans make up their grammar as they go along.

Also to Mordor:
weighing 60lbs more than you're supposed to, waking up at 4 am every day, heartburn, having blood drawn all the time, and other 3rd trimester fun....

buying a new, expensive pair of shoes for your daughter to wear to school and having her lose them two weeks later...

realistic paper butterfly mobiles brought home from school and hung in the kitchen of someone with severe Lepidopterophobia ... I'd take it down, but I'm afraid to touch it...

and student loans that only come halfway through the semester!

[Lalwendë]

Originally Posted by Rikae

Well, like I said, German grammar belongs to Mordor - or at least the cases do. Not the language as a whole by any means, but I'm convinced Germans make up their grammar as they go along.

Also to Mordor:
weighing 60lbs more than you're supposed to, waking up at 4 am every day, heartburn, having blood drawn all the time, and other 3rd trimester fun....

Oh I can sympathise with that one. I wasn't one of these floaty yoga mums playing whale song to the 'bump', I was more the sort who sat in a flustered heap on the sofa going "Bring me more crunchy nut cornflakes and quickly!"

[Rikae]

Originally Posted by Lalwendë

floaty yoga mums playing whale song to the 'bump'

I feel like I should probably be able to sing the whale song myself.

*struggles to get off the beach... er, out of her chair*

Hmm... crunchy nut cornflakes. I wonder if we have those here -

[Rikae]

Double posting in this thread is sad, I know, but I have to assign the professor who told us three weeks ago we needed to write three responses to each "work" by today, and only clarified yesterday that, in his version of the English language, "work" means chapter, not book.


*types frantically*

[Lalwendë]

Originally Posted by Rikae

I feel like I should probably be able to sing the whale song myself.

*struggles to get off the beach... er, out of her chair*

Hmm... crunchy nut cornflakes. I wonder if we have those here -

Be warned, over consumption of crunchy nut cornflakes and ice cold milk (and probably also green tea, haribos and mango - I normally hate mango, why?) results in 11lb 4oz babies.

[Lindale]

Originally Posted by Rikae

Well, like I said, German grammar belongs to Mordor - or at least the cases do. Not the language as a whole by any means, but I'm convinced Germans make up their grammar as they go along.

I don't yet assign German cases to Mordor, but I assign gender. Makes me go crazy and wish to whack my professor with a broken chair leg. Which reminds me, our final exam on my level-2 German is bis morgen früh... scary.

I assign to Mordor that librarian and the photocopier at the College of Music today, who refused to entertain me despite being first in line just because I come from the Arts and Letters, letting the students of CoM first just because they're wonderful performers or such... maybe I should suggest that in our library and photocopy center we ban altogether students from the CoM?

[Mithalwen]

Seasonal affective disorder... It is pouring with rain, I feel miserable, my bones ache, I am comfort eating and my hair is doing that scary curly thing it does in reaction to rainwater. Oh yes and I have just sighted the first mince pies of the season.

Please can I hibernate? Or emigrate... just to get away from the endless damp greyness of an English winter and shops starting Christmas on 1st October.

[Eönwë]

Endless dark grey skies, interspersed with rain.

edit: I somehow managed to cross-post with Mith- don't ask me how

[Aganzir]

Being constantly tired despite sleeping more than enough.

Cramps.

Mood swings.

[Legate of Amon Lanc]

Originally Posted by Aganzir

Being constantly tired despite sleeping more than enough.

I assign not being tired despite not sleeping enough, and consequently, being tired at the moments when it's not appropriate.

[Thinlómien]

Originally Posted by Aganzir

Mood swings.

I have a horrible urge to post something like "Agan's mood swings" but that would be rather evil, wouldn't it? (Besides, assigning them to Mordor would be overreacting for my part...)

I would like to assign being increasingly slow in getting things done. It's both laziness and a sort of perfectionism - it's a dreadful combination, really.

[Lindale]

Being born a girl (well, just today, and maybe this time next month).

An exam on post-colonial critical theory on my birthday, precious!

Two big papers due the day after my birthday. My, I wish to be Gollum tomorrow and strangle my professors and hack their accounts so that I can just write a 1.0 on my transcript.

And the fact that I couldn't overdose on coffee because of my hyperacidity. Now, of all times that I need to stay awake despite the boringness of Edward Said! Oh, all of you off to Mordor!

[mark12_30]

Losssssst thingsssssessssss. Ssssssssssssssssss.

[Eönwë]

Having a cold that's not serious enough to count as "sick"/"ill" but still is horrible and causes headaches and light-headedness. For 3 weeks. More annoying than anything else.

[Lindale]

Originally Posted by Eönwë

Having a bad cold that's not serious enough to count as "sick"/"ill" but still is horrible and causes headaches and light-headedness. For 3 weeks.

Shouldn't you be seeking help now, Eonwe?

I assign Edward Said for starting Orientalism, to Mordor, and may he rot there for all eternity. Throw in Daddy Karl (Marx) as well. And all those intellectuals, who are the cause of my pain.

[Rune Son of Bjarne]

Originally Posted by Lindale

I assign Edward Said for starting Orientalism, to Mordor, and may he rot there for all eternity. Throw in Daddy Karl (Marx) as well. And all those intellectuals, who are the cause of my pain.

That just hurts

[Lindale]

Originally Posted by Rune Son of Bjarne

That just hurts

Aww, Rune. Maybe after my exam I'll throw Daddy Karl back to Isengard. But not right now. He belongs to Mordor right now. For all his lovely ideas, which I have to study in relation to Said, Bhabba, those people whose names I can't pronounce.

[Feanor of the Peredhil]

Having to get up and function when you'd rather be lingering in your very warm and invited bed, enjoying that hazy delirious quality tangentially associated with napping.

[Aganzir]

Originally Posted by Thinlómien

I have a horrible urge to post something like "Agan's mood swings" but that would be rather evil, wouldn't it?

Yes. I would hate you for the rest of my life.

Originally Posted by Lindale

Being born a girl (well, just today, and maybe this time next month).

Only "this time next month"?
Add there PMS when you're angry, moody and annoyed with everything and everyone twice as much as you would normally be for about two weeks a month. Hey, that's half my life!

[Lindale]

Originally Posted by Aganzir

Only "this time next month"?
Add there PMS when you're angry, moody and annoyed with everything and everyone twice as much as you would normally be for about two weeks a month. Hey, that's half my life!

Unfortunately the family and the boyfriend say that I am able to contain my being evil during these... periods. That, or I am just evil all my life. Bwahaha.

I assign to Mordor my own mother not remembering our birthday, preciousss.

[Mithalwen]

Originally Posted by Aganzir

Only "this time next month"?
Add there PMS when you're angry, moody and annoyed with everything and everyone twice as much as you would normally be for about two weeks a month. Hey, that's half my life!

Not forgetting the tearfulness, and sugar cravings and myriad other minor annoyances.

And it is a big fat lie that it gets better as you get older - it doesn't. Evening primrose oil helps but I keep forgetting to take it and remain feral

Now how long, do you reckon it will be before a male ventures back on to this thread in the face of overwhelming rampant female hormones ... mwahahahaha

[Feanor of the Peredhil]

Originally Posted by Mithalwen

Not forgetting the tearfulness, and sugar cravings and myriad other minor annoyances.

Salt cravings. The sudden revelation that everybody in your life secretly hates you but is simply too polite to say anything about it.

[mark12_30]

Originally Posted by Feanor of the Peredhil

Salt cravings. The sudden revelation that everybody in your life secretly hates you but is simply too polite to say anything about it.

Are you sure it isn't PMS...? now THAT is worth assigning to Mordor.

[mark12_30]

Being scheduled for a one-hour chance to do a presentation on your year's work, getting there late because of your own stupid fault, and having gotten there late, half your audience needs to leave early: and so suddenly instead of a one-hour presentation, your year's work is now down-to-ten-minutes.Go.

Ssssssssssss.

[Lindale]

Naw I remember an old Alanis Morissette song about that one, Mark...

Oh I assign living in an unfortunate wreck of a country that knows only MCR for foreign music. Not that our musical heritage sucks (the Filipino classics are classic for a good reason!) but the contemporary is crap. Why can't Tarja invest here! That I am not limited to asking my dad or my other relatives get me the cds for birthday or Christmas...

*sulks in a corner away from kids with smudged eyeliners and very weird hair*