What do you assign to Mordor?

[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.

[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.

[Lindale]

Originally Posted by Morthoron

Ah, but there is a an unforseen benefit to playing guitar (other than as a magnet for the opposite sex): you get calluses on your fingertips, which is really important for the macho putting-out-lit-candles-with-your-fingers ploy. I have never been hurt once.

Well if you play stringed instruments you are bound to get those... but all my years of playing my violin, I've never calloused any of my fingers. Nor have my mom, who taught me the violin basics, nor any other violinist I know.

Oh and that candlething ploy, even if your hand is nice and soft and aristocratic, if you do it really fast, it won't hurt.

[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.

[Morthoron]

Fundamentalism is selective blindness, selective deafness and selective dumbness. It is a sincere yearning for the good ol' days when the world was still flat and everything revolved around Man, when witches were burned alongside scholars, and wars were fought by fundamentalists fundamentally opposed to other fundamentalists whose doctrines were, obviously, fundamentally unsound.

I assign the whole ilk to Sauron's commode.

[Gwathagor]

Originally Posted by Morthoron

It is a sincere yearning for the good ol' days when the world was still flat and everything revolved around Man, when witches were burned alongside scholars, and wars were fought by fundamentalists fundamentally opposed to other fundamentalists whose doctrines were, obviously, fundamentally unsound.

"Is that clever?"

"It is perfectly phrased! and quite as true as any observation in civilized life should be."

[Legate of Amon Lanc]

Originally Posted by Morthoron

Fundamentalism is selective blindness, selective deafness and selective dumbness. It is a sincere yearning for the good ol' days when the world was still flat and everything revolved around Man, when witches were burned alongside scholars, and wars were fought by fundamentalists fundamentally opposed to other fundamentalists whose doctrines were, obviously, fundamentally unsound.

That's moving it into a kind of different and specific perspective; agreed, but why I formulated it the way I formulated it was that I intended it to say it as globally as possible. You can apply it on all various kinds of the "selective blindness and deafness", as you formulated it, anything which makes people dig in their heels and scorn anything that does not go together with their belief: be it the fact that the world is flat, or be it the fact that the world is round. The fundamentalism is still fundamentalism - whether one is right or not does not give him the right to force the other one to just "believe it, or else...!" - That's the main point of it.
And people being led into wars by their fundamentalism to possibly fight other people being led by their fundamentalism are here still to this day. (And often it's not the other fundamentalists whom they meet, but people who have hardly anything to do with it.) Enough said. That's all I assigned already.

[Brinniel]

I previously assigned the MBTA (Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority) to Orthanc, but I now think it deserves to be downgraded to Mordor. Sure the system is easy to use, but there are so many problems with it.

First off, I get so annoyed about having to sometimes wait up to 20 minutes for a train to arrive. The Green Line is notoriously horrible, being so slow. On Wednesday I went to the Museum of Fine Arts, and only a block from my stop the trains jerked to a stop and the power turned off. Luckily, there was really any delay...just a couple of minutes. I was more frustrated with getting back on the train later. There were a lot of people waiting at the stop and the first train flew right past us and never stopped. The second one arrived 10 minutes later and people were trying to get on, but the train was really crowded. Instead of telling people to scoot in, the conductor actually yelled at the passengers who weren't behind the white line to get off the train. Other passenger weren't so nice either...they wouldn't move or scoot in even though there was an empty seat. I finally managed to shove my way through and get to the seat since I had somewhere to be and there was no way I would wait another 10-15 minutes for another train. In the end it wasn't that bad...because the conductor was so busy trying to kick people off, she never noticed I hadn't tapped my card to pay. I usually feel guilty for that sort of thing, but not that time...

But that's not actually the main reason I'm assigning the MBTA. The real reason is because of what happened today....and thank god I did not have to use the subway today. This morning there was a train collision at the subway station next to my campus. The media's calling it a bump, but according to victims it was much worse than that. Seven people were taken to the hospital and several others were injured as well. I heard that a man was actually bleeding from the head. And the MBTA handled it horribly. People were stuck underground for about an hour. I had classmates who arrived to class an hour and a half late because they were stuck then had to walk rest of the way. And I heard no announcements were given about what happened, so people didn't know why they were delayed. It's said that things like this rarely happen, but apparently someone was killed in a derailment only months ago and there was a similar collision to this last December. The Boston Globe has an article on the event, but the user comments afterwards give a more honest account of what happened.

I apologise for my really long rant, but this whole event makes me quite disgusted about Boston's public transportation system and I have to get it off my chest. And the thing is, I love using public transportation, but not when I'm constantly waiting for trains and then don't feel safe riding them. The city really needs to get their act together and make the public transportation function better. Because there are enough people using it and paying for it that we deserve to have good service.

[Lindale]

...and here I am, about to assign standing inside a bus like a sardine in a can or getting only half my butt on a seat on the jeepney... makes me a bit happy that trains in my country, though overpriced (every public work here is overpriced,damned politicians!) hasn't had an accident since it was made about seven or eight years ago.

[Mithalwen]

being taken completely and utterly for granted.

[Feanor of the Peredhil]

Originally Posted by Mithalwen

being taken completely and utterly for granted.

*hugs*

*adores*

Really.

[Mithalwen]

Oh I didn't mean you sweetie... I mean my family ..especially my sister who seems to think I have nothing better to do in the time when I am not working or minding ancient parent to ready the shabby ancestral pad as a venue for her birthday party ..indeed I should apparently be grateful for this incentive to get on with the planned redecorations. and it isn't a tea party it involves her grungy friends in "the band" playing a set ..and you know how I feel about guitars.

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[Feanor of the Peredhil]

I didn't think you meant me, but sometimes it's nice to be reminded that people love you. And sometimes it's nice to just say it.

[Mithalwen]

That is true and apreciated and very Shire worthy . Thank you Fea - I love you back

"From quiet homes and first beginning, Out to the undiscovered ends, There's nothing worth the wear of winning, But laughter and the love of friends."

[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.

[Aganzir]

Originally Posted by Mithalwen

being taken completely and utterly for granted.

Although I have no personal experience in that, I have a friend whose parents treat her almost as a housekeeper. Having seen that for quite a long time, I can second your assignation.

*hugs, too*

[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?

[Groin Redbeard]

Originally Posted by Groin Redbeard

Corrupt politicians!

Originally Posted by TGEW

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

HA! I'm afraid that I've beaten you to it TGEW! Although I was a little more general than you.

Originally Posted by Rune

I assign chosing the wrong sauce for you KFC meal.

My goodness, that's awful! Hopefully you didn't just pour it into the bucket and rune the entire batch.

[Rune Son of Bjarne]

It seems to be a massive problem in my world right now, anyways I thought it was a nice change from all these "deep" problems.

[Oddwen]

I'd like to assign co-workers that punch out for breaks and never come back, or just end up not coming in at all, instead of having the decency to just say "I quit".

Having seven cashiers for all week when you're supposed to have six at all times.

People who don't pull their weight, forcing those who are already pulling their share to do more than they're supposed to.

Physically not being able to pull my own weight.

And if I haven't assigned them already, people who shoplift from secondhand stores.



Oh yeah. Also, being easily distracted. Missing opportunities. Waiting.

[Mithalwen]

Originally Posted by Groin Redbeard

My goodness, that's awful! Hopefully you didn't just pour it into the bucket and rune the entire batch.

Is it actually possible to ruin a foodstuff that is served in a bucket? You are working from a pretty low baseline there Categories of food served in a bucket: KFC and animal feed ...

[Rune Son of Bjarne]

Originally Posted by Groin Redbeard

My goodness, that's awful! Hopefully you didn't just pour it into the bucket and rune the entire batch.

Some how I mannaged to miss this post. . .

No I only bought 6 pieces and a bit of sauce, so I dipped the a piece in the sauce and was horrified by the result.

[Lindale]

I don't understand how one can choose a wrong sauce at KFC, Rune... what sauce is that, yes we wondersss...

[Rune Son of Bjarne]

I don't buy KFC food very often and so I could not remember which sauce it was I liked with my chicken. . .

[Groin Redbeard]

Originally Posted by Rune Son of Bjarne

No I only bought 6 pieces and a bit of sauce, so I dipped the a piece in the sauce and was horrified by the result.

Whatever happened to your quality beef? You can't go wrong with a bit o' steak!

P.S. I've noticed that your chicken problems seem to be of more interest to the Downers than all the other crappy things that are going on in the world. Don't get me wrong, ruining a bucket of chicken is pretty bad.

[Rune Son of Bjarne]

As much as it hurts me to say "Man does not live by beef alone"

[THE Ka]

Originally Posted by Oddwen

I'd like to assign co-workers that punch out for breaks and never come back, or just end up not coming in at all, instead of having the decency to just say "I quit".

Having seven cashiers for all week when you're supposed to have six at all times.

People who don't pull their weight, forcing those who are already pulling their share to do more than they're supposed to.

Do you want to borrow my new and *enthusiastic* manager? It makes just abandoning those who can't pull their own weight, or those disappearing then saying wickedly, "Well, I think they went out smoking again... But I don't know much about that since I don't smoke..." sooo much easier.

Her perky smile and 'can do anything... I say!' attitude is fun to watch. I don't even have to say anything and she attacks. It's great.

Personally as I see it, if you are obviously fit enough to go wandering off and not do your job, then I don't see the reason to help you. Otherwise I'm usually the first one to jump in and scoop up the dying newbie who's under several hundred plates, beer mugs, and who knows what else.

Originally Posted by Rune

As much as it hurts me to say "Man does not live by beef alone"

Correction, this belongs in the Shire...

My work schedule and limited computer access belongs in Mordor, even with 48 hour Days, I can't catch up at all to the end of the page before something hits. Ergh.

[Lalwendë]

Originally Posted by TheGreatElvenWarrior

That is the worst thing that could ever happen?

It would have been if he'd accidentally been given Salad Cream. Spee-uw.

I assign Salad Cream to Mordor. It kind of goes with that lettuce that looked and tasted like privet, ham out of a can and peeled cucumber, the kind of 'Sunday tea' often served up by nans in the 1970s and which always brings back scary memories of trying not to spit up the salad cream down your best clothes and having to be quiet when Harry Secombe's Highway started.

[Morthoron]

I assign the word 'pundit'. Moreover, I assign that word to the ninth circle of Hell. The word must banned. It must never be used again. In fact, if I could time travel, I would throttle the person who first uttered the Saskrit word 'pandita', the Indian precursor to 'that word'. I despise the word, the people who use it in conversation, and particularly the people who refer to themselves as...that misbegotten word.

[Inziladun]

I assign people who carry on conversations using their Bluetooth in crowded places. You see someone standing right next to you, and they are looking in your direction and speaking. You begin to reply, they look at you as if you've grown a second head and turn away, and then you see the accursed device stuck in the other ear you couldn't see. Cell phones are an abomination in themselves, but they do serve a limited good so I'll avoid sending them all to Mordor (for now).

[Oddwen]

Originally Posted by Inziladun

I assign people who carry on conversations using their Bluetooth in crowded places. You see someone standing right next to you, and they are looking in your direction and speaking. You begin to reply, they look at you as if you've grown a second head and turn away, and then you see the accursed device stuck in the other ear you couldn't see. Cell phones are an abomination in themselves, but they do serve a limited good so I'll avoid sending them all to Mordor (for now).

I'll assign thinking the person with the bluetooth is talking to you, and you carry on a conversation with them for a good couple of minutes...yeah...blonde...

[Lalwendë]

Woolworths going out of business needs to go to Mordor! Not only does this not bode well for the economy, but I use that shop a LOT and I grew up with it always being around, so I will seriously miss it and I'm sad

[Rune Son of Bjarne]

Originally Posted by Lalwendë

Woolworths going out of business needs to go to Mordor! Not only does this not bode well for the economy, but I use that shop a LOT and I grew up with it always being around, so I will seriously miss it and I'm sad

Are you serious?

That is one of the cooprerations that everybody has heard of in Denmark, I newer thought they would go out of business.

[Inziladun]

Woolworths going out of business needs to go to Mordor! Not only does this not bode well for the economy, but I use that shop a LOT and I grew up with it always being around, so I will seriously miss it and I'm sad

Hmm. We used to have them 'round where I live, but that's been years ago. Honestly, I thought they'd gone away long before. It is sad to see such an institution pass away, though.

[Lindale]

Originally Posted by Inziladun

I assign people who carry on conversations using their Bluetooth in crowded places. You see someone standing right next to you, and they are looking in your direction and speaking. You begin to reply, they look at you as if you've grown a second head and turn away, and then you see the accursed device stuck in the other ear you couldn't see. Cell phones are an abomination in themselves, but they do serve a limited good so I'll avoid sending them all to Mordor (for now).

Ouch. Around last month I used the bluetooth in a family dinner, and while I was doing the dishes my cousins were staring at me, wondering if I finally lost my head, because I was laughing like crazy. I've never used that thing again.