What do you assign to Mordor?

[Mithalwen]

[QUOTE=Kath]Oh? Do we get the reasoning behind this?
QUOTE]


Seems pretty self-explanatory to me.....

[Cailín]

Originally Posted by Mithalwen

Seems pretty self-explanatory to me.....

Thanks Mith. Did you notice the time when I posted that, Kath?

I assign snow to Mordor. It's almost May and what do we get here? Indeed. Snow.

[Kath]

Did you notice the time when I posted that, Kath?

I didn't, you'll just have to explain it to me when you get round to that PM

[JennyHallu]

Umm...I still don't get it. At all.

[piosenniel]

Might want to take your queries to PM . . . wouldn't want this thread closed for chattiness, eh?

~*~ Pio

[The 1,000 Reader]

Let's get back on topic.

I assign to Mordor ******* admins who randomly pick out a member, change something like their username or custom title for no reason, and then tell the member that they are horrible people and then threaten them with a ban. A thing like that happened this Wednesday and is still going on. This is how it started.

Admin: In the past, blah blah blah.
Me: (Laid back and mirthful) Meh, I've read better sci-fi.
Admin: (Grim) No you haven't.
Me: (Thinking the guy is bored and wants to talk) Sorry, but the one paragraph story about the chemicals made by ghosts was better because it used a big word.
Admin: (Still Grim for no reason) No, my story is the best.
Me: (Wanting to end the discussion) Sorry dude, but there are better things out there. Now, if you used big words, you'd be better.

At that point the ******* admin entered the control panel for the site and changed my custom title, making it say that his story was the best ever. I responded by saying "My title says that because you entered the control panel and changed it to your liking, something only you can do."

The admin ignored that and acted like a ******* *********. Afterwards, he claimed that I was a horrible person who forced him to do that when I had done nothing at all and then he threatened to ban me. However, I did get back at him by annoying the heck of him afterwards. One instance being "No, the moral of the day is that it's sad to abuse admin powers and it makes you lower than a spammer." Apparently, most of the site agreed with me. That admin turned from a cool guy to a stuck-up jerk in less than an hour.

(Because of the board server, I can't change my custom title back. Only the admin can do that, and sadly, that pompus ***** is the only admin.)

[Lhunardawen]

Oh Zali...I can only agree with assigning prom...

*shudders at a two-year-old memory*

[Feanor of the Peredhil]

I assign the mid-meal discovery that caesar salad dressing contains anchovies. Microscopic dead animal-things in my food! What's the point? Is it a world-wide effort to skeeve out vegetarians? No, you can't TASTE the little buggers, but we're going to kill them and stick 'em in there anyhow, just so Laura has to survive on lettuce like a friggin' rabbit because she's so paranoid about finding freshly killed corpse in her meals.

And I assign my own OCD tendencies that led me to forcibly remove (with the aid of a fork) any part of my meal that had touched it.

I also assign being really caffiene high while this was happening. I'd assumed tunnel-vision only comes from alcohol, but nope... you get enough caffiene in your system and the world starts looking a lot different.

[Kath]

Headaches - ick!

[JennyHallu]

Fea, dear, Caesar salad traditionally contains anchovies, but unless you're eating at a really fancy restaurant, most Caesar dressings don't include them anymore, if only because so many people are allergic to fish. If you're eating at your college cafeteria, then definitely do not fear...no little corpses (mm...corpses) are to be found. Otherwise, ask! As a 7 year veteran of the food service industry, I can tell you with confidence that no one is going to think it amiss for you to inquire into the ingredients of the dressing.

[Feanor of the Peredhil]

I grabbed a packet of salad dressing, therefore had the ingredients conveniently in front of me. There were most definitely anchovies in both the worcestershire sauce contained within and as a direct ingredient. Assign, assign, assign!

[Mithalwen]

Anchovies are a traditional ingredient of Worcestershire sauce - but i didn't realise it for a while and had been happily spicing up dishes for my militantly vegetarian cousin for ages :S lol ... he has just started eating meat and fish again after 10 years because he is in his university Naval reserve - and the food is so awful for vegetarians....

Anchovies are just nasty though even for carnivores - just a way to consume a week's sodium in one unpleasant form...

However having just done a huge amount of someone else's washing up - I assign teabags left in mugs in the sink. Especially when the sink is full of water... someone is going to get killed when they get back....

[Eonwe]

Reaccuring strep throat. This is *cough* *hack* my fourth time this year...

[Lalwendë]

I love anchovies! Droooooolllllllll..........

I hereby assign just about every commercial pizza outlet as they no longer sell pizzas with anchovies on. What's wrong with you people? The perfect pizza would have prawns, anchovies, mushrooms, black olives, jalapeno chillies, fresh basil and capers on it.

[Kath]

Other people's computers! I write a lovely long PM, hit the button that would normally send it and what does it do? That's right, deletes it So sorry Form, but this is why your reply will be late. I have to get over the anger.

[Encaitare]

Hay fever. I love spring, but it does not love me.

[Lhunardawen]

Bad hair days (bleh). So bad that your mother who holds you dear could only say that you look as if you were picked up off the bed and thrown into the car without being allowed to wash your hair.

It's not as if you really care, anyway. Well, maybe just not too much.

[Taralphiel]

I assign getting a last minute call from a Recruitment Agency this afternoon about coming in for a job interview tomorrow. Little time to prepare, AND this is my first time taking a job interview.

*tries to stem the massive waves of panic*

Tara

[JennyHallu]

You'll do fine...relax!

[Kath]

Good luck Tara!

I assign the state of my handwriting after a week long hiatus mixed with ventolin. So messy

[Feanor of the Peredhil]

I assign sunburn. An unexpected art class critique taking place out of doors and a picnic lunch as insisted by friends while having completely forgotten the use and beauty of sunblock has my, as entitled by the same friends, "porcelain" skin... very pink.

[Farael]

Originally Posted by Kath

Good luck Tara!

I assign the state of my handwriting after a week long hiatus mixed with ventolin. So messy

I second that, both the good luck wishes (Good luck!!) and my poor handwritting after two weeks off. I have never had much skill for it, but right now I'm scared that even I won't understand it when I try to review my notes.

[Goldberry101]

I assign stuck-up popular girls who think that just because their popular they can be mean and snotty to those who aren't so popular (like me). Also, I assign homework and track meets that take all day.

[Azaelia of Willowbottom]

Originally Posted by Goldberry101

I assign stuck-up popular girls who think that just because their popular they can be mean and snotty to those who aren't so popular (like me). Also, I assign homework and track meets that take all day.

The stuck-upness will get better as you go through high school. I'm a senior now, and it's pretty much gone entirely. I don't think anyone has said anything mean to me all year, or even at all last year...but I feel your pain. I used to be in the same position as you were. It makes me wonder how some people get to be so popular, anyway. I know a lot of adults say it gets better (it's what my parents always told me), and it's hard to believe, but it's actually true. Just stick it out. Cheers!

The homework and track meets probably won't, though. I just did three hours of chemistry homework that I don't even understand. Homework zonks me out more than anything else, so my brain function has shot down to about nil--I needed an antidote, so I came here.

I'm not on track, but I know a few girls who are, and they have meets ALL the time!

And I re-assign ceasar dressing and the anchovy thing. Fea, as advice from a vegetarian who learned the hard way, check the bottles of any italian-ish dressing you buy, some of those have anchovies, too.

Hey Lhuna--I just see bad hair days as good hat days. I have a lovely bright orange hat that I wear when my hair gets bad...it's just about my favorite accessory!

[Eonwe]

I assign learning what is in foods. I'll bet everyone liked ceasar dressing before hearing it had anchovies. I liked it. Now I don't. And I used to like chicken nuggets. Now I don't. I used to like french fries. Now I don't. If we were just left in blissful ignorance, we could peacefully enjoy everything processed.

Ok, I'll just assign processed foods to Morder...again.

[Diamond18]

Mmmm... anchovies. Yum.

I would like to assign the cheesewit I almost broadsided tonight coming home from work. Imagine this: a dark city street, me going 30 MPH, then El Dumbo zips out from a partiallly concealed parking lot just a few yards ahead of me. I almost smashed into the fool and had to slam on my brakes. I hate slamming on my brakes. I assign having to slam on my brakes to Mordor. And what if the road had been wet? What if it had been raining? What then? I wouldn't have got home in time to start Day 5 of WWJVIII, that's what. Not to mention my car, my poor beautiful baby, would have been wrecked! Fool! Fie upon thee!

[Lhunardawen]

Originally Posted by Fea

I assign sunburn. An unexpected art class critique taking place out of doors and a picnic lunch as insisted by friends while having completely forgotten the use and beauty of sunblock has my, as entitled by the same friends, "porcelain" skin... very pink.

Heartily seconded. I couldn't stop panicking inside when I saw my shoulders turned red after forgetting to put on sunblock...and who told me to wear a sleeveless blouse?

It's especially painful (not physically) since, for some reason, I'm quite obsessed with staying as fair-skinned as I can be. Ask Nilp. I can't help but frown whenever I compare the part of my arms facing away from my torso to that facing inward. The colors are so different that I feel like a streamlined orca. I really really can't see myself sporting a tan; I'm sure I would not recognize myself in the mirror when it comes to that.

Originally Posted by Zali

Hey Lhuna--I just see bad hair days as good hat days. I have a lovely bright orange hat that I wear when my hair gets bad...it's just about my favorite accessory!

I know...but you see, I'm not so much of a hat person. I love the feeling of my hair covering my face.


Moving right along...

I assign the times I feel that my will is strong but my body is weak. My arms, specifically. It was just a matter of holding the rocks as tight as I can manage without going overmuch, and then reaching up and holding another...but this time I just couldn't. I had barely climbed my own five-foot-two height up the wall when I started to feel my forearms burn, and no matter how much I wanted to go further up my arms were crying out to me in agony. So what could I do?

Maybe it's my fault for hanging for 42 seconds before the climb.

Also, I assign long nails - my own this time. I love them, but how they impeded my climbing. And how dirty they look with all the chalk stuck under them.

[Lalwendë]

I assign having meetings that last all day, like yesterday so you don't get a dinnertime and have to do all your shopping today, which is ridiculously busy because a. it's sunny for the first time in months, and b. everyone's in a panic because the city centre will close down at 4pm while Sheffield United have a big parade.

I also assign the woman who spent fifteen minutes fussing with lottery tickets in front of me in the queue in Sainsburys. Cowbag.

I assign worrying about how I'm going to get home from work tonight.

And I assign Snails and slugs again! I have now discovered the joys of copper taping pots of plants in the garden and though it's hideously expensive stuff, its worth it. I spent some happy times on Monday experimenting by watching little snails get electrical shocks and have to turn back from their sadly unfulfilled quests to eat my new petunias. *evil smiley*

[Feanor of the Peredhil]

Burn lines. My shoulders, mostly, are still creamy, but they go downright red where my sleeves ended, and my neck's even gone so far as to have a delicate white curve through the middle of my burn where my necklace had lain. It's got to be the most hilarious looking burn... I don't blame everyone I live for for trying not to laugh shortly after their horrified exclamations. "That happened after one class and then lunch outside!?!?" A polite nod. "Sunlight and I aren't the closest friends, even on the best of occasions."

Knowing that to be even remotely comfortable today, I'm going to be really limited in which shirts I can wear. Knowing that any shirts I do wear will leave me very open to burning more and worse.

Ugh, if only I'd had on stupid sunblock! *shakes fist at the sun and searches for a high SPF*

[Lalaith]

Major sympathies on the sunburn, Fea, from another pale lady. (I once fell asleep in the sun, without sunblock, and had to take three days off work as a result - because I was too burnt to wear clothes. Children and sensitive people recoiled from me for weeks, I was so hideous. I still bear the scars years later, freckles on a previously snowy decolletage. All definitely assigned to Mordor.)

[The Saucepan Man]

Originally Posted by Lalwendë

the city centre will close down at 4pm while Sheffield United have a big parade.

Will Sean Bean be there, I wonder?

[Lalwendë]

Originally Posted by The Saucepan Man

Will Sean Bean be there, I wonder?

I'd put money on it! He drinks in the pub down the bottom of our road when he's back in Sheffield to watch a match. But you'd have to be a brave man or a Bean to venture into that alehouse on a matchday!

[Feanor of the Peredhil]

Sounds like a good time to me!

I assign papers not meeting deadlines. It was supposed to be out today and I wanted to read it. Though perhaps the reason it wasn't out is the very reason I was interested... A few influential people aren't very happy at the moment.

[Lhunardawen]

Originally Posted by Lalwendë

And I assign Snails and slugs again!

Goodbye, my beloved avatar.


I assign crabs. The two-legged kind.

[Taralphiel]

I thank all for their well-wishes, but unfortunately I have to assign completely messing up said interview and making a complete fool of myself.

I found solace in the comic book store down the road, and having the strange ability to laugh at my own misfortune.

*crawls off to lick her metaphorical wounds*

Tara

[Kath]

Guilt trips.

[JennyHallu]

I assign nights when it's too hot to cuddle.

[The Saucepan Man]

Originally Posted by Kath

Guilt trips.

Yeah, tell me about it.

[Lhunardawen]

Mosquitoes. Again.

Also, vehicular accidents - even just the little, "it's just a scratch" ones.

[Eonwe]

Scheduling discrepencies where your boss thinks you're not scheduled and you think you are. Grrr, my first free Saturday in months, and I waste it on work, when I didn't have to. Grrr.