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Join Date: May 2005
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Join Date: Mar 2003
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Excitement. It is a rather uncomfortable state, and I especially dislike how it robs one of much-desired and needed sleep. Not like melancholy, which is generally pleasant, albeit also a bit of a slumber stealer.
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Join Date: Jan 2003
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And, even when the trains are running on a regular basis during the rush hour, the sheer volume of people that use it means that platforms are already 4 or 5 deep when you arrive, so you have to stare blankly at 3 or 4 unimaginably crowded trains (from which no one ever seems to disembark at the station you are waiting at) before managing finally to cram yourself into a gap 2 foot by two foot when you get fed up of waiting. If you are at all like me, this is generally the point at which you start muttering bitterly under your breath and people start looking at you as if you are mad. For most have already grimly resigned themselves to the misery of the system and, as any British commuter knows, talking on a tube train, particularly to oneself, is completely taboo (speaking loudly and irritatingly into a mobile phone, so that everyone is able to hear every detail of the speaker‘s conversation, is of course a special exception to this rule). I suppose that, outside the rush hour and barring the frequent equipment malfunctions, there are limited periods where, according to the intermittently functioning LCD display, you only have to wait a few minutes for a train … … or so you are led to believe. But, when you enter a London Underground Station, you enter a curious world where time seems to pass in a manner quite different from anywhere else. The display may say that the next train is due to arrive in 1 minute. But in real time (as opposed to “Tube time”), it won’t arrive for another 5 minutes at least. Hmm. I have run out of points to respond to. Just when I was getting into full swing. Oh well, nothing for it but to continue. ![]() I cannot finish without mentioning the frequent announcements telling you that the X and Y lines are experiencing delays, but that a good service is operating on all other lines. How nice of them to keep their customers informed, you may think. Well, no. Actually. First off, as the line experiencing the delays is generally the one that you are travelling on, it is somewhat galling to be told what you already know - namely that you are going nowhere. Moreover, they seem to use some strange definition of the word “good” which I had not previously come across. For I have rarely (at the times I travel) experienced what I would regard as a “good” service anywhere on the Tube. Perhaps if they were to announce that a “barely adequate” service is operating on those lines which are not undergoing the habitual litany of delays, malfunctions, failures and malingering staff, they might be speaking closer to the truth. Oh, and then there’s the amount that one has to pay for the “privilege” of using the “service”. This only really dawned upon me today, with the expiry of my Travelcard. It cost me £6 (US$10.5 on current rates) to purchase a return ticket for Zone 1. That’s £6 to travel two stops! £6!! OK, so you can get Travelcards, Oyster Cards and the like. But they only benefit those who travel on a regular basis. And they want to dissuade people from using their cars??? Incroyable! OK. Rant over. Have I convinced you that it is a system most deserving of con(as)signation to the deepest Pits of the Plains of Gorgoroth, or perhaps even to Udun itself? It most certainly feels like one is there already when one is using it ...
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I must admit that I don't regularly rant on this thread, but events over the past 12 hours have conspired to leave me with a sense of... imminent poverty... that I feel the need to rage about.
Therefore, I consign to Mordor not having enough money, or not likely having enough money to both travel during the summer and go to school the year after without a loan. Okay, a probably common dilemma, I admit, but one that should still be sent to Mordor. On the other hand, I assign to the Shire the hope and likelihood that I will, in fact, be able to swing it. ![]()
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Scion of The Faithful
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: The brink, where hope and despair are akin. [The Philippines]
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I will take the Ring to Mordor . . .
. . . although I get easily confused with directions. This nonsensical post is brought to you by your friendly neighbourhood nonsense.
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Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Netherlands
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I send to Mordor...
Giant Pandas: because they are creatures eating things they can't even properly digest when plenty more digestable food is around, because they manage to be critically endangered for ages without going extinct and because any other bear should be ashamed of counting a black-and-white couch potatoe among their family members. I hope for them that Mordor's got bamboo. People that think they pay their dog tax so that the government can do nice things for their dogs,while the true reason is that these taxes are there to limit the number and thereby the nuisance of dogs. Religious fundamentalists. Drug-addicts. Child Molesters. 50 Cent and other rappers that can't really rap and have horrible personalities to boot. Commercialism. People that can only answer questions by saying 'yes', 'no' and 'I don't know' People that don't use proper or close-to-proper spelling in messages and chatrooms. People in chatrooms with names like 'webcamguy16wantstits' Ignorant people. Stupid people that walk off with girls that I would like to walk off with myself. People that don't understand introverts like me. War. Black Eyed Peas Politically correct people. People that think they are so great and so funny while they aren't. Glorification of drinking and being drunk. Any piercings other then earrings.
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Join Date: May 2005
Location: Assigned to Mordor
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#768 |
Wight
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Where the stars go blue.
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I send holiday reading that one must journal to Mordor. Journaling reading spoils everything.
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I agree with you on the journaling Elonve. It rather take the whole reading enjoyment out of reading. But hey, not when you get to read Lord of the Rings for it!!!
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Shadowed Prince
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: Thulcandra
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Stepping. Bucket of Paint. Best suit. Sigh.
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Wight
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Behind the hills
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The Aeneid, which is the first book I really struggled with in a long, long time, and I didn't even enjoy it. That may be because I had to read it in two days due to the nature of my course. But still, most of the "villains" are women!
Not being able to refrain from sarcasm, cynicism, or snide comments for more than 2 1/2 hours. The plan was for my roommate and I to be "sweet" for 12 hours in a row. She only succeeded because she didn't have class today and hasn't seen anyone. I now have to literally remain silent until 3:00 this morning. ![]()
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Ghost Prince of Cardolan
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Someday, I'll rule all of it.
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I send the first week of school. (It's too early to start!)
Also, computer viruses that make it impossible to get on-line for long periods of time.
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Scion of The Faithful
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: The brink, where hope and despair are akin. [The Philippines]
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I'm not assigning anything. It's just to inform you that, if you ever see my morning of 10 January 2006 in Mordor, do not be surprised. It went quickly to Mordor.
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Wight
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Where the stars go blue.
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I am assigning the first day of school to Mordor! Especially when teachers assing lots and lots of work! And when you go home your brother (whose finished a semester of college) can watch all the tv and eat all the cheesecake he wants...
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Hauntress of the Havens
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: IN it, but not OF it
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[rant]
The use of Filipino as the medium of instruction in my Archaeology class. Don't get me wrong; I love my language (well, most of the time) and I especially love the fact that I'm bilingual. It's just that there are some words that just CANNOT be translated to Filipino and if they try to, they look very distasteful. Try the words mitochondrial DNA, for example. Doesn't mitokondriyang DNA just look sooo weird? Plus, Filipino words are usually longer compared to their English counterparts, and it's hard enough that my Archaeo prof switches slides very quickly. I normally have to mentally translate the Filipino words to English before writing them down, and that takes more time than I have during the lectures. And it usually takes longer than that to write down the Filipino words. *exasperated sigh* Can't the academia just acknowledge the fact that we're better off using English as the primary medium of instruction (except in Filipino classes, for one, of course)? [/rant] |
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Auspicious Wraith
Join Date: May 2002
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The O.C. What an awful show. Rich, physically perfect American teenagers living out their boring, pretentious lives. A show designed for the stuck-up. Let the Orcs have it.
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Conassignation: being a poor college kid (my wallet is empty save a few pennies, nickels, and several forms of ID); being unable to travel because of it; the over-priced everything of Connecticut and the suburbanites that often hail from there; loving friends that are unintentionally clueless about things like money (only to be sent long enough for them to get a picture of what it's like to know that you could never have afforded your dream school if they hadn't given you a colossal scholarship to attend... and even then, it's a stretch... instead of "Oh, my daddy's paying for it.").
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Shadowed Prince
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: Thulcandra
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For ease, I will now send bigots and close-minded people. As well as confusing somebody's sexuality, most embarassing, I assure you.
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Come now, TGWBS, are you really annoyed, or do you have less legitimate plans for making use of this wonderful thread?
By the way, I assign llamas.
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Shadowed Prince
Join Date: Jan 2003
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Come now. While I may have ulterior motives, bigots and close-minded people should really learn their lesson. If you don't agree with somebody's views, fair enough. But there is no argument for imposing your will on somebody else.
And, for your information, confusing people's sexuality is rather awkward and embarassing. And thus goes to Mordor. Now what reason could you possibly have for sending cute, fluffy llamas to the Black Land? |
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Because, dear boy, I absolutely hate llamas. They serve no practical purpose good enough to convince me that their horrible eyes (there are no whites to them!) are not glaring at me, getting ready to hawk a huge loogie (another thing that should be assigned... that sound is the skeeviest thing in the history of the world) at me, don't deserve Mordorian Assignation. They are always watching you. They are stupid looking. They spit. They step on you for the fun of it. They're creepy, huge, and their only redeeming quality is that they inspired the Song.
I'm surprised I've never assigned them before. Llamas simply annoy me. And skeeve me out. They're worse than chickens.
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Auspicious Wraith
Join Date: May 2002
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Losing a long post as you click Reply because your Downs connection goes awry. What a horrible feeling. Twenty minutes wasted.
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I'll second Eomer's assignation, but just mention that the countermeasure (write it in Word first and copy and paste) should be sent to the Shire as it has saved many an RPG post in recent months!
I'll also send the school computer system. It no longer lets me on here! For years I've managed to get round the censors but no more. Apparently this site isn't educational enough. Pshaw. Oh, and my Psychology teacher again (just in case she managed to break out somehow). The woman is just ![]() ![]()
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I assign the sort of disgruntlement that makes you want to write an Assignation post the length of the Declaration of Independence that would surely cause The Saucepan Man to comment obscurely about how the forum is not a blog.
Stupid disgruntlement. Making one question everything. Making everything annoy you. Making me want to blow off classes tomorrow because I'm in a bad mood and feel like expressing it somehow in a way that isn't yelling at my friends, since it's not their fault. And llamas really do belong in Mordor. I thought about it for a while and didn't change my mind. |
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Cryptic Aura
Join Date: May 2002
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I'll admit to it, love, if you tell me which chat mod's song it is. I've been away from the chatroom for so long... I totally missed out on any llama references. Alda's a turtle, of course... Ulmo is Elmo, whether he wills it or no. Surely you aren't speaking of your illustrious self?
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![]() ![]() And my own contribution to Mordor: income tax forms and private medical insurance/ pharmaceuticals. "Well, if we haven't seen any improvement, maybe we should just stop the drug. It's so expensive and the drug company is giving it to us for free for this trial and does she have drug coverage on her medical insurance?" Honestly, I think I could have heard that line on St. Elsewhere. And for extra measure, campaign electioneering telephone calls and TV adverts. Hard to tell which offer the greatest 'stretchers', company advertising or political parties.
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#788 |
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Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Behind the hills
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Email. I just humiliated myself by sending an email meant for my mother to the entire language faculty at my school. I don't know how it happened either! I know I didn't type in the address of my school...and the address it went to isn't even near how my last name is spelled...
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Join Date: Mar 2004
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Flourescent lights, especially the one above my head. This is a different one to the one I've moaned about before. It's extra bright and extra-evil and headachey and was on for all of five minutes which put me in a foul mood all day. Which then brings me on to the second thing to go to Mordor - people who spread stupid tales around the workplace, prompting you to write long and indignant e-mail messages and have meetings with your trade union rep, only to find that said tale was a big alarmist lie. That's exactly how an Orc would behave.
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Ghost Prince of Cardolan
Join Date: May 2003
Location: Umbar, but before the corsairs took over. (Ave Maria University, FL, USA)
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Nightmares. I had a terrifying and very sad one a few nights ago that my brother had gone missing and was most likely dead. What's even worse is waking up from a nightmare only to find that you've slept late and have to be out of the house in five minutes if you don't want to be late for somewhere you have to be.
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I assign Boys and all complications in life and friendship that arise with, because, and about them. Perhaps, though, it would be more prudent to assign Girls, since there wouldn't be any of these complications if Girls weren't around doing all of the complicating.
And llamas. Have I yet mentioned how dumb looking llamas are? I'm very prejudiced against them. What practical purpose could they possibly serve that couldn't be better served by a pez dispenser?
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Hauntress of the Havens
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: IN it, but not OF it
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I conassign to Mordor people who conassign things to Mordor just because...they know why. They know who they are.
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Ghost Prince of Cardolan
Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: Lurking in the shadows.
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I assign my Medieval Irish literature project to Mordor. Even though I knew it was doomed before I even began, I had not thought it to be doomed quite so... permanently.
Also, all kinds of mermaids. Let them take their flashy fins and show em somewhere else. Finally, with no offence intended to a certain Downer, the entire city of Aberdeen and definitely including its university (though with a slight possibility yet to redeem itself). There. |
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Shadowed Prince
Join Date: Jan 2003
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I assign aching muscles after trying a new exercise routine. Stretch... silly boy.
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Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: In a far land beyond the Sea
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Saturday schooldays.
It's just horrible and unfair.
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Riveting Ribbiter
Join Date: May 2005
Location: Assigned to Mordor
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Have I mentioned that I am deeply, deeply bitter over SEPTA? I just spent an hour trying to figure out this map, an impossible endeavor without matching each station to each line's schedule. No transfers shown, no indication of what line is what, nothing. And unless you're going to Center City, and only Center City, they don't tell you what the fare is. But what if you aren't going to Center City? What if you want to go from, oh I don't know, Manayunk to Cynwyd? Didn't think of that, now did they? No, they didn't. Then you have to go back to the schedules, figure out what station is in what zone, how many zones you have to cross through to get back to the zone you started in because that's where your transfer is placed since the lines don't necessarily follow any logical geography - check the R7 for instance - and then go to the fares page and try to calculate the expense (and it won't be cheap) from the wonderfully detailed information "Varies by Zone and by peak/off-peak hours."
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Ghost Prince of Cardolan
Join Date: May 2003
Location: Umbar, but before the corsairs took over. (Ave Maria University, FL, USA)
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My inability to take showers that take less than half an hour. It means that no matter what, I have ice water coming down on me by the end. Also, I often have to skip showering when I'm in a hurry because it takes so long.
The person who most likely stole my final project from jewelry making class, along with several other people's. What's the point of taking other people's artwork to try to turn in? The teacher's going to know where it came from, and it's really frustrating to lose the only glass beads I made that didn't break or explode.
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Shadowed Prince
Join Date: Jan 2003
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The French phrase "Qu'est-ce que c'est que ca?" Why do they have to say What is this that this is that this? instead of a simple, concise, What's that?
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