What do you assign to Mordor? - Page 35 - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

Orominuialwen · 06-27-2006, 10:47 PM

Boredom. I hate feeling like there's nothing to do all day but listen to the radio and go on the computer. It's a little bit sad when talking to my brother (who was in the next room) and his best friend was the most exciting thing that happened all day. (It was fun, though. My brother's friend is pretty cool. He played us music over the phone.)

Elonve · 06-28-2006, 10:45 PM

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Originally Posted by the guy who be short

And, while I'm here, I shall send Britain's utterly ridiculous education system. Why is the annotation of poems compulsory? It's a ridiculous attempt to emulate France and inject some sort of culture into the Godforsaken little island. Why is Religious studies compulsory? Why is history taught so inconsistently? Just... why?

So, here's my plan. Psychology should be compulsory from primary school. A child learns better if it knows about itself. English should only be compulsory up to an understanding of the grammar and workings of the language. At least one language should be compulsory. History should be taught from beginning to end, consistently. Religious studies should be scrapped and replaced by Philosophy-government.

Am I really the only one who sees all of this?

Hey! Ay! Oye've! I absotivly pause-olutley agree with you on this! Three cheers for TGWBS!

No more Latin! No more French! My life would be so much easier with out irregular French verbs.
Sending Irregular verbs to Mordor!
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HOMEADE VAPORIZER

Feanor of the Peredhil · 06-29-2006, 01:00 PM

I assign flooding. My local streams are flooded... it looks like chocolate milk pouring over little waterfalls, and fields are ponds... there are entire trees floating in a formerly waist-high creek... This is just run-off from a summer storm, though, as opposed to where one of my good friends lives. And my school lies in a flood plain scheduled to get another few days of rain.

I really like rain, but that's a bit much.

Edit: 6:37 PM. It's raining again. How droll.

Cailín · 06-29-2006, 04:26 PM

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Sending Irregular verbs to Mordor!

Why?! Why?! My life and career would be over.

I am assigning to Mordor:

* The new cleaning schedule my roommates came up with (behind my back). It has absolutely ridiculous rules and it's apparently written for an audience of toddlers. I hate being talked down to.

And it doesn't even have gold stars.

Well, I am just going to play rebellious adolescent and see if it works as well with people my age as it did with my parents.

* The lingering insecurity and that nice lady of the International Office who keeps repeating: "I know it's hard."

Of course it's hard. DO something. I've been waiting since October and it does happen to affect my future a great deal.

**The Saucepan Man** · 07-01-2006, 05:35 PM

Penalty shoot-outs.

Feanor of the Peredhil · 07-03-2006, 09:35 AM

I'll assign the disconcerting nature of stumbling sleepily downstairs for a shower only to find my parents sitting in the kitchen with an inclination to learn where I was, who I was with, what I did, and how and when I got home last night. I'd just woken up! Inquisitions at times like those are just plain mean. They're practiced at this parenting thing.

Mithalwen · 07-03-2006, 11:25 AM

I had promised myself to try not to send trivial things to Mordor but one is justified since althought my own case is trivial it has caused enough discomfort to make my heart go out to those who suffer more seriously and more often.

So to Mordor with Eczema.

Kath · 07-03-2006, 11:26 AM

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So to Mordor with Eczema.

Agreed! I had that really badly when I was little, had to wear mittens and everything. It's so not fun.

I assign not being brave enough to do something you really want to.

Mithalwen · 07-03-2006, 11:33 AM

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Originally Posted by Kath

Agreed! I had that really badly when I was little, had to wear mittens and everything. It's so not fun.

I assign not being brave enough to do something you really want to.

You poor lamb, I am lucky I have had it just a couple of times as an adult and this time isn't nearly as bad as last time but I can't believe how much I want to tear myself apart.

Macalaure · 07-05-2006, 03:29 AM

High temperatures.

Assigning high temperatures to Mordor might look a little like carrying owls to Athens, but the sweating remnants of myself have to do this, just in case they're not already there.

Lhunardawen · 07-05-2006, 03:42 AM

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Originally Posted by Macalaure

High temperatures.

Assigning high temperatures to Mordor might look a little like carrying owls to Athens, but the sweating remnants of myself have to do this, just in case they're not already there.

Ooh! Ooh! Heartily seconded.

And high humidity, too. Yes, they come hand in hand. My poor overworked sweat glands.

the guy who be short · 07-05-2006, 10:24 AM

I assign missing Head Boy application.

Also, summer storms. They flood our garage, and then I have to help move things and generally unflood it. Ugh.

Also, annoying little girls at train stations who say things like "Argh! Thunder! Lightning! I'm so scared" Wah!" How are light and noise far up in the sky in any way scary? Why are they so squeaky and annoying? *Grumble*

Missing University open days.

Finally, coming across as a lot grumpier than you really are.

Kath · 07-05-2006, 11:47 AM

Hayfever

Having a headache purely because of blocked sinuses is just grrr.

Rune Son of Bjarne · 07-06-2006, 02:07 PM

What she just said, just Allergies instead. . .

Celuien · 07-06-2006, 04:20 PM

The depressing atmosphere of this dorm.

Linoleum tile flooring that looks like it was salvaged from a dingy supermarket. Bare, tan walls and doors in one of the rare shades of pale green that's actually ugly. Cracks in the wall. Fluorescent lighting. And the place is almost deserted. On top of it all, IM is blocked, so I can't even chat with my friends or family, other than by cell phone.

And dorm bathrooms. Nuff said.

Rune Son of Bjarne · 07-07-2006, 03:40 PM

Your mother labeling half your room as junk and throwing it out, including your map over Beleriand ! ! !

(yes I am weeping)

Encaitare · 07-07-2006, 04:04 PM

Aww, poor Rune!

THE Ka · 07-08-2006, 11:40 AM

It's motherly things like that which make me despise my mother still... Especially when she will come by, and draw all over my work, trying to make 'corrections'.

I'm sorry Rune, I hope you can get another map, and most of your room back.

~Ka

Lalwendë · 07-08-2006, 03:09 PM

That there will be no more Doctor Who until Christmas! And they leave us with an episode that was just mind-bendingly fantastic so it makes the torture of having to wait even more horrible.

Kath · 07-08-2006, 03:12 PM

And mind-bendingly depressing! I don't think I've ever been so close to crying due to a TV programme. Ugh, I hate when you get so attached to characters, that can go to Mordor too.

Lalwendë · 07-08-2006, 03:35 PM

I still can't get my head around just how close some of this was to His Dark Materials!

Encaitare · 07-08-2006, 07:26 PM

Evil, EVIL cliffhangers! Those who have seen Pirates of the Caribbean 2 will know exactly what I mean.

Lhunardawen · 07-09-2006, 04:14 AM

Aww, poor dear Rune...

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Originally Posted by Kath

Ugh, I hate when you get so attached to characters, that can go to Mordor too.

I would second this, but I AM too attached to the characters to whom I'm attached! *wails*

Now let me send shtoopid network computer games to Mordor, because they are simply hateful. Also, I assign Paris Hilton's shtoopid new song and whoever finds it likeable. Thank goodness that wouldn't include any of the BDers...I think.

Celuien · 07-09-2006, 07:15 AM

Confusion, lack of clarity, and indecision.

Kath · 07-09-2006, 09:38 AM

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Evil, EVIL cliffhangers! Those who have seen Pirates of the Caribbean 2 will know exactly what I mean.

Yup! And agree absoutely. But it will be fun guessing what's going to happen for the next year

Lalwendë · 07-09-2006, 10:47 AM

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Originally Posted by Encaitare

Evil, EVIL cliffhangers! Those who have seen Pirates of the Caribbean 2 will know exactly what I mean.

Argh! Yes! I don't think I'll be able to stand it!

I might have to go and put my pirate flags up in the garden soon.

And I send to Mordor the 'cinema idiot'. Today it was the least expected person. Not the 'lads' sat next to us, nor the huge gang of 8 year old boys on the other side, nor the tots who came in and I thought would scream all the way through. No it was man who must have been in his 50s sat behind us, who was today's 'cinema idiot', who spent most of the film kicking the backs of our seats so much that I now have a sore neck. And he ate his mountain of junk food with all the manners of a truffle pig.

Farael · 07-09-2006, 11:02 AM

I assign missing someone you care lots about who happens to be on a lovely trip to Europe

and knowing that you can't tell them you miss them so much because they'll feel bad and you might just ruin one of the mere ten days they have overseas.

Lalaith · 07-09-2006, 02:42 PM

Going to the opera with the wrong people.
Now, I'm not generally one of those snotty people who think they're too grand for small talk. But when I am watching my favourite opera, with both song and music almost as perfect as you could hope for, and I've been weeping profusely throughout act two with the joy of the thing, I would like to spend the interval either talking about said opera or just left in silence with my thoughts. I don't really feel like nattering aimlessly about fishing and childrens' parties.

Lalwendë · 07-10-2006, 09:51 AM

I'm assigning to Mordor the fact that there isn't a thread to celebrate those things which are flippin' brilliant but which quite clearly would not be at all appropriate in The Shire.

These are fabulous things like driving the car very fast on a big empty road with noisy music on the stereo, or freshly laid smooth tarmac, or records that have loads of unhinged screaming in them, or eating slightly toxic chilli for a dare and feeling proud of yourself, or the crisp chemical smell of windscreen wiper fluid and the boxes that you get new VHS tapes in.

Where can such guilty, not quite PC (that's PC on M-E) pleasures go?

Isengard?

Maybe Saruman with his Third Way would appreciate things like that?

Mithalwen · 07-10-2006, 11:34 AM

I would assign my god-daughter for missing the flight - off which I should be meeting her even now - following her first (and I would expect last for a while) solo trip abroad ... were it not for the fact that I suspect that Mordor has nothing to match maternal wrath born of fear and anxiety

littlemanpoet · 07-10-2006, 02:18 PM

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Originally Posted by Lalwendë

Where can such guilty, not quite PC (that's PC on M-E) pleasures go?

Heck, assign them to Mordor anyway, just do it in a different way. Like, say, put "Wicked Pleassure" in the title field. We'll all get it.

Macalaure · 07-11-2006, 06:25 AM

Thinking too complicated.

Doesn't serve making life more easy...

the guy who be short · 07-11-2006, 12:02 PM

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...leaving a group that used to be under my control after the people who dissed me by leaving in protest...

Seeing a man you respect very much using ghetto slang. What has the world come to?

Thinlómien · 07-11-2006, 12:20 PM

Being too much away from the 'Downs.

Lalwendë · 07-11-2006, 03:22 PM

Right, if it's Wicked Pleasure time then I had a good one today.

Having a member of the Cabinet overhear you say "I'm going to be a pixie today". Its not my fault, I didn't know he would come and stand by me while I was saying this. Tee-hee. I might get a chance to embarrass myself again later in the week too. Goody!

Elonve · 07-11-2006, 11:49 PM

Mean roommates who are fake.
She's horrid to me.
Just because I am younger.
Just because she was the "fat" kid at school everyone was mean to her. She dosen't know what friendship is. I mean I feel bad for her. I try I really do but shes got some Complex or something. She snaps at mean and she's rude.
I am trying really hard! I avoid her actually. So that we don't fight or get yellled at.
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ALASKA MEDICAL MARIJUANA

littlemanpoet · 07-12-2006, 02:15 PM

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Originally Posted by the guy who be short

Seeing a man you respect very much using ghetto slang. What has the world come to?

Ya mean I da man?
Jus' thot I'd do some kickin'.
I ain' from de hood; I be de hood.

(not really, but I've had a few experiences lately)

Anyway, to answer your assignment: I assign the refusal to respect whole dialects of English just because they appear to contain incorrect English grammar. Fact is, 'Ebonics' (the language of the ghetto if you must), follow grammatical constructions from African languages quite closely.

Rune Son of Bjarne · 07-12-2006, 02:21 PM

I assign grammatical constructions from African languages

littlemanpoet · 07-12-2006, 02:46 PM

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Originally Posted by Rune Son of Bjarne

I assign grammatical constructions from African languages

I assign "contrary" assignments.

the guy who be short · 07-12-2006, 03:53 PM

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Anyway, to answer your assignment: I assign the refusal to respect whole dialects of English just because they appear to contain incorrect English grammar. Fact is, 'Ebonics' (the language of the ghetto if you must), follow grammatical constructions from African languages quite closely.

That's all well and good. I don't understand why white British kids are using Ghetto language. Their ghetto is not one with Africa roots.

Still, who am I to complain. They can keep their language without assignation. Only you, LMP, are forbidden from using it.

06-27-2006, 10:47 PM	#1361
Orominuialwen Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: May 2003 Location: Umbar, but before the corsairs took over. (Ave Maria University, FL, USA) Posts: 632	Boredom. I hate feeling like there's nothing to do all day but listen to the radio and go on the computer. It's a little bit sad when talking to my brother (who was in the next room) and his best friend was the most exciting thing that happened all day. (It was fun, though. My brother's friend is pretty cool. He played us music over the phone.) __________________ Gone for lentSeeyou at Easter! (And on Sundays too, maybe.)

06-29-2006, 01:00 PM	#1363
Feanor of the Peredhil La Belle Dame sans Merci Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: perpetual uncertainty Posts: 5,517	I assign flooding. My local streams are flooded... it looks like chocolate milk pouring over little waterfalls, and fields are ponds... there are entire trees floating in a formerly waist-high creek... This is just run-off from a summer storm, though, as opposed to where one of my good friends lives. And my school lies in a flood plain scheduled to get another few days of rain. I really like rain, but that's a bit much. Edit: 6:37 PM. It's raining again. How droll. __________________ peace Last edited by Feanor of the Peredhil; 06-29-2006 at 04:37 PM.

07-01-2006, 05:35 PM	#1365
The Saucepan Man Corpus Cacophonous Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: A green and pleasant land Posts: 8,390	Penalty shoot-outs. __________________ Do you mind? I'm busy doing the fishstick. It's a very delicate state of mind!

07-03-2006, 09:35 AM	#1366
Feanor of the Peredhil La Belle Dame sans Merci Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: perpetual uncertainty Posts: 5,517	I'll assign the disconcerting nature of stumbling sleepily downstairs for a shower only to find my parents sitting in the kitchen with an inclination to learn where I was, who I was with, what I did, and how and when I got home last night. I'd just woken up! Inquisitions at times like those are just plain mean. They're practiced at this parenting thing. __________________ peace

07-03-2006, 11:25 AM	#1367
Mithalwen Pilgrim Soul Join Date: May 2004 Location: watching the wonga-wonga birds circle... Posts: 9,458	I had promised myself to try not to send trivial things to Mordor but one is justified since althought my own case is trivial it has caused enough discomfort to make my heart go out to those who suffer more seriously and more often. So to Mordor with Eczema. __________________ “But Finrod walks with Finarfin his father beneath the trees in Eldamar.” Christopher Tolkien, Requiescat in pace

07-05-2006, 03:29 AM	#1370
Macalaure Fading Fëanorion Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: into the flood again Posts: 2,911	High temperatures. Assigning high temperatures to Mordor might look a little like carrying owls to Athens, but the sweating remnants of myself have to do this, just in case they're not already there.

07-05-2006, 10:24 AM	#1372
the guy who be short Shadowed Prince Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Thulcandra Posts: 2,343	I assign missing Head Boy application. Also, summer storms. They flood our garage, and then I have to help move things and generally unflood it. Ugh. Also, annoying little girls at train stations who say things like "Argh! Thunder! Lightning! I'm so scared" Wah!" How are light and noise far up in the sky in any way scary? Why are they so squeaky and annoying? Grumble Missing University open days. Finally, coming across as a lot grumpier than you really are.

07-05-2006, 11:47 AM	#1373
Kath Everlasting Whiteness Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Perusing the laminated book of dreams Posts: 4,533	Hayfever Having a headache purely because of blocked sinuses is just grrr. __________________ “If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”

07-06-2006, 04:20 PM	#1375
Celuien Riveting Ribbiter Join Date: May 2005 Location: Assigned to Mordor Posts: 1,767	The depressing atmosphere of this dorm. Linoleum tile flooring that looks like it was salvaged from a dingy supermarket. Bare, tan walls and doors in one of the rare shades of pale green that's actually ugly. Cracks in the wall. Fluorescent lighting. And the place is almost deserted. On top of it all, IM is blocked, so I can't even chat with my friends or family, other than by cell phone. And dorm bathrooms. Nuff said. __________________ People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect. But actually, from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint, it's more like a big ball of wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey... stuff.

07-07-2006, 04:04 PM	#1377
Encaitare Bittersweet Symphony Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: On the jolly starship Enterprise Posts: 1,814	Aww, poor Rune!

07-08-2006, 11:40 AM	#1378
THE Ka Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: As with the flygja Posts: 1,403	It's motherly things like that which make me despise my mother still... Especially when she will come by, and draw all over my work, trying to make 'corrections'. I'm sorry Rune, I hope you can get another map, and most of your room back. ~Ka __________________ Vinur, vinur skilur tú meg? Veitst tú ongan loyniveg? Hevur tú reikað líka sum eg, í endaleysu tokuni?

07-08-2006, 03:09 PM	#1379
Lalwendë A Mere Boggart Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: under the bed Posts: 4,737	That there will be no more Doctor Who until Christmas! And they leave us with an episode that was just mind-bendingly fantastic so it makes the torture of having to wait even more horrible. __________________ Gordon's alive!

07-08-2006, 03:12 PM	#1380
Kath Everlasting Whiteness Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Perusing the laminated book of dreams Posts: 4,533	And mind-bendingly depressing! I don't think I've ever been so close to crying due to a TV programme. Ugh, I hate when you get so attached to characters, that can go to Mordor too. __________________ “If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”

07-08-2006, 03:35 PM	#1381
Lalwendë A Mere Boggart Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: under the bed Posts: 4,737	I still can't get my head around just how close some of this was to His Dark Materials! __________________ Gordon's alive!

07-08-2006, 07:26 PM	#1382
Encaitare Bittersweet Symphony Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: On the jolly starship Enterprise Posts: 1,814	Evil, EVIL cliffhangers! Those who have seen Pirates of the Caribbean 2 will know exactly what I mean.

07-09-2006, 07:15 AM	#1384
Celuien Riveting Ribbiter Join Date: May 2005 Location: Assigned to Mordor Posts: 1,767	Confusion, lack of clarity, and indecision. __________________ People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect. But actually, from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint, it's more like a big ball of wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey... stuff.

07-09-2006, 11:02 AM	#1387
Farael Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: In hospitals, call rooms and (rarely) my apartment. Posts: 1,538	I assign missing someone you care lots about who happens to be on a lovely trip to Europe and knowing that you can't tell them you miss them so much because they'll feel bad and you might just ruin one of the mere ten days they have overseas. __________________ I prepared Explosive Runes this morning.

07-09-2006, 02:42 PM	#1388
Lalaith Blithe Spirit Join Date: Jan 2003 Posts: 2,779	Going to the opera with the wrong people. Now, I'm not generally one of those snotty people who think they're too grand for small talk. But when I am watching my favourite opera, with both song and music almost as perfect as you could hope for, and I've been weeping profusely throughout act two with the joy of the thing, I would like to spend the interval either talking about said opera or just left in silence with my thoughts. I don't really feel like nattering aimlessly about fishing and childrens' parties. __________________ Out went the candle, and we were left darkling

07-10-2006, 09:51 AM	#1389
Lalwendë A Mere Boggart Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: under the bed Posts: 4,737	I'm assigning to Mordor the fact that there isn't a thread to celebrate those things which are flippin' brilliant but which quite clearly would not be at all appropriate in The Shire. These are fabulous things like driving the car very fast on a big empty road with noisy music on the stereo, or freshly laid smooth tarmac, or records that have loads of unhinged screaming in them, or eating slightly toxic chilli for a dare and feeling proud of yourself, or the crisp chemical smell of windscreen wiper fluid and the boxes that you get new VHS tapes in. Where can such guilty, not quite PC (that's PC on M-E) pleasures go? Isengard? Maybe Saruman with his Third Way would appreciate things like that? __________________ Gordon's alive!

07-10-2006, 11:34 AM	#1390
Mithalwen Pilgrim Soul Join Date: May 2004 Location: watching the wonga-wonga birds circle... Posts: 9,458	I would assign my god-daughter for missing the flight - off which I should be meeting her even now - following her first (and I would expect last for a while) solo trip abroad ... were it not for the fact that I suspect that Mordor has nothing to match maternal wrath born of fear and anxiety __________________ “But Finrod walks with Finarfin his father beneath the trees in Eldamar.” Christopher Tolkien, Requiescat in pace

07-11-2006, 06:25 AM	#1392
Macalaure Fading Fëanorion Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: into the flood again Posts: 2,911	Thinking too complicated. Doesn't serve making life more easy...

07-11-2006, 12:20 PM	#1394
Thinlómien Shady She-Penguin Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: In a far land beyond the Sea Posts: 8,093	Being too much away from the 'Downs. __________________ Like the stars chase the sun, over the glowing hill I will conquer Blood is running deep, some things never sleep Double Fenris

07-11-2006, 03:22 PM	#1395
Lalwendë A Mere Boggart Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: under the bed Posts: 4,737	Right, if it's Wicked Pleasure time then I had a good one today. Having a member of the Cabinet overhear you say "I'm going to be a pixie today". Its not my fault, I didn't know he would come and stand by me while I was saying this. Tee-hee. I might get a chance to embarrass myself again later in the week too. Goody! __________________ Gordon's alive!

07-11-2006, 11:49 PM	#1396
Elonve Wight Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Where the stars go blue. Posts: 153	Mean roommates who are fake. She's horrid to me. Just because I am younger. Just because she was the "fat" kid at school everyone was mean to her. She dosen't know what friendship is. I mean I feel bad for her. I try I really do but shes got some Complex or something. She snaps at mean and she's rude. I am trying really hard! I avoid her actually. So that we don't fight or get yellled at. ________ ALASKA MEDICAL MARIJUANA Last edited by Elonve; 04-09-2011 at 06:20 PM.