What do you assign to Mordor?

[Rune Son of Bjarne]

Originally Posted by littlemanpoet

Ah but the primary cook for my food is notorious for a lack of salt (in my most humble opinion), and she complains about the very same thing! I always end up adding salt, even after doing her the courtesy of tasting her (not savory enough) meats etc. And at restaurants, if I order it salty so it comes, and I don't have to worry about it.

Your "Cook" asks you not to salt the food before tasting and you refuse! I never thought that about you LMP. . .

[Lalwendë]

Ah, they only do it because they think they're spoiling you. My grandad used to 'sneak' a spoonful of sugar in my mug of tea (even though Nanna had forbidden it); I have always hated sugar in tea but I used to let him do it just because he was Grandad, and he was allowed to do that kind of thing.

Just be aware that even when you get to 35 they wll continue to do this.

Originally Posted by lmp

Only if you use it wrongly. Salt and pepper are meant to enhance, so don't heap it on. Sheesh. Just like any other spice.

So I assign all the ninnies who don't know how to properly use spices with their foods.

Just be careful next time you visit Yorkshire when asking for 'spice' to add to your meal. I'm having visions of the waitress covering your meat 'n' tater pie and gravy with spoonfuls of Licquorice Allsorts, Smarties and Coconut Mushrooms.

[Eonwe]

Lets see. I assign ear infections, first off.

Shallow bodies of water taht are advertised in their names as 'rivers', but are in actuallity mere creeks.

Waxing cars. Who knew that it could be such strenuous work?

Forgeting all the Calculus I that you slaved over last semester.

Woaw, this list is in desending order!

[Lhunardawen]

Originally Posted by Eonwe

Forgeting all the Calculus I that you slaved over last semester.

Hear, hear! *wails*

[Eonwe]

I stayed up till 12 studying last night. My dreams were filled with rolicing chain rules, quotiant rules, product rules, substitution rules, and inverse trig fuctions.

[shieldmaiden4xsword]

gooey nail polish.

[Kath]

Rain.

Dismal, dreary, wet, damp-causing, cold rain! Theme parks are fun, but not so much when experienced around torrential downpours. It wouldn't have been so bad if I could have gone home and had a bath straight after but no, I had to spend 4 hours on a train. Ick.

[Eonwe]

Kath, there is a rule to be aware of when attempting the visitation of theme parks.

"If you go, there will be rain. If you do not go, there will be no rain."

This rule has been proved correct exactly four of four times in my expierences with theme parks.

[Volo]

I actually like to be in a place like that when it rains, no queues. You get much more worth the money!

[Estelyn Telcontar]

Originally Posted by Eonwe

"If you go, there will be rain. If you do not go, there will be no rain."

Sounds like Murphy's Law to me...

To keep on topic, I assign cold August weather - no sunny afternoons or warm evenings sitting on the patio, July's tan fades rapidly, the days grow shorter anyway, and winter seems to draw closer more quickly when the days are gray.

[Volo]

Originally Posted by Estelyn Telcontar

To keep on topic, I assign cold August weather - no sunny afternoons or warm evenings sitting on the patio, July's tan fades rapidly, the days grow shorter anyway, and winter seems to draw closer more quickly when the days are gray.

and here in Finland it's too hot to sleep... At the moment it feels like I'll be wearing a T-shirt (not the same one ) until year 2007. If you ask me, it could be colder here... thank you very much.

So, I assign hot August weather to Mordor!

[Feanor of the Peredhil]

Originally Posted by Estelyn Telcontar

To keep on topic, I assign cold August weather - no sunny afternoons or warm evenings sitting on the patio, July's tan fades rapidly, the days grow shorter anyway, and winter seems to draw closer more quickly when the days are gray.

But ST, the end of August... the beginning of autumn... it's so bitterly beautiful. The fading brightness of summer green, the weeping blossoms doomed to sleep... The crimson and golden of singing leaves in the trees who keep rhythm with the windblown brush of branches... The shivers from the winds of change, the unpredictable storms, the promise of snows to come so long from now, but still so soon, and the resurrection of sweaters and an excuse to snuggle indoors beneath quilts and throws with a good book and good tea. The smell of hot soup simmering to ward off the chills that come with the season... How could you assign the end of summer when it heralds the coming of fall?

[Kath]

I think it was just bad luck in my case Eonwe. The last time we went to Alton Towers it was a gorgeous day. Sorry you've had so many disasters though!

I actually like to be in a place like that when it rains, no queues. You get much more worth the money!

Nu uh. Going to have to disagree with you there. If anything the queues were worse because everyone went on the rides to escape the rain for a few minutes, even those who would normally just watch.

But, on another topic, I assign my brother until he learns to stop winding people up.

[Estelyn Telcontar]

Originally Posted by Feanor of the Peredhil

But ST, the end of August... How could you assign the end of summer when it heralds the coming of fall?

I've nothing against the end of summer if it actually takes place at the end of August. But it's been cold and rainy since the beginning of the month!

[Lhunardawen]

Being in a partly closed room reeking of cigarette smoke, and having no choice but to live with it (at least for an hour or so). Never mind that it smells awful; I feel like my life span's shortening by the moment. Hold on, my poor respiratory tract.

[Lalwendë]

Originally Posted by Estelyn Telcontar

I've nothing against the end of summer if it actually takes place at the end of August. But it's been cold and rainy since the beginning of the month!

I've noticed the shift in the seasons this year in my garden. The honeysuckle started flowering in June (and is still going strong) when it only usually flowers in September. The Petunias and Lobelia are in their end of season state of collapse. The lavender has flowered and gone. The trees in the city are now starting to turn to autumn colours, including the one outside my house. The trees at the City Farm are covered in cherries and apples and ripe elderberries. At this rate it will be snowing in October. And August temperatures in July?

It said on the news the other day that there is now evidence that the seasons have shifted to start earlier.

I send global climate change to Mordor.

Very, very scary.

[Kath]

The horrible, pointless death of a child.

She's not my child, she's not even related to me, she's the little sister of one of my closest friends, but the sadness of it permeates everything. When someone old dies it isn't right or good but at least you can say they've had a full life, that they've lived. How can you say that with someone who never even reached their tenth birthday?

[shieldmaiden4xsword]

Kath, that really hurts. Why? WHY???

[Feanor of the Peredhil]

Spending my last two days home until late November at work. Eew.

[Mithalwen]

The fact that this thread has twice as many posts as assigned to the Shire... we are clearly glass half empty people.....

[Kath]

Nah, it's just easier to complain!

I assign prickly heat rash. Please, stop the itching!

[Rune Son of Bjarne]

It is like this song by a band called TV2. "Kom lad os brokke os" (come lets complaint)
They go on to sing "it is what we do best" and "it is probably what makes us feel good" (maybe good should be best)

[shieldmaiden4xsword]

I assign to Mordor......hmmm...... journals that resist ink.

[Lalaith]

I assign those awful skin-tight knee-length hipster shorts that have been fashionable this summer.
They are so unbelievably unflattering that only one woman in a thousand can carry them off. I keep seeing young girls, with what would in normal clothes be perfectly decent figures, rendered completely lumpen and ghastly by these things. (Especially when phones, ciggie packets or wallets are shoved into the back pockets - shudder)
The designers who dreamt them up should be sent to Mordor too for their misogynistic unkindness. And, quite frankly, the best friends of the wearers, too, for letting them go out dressed like that without saying anything.

[shieldmaiden4xsword]

I agree. I also assign to Mordor those jeans for guys that are designed to show 5 inches of boxers. For goodness sakes, i DO NOT want to see that!!!!

[Lhunardawen]

Originally Posted by Mithalwen

The fact that this thread has twice as many posts as assigned to the Shire... we are clearly glass half empty people.....

Let's say I'm bitter and seeking revenge, but you're assigned because I've already posted that somewhere in this thread. tgwbs assigned me for the same reason, but not for the same subject.

But I'd rather say that I just want my mum in Mordor with me.

Anyways...I assign my Anthro 10 prof. I normally wouldn't assign specific people to this place...

Well, you just did. Twice.

Umm...yeah. Anyways, but this one, he's just really, really...argh.

And I assign the deathly sweet smell of formalin. 1.0 M ammonia and formalin. The poor Mordorians.

[Farael]

I assign Lhuna for assigning one molar Ammonia to where I have been assigned before... I know I haven't been posting much on the 'downs lately, but I couldn't pass up a chemistry assignment (no pun int... ok, fine, I did it on purpose)

[Rune Son of Bjarne]

No one assigns Lhuna, no one !

You just made my list of enemies. Wich after a game of survivor, is growing suprisingly long. . .

[Feanor of the Peredhil]

Caffiene addiction (and subsequent crash in the middle of my first World Religions class).

Lecture-based classes.

OTC pain killer tolerance.

When people unnecessarily sweeten iced tea. Green tea needs no mass quantities of sugar! It's like drinking syrup. Eew.

White dorm walls. That I'm not allowed to paint.

[the guy who be short]

Originally Posted by shieldmaiden

I also assign to Mordor those jeans for guys that are designed to show 5 inches of boxers. For goodness sakes, i DO NOT want to see that!!!!

It's lovely when people say "nice boxers" to you. I don't see this vendetta people have against men showing boxers - I don't claim to understand fashion, but it's hardly a hideous sight.

On a more serious notes, I assign When People Are Kicked Out of Colleges. It doesn't seem fair that the second kindest, nicest, sweetest guy I know is forced to leave when complete idiots are allowed to stay. There's more to people than their grades. These poor selection processes are upsetting.

[THE Ka]

Originally Posted by Feanor of the Peredhil

White dorm walls. That I'm not allowed to paint.

Eek gads! White walls are a threat to my existence, I truly understand where you are coming from.

Since they seem to want to keep you in a containment cell of torture that you cannot paint, try covering most of the walls with things you like, or best of all, a montage or collage of your favoured colours.
Don't try to become boxed in, when stuck, just make your own.

~ Ka

[Feanor of the Peredhil]

Originally Posted by THE Ka

Eek gads! White walls are a threat to my existence, I truly understand where you are coming from.

Whether I call myself an Art Ed. major or an English/Linguistics double major, I still have this... thing... with white walls. They aren't allowed. I'm actually very seriously considering asking my RA if we can paint one of the walls... if we paint it back at the end of the year. Mural, anybody?

[Volo]

Broken bicycles...
And days on what everything seems to go wrong, but to somebody else seem comical...
And both of those even Mordorer...

[Orominuialwen]

School scheduling mishaps. Having 4 study halls in a row is not cool. Neither is having to drop 3 classes (only one of which I wanted to drop in the first place) just to fit my French class into my schedule. I was really looking forward to Astronomy & Jewelry Making!

[piosenniel]

Viruses that lodge in your lungs; make your joints ache, your head swim . . . & by extension the patients who never listened to their mami when she told them to cover their coughs . . .

~*~ Pio, the peakéd

[the guy who be short]

Originally Posted by Oro

School scheduling mishaps

Hear hear!

I have to go to a different college, with crummy teaching, to study Psych. Why can't I have the lovely teacher who is not only competent at passing on information, but also treats me as an equal and will happily chat about her uni days or the last time somebody asked her out.

[THE Ka]

Originally Posted by Feanor of the Peredhil

I'm actually very seriously considering asking my RA if we can paint one of the walls... if we paint it back at the end of the year. Mural, anybody?

You should!

Best of luck Fea!

~ Ka

[Rune Son of Bjarne]

I assign having to use crap earphones, because someone thought it would be a great Idea destroying you sennheisers !

I know I sound spoiled, but when you use your earphones as much as I do, it becomes a quite annoying thing.

[littlemanpoet]

Originally Posted by Orominuialwen

I was really looking forward to Astronomy & Jewelry Making!

Jewelry Making? Is an actual class? Offered in high school? A vocational trade, is it? Or is it fluff? Just curious....

Oh, and I assign to Mordor the orc-ization of education.

[Volo]

Originally Posted by Rune Son of Bjarne

I assign having to use crap earphones, because someone thought it would be a great Idea destroying you sennheisers !

I know I sound spoiled, but when you use your earphones as much as I do, it becomes a quite annoying thing.

Agree! Especially when you have to wear a bicycle helmet (yes, you have to wear one) and can't use big earphones. Now my little earphones broke because a friend rotated them...