What do you assign to Mordor? - Page 47 - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

Lalwendë · 06-25-2007, 03:01 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mithalwen

Get a grip Lal, you shouldn't let trivial little things like death and destruction get in the way of the really important things in life... New balls please!!!!

So I assign rain spoiling Wimbledon, though at least I am not there, doing some agressive sunbathing on Henman Hill and hoping that the rain stops before Cliff sings....

But I should be making a move before Christchurch gets impassable......

Bah. I'm about to check out the 10 O clock news and see if they have given this story some air time unlike the shameful showing at 6pm - BBC News 24 and Sky are now on permanent coverage from Sheffield so they ought to be sorted out now. It's quite exciting in a way watching the RAF rescuing people and you can hear the choppers in our bathroom - it sounds like 'nam.

You'd be pleased if you'd been shopping in Meadowhall, it's cut off - a whole night in the shops, oooh

I'd be making a beeline for the House of Fraser bed department...scarily, I often go there on a day off but I was too tired today!

Thankfully davem had the sense to get home early or he'd be sleeping in the city centre under a bin bag or something. Alas, a boy was swept to his death in the river at the bottom of our hill, at teatime tonight.

EDIT: Disgraceful! 7 whole minutes on the story. This is Britain's 4th biggest city - is it any wonder we shout about the North/South divide?! Grrrrr....if this was happening in Chipping Sodbury there'd be a helpline set up and a one hour news special....

On the plus side I got very excited to see the Sea King rescuing folk from the office I used to work in by the Don, and a shot of the Sheaf by the bottom of our road, approx 12 feet above normal levels...

Estelyn Telcontar · 06-26-2007, 03:17 AM

Lal, the Sheffield flooding got at least a brief mention in the news here in Germany - glad to hear that you two are well, though our sympathies go to those who lost loved ones in the catastrophe.

Lalwendë · 06-26-2007, 03:37 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Estelyn Telcontar

Lal, the Sheffield flooding got at least a brief mention in the news here in Germany - glad to hear that you two are well, though our sympathies go to those who lost loved ones in the catastrophe.

We've got no bother apart from a leaky window, but davem's mam has had to resort to sandbags as their village is flooded.

I think Mattius will be perfectly fine where he lives, too, in case anyone's wondering!

Glad to hear at least the news in Germany gave it some airtime! I'm still a bit shocked at the blase attitude of our news stations - just to add insult to injury last night's ITV news featured the tragedy of a flooded field in Gloucestershire. How terrible that some blades of grass may have been harmed, in contrast to the ruin facing businesses here - even the vast Meadowhall shopping centre is under mud and water, we face having no post for a week and worst of all....the Bertie Bassets factory was flooded so no Licquorice Allsorts!

Thinlómien · 06-26-2007, 04:00 AM

I assign mosquitos.

the guy who be short · 06-26-2007, 05:10 AM

I assign the North-South divide. Even though I live in the South. I'm nice like that.

I also assign contradictory clocks. Do I trust the 8:20, the 8:23 or the 8:25 one?!

Lalwendë · 06-26-2007, 05:28 AM

I also assign unfounded rumours. There's one going round that Ulley Dam has now breached (it hasn't...yet) due to some electrical surges which mean we are being told not to use electricity if possible, which is raising a bit of panic because when/if it does go, all our electricity will be knocked out as the main substation lies in the path of any floodwater!

I also assign sanguinity - we are far too prone to this here, which is why so many people were caught out on rooftops yesterday, assuming it would 'all come to nowt'. I've even heard one or two people being overly bullish today. Or maybe that's just down to something else 'bullish' that folk can be prone to?

Elfchick7 · 06-26-2007, 07:55 AM

Exactly! Unfounded rumors are the worst, except for when people decide that I have started the rumors based on nosy assumptions. I rarely make assumptions and almost never share them with others. *sigh* Some people... Definitely a Mordor experience.

Lalwendë · 06-27-2007, 05:57 AM

Straight to Mordor for:

Parking Wardens who have been ticketing cars abandoned in the floodwater on Monday - people cannot start the things and drive them away, they are having to wait for limited tow truck services. And to Mordor with tow truck services charging through the nose for people to shift ruined, flooded cars.

Electricity wasters as half the city is now on rolling blackouts due to limited power. Plus the electric company for not choosing my workplace postcode to black out today

Selfish bosses who are expecting people who cannot get to work on time or even at all to make the time up! And those who are expecting some reward for having got in - I've been in but I don't expect a medal for it.

Mithalwen · 06-27-2007, 06:47 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by the guy who be short

I assign the North-South divide. Even though I live in the South. I'm nice like that.

I also assign contradictory clocks. Do I trust the 8:20, the 8:23 or the 8:25 one?!

Sweetie, you still live in the North as far as I am concerned .....

Orominuialwen · 06-27-2007, 01:06 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Brinniel

Oh, that's absolutely terrible, Oro. I'm sorry to hear that. Will you not be able to go at all then?

The passport application process really is quite horrible. I applied for my passport several weeks ago, and they told me I wouldn't be able to receive it until around August 16. That means 12+ weeks of waiting!

Yeah, my family ended canceling the trip entirely. We're still waiting to see whether we'll be able to get back the ~$4,000 we paid for plane tickets.

Feanor of the Peredhil · 06-28-2007, 02:58 PM

Ticks.

I'm paranoid from walking through weeds to get to a paddock. Pretty horses, yes, but I'm wearing a skirt and a tank top and somebody just mentioned ticks and how I ought to check for them and now I swear I've got the little critters crawling all over me.

Eew.

Feanor of the Peredhil · 07-03-2007, 02:46 PM

Bug bites.

Because while it's cool that I fell asleep reading Dracula and I woke up to find a crescent moon shaped series of bitemarks that looks like some cool nocturnal beastie was taking a nibble out of my belly, whatever it was set off an allergic reaction to the rest of the world and it's itchy, and I'm allergic to most allergy medications.

Lhunardawen · 07-03-2007, 02:52 PM

Mixed signals - especially from guys, and the resulting awkwardness. They're bad enough as it is, but why does it have to involve someone with whom I'll be working in Microbio lab for the whole term?

Falling asleep on the living room floor, suddenly waking up to realise that, and remembering that you were supposed to be working on a Microbio lab report.

I'm almost tempted to assign Microbio for indirectly causing these, but it's too cool for Mordor.

Rune Son of Bjarne · 07-03-2007, 06:28 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Feanor of the Peredhil

, and I'm allergic to most allergy medications.

allergic to allergy medicine. . . .that is tragicomic.

I would probably laugh a bit if I did not know how awful alergies can be (and mine are not even that seriouse) and how much I love that medication.

Lalwendë · 07-04-2007, 09:22 AM

That special kind of trouser spoiling fear that only comes with being driven at breakneck speed on a surreal route around the city centre by an elderly taxi driver who has an uncanny knack of making the car constantly lurch from side to side, ranting all the while about tax, braking hard behind other drivers, cutting up lorries on roundabouts, yelling about women drivers and going "Eh?!" at everything you say. In a torrential rainstorm.

Rune Son of Bjarne · 07-04-2007, 10:38 AM

Travel agencys messing up your tickets!

Nogrod · 07-04-2007, 11:11 AM

I assign to Mordor unexpected delays that pile up from little things requiring you to do this and that to actually make you unable to accomplish anything you would wish to for days or weeks.

Celuien · 07-04-2007, 06:10 PM

Rainstorms that lead to cancellations of barbeques and fireworks displays.

Lalwendë · 07-07-2007, 12:36 PM

This Live Earth nonsense. I agree with the message but the coverage is appalling - I've sat there for two whole hours through some truly miserable tripe (including a dreadfully flat Chillis performance) to hear Metallica and they not only missed the beginning while they showed Enrique Ingelsias but they cut off Enter Sandman to show some highlights!!!! Blasphemy or what?!

Rikae · 07-07-2007, 12:55 PM

CD players from "The Family Dollar" that inexplicably stop working 2 weeks after you buy them, and can't be returned.

Having your daughter spend her third birthday at her father's house.

The. Horrible. Bright. Sunshine.

Rune Son of Bjarne · 07-07-2007, 01:00 PM

Why can't they be returned?

I don't know the american rules, but if the flaut was already there when it came from the store we have a two year guarentee. . .and it is them that has the burden of evidence.

Rikae · 07-07-2007, 01:01 PM

It depends on the store; Family Dollar won't let you.

Rune Son of Bjarne · 07-07-2007, 01:04 PM

Is there no national standard?

It is weird. . .so they are allowed to sell you broken goods and there is nothing you can do about it?

Rikae · 07-07-2007, 01:07 PM

Yep; all you can do is stop shopping there. Which I will do, trust me.

Hmm...maybe I should assign my country to Mordor; but I don't think it would fit. I guess I'll assign Mordor to the US!

Feanor of the Peredhil · 07-07-2007, 01:38 PM

Working afternoons. It tosses my entire day. Working on a Saturday afternoon means not having time to accomplish anything during the day, spending the best hours inside, and leaving late at night too tired to do anything but collapse into bed.

And worse... the hour leading up to when you're supposed to be in work. What am I supposed to be doing when I only have twenty minutes before I have to walk out the door?

Elfchick7 · 07-07-2007, 08:36 PM

Family events that are scheduled at the last minute so I have to miss them b/c of work. *grumbles* *prays for patience*

Morthoron · 07-08-2007, 08:15 AM

Politicians, particularly those in the U.S., should be assigned to Mordor. I am dreading the upcoming presidential elections and the political dog-and-pony-show that is trotted out every four years with the same lackluster crew of misbegotten candidates who speak around issues (in keeping with the aims of their corporate patrons), while retaining the stilted status quo.

I am reminded of a quote Mark Twain wrote over a century ago that still holds true:

Quote:

Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.

Feanor of the Peredhil · 07-28-2007, 12:24 PM

The way one simple government transaction inescapably means several others, and any goverenment transactions mean paperwork and signatures.

The way I never fit into categories properly so I actually have to talk to people to make sure the fine print does or doesn't apply to me and they're invariably confused about what I'm talking about because they've "never encountered this problem before."

Volo · 07-29-2007, 04:33 AM

Though this is (probably) already assigned, Harry Potter spoilers in livejournal. Shame on you!

piosenniel · 08-05-2007, 12:40 PM

The cancer that is stealing my friend away bit by bit, moment by moment.....

Finduilas · 08-11-2007, 04:50 PM

Chickens. If you've never taken care of twenty laying hens(that don't lay), who get out all the time(and often try to get back in but can't figure out how), you won't understand my complete dislike of them. And then I have to go and feel guilty every time one of them dies, or gets killed by a dog. Humph.

the guy who be short · 08-13-2007, 04:56 AM

Having one eye that's red and gooey and seems impervious to eye-drops.

MatthewM · 08-13-2007, 08:45 AM

Extreme drunken foolishness

and even more so,

people who do not signal while driving

Finduilas · 08-13-2007, 09:16 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by the guy who be short

Having one eye that's red and gooey and seems impervious to eye-drops.

Poor fellow! What happened?

littlemanpoet · 08-13-2007, 05:34 PM

The fool who ran the red light and hit my coworker while walking across the street - at the light - while the pedestrian sign said "walk" - who is, thankfully, merely bruised and battered and cuncussed and a good deal shaken - and missing work (where he's needed badly, but first things first, of course).

Finduilas · 08-13-2007, 05:50 PM

Again poor fellow! So no broken bones? Aren't cuncussions bad?

the guy who be short · 08-14-2007, 04:01 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Finduilas

Poor fellow! What happened?

Seasonal Allergic Conjunctivitis. Thankfully nowhere near as bad this year as when I firs got it two years ago. The world's not so bad...

Feanor of the Peredhil · 08-14-2007, 07:35 AM

Driving through suburbs when you're used to either highways or back country roads. People parked on both sides of the road, unsupervised kids on bikes, pedestrians that ignore crosswalks and favor jumping out from behind shrubbery, hedges that obscure stop signs...

littlemanpoet · 08-14-2007, 09:58 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Finduilas

Again poor fellow! So no broken bones? Aren't cuncussions bad?

Head split open in back actually. Stapled by the EMS folks. He'll survive and probably be much more cautious in the future.

Orominuialwen · 08-14-2007, 11:54 PM

60+-year-old men who wear very small cutoff shorts in public. They were far shorter than anything I, as a teenaged girl, have ever worn.

Ew.

06-26-2007, 03:17 AM	#1842
Estelyn Telcontar Princess of Skwerlz Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: where the Sea is eastwards (WtR: 6060 miles) Posts: 7,500	Lal, the Sheffield flooding got at least a brief mention in the news here in Germany - glad to hear that you two are well, though our sympathies go to those who lost loved ones in the catastrophe. __________________ 'Mercy!' cried Gandalf. 'If the giving of information is to be the cure of your inquisitiveness, I shall spend all the rest of my days in answering you. What more do you want to know?' 'The whole history of Middle-earth...'

06-26-2007, 04:00 AM	#1844
Thinlómien Shady She-Penguin Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: In a far land beyond the Sea Posts: 8,093	I assign mosquitos. __________________ Like the stars chase the sun, over the glowing hill I will conquer Blood is running deep, some things never sleep Double Fenris

06-26-2007, 05:28 AM	#1846
Lalwendë A Mere Boggart Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: under the bed Posts: 4,737	I also assign unfounded rumours. There's one going round that Ulley Dam has now breached (it hasn't...yet) due to some electrical surges which mean we are being told not to use electricity if possible, which is raising a bit of panic because when/if it does go, all our electricity will be knocked out as the main substation lies in the path of any floodwater! I also assign sanguinity - we are far too prone to this here, which is why so many people were caught out on rooftops yesterday, assuming it would 'all come to nowt'. I've even heard one or two people being overly bullish today. Or maybe that's just down to something else 'bullish' that folk can be prone to? __________________ Gordon's alive!

06-26-2007, 07:55 AM	#1847
Elfchick7 Wight Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: In the Greenwood Posts: 201	Exactly! Unfounded rumors are the worst, except for when people decide that I have started the rumors based on nosy assumptions. I rarely make assumptions and almost never share them with others. sigh Some people... Definitely a Mordor experience. __________________ "Yesterday is history. Tommorow is a mystery. Today is a gift from God. That's why it's called the PRESENT!"

06-27-2007, 05:57 AM	#1848
Lalwendë A Mere Boggart Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: under the bed Posts: 4,737	Straight to Mordor for: Parking Wardens who have been ticketing cars abandoned in the floodwater on Monday - people cannot start the things and drive them away, they are having to wait for limited tow truck services. And to Mordor with tow truck services charging through the nose for people to shift ruined, flooded cars. Electricity wasters as half the city is now on rolling blackouts due to limited power. Plus the electric company for not choosing my workplace postcode to black out today Selfish bosses who are expecting people who cannot get to work on time or even at all to make the time up! And those who are expecting some reward for having got in - I've been in but I don't expect a medal for it. __________________ Gordon's alive!

06-26-2007, 05:10 AM	#1845
the guy who be short Shadowed Prince Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Thulcandra Posts: 2,343	I assign the North-South divide. Even though I live in the South. I'm nice like that. I also assign contradictory clocks. Do I trust the 8:20, the 8:23 or the 8:25 one?!

06-28-2007, 02:58 PM	#1851
Feanor of the Peredhil La Belle Dame sans Merci Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: perpetual uncertainty Posts: 5,517	Ticks. I'm paranoid from walking through weeds to get to a paddock. Pretty horses, yes, but I'm wearing a skirt and a tank top and somebody just mentioned ticks and how I ought to check for them and now I swear I've got the little critters crawling all over me. Eew. __________________ peace

07-03-2007, 02:46 PM	#1852
Feanor of the Peredhil La Belle Dame sans Merci Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: perpetual uncertainty Posts: 5,517	Bug bites. Because while it's cool that I fell asleep reading Dracula and I woke up to find a crescent moon shaped series of bitemarks that looks like some cool nocturnal beastie was taking a nibble out of my belly, whatever it was set off an allergic reaction to the rest of the world and it's itchy, and I'm allergic to most allergy medications. __________________ peace

07-03-2007, 02:52 PM	#1853
Lhunardawen Hauntress of the Havens Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: IN it, but not OF it Posts: 2,538	Mixed signals - especially from guys, and the resulting awkwardness. They're bad enough as it is, but why does it have to involve someone with whom I'll be working in Microbio lab for the whole term? Falling asleep on the living room floor, suddenly waking up to realise that, and remembering that you were supposed to be working on a Microbio lab report. I'm almost tempted to assign Microbio for indirectly causing these, but it's too cool for Mordor.

07-04-2007, 09:22 AM	#1855
Lalwendë A Mere Boggart Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: under the bed Posts: 4,737	That special kind of trouser spoiling fear that only comes with being driven at breakneck speed on a surreal route around the city centre by an elderly taxi driver who has an uncanny knack of making the car constantly lurch from side to side, ranting all the while about tax, braking hard behind other drivers, cutting up lorries on roundabouts, yelling about women drivers and going "Eh?!" at everything you say. In a torrential rainstorm. __________________ Gordon's alive!

07-04-2007, 11:11 AM	#1857
Nogrod Flame of the Ainulindalë Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Wearing rat's coat, crowskin, crossed staves in a field behaving as the wind behaves Posts: 9,308	I assign to Mordor unexpected delays that pile up from little things requiring you to do this and that to actually make you unable to accomplish anything you would wish to for days or weeks. __________________ Upon the hearth the fire is red Beneath the roof there is a bed; But not yet weary are our feet...

07-04-2007, 06:10 PM	#1858
Celuien Riveting Ribbiter Join Date: May 2005 Location: Assigned to Mordor Posts: 1,767	Rainstorms that lead to cancellations of barbeques and fireworks displays. __________________ 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.

07-07-2007, 12:36 PM	#1859
Lalwendë A Mere Boggart Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: under the bed Posts: 4,737	This Live Earth nonsense. I agree with the message but the coverage is appalling - I've sat there for two whole hours through some truly miserable tripe (including a dreadfully flat Chillis performance) to hear Metallica and they not only missed the beginning while they showed Enrique Ingelsias but they cut off Enter Sandman to show some highlights!!!! Blasphemy or what?! __________________ Gordon's alive!

07-07-2007, 12:55 PM	#1860
Rikae Mellifluous Maia Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: A glade open to the stars, deep in Nan Elmoth Posts: 3,489	CD players from "The Family Dollar" that inexplicably stop working 2 weeks after you buy them, and can't be returned. Having your daughter spend her third birthday at her father's house. The. Horrible. Bright. Sunshine.

07-07-2007, 01:01 PM	#1862
Rikae Mellifluous Maia Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: A glade open to the stars, deep in Nan Elmoth Posts: 3,489	It depends on the store; Family Dollar won't let you.

07-07-2007, 01:07 PM	#1864
Rikae Mellifluous Maia Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: A glade open to the stars, deep in Nan Elmoth Posts: 3,489	Yep; all you can do is stop shopping there. Which I will do, trust me. Hmm...maybe I should assign my country to Mordor; but I don't think it would fit. I guess I'll assign Mordor to the US!

07-07-2007, 01:38 PM	#1865
Feanor of the Peredhil La Belle Dame sans Merci Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: perpetual uncertainty Posts: 5,517	Working afternoons. It tosses my entire day. Working on a Saturday afternoon means not having time to accomplish anything during the day, spending the best hours inside, and leaving late at night too tired to do anything but collapse into bed. And worse... the hour leading up to when you're supposed to be in work. What am I supposed to be doing when I only have twenty minutes before I have to walk out the door? __________________ peace

07-07-2007, 08:36 PM	#1866
Elfchick7 Wight Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: In the Greenwood Posts: 201	Family events that are scheduled at the last minute so I have to miss them b/c of work. grumbles prays for patience __________________ "Yesterday is history. Tommorow is a mystery. Today is a gift from God. That's why it's called the PRESENT!"

07-28-2007, 12:24 PM	#1868
Feanor of the Peredhil La Belle Dame sans Merci Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: perpetual uncertainty Posts: 5,517	The way one simple government transaction inescapably means several others, and any goverenment transactions mean paperwork and signatures. The way I never fit into categories properly so I actually have to talk to people to make sure the fine print does or doesn't apply to me and they're invariably confused about what I'm talking about because they've "never encountered this problem before." __________________ peace

07-29-2007, 04:33 AM	#1869
Volo Silver in My Silent Heart Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: the great beauty Posts: 1,611	Though this is (probably) already assigned, Harry Potter spoilers in livejournal. Shame on you! __________________ Fenris Wolf The EVEN NEWER Barrow-Downs Photo Page

08-05-2007, 12:40 PM	#1870
piosenniel Desultory Dwimmerlaik Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Pickin' flowers with Bill the Cat..... Posts: 7,779	The cancer that is stealing my friend away bit by bit, moment by moment..... __________________ Eldest, that’s what I am . . . I knew the dark under the stars when it was fearless - before the Dark Lord came from Outside.

08-11-2007, 04:50 PM	#1871
Finduilas Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Home. Where rolling green hills and clear rivers are practically my backyard. Posts: 595	Chickens. If you've never taken care of twenty laying hens(that don't lay), who get out all the time(and often try to get back in but can't figure out how), you won't understand my complete dislike of them. And then I have to go and feel guilty every time one of them dies, or gets killed by a dog. Humph. __________________ One (1) book of rules and traffic regulations, which may not be bent or broken. ~ The Phantom Tollbooth

08-13-2007, 04:56 AM	#1872
the guy who be short Shadowed Prince Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Thulcandra Posts: 2,343	Having one eye that's red and gooey and seems impervious to eye-drops.

08-13-2007, 08:45 AM	#1873
MatthewM Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: New York Posts: 628	Extreme drunken foolishness and even more so, people who do not signal while driving __________________ "Loud and clear it sounds in the valleys of the hills...and then let all the foes of Gondor flee!" -Boromir, The Fellowship of the Ring

08-13-2007, 05:34 PM	#1875
littlemanpoet Itinerant Songster Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: The Edge of Faerie Posts: 7,066	The fool who ran the red light and hit my coworker while walking across the street - at the light - while the pedestrian sign said "walk" - who is, thankfully, merely bruised and battered and cuncussed and a good deal shaken - and missing work (where he's needed badly, but first things first, of course).

08-13-2007, 05:50 PM	#1876
Finduilas Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Home. Where rolling green hills and clear rivers are practically my backyard. Posts: 595	Again poor fellow! So no broken bones? Aren't cuncussions bad? __________________ One (1) book of rules and traffic regulations, which may not be bent or broken. ~ The Phantom Tollbooth

08-14-2007, 07:35 AM	#1878
Feanor of the Peredhil La Belle Dame sans Merci Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: perpetual uncertainty Posts: 5,517	Driving through suburbs when you're used to either highways or back country roads. People parked on both sides of the road, unsupervised kids on bikes, pedestrians that ignore crosswalks and favor jumping out from behind shrubbery, hedges that obscure stop signs... __________________ peace

08-14-2007, 11:54 PM	#1880
Orominuialwen Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: May 2003 Location: Umbar, but before the corsairs took over. (Ave Maria University, FL, USA) Posts: 632	60+-year-old men who wear very small cutoff shorts in public. They were far shorter than anything I, as a teenaged girl, have ever worn. Ew. __________________ Gone for lentSeeyou at Easter! (And on Sundays too, maybe.)