Doorbells. I probably shouldn't hate them as much as I do, but they always, always ring at the most obnoxious times.

Staying with mothers who refuse to throw anything out of their fridges, ever...and the fizzy pickled herrings from last Christmas that you accidentally eat from therein....bleugh, bleugh and bleugh again.

Note to self....remember to check all sell-by dates on anything that comes from that fridge, before consuming....

Must say I agree with that, except that it is my Grandma.

I assign heavy rains that flood basements, thereby providing an evening's entertainment of mopping up the water therein. Maybe the heat in Mordor would dry everything up nicely!

I sympathise, Esty.

Parents: Let's extend the house! Yay! The garage can be moved to the bottom of this big ole slope here.

Clever move. :rolleyes:


I also assign those constant debt adverts on daytime TV. "Hey, you, do you wanna get into EVEN MORE debt? Yeah? Call this number!" And why are they always on kids' TV, anyway? Do kids have debt...?

Mold. Especially when it gets on cool books, like an old atlas, your only greek mythology book, and nature books with awsome pictures. *sob*

Clouds, cold and the possibility of rain when it's supposed to be summer! Come on weather, I know this is England but you don't have to prove the stereotype. :(

I'll take your clouds, cold, and rain any time. This summer in the American Great Lakes region it has been regularly dry and above 90. Until a very lovely wet/cold spell for a few days. It was nice to see green grass growing for a change. So.... to Mordor with climatically incorrect weather. :p

Aye, same where I live, Elempi. It's been miserably hot and miserably dry. Our pond is nearly empty.

Drought belongs in Mordor.

-- Foley

Hot, humid weather. It's supposed to be 94 Fahrenheit outside but it feels like 120 Fahrenheit. :mad:

Getting sick in August! Of all times to get sick, none stop clouds, rain and the temperature hanging around 15 C. Be GONE, and trouble me no more! I assign you all to Mordor! BAH!!!

(Normally I like clouds and cool weather) :mad:

I'm going to have to agree with those who assign hot and dry weather.

Right now, Idaho has the most acres burning in the entire United States (16 fires and 787,342 acres). Five counties have been declared in a state of emergency. Some areas are so smoky you can hardly see and I have even seem flames consuming the foothills with my own eyes.

Any rain that does come only last for ten minutes. I miss the rain and would love to have the kind of rain you other guys are having...

No, but the parents watching with the nippers sure do once they've shelled out for expensive prams, cots, clothes, safety systems, gubbins with Winnie the Pooh on it, etc. etc. All on reduced wages. ;)

I assign that ad where the mum berates her teenage son for not being interested in the fact that she's just changed her car insurance. I'm 36 and I'd also come over all sullen and uninterested if my mother started on about how excited she was that she was thinking of changing her car insurance.

I also assign Three for selling a deaf pensioner a mobile phone they did not want by exploiting the similarity of the word 'three' to 'free'. That's low.

:eek: In other words, parts of Idaho actually look like Mordor. Michigan is so far faring better than that, although the upper three Great Lakes are losing too much water to Erie due to human dredging efforts around Detroit - which, by the by, belongs in Mordor.

Snapping turtles. They eat ducklings..:(

Erm... I eat ducks. Is that really so bad? (Do not answer if you are Fea).

Seeing as I'm here, I should probably assign something lest I be accused of chat... Mispronouncing French words in front of people who know French can go to Mordor. Happened at interviews, happened in front of my ex-teacher... it's just no fun.

Well, considering what I had for dinner just last night...

But it is somehow different when they are babies, and when it eats twenty in one year. Three of my female ducks had each had about 4 ducklings, and not a single one lived over a month. One of them tried raising another group, but they too were eaten. She wandered around for a few days, looking very confused, quacking mournfully. It is one of the saddest things I have ever seen an animal do. This year I am keeping the mother and her (at least) 10 ducklings in the barn till they are big enough not to be swallowed whole.

Middle-aged female professors*.

I think, after an hour and a half of sitting in her classroom without a winter coat, I may be suffering from hypothermia... I certainly never looked quite so much like my avatar!

*no offense - hey, I'll be one myself someday.

three hours of trig!!! O_o

I assign constantly feeling ill, hot, in pain, stiff, swollen, brain-dead, grumpy, fed up and scared. :(

Having idealised images shoved down your throat only makes this even more annoying so that you just want to tell the media/health services/do-gooders/just about everyone to clear off... ;)

Fire ants. I stepped in some while walking around barefoot last night, and now my feet are covered in horribe itchy red bumps. I guess I never realized how horrible insects get in warmer climates!

What happened?

Mustn't...jump...all over that...

She's expecting a baby. :D


I would like to assign the painful and tedious switch to and from computer platforms, and the monetary and other reasons why the switch from the superior platform had to be instigated.

Oh, and please take Vista with you when you go.

I assign bickering roommates who refuse to address their real issue so they just act like spoiled children!

Having completely written an entire paper, looking up the final citation that's supposed to blow away my readers with my brilliance (and finally swing an A from a professor who always gives me Cs)...

And discovering that I overlooked one single sentence fragment in the story ("their old debate, and indeed the only debate that ever happened in their country") that completely (and I mean completely) destroys my main support for my thesis. Fourteen words out of like a hundred pages and a third of my paper's trashed.

:(

I assign the animated LoTR and Hobbit movies to Mordor, as well as Christmas carols.

Okay, the movies I can understand. But Christmas carols???? :eek: ;)

I would assign little yippy yappy dogs, but they are probably already in Mordor.

I assign getting a rock thrown at my windshield by one of a pre-teen gang as I drove down a residential street in the inner city. And I suppose I got off lucky with only a cracked windshield.

Thats Kinda like, up by Fairbanks, Alaska like two years ago... my "clan" as we call it, went up there to go blueberry picking, but there were no blueberries...:(
Ack! Lot's of commercials, get this do that and blah, blah, blah. Especially aimed at teenage girls (ahem), but I don't give into those ads.
Hehehe, a couple years ago, there was a kid in my class that was whining that Heck, I don't even get an allowance. I had to buy my books with babysitting money...
Hehehe... My friend, Katherine said at Denali National Park(Alaska, USA, where I live) or whatever it is, she said that those yap dogs in the summertime during the tourist season, they are eagle food. Katherine said the eagles just come down and pick them up and eat them... Those dogs were never seen again. Just picture Gwaihir doing that!



This is what I assign to Mordor...
Loads of math homework, staying up to 11:00 at night doing math homework, and still not being done with math homework. Plus two days later, my family's cat dying, that we've had for 12 years...

Overdue history papers that loom over your head and taunt you with the fact that your grade is dropping every day that you don't finish and turn the darn thing in...:(

A student councelling course that takes all your time and forces you to make some decision what are you going to do after the upper secondary... :eek:

Mentally pacing the corridors of a distant hospital hoping for good news
Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear...

Fr those who didn't get Mith's point there, Lal's in labour at the moment so we're in the hospital. We're both fine but very bored waiting for something to happen. And I'm typing this on a tiny unresponsve rubber keypad on a Patienline terminal.

I'll keep you all updated.

Though it's nothing compared to Lal & Dave's Mordorism...

Wisdom teeth. I don't want them! It was a devoutly unwelcome discovery, let me tell you. :(

I assign selfish people to Mordor. And friends who no longer feel like friends. Also I assign puppies....yes puppies, they are super cute but impossibly hard to train to not pee on the carpet.

Trying to write an american government research paper about ideological exclusion, over the past eight years, when you live in the current government majority trying to keep such news as tightly under-wraps... Ugh! >_<

I guess I can wait fifty years, until it's just a collective 'bad memory'... :(

Though, this is nothing compared to previous Mordoresque experiences, hope all is well for Lal. :)

~ Understanding Citizen Kane Ka

Rather than "writer's block" I'd like to postulate the "student's block" for a luxury, all expenses paid trip to the cozy fires of Mt. Doom.

Yes, the student's block... a term I just coined (though I'm sure it has been said before) for that moment where you feel that if you read just ONE more word about (insert topic of study here) your brain will turn into mush and drip out of your ears.

:/

confusing/inconsistent friendships.