What do you assign to Mordor?

[littlemanpoet]

Having to go back to work and my vacation being over next week. But I'm not dwelling on it, no way.

[Feanor of the Peredhil]

Knowing that you are completely out of clean clothes... and there not being a single open washing machine. Actually, I'll expand that to having to share a laundry facility with 140 women. Do you have any idea how many clothes a dorm full of women goes through? There's never an open machine. And then if there is, the dryers are in use for the next several hours after your load finishes.

Not, of course, that I'm annoyed by this or anything.

PS: welcome back LMP!

[the phantom]

having to share a laundry facility with 140 women.

Let me see... 140 college girls... and me...

That doesn't sound very Mordorish at all!

I would tend to place it somewhere between awesome and heavenly.

[Feanor of the Peredhil]

Originally Posted by the phantom

Let me see... 140 college girls... and me...

That doesn't sound very Mordorish at all!

I would tend to place it somewhere between awesome and heavenly.

My dear boy, I am one of those college girls. Which means that you are automatically evenly matched by wit and extreme good looks, as well as debate and observation skills. And then, after being immediately humbled by me, you'd have to deal with everyone else. I have a feeling that you'd be begging to go home within a week.

And interpretation besides the creator's should ought to go there. My photography is not a socio-political commentary on obesity and plasticity of American culture. I do not reflect the impressionable nature of children, nor cynically comment upon "televisions as babysitters". Both pictures mentioned are a study of light, reflection, color interaction, and shape. Also, convenience in completing an assignment, as both vending machine and television (Mordor-worthy creations in themselves) were easily within range of my room. In any case, my interpretation is the interpretation, and that should be that. If I did not create with the intent of a message, then the message is not there. It is your own bleedin' baggage that sticks it where it doe'n't belong.

[The Only Real Estel]

Unsigned positive reps. Yes, I know it's all up to the repper & that I should just be happy with the thought & the comment (& I am), but darn it's annoying when you can't figure out who it is that repped you! Of course unsigned negs would be much worse, but in a different sort of way.

edit: of course it's the height of irony for me to receive an unsigned *snicker* for this post...& the height of cruelty for the repper to do such a thing.

[Feanor of the Peredhil]

Originally Posted by The Only Real Estel

Unsigned positive reps. Yes, I know it's all up to the repper & that I should just be happy with the thought & the comment (& I am), but darn it's annoying when you can't figure out who it is that repped you! Of course unsigned negs would be much worse, but in a different sort of way.

edit: of course it's the height of irony for me to receive an unsigned *snicker* for this post...& the height of cruelty for the repper to do such a thing.

That's hilarious, TOREstel. In a very... well... you know. In an ironic sort of way. Perhaps you could figure out these secret identities by the rep points given?

[the guy who be short]

Oh, come on, isn't it obvious who it is?

Anywho, slightly more on topic, I assign my own procrastination with regards to homework to Mordor. Sixth Form is such that, if one doesn't keep up and do homework the night it is set, it will build up, engulf the non-homework-doer, and spit them back out in a dark world full of frantically turning pages and pressing pen to paper in the middle of the night.

[Cailín]

I just have to...

Phonetics should go to Mordor. Including all people who actually like phonetics. They scare me.

The difference between English and American spelling should go to Mordor, too. Honestly, why couldn't you keep it at one system and vocab?

Also, the expression sanguine about definitely does not belong in a happy land. Nobody knows what that means, anyway *sulks*

And evil, sarcastic, sadistic teachers - who say you argue like the American president - should be assigned to Mordor immediately.

-- Cailín *having some college issues*

[Amanaduial the archer]

The difference between English and American spelling should go to Mordor, too. Honestly, why couldn't you keep it at one system and vocab?

Absolutely. Bagsy our way wins.

Socrates. And Plato. And my Ancient Philosophy teacher with them. Make it a fight to the death between them in fact, preferably above the bubbling pit of Mount Doom's innards. Entertainment for all the family.

[littlemanpoet]

Lost passports and all the resulting complications. Grrrrr! Still in London.

[Lalwendë]

Originally Posted by Lalaith

Now, we know what a person with an American accent means by pants. But when a person with an English accent talks about pants, he means his underwear. What he puts on over his pants are trousers, which is what the characters clearly meant.

Pants to me is translated as meaning something is rubbish or useless. So you might say "I'm not reading anything fantasy after reading Tolkien, everything else is just pants." Trousers are 'kecks'.

I'm sending to Mordor: Anti-Cyclonic Depression. There I was this morning hopefully waiting for a glimpse of the partial eclipse, but the Anti-Cyclonic Depression that was the weather today (i.e. clouds and general greyness and an absence of any weather, even rain) made this impossible. It went a little darker but it was impossible to tell if this was just the unremitting Yorkshire gloom.

[wilwarin538]

I send the people my father works for to Mordor. They want my dad to go on this week long business trip to Philadelphia. Guess when his plane leaves?? Thanksgiving day!!! I know, its terrible.

To Mordor with whoever made that decission.

I also send dish washers to Mordor.

[Lhunardawen]

Math exams scheduled at seven in the morning on a Saturday, no question.

*poke* *poke* I thought you'll stop sending things to Mordor?

This one attracts Mordor like...umm...fangirls flock to the phantom. So there.

[Lush]

Student loans.

[the guy who be short]

As a soon-to-be student, may I ask why, Lush?

[Formendacil]

Originally Posted by the guy who be short

As a soon-to-be student, may I ask why, Lush?

Because when you're done being a student, you have to pay them off...

As for me, I assign car troubles. Specifically, car troubles resulting in said car not moving and needing very expensive replacement parts.

And to Mordor with making important decisions regarding communities. Is there a right way?

[Lhunardawen]

I assign myself for not knowing how to use a sphygmomanometer. I was practising on my mum the other night because she just had high BP that morning, and the way I heard it her diastolic pressure was registering on 20! So on a related note, I assign not being able to hear anything through a stethoscope.

For something really serious, I assign suddenly hearing from high school batchmates that another batchmate just passed away, because of an autoimmune disease. He's too young...way too young...

[jallanite]

Originally Posted by Cailín

Phonetics should go to Mordor. Including all people who actually like phonetics. They scare me.

J. R. R. Tolkien obviously had to deal with phonetics in his professional career and obviously enjoyed it. I am also one of the people who actually like phonetics. So, as another example, is Tolkien author John Garth. Who I would send to Mordor is people who post a request for the pronunciation of some word but then ask that no-one use phonetics to give the pronunciation.

The difference between English and American spelling should go to Mordor, too. Honestly, why couldn't you keep it at one system and vocab?

Again, Tolkien was a linguist who knew about such differences. And there are more supposedly correct spellings than two for many words. British English has the currently taught version, used in European Common Market documents, and the Oxford English Dictionary system, used in United Nations documents and in many academic documents.

Also, the expression sanguine about definitely does not belong in a happy land. Nobody knows what that means, anyway *sulks*

The word is often used, and I think that most who use it think they know what it means. Just look up the word in a dictionary if you have doubts and really don ’t know. See http://www.thefreedictionary.com/sanguine , or http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sanguine , or http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/sanguine or various other sites that will provide an answer more quickly than it took you to type the question in your post.

And evil, sarcastic, sadistic teachers - who say you argue like the American president - should be assigned to Mordor immediately.

I have sympathy for teachers who must deal with what you think is an argument.

[Elyna of Rivendell]

My swimming coach would feel right at home in Mordor. Especially after tonights session.. Yuck..

[Galadriel55]

When school cancels ski day... after you leave home early to get there on time.

[Inziladun]

Knee-jerk reactions from local government officials that inconvenience thousands of people.