What do you assign to Mordor?

[Dimturiel]

I haven't assigned anything to Mordor for over a year...Seems I've been a good girl

I don't know whether this has not already been assigned to Mordor, but anyway here I go: I'd like to send Phonetics to Mordor, and also the people who decided to make it a subject that we should study during our first year in college. I'm also sending my future Phonetics exam (which is surely going to be hell) to become one of the most effective torture methods of Sauron.

This being said, Dimturiel goes back to cramming her head with nasal consonants, intonation, cardinal vowels and the like

[Lalwendë]

I assign that special sense of deep mortification you can only get when your kid shows you up and makes people think you are a bad parent. Like yesterday when a researcher from the Uni came round to ask me some questions for a project I'm helping with and the little one decided to have a full-on screaming fit complete with red face, tears, going stiff and that special, ear splitting yell, that lasted about quarter of an hour.

[Mithalwen]

Originally Posted by Lalwendë

I assign that special sense of deep mortification you can only get when your kid shows you up and makes people think you are a bad parent.

Lal.. every adult knows babies cry - either because they know from experience or it is a reason why they haven't had any!

It doesn't make people think you a bad parent. Responding to the kid sounding his barbaric yawp by smacking his head against a wall would make them think you a bad parent....

He has just got a sense of humour unsurprisingly...

[Rikae]

Always gifted, never cobbler.

[TheGreatElvenWarrior]

The nassty auditions for the spring musical at my school, we have to do this crazy dance...

[Lalwendë]

Originally Posted by Mithalwen

Lal.. every adult knows babies cry - either because they know from experience or it is a reason why they haven't had any!

It doesn't make people think you a bad parent. Responding to the kid sounding his barbaric yawp by smacking his head against a wall would make them think you a bad parent....

He has just got a sense of humour unsurprisingly...

Ah but it does make you feel bad, like everyone's 'staring' at you when your child shrieks. I used to sit and tut myself until I realised that babies aren't angelic little things but are very noisy, smelly and grubby and will put you off curry sauce for life. But still cute of course

And I'm assigning that I've just noticed this will be post 1992 and that makes me feel old as that is when I graduated from Uni and that's flaming well 16 years ago...

[Mithalwen]

I must admit that while I realise there is not a lot you can do about a tiny baby, I do find it annoying when small children are allowed to run riot in shops and the parents make absolutely no effort to stop them, or worse smile indulgently... on the other hand my mum used to think "poor little thing - how could that woman shout at that child so?" ..and then she had us....

[THE Ka]

Originally Posted by Mith

I do find it annoying when small children are allowed to run riot in shops and the parents make absolutely no effort to stop them, or worse smile indulgently... on the other hand my mum used to think "poor little thing - how could that woman shout at that child so?" ..and then she had us....

For both those reasons, I have to second that strongly.

I was a terrible child when I was little, and my brother almost had his name legally changed to 'Attila' by the age of four. Not to make him look unique in the weird name craze that happened during the 90's, mind you...

As for things that need to be send to Mordor, job-wise, employers with rather nasty people skills. I understand having a bad day, but picking up and yelling in the phone, and then slamming it into the caddy doesn't say much in the way of your character.
I guess I was too polite when putting in a resume by asking permission from the all-mighty manager first.

Oh well, I still have an interview somewhere else, just goes to show I guess.

~ Reflective Ka

[Kath]

Going to the doctor just to placate your neurotic mother and ending up with an appointment to see the blasted asthma nurse. I mean, where's the point! I haven't seen one in years because I've had this since I was 18 months old, I've lived through pretty much every aspect of it, I'm on a drug that has all but cured me and this woman who is supposed to give me advice probably doesn't even have asthma and is quite likely to have been in that field of medicine for less time than I've had the damn thing!

*breathes*

Sorry, but for goodness sake. This woman is so lucky I'm not seeing her today, I know it's not her fault but I would have been so defensive.