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

Brinniel · 04-28-2008, 05:31 PM

Money....or rather, the lack of it.

Eönwë · 05-01-2008, 02:40 PM

SATs revision which prevents your Downs-time

Kath · 05-01-2008, 05:48 PM

Unhelpful train station people who seem to have made it their aim in life to make your journey as difficult as possible.

Nerwen · 05-01-2008, 10:54 PM

1. The university library staff. I had to book a camcorder from them to shoot my short film, and I got permission from the Multimedia department and everything– and then when I got there on the day they said, "Wait, you were meant to get this other form signed that we didn't tell you about. Now all we can give you is this cheap little handycam. Sorry." Not only that, but they told me I could pick up the thing at 10 AM on Sunday– when, as it turns out, the library doesn't open until the afternoon!

2. The fact that I have such an overactive imagination that every time I go to the doctor/dentist/optometrist for a checkup, I start thinking that this time they're going to find I have a terrible, incurable disease and I'll wind up in one of those "please donate your blood/organs/bone marrow and give this poor dying girl a chance of life" ads. I'm that pathetic!

Volo · 05-05-2008, 10:52 AM

I am very annoyed that the copy of Supernatural Fairy Tales: The Progressive Rock Era is too scratched to be copied on my computer. Why! Why!! Why the prog rock??

davem · 05-05-2008, 11:51 AM

You discover that one of the formative TV series of your childhood, Arthur of the Britons, http://homepage.ntlworld.com/p.thorp...hur/arthur.htm has just been released on DVD in a four disc set, & you grab the thing off Amazon & sit in front of the TV remembering the first time you saw it 36 years prevously,aged 12, having rushed home from school (no VHS in those days) in order to catch it.

And its just as good as you remember & you sit there with a big silly smile on your face...

So what is it about the experience that needs assigning to Mordor? You're looking up stuff about it on the web & discover that Michael Gothard, who played Arthur's foster brother Kai in the series (this is him - on the right on the DVD cover http://www.networkdvd.net/product_in...roducts_id=575 committed suicide in 1992.

Nerwen · 05-09-2008, 09:54 AM

Waking up to find that my beloved little cat died in the night. I'm so upset– he was the cutest little thing, and I don't even know why he died... he just wasted away overnight...

04-28-2008, 05:31 PM	#1
Brinniel Reflection of Darkness Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Polishing the stars. Well, somebody has to do it; they're looking a little bit dull. Posts: 2,983	Money....or rather, the lack of it. __________________ Nolite te bastardes carborundorum

05-01-2008, 02:40 PM	#2
Eönwë Flame Imperishable Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Right here Posts: 3,928	SATs revision which prevents your Downs-time __________________ Welcome to the Barrow Do-owns Forum / Such a lovely place

05-01-2008, 05:48 PM	#3
Kath Everlasting Whiteness Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Perusing the laminated book of dreams Posts: 4,533	Unhelpful train station people who seem to have made it their aim in life to make your journey as difficult as possible. __________________ “If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”

05-01-2008, 10:54 PM	#4
Nerwen Wisest of the Noldor Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: ˙˙˙ssɐןƃ ƃuıʞooן ǝɥʇ ɥƃnoɹɥʇ Posts: 6,694	1. The university library staff. I had to book a camcorder from them to shoot my short film, and I got permission from the Multimedia department and everything– and then when I got there on the day they said, "Wait, you were meant to get this other form signed that we didn't tell you about. Now all we can give you is this cheap little handycam. Sorry." Not only that, but they told me I could pick up the thing at 10 AM on Sunday– when, as it turns out, the library doesn't open until the afternoon! 2. The fact that I have such an overactive imagination that every time I go to the doctor/dentist/optometrist for a checkup, I start thinking that this time they're going to find I have a terrible, incurable disease and I'll wind up in one of those "please donate your blood/organs/bone marrow and give this poor dying girl a chance of life" ads. I'm that pathetic! __________________ "Even Nerwen wasn't evil in the beginning." –Elmo.

05-05-2008, 10:52 AM	#5
Volo Silver in My Silent Heart Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: the great beauty Posts: 1,611	I am very annoyed that the copy of Supernatural Fairy Tales: The Progressive Rock Era is too scratched to be copied on my computer. Why! Why!! Why the prog rock?? __________________ Fenris Wolf The EVEN NEWER Barrow-Downs Photo Page

05-05-2008, 11:51 AM	#6
davem Illustrious Ulair Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: In the home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names,and impossible loyalties Posts: 4,240	You discover that one of the formative TV series of your childhood, Arthur of the Britons, http://homepage.ntlworld.com/p.thorp...hur/arthur.htm has just been released on DVD in a four disc set, & you grab the thing off Amazon & sit in front of the TV remembering the first time you saw it 36 years prevously,aged 12, having rushed home from school (no VHS in those days) in order to catch it. And its just as good as you remember & you sit there with a big silly smile on your face... So what is it about the experience that needs assigning to Mordor? You're looking up stuff about it on the web & discover that Michael Gothard, who played Arthur's foster brother Kai in the series (this is him - on the right on the DVD cover http://www.networkdvd.net/product_in...roducts_id=575 committed suicide in 1992. __________________ “Everything was an object. If you killed a dwarf you could use it as a weapon – it was no different to other large heavy objects."

05-09-2008, 09:54 AM	#7
Nerwen Wisest of the Noldor Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: ˙˙˙ssɐןƃ ƃuıʞooן ǝɥʇ ɥƃnoɹɥʇ Posts: 6,694	Waking up to find that my beloved little cat died in the night. I'm so upset– he was the cutest little thing, and I don't even know why he died... he just wasted away overnight... __________________ "Even Nerwen wasn't evil in the beginning." –Elmo.