What do you assign to Mordor?

[Thinlómien]

Originally Posted by Aganzir

Mood swings.

I have a horrible urge to post something like "Agan's mood swings" but that would be rather evil, wouldn't it? (Besides, assigning them to Mordor would be overreacting for my part...)

I would like to assign being increasingly slow in getting things done. It's both laziness and a sort of perfectionism - it's a dreadful combination, really.

[Lindale]

Being born a girl (well, just today, and maybe this time next month).

An exam on post-colonial critical theory on my birthday, precious!

Two big papers due the day after my birthday. My, I wish to be Gollum tomorrow and strangle my professors and hack their accounts so that I can just write a 1.0 on my transcript.

And the fact that I couldn't overdose on coffee because of my hyperacidity. Now, of all times that I need to stay awake despite the boringness of Edward Said! Oh, all of you off to Mordor!

[mark12_30]

Losssssst thingsssssessssss. Ssssssssssssssssss.

[Eönwë]

Having a cold that's not serious enough to count as "sick"/"ill" but still is horrible and causes headaches and light-headedness. For 3 weeks. More annoying than anything else.

[Lindale]

Originally Posted by Eönwë

Having a bad cold that's not serious enough to count as "sick"/"ill" but still is horrible and causes headaches and light-headedness. For 3 weeks.

Shouldn't you be seeking help now, Eonwe?

I assign Edward Said for starting Orientalism, to Mordor, and may he rot there for all eternity. Throw in Daddy Karl (Marx) as well. And all those intellectuals, who are the cause of my pain.

[Rune Son of Bjarne]

Originally Posted by Lindale

I assign Edward Said for starting Orientalism, to Mordor, and may he rot there for all eternity. Throw in Daddy Karl (Marx) as well. And all those intellectuals, who are the cause of my pain.

That just hurts

[Lindale]

Originally Posted by Rune Son of Bjarne

That just hurts

Aww, Rune. Maybe after my exam I'll throw Daddy Karl back to Isengard. But not right now. He belongs to Mordor right now. For all his lovely ideas, which I have to study in relation to Said, Bhabba, those people whose names I can't pronounce.

[Groin Redbeard]

Originally Posted by Lindale

Throw in Daddy Karl (Marx) as well. And all those intellectuals, who are the cause of my pain.

I can second that, Lindale. I also assign Marxist professors who give you a failing grade on a paper just because you disagree with Marxism and are promoting the designs of Capatolism! I assign teachers who indoctrinate you instead of teaching you!

All the universities in this nation stink! The only good colleges left are the Hillsdale College and the military institutes.

[Gollum the Great]

Originally Posted by Groin Redbeard

I can second that, Lindale. I also assign Marxist professors who give you a failing grade on a paper just because you disagree with Marxism and are promoting the designs of Capatolism! I assign teachers who indoctrinate you instead of teaching you!

All the universities in this nation stink! The only good colleges left are the Hillsdale College and the military institutes.

I agree with the stuff about Marx; but I think you exaggerate Groin, when saying that all the universities are flawed. There are a few (smallish sized ones) which provide a decent education. Though certainly, I wouldn't go to most of the colleges in the U. S.

[Aganzir]

Originally Posted by Diane C

I assign Windows Vista, Office 2007 and Visual Studio 2008 - all useless and full of bugs and bloatware. Even Sauron himself would probably dispair after a while

That's why I switched to Linux.

Originally Posted by Groin Redbeard

I can second that, Lindale. I also assign Marxist professors who give you a failing grade on a paper just because you disagree with Marxism and are promoting the designs of Capatolism! I assign teachers who indoctrinate you instead of teaching you!

All the universities in this nation stink! The only good colleges left are the Hillsdale College and the military institutes.

While I do not wish to turn this thread into a political debate, I must say that giving you a failing grade just because you disagree with the teacher sounds pretty unlikely to me. Are you sure it was not because of the fact that you disagreed but the way you disagreed? Say, if you were a teacher and someone wrote a paper strongly criticizing Capitalism without giving (in your opinion) proper reasons for it, would you be tempted to give them a failing grade?

[Lindale]

Originally Posted by Groin Redbeard

I can second that, Lindale. I also assign Marxist professors who give you a failing grade on a paper just because you disagree with Marxism and are promoting the designs of Capatolism! I assign teachers who indoctrinate you instead of teaching you!

All the universities in this nation stink! The only good colleges left are the Hillsdale College and the military institutes.

I'll take that as the term-paper-hangover, wherein suddenly philosophers and thinkers you love reading about you just suddenly want to toss into the fiery pits of Mordor because you just hafta articulate things and your interpretations on them.

If you are saying that your professors (I assume you're in US or Europe?) indoctrinate you instead of teaching you, try University of the Philippines, Diliman campus (the other campuses are sissies!). A semester would perhaps drive you insane. Our college is notorious for producing the likes of founders-of-Communist-parties and students who would eventually go to the mountains as guerillas against the government, usw. Try googling Jose Ma. Sison, formerly a professor of English. But I also have one professor, and I'm almost tempted to write his name, who does not have a political stance, and it reduced him into a thing-of-the-past, a professor never promoted, despite his good teaching skills and his lifetime ambitions to learn Aramaic (to read the Bible) and to go to the places his heroes Aeneas and Odysseus have been (which I think he already has done).

I for one am not Marxist, but I enjoy reading Marx once in a while. In fact I became so amused with it I actually decided to take German as language elective so that I can read it in its original language.

And now that I've gotten past all my papers and exams, Edward Said and Daddy Karl no longer belong in Mordor! Yay! They'll be back here maybe next semester.

But if you want a Marxist into Mordor, then Althusser. Really large nutcase. I suppose geniuses are all nutcases. Which should relieve me a bit.