What do you assign to Mordor?

[Mithalwen]

Originally Posted by Feanor of the Peredhil

Ditto. I still have tragic memories of a guy trying to seduce me with promises to play me Red Hot Chile Peppers songs with an acoustic.

Oh dear.. could have been worse .. maybe *thinks bad folk duo in Four Weddings and a Funeral singing "I can't smile without you"*

[Feanor of the Peredhil]

Originally Posted by Mithalwen

Oh dear.. could have been worse ..

He was the best friend of the guy I'd just broken up with.

[Mithalwen]

Maybe not then.... although if we are going to get competitive being the best friend of your post grad course's man magnet was jolly ... and knowing that every time a new guy spoke to you the third question would be "Is Amanda seeing anyone?"

[Feanor of the Peredhil]

Originally Posted by Mithalwen

knowing that every time a new guy spoke to you

Knowing that every time a new guy speaks to you, his intentions are probably dirty filthy naughty.

[Ibrîniðilpathânezel]

Originally Posted by Mithalwen

Oh dear.. could have been worse .. maybe *thinks bad folk duo in Four Weddings and a Funeral singing "I can't smile without you"*

Hmm, if you want to go that way, I would assign "The Wedding Song (There Is Love)." I've been performing for weddings as an instrumentalist and/or singer (even composer) since that song was written, and I loathed it the first time I heard it. But just about every single bride wants it, and I can't understand it for the life of me. There are so many other songs with nicer tunes and lyrics that make more sense, but do they pick those? No.....

And I fear posting my feelings about "Guitar Hero" would violate forum rules.

[Feanor of the Peredhil]

Originally Posted by Ibrîniðilpathânezel

And I fear posting my feelings about "Guitar Hero" would violate forum rules.

I assign trying to play Guitar Hero and having your friend's twelve year old brother look at you pityingly and tell you how bad you are at it.

[Durelin]

To counter some attacks on the male gender (), I assign living in an all girls suite. Too lacking in testosterone. Yes, I'm serious.

And personally a ruddy big sword has its attraction...

[Feanor of the Peredhil]

Originally Posted by Durelin

And personally a ruddy big sword has its attraction...

I very much agree.

[Lalaith]

I am prepared to make an exception for Alex Kapranos

Ah, but he is clever with it, innit?
I assign guitar solos, as we are on the subject. I have no problem with guitars, men, women or goats playing guitars....but solos are tiresome in the extreme.

But chiefly, and the reason I am here tonight, is to assign finger wounds.
Specifically, slicing savoy cabbage with a very sharp knife while watching Strictly Come Dancing, and cutting right through the thumb and nail, vertically, about half an inch down.
My parents were staying and both are doctors, so I didn't have to go to casualty, they could deal with it on the spot. Bloody lucky really because everyone else in the house was just jumping around going "yuk, ew, argh".
Oh and because there are so many nerve endings in the fingers you go into shock when you wound them. As I did. For most of the evening. *shudder*

[Ibrîniðilpathânezel]

Originally Posted by Lalaith

But chiefly, and the reason I am here tonight, is to assign finger wounds.
Specifically, slicing savoy cabbage with a very sharp knife while watching Strictly Come Dancing, and cutting right through the thumb and nail, vertically, about half an inch down.

Oh, I'll second that one, and third, and fourth it. I did something quite similar a few days before Christmas last year, and it's only the most recent in a series of such incidents between me and instruments with edges. I've sliced off the tip of a finger with a rotary cutter, snipped the webbing between fingers with industrial shears, punched clear through nail and finger with sewing machines at least three times (of course the needle broke on the way back out, not in), had a rusty needle lodge itself until a fingernail while packing up my late mother's sewing supplies... Yes, finger injuries are incredibly painful, and I'm hard put to decide if the pain of the wound was worse than the pain of the novocaine injections on the palm of the hand and between the fingers. I understand your family's feelings of "eewh" quite well. And you were lucky to have skilled help on hand. In the rotary cutter incident, I had to wrap up the hand, clench it into a fist to keep pressure on the wound and hold it over my head while driving one-handed to the emergency room (the nearest of which was about 15 miles away). Maybe it's not such a bad thing that I don't a lot of sewing, these days...

[Volo]

Originally Posted by Lalaith

I assign guitar solos, as we are on the subject. I have no problem with guitars, men, women or goats playing guitars....but solos are tiresome in the extreme.

Most, not all. They're risky that way, although not objectively bad.