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Weirdest thing your housemate has done?

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    #92
    Fat Christy
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    Chucken wrote: »
    That's what you get for living with boys! :mad:

    I live with 3 boys, best housemates ever!!

    I lived with a crazy french lady for 6 months....it was horrific. She told me to stop plugging my plugs out after 11 (these were in my room!!!) because they woke her up. She also told me that I wake her up at night going to the bathroom, I had an ensuite.

    I opened the window one night because I couldn't sleep with the heat. She complained the next day about catching a cold and then asked me if I opened the window in my room. I stood there in disbelief as she blamed me for her getting a cold. The window is my fecking bedroom!!

    There was a multitude of other sh*te as well. Every time I came home there would be something up with her.


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    #93
    ash777
    Registered Users Posts: 274 ✭✭ash777


    Please don't die, thread. You are a glimmering hope in the world of weird housemates! :P


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    #94
    kylith
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    Lived with a boyfriend for a while who would occasionally lounge around in his underpants. Didn't bother me BUT my parents called round one day and he just stayed there, in the living room, in his underpants, chatting to my mum like it was the normalist thing in the world. I didn't know where to put myself, or how to subtly tell him to go put some bloody trousers on.


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    #95
    Gunslinger92
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    Used to live with a Chinese fella and the only really reason that's relevant is because he'd sing the likes of west life and Micheal Jackson in the shower, which is quite funny in that accent :pac:

    He got weird after a while though, I came home one day to find a load of drain hair on my shampoo bottle. It had to be him cause it wouldn't have been my friend, it was only the three of us in the apartment.


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    #96
    ash777
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    Gunslinger92 wrote: »
    Used to live with a Chinese fella and the only really reason that's relevant is because he'd sing the likes of west life and Micheal Jackson in the shower, which is quite funny in that accent :pac:

    He got weird after a while though, I came home one day to find a load of drain hair on my shampoo bottle. It had to be him cause it wouldn't have been my friend, it was only the three of us in the apartment.
    Drain hair? Was it hair he'd shed, and then taken out of the drain area, and put ON your shampoo? Jesus, if that's what you mean!! :confused::eek:


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    #97
    Senna
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    Threw a full aerosol can of hairspray into the living-room fire to see what would happen.

    What happened was, it blew the window out and the front door completely off.


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    #98
    Gunslinger92
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    ash777 wrote: »
    Drain hair? Was it hair he'd shed, and then taken out of the drain area, and put ON your shampoo? Jesus, if that's what you mean!! :confused::eek:

    Pretty much, yeah :( so gross.

    He was one of the stay in room all day, keep to himself types. We aren't sure if he ever left the house bar to go the few hundred yards down the road to tesco. He'd be up til all hours playing some sort of video game.

    At one stage we were fairy fed up with it, it was a weekend but I'd gone down home. My friend ended up going out, pulling, and purposefully was super loud just to annoy the housemate :o


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    #99
    [Deleted User]
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    Senna wrote: »
    Threw a full aerosol can of hairspray into the living-room fire to see what would happen.

    What happened was, it blew the window out and the front door completely off.

    That wouldn't happen.


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    #100
    donegaLroad
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    A guy in the house arrived back with a new pet snake one day, unannounced.

    His dad owned the house, I was only a tenant. He kept it in a glass case in the corner of the living room. He fed it mice which he bought at the pet food store and kept in the freezer in the kitchen.


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    #101
    ash777
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    Gunslinger92 wrote: »
    Pretty much, yeah :( so gross.

    He was one of the stay in room all day, keep to himself types. We aren't sure if he ever left the house bar to go the few hundred yards down the road to tesco. He'd be up til all hours playing some sort of video game.

    At one stage we were fairy fed up with it, it was a weekend but I'd gone down home. My friend ended up going out, pulling, and purposefully was super loud just to annoy the housemate :o
    That is just manky! :eek::eek::mad:


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    #102
    Jen Pigs Fly
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    donegaLroad wrote: »
    A guy in the house arrived back with a new pet snake one day, unannounced.

    His dad owned the house, I was only a tenant. He kept it in a glass case in the corner of the living room. He fed it mice which he bought at the pet food store and kept in the freezer in the kitchen.

    Im lucky my housemate (the boyfriend) doesn't mind when my frozen mice and tubs of live crickets and cockroaches are in the house :D
    Lizards gotta eat too!


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    #103
    thebossanova
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    I've only lived with one inconsiderate prick, luckily!

    Having asked this guy to take out the bins a few times one week I walked past his bedroom door the following week to see the same full binbags in his room. He decided to keep them there out of my sight rather than take them 4 floors down to the garbage shed of our apartment block. He wasn't working at the time so it's not as if he was busy or anything.

    One weeknight I was woken up by shouting from the living room. Went in to find him bollock naked and drunk, hanging out the window shouting at people below "Who do you think you are? WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE!?". Cue him sulking on the couch whilst I call the Guards when the four youths he had been shouting at start throwing rocks at the apartment windows.

    Another time he decided to wash his rugby boots in the shower. Whilst wearing them. Bathtub was badly scratched and marked. I had to start locking my room when he started taking my tablet out and using it without asking. He also slept about 80% on the living room couch rather than his double bed. I don't know why. Eventually had to kick him out by changing the locks when he stopped paying rent. I should have done it much sooner. Such an a-hole and lesson learned.


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    #104
    Menas
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    thebossanova wrote: »
    I've only lived with one inconsiderate prick, luckily!

    Having asked this guy to take out the bins a few times one week I walked past his bedroom door the following week to see the same full binbags in his room. He decided to keep them there out of my sight rather than take them 4 floors down to the garbage shed of our apartment block. He wasn't working at the time so it's not as if he was busy or anything.

    One weeknight I was woken up by shouting from the living room. Went in to find him bollock naked and drunk, hanging out the window shouting at people below "Who do you think you are? WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE!?". Cue him sulking on the couch whilst I call the Guards when the four youths he had been shouting at start throwing rocks at the apartment windows.

    Another time he decided to wash his rugby boots in the shower. Whilst wearing them. Bathtub was badly scratched and marked. I had to start locking my room when he started taking my tablet out and using it without asking. He also slept about 80% on the living room couch rather than his double bed. I don't know why. Eventually had to kick him out by changing the locks when he stopped paying rent. I should have done it much sooner. Such an a-hole and lesson learned.

    He sounds like a serious loopaa. Would the reason he preferred sleeping on the couch be related to the presence of month old bins in his bedroom?!!


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    #105
    CliCliW
    Registered Users Posts: 235 ✭✭CliCliW


    No housemates that really compare to what's on this thread. Relieved I've never had to live with some of these people, sad I've nothing major to share.

    I've lived in one shared apartment with my boyfriend and another couple, it was a 3 bed so it wasn't too bad, there was an unoccupied room in the middle for a while.

    The other couple pretty much stayed in their room the entire time till crazy o' clock and then would start cooking food. And leave all the dishes there for the next day. One night one of the two of them vomited on the carpet and just moved the couch over to cover it up. We found out when we noticed the couch moved from where it usually is and moved it back. :/

    We had a guy who moved in then and spent the entire time in the shared kitchen/living room. He'd walk around and have the loudest phone conversations you'd ever heard! My boyfriend didn't like him much, he was a little bit of a cranky fecker but there's been worse. We were watching Mr Bean one night and the next day got given out to because the television was too loud... I'm not even sure I can fathom that.

    A couple of months before we left, our landlady arrived in saying "this is X, he's your new housemate". Which was grand, we were talking for about 10 minutes, I explained "there's two other guys living here too". Blah blah, he asked if they were gay and I said yeah I think so, as you do. And then after another minute or two of talking he said "right well I'm gonna get my stuff, see ye" and never came back. Yes a bit homophobic but a good laugh all the same!

    The last guy in before we moved just stole the other couple's milk, so that's not too bad :-D


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    #106
    J Mysterio
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    Room came up in the apartment i was in and was rented to a girl we thought seemed nice, if a litttle shy and quiet.

    The next day her boyfriend basically moved in and stayed every feckin night. They would spend all of their time in the room and would not leave if they thought they might run into someone in the kitchen/ living room.

    They would come in at 2 in the morning and proceed to have ridiculously loud sex, with your one moaning like she was in a porn shoot. No consideration for other flatmates who had neighbouring rooms, who they would wake.

    She was told the boyfriend couldnt live in the apartment. Your man just came anyway and sneaked around the place like a creepy navy seal. They then carried on as before, except trying to have quiet sex.

    In an effort to avoid anyone else in the apartment, they stopped washing their dishes and just piled them up in their room untill we literally had no plates, glasses or cups left.

    Took ridiculous lengths to get them to pay their share of bills. One of the other flatmates texted the girl to try to get her to pay and she responded by text that your man 'should delete her number'. It was amazing.


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    #107
    Crumpets
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    My old housemate once told us she wanted to treat us so she cooked us all a huge dinner. Then the next day she charged us a tenner each for it :confused:


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    #108
    Senna
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    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    That wouldn't happen.

    Try it yourself then, be sure to report back.


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    #109
    Paramite Pie
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    Crumpets wrote: »
    My old housemate once told us she wanted to treat us so she cooked us all a huge dinner. Then the next day she charged us a tenner each for it :confused:

    Please tell me ye didn't pay...


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    #110
    cruais
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    Had a housemate swear he left rent money in the sitting room. Nope. Nowhere to be found and it was just us sharing. Never got the money back either.

    Also got stung on another sunny evening. He suggested a quite pint in the beer garden. Sure says I, so we walked to the pub

    On the way he says he needs to stop at an atm but suprise, suprise, he had no cash. He tried to say it was the machine that was dodgy and could he borrow money.

    I hold my hands up, I was a door mat as the tight fûcker never paid that money back either.

    Ive so much more stories but id be here alll night


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    #111
    ash777
    Registered Users Posts: 274 ✭✭ash777


    Paramite Pie wrote: »
    Please tell me ye didn't pay...
    Did the housemate get the 10 from anyone? :confused:


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    #112
    Fat Christy
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    Crumpets wrote: »
    My old housemate once told us she wanted to treat us so she cooked us all a huge dinner. Then the next day she charged us a tenner each for it :confused:

    Sorry but that is pure gold!! Ahahaha.


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    #113
    Crumpets
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    ash777 wrote: »
    Did the housemate get the 10 from anyone? :confused:

    Christ no!! Just slowly distanted ourselves from the crazy bat


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    #114
    ash777
    Registered Users Posts: 274 ✭✭ash777


    Crumpets wrote: »
    Christ no!! Just slowly distanted ourselves from the crazy bat
    Did she ask again for the money?


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    #115
    Barely There
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    Once lived with a guy for a year that was a bit like the Brad Pitt character from True Romance.

    He spent nearly all the time on the couch stoned. Used to take 2 hour long bubble baths with candles and music, afterwards the bath would be full of potpourri and flower petals.

    Would always fall asleep leaving candles lit and/or windows open - we lived on the ground floor so you were constantly worried you'd get burgled or he'd set the place on fire.

    Met a girl from the States on an internet chatroom and fell madly in love with her. Paid for her flights over to Ireland and when she arrived they disappeared into his room for 2 weeks solid - never saw them at all, used to just hear one of them scuttle to the kitchen for food every now and then before disappearing back to the bedroom.

    They had a massive fight about a month later with loud screaming and banging. She threatened to kill herself, had to call the Guards eventually. He ended up paying for a hotel for her for a couple of nights and her flight back to America.

    I moved out soon after.

    Too much drama,


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    #116
    ash777
    Registered Users Posts: 274 ✭✭ash777


    Barely There wrote: »
    Once lived with a guy for a year that was a bit like the Brad Pitt character from True Romance.

    He spent nearly all the time on the couch stoned. Used to take 2 hour long bubble baths with candles and music, afterwards the bath would be full of potpourri and flower petals.

    Would always fall asleep leaving candles lit and/or windows open - we lived on the ground floor so you were constantly worried you'd get burgled or he'd set the place on fire.

    Met a girl from the States on an internet chatroom and fell madly in love with her. Paid for her flights over to Ireland and when she arrived they disappeared into his room for 2 weeks solid - never saw them at all, used to just hear one of them scuttle to the kitchen for food every now and then before disappearing back to the bedroom.

    They had a massive fight about a month later with loud screaming and banging. She threatened to kill herself, had to call the Guards eventually. He ended up paying for a hotel for her for a couple of nights and her flight back to America.

    I moved out soon after.

    Too much drama,
    Jesus! :P


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    #117
    Billy86
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    john the one wrote: »
    No difference between that and letting the dishes drip dry :):)
    :eek:

    I am never inviting you over to help me with the dishes!


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    #118
    BertyytreB
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    We had a house mate who was a primary school teacher...we thought great a nice friendly small children teacher. She was only about 5ft, dressed well, wore glasses, spoke well...She even had her mam help her move in, lovely lady.

    Then as she was going out on nights out she would dress a bit goth-ish and we thought ok surprising as she looked totally different in her day to day wear...

    Then she started bringing guys back...2am...had sex against our bedroom door with some guy....the next weekend chucked all the stuff off the kitchen table and had sex on it. This happened Friday and Saturday nights, on Sundays morning I would blast mass that used to be on the TV. This continued until we asked her to leave. I was left to clean her filthy room that had used condoms all under the bed and mattress...sick behatch.

    You never can judge a book by it's cover.


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    #119
    pauldla
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    One housemate -well, technically 'long-term crasher' who helped out with the bills from time to time - who used to hide his food in the bathroom. He'd pull out the front panel of the bath and hide his grub under there. We discovered this when he forgot to lock the door one day and he was discovered sitting on the loo eating fried chicken from his 'stash'. Same fella built a sleeping area for himself in the wardrobe where he would spend hours. On investigation we found that he had a small back and white TV in there.


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    #120
    Subcomandante Marcos
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    Lived in residential halls on campus in a college in the states for a while during my post grad.

    First semester myself and a guy from Hawaii who is still a good friend were put into suite with a guy from Florida. At first we thought sweet, maybe we can go visit Miami or Naples during one of the holidays but then we found out he was an absolute hillbilly from the pan handle near Georgia and Alabama.

    He was a political science graduate doing law in grad school, so we assumed he'd be grand.

    All he did was sit on the couch watching Fox News and reading books about the US constitution by racist scumbags like Glenn Back and Rush Limbaugh.

    He'd say the most racist ****e all the time which was awkward because the other room mate was half native Hawaian and very proud of it.

    Eventually he starts trying to goad us into debates on everything from gun control to gay marriage to American foreign policy (was during the bush presidency). He'd get really wound up and aggressive about and could never actually make a coherent argument so we just started egging him on and winding him up and breaking ourselves laughing at him.

    So one day he's especially wound up and going on a rant about border security and comes out with something along the lines of "I've half a mind to go join the citizen patrol and put the glock in my glove box to good use".

    The ****ing psychopath was driving around a college campus, in a state where he doesn't have a licence to carry a gun. We freaked the **** out. So we talked about it for a few days and decided to go to the campus cops about it as there had been a few cases around that time of mass shootings on campuses.

    Cops did an inspection of his car and room and found two pistol, about 200 rounds, holsters, a 6 inch butterfly knife, copies of Mien Kemph and a load of other fecked up stuff.

    They ended up going deep on him and dud forensic checks on his laptop and Web usage but thankfully there was no "manifestos" or scary lists or ****. Just loads of traffic on message boards about local militias and stuff like that.

    He was suspended pending investigation and later expelled from the university.

    Twas a scary time.


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    #121
    El Horseboxo
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    Back in my early 20s I was sharing a place with 2 guys in Chicago. One guy moved out as went back home out west. So we got landed with another guy at the landlords choosing.

    Out first introduction to this guy after we both came in from watching a game together was this new guy sitting on the couch naked with the a/c on full blast (it was December in Chicago... Freezing), some mad speed metal shít blaring and knitting. Didn't cover himself to stand up and introduce himself. In full glory just says, hi I'm Mark, the new housemate and goes back to knitting.

    Didn't see him the next day but the day after, again me and the other guy come in after a watching a game. And he's knitting again. He hands us a knitted tube each and calmly says these will keep your penis warm during the winter. And then goes onto say he made mine bigger than the other guys as he figured I'd need it because I'm black. I'm not black by the way. But I did need it :). Apologised to the other guy and then went to bed.

    He done loads of weird stuff before going missing 2 weeks later. Never took his stuff and we filed a police report. I moved from Chicago a few months later and his stuff was never claimed. No idea what happened him in the end. Had looked out for his name in the media but didn't see anything.


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