roommates

nosmo

I have heard a thousand and one stories about wierd roommates in ctyi, and then i have experienced a few odd things too... and with the coming of this one person per room thing, the age of the terror of sleeping in the presence of a psycho/madman/norm has ended..
so, roommate stories,then? And we can press the memories into a book of lost bits of ctyi... aaand now i'm babbling..

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Carpe noctem
nosmo:king

lordsippa

My roomie back in 2000 was Jimi (Kavanagh). For all who know him that should be enough. That was the year you may have seen Dan sitting in our room avoiding Feargal (hehe... don't ask), and everyone should probably remember the whole e-coli incident. <sigh> Also the hidden cache of stolen lab gloves... mmm...

But the best story is about the last few days where his project was due... The last night before it was due actually... he didn't have any done. So he was freaked. Then he discovered I was asthmatic (his project was on asthma) and asked me many questions. That night, after lights out, he got to work, borrowing a torch belonging to me to use to see his work. Eventually I woke up next morning to find him lying completely wiped out in his bed, my torch off on the ground and his project finished beside it. My torch has since refusen to work. I should milk him for another one... <sigh> ... dunno why that one sticks. There are a **** load of other funny stories, but that one is just one that I remember. Possibly cause of the three weeks later, when I tried to use the torch. Ba5tard ;p

alaskagirl

i actually didnt mind having a rommate in the same room. then i had someone to talk at in the middle of the night. and then if you dont like one, you have a nother. however, i liked both of mine. my roomie at cty in america was a weirdo. she would spend all of her time in our room making doll clothes. and she didnt ever talk. and i ended up talking to my wall at night. well, she wasnt that bad. my friend would wake up every morning to her roommate with a knife and a towel, carving things in her ankles and wrists and bleeding all over the place. not that i have anything against it, but its creepy waking up to that. and every night her roomie would go on about walking in to shopping malls and killing all of the kids in the daycare, and a bunch of other people and herself. and this was all in like 5th grade and we were eleven years old. it creeped me out.

nosmo

Originally posted by alaskagirl
i actually didnt mind having a rommate in the same room.

Did I ever say it was a bad thing? I actually think, if you are lucky it is one of the best parts..

imp

Roommates... heh...

OK then in 2000, when we were in VG047 (methinks) I was sharing a room with Abe Hendersonbrown ("Hendersonbro" according to the doorsign) and in the other room was Andrew Quinn. This was all good and very fun except for a couple of things...
a) Abe had/has a fascination for Dwarf porn
b) He offered me "ten punts" to **** a Mr. Kipling Bramley Apple Pie (in front of him) (I said no).
c) Andrew broke the silence one night, by saying <SLIGO ACCENT> "Has anyone else here ever been caught by der mam in a compromisin' position with a baguette 'cos I have." </SLIGO ACCENT>

Then there was our honorary roommates Chris Daly and Andrew Byrne. But I can't remember any good stories about them.

And then this year I shared with Sam O'Toole and John O'Rourke was in the other room. They didn't really have any good stories either... except that homicide...

}:>

Smiley

When we first came to CTYI, on the first day, I was the first one there out of my roomies. I chose the single room, as it had more space etc. As the time progressed, and we all got to know eachother a little better, one of my roomies began to complain...

'He's a slob'...he would say....'he's messy and disgusting'....

And time went on....

'please swap with me'....'I'll pay you anything'....

And time went on some more...

'I'm gonna kick him out today'....'Just wait and see'...

And at one time, my other roomie came in and said...

'I dunno what his problem is...'...'He's a tidy freak'...

So you can get the idea...Things got a bit out of hand, and the tidy freak (dermot) kicked the slob (ronan, who had now been christened the 'campus slob') out. RAs were consulted, and the matter was resolved.

Funny thing is, at the very beginning of the 3 glorious weeks, I suggested a plan of rotating bedding arrangements. They refused, so I suppose it was they're own fault.

For me, as an onlooker this situatrion was quite funny. Other people recognised Ronan as a slob.

btw for those of you who were at the blind date s1 '01, Dermot was the blond guy who went off with Nessa (?).

Well, that's all from this end,

Happy molecules,

Mike...

Asuka

Hmmm... depending on how you look at it, ive had either good luck or bad luck with roommates - and a fairly wide variety. Im not going to relate any stories so as not to embarass anyone (including myself) but it was a good laff. If ive got any surnames wrong, I apologise. I dont have a good memory for names.

98 - Damien Culley and Michael Freedman
I never saw them again at CTYI. TBH, these guys were nobodies, but then so was i in 98 so we got on grand. I had the single room and we didnt really associate that much.

99 - Cillian O Hogan and Ken Mooney
We took different classes (I was in Psych, they were in Music), and again, I had the single room, but we got on grand nonetheless.

00 A - Luke Reynolds and Paul (cant remember surname)
Both really great guys, sadly Paul got the bad end of the stick here, being caught between me and the violent American. Fortunately for him, I shared his room and Luke got the single (despite being late). Me and Luke got on great tho, even when he was the proverbial gooseberry.

00 B - Chris Daly and Peter Budden
As Ian mentioned, Chris was their honorary roommate, and in the same way, Galen was ours (he slept most of the night in our room one night). Peter, in the single room, was possibly one of the most strongly opinionated people ive ever met (other than my brother).

A

smiles

Hmmmm... well I tended to be the honourary (or however you spell that) roommate cause I was a commuter for the first 3 years

Last year? I was in the single room, but I got on well with the two (very quiet) girls who were there too A few late night coco-pops night was the majority of it.

I'm a bad sleeper so i spent most nights sitting on the desk reading books off the reflected light of the big floodlight outside my window - RAs loved me, they'd tell me to get in and i'd treathen to throw the books at them

<< Fio >>

alaskagirl

the majority of our late-night activity was doing the lab reports that we hadnt done at study. we'd close ourselves in the hallway and sit there cramped up for hours.

duckgirl

In 2000, i was sick from the first to the second friday.
when i came back, the had bonded and i was the extra left out one.

ASUKA, i remember peter budden, he WAS incredibly opinionated. did he do the hand waving thing. Or sing the "Go Walking" song. Or do the weird rave dance.

God that was stupid.

Asuka

I dont recall any of that stuff, but he did take up 8 pages playing the penis game in my red book after i had specifically told him not to (and which was full before the end of the session). Still, its fun to have an extremist for a roommate now and again (Just dont ask him about his views on women )

A

Focalbhach

There's no roommates this year?! When did that happen?! How come?

Hehheh....I shared with Vlad Malofeev last year - any of you remember him? You couldn't have missed him! Small,skinny,kind of psychotic Russian guy....him and my other roommate hated each other with a passion,and I was stuck in the middle....I never actually found out why in the end up,they just kept telling me to "ask him!"....

And while we're on the subject of communal roommates,Seth (Green? I'm not sure if that's his surname or not) sort of filled that role for everyone in our class - he used to wander in and out of all the rooms in our hall (in various states of undress), take milk/bread/biscuits/toilet roll from their rooms,and leave without saying a word. Or he'd walk in,drop his pants,ask us if we've ever had genital crabs,ask us if we wanted to touch his,ask us if we were sure,and leave. I think he did that out in the courtyard as well a couple of times.....

Ahhh,them were the days

nosmo

Originally posted by imp

b) He offered me "ten punts" to **** a Mr. Kipling Bramley Apple Pie (in front of him) (I said no)

That was easy money,you eejit..
and the pie would have enjoyed it...

lordsippa

Heheheh... good ol' seth.

And ken did law adam. I was in your RA group so i speak with the knowledge of ten me's.

Um... heheh... Breifne was sort of a roomie last year. He'd come into our place and eat all our food, then tell us to put the lights out and leave. Good old breifne eh? <sarcasm>

Hehehe... Cillian.... great guy, but god 99 was funny. (ask adam).

And... um... <runs>

Focalbhach

So why no roommates this year?

Scarinae

There's only two people per apartment thing this year because there's some new safety regulation, that's why loads of people from Dublin were asked if they'd mind commuting.
My roommates in S1 2000 were Caitriona and Clare, we used to drive the people in the next room mad because Clare had a clarinet and we used to have off-key singalongs. We also used to get up in the middle of the night to eat Coco Pops and chocolate Hobnobs (the best biscuits ever) and entire pots of Milky Way spread. Once my mother bought me a twelve pack of decaffinated Coke by accident but we drank the cans anyway and I don't know what they put in instead of caffeine but it did weiiiird things to me... That was the day I first saw our pet leprechaun Cornelius Ignatius Abraham who was unfortunately later eaten by a dog.
My roommates in S2 2001 were Susan and Carolan, they were great fun as well although I think many a rumour has gone around about what we got up to behind closed doors since I've heard some people talking about it (i.e. Nigel) Susan screams to wake herself up in the mornings but I didn't realise that so I got a fright the first time she did it! Susan and I ate apples covered in Nutella, it's really tasty and it feels really healthy because of the apple. Carolan thought that was gross though. You've probably all realised by now that I like chocolate...
I remember Vlad from 2000! I kicked him really hard once without meaning to and then I felt really guilty. Isn't Seth Green the actor guy from Buffy and Austin Powers?

qwidgybo

just one per room because of a change in insurance dealies.or fire regulation dealies.one or the other

Man U babe

I remember Vlad, the psychotic little russian. He was in s1 2000 biotech and nobody ever wanted to be his lab partner (I wonder why....) I think we kinda picked on him. He liked telling us about his science lab disasters in school in Russia. He's doing the leaving this year even though hes not 17 till october.
My room mates last year were Karen and Noelle, they were real nice. Karen limped everywhere cos she broke her foot playing football. Breifne didnt like us, he made us go to bed early.

Asuka

Law? Maybe - I wouldnt know. Like I said, he wasnt in my class.

A

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Vlad goes, well he's finished now, but he went to my school and he is really sound. You lot just saw a pale guy with glasses that was bumped from second to third year who should have gone to fifth except the state insisted he sat the Junior Cert. He is a damn cool guy, admitedly, oddly intelligent -- he won the Irish Chemistry Championships (or something like that) and is going on to represent Ireland against the world in Chemistry championships. That might not be a great success in your eyes but for someone who had to leave his country and was living in semi-poverty for his first year / eighteen months in this country that is a damn good achievment and you can all say what you want. Vlad Rocks. Anyone who dislikes Vlad without getting to know him, sucks.

Vlad 1
World (especially mean CTYI'ers who disliked him without knowing him) 0

Forshame guys, forshame.

imp

Originally posted by G@ndalf

and the pie would have enjoyed it...

That's a lie and you know it! Not even a pie could love me

Originally posted by Leto

There's no roommates this year?! When did that happen?! How come?

Doesn't it suck?? I think its because DCU scrapped the idea and CTYI has to go along with it. Luckily I'm not there this year and am hence unaffected.

Originally posted by Man U Babe

I remember Vlad

Does anybody else remember Edan(?) from 2001?? Talk about annoyi... oh look there he is.

And duckgirl who is ye??

I'm bored. Someone help.

}:>

Moni

EDAN!!

he was in my class... it was awful.

and after ctyi, he decided he hated me, and harasses me online now...

at least I don't think he's coming back....

lordsippa

I think the Seth actually in question is Seth Culley (i think that's his surname). If he's here, I'd like to let him know I'm pregnant. But that's a different story...

Oh... And Saturday Night Live (bare in mind these are OLD reruns I'm seeing) has Garth. Ian.... Garth. Y'hear me? GARTH! Now Ian, you know what you must do to RTE right?

Focalbhach

Seth Culley! That's it! I knew it wasn't Green,but that name just popped into my head and I couldn't get it out........oh well,mystery solved.

Stupid health regulations.....maybe we could start a campaign on the grounds that without we need roommates to help us cope with the pressure of living out in the big bad world without our parents (go with me here), and that the mental health risks far outweigh any physical risks...............it could work............

OrangeRhino,I never said I didn't like Vlad - he was pretty sound. The fact that he was slightly psychotic desn't mean that he wasn't sound! :)Remember,I was the guy in the middle between him and my other roommate!

I've never actually gotten how you can dislike someone without knowing them......if you're chatting to them and they're pricks,or they offend you,or whatever,fair enough,just don't talk to them again - but you can't just see someone and say "he's blond....wanker".

*curls invisible beard*

Ken did music that year. And I'm guessing that'd be Seth Cully...

duckgirl

Imp, my <quote>"real"</quote>name is Zoe McNair.
But most people only know my 'little friend' Columbus The Devil Duck,

ASUKA, I have a forever friends notebook with 14 pages of PENIS.
He did it twice, THEN wrote a message accusing me of being a spoilsport for not letting him do it a third time.

In S1 2001, my roomate had acrush on this guy in our class. So darragh made me help him matchmake. Then i had to isen to her complain that she just wanted to be friends and he wanted more. This was at the first disco. She did'nt realize until yhe last week that he just wanted to be friends too.
That was confusing.

Crash

Hmmm....does anyone remember my roommate? With the quote

My arrogance helps me get girls!

Who snored. Constantly. And my walkman wasn't loud enough to block it out.


Hmmm.....does anyone remember when i got brained by that aero that nearly left a huge bruise on my forehead?

Elvish

i remember him alright neil. I don't remember that particular quote, but it seems to be in line with the rest of what he said.

Most of you probably don't know my roomate (Well he was in the other room, there were only two in my apartment.) i'd think only the people who knew me would know him and the people who were in international markets (I think). He didn't shower, had a name that rhymed with a popular irish musical instrument, banged his head off walls for fun, and the thing i "admire" most about him, was scratching his name into his CD's to stop people stealing them and then.....wondering why thy wouldn't work. Oh yes, he was "cool".

Focalbhach

Neil,who was that? Did I know him?

Crash

Em, he mainly stayed in our room.

i tried to be nice to him for about a week, buit then gave up.