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Devisive flat mate issues

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  • #32
    ...And Justice
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,283 ✭✭✭...And Justice


    Knew a lad that had an attic bedroom...he was too lazy to go downstairs to the toilet, so he would píss in every pint glass available, then line them up on the window sill. 5 pints of píss I saw one day, he wouldn't even open the velux and pour them into the gutter.


  • #33
    everlast75
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,021 ✭✭✭✭everlast75


    Poor Uncle Tom wrote: »
    They use the doors properly, you interfere with the fire safety of the building!



    Actually, you're the one needs the education.

    Untangle your granny pants please - the door always remained closed. It just meant that they didn't slam.

    Jebus - you come in to comment on a thread and Fireman Sam comes in with a lecture

    Elect a clown... Expect a circus



  • #34
    micar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,920 ✭✭✭micar


    Lived in a house with lads in college.

    Shared a room ( 2 single beds)

    Never noticed him having a shower. Horrific dirty smelly socks.

    When I came home after college I had to open the window the air the room even in the middle of winter.

    Woke up a few to times to hear him having a **** in the bed.


  • #35
    everlast75
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,021 ✭✭✭✭everlast75


    micar wrote: »
    ...


    Woke up a few to times to hear him having a **** in the bed.

    Yours?

    Elect a clown... Expect a circus



  • #36
    Poor Uncle Tom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,547 ✭✭✭✭Poor Uncle Tom


    everlast75 wrote: »
    .... in with a lecture

    straight over your head too it appears...


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  • #37
    The Backwards Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    Mrs OBumble wrote: »
    What exactly is the problem with that?

    Unless your understanding of an oven glove is very different to mine, i dont see the issue.

    Nothing at all wrong with it you don't mind your house being razed to the ground. Tea towels + grease + tumble dryers = not in my house you don't!

    I've even seen them spontaneously combust on a radiator.


  • #38
    OwaynOTT
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,694 ✭✭✭✭OwaynOTT


    I shared a house with 23 other lads when I was in college.
    I've seen things you people wouldn't believe


  • #39
    Citygirl1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 303 ✭✭Citygirl1


    OwaynOTT wrote: »
    I shared a house with 23 other lads when I was in college.
    I've seen things you people wouldn't believe

    Tell us?! :P

    This thread is classic. Anyone who's been in a house-share would have something to add.

    Years ago I was in a house with a few other girls, who were very nice, but there's always something..
    - Two of them were sharing a room, which admittedly was not very large. So they decided it would be a good idea to store their dirty laundry basket in the kitchen..... I had to object to that :o.
    - At one stage the box freezer had become so iced up, no one could put any food into it for weeks. Eventually, one Saturday morning I took the initiative, and defrosted it. Headed out for a few hours, including shopping for some food, with some frozen stuff for the freezer. Arrived home to find that in my absence the girls had managed to do their shopping, and completely fill the freezer with all those frozen foods they didn't seem to require for weeks. There was no space left for any of mine :mad::mad:.


  • #40
    Are Am Eye
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,166 ✭✭✭Are Am Eye


    The Backwards Man wrote: »
    Nothing at all wrong with it you don't mind your house being razed to the ground. Tea towels + grease + tumble dryers = not in my house you don't!

    I've even seen them spontaneously combust on a radiator.

    The ignition temperature of the grease is somewhere between 400 and 440 degrees Celsius. There is no domestic cooking appliance that could reach anywhere near that temperature. *straightens glasses


  • #41
    myshirt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,245 ✭✭✭myshirt


    I feel sorry for the kids who have to room share with a stranger, the people in the 400-500 per month bracket which seems to be the going rate for a room share.

    You hear these stories of a guy knocking off a few knuckle soldiers under the covers. Add to that the amount of farting that would be going on.


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  • #42
    B.A._Baracus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,309 ✭✭✭✭B.A._Baracus


    Citygirl1 wrote: »
    ...... At one stage the box freezer had become so iced up, no one could put any food into it for weeks. Eventually, one Saturday morning I took the initiative, and defrosted it. Headed out for a few hours, including shopping for some food, with some frozen stuff for the freezer. Arrived home to find that in my absence the girls had managed to do their shopping, and completely fill the freezer with all those frozen foods they didn't seem to require for weeks. There was no space left for any of mine :mad::mad:.

    Ah that's just bad.
    That's why I think people, and rightfully so, are hesitant to do anything for the house when sharing.
    Something you can do can be expected to be the norm and in your case get used.

    That is bloody bad tho. No one wanted to tackle defrosting it but when it was done gladly fill it up asap with their crap. Doesn't matter if anyone can't store theirs. As long as I'm ok.


  • #43
    OwaynOTT
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,694 ✭✭✭✭OwaynOTT


    Citygirl1 wrote: »
    Tell us?! :P

    This thread is classic. Anyone who's been in a house-share would have something to add.

    Years ago I was in a house with a few other girls, who were very nice, but there's always something..
    - Two of them were sharing a room, which admittedly was not very large. So they decided it would be a good idea to store their dirty laundry basket in the kitchen..... I had to object to that :o.
    - At one stage the box freezer had become so iced up, no one could put any food into it for weeks. Eventually, one Saturday morning I took the initiative, and defrosted it. Headed out for a few hours, including shopping for some food, with some frozen stuff for the freezer. Arrived home to find that in my absence the girls had managed to do their shopping, and completely fill the freezer with all those frozen foods they didn't seem to require for weeks. There was no space left for any of mine :mad::mad:.

    Years ago there was a bin strike and so it was decided as to not attract rats, that the rubbish would be kept in the kitchen and not outside. 24 guys can accumulate a lot of rubbish within a week.
    Every morning without fail, we would be bombarded with the Ian Dempsey breakfast show from up stairs and a 2v2 hurling match from the same room above my bed.
    There was a instance of defrosting beer in a microwave.
    We had a snail farm on the back of our couches.
    We use watch that show where the two women went into a flight home to clean and I'd be thinking they haven't seen anything yet.


  • #44
    seachto7
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,863 ✭✭✭seachto7


    Would love to be able to live on my own but don't earn the astronomical money required to be able to do it in Dublin.


  • #45
    The Backwards Man
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    Are Am Eye wrote: »
    The ignition temperature of the grease is somewhere between 400 and 440 degrees Celsius. There is no domestic cooking appliance that could reach anywhere near that temperature. *straightens glasses
    Well if you never wash the tea towels I guess you'll be OK then!


  • #46
    B.A._Baracus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,309 ✭✭✭✭B.A._Baracus


    seachto7 wrote: »
    Would love to be able to live on my own but don't earn the astronomical money required to be able to do it in Dublin.

    It's who you know.
    Rent is insane in Dublin. But there are some places out there where the landlord will charge a fairly decent price. But you have to know them or be pulled into them.

    I know someone who is getting charged 900 for a place in Bachelor's walk. Many would jump for that price.

    On the subject of price and who you know...
    An example being I know a woman who charged 135 per week for a couple living with her. Bills were included and they had a nice big double room to themselves (crazy I know)
    Now they stopped renting with her as they bought a place in Tallaght. But what did they do before they moved out? Got a friend to meet the landlord and asked if he could move in for the same price.

    He did.


  • #47
    heldel00
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,832 ✭✭✭heldel00


    Anyone who has sisters/ daughters/ nieces heading to college in September please have a quiet word with them. They may be completely oblivious to life in the real world.
    As a female I feel more then entitled to say this... some women are the clattiest yokes you could ever be unfortunate to live with.
    A few that I lived with would appear to the world as the most well-kept, groomed, manicured individual you could ever meet but would have used a towel to dry themselves that morning that they had brought from home 4 months earlier and said towel would never have seen the inside of a washing machine.
    They could be wearing the same knickers a few days on the trot, same bra for the entire college year. They wouldn't have changed their bedclothes despite many callers paying a visit, would leave used santitary towels lying here there and everywhere. Using a flatmate's Gilette Venus as if this was a communal razor.
    This is not just one individual but offerings from a few that i have been unfortunate to share rooms with in the past.
    In my opinion girls coming from houses where they were the only girls were the worst. Have to say I blame the Mammies of Ireland.


  • #48
    Dr Crayfish
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,960 ✭✭✭Dr Crayfish


    rawn wrote: »
    My last houseshare. Myself and my now -husband shared a room upstairs.

    I feel sorry for the others having to live with a couple, yuk.
    I flatshared for years. People can be very unaware of things that they do that may annoy others. I just had to try and live with it for the most part and look forward to having my own place, which I eventually got. It's a rite of passage nowadays, but just try and be respectful of others.


  • #49
    [Deleted User]
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    The Backwards Man wrote: »
    Well if you never wash the tea towels I guess you'll be OK then!

    Do you find many things combust while sloshing round in hot water?


  • #50
    TerrorFirmer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 29,930 ✭✭✭✭TerrorFirmer


    The Backwards Man wrote: »
    Well if you never wash the tea towels I guess you'll be OK then!

    What an earth are you even talking about? Tea towels exploding and razing houses to the ground because they've been used to take a tray out of the oven? That's a new level of hysteria.


  • #51
    Full Marx
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 666 ✭✭✭Full Marx


    TerrorFirmer wrote: »
    What an earth are you even talking about? Tea towels exploding and razing houses to the ground because they've been used to take a tray out of the oven? That's a new level of hysteria.
    Even when they said it was the cladding I knew it was the tea towels!


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  • #52
    MrPudding
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,779 ✭✭✭MrPudding


    OwaynOTT wrote: »
    I shared a house with 23 other lads when I was in college.
    I've seen things you people wouldn't believe

    Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion?

    C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate?

    MrP


  • #53
    Jobs OXO
    Closed Accounts Posts: 882 ✭✭✭Jobs OXO


    thelad95 wrote: »
    There is currently a thread over in Accommodation and Property forum regarding someone who is at their wits end because their flat mate takes a shower every morning at 6am.

    Having lived in four house shares, I know how explosive even the smallest of things can seem to others. But what have you experienced that either irritates you or clearly takes the pi$$? For me it's the following:

    I had a flat mate who I barely ever saw as they were always working ridiculous hours. They would leave delightful little passive aggressive notes around the house detailing all their gripes. Usually things like "this is my cereal" or "x's turn to put out the bins I had to do it twice last week". My favourite was that we had a bowl of sugar that we just kind of all filled up whenever it got empty as we were all big tea/coffee drinkers, one day she left out a printed page from some stupid website detailing the supposed dangers of how communal sugar bowls can spread numerous illness and we should buy our own. At first, I just laughed them off but eventually I got so irritated that I just began scrunching them up and leaving that there for her to see. Strangely the notes dried up pretty quickly.

    People leaving dirty stuff on the sink when there's a dishwasher sitting there ready to fill!!

    People blasting their crappy music around the house especially when they go for a shower. Selfish idiots.

    People who use your milk without asking. I mean if your caught once then fair enough but some people think it's okay to do regularly.

    Coming home late from work, turning on every light, turning on music/TV at a ridiculous volume, banging around the kitchen, when they KNOW everyone else is asleep.

    I'm also living with two girls, who go for a shower and just kind of leave their skid stained granny knickers in the bathroom for everyone to see for weeks at a time.

    Those who leave food to rot in a fridge for weeks at a time.

    How big were her baps?


  • #54
    snowflaker
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    My mum always used tea towels to take the Apple/rhubarb tarts out of the oven she baked when we were younger! Oven gloves are for poshos


  • #55
    freshpopcorn
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    snowflaker wrote: »
    My mum always used tea towels to take the Apple/rhubarb tarts out of the oven she baked when we were younger! Oven gloves are for poshos

    Lot's of people do use a tea tower for taking things out of the oven or off the hob.


  • #56
    hairyslug
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    During college there was 7 of us sharing a 2 bed just off O'Connell Street. Rent was dirt cheap, and I think the worst of it was food being stolen, though at that age, you let a lot of stuff slide. I'm sure a lot of the stuff going on would piss me off now.


  • #57
    Jesus Wept
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    snowflaker wrote: »
    My mum always used tea towels to take the Apple/rhubarb tarts out of the oven she baked when we were younger! Oven gloves are for poshos

    They are impractical as ****. Can't get any purchase. It'd be like using boxing gloves.


  • #58
    oakshade
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 505 ✭✭✭oakshade


    Spent many a year in house shares but one story lives on... A new lad moves in, assistant manager in a local supermarket, seems quite and keeps to himself. A few nights later on comes the girlfriend, we dont see her much, maybe grabbing a beer from the fridge and heading to his room... Then it happens, vigorous sex is an understatement... the roaring, screaming, feedback... harder softer, another minute etc... For hours on end. Her favourite, to scream his name at the top of her voice, his full name not just his first. This continued for weeks, many discreet words but nothing worked... Till we told the landlord and he was kicked out.

    Roll on about 6 months and there was a nice tradition in work where new employees were brought out for lunch on their first day. One of the team leaders asked me to come along one day as there was only one new girl and she wanted some company, make conversation etc. Was all polite and pleasant until I asked the new girl where she worked previously and she mentioned the local supermarket. I said do you know (ex housemate) and she says yes, `he is my boyfriend' then the recognition kicks in... Made for the most awkward lunch ever and she never made eye contact with me again.


  • #59
    snowflaker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,922 ✭✭✭snowflaker


    freshpopcorn wrote: »
    Lot's of people do use a tea tower for taking things out of the oven or off the hob.

    Yeah it referred to an earlier discussion


    Also, wtf is a tea tower??? Lolz


  • #60
    freshpopcorn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,282 ✭✭✭✭freshpopcorn


    snowflaker wrote: »
    Yeah it referred to an earlier discussion


    Also, wtf is a tea tower??? Lolz

    A tea tower!


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  • #61
    snowflaker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,922 ✭✭✭snowflaker


    freshpopcorn wrote: »
    A tea tower!


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    Good luck pouring that!!!


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