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Devisive flat mate issues

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  • #122
    Yourself isit
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,256 ✭✭✭Yourself isit


    myshirt wrote: »
    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.

    I've never room shared but I can't imagine young men giving up self love in those situations.

    Is it really that expensive for a room share?


  • #123
    LordSutch
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,069 ✭✭✭✭LordSutch


    Had a flatmate who bought a saxophone to practice on as his hobby!

    Woke us up & kept us awake at night, so he didn't last long.


  • #124
    lawred2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,207 ✭✭✭✭lawred2


    That soup lad was clearly mentally unwell. I'd pity him but also anyone having to live with him.


  • #125
    lawred2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,207 ✭✭✭✭lawred2


    Yourself isit wrote: »
    I've never room shared but I can't imagine young men giving up self love in those situations.

    Is it really that expensive for a room share?

    Every house has a bathroom


  • #126
    tara73
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,572 ✭✭✭tara73


    lawred2 wrote: »
    That soup lad was clearly mentally unwell. I'd pity him but also anyone having to live with him.

    yes, was thinking the same, looks like autism. feel bad for laughing about it now, but then...was so funny..


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  • #127
    Birneybau
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,450 ✭✭✭✭Birneybau


    Thread been doing the rounds here since 2009:

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055678798


  • #128
    team_actimel
    Closed Accounts Posts: 785 ✭✭✭team_actimel


    Birneybau wrote: »
    Thread been doing the rounds here since 2009:

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055678798

    I can't access this post.


  • #129
    Birneybau
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,450 ✭✭✭✭Birneybau


    team_actimel wrote: »
    I can't access this post.

    You have to message a Mod of 'Ranting and Raving' for access. Why that still is, I have no idea.


  • #130
    riverrocked
    Closed Accounts Posts: 165 ✭✭riverrocked


    Shared with this guy once who would make toast in the oven when he came in drunk. I opened the kitchen to plumbs of smoke more than once with him passed out on the couch as he fell asleep waiting for it.


  • #131
    Robsweezie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,434 ✭✭✭Robsweezie


    riverrocked wrote: »
    Shared with this guy once who would make toast in the oven when he came in drunk. I opened the kitchen to plumbs of smoke more than once with him passed out on the couch as he fell asleep waiting for it.

    careless forgetful fuuckers like that are dangerous - heating left on, iron/heater plugged in all day and night....


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  • #132
    Yeah_Right
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    ...__... wrote: »
    ;);)

    Very funny. That would fit nicely in the Adult Tantrum thread.


  • #133
    Guffy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,527 ✭✭✭Guffy


    The Backwards Man wrote: »
    I was in a house share once, first evening there, one of the eejits used a teatowel as an oven glove.

    That was enough for me, my dog has more upbringing than that.

    ????


  • #134
    Birneybau
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,450 ✭✭✭✭Birneybau


    Guffy wrote: »
    ????

    I imagine it was a joke, knowing his usual posting style. How many people went loolaa over it is baffling.


  • #135
    ...__...
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 507 ✭✭✭...__...


    I never lived with soup man but plenty just like him.

    Ahh Tony where are you now he was a fifty something Divorcee who had a hobby of video editing.
    When said edit didnt work out he would launch the most violent tantrum I've ever witnessed smashing the Video around the house or the tv off the floor.
    He was nice believe it or not.

    Then there was Dave me and the LL at the time came back one night to find him topless with a massive pot of water asleep on the couch?? to say he lacked some social skills is an understatement he lived in that house for years and only on the last day he asked how to use the oven.

    Worst part was when he moved LL had to paint the walls for the stink and the dirt in the carpet a whole big toe nail Jesus the whole effing thing. That must have hurt.

    Then there was bigfoot a 30 odd stone woman who lived in her room above me she could only stamp around like an elephant, one night the light came out of the ceiling.

    Ah Houseshares


  • #136
    hoodini89
    Closed Accounts Posts: 67 ✭✭hoodini89


    I posted this in an unrelated forum a few months back:


    My ex-housemate was the strangest chap.

    - He had a bed in his own room but he slept on a mattress on the ground.

    - My bedroom was beside the bathroom. His daily showers consisted of him singing the same song (Seven Nation Army) in particular the line 'I'm going to Wichita'.
    When finished his shower I'd hear him jump out of the shower/bath with his 2 feet together, a big thud. (Most people use one leg at a time I'm guessing when getting out.)

    - He blocked the toilet before after flushing sandwiches and pasta down it. When my other housemate questioned him over it he claimed he was saving on household waste.


  • #137
    Stonedpilot
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,253 ✭✭✭Stonedpilot


    hoodini89 wrote: »
    I posted this in an unrelated forum a few months back:


    My ex-housemate was the strangest chap.

    - He had a bed in his own room but he slept on a mattress on the ground.

    - My bedroom was beside the bathroom. His daily showers consisted of him singing the same song (Seven Nation Army) in particular the line 'I'm going to Wichita'.
    When finished his shower I'd hear him jump out of the shower/bath with his 2 feet together, a big thud. (Most people use one leg at a time I'm guessing when getting out.)

    - He blocked the toilet before after flushing sandwiches and pasta down it. When my other housemate questioned him over it he claimed he was saving on household waste.

    Haha I flushed food down the toilet few times back in the day as I knew if I put it in bin housemates leave it there forever and let it grow it's own society on it.


    Lived with few strange housemates.

    One lad use to bounce a ball constantly, he wore earplugs all the time as he heard voices and he often spoke to himself. Other than that nice lad. We went to cinema me him and another housemate and he listened to Michael Jackson on his ipod throughout it.

    Lived with lad in a small townhouse before who NEVER left his room. The room was small anyway and he had tons of PC equipment set up so he would game all day. On the very very rare occassion the door would open to his self imposed isolation the smell coming from the room would be ungodly. This guy would wear a hoodie and have the heating on. House be like a sauna.

    Another Indian guy lived with would eat everything from a bowl and sleep in his office at work.

    Lived with few alcos and basket cases also. Ce la Vie!.


  • #138
    team_actimel
    Closed Accounts Posts: 785 ✭✭✭team_actimel


    Stonedpilot wrote: »
    he wore earplugs all the time as he heard voices and he often spoke to himself. Other than that nice lad. We went to cinema me him and another housemate and he listened to Michael Jackson on his ipod throughout it.

    Sounds like the main character from the new movie 'Baby Driver'!


  • #139
    Stonedpilot
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,253 ✭✭✭Stonedpilot


    team_actimel wrote: »
    Sounds like the main character from the new movie 'Baby Driver'!

    He didn't drive and wasn't that suave!
    Smart lad but had some serious shyte going on upstairs.


  • #140
    lawred2
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    Stonedpilot wrote: »
    Haha I flushed food down the toilet few times back in the day as I knew if I put it in bin housemates leave it there forever and let it grow it's own society on it.

    ?

    So you never took the bins out? That was someone else's job?


  • #141
    Stonedpilot
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,253 ✭✭✭Stonedpilot


    lawred2 wrote: »
    ?

    So you never took the bins out? That was someone else's job?

    Yes the maid's. We kept her in the basement.


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  • #142
    con___manx1
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    alchemist33 wrote: »
    One of my flatmates insisted on leaving the oven on for two hours just to pre-heat it, then putting the food in. When you're sharing the electricity bill, this is not a good thing.

    What a retard. Any electric appliance that generates heat burns alot of electricity. I would hit the ****in roof.


  • #143
    Porklife
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    I once lived with a guy who constantly called in sick to work due to hangovers. He'd laze around drinking beers every evening, smoking like they were going out of fashion.

    He used to live off take away's and once asked me how to boil pasta. Ehh.. place it in boiling water? read the instructions? At least he was trying to cook I guess.

    I remember once I was making a chilli and he said ooh that smells great, can I taste it? I said yeah of course. He was smoking a cigarette at the time and placed it between his teeth while he proceeded to shove his stupid, manky, smokey paw into my big pot of food making it inedible.

    Worst part is, he goes.. nahhh way too spicy, not for me and saunters off not a bother on him.


  • #144
    Aye Bosun
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 349 ✭✭Aye Bosun


    1874 wrote: »
    Seriously, if thats real, the guy is an animal, but how is no-one supposed to have noticed beforehand. Its two fingers to everyone else as it looks like you all would have to waste your time to find someone and make up the difference in the money until someone was found, so who cleaned it up? Id be bringing the guy back to do it, but Id have witheld his deposit.

    Oh it's for real alright, I was there! It was you're typical party house, landlord didn't give a **** about the place and the lease had been rolling over for at least 12 years by the time I moved in, I was there 3 years and never once saw or heard from him in that time, so you can only imagine the state of the place, we were all early 20's, parties every night, you never knew who you'd find in the house as so many old tenants still had keys and pretty much came and went as they pleased. I loved living there at the time but not a hope in hell of it happening at this age. I made lifelong friends in that house share.
    The largest room, where this happened, was at the back of the house in an extension so the smell never reach the rest of the living areas, thank god. There were no deposit on the house, so that didn't factor in, after so many years of the place been for ent . And it was one of the other lads in the gaff who cleaned it up..while not a nice job it was only sh*te in a neat little pile as I said..have you never changed a babies nappy or picked up after a dog :)


  • #145
    lawred2
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    con___manx1 wrote: »
    What a retard. Any electric appliance that generates heat burns alot of electricity. I would hit the ****in roof.

    I'd have just turned it off after 10 - 15 minutes


  • #146
    Stonedpilot
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,253 ✭✭✭Stonedpilot


    Porklife wrote: »
    I once lived with a guy who constantly called in sick to work due to hangovers. He'd laze around drinking beers every evening, smoking like they were going out of fashion.

    He used to live off take away's and once asked me how to boil pasta. Ehh.. place it in boiling water? read the instructions? At least he was trying to cook I guess.

    I remember once I was making a chilli and he said ooh that smells great, can I taste it? I said yeah of course. He was smoking a cigarette at the time and placed it between his teeth while he proceeded to shove his stupid, manky, smokey paw into my big pot of food making it inedible.

    Worst part is, he goes.. nahhh way too spicy, not for me and saunters off not a bother on him.


    Probably an alcoholic. Knew a girl like this, she would lounge around the house all day drinking wine eating takeaways. Car was in bits due to driving it half cut.


  • #147
    Porklife
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,681 ✭✭✭Porklife


    Stonedpilot wrote: »
    Probably an alcoholic. Knew a girl like this, she would lounge around the house all day drinking wine eating takeaways. Car was in bits due to driving it half cut.

    Complete alcoholic... really overweight with a real.. me against the world attitude. The kind of guy who'd rob from a shop and blame the 'establishment'.


  • #148
    Jobs OXO
    Closed Accounts Posts: 882 ✭✭✭Jobs OXO


    Porklife wrote: »
    I once lived with a guy who constantly called in sick to work due to hangovers. He'd laze around drinking beers every evening, smoking like they were going out of fashion.

    He used to live off take away's and once asked me how to boil pasta. Ehh.. place it in boiling water? read the instructions? At least he was trying to cook I guess.

    I remember once I was making a chilli and he said ooh that smells great, can I taste it? I said yeah of course. He was smoking a cigarette at the time and placed it between his teeth while he proceeded to shove his stupid, manky, smokey paw into my big pot of food making it inedible.

    Worst part is, he goes.. nahhh way too spicy, not for me and saunters off not a bother on him.

    I bet you still ate it you dirty fecker?


  • #149
    BandMember
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    Stonedpilot wrote: »
    Haha I flushed food down the toilet few times back in the day as I knew if I put it in bin housemates leave it there forever and let it grow it's own society on it.


    Lived with few strange housemates.

    So, you were the one who flushed food down the jacks yet THEY were the strange ones..... :confused: :rolleyes:

    I would have to agree with multiple posters though - the best housemates are the ones who are never there or, if they are, spend all their time in their own room.

    The worst would be the ones who respond to vacancy ads with stuff like "love to sit around and chat over a glass of wine and a meal in the evenings". Yeah, you can f**k right off............and delete text/e-mail..... :pac:


  • #150
    Toots
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    Chatting to one of my friends last night and she's currently looking for a new flatmate. The old one was constantly leaving things on and buggering off. For the likes of the TV/immersion/etc it was annoying but there was dangerous stuff like hair straighteners/iron/oven/grill on a regular basis.

    This culminated in an incident last weekend where the housemate went out for a night on the tiles and left her straightener switched on and threw it on top of her duvet. A while later the other two housemates smelled smoke and went to investigate - she'd locked her room so they had to force the door - and they got in just as the duvet was starting to go up in flames.


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  • #151
    scopper
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    Teddington Cuddlesworth wrote: »
    Moved into a house with 3 childhood friends a number of years back. After 3 years one of them went his own way.
    We interviewed 4 guys our own age and picked one to move in.
    He seemed a sound lad....

    The weekend after he moved in we had a party.

    He got smashed drunk and pulled an American style fridge freezer over.
    An accident and forgivable, we all make drunken mistakes. He coughed up the money to replace it.

    It was a week later we discovered he was a raging alco. I came home one day and he was passed out on the step at the front door, this was 2pm on a Tuesday.

    That was only the start of things.
    He'd bring birds home, and in his inebriated state, would start banging them all over the house. On the stairs, in the bar, against the barbecue, on the sofa.
    It didn't seem to effect him if we were in the same room.

    He even made a move on one of the lads mother's when she came over one night for a party.

    He was a lovely guy when he was sober but after a can or two he'd pull out a bottle of hard spirits and down it in as short a time as possible.

    Wait, where was this, it sounds like me :D
    (I'm sober now).


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