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Housemates who lliterally live in their rooms

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  • 05-12-2017 11:18pm
    #1
    veryangryman
    Registered Users Posts: 5,542 ✭✭✭


    Probably a few of you are in that scenario. Drives me mad. Why would you pay rent in a house and not mix with the other people in the house?

    Fair enough if you get landed with weirdos or have days when your just not in the mood. But it seems that within this generation, we are getting some deeply anti social living situations.

    Yes, wed all love our own spaces and resent that we have to share. That notwithstanding, why not make the most of it?

    I realise that a decent percentage reading this thread are currently dodging social interaction with their housemates. Why is my question to these people.


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    #2
    gifted
    Registered Users Posts: 4,874 ✭✭✭gifted


    Cos it's 10.18pm and people want to sleep?


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    #3
    Mongfinder General
    Registered Users Posts: 1,992 ✭✭✭Mongfinder General


    Because most people have nothing to say and I don't want to listen to it after a day's work. I'd hate to come home every day to some arsehole sitting on my couch talking ****. If you want to talk to me text me or email. Otherwise fcuk off


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    Zebra3
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    Porn and you know....


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    #5
    LadyMacBeth_
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,070 ✭✭✭LadyMacBeth_


    I've only ever shared with my sister and her boyfriend and now I live with my OH. If I couldn't afford a studio then I'd be forced to share and you can bet your ass that I'd be in my bedroom the whole time. Being at home is for relaxing. If I want to socialise I invite friends over or go out.


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    Kopparberg Strawberry and Lime
    Registered Users Posts: 3,964 ✭✭✭Kopparberg Strawberry and Lime


    Mongfinder General wrote: »
    Because most people have nothing to say and I don't want to listen to it after a day's work. I'd hate to come home every day to some arsehole sitting on my couch talking ****. If you want to talk to me text me or email. Otherwise fcuk off

    Another reason to stay single.


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    [Deleted User]
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    Maybe you're the weirdo..


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    TheQuietBeatle
    Registered Users Posts: 614 ✭✭✭TheQuietBeatle


    Sometimes it takes effort to talk to someone you really don't know well. Also I'm sure it's a matter of comfort - why chat ****e with your housemate who's not your REAL friend when you could be watching a class TV series in your bedroom. It's a matter of perspective.


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    irishguitarlad
    Registered Users Posts: 2,752 ✭✭✭irishguitarlad


    Some people would rather go to their room to read and study than sit with other people and have their brains turned to mush by drivel on the television.


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    weldoninhio
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,311 ✭✭✭✭weldoninhio


    I live at home, in the family house. I spend 99% of my time in my room. I get to watch what I want, when I want, with no stupid questions.


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    Bambi985
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,274 ✭✭✭Bambi985


    Some people value their privacy and personal space and the idea of talking shyte with a relative stranger for the sake of it at the end of a busy day when you've been dealing with bullsh1t all day is not exactly appealing. Or sitting there and watching some crap that you don't want to watch on TV because your housemate is hogging the sitting room and you're supposed to be "sociable".

    I thought most people who share houses would've loved those room-dwellers - more space for them to do what they want in peace surely.


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    Fr_Dougal
    Registered Users Posts: 9,167 ✭✭✭Fr_Dougal


    *looks at thread title*

    *looks at OP’s username *

    200.gif


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    Hitman3000
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,596 ✭✭✭Hitman3000


    weldoninhio wrote:
    I live at home, in the family house.


    One of my guesses confirmed.


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    DivingDuck
    Registered Users Posts: 1,396 ✭✭✭DivingDuck


    veryangryman wrote: »
    Yes, wed all love our own spaces and resent that we have to share. That notwithstanding, why not make the most of it?

    Because to people who are naturally introverted, avoiding social interaction with people they don't particularly like and instead spending their time alone is making the most of it.

    I enjoy my own company more than the company of pretty much everyone but a few close friends and family members. I was always polite and respectful to people I shared with back in the day, but I had no desire to sit around talking with them since we lacked shared interests and their conversations wasn't interesting to me, and vice versa.

    It's not personal, it's just that housemates aren't friends by default.


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    cantdecide
    Registered Users Posts: 11,465 ✭✭✭✭cantdecide


    I've always had sociable housemates. Lots of movie nights and cooking for each other and made some firm friends over the years. 'Tis lovely when you get on with housemates.


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    retro:electro
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    Because when you live with strangers, coming home to face them just prolongs the social charade you've already been a part of for most of the day. Sometimes you just want to chill out, fart, talk to yourself, watch kardashians- whatever. The day is long enough without talking shlte to people when you get home too. I only live with one other person and she's a nurse and rarely here so I get to chat away to the bog norra bother. In saying that when she is here we get on great and watch all the same rubbish.


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    scopper
    Closed Accounts Posts: 870 ✭✭✭scopper


    'That notwithstanding, why not make the most of it?'

    Because your idea of the most of it is likely banter over beers and TV wherein everyone but you is bored to death.

    The rest of us are in our rooms doing our thing.


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    the whole year inn
    Registered Users Posts: 7,086 ✭✭✭the whole year inn


    Fr_Dougal wrote: »
    *looks at thread title*

    *looks at OP’s username *

    200.gif

    Move aside


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    tomwaterford
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    Because it's effort....like who wants to be dealing with forced conversations etc after work,



    And. ....whereever there's a group of people,there'll always be personality clashs which tend to erupt over absolutely nothing and who wants the hassle of being stuck in the middle of that


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    SuperSean11
    Registered Users Posts: 1,555 ✭✭✭SuperSean11


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    Maybe you're the weirdo..

    Bingo


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    veryangryman
    Registered Users Posts: 5,542 ✭✭✭veryangryman


    SuperSean11 wrote: »
    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    Maybe you're the weirdo..

    Bingo
    Your card declination in canada was karma for nasty posts like these. 😎


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    greencap
    Registered Users Posts: 2,102 ✭✭✭greencap


    veryangryman wrote: »
    Probably a few of you are in that scenario. Drives me mad. Why would you pay rent in a house and not mix with the other people in the house?

    Because they're renting a room, not buying a seat at your social event.

    This isn't Friends, there is no canned laughter or hilarious plot, most people just want to have a ****, regret their life choices in private, and go asleep.

    Not hear about how you ran the gas off the electricity and the electricity off the gas.

    discussion/2058195983/russia-threadbanned-users-in-op/p3135

    😁



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    #23
    SuperSean11
    Registered Users Posts: 1,555 ✭✭✭SuperSean11


    veryangryman wrote: »
    Your card declination in canada was karma for nasty posts like these. 😎

    This sort of wit is why your roommates don’t talk to you ;)


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    #24
    Agent Coulson
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    I live by myself at times and if I could go into a room away from myself I would.

    I can be awful bastard at times.


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    #25
    Ubbquittious
    Registered Users Posts: 6,194 ✭✭✭Ubbquittious


    TV Series, porn, netflix, facebook. People have technology now to keep them occupied instead of other human beings it seems

    I'm not much into any of the above but a lot of other people are. If I didn't want to mix with people I'd find something to do in the shed or go for a walk outside or drink a quiet pint in a pub but most people would rather preen at a screen


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    Gonad
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    Thank god I never had to house share with a load of people I don’t know. Could be anyone sleeping in the next room .

    Fortunately I had parents to live with while I was single and they always welcomed me back the couple of times I needed to .

    But I would rather rent a one bed and live on beans and water than share with strangers .


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    DivingDuck
    Registered Users Posts: 1,396 ✭✭✭DivingDuck


    Ubbquittious wrote: »
    TV Series, porn, netflix, facebook. People have technology now to keep them occupied instead of other human beings it seems

    I'm not much into any of the above but a lot of other people are. If I didn't want to mix with people I'd find something to do in the shed or go for a walk outside or drink a quiet pint in a pub but most people would rather preen at a screen

    To be fair, Facebook is interaction with other people. (Russian bots aside.)

    I don't really use it, but it's basically just friends talking to each other, the same as they would in the pub or on the couch. The only difference with FB or a forum like this one is that when you get fed up of listening to someone, you can get up and go make some tea without it being considered rude.

    You can also do it in your underpants, which is terrific.


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    #28
    hadepsx
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    Stop bitching. You have the whole place to yourself, don't complain. :)


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    #29
    buried
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    People have gone into their own zones of personal enjoyment. Everything to keep you entertained or educated is right at your fingerprints. That's just the way it is. Also, the younger generation have been brought up watching big brother, that jungle show and all that noise, programmes where living and having to mix with a large group of people resembles an embarrassing agro filled idiot contest.

    "You have disgraced yourselves again" - W. B. Yeats



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    #30
    andekwarhola
    Registered Users Posts: 4,638 ✭✭✭andekwarhola


    The wealth of amusingly touchy replies would definitely suggest a lot of room dwellers.


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    #31
    SuperSean11
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    andekwarhola wrote: »
    The wealth of amusingly touchy replies would definitely suggest a lot of room dwellers.

    Burn


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