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Hellish Housemates

  • 19-10-2007 11:48PM
    #1
    Toto Wolfcastle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,005 ✭✭✭✭Toto Wolfcastle


    My God my housemate is annoying. I'm sorry, but is cleanliness not a basic thing amongst most grown people? How can she not notice that we have no clean cutlery or plates because it's all in her room? And how did she not notice that she had spilled half a carton of milk on the kitchen floor even though she walked IN it?

    I'm sure that's pretty mild compared to others. Anyone want to make me feel better by telling me their horror stories about their housemates? :p


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  • #2
    Blowfish
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,112 ✭✭✭Blowfish


    Thank you for logging in, BossArky*



    *hey, someone had to start it


  • #3
    AlmightyCushion
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 35,351 Mod ✭✭✭✭AlmightyCushion


    janeybabe26 wrote: »
    My God my housemate is annoying. I'm sorry, but is cleanliness not a basic thing amongst most grown people? How can she not notice that we have no clean cutlery or plates because it's all in her room? And how did she not notice that she had spilled half a carton of milk on the kitchen floor even though she walked IN it?

    I'm sure that's pretty mild compared to others. Anyone want to make me feel better by telling me their horror stories about their housemates? :p


    There's no point crying over spilled milk.


  • #4
    KlondikePaddy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 123 ✭✭KlondikePaddy


    janeybabe26 wrote: »
    My God my housemate is annoying. I'm sorry, but is cleanliness not a basic thing amongst most grown people? How can she not notice that we have no clean cutlery or plates because it's all in her room? And how did she not notice that she had spilled half a carton of milk on the kitchen floor even though she walked IN it?

    I'm sure that's pretty mild compared to others. Anyone want to make me feel better by telling me their horror stories about their housemates? :p

    I shared with a guy who sang Eastern Mantras into the wee small hours. We got shot of him first opportunity. His cooking was great though in fairness!


  • #5
    Toto Wolfcastle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,005 ✭✭✭✭Toto Wolfcastle


    Blowfish wrote: »
    Thank you for logging in, BossArky*



    *hey, someone had to start it

    Tee hee, wanna be my new housemate??
    AlmightyCushion wrote: »
    There's no point crying over spilled milk.

    Ha, I had that one coming!!

    My main problem is we are in student accommodation where you pay a lump sum for ESB up front, and if we go over we've to pay the extra. There's only two of us so that shouldn't be a problem, right? Except I found out yesterday that she has had the heater in her room on for 6 weeks straight, and we were warned that it's pretty expensive to run. So funny, she asked me when we were getting the ESB bill. Had just handed over the ESB money at the start, and still thought we'd be billed!!

    I shouldn't complain, I see her for 5 minutes a day because she never leaves her room. And plenty of hot water because she never showers. (Just sprays on men's deodorant!)

    Oh and I feel intelligent because I know more about the subject of her MA (films) than she does.....it's Meryl Streep dumbass, not Meryl Steep. And Blood Diamond was nominated for 5 Oscars, how did you not hear about it?


  • #6
    thefinalstage
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,502 ✭✭✭thefinalstage


    janeybabe26 wrote: »
    Tee hee, wanna be my new housemate??



    Ha, I had that one coming!!

    My main problem is we are in student accommodation where you pay a lump sum for ESB up front, and if we go over we've to pay the extra. There's only two of us so that shouldn't be a problem, right? Except I found out yesterday that she has had the heater in her room on for 6 weeks straight, and we were warned that it's pretty expensive to run. So funny, she asked me when we were getting the ESB bill. Had just handed over the ESB money at the start, and still thought we'd be billed!!

    I shouldn't complain, I see her for 5 minutes a day because she never leaves her room. And plenty of hot water because she never showers. (Just sprays on men's deodorant!)

    Oh and I feel intelligent because I know more about the subject of her MA (films) than she does.....it's Meryl Streep dumbass, not Meryl Steep. And Blood Diamond was nominated for 5 Oscars, how did you not hear about it?

    Yeah...what useless subject is she taking?


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  • #7
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 26,920 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    janeybabe26 wrote: »
    Oh and I feel intelligent because I know more about the subject of her MA (films) than she does.....it's Meryl Streep dumbass, not Meryl Steep. And Blood Diamond was nominated for 5 Oscars, how did you not hear about it?

    Handbags at dawn! Hah hah.

    But I know what it's like living with hellish housemates. I don't want to get into any details, just in case they happen to read this sometime, but lets just say many an arguement was had in past accomodations.


  • #8
    moco
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 972 ✭✭✭moco


    Well well well, where do I start?

    1. Landlord who unlocked my bedroom door, stole my knickers off the heater then hid in the attic..

    2. Flatmate who I awoke at 5 in the morning to find standing over me naked..

    3. Flatmate who locked the microwave in her room when she went on holidays so nobody else could use it..

    4. Several flatmates who never buy toilet roll, just hid it in their room.

    5. Flatmates dealing drugs from their room with a constant stream of customers..

    6. One who turns the hot water off all the time so I can't shower in the mornings (the controls are in his room)

    7. The raving alcoholic, there really are too many incidents to meniton but include hiding my cd's, verbally attacking me on a daily basis and trying to change the locks because I wasn't home at the time she thought I would be..

    8. the other alcoholic who went to thump me when I said I was moving out (he also didn't believe in wasting money on electric for a fridge so food was put floating in a bucket of water).

    9. One who kept incontinent cats in the house, they constantly had diahorrea which was often to be found dripping down radiators etc.

    OP-I hope you're feeling better now lol.


  • #9
    AARRRGH
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,382 ✭✭✭✭AARRRGH


    janeybabe26 wrote: »
    My God my housemate is annoying. I'm sorry, but is cleanliness not a basic thing amongst most grown people? How can she not notice that we have no clean cutlery or plates because it's all in her room? And how did she not notice that she had spilled half a carton of milk on the kitchen floor even though she walked IN it?

    Does her name being with R (film student) or A (from South America) by any chance?

    You would not believe some of the flatmates I've had :(

    Example1: "R" would leave her used tampons on the floor if the bin was full (rather than change the bin, etc.)
    Example2: "R" thought the sink was a bin. So the sink would be full of rubbish. She'd then fill it with water WITHOUT REMOVING THE RUBBISH and rinse dishes in it. I cannot stress how dirty her "washed" dishes were.
    Example3: "A" left a bowl of milk on the table. As an experiment I left it there to see what would happen. One month later we had blue/black/cream coloured fur growing on our table.
    Example4: "M" would bring home 3 - 4 random men a week to have sex with. For a while she was bringing back a homeless man. I have lots of computers, etc. Very worrying.

    I could go on and on. I've been so unlucky with flatmates my adverts on daft are no ultra specific, such as, no people with mental illnesses, no people with money problems, no people who have been described as dirty, difficult, or psycho. And on and on...


  • #10
    Nightwish
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,129 ✭✭✭Nightwish


    *I shared a house with stray cats. We couldnt figure out where they were coming from as they'd still get in when all doors and windows were locked.
    *Exhibitionist girl who would scream/moan louder during sex if she knew there was someone else at home. She never left her room, and only let her boyfriend out of the room to make her dinners etc. She couldnt/wouldnt shower without him. If we spoke to him she'd yell at him for flirting with us. She robbed clothes, jewellery and accessories from the other girls in the house when they went home at the weekend. She never touched my stuff as I was just known as the "goth girl".
    *Lived in a flat where the walls were paper thin and my room was next to a guy who was on the net all night and slept all day and I could hear him pleasuring himself to asian porn every night.
    *One house was raided by the cops looking for our landlord.
    *I woke up one morning to find my landlord standing over me in my bedroom. I later found out he had senile dementia and had a tendency to wander into the house at any time of day or night.


  • #11
    humanji
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,976 ✭✭✭✭humanji


    moco wrote: »
    Well well well, where do I start?

    1. Landlord who unlocked my bedroom door, stole my knickers off the heater then hid in the attic..

    2. Flatmate who I awoke at 5 in the morning to find standing over me naked..

    3. Flatmate who locked the microwave in her room when she went on holidays so nobody else could use it..

    4. Several flatmates who never buy toilet roll, just hid it in their room.

    5. Flatmates dealing drugs from their room with a constant stream of customers..

    6. One who turns the hot water off all the time so I can't shower in the mornings (the controls are in his room)

    7. The raving alcoholic, there really are too many incidents to meniton but include hiding my cd's, verbally attacking me on a daily basis and trying to change the locks because I wasn't home at the time she thought I would be..

    8. the other alcoholic who went to thump me when I said I was moving out (he also didn't believe in wasting money on electric for a fridge so food was put floating in a bucket of water).

    9. One who kept incontinent cats in the house, they constantly had diahorrea which was often to be found dripping down radiators etc.

    OP-I hope you're feeling better now lol.
    That sounds like the makings of the funniest film ever!


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  • #12
    Dudess
    Closed Accounts Posts: 37,214 ✭✭✭✭Dudess


    Holy Christ!
    I've had the usual annoyances -
    - Boyfriends staying EVERY SINGLE motherf*cking night and not contributing a cent to rent/bills or doing an iota of cleaning
    - Hi-jacking of the bathroom for ridiculously long periods
    - Girls who had to have a shower before bed so that they'd be nice and clean for their boyfriend (funnily enough he never bothered having a shower) and then another shower in the morning, thus the bathroom would be manky from all the damp, yet they STILL insisted we all clean the bathroom an equal amount
    - Screaming during sex
    - A girl with a fetish for law-breaking scumbags and bringing various ones back
    - A girl who never cleaned up properly so there were always bits of food on "washed" plates, on the floor etc
    - A girl with a psycho boyfriend who, on the rare occasions he wasn't staying over, would ring several times during the night to keep tabs on her
    - One house where it was non-smoking but it was agreed if we wanted a cigarette during really bad weather, we could have one in the kitchen. Then a bossy bitch moved in and bullied everyone (except me) into putting a stop to this.
    KlondikePaddy wrote:
    I shared with a guy who sang Eastern Mantras into the wee small hours. We got shot of him first opportunity. His cooking was great though in fairness!
    Yeah, I shared with an Egyptian guy who'd play Eastern music for half the night really loudly. And then it would start again early in the morning.
    Unfortunately he wasn't a good cook.
    So, like I said: the usual annoying, irritating stuff, but some of the flatmates people on this thread have had are actually PSYCHOS!!!


  • #13
    rossie1977
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,537 ✭✭✭✭rossie1977


    guy who held many house parties, one party in particular destroyed the entire upstairs, including pulling all the plaster off the walls, breaking the toilet, ripping out the bannisters on the stairs.

    every day he would invite his junkie friends to come over and they would spend hours in the sitting room smoking dope, drinking and popping ecstasy pills. One morning the supervisor called to our apartment (when i was gone) and found the gang all together in the room totally stoned, no more of him or his friends after that :D


  • #14
    DonJose
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,470 ✭✭✭DonJose


    janeybabe26 wrote: »
    I know more about the subject of her MA (films) than she does
    What about YORE MA!!!


  • #15
    An Citeog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,096 ✭✭✭An Citeog


    Hmmm, holy fúck! :eek:

    The last place I was living, one of the guys had a tendency to bring random strangers home just because he felt sorry for them. He met some homeless guy one night and invited him back. Next morning the fúcker flooded the bathroom, my bathroom! :mad: He kept coming back and left all his clothes in our place. We threw his bags of clothes into the landing outside the front door to try and get rid of him. They stayed there for 3 weeks. Turns out he was coming back every night to get changed without saying a word. We ended up having to throw everything into the skip outside. The same skip was set on fire a couple of nights later (not by us ;) ) and we never saw Mr. Homeless guy again.

    Apart from that, it's all been rosy!


  • #16
    AARRRGH
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,382 ✭✭✭✭AARRRGH


    DonJose wrote: »
    What about YORE MA!!!

    HAH that's actually quite funny :D but just so you know, YORE MA jokes are banned now, and I think they can result in a banning (read the charter.)


  • #17
    DonJose
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,470 ✭✭✭DonJose


    Had a housemate years ago, he was bolloxed drunk and walked into my room and started pissing on my bed thinking he was in the toilet, he turned left instead of right and ended up in my room. I was on the way to my room when I saw him leaving, my quilt was soaked. I grabbed my crappy cheap quilt walked into his room and swappedquilts, my crappy quilt for his goose feather quilt. Great exchange, so everything worked out well in the end ;)


  • #18
    Dudess
    Closed Accounts Posts: 37,214 ✭✭✭✭Dudess


    DonJose wrote:
    What about YORE MA!!!
    Nicely done. To waste that would have been a shame. I think the mods will agree. dublindude, it only results in a banning if it's completely unnecessary. I think it would warrant a banning NOT to take advantage of that one!


  • #19
    rossie1977
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,537 ✭✭✭✭rossie1977


    An Citeog wrote: »
    Hmmm, holy fúck! :eek:

    The last place I was living, one of the guys had a tendency to bring random strangers home just because he felt sorry for them. He met some homeless guy one night and invited him back. Next morning the fúcker flooded the bathroom, my bathroom! :mad: He kept coming back and left all his clothes in our place. We threw his bags of clothes into the landing outside the front door to try and get rid of him. They stayed there for 3 weeks. Turns out he was coming back every night to get changed without saying a word. We ended up having to throw everything into the skip outside. The same skip was set on fire a couple of nights later (not by us ;) ) and we never saw Mr. Homeless guy again.

    Apart from that, it's all been rosy!


    lol, my cousin had the same problem as this (a housemate of hers kept bringing home random strangers like homeless people) and letting them stay.


  • #20
    bman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 590 ✭✭✭bman


    Lived with a guy who used to piss in the sink in his room rather than go to the toilet, which might i add was just next door to his room. Apparently the guy that was in that room before him once went on a bender in the room for 3 days. When he emerged and left the house, his house mates took a look into the room and found puke and **** everywhere. He was evicted shortly afterwards!!

    Strange room, that.


  • #21
    SimpleSam06
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    An Citeog wrote: »
    Turns out he was coming back every night to get changed without saying a word. We ended up having to throw everything into the skip outside. The same skip was set on fire a couple of nights later (not by us ;) ) and we never saw Mr. Homeless guy again.
    Well theres your answer, OP. Just take all her clothes to a skip and set fire to it.


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  • #22
    The Al Lad
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,252 ✭✭✭The Al Lad


    tell the stanky tramp to wash her feet, tell her "OI...NOOOOOOOOO......was your feet ya dirty tramp...and sort your life out"


  • #23
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 15,814 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I've had a few completely useless housemates.

    When living in student accomadation an Indian guy was put into our apartment, as the rest were full. He would spend his days sprawled across the couch sleeping, so that no one could watch TV or use the kitchen/living room. He would then spend his evenings reading out load terrible chick lite books, before inviting over his friends to watch Bollywood films into the early morning hours, after which he would go into the room he shared with my other house mate and listen to the songs from said film on his mobile. The worst thing was that he would wash his clothes in the shower, while he was taking a shower. He tried to ise my shower one day, and when I said no he started calling me racist and asked if he was irish would I deny him the use of my shower? He did'nt last long. We took the plug off the TV, I took my DVD player into my room and whenever he would play his music myself and other housemate would play Grindcore music as loud as possible. When he moved out, the same day as my other house mate incidently I discovered blue molded pans, plates, cups and dishes under his bed. There was two inches of dirt at the bottom of the shower in their ensuite, and his bed sheets were filthy.

    My next house mate was nearly as bad. He would delight in bringing back the drunkest, ugliest, esiest skank he could find on any given night aswell as his motley gang of drunken, drugged out dropout cohorts. They would usually spend the night listening to music and having sex, very, VERY loudly. At one stage there were 6 of his friends living in our hallway, and two in the kitchen. I was okay with it for a day or two, but I went in one evening to watch Stargate, and one of his friends girlfriends, the most unattractive goth chick I have ever met refused to give me the remote for my TV as she was watching her soaps. I think that was the final straw as next thing I know I have the fire extinguisher in hand and I'm emptying it's contents allover the lot of them. Did'nt seem them, or my housemate again for quite some time. Even thinking about it now, calms me.


  • #24
    Toto Wolfcastle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,005 ✭✭✭✭Toto Wolfcastle


    Tee hee you ALL win!! Funnily enough, as someone mentioned, her name does begin with R. And she is doing a useless course, but I wont be mentioning it because I'm afraid she'll see this. (Actually, she wont, she'll be too busy with her Harry Potter roleplays online.)
    My boyfriend is visiting next week so I'm going to use him to annoy the crap out of her. Any suggestions???


  • #25
    boneless
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,487 ✭✭✭boneless


    janeybabe26 wrote: »
    Tee hee you ALL win!! Funnily enough, as someone mentioned, her name does begin with R. And she is doing a useless course, but I wont be mentioning it because I'm afraid she'll see this. (Actually, she wont, she'll be too busy with her Harry Potter roleplays online.)
    My boyfriend is visiting next week so I'm going to use him to annoy the crap out of her. Any suggestions???

    Get him to try on her underwear. Actually, I'll volunteer to do that... wanna new flatmate? :p


  • #26
    An Citeog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,096 ✭✭✭An Citeog


    janeybabe26 wrote: »
    Tee hee you ALL win!! Funnily enough, as someone mentioned, her name does begin with R. And she is doing a useless course, but I wont be mentioning it because I'm afraid she'll see this. (Actually, she wont, she'll be too busy with her Harry Potter roleplays online.)
    My boyfriend is visiting next week so I'm going to use him to annoy the crap out of her. Any suggestions???

    Loud sex? :p


  • #27
    Jesus Wept
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,243 ✭✭✭✭Jesus Wept


    janeybaby wrote:
    I know more about the subject of her MA (films) than she does
    DonJose wrote: »
    What about YORE MA!!!
    dublindude wrote: »
    HAH that's actually quite funny :D but just so you know, YORE MA jokes are banned now, and I think they can result in a banning (read the charter.)
    :p

    YORE MA jokes are not banned, you should read the charter.


    That was a very innovative YORE MA joke donjose. :D



    moco wrote: »
    Well well well, where do I start?

    1. Landlord who unlocked my bedroom door, stole my knickers off the heater then hid in the attic..

    2. Flatmate who I awoke at 5 in the morning to find standing over me naked..

    3. Flatmate who locked the microwave in her room when she went on holidays so nobody else could use it..

    4. Several flatmates who never buy toilet roll, just hid it in their room.

    5. Flatmates dealing drugs from their room with a constant stream of customers..

    6. One who turns the hot water off all the time so I can't shower in the mornings (the controls are in his room)

    7. The raving alcoholic, there really are too many incidents to meniton but include hiding my cd's, verbally attacking me on a daily basis and trying to change the locks because I wasn't home at the time she thought I would be..

    8. the other alcoholic who went to thump me when I said I was moving out (he also didn't believe in wasting money on electric for a fridge so food was put floating in a bucket of water).

    9. One who kept incontinent cats in the house, they constantly had diahorrea which was often to be found dripping down radiators etc.

    OP-I hope you're feeling better now lol.


    humanji wrote: »
    That sounds like the makings of the funniest film ever!

    Great idea humanji. I'd cast Lindey Lohan as the girl, and Eddie Murphy in all other parts, including the cats.


  • #28
    Melion
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 10,259 ✭✭✭✭Melion


    Only had 1 flatmate besides my ex girlfriend, talk about a useless fooker.

    I let him move in after myself and the missus broke up as he was from Mayo and was doing an apprenticeship down here, his girlfriend and my ex were best friends so we used to get on ok(due to a love of PES really). Anyway, he moved in to the flat in January and i wanted him gone by february. He was a joke, he was there for 7 months and i think he done the dishes 3-4 times.

    Used to cook fries every day, leave every plate, frying pan, spatula(for flipping eggs etc) lying all over the counter so the grease ran everywhere.

    Used to spit in the sink when there were dishes in there waiting for him to wash

    Had a bad habit of taking the cushions off the couch and bring them into his room when he was drunk

    Used to bring his coont of a girlfriend over EVERY night, not very nice cause she's a screamer and generally just a b1tch

    Couldnt handle his drink, got drunk and got sick in the bathroom(yes bathroom, not toilet, all over the floor)

    I came home from work one day last summer about 1 o'clock to this awful smell, couldnt figure out where it was coming from for a few hours. Searched every room but still couldnt place it. Had a look in his room, there was puke all over the floor(he had a curry cheese chip the night before). It was sweltering outside, his curtains were closed and it was just bubbling away there on his floor.

    Used to take plates, cutlery, glasses into his room all the time. They'd come out about 4 weeks later covered in fur and mould and he still wouldnt wash them.

    God i fúckin hate him, im living with a mate who ive known for 15 years now and its great.


  • #29
    User45701
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,905 ✭✭✭User45701


    OMG... No sense of fun, wow emm you wouldent belive me if i told u the way we lived so ill have to find a movie... Its called fun with friends, its more important than getting the right amount of sleap of worring about your deposit or eating right or being clean or drinking too much.

    FUN, dont be such a moan get into the spirit of things


  • #30
    Melion
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 10,259 ✭✭✭✭Melion


    User45701 wrote: »
    OMG... No sense of fun, wow emm you wouldent belive me if i told u the way we lived so ill have to find a movie... Its called fun with friends, its more important than getting the right amount of sleap of worring about your deposit or eating right or being clean or drinking too much.

    FUN, dont be such a moan get into the spirit of things

    Dont think anyone cares how much someone drinks, sleeps or pays deposits but being clean and tidy isnt hard.


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  • #31
    AARRRGH
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,382 ✭✭✭✭AARRRGH


    I always find it weird...

    There are so many freaky flatmates, but they probably seem "normal enough" in the outside world...

    There are unsolved murders and rapes all the time... it's possible we work with some of those people.

    You never really know who the freaks are!


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