What do you think of your housemates?

Sibylla · 16-07-2011 09:23PM #1

I'm moving in with three new people in a house share for college in September. I was very unlucky last year. One locked herself in her room 24/7 and the other used to steal everyone's food. The other two were grand!

I know people who have made lifelong friends with housemates and other who detest theirs. What have your experiences been and what do you think of your current housemates? Thanks

Standard Toaster · 16-07-2011 09:24PM

*sweeps the freshly laid patio*

What housemates? :pac:

epgc3fyqirnbsx · 16-07-2011 09:26PM

Got my own gaff

mattjack · 16-07-2011 09:27PM

Standard Toaster wrote: »

*sweeps the freshly laid patio*

What housemates? :pac:

do ya need anymore chloroform this year..?

Standard Toaster · 16-07-2011 09:27PM

mattjack wrote: »

do ya need anymore chloroform this year..?

No no, I'm good thanks.
Any lime on ya tho?

mattjack · 16-07-2011 09:29PM

Standard Toaster wrote: »

No no, I'm good thanks.
Any lime on ya tho?

yeah..I,ll throw in some rohypnol too

Noodleworm · 16-07-2011 09:29PM

Kinda annoys me when housemates expect I should be best friends with them and then act like i'm weird cos I don't like the same things as them.

Teyla Emmagan · 16-07-2011 09:29PM

How could having a housemate that locked herself into her room 24/7 be a bad thing?

I used to rent out rooms. I hated it in principle, though most of the tenants were grand. A couple of them were a right pain in the ar&e though.

Now I live by my cranky unsociable self, AND I LOVE IT.

hondasam · 16-07-2011 09:31PM

I live alone but I was never good at sharing.

daddydick · 16-07-2011 09:32PM

Grand apart from the new lad who moved in. I'm at home studying for the summer..he works 9-6 but every night he's just ploughed in front of the television and all weekend too.
I mean today he got up at 9.30 and watched sky sports news, tour de France, the open for about 7 hours, Meath v Kildare and is now watching boxing and darts while he munches the snackbox which has just been delivered...hygiene is awful too he wears the same tshirt and trousers every day!! Tomorrow will be a repeat of today no doubt!!

Gets very annoying when taking study breaks and all you want to do is watch 20 mins of tv when eating lunch/dinner etc!!

16-07-2011 09:35PM

Teyla Emmagan wrote: »

How could having a housemate that locked herself into her room 24/7 be a bad thing?

They are the best type of housemate imo.

whydoibother? · 16-07-2011 09:37PM

When in college sometimes I was very good friends with housemates, other times we were not that close, but always pleasant. I was always glad I didn't live with people on my course, not because I disliked them but purely because I couldn't handle that much of one person.

wild_cat · 16-07-2011 09:41PM

I've only ever lived with people I knew previously so it was all good.

Mickeroo · 16-07-2011 09:42PM

Sick to death of mine, lived with him now for 2 years. it's ok during the college year when it's four us but there's only 2 of us for the summer. He smokes in the house, which I don't like but tolerate, but he's probably the most ignorant smoker I've met, I've met very few smokers who don't have the common courtesy not to light up in the room if their non-smoking housemates are eating or cooking, but he has to be told everytime. If he listens to music it has to be so loud it interferes with everyone else in the house, he bitches constantly about his life and how much he dislikes just about everyone he knows, he's rude and disrespectful, if no-one is around he's depressed and grumpy, if people are around he tries to be funny by ripping the piss out of people but is not funny, if any playful banter is directed at him he sulks. He also needs/seeks attention like some depraved child, he will walk into the room start making loud gagging noises and pretend to perform oral sex on an invisble knob, or pretend to perform anal sex with an invisible woman while making disparaging remarks about women. I could go on more. I dislike him immensely.

Saila · 16-07-2011 09:42PM

daddydick wrote: »

Grand apart from the new lad who moved in. I'm at home studying for the summer..he works 9-6 but every night he's just ploughed in front of the television and all weekend too.
I mean today he got up at 9.30 and watched sky sports news, tour de France, the open for about 7 hours, Meath v Kildare and is now watching boxing and darts while he munches the snackbox which has just been delivered...hygiene is awful too he wears the same tshirt and trousers every day!! Tomorrow will be a repeat of today no doubt!!

Gets very annoying when taking study breaks and all you want to do is watch 20 mins of tv when eating lunch/dinner etc!!

grow a pair ffs, point out that he has been watching tv for hours and you just want 20 min to chill

Sibylla · 16-07-2011 09:44PM

Mickeroo wrote: »

Sick to death of mine, lived with him now for 2 years. it's ok during the college year when it's four us but there's only 2 of us for the summer. He smokes in the house, which I don't like but tolerate, but he's probably the most ignorant smoker I've met, I've met very few smokers who don't have the common courtesy not to light up in the room if their non-smoking housemates are eating or cooking, but he has to be told everytime. If he listens to music it has to be so loud it interferes with everyone else in the house, he bitches constantly about his life and how much he dislikes just about everyone he knows, he's rude and disrespectful, if no-one is around he's depressed and grumpy, if people are around he tries to be funny by ripping the piss out of people but is not funny, if any playful banter is directed at him he sulks. He also needs/seeks attention like some depraved child, he will walk into the room start making loud gagging noises and pretend to perform oral sex on an invisble knob, or pretend to perform anal sex with an invisible woman while making disparaging remarks about women. I could go on more. I dislike him immensely.

Suddenly feeling grateful about the housemate who stayed in the room and never spoke to us

Saila · 16-07-2011 09:47PM

Mickeroo wrote: »

or pretend to perform anal sex with an invisible woman

how can you tell its anal

Mickeroo · 16-07-2011 09:55PM

Sibylla wrote: »

Suddenly feeling grateful about the housemate who stayed in the room and never spoke to us

We had one of those, she was a lovely girl but just kept to herself a lot, the asshole housemate complained that she was a weirdo for not hanging out with us more, all I used to think to myself was I wish he was more like her. The perfect housemates are ones you don't see that often :P (or the ones you get on brilliantly with of course)

Saila wrote: »

how can you tell its anal

Pardon, sometimes he specifies through the disparaging remarks that accompany it, othertimes it might not be anal just plain old doggystyle(I can tell from the trajectory of the spanking motions that it's always from behind).

daddydick · 16-07-2011 10:01PM

Saila wrote: »

grow a pair ffs, point out that he has been watching tv for hours and you just want 20 min to chill

It's not as easy as 'growing a pair'...every time I go down for a glass of water or whatever he gets the 'your still there pat?!'...answered by either silence or 'whaaa'

You're still wearing that same tshirt pat....again silence or 'whaaaa'

So eventually he gets up to do a big sh1t and someone nips in....he arrives back and gives the standard 'I was watching tennis there'....obviously he gets shortchanged and told where to go. So he sits down next to you and within 2 minutes will have uttered the phrase 'put on the tennis there this is sh1t'

At that stage I just leave as there is no enjoyment and he is back in his throne delighted with himself cos he's a selfish, selfish person!!

mattjack · 16-07-2011 10:03PM

daddydick wrote: »

It's not as easy as 'growing a pair'...every time I go down for a glass of water or whatever he gets the 'your still there pat?!'...answered by either silence or 'whaaa'

You're still wearing that same tshirt pat....again silence or 'whaaaa'

So eventually he gets up to do a big sh1t and someone nips in....he arrives back and gives the standard 'I was watching tennis there'....obviously he gets shortchanged and told where to go. So he sits down next to you and within 2 minutes will have uttered the phrase 'put on the tennis there this is sh1t'

At that stage I just leave as there is no enjoyment and he is back in his throne delighted with himself cos he's a selfish, selfish person!!

shovel,patio and lime

Mickeroo · 16-07-2011 10:03PM

daddydick wrote: »

It's not as easy as 'growing a pair'...every time I go down for a glass of water or whatever he gets the 'your still there pat?!'...answered by either silence or 'whaaa'

You're still wearing that same tshirt pat....again silence or 'whaaaa'

So eventually he gets up to do a big sh1t and someone nips in....he arrives back and gives the standard 'I was watching tennis there'....obviously he gets shortchanged and told where to go. So he sits down next to you and within 2 minutes will have uttered the phrase 'put on the tennis there this is sh1t'

At that stage I just leave as there is no enjoyment and he is back in his throne delighted with himself cos he's a selfish, selfish person!!

Who owns the TV? If it's yours put it in your room stat.

southsiderosie · 16-07-2011 10:03PM

I've generally had good luck, and still keep in touch with some of my past housemates, but I've had a few living situations which were doozies.

Once past housemate used to start cooking and then would fall asleep in the middle of the process. One time I came home, and her ice cream had melted all over the counter. Another time I came home and the whole house smelled like burned sugar - she fell asleep cooking tapioca and almost set the kitchen on fire.

Another time I shared a house with two randomers (it was a temporary situation) who were perhaps the cheapest, dirtiest bastards I've ever met. When I moved in, the kitchen and bathroom had apparently not been cleaned for weeks; one of them showered at work and the other one didn't care that the shower was brown and covered in scum and hair. The couch was leather and I originally thought it was brown until I wiped it one day and realized that it was actually ivory (I never sat on it again). They also refused to turn the gas heat on because we were responsible for paying it. One tried to be slick and bought an electric heater for his room (the landlady paid the electric bill)...that is until she got the first bill, and confiscated his heater. Eventually she put her foot down and made them kick in for heat because she was afraid the pipes would burst from the cold.

Perhaps the worst case though was when a girl moved into a different shared house. She was really nice, but her boyfriend was a nightmare, and they used to fight all of the time. Apparently one night it got physical, the cops were called etc...of course she swore she would never let him back into the house again, and ended up sneaking him in and out for another month before they broke up for good. I was SO glad to move out of that house.

daddydick · 16-07-2011 10:07PM

Mickeroo wrote: »

Who owns the TV? If it's yours put it in your room stat.

It's actually nine but I watch so little of it I don't really want it in my room

Plus there are 4 other here who use it too sometimes so don't want to punish them.

Very frustrating to see him thrown onto the couch watching some meaningless hockey match from 1989 instead of being out enjoying the summer!!

Mickeroo · 16-07-2011 10:10PM

daddydick wrote: »

It's actually nine but I watch so little of it I don't really want it in my room

Plus there are 4 other here who use it too sometimes so don't want to punish them.

Very frustrating to see him thrown onto the couch watching some meaningless hockey match from 1989 instead of being out enjoying the summer!!

Does he contribute towards tv license or the fee for sky? Tell him it's your tv and you want to watch it, if he doesn't like what you're watching for the 20 minutes or so you want to watch it tell him to leave the room while it's on if it's such a problem. I can't stand feckers like that!

passion · 16-07-2011 10:11PM

*twitch twitch* mothers great. She's really nice.*twitch* you won't hear or see her much *twitch+evil grin* she'll never leave me *twitch twitch* you wanna move in??? oh and don't mind the birds:D *twitch*

loalae · 16-07-2011 10:15PM

When I was in college 2 girls I lived with told people at college that I was always bringing boys home with me and called me Galway's bicycle.

Funny cos I was a virgin and I only kissed 1 guy the whole time we lived together.

Also one of the girls used to leave all her dirty clothes on the floor in her room and leave her door open so the smell when I walked in the house was pretty dreadful.

Saila · 16-07-2011 10:16PM

daddydick wrote: »

So eventually he gets up to do a big sh1t and someone nips in....he arrives back and gives the standard 'I was watching tennis there'....obviously he gets shortchanged and told where to go. So he sits down next to you and within 2 minutes will have uttered the phrase 'put on the tennis there this is sh1t'

like I said grow pair

So eventually he gets up to do a big sh1t and someone nips in....he arrives back and gives the standard 'I was watching tennis there'....obviously he gets shortchanged and told where to go. So he sits down next to you and within 2 minutes will have uttered the phrase 'put on the tennis there this is sh1t'

say no, how hard is that? and mean it, dont make it sound like a question!
I can guarantee you if I was you I would be getting to watch my tiny bit of tv if he gets it the rest of the time, spell that out to him

orourkeda · 16-07-2011 10:17PM

Dahlia Freezing Mushroom wrote: »

Got my own gaff

Aren't we the fancy bollocks?

mackg · 16-07-2011 10:19PM

Everyone I live with I've known for years, biggest legends you could meet:)

There was one girl who was there for a while who stunk of stale sweat was extermely passive aggressive as a rule and went through my buddies PMs on FB when he went to the jacks once. She is gone about a month and a half and you can still get the whiff in her old bedroom.

Dman001 · 16-07-2011 10:19PM

Saila wrote: »

like I said grow pair

say no, how hard is that? and mean it, dont make it sound like a question!
I can guarantee you if I was you I would be getting to watch my tiny bit of tv if he gets it the rest of the time, spell that out to him

In all fairness, it is much easier said than done to do something, especially when you have to live with the person.

whydoibother? · 16-07-2011 10:21PM

daddydick wrote: »

It's actually nine but I watch so little of it I don't really want it in my room

Plus there are 4 other here who use it too sometimes so don't want to punish them.

Very frustrating to see him thrown onto the couch watching some meaningless hockey match from 1989 instead of being out enjoying the summer!!

You might win on the TV front, but it sounds like the real irritation is the guys continuous presence. I don't know how you could go about telling somebody who is paying rent that they have to leave from time to time without sounding completely out of order, no matter how irritating they are.

What do you think of your housemates?

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