Housemate Faggotry

[smegballs]

Just been talking to one of the guys in my house and it looks like at least a few of the others have got him kicked out of the house by end of term.

Apparently the complaint were along the lines of:

Not doing washing up
Smoking in Room

I meant wtf? Surely thats something you just go and talk about it face to face about. Not sending of shitty emails to the landlord!

Its not suprising really as the guys I live with are in lots of ways like little kids on their first time out from home..... Everything is explicitly "mine" or "yours" by their standards. Its very territorial and totally against what I believe in. I'm happy for a goodly amount of give and take and helping each other out....

Still now I'm wary now cos its a bit of a "so thats how it is then" feelings on my part now. I guess I'm seen as the eccentric biker guy seeing as I'm normally in my shed playing or in my room...

[Throttle]

Welcome to university, annoying isn't it!

You should take my very adult approach. I hated the guy who ended up living with us last year. We pulled a prank on him one night, tin foiled 90% of his room, LULZ ensured.

Now this guy was the world's biggest tosser but he seemed to take the joke and tied our doors together, fair play. THEN he stated accusing me (bear in mind 3 other people helped me) of standing on his art work, he clearly felt he needed to be the Alpha male of the house. We had an argument, punches were exchanged as well as some gay rolling around on the floor.

Pretty much solved my issues with him. He never left his room after that, mainly because everyone laughed at the fact a 26 year old acted the way he did.

So you got 4 rolls of tin foil handy?

[smegballs]

No chance of that..... They all lock their rooms if they are out for more than a sec..... Its properly laughable, fuck sake you should be able to leave your room unlocked. Mine is always unlocked unless I'm going away for the weekend and even then its only so the Landlord wouldn't have a casual peek in. I'm not scared of people stealing from me or whatever as I generally trust them.....

Saddest fact is I'm the youngest bar one in the house. Theres 9 inc myself living here so some disputes are understandable. Whining to the landlord however is well out of order in my books....

[Throttle]

People are generally scared of saying anything to one another because they don't like the repercussions.

We had a dispute going on this time last year. This is a 13 bedroom house, I live on the top floor with Gareth,Matt and Heather. Last year Heather constantly had the heating on. Instead of telling her to stop it Gareth kept switching the boiler off, so she would switch it back on. Cost us a fortune (extra 150 each) in the end. I went and spoke to her about it, she said "oh sorry, didn't realise." That was the end of that.

[WildGoose]

The mine and yours possession thing is a hateful part of human nature, but unless you live with people who all pull their weight in the true spirit of communism, it gets necessary after a while to stop people taking the piss out of you.

I.e. washing up builds up and never gets done, you end up buying your own cutlery and crockery, washing your own up after every use and storing it in your room rather than the kitchen, washing your hands of the whole washing up situation.

I doubt your average student fresh out from under his parents wing has any idea how fucking expensive utility bills are, and thus will have little problem with buying a cheap 3000kw fan heater from argos, and turning it on in their room whenever they feel a slight draft (instant heat ftw). Then go out on the piss, and leave the thing plugged in on a thermostat setting all night.

My brother had all sorts of fun with wankerish housemates in his first couple of years at uni. I hate the way that a lot of people are incapable of saying to your face if they have a problem and would rather go behind your back.

However, I don't blame people for locking their door whenever their back is turned. Although I learned the hard way whilst living with 30+ people under the same roof. Maybe students have more integrity, but I doubt it.

Nothing like losing some of your stuff for an unknown reason then realising you can't put it down to thievery or the fact that you misplaced it one way or the other because your stuff wasn't locked away. Quickest way to introduce a feeling of mistrust in everyone.

If you lock everything away then there can be no question ever, and it doesn't tempt the light of finger.
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[stinkwheel]

Don't worry too much.

From my time at university I will surmise the following:

1) They are studying arts or computer science.

2) They have about one lecture per day in the early afternoon.

3) They will fail their first year/have already failed their first year.

4) They will fail whatever course they transferred to to redo their first year.

5) Next year, they will be on the dole or stacking shelves.
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[colin1]

[Throttle]

[Throttle]

[Vin]

I guess this is what happens when you let chavs into uni.

[stinkwheel]

[smegballs]

The annoying kids, literally look and sound about 12, are both maths students. The other whiny one, not so bad tho, is a civ engineer.....

They aren't that much of general knobbers, they just need to not be so uptight and worry and fuss constantly....

[pa_broon74]

[Numptie]

[nowhere.elysium]

I used to live in a house of stoners. I liked them all, and they're still pretty solid mates. I did have to fit a lock on my door, though, because one of them kept nicking beers from my fridge (I had a drinks cooler thing in my room); I can't say that it was serious 'You cnut!' sort of stuff, but it was a little irritating.
That plus the fact that every Thursday was the post-samba-band-practice piss-up, of course. I really could've done without that.

I have to admit that I was crap at washing up. I did, quite literally, only use one bowl, one set of cutlery, and one mug for the whole time, but I probably should've pitched in on that sort of thing more often.
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[hellkat]

Ah, ya need to call a house meeting and bang heads together

Tell all the pissy ones to stop running to the landlord with tales, and that they should grow up a bit and learn to face each other.

Draw up house rules, make them at least witty as well as "real", and stick 'em up beside the khazi (as not everybody uses the bathroom or even the kitchen on a regular basis) ... ensuring of course that they are out of pissing-upon distance.

Take a regular (weekly/fortnightly) kitty for communal stuff like milk, tea, coffee, sugar, orange juice (cordial), washing up liquid and loo-paper. Anybody making excuses not to pay into the kitty gets lined up and shot.

Arguments or mutterings regarding someone taking more dumps and thus using more loo paper than the others can be resolved by a competition, monitored by the entire household.

Then tell them the only thing they are allowed to label is their "special" food in the fridge (donuts, beer, yoghurts, etc).

If there are smokers tell them to smoke out the window

I'm sure I can think of more, given enough time.
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[Clanger]

I lived in a female only student house once...yeah okay the kitchen and bathroom was kept in order, but the pettyness of everything else was extreme.

One of the girls was so anal about the whole toilet seat thing, that I took it upon myself to try and remember to put it up (as though a bloke had been in there), just for the crac. (I even had a note on the inside of my bedroom door, to help me remember to leave the seat up)
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