#34

maaate. I had a flatmate who’d bring his selfish, entitled friends back to the house in the wee hours to keep the party going, and if they hadn’t been able to source booze or food they’d all just help themselves to whatever was in the kitchen. I just can’t understand that mentality.

Culminated in a night when I was woken up at 5AM and found seven people in my living room doing ketamine, 3 of whom were dreadlocked white guys. two of the cunts had brought guitars. housemate had fucking gone to bed. I went Full Corrigan.

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#35

My mate Andy used to just raid our cupboards for biscuits.

Got to the point where if we’d bought something particularly nice, we’d hide it before he came over.

#36

I bet if you audited it, it wouldn’t even out over time. Some people are natural takers.

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#37

I remember you!!! :wink:

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#38

My erstwhile flatmate, who moved out about 10 months ago but still owns half my flat, came to the flat unannounced (for the first time in about a month) with a bunch of friends after a night in the pub playing poker a while back. I realised when I heard the front door closing at about 4am (on a work night).

In the morning I came downstairs to find the front door wide open, all the downstairs lights on and the empty bottles of over half a dozen of my nice craft beers littering the coffee table. He still has absolutely shedloads of wine, spirits, mixers and a few shit lagers in the understairs cupboard where my beers were too.

#39

Had an almost identical experience to this in a different house, except one of the ket-dreadlocked-white guys was having a conversation with the lamp and another was bleaching his foot in the toilet. Didn’t go Corrigan, just informed my housemates that I’d be moving out ASAP.

#40

see, obviously I don’t buy craft beers, but if I did, even I would be pissed off with that. If I had a four pack of stellas in the fridge (which is the norm) and they’d disappeared overnight - totally cool.

#41

I’m sure she has things she likes a certain way too, everyone does. How would she know unless you mentioned it? HOW WOULD SHE EVER LEARN, epimer? how?

My bf has taught me a lot since living with him. Like how I should always put the lid back on the toothpaste and how leaving all the kitchen cupboards open is not a good thing… aaaaand… that’s about it really. I have taught him not a thing.

#42

Housemates come out with some pretty dodgy political ideas (the case in question was advocating for aggressive Jewish settlement in Palestine).

  • Don’t say anything but the housemate dynamic forever has a sour taste
  • Kick em out
  • Fine, people have different ideas, who cares?
  • Other

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#44

Living alone is great btw

#45

Pretty sure I’ve told this story before but once an Italian girl came to view the spare room in an old flat I lived in. Opened the door and she was like “Hi I’m here to see the room” my housemate was like “hi nice to meet you” and then she went “Do any Jews or Turkish people live here?”.

We sent her back on her way, didn’t even let her in properly.

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#46

just imagining a scenario where a bundle of Jews and Turks come tumbling down the stairs, clowns out of a mini style, as she asks the question.

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#47

“some of our best friends are jews and turkish people”

bamboozling

#48

:joy::joy::joy: Brilliant

#49

I should stipulate. Things like milk, butter, some bread, excess dinner if there’s too much, dash of spices here, drop of something there, all absolutely fine. Eating my ice cream, drinking my beers, using the shampoo I pay a bit extra for because I like it, not cool man.

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#50

let her stay, just tell them that you need half their room for your extra stuff now, and if they complain they’ll have to sleep outside

#51

Yeah, I’m kind of in agreement with this, although am fine with beers as I only get cheap stuff in anyway.

#52

With my current housemate, we share most things like stock/beans/oil/tomato passata/veg. But she is GF and I am vegan so we don’t share pasta or cheese or meat or cake so that’s easy.

I’m also cool with sharing stuff with her cause she replaces it. I’ve lived with people who happily help themselves to my stuff constantly or never replace it. Or if they do replace it, I get a cheap shitty version. You used all my expensive peanut butter and replace it with value peanut butter? ok?

A previous household I lived in got too much for me as whenever I made dinner, all 3 of them would turn up and be like “so what we having?” erm i’m having this and I aint your mum and then they’d get pissed off that I wouldn’t cook for them but they never cooked for me!

#53

My housemate is trying to murder us by burning down the house. She leaves the oven on, the hob on, candles on over night etc

#54

It’s just not on to take someone’s stuff. I assume by the nature of the question it’s without permission otherwise it’s clearly okay.

I’ve always lived with people I know and can speak to, though, so it’s not that big a deal. I mean if your mate of 10 years does this as a one-off it’s hard to be too upset because you know they will replace or must have just not realised how much they could inconvenience you.

Equally, we always tried to have as much stuff as possible communal that had no particular brand or quality requirements: milk, olive spread, butter, washing up liquid, toilet rolls, etc.

Would also point out that as a veggie all my food falls into your ‘give a shit’ category so fuck off :smiley: