#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:

#55

But never both at the same time.

#56

BLEACHING HIS FOOT. what.

#57

This was one of the reasons why I had to move out cause I lived with someone like this who also had guitars. But the problem was his Friday night was mine (and everyone elses) Monday night so he’d be keeping us all awake on the first night of the week. Infuriating for me and sent me completely insane. No one else seemed to mind being kept awake til 7am on a Monday night tho.

#58

I could live with both at the same time, probably wouldn’t want to do both to the same person though, no

#59

Years ago when I still had a flatmate there was this Spanish c**t who kept taking my beers out of the fridge. Not cheap cans of Fosters or crap like that, proper good stuff.

I said he should buy his own. He replied, “In my country we share stuff like that.”

I asked another Spanish friend who said, “No, he’s just being a c**t.”

When I moved out he stole my deposit. He was on the contract as “lead tenant” and so the Deposit Protection Scheme paid the whole amount to him, with it being his job to divide it up and pay the share to the flatmate(s). He chose not to.

Yes, he was a c**t. And probably still is.

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#61

yeah i think i could live with someone else again if there was just a couple of us and i could rely on them to replace stuff/share stuff without being a dick about it (milk, marge, cheese, whatever)

#62

He renewed his contract and stayed there with new tenants replacing me and the other person who’d moved out.

Over a year later me and the other person received bills from the council for council tax, for the year AFTER we’d moved out. By which time he’d also moved out due to the house having been sold.

We proved we’ve moved and showed that we’d been paying council tax elsewhere and the council gave us copies of a contract with our names still on it. He’d tippexed out his own name and put in the name of the new flatmate there instead.

I did a bit of research, found where he’d moved to and told the council. He had to pay the council tax for that entire year. I heard he’d said that it ruined his summer holiday for that following. He couldn’t go away.

Good. The c**t deserved it.

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#63

Got big plans for the retirement home huh Casanova?

#64

just after uni i lived in tottenham and after i’d lived with him for about two months my housemate said “yeah it’s alright living with you wiggy, y’know, i wouldn’t wanna live with yetunde from africa who’s gonna nick all my shit”

obviously i called him out for saying something so incredibly racist but as i was so surprised it took me a while to remember how to speak.

i also remember him enthusiastically saying “yeah, go on!” when the police were beating up student protesters on the news (this was all in late 2010)

i remember one of his mates came round and when we were walking to shop without him, his friend said “yeah, he’s a massive racist isn’t he”. had to stay in touch after he moved out cos he owed me £60 or so, haven’t seen him since i got it back, obviously

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