smurfing Housemates

[Miriel]

It's so weird to me how many people complain about dirtiness when it comes to roommates. I've had so many friends rant to me about dishes staying in the sink for days, mold growing on trout, etc. Like, I'm a fairly messy person, but I'm not DIRTY. And when I lived with roommates, I tried my best to keep my trout in order. You know, rather than flinging my dirty clothes on the ground, I would pick up after myself, keep things tidy, even though that's really not my natural inclination. Because when you're living with people, you have to be more considerate, not less.

Are people really that dirty? And if so, aren't they at least a tiny bit self-aware enough to not act that way in front of other people? If you live by yourself, by all means, allow ants to come swallow up old pizza left to die on the kitchen table, but when you live with other people? Doesn't somes sort of embarrassment kick in?

[Sephex]

Had a conversation about this with a friend before.

Friend: Dude, why don't you just move in with me?
Me: Nah, I'd rather stay friends.

[Shoeberto]

Are people really that dirty? And if so, aren't they at least a tiny bit self-aware enough to not act that way in front of other people? If you live by yourself, by all means, allow ants to come swallow up old pizza left to die on the kitchen table, but when you live with other people? Doesn't somes sort of embarrassment kick in?

A lot of people come from households where either A) their parents took care of everything for them or B) their parents didn't give a trout and were filthy. Either way you end up with kids who don't clean for crap once they're out on their own.

2/3s of my crappy room mates had mothers who literally did everything for them when they lived at home and they never took up the slack once they were out. All of their food was either frozen, out of a can, or fast food, and they always let junk piles grow of trash, dirty dishes, and general clutter. My last roomie's room just smurfing stank. He moved in around August with a suitcase full of clothes that I didn't see him wash until probably October and he didn't hang up until he had a girl over in January.

[Agrias]

He moved in around August with a suitcase full of clothes that I didn't see him wash until probably October and he didn't hang up until he had a girl over in January.

Thats how to get the ladies.

Gentlemen, take note.

[Shiny]

I can deal with unkempt housemates, but not just outright nasty housemates. My boyfriend keeps the sponge he uses to wash the dishes on his bathroom floor which was recently flooded by a problem with the toilet. He still uses the sponge to clean the dishes...

[Night Fury]

I heard the 'nice' housemate being nasty about me last night.

Take note guys, don't be bitching about your housemate when her room is on the ground floor, and her bedroom door is open!

[Mirage]

I'm extremely messy and leave stuff everywhere and have food wrappings of various stuff all over my desk etc. But I never ever let trout lie around long enough for it to start smelling bad. Either my stuff is dry and therefore doesn't mould/rot/whatever, or I dispose of it before things go bad.

I seriously can not understand how people can live with the smell of old spoiled food.

I do clean things up before people come to visit me, though. I care too much about what other people think of me to let things just lie around.

[Aulayna]

I heard the 'nice' housemate being nasty about me last night.

Take note guys, don't be bitching about your housemate when her room is on the ground floor, and her bedroom door is open!

Meh, that sucks.

[Jiro]

You'll be in Australia soon Locky, no need to worry about those smurfers.

[Iceglow]

I heard the 'nice' housemate being nasty about me last night.

Take note guys, don't be bitching about your housemate when her room is on the ground floor, and her bedroom door is open!

I heard my housemates bitching bout my lack of social interaction within the house lately the other week in much the same situation, I walked out in to the lounge and was like "Look I can hear this discussion and frankly whilst I'm not the sort to take offence at most things, you probably ought to know that discussing me behind my back is the one sure fire way to smurf things between us up. If you have problems then come talk to me about them." I wouldn't mind but my door is thin enough and they're loud enough I don't even need the door open.

As for nightmare housemates. Well tbh aside from the current ones being disappointed I don't go out partying more with them or sitting around chatting trout (bear in mind they all work 9 - 5 mon - fri jobs and earn a min of 20 - 30k a year salaries I work shift and earn closer to 15k a year) they're actually a nice group. Though we did have 2 guys who lived here previously we all hated, one Ron was an indian guy who liked to do cocaine. Though none of us particularly liked him from the off because he was trying too hard to impress us we gave him a fair chance to be a decent housemate, the final straw came all too quickly though when he believed himself to be getting some from this Polish girl he invited to stay with him for the week. This girl Beata decided from the moment she laid eyes on me that it was me she wanted to get it on with. I didn't do anything to work on it but the fact that I actually can speak some Polish and wasn't actually scaring her by being off my face on cocaine at the time probably helped some. Ron flipped out when he saw her kiss me later that night, kicking her when she went to take her things out of his room. I had him arrested for assault and possession of a class A substance before I decided to put him in a hospital bed and then had him evicted merely weeks later for the incident. We also had Lucio who was in his later years, why he decided to move in to a shared house with 4 20-somethings I don't know however he repeatedly pissed us off by complaining that he wasn't receiving enough signal in his room on the internet to the point that I informed him since it's in my name and not the land-lord's it's an amenity not a right in the house and I would gladly cover his share of the internet myself and denied him access. He complained to the landlord about that for about a month and a half whilst I outright said to the landlord that until he'd learnt his lesson I would accept no money from him and no service would be received. Lucio then tried to demand I pay him his lost income I told him to in no uncertain terms get on his knees and make like a circus seal. Lucio repeatedly even after I finally relented and allowed him internet access again complained and eventually I caught him smoking in his room (against the tennancy agreement and house rules) twice. I at that point apparently intimidated him enough that he left the house moving out without giving the landlord notice so lost his deposit too.

When I was younger and dating my ex, Ewa we lived in a house in East London for 6 months, the house was split with a fair few people there was us two, Aga (who worked with Ewa and was arguably the hotter of the two and tried numerous times to steal me on grounds of I was going out with Ewa), Monica and Monika (Monika was the hotter one of these two, liked to go around in a silk kimono dressing gown which didn't cover her nudity much) and the last room was Raphael and Innes (the only other guy in the house who was a dumb smurfer and his obese walrus of a girlfriend who looked like a Gommorrean slaver). Innes and Raphael did not get along with us, Monica and Monika basically flip-flopped between people more often than Mitt Romney did in the electoral race and Aga and Ewa loved to hate one another because Ewa believed Aga wanted everything she had on mere grounds of she had it (tbf she wasn't exactly wrong going on the few plays Aga made for me, paper thin walls and "accidentally" walking naked to the bathroom without a towel on when I'm about to leave/enter the room? yeah...) After Aga went home to Poland (which for me was a shame, I actually got along with Aga, wonder why lol) Monika moved in to her boyfriends place and we were left dealing with people we hated and who hated Ewa. I had a fight on Christmas day with one of them (Raphael) and on the 3rd of Jan we had moved having found a place literally days before Christmas. I spiked every last bit of food in that place and the kettle and the pans with laxatives, I also put itching powder on all the clean laundry in the house and on the sofa's and other soft furnishings around. I got revenge on those smurfers good apparently they were sick and itching for weeks (Ewa's boss was the landlord of the property)

[Quindiana Jones]

I've lived with a lot of different people, and most of them were s.

[Zeldy]

It's so weird to me how many people complain about dirtiness when it comes to roommates. I've had so many friends rant to me about dishes staying in the sink for days, mold growing on trout, etc. Like, I'm a fairly messy person, but I'm not DIRTY. And when I lived with roommates, I tried my best to keep my trout in order. You know, rather than flinging my dirty clothes on the ground, I would pick up after myself, keep things tidy, even though that's really not my natural inclination. Because when you're living with people, you have to be more considerate, not less.

Are people really that dirty? And if so, aren't they at least a tiny bit self-aware enough to not act that way in front of other people? If you live by yourself, by all means, allow ants to come swallow up old pizza left to die on the kitchen table, but when you live with other people? Doesn't somes sort of embarrassment kick in?

I find it really bizarre as well. I was brought up where I was rewarded with praise if I did some cleaning up without being asked, and used to see it as a way of 'doing something nice'. So I brought that with me to student living; I'll just clean the living room, or the bathroom, but not for myself, but so it's clean for my friend, just as a nice gesture. Living with 6 other people was where I went wrong.

The biohazard kitchen got cleaned, but it won't be along until its back to being disgusting. Before it was cleaned it reached the stage of the stench, from gone-off produce in the fridge and an overflowing bin and the extensive amounts of food on the side.

I hope it stays clean this time, but I don't want to be the muggins who keeps cleaning up.

[Aulayna]

So said guy I'm living with for about 6 months now has had 2 girlfriends and... several countless casual flings...

I'm considering finding the sluttiest bra/kinky outfit possible and just keeping it on hand so when his next belladonna comes into the kicthen for breakfast I can hold it up and be like "oh is this yours? The last person here left it here."

Not sure if that's being *too* bitchy or not though.

[Heath]

On the whole, the housemates I lived with at university were okay, but sometime they were bloody lazy. I don't think the house ever got dirty dirty, but it was certainly often untidy. One of the biggest problems was people not cleaning up after themselves, and particularly washing their dishes after cooking. In a house with a dishwasher of all things. I wouldn't mind if they didn't wash up if they'd used the dishwasher instead.

[Quindiana Jones]

So said guy I'm living with for about 6 months now has had 2 girlfriends and... several countless casual flings...

I'm considering finding the sluttiest bra/kinky outfit possible and just keeping it on hand so when his next belladonna comes into the kicthen for breakfast I can hold it up and be like "oh is this yours? The last person here left it here."

Not sure if that's being *too* bitchy or not though.

I can't figure out why anybody's sexual proclivities are any concern of yours.

Presumably it's just that the dude keeps you up at night or something. If so, I find it more fun to slip a condom under the door mid-activity and scream "MAKE SURE YOU STAY SAFE!" at the top of my voice. They hate it! xD