Roommates & Co. Rants

[Mal]

I think it'll turn out fine since its his parents place. So I doubt he'll do anything crazy. Besides, engineering major. They don't fuck around. Much. Also, the parents bought the place for him... I wish I had parents like that. Sadly, no, we're poor.

[CorgiShinobi]

My brother-in-law is an engineer. He's one bad motha...

 

"Shut yo mouth!"

 

What? I'm just talking about engineers.

[Waldorf and Statler]

I'm rooming with my older sis. There is nothing like rooming with family as you never feel awkward in your own house.

I've done that, and while it wasn't awkward, it was frustrating because I've got one of the most nagging sisters on the planet.

 

My sister is a clean freak, and always nags at me to clean shit up or throw away the trash. She thinks she doesn't have to do any of this stuff because she unfreezes the food our mom made for us.

 

But I still prefer her. I had a roommate for a semester that always had people over and they were loud as hell. It was a pain in the ass. Plus he was dirty as hell. I may not be a clean freak but I still desire the apartment in general to be somewhat clean.

[Mal]

Progress report time.

 

Cleanliness wise, they're decent enough. They keep their rooms far neater than me most of the time. I'm the boss at cleaning though. Washing dishes is pretty much me. I feel obligated since my parents more or less, leaning more to less, broke the dishwasher after they cleaned it, revealing all the problems it had.

One thing they fail at is putting all their sweets stuff into proper containers. Ants was a pretty damn big problem, still is if they improperly put away food. Plastic containers are a must.

 

Lastly... Do one of my roommates have to bring over his girlfriend if they argue every single time they come over? Its expected that couples argue but this amount of times...

It also puts me in an awkward position... I don't want to go around doing my thing while they are politely arguing. A shower would be nice though.

[CorgiShinobi]

Two of my three roommates are lazy pigs that can't throw away their trash. Their rooms are filled with their waste, but if it's their room, I don't mind.

 

Problem: They've begun to spread it to the living room. Frickin' pairs of shoes everywhere and trash littering the tables, couches, and floors. The few times I want to rage at them, they're not home. When they do get home, I'm bothered by something else. Maybe if I injected some liquid crack into their system, they'd have the motivation to pick up the crap they leave behind.

[「Advent Chaos」]

Long rant INCOMING.

 

I know it's my fault for wanting to sleep super early (7:50 PM), but one of my roomates left his laptop on blasting some "Purupururin" song while pointing directly at my door. I think it's from "Welcome to the NHK" if I remember right. They've been acting kind of douchey towards me and it's getting slightly annoying, it's not their "subtle insults" but their stupidity that annoys the shit out of me.

We were talking once and he said this to me "I AM A PRODUCT OF THE INTERNET. I DO IT FOR THE LULZ"

I asked him if he knew what .zip/.rar file was and he had no idea. I asked him to explain to me how torrenting works and did not know either. He claims he came up with "I do it for the lulz" on his own and the he has never heard it being used by other people other than his friends.

 

This is sad, because I actually like him, he's a nice kid, but he's a stupid sheep. They have been bringing guests more frequently, I don't particularly like most of them, but I don't make a case out of it. However some nights ago (and recently) they brought a new guest who I can now safely say is of hispanic/mexican descent and can not speak 2 sentences without saying the word "Nigga" 2-3 times. This went on for a long night. Some weeks ago I had dressed up rather nicely to go to my class, there's no real purpose to it just a change of pace (I'd do it everyday if I had more suits and dress shirts though!) when I came back from class they felt the need to point out my outfit. For some reason everytime I wear my winter jackets or a shirt or hell even a sweater they think I'm dressing "fancy". Anywho, he and the other annoying roomate, started talking loudly while I was trying to watch a show on my laptop. They were pretty much criticizing my outfit and calling me a pretentious, conceited dick. I'm guessing they thought they were being "subtle" and smart? The next morning I had gone to do volunteer work at the Biosphere 2, my roomates usually leave on the weekends to go back to their homes (so they can get their laundry done...), sometime in the morning he texted me if I could (once again) lend him my router, set it up to his preferred SSID name and password so he can just plug it in and use it. I'm not one to throw a drama fit with other people, but this was highly aggravating. I came back and decided to just go to my room and chill out. In just 20 minutes he started calling me out "GEORGE! GEORGE! GEORGE! GEEEEOOOOORGE! GEEEEEORGE! GEORGE!". Charming the first few times, annoying after 5 minutes. He proceeded to knock loudly on my door for a good while and ignored him while increasing the volume on my laptop, mind you I tried to keep my composure, but it might have been the work I had done earlier that made loose my patience.

"Get a goddamn clue and FUCK OFF!". What can I say? It really bothers me how someone can think that being two faced and acting silly will make everything okay. He's been acting more douchey towards me since then, I can only hope that that attitude actually comes from himself and not some influence from another one of his "friends", that would actually indicate he's not as stupid as he is. I think I've said enough, next time I'll talk about my PS3 usage and electricity bills, along with some "cleaning" issues."

[Faiblesse Des Sens]

It looks like you haven't actually done anything to stop these problems. You never once mention taking action. Try actually talking to the guy about the things he does that bug you.

[VicariousShaner]

I feel if I ever wanted a comprehensive list of everything wrong with me I should try rooming with Advent.

 

Idea: Show guy your rants and watch as he melts from embarrassment.

[Luftwaffles]

Idea: Show guy your rants and watch as he melts from embarrassment.

 

I bet the guy would just say "you mad" or "haters gonna hate".

 

And really, if this guy is really a "product of the internet" he'd know the phrase goes "for teh lolz" instead of that actual work "the", god forbid.

[Enervation]

So my small rant today is about a different kind of roommate.

 

FIies.

 

Man, how do they even get in? I wake up one morning and all of a sudden there's dozens of fruit flies flying EVERYWHERE in the kitchen?! HOW? We didn't even buy any fruit! There's nothing on the counters, or anything! I suspect it may have been our small but yet undisposed of trash bag which held a meager amount of food waste that attracted them, but damn do those flies have a sense of smell. I've just started resorting to throw everything in the large metal trash bins outside now whenever any bag gets full. It's quite a ways from my front door, so it's really annoying.

[deanb]

I gained a roommate at 3am last night. Stood out my door all weepy and equipped with clothes and simple bedding. Turns out my sisters housemates are huge dicks.

 

So got the kettle on, had some tea, chatted about how her housemates are dicks that don't let her put heating on and keep her up until 4am. Watched some videos, had general chit chat n sorted her out in the spare room at about 5am. She's currently still in bed catching up on lost sleep.

[CorgiShinobi]

Good thing you guys live close to each other, or at least not very far away, right?

 

That's the downside of having my sister gone; if roommates were being dicks, I had a second home a few miles away. I'm fortunate enough to have roommates that even if they're staying up to the point of dawn, I can walk out of my room and they get the idea.

[excel_excel]

So my small rant today is about a different kind of roommate.

 

FIies.

 

Man, how do they even get in? I wake up one morning and all of a sudden there's dozens of fruit flies flying EVERYWHERE in the kitchen?! HOW? We didn't even buy any fruit! There's nothing on the counters, or anything! I suspect it may have been our small but yet undisposed of trash bag which held a meager amount of food waste that attracted them, but damn do those flies have a sense of smell. I've just started resorting to throw everything in the large metal trash bins outside now whenever any bag gets full. It's quite a ways from my front door, so it's really annoying.

 

Yeah I tend to throw stuff out in the bins along my street. I shouldn't, its a bad habit, but I don't want shit stinking up my flat, its a small place, and its just simple. SIMPLE. OK. and if you tell anybody what I am doing.....I will come to your house and I will beat you at Quake. Capiche?

 

I gained a roommate at 3am last night. Stood out my door all weepy and equipped with clothes and simple bedding. Turns out my sisters housemates are huge dicks.

 

So got the kettle on, had some tea, chatted about how her housemates are dicks that don't let her put heating on and keep her up until 4am. Watched some videos, had general chit chat n sorted her out in the spare room at about 5am. She's currently still in bed catching up on lost sleep.

 

Tea solves everything doesn't it? awwwww look at you being a nicey brother. LOOK AT YOU. Makes me sick.

[deanb]

Well she's bodded off to her home, gonna do some uni work. Promised to come over n cook some point. (I supplied poach eggs, and new cooking technique, for lunch)

[Mal]

I come back from break and what do I smell? I'm fine with it but still... I don't want to smell like pot. Having smelled like tobacco is bad enough.

 

Eh whatever. Knock themselves out. Last day before we die. Again.

Edited January 2, 2012 by MaliciousH

[Faiblesse Des Sens]

Weed smells delicious. I don't even smoke weed and I think that. Cigarette smoke is much more noxious.

[Luftwaffles]

Growing up in Humboldt, I've become so desensitized to the smell of weed it's not even funny. I agree with cigarettes, though. If I was to smoke anything it'd be weed before cigarettes.

[Mal]

I come back from the long weekend and find that my previously locked room open. Umm... what?

Looks like one of my roommates had to get into my room to fix the internet, which is fair enough but I will have to take this off my rent when I go fix it. I'm fine with fixing stuff since I'm going to be a home owner someday but I'm not paying for something that I didn't do. Besides, I have to fix it now since my roommates got in so easily into my room with my PC, PS3, 360 and my TV. Someone could potentially broke in and took EVERYTHING.

[Waldorf and Statler]

My roommate is really nice and wouldn't change her for the world.

 

 

CURSE HER FOR NOT LETTING ME BITCH.

[MasterDex]

Not my roommate technically but it's really all the same. I'm living with my mother (Get that image of the basement nerd out of your head. I'm the law at home!). Nice girl calls to the door about a charity, I invite her into the hall to hear who and what it's for and my mother comes down and all but physically kicked the girl out the door. I can't wait to get out of here. Either way, I let my mother know my mind. I don't think she'll pull shit like that, at least, in the future.

[Cyber Rat]

Well, two things happened today because I had an MSN argument and because of it happened to "look at my brother cross" when he came back home. (for those who don't know, I live with my brother and another roommate)

 

1) He threw a plate at me. The plate flew just over my head (as in, grazed my hair) and hit the wall a few feet away from me.

 

2) He then came at me with a machete, but his girlfriend stopped him from swinging it at me.

 

So, yea. FML.

[Faiblesse Des Sens]

Guy needs some anger management. Why is that chick even with him?

[Cyber Rat]

I have no idea. I wondered the same about every single one that was with him.

[CorgiShinobi]

Wow...

 

I logged on to tell about how my roommates and their friend stormed into the apartment at 4:30am last night, kept tripping over objects and falling into walls. Once stable, blasted some horrible music they found on television while one of them tried to take a shower. Once I finally was able to sleep again, I woke up to a room temperature of 84 degrees (F).

 

This has happened before and the "logic" behind it is, "Why get a blanket when the whole place can be toasty?"

Edited January 29, 2012 by Atomsk88

[「Advent Chaos」]

So the dirtiest of my roomates has this habit of leaving an orange juice gallon on the coffee table in the living room. Now hold on, I'm very open minded and I like to try my own patience. Got guests and friends coming over? Leave a little mess, but since it's so late you go straight to bed? That's fine by me, tomorrow you can clean it up. Didn't clean up the next? Well sure fine. 3 days and still nothing? Ok this is starting to look nasty. 1 week? Clean your shit up. Now as I said, I'm fine if you're feelin' lazy about cleaning things up, so long as you do it within a couple of days, glasses, an empty pizza box, plates, a fast food empty bag sure whatever, but is it normal to leave an Orange Juice gallon outside just like that? To my big surprise he was just "cleaning" (because it still looks like shit) his room, so yeah good for him, I ask him if he could clean up the living room as well. "What things?" "Well y'know, the empty glasses and mostly the orange juice."

"Oh yeah the orange juice, I'll put that some place else."

"...Why not just the fridge?"

"Because Orange Juice doesn't need to be in the fridge to be preserved. Also that way it won't take up any space in the fridge."

"...We have space (I had cleaned up the fridge a couple days ago)."

 

Admittedly, our fridge does tend to fill up pretty quickly considering it's 5 guys using one fridge, the lower part of the fridge I use and as of now I use up about 22% of space, there's plenty of space for a gallon and some frozen pizzas or whatever you want to put in there. I'm seriously considering holding some sort of roomate meeting and hearing their opinions on food placement. I personally think it looks nasty, considering it's on the fucking coffee table for a week. I mean I don't have guests at all (anti-social yay :[ ) , but my roomates do and it'd be pretty embarrassing to have guest come in and the first thing they see is a coffee table with 4-6 fast food/regular glasses and a gallon of orange juice.

 

Should I go through with this meeting and see if they think it's ok to leave food items out just like that? I'm all for fairness and equality, if their argument makes sense and there seems to be a general consensus then fine by me. I may not completely agree, but I'll respect their choices. What do you guys think? Is it normal? Is it ok? Do you guys do it?