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Housemate hell
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I've been doing some work experience here at TheSite.org, and I've written a rant about my lovely housemate.
Have a read, and let me know what you think.
Housemate Hell
Have a read, and let me know what you think.
Housemate Hell
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like your housemate, mine only ever comes out of her room to cook (spaghetti bolognaise EVERY time! :eek2: ) and use the toilet - which she neever cleans or supplies toilet roll for!!
.. basically everything that 'your girl' has done so has mine lol. .. except for the car parking thing!!
At least my housemate varies her diet between pizza, indian or chinese take-away or the ever yummy sausages cooked in butter (), chips and 2 yorkshire puddings (obviously all cooked in the trusty oven)!
Sounds like a male flat mate of mine who got shoved in with us this year. I tried talking to him about the cleaning as he leaves he shit everywhere and he told us that to him, cleaning is "putting stuff in the dishwasher" yet he leaves shit on the worktops, wrecks the hob, puts shit on the floor >.< Also, he uses the dishwasher tablets, foil, etc and although it sounds really petty but he doesn't contribute to any of it! Its really annoying.
He lives in his room and only comes out to cook his food (He only eats pasta, noodles, cereal and stir fry). When he does come out he's usually either taking piss out of us or being argumentative. He's really aggressive when drunk too which I don't like.
He always slams doors which is annoying as he's up till 4am everynight so constantly wakes me up.
He just annoys me in general.
URGH.
From my vast experience in living with twats, i have discovered that the best way to teach them a lesson, is for the nice contributing housemates to each have toilet rolls in their rooms and take it to the toilet when they go, leaving the toilet free of any toilet rolls. Thus meaning said stingy housemate gets a big shock when he/she does a big poo and has nothing to wipe their arse with :cool:
See, this (for me) is just blatent sexism, even if it is couched in a light-hearted way. Why would you 'expect' boys to have poor hygiene and to be generally filthy? Why not a girl? The 4 girls I have shared flats with were all absolutely disgusting, to the point of leaving dishes in the sink for weeks on end.... Their rooms were all gross. The didn't take the bins out. Left food in the fridge well past its sell-by-date. You get the idea.
My current flatmate is uber-clean, tidy, washes his dishes, hoovers etc. And guess what? My flatmate is a boy.
Sorry, but I think this comment brings down an otherwise good article.
And now I'll go read the article...!
i feel that blokes get the place more messy, but clean it up every so often. whereas girls have this ongoing mess that never really goes away.
this is entirly based on under 25s though.
now i live with 13 other people and it's great. only downside is the girl above me has noisy sex sometimes - they don't seem to have sex very often but when they do it's annoying and i hate going to bed incase i hear it.
lol nice 1
I know she meant in a stereotypical sense, and that's why it's wrong. If the article had said 'when I said that my flatmate was a girl and couldn't cook, all my friends were shocked. I mean, girls are all supposed to be able to cook and clean.'
Or
'When I said my flatmate was a Muslim and liked white people, all my friends were shocked. I mean, all Muslims are supposed to hate white people and want to bomb them.'
Just because it's envoking a stereotype doesn't make it right. If anything, it's perpetuating a damaging stereotype of men as lazy slobs, unable and unwilling to look after themselves. You'd think in the age of sexual enlightenment, individuals would have moved beyond this.
And you saying you're more accepting of 'grubby boys' only implicates you in maintaining notions of what it is to be a man.
You are forgetting that sexism towards men is now apparently acceptable, you only have to watch half the adverts on telly to notice that.
Last year I lived with 2 Americans who were lovely people, but often acted like they were 16 and didn't wash their stuff up... So they went in to our cupboards and used our plates and left them out dirty. That was annoying.
I know more male clean freaks than female I think. Though a lot of men are more prone to growing eco-systems in coffee cups etc whereas lasses will just leave a whirlwind of their clothes and general crap etc wherever they go. Or maybe that's just me :razz:
Ha ha - more like zillionth - and yes it is preparation for the world of 'work as a journalist'.
Wouldnt drinking a lot then making most of the story up be better preperation for being a journalist?
Afraid not, its now totally acceptable to depict men in adverts as little more than monkeys. Not that sexism against females has disapeared, but I'd kind of hoped that we'd have a slightly more adult attitude it.