Respect of other peoples property.

Right this is a nice littloe rant about something that has quite litrally, about 5 minutes ago, really started to piss me off quite alot...RESPECT FOR PROPERTY!

Alot of us are at university and this inevitably means we live with a group of people we've never met before and must learn to adapt to peoples quirks, habbits, like and dislikes etc etc and it also means that a set of house rules must be set...ok so maybe not rules but just general things to live by. For example taking rubbish out when its full, dishes and stuff like that.

I live with 5 other people and a certain thing has started to get on my nerves; respect of my games and games consoles/equipment. Now as I dont have a tv in my room yet I've had my PS3 set up in the main living room where there's a little tv we all use, and I've put my X360 in there for now as well, but I was planning on moving that to my room after christmas when I get my own tv, but leaving my PS3 as my other flat mates use it as a group DVD player...not anymore.

This started to get to me last month after a night out; I got the full rock band set, drums guitar and mic with the game, the first week I came to uni and everything was fine, however last month my 3 female flatmates came in drunk after a night out and started playing rock band full blast at 4am. First of all I was annoyed that they woke me up, secondly they were just chucking my guitar and drum sticks around the place with no regard, but after I pulled them on it they appologised and stopped...for a while.

This has continued and became worse for the past month, its lead to cracked guitar head's, broken drum sticks, lost controllers and my PS3 being left on for days on end because they just neglect to turn it off or tell me theyve broken things. When I first put the ps3 in the living room I asked them to do 2 things; first was to turn it off once they'd finished with it and second was to put any games they take out back in the box, fair enough yes? Do they do any of it? Do they shite!

On to my main greivance. 20 minutes ago I pick rock band up from the floor from under a pile of crap and a football, I was annoyed but not too bothered, I then put the game in the ps3 but it wont work...after I took the game out I checked it to find a 3 or 4 inch crack on the disc. When I asked them about it all 3 of them denied it and then proceded to blame me as it's "my game so its not their fault it got broken" and have subsequently point blank refused to contribute anything towards a replacement disc. So I've removed the ps3 and 360 from the living room leaving them without a dvd player and they have the outright cheek to call me petty and childish! I mean what the fuck!? That game will cost me a minimum of £25 to replace and they have refused to pay anything towards it! I have given them chance and chance times and time again and now im finished, they can fuck off and die for all I care, I've had it with them!

/rant

Now, feel free to use this as a place to express your hatred for any similar experiances =]

You are very trustworthy, I would never just leave my 360 or any expensive equipment out for a bunch of people I hardly know!

Anyway this girl I was living with, her boyfriend moved in and he never flushed the toilet. He would leave turds just floating there, does flushing the toilet really take that much effort?
It\'s ok now though they split up, Yay!

( Edited 16.12.2008 01:37 by Mario_0 )

Ahh I feel for you.

If there\'s one thing I\'ve learnt at Uni, it\'s that a lot of people can be proper dicks, even if they seem nice enough at first.

The worst I\'ve had personally is housemates not doing any washing up. Eventually I just start washing my own things and leaving theirs, but then they just use my things as their things get slowly more smelly, and in some cases, mouldy. My solution is to wash up, then move all my stuff to my room so they think there\'s nowt clean to use.

Overall not a disaster, just annoying really.

( Edited 15.12.2008 22:47 by The cheese. )

There are some really pathetic cunts in my flat. I have no idea how they will function in the real world.

They literally never clear anything up ever. All packaging is discarded where it is removed. Nothing at all is ever washed up or cleaned unless by one of the pushover girls or the cleaning assistant bloke.

They also take plates, cutlery etc to other flats and don't bring it back. I can put up with it so that they have to, but it's so fucking depressing...

You live with some cunts. You're too nice.

Have a star for your troubles.

I can put up with it so that they have to, but it's so fucking depressing...

Give in and you become a push over doing all their work.
Don't and you end up living in a but of a shit hole.

How hot are these girls?

What can you do. Follow sage advice of wise 'monkey:

Take stuff and keep locked in room away from vile hussies (obvious really). Go to local supermarket and purchase several small hot chillis. Wearing gloves, slice said vegetables in half and rub vigorously over toilet seat. Flush evidence and giggle self to sleep.

Exactly!

And if you complain you become the anal one.

I've tried the anonymous note route and it didn't work.

Another favourite activity of theirs is leaving the heaters on and the windows wide open...

Sound like a bunch of twats to me, I think you're way too trusting with all your expensive stuff...

It sounds like a pain. I hope I put up with living like that...

On the other hand I'm good at arguing and incredibly stubborn, so I don't plan on losing any "it's your fault" arguments.

Oh believe me I dont plan on losing any arguments and i'd be following that chilli idea had we not of had en-suites.

My flat mates are a bunch of hypocritical cunts, to be honest. Granted, I may not wash up straight away and leave dishes by the sink but I DO wash up, but they just leave each others stuff there and dont say anything to anyone except me, borrow stuff without asking, steal food out of peoples cupboard's. Im very glad I wont be living with them next year and they'll quickly regret their action's as they no longer have a dvd player (taken both the consoles out the living room) nor do they have a TV as ive hidden the power cable, fuckers =].

Someone drank half of my milk, which I hadn't even opened. After I found out, I spat in it twice and put it back in the fridge. I am going to laugh next time someone drinks it.

They also took my cheese out of the fridge and left it to go soft/mouldy. Not nice.

When I lend disks out to a freind. And then I ask for it back and apparently someone else has the disk now. And when I finally get it back, its all fuukin scratched up... grrr
Happened with my beloved oblivion disk, still works...just

Firstly, girls are never wrong and they're always bitchy about that sort of shit.

Secondly, don't be so trust worthy in the future. Let 'em buy a cheap £20 DVD player.

I managed to avoid all of these problems by privately renting a flat. First year I lived with a couple of mates from Sixth form and then for the last two years I\'ve lived with another mate. The price is cheaper than my Uni Halls too. £35/week for the first flat! £50 for this one. I\'d definitely recommend this route.

( Edited 16.12.2008 01:57 by Jambo )

Very few students do washing up, very few of them look after stuff and very many of them tend to vomit/throw drink/food/whatever over your stuff if you happen to leave it lying around. Harsh fact of the student experience. You'll get used to it and work out ways to punish/stop them. Most of my similar stories are pretty much the same as the above, but it only really happened in the second year when I was in a house of eight. This year in a smaller house that's less like a youth hostel it is less of an issue.

There's a few stoners in the downstairs flat to James that have this annoying habit of continully setting the fire alarm off because for some reason they never open the window when they take a spliff. I don't know whether they do it for badness, or whether the drugs have left them completely braindead, but that alarm can be heard 10 miles away and six times a day would be just too much for me to handle. James is a saint for not going down there with a butcher knife.

Jambo - £50 a month! You didn't happen to live in a wheelie bin did you? You couldn't get anything for less than £200 a month where I was.

Who said anything about months, curoi?

( Edited 16.12.2008 01:58 by Jambo )

I would say I was pretty damn lucky in my flat last year. There were only 3 of us there most of the time and the other 2 guys were pretty nice (not great at washing up though).

Sucks you ended up with a bunch of twats. This year is awesome for me living in a house with 2 great friends :3 Watching anime at dinner is awesome. (Just finished watching Gurren Lagann myself Takeo, so fucking epic x3. ROW ROW, FIGHT THE POWAH!!)

( Edited 16.12.2008 02:04 by knighty )

Can you tell I\'ve been drinking?

If you can then you\'re wrong because I\'m completely sober.

So you pay £200 a month for your wheelie bin then too. Shame. I was gonna ask where you lived and if there were any good jobs about so that I could move there and take advantage of these bargain third world rents.

( Edited 16.12.2008 04:41 by curoi )

I learned this one from a radio show, but it only work if the person your living with is not paying for anything (rent, cable, ect.). What you do is call up all of the companies that provide service for your pad and tell them that you'll be on vacation for the next month or so, and that you'll need your services "suspended" until your return. Then, you go hang out at a bro's pad until the person you want gone gets fed up and leaves. Pay the bro for his help, then move back in to your sweet pad, now all to yourself.;-

It\'s waste of time trying to get through to intoxicated students.

Put your foot down, once you get the impression they have learnt their lesson let them play under your conditions only. I would have been seriously fucking pissed also.

You really should not have expected them to respect you belongings so soon though. I would wait till the second year at least before leaving shit out for them to trash when they get in from the Union. Live with lads next year, they will likely respect your games hardware better I reckon.

( Edited 16.12.2008 10:54 by Linkyshinks )

I blame the parents. They can at least learn their children to do some basic household chores every week. Just to get them accustomed to it you know when they're still living with their folks.

Your right, parents definitely have a role to play, They should be teaching kids from a early age what's expected of them when they live with others. Chores should never be used as punishment, thats a mistake many parents make. Chores should be standard practise in the household end of. They should be made fun as posdible so kids don't associate them as being a torrid affair.
If standards slip in a house everyone ends up paying the price and everyones anger builds up.

Girls are on the leash for the most part before Uni, unlike boys, so at the freshest sniff off freedom they go fucking wild. It was a bad idea moving in with 3 girls despite that fact. The advantages are not as clean cut as you would think, in fact it can have a negative effect if you get on the wrong side of them. Good luck.

Use some alpha male tactics on them and slowly break them in

Why can I hear franziska von karma's whip comming out *flick crack*?

I cant believe you guys actually let other people use your stuff. When I go off to Uni next year, all my games/laptop/tv/everything will be staying in my room and my room only. I don't expect to use other people's stuff, they can't expect to use mine. People are generally cunts, even people who you may be friendly with.