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>> No. 16767 Anonymous
8th October 2014
Wednesday 8:26 am
16767 Bad flatmates
Tell me about your bad flatmates. Here's mine, let's call him "Ron":

Before I begin, I should mention that I was warned by Ron's former flatmates that he'd be a handful this year. Though, Ron himself said he was more afraid of me than his former flatmates so he'd pull his weight.

The Good:
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The Bad:
-Leaves drawers / cupboards open after retrieving foodstuffs. For fuck's sake, it takes so little effort to close them.
-Leaves food wrappers on the worktop after removing food. The bin is less than a metre away.
-Hoards tons of shit, so has turned the living room into a second bedroom because his room is so messy/small.
-Uses my crockery despite me telling him not to, he doesn't know where he keeps his own shit so uses other people's.
-Has meetings with his musical society in the flat. After a long day I seriously don't want to hear this shit.

The Ugly:
-You cannot confront him as he'll get upset. Last year he woke me up in the middle of the night and it was pretty awkward after I complained. I did chuck his shit about.
-Massive hypocrite. Claims to be a "good christian boy" and no sex before marriage, yet has no problem giving and receiving oral sex. You can't exclaim "Jesus Christ!" in his presence because it is taking the lord's name in vain. Pick and choose your beliefs! Also thinks all atheists are fucktards.
-Promises to clean up the massive stack of his own dishes but gets "too tired" from watching TV shows or playing musical instruments to do it that night. Does it a few nights later.
-Wants to be congratulated on doing his dishes and sorting out the closet which was mostly his stuff. Shouted at me for saying I wanted to keep 3 bags in the closet because he had a hard day.
-Used to join in on the mockery of my former flatmate for not cleaning up his dishes and now has become the same as him.
-Let his subtenant move in the day we were moving out. Made a stressful day worse/more awkward.

Honestly, it feels like I'm turning into his mother telling him to pick up after himself and I don't like it. A friend says he is the way he is because he had a nanny when he was young to do everything for him. Also he had someone clean his flat for him last year for £10 a week.

Rant over.
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>> No. 16769 Anonymous
8th October 2014
Wednesday 9:39 am
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>>16767

>>16767

You know mate, I was going to spend a while responding as if I was "Ron", and having a massive go at you for being a cunt. Then I saw this:

>Honestly, it feels like I'm turning into his mother telling him to pick up after himself and I don't like it. A friend says he is the way he is because he had a nanny when he was young to do everything for him. Also he had someone clean his flat for him last year for £10 a week.

Oh God, I feel for you. I ended up living with 6 guys and two girls once. None of the guys had ever washed a dish before. I had three ask me how to wash clothes - at a fucking launderette. With signs on the wall explaining who to do it.

Despite trying to act like rudebois they had all been brought up by nannies and "helpers". Seriously, what the fuck. How do you think your kid is going to look after himself in the real world unless he has been taught at least the fundamentals of how to live in a house? I am not exaggerating when I say their understanding of how to live in a home was on par with those moved out of slums at the turn of last century. Actually I could have done with one of those nurses who went round training these people how to live in a fucking house.

Oh, and another point: I am to this day sure that one of them did not know what money was. I don't mean not knowing the *value* of money, which he obviously didn't. I just never saw him use cash. Ever. Like he did not actually know what the different denominations of coins and notes were. He would walk an extra thirty minutes to go to Sainsbury's to by fags rather than pop round the corner to the local shop. I actually think he was scared at the Otherness of paying with cash, because for his entire life (and please bear in mind he would have been 20 by now), stuff either appeared or went on Pater's credit card. If a pub's card machine had broken he would leave and go to another, despite people offering to lend him a score.

Fuck it as this rant is making me relax, you remember that photo of ARE DAVE doing the washing up with a big grin? I think he was smiling because of the novelty of it. I would not be surprised if one of his PR team had to show him how to hold the fucking plate and brush.

And I see this around me all the time, kids brought up by live in helpers and nannies. I had someone, on being informed that I didn't have a washing machine, say: "Oh! How awful, you should pop it round to mine and one of my helpers will do it." The look of bafflement when I explained that you could wash clothes by hand was amazing.

How are these kids going to fucking survive unless they can afford to retain such a closeted environment? What the fuck...if you don't know how to clean a plate you are lacking some fucking serious life experience. And then I look at the generation of people who expect to run the fucking country, and indeed do know, and I begin to realise how fucking clueless they actually are.

Right lads, sorry for typos, this is a long, angry rant. I can't see any but I am sure there will be one or two.

Rage violently checked.

EDIT: I spotted typos, but unlikely all of them.
>> No. 16770 Anonymous
8th October 2014
Wednesday 10:36 am
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>>16769
>How are these kids going to fucking survive unless they can afford to retain such a closeted environment?

I have a m8 at oxford and we were discussing this. The shit he sees from spoilt kids makes my flatmates look like domestic gods. But the thing is, living in a student flat is the closest half of them are going to get to 'real life'. When uni is over, daddy'll get them a job and pay for their car, house and cleaners and they'll never have to know what it's like to live like the povvos.

(But they'll insist they pulled themselves up by their bootstraps and had no support in getting that job or anything else.)
>> No. 16771 Anonymous
8th October 2014
Wednesday 10:42 am
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>>16770

It is the case, isn't it, for the UK. I'm talking more about expats in that paragraph, for example several of the lads mentioned in my post grew up in the fucking Spanish Riviera, I don't think Daddy has any connections for you my son, so it will be different for them. I worry about some of them and how they are going to deal with the real world.

It is also the sheer fucking laziness that gets me - helpers for the house, nannies for the kids, well excuse me but what the fuck do you actually do bar sit around the fucking pool all day?

I've offered to help a mate's daughter actually get some real life experience in the UK, mainly so she actually learns how to do basic shit. She jumped at that offer I will happily report.
>> No. 16772 Anonymous
8th October 2014
Wednesday 12:30 pm
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>>16767

That sounds like my sister.
>> No. 16774 Anonymous
8th October 2014
Wednesday 4:58 pm
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>>16771
Please do.
>> No. 16777 Anonymous
8th October 2014
Wednesday 5:39 pm
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n1 m8s dem lads wiv nannies wont kno wot it em

My nanny ruddy well made sure I did my share of the chores.
>> No. 16778 Anonymous
8th October 2014
Wednesday 6:07 pm
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>You cannot confront him as he'll get upset.

Does not compute.
>> No. 16779 Anonymous
8th October 2014
Wednesday 6:50 pm
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In my first flat I was pretty good, but then again we had a dishwasher. Now I'm the terrible flatmate, I can imagine mine preparing to type out all of his complaints about me here.
>> No. 16785 Anonymous
9th October 2014
Thursday 12:49 pm
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>>16779
You could always buck the fuck up and act like a responsible adult who has to coexist with others, y'know.

People like you are the bane of my existence.
>> No. 16787 Anonymous
9th October 2014
Thursday 6:40 pm
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>>16785
At my uni halls we had a pretty big kitchen, we had two sinks between six people, three of us men and three girls. One day complaining about the mess, the girls cleaned up both sinks then put a sign over one saying girls, and a sign over the other saying boys. From then on at least one of the girls would dump her own washing in the boys sink and never do any of her own.

Someone would regularly come home late at night, do some cooking, then go to sleep and leave the hob turned on.

Living with the people from my course was worse though.
One weighed about 20 stone or more, he used to meet his family every weekend to go to church, so I was woken up every single Sunday morning at 6am for two fucking years because my bed was physically shaken as he walked past my door.
He also ate vast quantities of southern fried chicken which was bought from wholesale markets. The oven was constantly coated in a thick layer of burnt on chicken fat, which I had no choice but to clean regularly because it would always set the smoke alarms off.
Two of my knives got broken, one of them was chipped beyond repair due to being used for things like carving meat off bones, and being used to pry apart frozen meat out of the freezer.
I made myself physically sick several times trying to clean the bathroom (either the mould killer I was using or the mould itself, because the walls turned black within a few months of living there) and then I was accused of being lazy.
>> No. 16793 Anonymous
9th October 2014
Thursday 10:57 pm
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There's a similar thread here:

>>13744
>> No. 16861 Anonymous
15th October 2014
Wednesday 6:01 pm
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The worst, imho, are the flatmates who seem quite normal until they end up being tin-foil specialists who somehow spin everything into a really convoluted conspiracy theory or just have a hysterical belief in new age shite.
One ex-flatmate actually believed that a cancerous tumour subsides when shown pictures of a healthy organ.
Luckily I live alone now and don't have to put up with other people's shitty "spiritual intuition". I seem to attract all the nutters under the same roof.
>> No. 16863 Anonymous
15th October 2014
Wednesday 6:16 pm
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>>16779

I now have a dishwasher. As far as i'm concerned, its the next best thing to free money. Removes the cause of many arguments. Lived without one for 15 years during uni and in various sharehouses and it makes you appreciate how brilliant it is to have such luxuries.

>>16769

Absolutely. I had a uni friend of mine ask me how you ironed a pair of jeans. His mum had always done his washing up and all the household chores. He had absolutely no sense of how to look after himself. I ended up being the responsible one during uni. And that's a joke in itself.

I'm pretty good at cleaning up and being a (fairly) decent human being to live with. But some of the people I've ended up sharing houses with have definitely been feral and unlikely to change.
>> No. 16875 Anonymous
16th October 2014
Thursday 12:24 am
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I had instances of being bullied by little cunt 5 years young than me. I was doing a MSc abroad and lived in student accommodation, and the Spanish and Australians are the absolute fucking worst scum ever - especially between the age of 18-25 predominantly male.

You'd have some tosser throwing utensils out the window, one by one, followed by the cabinet. People pissing on couches. Fridges set alight and thrown out. Shitting down radiators. Sexual assault. General anarchy. Luckily none of this went down on my floor, we had a unanimous lock-down and let no shit head in. Even if they decided to dry hump the door-buzzer.
>> No. 16877 Anonymous
16th October 2014
Thursday 9:18 am
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This thread is making me feel very lucky indeed. The worst problem I've ever had with a flatmate is when he was absolutely hammered. The rest of us went outside for a smoke, leaving him alone in the house. When we came back in, not fifteen minutes later, he had cooked and eaten a pack of eight chorizo sausages with pasta, and he'd put a joint of pork in the oven. We found him passed out on a sofa cradling the frying pan full of pasta. None of it was his food, but it was too fucking funny to be annoyed at.

Oh also my current flatmate will sometimes text me things like "mate have you got my pan? I'm not being funny but you have your own so why use mine" then about half an hour later text me something like "oh never mind I found it".
>> No. 16878 Anonymous
16th October 2014
Thursday 9:22 am
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>>16877

Oh I just remembered, the chap in the first story also nearly killed us with his late night cooking antics. I came down in the morning once, and I could smell (and taste) a weirdly metallic smell. I went to the kitchen and there was a small non-stick pan (mine) sat on the hob, which was on full power. In the middle of the pan were two lumps of carbon that used to be sausages, and the teflon coating was so hot it had turned completely silver - it looked like someone had spraypainted it. I'm assuming I have some sort of brain damage from the fumes.
>> No. 17046 Anonymous
2nd November 2014
Sunday 7:41 pm
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>>16778
The house was a mess so I called him a slob. He called me a prick and cleaned up his dishes. Maybe I should confront him.

I've found a coping strategy to his messiness in the living room. I pack all his shit into a plastic bag (including the rubbish) and put it on the stairs or in his room (he doesn't take it to his room anymore).

Other shit he does that pisses me off:
-Has massive arachnophobia, to the point where he will stand on a chair if he sees one. He screamed his lungs out at 5am because he thought one was crawling on him, waking me up in the process. I told him he needs to get over his phobia, he ended having a go at me saying you can't cure phobias. (Pretty sure he thinks having the phobia makes him special).
-Doesn't leave windows open because spiders will get into the flat. This leaves for interesting smells after someone's taken a dump in the bathroom....
-I hoovered the living room 5 days ago and he's already made it filthy.
-Helped his friend make a Halloween costume in the living room, dropped a thousand pins on the floor and still hasn't picked them up. I dropped some loose tea and hoovered it immediately.

Wish May would get here sooner so I can move out.
>> No. 17047 Anonymous
2nd November 2014
Sunday 8:19 pm
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>>17046
As bad as all that is, I don't think it a matter for the Home Secretary.
>> No. 17048 Anonymous
2nd November 2014
Sunday 8:39 pm
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>>16878
thats hilarious
This thread made me giggle a bit.
>> No. 17049 Anonymous
2nd November 2014
Sunday 10:26 pm
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>>17046 here forget to mention one of the stupidest things he does.

He like to piss with the seat down because it's "a challenge". Guess which mug has to wipe his piss off the seat.
>> No. 17050 Anonymous
2nd November 2014
Sunday 10:40 pm
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>>17049
The lad I lived with once had a go at me for pissing on the seat. The thing is, it was him doing it, and only him.
I went in after him some mornings and it was like a bloody garden sprinkler had gone off in there.
>> No. 17960 Anonymous
2nd February 2015
Monday 8:09 am
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Ron the douchebag does it again.

The cunt came home at 2:30am and decided it was time for him to sing his loudest in the bath. I had to warn that prick twice to shut up. Fucking disgrace.

In other news, he left his old laptop in the living room in direct view of the window. He also left the front door unlocked, which led to his bag and laptop being stolen. The twat still leaves all his shit in the living room.
>> No. 17963 Anonymous
2nd February 2015
Monday 11:22 am
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In the end I just kept my cooking utensils, cutlery and crockery in my room, along with my toilet paper, washing up liquid and what have you. I still had to use the communal fridge-freezer of course, but it was enough to improve my quality of life.
>> No. 17965 Anonymous
2nd February 2015
Monday 12:43 pm
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>>16771
>I've offered to help a mate's daughter actually get some real life experience in the UK

I'd give her some experience IYKWIM.
>> No. 17966 Anonymous
2nd February 2015
Monday 12:58 pm
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>>17963
I had to do this too in the first year of uni but never needed to go that far afterwards, usually people sort their shit out after that first year of being drunk on the freedom of it all.
>> No. 17967 Anonymous
2nd February 2015
Monday 4:19 pm
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>>17960

Is Ron actually called Ryan? I know a shithead from a few years back who fits your description to a tee.
>> No. 17976 Anonymous
2nd February 2015
Monday 6:34 pm
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>>17967
Nah it's not Ryan. Did he have a nanny too?
>> No. 18653 Anonymous
1st April 2015
Wednesday 3:02 pm
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One of my flatmates has the irritating habit of using, say, half a tomato or bell pepper, and then leaving them uncovered/unwrapped in the fridge for about a week. A week gives any uncovered and already exposed veggies a good bit of time to go mangy or simply dessicate and leave horrible stains in the fridge. She has the temerity to whinge about the times I have to throw her half-rotten food from the fridge when her gross habits could compromise my health.

What is wrong with people that they can't just use a whole fucking veg, especially these two major culprits that are barely filling at all, in a recipe?
>> No. 18658 Anonymous
1st April 2015
Wednesday 6:37 pm
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I break the key in the bathroom door - and then I don't replace it.

I fry something up, dump the pans in the sink, and then fuck off elsewhere, probably to play my shithouse little guitar.

I don't stop fucking bothering people about going out, even when they've made it abundantly clear that they don't want to. When I do want to just have a few drinks in the front I'll spend the whole fucking time hovering over a pair of cheap speakers putting on youtube drum and bass remixes doing irritating scat singing.

Who am I?

I'm anon's housemate!
>> No. 18659 Anonymous
1st April 2015
Wednesday 11:12 pm
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Someone in my house pisses in WHITE ACE bottles and then puts them in the bin. You have no idea how embarrassing it is on the street when the heavy bin bag breaks and 3 bottles roll in separate directions all filled with piss. I want to tell other's "It's a flatshare!"

I don't get that one at all. Pissing in bottles, then putting it in the bin? Maybe they don't know what a toilet is.

Anyway I like to play a game in my house, which is basically "how long can I leave the bin before I empty it" because they will continue to put things in the bin, around the bin, on the bin, next to the bin, until I take it out.

Whilst I'm here, it's normal to leave dirty dishes next to, and not in, the sink- right? Because if you want to use the sink, or fill up a kettle, you should have access to the sink... Because here the sink is nearly always full, if I take stuff out it gets put back in.
>> No. 18660 Anonymous
1st April 2015
Wednesday 11:21 pm
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>>18659
A toilet is a place you go to think, and clearly that housemate isn't capable of such a thing.
>> No. 18661 Anonymous
1st April 2015
Wednesday 11:38 pm
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Christ you lot have some bad flatmates. Word of advice, if you're looking for people who are easy to live with then try and share with graduate students. I lived with some last summer and I barely even saw them, so 90% of the time I could use the kitchen or watch tv in the lounge undisturbed. Obviously a bit shit if you actually want to be social with the people you are living with, but if you're just looking for minimal fuss then it's the way to go.
>> No. 18662 Anonymous
2nd April 2015
Thursday 12:31 am
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>>18659
>Whilst I'm here, it's normal to leave dirty dishes next to, and not in, the sink- right? Because if you want to use the sink, or fill up a kettle, you should have access to the sink...

I think the logic is "I'll run hot water over these, leave them for a few minutes then come back and clean them immediately". Then they get distracted by something interesting on the internet and forget to go back. Inconsiderate and fuckwitted sure, but not malicious, I do this all the time now that I live alone.

On the other hand maybe they're thinking "I'll run hot water over these and leave them to soak, that's half the work done so my flatmates should pick up the slack from here and tidy up after me" in which case they are worthless cunts who deserve to die.
>> No. 18663 Anonymous
2nd April 2015
Thursday 12:34 am
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>>18659

How can someone do such a thing and not implode in on themselves from sheer embarrassment?
>> No. 18664 Anonymous
2nd April 2015
Thursday 12:36 am
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>>18659
Bins are a fucking nightmare. Ours always gets to the point where the stuff is sticking out six inches above the top of the bin, at which point one of three (out of nine residents) will actually take it out. It must take people more effort to do the precarious balancing act than it would take to empty the bin. Used to have a cleaning rota but got rid of that as it was useless, especially if someone forgot to do the bins on their week as we have biweekly collections and only two bins for the nine of us (and one of the bins is 2/3 the normal size).

One time we missed a collection, and also did a big clean of the communal areas and had about 10 bin bags that wouldn't fit in the bins. Binmen refused to collect the stuff that wasn't in the bin, even though it was at the side of the road. Ended up having to wait another two weeks, and at midnight distribute 10 bin bags into the bins of nearby houses to stop the rats from coming. Take the fucking bins out. Jesus.
>> No. 18665 Anonymous
2nd April 2015
Thursday 12:52 am
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Reading this thread just made me realise how much a of a cunt I am. I leave everything a wreck. I never clean anything; never change then bin, etc.

The key is, if nobody says anything, then nobody minds at all. So it really isn't my fault.
>> No. 18666 Anonymous
2nd April 2015
Thursday 2:23 am
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>>18665
Fuck you.
>> No. 18667 Anonymous
2nd April 2015
Thursday 8:48 am
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>>18663

I do not know. What I don't understand either, is that it's put either in one of the communal bins that have to be taken out, or if it's put in their bin, the bin bag never gets taken out- it just sits there next to the room. Perhaps he has a medical condition I'm unaware of, even in that situation I would empty the bottles discreetly when everyone else is out. Piss in bottles is quite heavy, and I don't understand putting liquids into a bin, when there is a sink or drain available. Believe me I have thought of every possible idea and still cannot make sense of it.

I'd like to completely agree with the sentiment here that it's actually more effort to over-fill the bin or neglect the washing up.
>> No. 18670 Anonymous
2nd April 2015
Thursday 11:44 am
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>>18665
>The key is, if nobody says anything, then nobody minds at all. So it really isn't my fault.
I hope you're saying that to deliberately get a rise out of everyone in this thread.
>> No. 18671 Anonymous
2nd April 2015
Thursday 12:06 pm
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>>18665
>The key is, if nobody says anything, then nobody minds at all. So it really isn't my fault.

Lad, you're living with people who might not be confrontational enough to kick your teeth in. Try that on the continent and you'll be reprimanded instantly.

Why are British students such fucking babies?
>> No. 18672 Anonymous
2nd April 2015
Thursday 12:53 pm
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>>18671
Who says we're students? My stupid cunt housemate is a late 20s teacher
>> No. 18673 Anonymous
2nd April 2015
Thursday 1:21 pm
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>>18672
Geography teacher? I've heard they're the biggest cunts.
>> No. 18674 Anonymous
2nd April 2015
Thursday 2:27 pm
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>>18665

>>18666
>>18670
>>18671

Something tells me that britfa's irony/sarcasm/satire detectors are broken this week.
>> No. 18675 Anonymous
2nd April 2015
Thursday 3:50 pm
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>>18674
It's isn't ironic or sarcastic, and lacks any indication of satire. It wouldn't have got a different reception on any other week.
>> No. 18676 Anonymous
2nd April 2015
Thursday 3:56 pm
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>>18675
>It's isn't ironic or sarcastic, and lacks any indication of satire.
If you say so, luv.
>> No. 18677 Anonymous
2nd April 2015
Thursday 4:09 pm
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>>18674
>>18676
I think you underestimate how many of our userbase are complete arseholes and show no remorse over it.
>> No. 18678 Anonymous
2nd April 2015
Thursday 5:10 pm
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>>18674
'Satire' is not a synonym for 'kidding', you pretentious cunt.
>> No. 18679 Anonymous
2nd April 2015
Thursday 5:30 pm
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>>18678

No one said it was, you preposterous pudding head.
>> No. 18681 Anonymous
2nd April 2015
Thursday 7:10 pm
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>>18666
>>18670
>>18671
Lads, if it annoys you so much, say something. If nobody says anything, I don't know how you expect people know what is bothering you. What are you lot? A bunch of fucking housewives?

I deliberately leave things in a dismal state because the loud cunts I live with are cowards and won't bring it up.
>> No. 18682 Anonymous
2nd April 2015
Thursday 7:23 pm
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>>18681

Woah, we got a big man over here. No one you live with would care if you died tonight.
>> No. 18683 Anonymous
2nd April 2015
Thursday 7:26 pm
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>>18681
You're creating what are known as 'revenge behaviours'. For example, messylad often leaves his toothbrush in the bathroom, so I like to wash it in the stream when I take a slash sometimes.

Just think of all the juicy things your housemates are doing to you without you knowing it.
>> No. 18684 Anonymous
2nd April 2015
Thursday 7:27 pm
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>>18682
Why would I want anyone to care?

The thing is, cowardlads, you are all to passive-aggressive. It is a very ugly trait.
>> No. 18685 Anonymous
2nd April 2015
Thursday 7:39 pm
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>>18684
Whatever dude, I hope the piss helps keep your teeth clean.
>> No. 18686 Anonymous
2nd April 2015
Thursday 7:50 pm
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>>18683
>For example, messylad often leaves his toothbrush in the bathroom
Yeah, because the one place a toothbrush really doesn't belong is in a bathroom.
>> No. 18687 Anonymous
2nd April 2015
Thursday 8:03 pm
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>>18686
I don't piss on his brush just because it's in the bathroom, you dense twat, I do it because he's a cunt.
>> No. 18696 Anonymous
2nd April 2015
Thursday 10:12 pm
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>>18686
Your silence is deafening, pissteethlad.
>> No. 18697 Anonymous
2nd April 2015
Thursday 10:19 pm
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>>18696

Not him, but that is pettiest response I've seen on here in a long time. How long it takes someone to reply to your posts is irrelevant unless it takes weeks. Sort it out, you had almost won me over.
>> No. 18698 Anonymous
2nd April 2015
Thursday 10:21 pm
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>>18697
Dry your eyes, blud.
>> No. 18699 Anonymous
2nd April 2015
Thursday 10:30 pm
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>> No. 18701 Anonymous
2nd April 2015
Thursday 11:27 pm
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>>18681
That's a pretty big assumption to make. How do you know we aren't saying anything about it? Some people are just evil motherfuckers who cannot be reasoned with no matter how much you complain about their unacceptable behaviour. Between March of 2011 and July of 2012 I had the same argument, with the same person, every single day about him leaving his alarm clock echoing through the house for 45 minutes every morning while he was in the shower. These arguments escalated gradually from having a polite word with him over a beer that evening to me being dragged out of the house in handcuffs at 6am while he cried and sobbed into a policewoman's bosom about how mean I was and genuinely believing himself to be the victim just because I had hit him a few times and smashed a few of his things (which is nothing compared to making a houseful of people go without sleep for over a year).

It wasn't that he was unaware of his behaviour negatively affecting other residents, it wasn't that I was too "cowardly" to bring it up, the guy was simply a cunt.
>> No. 18703 Anonymous
3rd April 2015
Friday 12:03 am
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>>18701
But he won...
>> No. 18706 Anonymous
3rd April 2015
Friday 12:22 am
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>>18703
Of course he won, the bad guy always wins.
>> No. 18707 Anonymous
3rd April 2015
Friday 12:23 am
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>>18701


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlZ_r5ylm88
>> No. 18716 Anonymous
3rd April 2015
Friday 12:26 pm
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>>18707
Oh I remember trying to watch this but it was removed from Youtube as part of their anti-bullying thing. Anyway, maybe she was having a high stress day, that constant ticking of the dryer right outside her door can't help either. Is there a full story with this though?
>> No. 18717 Anonymous
3rd April 2015
Friday 4:06 pm
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My flatmates are pretty clean but one is a fairly hard-line SJW and is prone to blanking anyone who doesn't immediately agree with her contradictory and hypocritical views. Which is everyone. Having a conversation with or in front of her is always like walking on egg shells. So she's a complete pain in the arse but I guess she's paying for it already, I don't think I've ever seen her with other people in a social context. I did express my concern that she might be alienating people once but obviously me caring is just patriarchal patronising.
>> No. 18718 Anonymous
3rd April 2015
Friday 4:07 pm
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>>18717
Sounds about right. What makes them contradictory and hypocritical incidentally?
>> No. 18719 Anonymous
3rd April 2015
Friday 4:13 pm
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>>18717
I've lived with someone like that. I rekked her in a conversation about economics once and the response was just 'you just have too much privilege' and walked off.
>> No. 18720 Anonymous
3rd April 2015
Friday 4:53 pm
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>>18719
Yeah, I can't be bothered to argue the point with her because it won't achieve anything.

>>18718
Specifically I'm in the wrong for not preventing a male flatmate trying to flirt with a female one soon enough, and I'm also in the wrong for daring to presume I should stop him because the girl who she's speaking for can speak for herself and doesn't need no man to step in. That's the one that stands out most, beside her tweets about how fat people are beautiful, all that fat acceptance stuff which is am interesting contrast with her tumblr, which is pages and pages of half or fully naked skinny people.
I might have ranted about this before, I don't know.
>> No. 18721 Anonymous
3rd April 2015
Friday 4:59 pm
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>>18717
I saw one of those types arguing on Twitter with a Labour councillor about the debates last night, when she couldn't address his points she kept going on about him mansplaining to her and trying to shame him for picking on a twenty-something woman when he's a grown man.
>> No. 18722 Anonymous
3rd April 2015
Friday 5:02 pm
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>>18719
To be fair if you were adopting a right-wing position on whatever the matter was she was probably right. Studies show the more wealthy or powerful someone is, the less compassionate and empathetic they tend to be.
>> No. 18723 Anonymous
3rd April 2015
Friday 5:07 pm
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>>18722
I think a lot of SJW types are right wing, in the sense that they're selfish and closed minded. They just do it under a façade of being left wing.
>> No. 18724 Anonymous
3rd April 2015
Friday 5:15 pm
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>>18723
They want everyone to be tolerant of their views, but are incredibly intolerant of differing opinions.
>> No. 18725 Anonymous
3rd April 2015
Friday 5:19 pm
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>>18724
Well put. It's just yet another narrow-minded ideology.
>> No. 18726 Anonymous
3rd April 2015
Friday 5:31 pm
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>>18724
I thought they were intolerant of intolerance.
>> No. 18727 Anonymous
3rd April 2015
Friday 5:38 pm
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>>18726
Problem is, anyone who doesn't agree with them is deemed intolerant.
>> No. 18728 Anonymous
3rd April 2015
Friday 5:45 pm
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>>18727
Well yeah, because the whole idea of social justice is based around rooting out intolerance.
>> No. 18730 Anonymous
3rd April 2015
Friday 5:51 pm
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>>18727
Entirely, it's absurd. Soviet or House of UnAmerican Activities level of 'If you're not with us you're against us'.

I don't think >>18723 is right in saying

> right wing, in the sense that they're selfish and closed minded

because that's really quite an unfair thing to say.
>> No. 18732 Anonymous
3rd April 2015
Friday 5:56 pm
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>>18722
Why do you think >>18719 is wealthy or powerful?
>> No. 18733 Anonymous
3rd April 2015
Friday 6:00 pm
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>>18728
That's the idea, sure. But what does that really have to do with what they do in reality? It's not equality when any man's opinion is disregarded purely on the grounds of their gender. They're just insane. The sad part is that we're now getting women disavowing fishing simply because they don't want to be associated with those types.
>> No. 18734 Anonymous
3rd April 2015
Friday 6:03 pm
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>>18730
I don't believe it's unfair when they are demonstrably pursuing their own agenda to put themselves in a position of privilege over others, justifying it with convoluted postmodern twists of logic. If you still think I'm being unfair, perhaps we have different experiences and are thinking of different people.
>> No. 18735 Anonymous
3rd April 2015
Friday 6:07 pm
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>>18734
>THEY THEY THEY
Who is THEY?
>> No. 18736 Anonymous
3rd April 2015
Friday 6:12 pm
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>>18735
Presumably people like my former flatmate, who try and intimidate dissenting opinion by telling them they have 'too much privilege' and the like.
>> No. 18737 Anonymous
3rd April 2015
Friday 6:20 pm
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>>18736
Oh, I was talking about the right wing, not your SJW flatmate. I don't think it's fair to say that right wingers are selfish and close minded.
>> No. 18738 Anonymous
3rd April 2015
Friday 6:30 pm
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So what would the SJW types say if a poor black person turned out to be right-wing?
>> No. 18740 Anonymous
3rd April 2015
Friday 6:33 pm
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>>18733
>It's not equality when any man's opinion is disregarded purely on the grounds of their gender.
If they are voicing their opinion in a space that is designed to give a platform to gender identities other than men, on issues that affect people with gender identities other than men, why should men have the right to be listened to? There is a whole world out there where men take centre stage, so why isn't it equality for there to be a place where they don't?

>>18732
He was accused of having too much privilege, which is a form of power.
>> No. 18741 Anonymous
3rd April 2015
Friday 6:34 pm
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>>18738
Probably something like 'so what'?
>> No. 18742 Anonymous
3rd April 2015
Friday 6:51 pm
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>>18740
It's really quite scary the level of delusion you types have pushed yourselves to.

>He was accused of having too much privilege, which is a form of power.
You have too much privilege. Shut up.
>> No. 18743 Anonymous
3rd April 2015
Friday 7:02 pm
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>>18740
>why should men have the right to be listened to?
Why should they not have the right to be listened to?
>> No. 18744 Anonymous
3rd April 2015
Friday 7:12 pm
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>>18743
Because he is male, and speaking from a privileged position. It is like a white person talking about the issues facing white people in a group discussion between brown people and brown people issues.
>> No. 18745 Anonymous
3rd April 2015
Friday 7:16 pm
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>>18744
This is utterly ludicrous and totally at odds with what you idiots are trying to achieve.


Thankfully SJW bollocks is so utterly retarded it shoots itself in both feet before anyone else gets the opportunity to.
>> No. 18746 Anonymous
3rd April 2015
Friday 7:17 pm
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>>18745
Utterly is a fantastic word.
>> No. 18747 Anonymous
3rd April 2015
Friday 7:18 pm
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>>18743
The reason I just said.
>> No. 18748 Anonymous
3rd April 2015
Friday 7:19 pm
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>>18744
So, basically, two wrongs make a right?
>> No. 18749 Anonymous
3rd April 2015
Friday 7:19 pm
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>>18747
Discrimination: the key to equality.
>> No. 18750 Anonymous
3rd April 2015
Friday 7:20 pm
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>>18748
.gs, where proverbs are an acceptable substitute for rational debate.
>> No. 18751 Anonymous
3rd April 2015
Friday 7:21 pm
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>>18750
It seems an adequete substitution to me.
>> No. 18752 Anonymous
3rd April 2015
Friday 7:22 pm
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>>18745
As you are now, and what you are saying in itself is privileged and borderline bigoted. Why would people who are discussing their issues and their place in a society and culture filled with people like you, want you there? It is a safe place for them, where you shouldn't be. Do you have to be so oppressive that you need to have your voice heard every-fucking-where?
>> No. 18753 Anonymous
3rd April 2015
Friday 7:22 pm
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>>18740
>There is a whole world out there where men take centre stage
This is utter bollocks. You're just identifying all men as The Other. It's as ignorant as racism, if not more.
>> No. 18754 Anonymous
3rd April 2015
Friday 7:22 pm
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>>18749
Yes lad, positive discrimination. But continue to whinge that it's unfair that you don't get to lead the black disabled fisherperson cause if you want.
>> No. 18755 Anonymous
3rd April 2015
Friday 7:24 pm
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What is this MRA infestation? Is it so bad to your psyche that oppressed individuals have created a safe space for themselves where you are not centre stage?
>> No. 18756 Anonymous
3rd April 2015
Friday 7:26 pm
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>>18753
People who aren't men/white/straight/cis etc. are already The Other everywhere else.

This is what is meant by asking you to check your privilege. You are so blinded by the fact that your personal characteristics give you free reign by society to do whatever you like, that when you find any door shut in your face in order to give those who don't have that free reign some time to themselves, you think you're a victim.
>> No. 18757 Anonymous
3rd April 2015
Friday 7:27 pm
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>>18752
>what you are saying in itself is privileged and borderline bigoted
How can what I'm saying be privileged? Surely only I can be privileged? You don't even know if I am or not, it's just a label you can use to put me in a big category of People Who Say Things I Don't Like.

> Why would people who are discussing their issues and their place in a society and culture filled with people like you, want you there?

They probably don't, but I don't think anyone should organise things where they shut out, say, black people, or the disabled, or homosexuals, whereas according to you that's perfectly acceptable.

>Do you have to be so oppressive that you need to have your voice heard every-fucking-where?
I don't think you know what oppression means.

>>18754
There's no such thing as positive discrimination, it's discrimination and it's as dirty as racism and sexism and I find it frightening that people can perform this level of mental gymnastics to justify things like this. The worst bit about it all is you pretend to have the moral high ground. At least the BNP and the like don't claim it.
>> No. 18758 Anonymous
3rd April 2015
Friday 7:27 pm
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>>18755
I wouldn't go as far as calling .gs 'infested by MRAs' but it has been pretty Clarksonish for a while now. I tend to ignore it until it becomes pretty brazen like this thread.
>> No. 18759 Anonymous
3rd April 2015
Friday 7:28 pm
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>>18756
> that when you find any door shut in your face in order to give those who don't have that free reign some time to themselves, you think you're a victim.
And he is, as are people who aren't men/white/straight/cis etc. when they come across those shut doors. The sheer hypocrisy is incredible.
>> No. 18760 Anonymous
3rd April 2015
Friday 7:30 pm
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>>18758
I'm not a mens rights activist, nor a man at all, just simply someone who acknowledges how ridiculous this >>18756 >>18754 >>18752 is.
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3rd April 2015
Friday 7:31 pm
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>>18759
I think I see the problem here.
>> No. 18762 Anonymous
3rd April 2015
Friday 7:35 pm
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>>18761
Since when was everyone getting the same justice? Justice is behaviour or treatment being just, and purposeful exclusion is anything but.
>> No. 18763 Anonymous
3rd April 2015
Friday 7:37 pm
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>>18762

Did you ever wonder what the "SJ" in "SJW" stood for?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_justice
>> No. 18764 Anonymous
3rd April 2015
Friday 7:39 pm
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>>18752
>Why would people who are discussing their issues and their place in a society and culture filled with people like you, want you there?
I dunno, maybe because that's called being tolerant? Given that you're having this discussion on the internet with a stranger, about whom the only thing you know for certain is that they disagree with you, it's pretty clear that by "someone like you" you mean anyone who disagrees with you. Fuck your MRA/Clarkson straw man.
>> No. 18765 Anonymous
3rd April 2015
Friday 7:40 pm
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>>18762
Do you really think people who are fighting for an egalitarian society wouldn't exclude others from their spaces if they hadn't experienced problems when they didn't do so?

Or is it really one big conspiracy to bring men under the yoke of the evil matriarch?

>Since when was everyone getting the same justice?
That's a right-wing notion in itself. Do you think some people are inherently deserving and some inherently aren't?
>> No. 18766 Anonymous
3rd April 2015
Friday 7:48 pm
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>>18765
>Do you really think people who are fighting for an egalitarian society
I disagree with the premise altogether. There's no egalitarianism being fought for here, only a new and social-justice approved version of privilege.

>That's a right-wing notion in itself.
No, it's the definition of justice, go look it up.

>Do you think some people are inherently deserving and some inherently aren't?
Of course not, unlike you. Nothing about what you've posted suggests you believe some people aren't inherently deserving.

>Or is it really one big conspiracy to bring men under the yoke of the evil matriarch?
Of course it isn't. As I mentioned earlier, I'm not a man (which automatically makes my views more valid as an Oppressed Minority, which is ridiculous in itself).
>> No. 18767 Anonymous
3rd April 2015
Friday 7:50 pm
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>>18765
>Do you really think people who are fighting for an egalitarian society wouldn't exclude others from their spaces if they hadn't experienced problems when they didn't do so?
>Or is it really one big conspiracy to bring men under the yoke of the evil matriarch?

That's a bit of a false dichotomy. What if when they say 'problems' they mean disagreement? What if shutting out all dissenting voices has caused a reality denial feedback loop?
>> No. 18768 Anonymous
3rd April 2015
Friday 7:52 pm
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>>18767
>What if shutting out all dissenting voices has caused a reality denial feedback loop?
See also: the recent NUS conferences.
>> No. 18769 Anonymous
3rd April 2015
Friday 7:55 pm
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>>18766
>Of course it isn't. As I mentioned earlier, I'm not a man (which automatically makes my views more valid as an Oppressed Minority...
But you have internalised the Patriachy, you have deluded yourself into believing that you are not being oppressed. Until you rid yourself of this Stockholm syndrome you are guilty of furthering the oppression; we will not tolerate your intolerance of our truth.
>> No. 18770 Anonymous
3rd April 2015
Friday 7:56 pm
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>>18769
I'm convinced this is a troll now.
>> No. 18771 Anonymous
3rd April 2015
Friday 7:59 pm
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>>18770
Only someone who has internalised the patriarchy would say oh, right, we've done that one already.
>> No. 18772 Anonymous
3rd April 2015
Friday 8:08 pm
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>>18733
>disavowing fishing
You mean fishing.
>> No. 18773 Anonymous
3rd April 2015
Friday 8:12 pm
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>>18772
So it was a wordfilter.
>> No. 18775 Anonymous
3rd April 2015
Friday 8:33 pm
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Well thank fuck I read all of that.
>> No. 18776 Anonymous
3rd April 2015
Friday 11:14 pm
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>>18764
>Given that you're having this discussion on the internet with a stranger, about whom the only thing you know for certain is that they disagree with you
This is britfa.gs, there is a very, very good chance that you are an annoying, middle-class, white, teenlad.
>> No. 18777 Anonymous
3rd April 2015
Friday 11:16 pm
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>>18776
You have no right to that opinion you privileged white man.
>> No. 18778 Anonymous
3rd April 2015
Friday 11:28 pm
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>>18777
Jokes on you; I'm a black lass.
>> No. 18781 Anonymous
4th April 2015
Saturday 12:10 am
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>>18769
It is tragic that you are unwilling to reject the values of patriarchal whiteness. Until you do so you are as bad as any privileged white man. In fact, you are worse since you are lending credibility to the privileged white men who are, in this very thread, doing their best to erase the polystratal oppression endured daily by Women of Colour.
>> No. 18782 Anonymous
4th April 2015
Saturday 12:39 am
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>>18781

I'm so privileged I take crystal meth non ironically. Beat that you patriarchal Breaking Bad watching beardy hipster misogynist fucks.
>> No. 18783 Anonymous
4th April 2015
Saturday 1:14 am
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>>18782

That's homophobic. Tina is a gay drug.
>> No. 18784 Anonymous
4th April 2015
Saturday 1:25 am
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>>18776

Since when?
>> No. 18785 Anonymous
4th April 2015
Saturday 2:13 am
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>>18784
What do you mean when? Are you trying to tell me that this websites' userbase is completely random? What the fuck is your problem you bigot?
>> No. 18786 Anonymous
4th April 2015
Saturday 2:19 am
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>>18785

Toothache.
>> No. 18787 Anonymous
4th April 2015
Saturday 2:23 am
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>>18786
Sorry to hear that. Try and put some cloves on it.
>> No. 18788 Anonymous
4th April 2015
Saturday 2:46 am
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>>18783

I realise that you weren't being entirely serious, but still the British misconception that methamphetamine is primarily used by gay men does baffle the bejesus out of me.
>> No. 18789 Anonymous
4th April 2015
Saturday 9:08 am
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This has been an entertaining recreation of the exact conversations I avoided in a shared kitchen, just without Venus Project and/or Illuminati shite.
How do people come to believe in such shit anyway? Being young and a woman seems to tip the balance.
>> No. 18790 Anonymous
4th April 2015
Saturday 10:40 am
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Okay so my housemate literally deserves no respect.

-Believes that washing up before things get mouldy isn't really necessary and always says 'washing up? I'll do it later, I really need to catch up on tv'
-When he runs out of plates, pans, cutlery, etc to use because he won't wash up, he starts to use other people's
-One time we found 20 (twenty) plates of mould under his bed
-Won't eat vegetables or fruit regularly so is always ill in some way with an annoying cough
-Doesn't listen to music that much, but for some reason has to have it really loud in the shower despite repeated requests to keep it down
-Generally smells and so does his room
-Gets bored frequently so follows people round like a lost dog
-Can't understand the concept of turning lights off. This one really pisses me off. Leaves a trail of lights gonig up to bed. I get out of bed to turn them off, he will go for a piss then leave them on again
-Is just annoying as fuck
-When he does cook (and not order shit food), he will make sure we know about it by getting it just about everywhere all over the kitchen
-Pisses on teh seat


Fuck, I could go on, it's not even therapeutic, it just winds me up. They warned me about befriending and living with hard science students, but I thought that was a bad stereotype. After all, how different could they be from the rest of us?
>> No. 18791 Anonymous
4th April 2015
Saturday 11:45 am
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>>18776
I'm pretty sure that the majority of gs posters passed teenladhood quite some time ago.
>> No. 18792 Anonymous
4th April 2015
Saturday 2:27 pm
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>>18789
We'll see who's laughing when the Rothschilds take their new forms.
>> No. 18794 Anonymous
4th April 2015
Saturday 2:54 pm
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>>18789
I don't think it's fair to equate the Venus Project and conspiracy worldviews in the way you have. The Venus Project is a vision of a future economy and civilisation, not a paranoid reinterpretation of existing reality. It may also be somewhat fantastical, but so are a lot of things that you'd not think to mention.
>> No. 18795 Anonymous
4th April 2015
Saturday 4:05 pm
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>>18794
>It may also be somewhat fantastical, but so are a lot of things that you'd not think to mention.
This. Much of our current reality would seem fantastical even in the latter half of the last century. If you told someone in 1975 about having a fridge magnet that could order groceries for you they'd think you were having a laugh.
>> No. 18796 Anonymous
4th April 2015
Saturday 4:29 pm
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>>18789
>How do people come to believe in such shit anyway?
It's not that hard to understand. I'm sure there are lots of contributing factors and reasons but off the top of my head, they're being sold on a worldview that paints them as martyrs, justified rebels against a monolithic enemy in very black and white terms. The convoluted logic is quite strong, but given the former reason, why would they question it? It's in their interest not to.
>> No. 18797 Anonymous
4th April 2015
Saturday 5:44 pm
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>>18796
People have gone 'haha SJW shite' several times in this thread, without giving a decent reason why it is actually shite. The argument I was making about oppressed minorities needing spaces to themselves (before some hilARious card started trolling using the SJW lexicon) is morally sound and simple to understand. Stop whinging for Christ's sake.

[X] Whinge
>> No. 18798 Anonymous
4th April 2015
Saturday 5:49 pm
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>>18797
You haven't responded to any of the posts addressing the one about safe spaces.
>> No. 18799 Anonymous
4th April 2015
Saturday 5:52 pm
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>>18797
>oppressed minorities

Which would be a valid thing to say if this was the early 19th century and we were talking about slavery...
>> No. 18800 Anonymous
4th April 2015
Saturday 5:55 pm
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>>18799
Because racism ended when the slave trade did? For fuck's sake lad.
>> No. 18801 Anonymous
4th April 2015
Saturday 6:01 pm
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>>18797
Do you honestly think the SJW set are fighting for genuine equality?
>> No. 18802 Anonymous
4th April 2015
Saturday 6:05 pm
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>>18801
What do you think they're fighting for?
>> No. 18803 Anonymous
4th April 2015
Saturday 6:06 pm
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>>18797
I'm a bit confused. No-one has suggested preventing oppressed minorities from having safe places to talk except you. What we're talking about is people (whose statuses as minorities and oppressed is highly dubious) refusing to acknowledge any argument, no matter how fair or logical, if they don't like it, then decrying them as bigots, or worse.
>> No. 18804 Anonymous
4th April 2015
Saturday 6:18 pm
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>>18802
There are a lot of you, who knows. A lot of you might honestly believe that your actions are contributing to the establishment of a utopian love-in; they are not.
>> No. 18805 Anonymous
4th April 2015
Saturday 6:49 pm
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>>18797
>he argument I was making about oppressed minorities needing spaces to themselves (before some hilARious card started trolling using the SJW lexicon) is morally sound and simple to understand.
However the means by which you think that should happen is so heavily flawed it merely perpetuates that which you claim to be fighting in the first place. Nobody has said minorities or what have you shouldn't have a right to have a say, the only person who disputes anyone's right to have a say is you, who persistently insist that only people who adhere to your particular beliefs should be allowed to speak. You'd rightly have issues with a white pride march where blacks were treated poorly, but apparently were it the reverse you'd perfectly happy with it, because of your perception of who's oppressed and who isn't. Neither is right, it seems you only support divisive and suppressive means of achieving any given goal, which is fundamentally at odds with what you claim to be trying to achieve.
>> No. 18806 Anonymous
4th April 2015
Saturday 8:57 pm
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>>18803
Precisely my line any my reading of this thread, but as I mentioned, it doesn't help when a flatmate keeps banging on about the Illuminati conspiracy almost out of the blue. It's just that coming out with things like that can genuinely damage the credibility of what someone (like my flatmate) actually says on other occasions re: politics and society.
>> No. 18810 Anonymous
5th April 2015
Sunday 7:01 am
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>>18802

Don't ask me, I don't give a damn.
>> No. 19006 Anonymous
16th April 2015
Thursday 5:58 pm
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My housemate:

- Makes a curry every night, but only cleans up every other night.
- Has low standards regarding how clean dishes should be.
- Chucks food all over the kitchen when making said curries, making the kitchen permanently smell like curry.
- Gets drunk every night. Always tries to get me to be drunk with him so he doesn't feel so alone.
- Walks up the stairs like an elephant at three in the morning, every night.
- Constantly tries to extract attention and validation from those around him.
- Doesn't respect other peoples property - breaks it and then lies about it when asked about what happened.
- Always has to be right about everything.
- Thinks that you have to leave food for a couple of minutes after it comes out the microwave "to let the radiation escape".
- Is giving me a bad impression about Indians, and making me seriously consider voting UKIP so that we have fewer of his kind in this country.
>> No. 19007 Anonymous
16th April 2015
Thursday 9:00 pm
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>>19006
If a white person did all those things, he'd be a cunt; all white people wouldn't be cunts. Why can't that apply to the Indianlad?
>> No. 19008 Anonymous
16th April 2015
Thursday 9:14 pm
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>>19007
Because that's not how the mind works.
>> No. 19009 Anonymous
16th April 2015
Thursday 9:17 pm
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>>19008
Why is that the case?
>> No. 19010 Anonymous
16th April 2015
Thursday 9:28 pm
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>>19009
I don't know, ask a neuroscientist.
>> No. 19011 Anonymous
16th April 2015
Thursday 9:40 pm
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>>19010

I think generally smell touches a 'deeper' part of your mind. Smell is, I think, directly connected to memory and smells have the ability to directly affect our emotions. The same events but with bland foods would probably give a different result.

For me, the smell of curry is the final barrier of racism.
>> No. 19012 Anonymous
17th April 2015
Friday 1:17 am
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>>19006
>Thinks that you have to leave food for a couple of minutes after it comes out the microwave "to let the radiation escape".

Well, you are supposed to leave food for a minute or two to let it cook through. Hot things also emit a lot more EM radiation* than cold, so he's not wrong on that either.

*radiation, not to be confused with ionising radiation - the stuff that kills you and has nothing whatsoever to do with the microwave band.

>>19011
I know what you mean about the smell of curry. I recently had to do some work that involved visiting some of the local Neps, absolutely lovely people but the smell of curry just hits you round the face as soon as you walk in.
>> No. 19016 Anonymous
17th April 2015
Friday 9:57 pm
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>>19012

Have you been working in the Aldershot/Farnborough area by any chance?
>> No. 19017 Anonymous
17th April 2015
Friday 10:55 pm
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>>19011

Humans are fairly unusual amongst mammals in having a relatively weak sense of smell, but it is still a crucial evolutionary trait. The sense of smell evolved relatively early, and our olfactory processing system is wired directly to the most primeval, instinctive parts of our brain. Smells bypass conscious thought, in the same way that a startling noise does.

Newborn babies are practically blind, but they can immediately recognise their mother based on smell. It is not enough to remember that a particular food made you sick - your sense of revulsion at that food must be strong enough to overwhelm terrible hunger pangs. Most people have a particular alcoholic drink that makes them feel sick, because they had a dreadful experience with it; There's nothing special about that drink, it's just that you have subconsciously associated the aroma of that drink with feeling sick as a dog.

I think you're right to argue that smell is the final barrier of racism. You can consciously alter or suppress your attitudes to other cultures, but you can't suppress your revulsion to smell other than through long-term exposure. I've worked in China a fair bit, and I've learned not to eat dairy products in the weeks before flying out; The Chinese eat little or no dairy, so to them, westerners stink of sour milk. I'm careful to keep my hair dry, because European hair smells like wet dog. Conversely, when I fly back after eating nothing but Chinese food for months, I smell noticeably foreign.
>> No. 19018 Anonymous
18th April 2015
Saturday 1:11 am
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>>19016
Haha, what gave it away?
>> No. 19019 Anonymous
18th April 2015
Saturday 1:22 am
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>>19017
I don't think I could cut it in China. I drink organic full fat milk by the pint morning and night, couldn't live without it.

My dad's worked in some horrid countries, in good personal conditions but with exposure to the wider ghastliness, I wouldn't be able to function very well.
>> No. 19025 Anonymous
18th April 2015
Saturday 6:07 pm
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>>19017
>to them, westerners stink of sour milk.
What do they smell of to you?
>> No. 19029 Anonymous
18th April 2015
Saturday 7:16 pm
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>>19025

China is a bit of an olfactory assault, so I couldn't pick out anything in particular that the Chinese smell of. My memories are dominated by the smell of diesel fumes and the rank local fags that cost 50p a packet. Hongkongers smell a bit like my nan's house for some reason, and Koreans tend to smell of pickled garlic.
>> No. 19030 Anonymous
18th April 2015
Saturday 7:23 pm
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I recently switched back to full fat milk and have since been drinking six pints every couple of days with no signs of slowing down.
I also recently applied for a job in China which I have a fairly strong chance of getting.

How fucked am I, smelllads?
>> No. 19031 Anonymous
18th April 2015
Saturday 8:36 pm
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>>19030

It probably isn't hugely relevant. I'm a consultant rather than an employee, so I face different challenges. I meet with a lot of people who aren't used to dealing with Laowai, and I need to build rapport quickly. I've worked hard to integrate - I speak good Mandarin and I'm very careful about etiquette, so I can get on without a translator or fixer. As an employee of a multinational (or a local company that is used to hiring foreigners) you should expect some amount of tolerance for your funny foreign ways.

If you're going out there, worry less about smelling weird and more about picking up the language and culture. Read a book or two about doing business in China; The concept called "Guanxi" is absolutely integral to success in China, but is very difficult for foreigners to understand. The cultural gap is incredibly broad and deep, and your enjoyment and success will depend almost entirely on your willingness to bridge that chasm.
>> No. 19032 Anonymous
18th April 2015
Saturday 8:44 pm
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Why the fuck is my language learning thing telling me that bao means "wrap (radical)"? What the hell does that mean?
>> No. 19033 Anonymous
18th April 2015
Saturday 8:55 pm
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>>19032

http://www.yellowbridge.com/chinese/radicals.php

#20
>> No. 19034 Anonymous
18th April 2015
Saturday 9:33 pm
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>>19031
I'll be a researcher, so the business side of things won't matter too much to me. Will I still be able to drink loads of milk?
>> No. 19035 Anonymous
18th April 2015
Saturday 10:28 pm
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>>19034

If you don't mind people thinking that you smell a bit odd, then be my guest. Milk in Chinese supermarkets is exclusively UHT, and there's a lot of anxiety about the safety of domestically-produced milk after the melamine scandal. Bear in mind that a lot of western food items can be expensive and often difficult to find outside of Shanghai and Beijing. Cheese is still largely regarded as an exotic delicacy, and most of what you'll find is fairly bland stuff like Emmental and Gouda.
>> No. 19203 Anonymous
27th April 2015
Monday 3:23 pm
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>>19035
Germany generally suffers from a similar drought of decent cheeses. I could do a whole /101/ thread on how Gouda tastes like you've just done did a little sick in the back of your throat.
>> No. 19204 Anonymous
27th April 2015
Monday 3:27 pm
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>>19203
Speaking of, I'm fairly certain I almost died on Saturday night. I woke up around 3am coughing up half a mouthful of sick that was lodged in the back of my throat. That can get to room /101/, thank you very much.
>> No. 19583 Anonymous
12th June 2015
Friday 2:33 pm
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Last year at halls I was living with a megatwat whom I quickly fell out with. I never had any interest in being friends with him but it meant tensions within the flat and that flat nights out and other social events were an impossibility. Other flat m8s have gone spare over the smallest of things like moving their plates out of the sink.
The coming year, I'm living with people I actually like. We're all good friends but I know how easy it is for things to change when living together so I'd like to make an effort to maintain good relations.
I've read through this thread to make sure I'm not guilty of any of these crimes.
Is there any more advice you can give me?
>> No. 19584 Anonymous
12th June 2015
Friday 4:35 pm
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>>19583
Agree ground rules for stuff like cleaning, bills, bog roll etc at the start and stick to them.

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