I've had some of these problems with roommates. Specifically a sports crazed roommate that would watch sports center on ESPN until 2 or 3 in the morning. I don't get it though because it's on repeat after the day of sports is over. Why watch it more than once? The problem got worst when he lost his job. I always hated it because that's ALL we would watch. I couldn't get the TV for 10 minutes, and if I did, I was a "fag" because I didn't want to watch something sports related. But at least your roommate is showering, that's a plus.

I've had roommates disappear, I've had roommates I found out were dealing out of the house, another one that I found was GROWING in my fucking house. Yes, GROWING. They eat your food, they don't pay their bills, roommates blow. Well my roommate now blows...me...I live with my girlfriend and that's a totally new experience. Good and bad on so many different levels. Oh well, I hope you find a way to confront him about the issues and won't make things awkward in your place of residence. Good luck.

I always wear ear plugs, and when it's noisy out, I have a noise machine/alarm clock that plays a rain soundtrack. Turning up the volume high lets me sleep through just about anything, but these things don't necessarily work for everybody or for all situations. Best of luck.

I take half hour showers too, and I never jack it in there.. I'm just Howard Hughes-clean.

I think it's time for a blanket party.

P.p.s Sorry for the aids.

Red Flag his ass.

Late at night, whole barracks puts soaps in socks, holds him down in the bed and everyone pummels him.

>> ^Farhad2000:
Red Flag his ass.
Late at night, whole barracks puts soaps in socks, holds him down in the bed and everyone pummels him.


And then you'll find him in the middle of the night on the toilet talking to his gun...

Barracks are different than having roommates in a normal house/apartment, but I feel your pain. I grew up with 5 sisters and 3 brothers, and after that lived in a house with 3 roommates and 2 more who were "squatting." Not fun. I now live on my own for very obvious reasons.

I do agree with gwiz about the "half hour power showers" though - they are wonderful and I require them. I understand that this pisses roommates off (if hot water runs out quickly) and I'd cut it short if I knew someone was waiting. I don't whack off in the shower that often, by the way - it's just very relaxing and wakes me up for the day. I'm a horrible morning person.

Another thing that would piss my roommates off is how hard I am to wake up. My alarm clock would wake up others in the house before myself, but it's something I can't help.

I'm a very considerate person, though, and I CAN'T stand people who aren't. I suggest you teach him a lesson by feeding him his own medicine in some form or another.

Showers: See if you can find the hot water valve and turn it off during his shower. Alternately, turn off the cold water. >=)


Computer: Buy earplugs. It isn't perfect, but it works for all noise. You can turn off a computer, but you can't turn off snoring or random outdoor sounds. You can get a mask thing to cover your eyes as well if the light is really that bad.


He should be using headphones, but its a little more difficult to complain about the light. Is there somewhere else he can go? If he wants to be on his computer at 5am then that isn't an unreasonable action, but the sound is avoidable.


If you really want to make a point about the sound then find some music he hates and play it loud enough that he can't ignore it (earplugs for yourself are good here). Tell him that you will play the music any time he isn't using his headphones past midnight (or whatever time you choose).

This one housemate I had sucked really fucking hard. She left me 7 months pregnant and 1 days notice in our apartment for no apparent reason, other than i'd started to nag her for leaving milk out to rot and generally being a dirty bitch. She'd sucked it all up and planned to fuck me over.

It all came to a head when the swing lid of the rubbish bin had fallen inside it (right near the top mind you) and she'd emptied her uneaten food all over it. I had called her out on it when she came into the kitchen and she pushed me fairly hard back against the table. I obviously quite heavily up the duff took affront to this and grabbed her arm and twisted it while pushing her up against the wall, allegeldy spraining it.

Anyway, she fucked off a week later using this as an excuse. Like she hadn't asked for it! She left me with all the bills and no way to pay the rent on my own so I had to leave and go back to my parents. About a year later, I came back to the area to see a few friends i'd lost touch with. The nasty whore had spread rumours that i'd had my baby taken off me because i'd turned into a heroin addict. What the fuck!

dear roommates,

quit pooping in the potty and not flushing.
learn to wipe your own asses.
quit falling over and getting booboos, making me kiss and bandaid them.
learn to cook for your damn selves.
please get tall enough to reach the sink and wash out your own dishes.
stop making me do all the damn laundry.
learn to mop.
quit leaving your toys in the back seat of my car.

nah... just kidding, i love that shit.

haha i have the most perfect roommates.

^ That fucking thing with the tape.... you realize you can rip the corneas right off someone's eyes that way? I had a major phobia growing up about some idiot coming up behind me and ripping my corneas off in an attempt to be funny.

The worst roommate I ever had was the "we're brothers because we're roommates" type... he thought sharing an apartment was supposed to be some kind of symbiosis where we interoperate our lives like a married couple. I'm a very private person who needs lots of alone time, and nothign drives me crazier than someone who constantly has plans for how I'm going to spend my day. This guy would ask me for favours requiring hours of effort on a daily basis. Eventually I trained him to leave me the fuck alone, but it took all year and I think it partially drove me into a depression, fighting the urge to tell him to fuck off all year.

Yes the punishing scene from Full Metal Jacket came to mind as well.

Well I see it as 2 against 1.

>> ^budzos:
^ That fucking thing with the tape.... you realize you can rip the corneas right off someone's eyes that way? I had a major phobia growing up about some idiot coming up behind me and ripping my corneas off in an attempt to be funny.


You can't be serious...

>> ^budzos:
^ That fucking thing with the tape.... you realize you can rip the corneas right off someone's eyes that way? I had a major phobia growing up about some idiot coming up behind me and ripping my corneas off in an attempt to be funny.

You must've been a hoot growing up. Did you also rubberband plastic shopping bags around your shoes when it was raining?

lol, I must be the odd one out here... I've never had a room mate.
That is until I got married. That took a full two years to get used too... Every bloody time I went to get something, it had been moved, Stacked, put "away", piled up, found a new home, you get the idea.

I have a lousy memory so I have a place for everything so I don't have to try to remember - but if nothing is ever where I leave it - I start bloody go insane - I'm sure there were times I was certifiable when I went to get something and could NOT FIND IT! (which means someone "found a new home for it")

ah..the joys of barracks life../dreamy look..
what am i saying?..that shit blew ballz!
it's been 25 years and i still remember my roomie spankin it.shook the whole damn bunk bed.all i got was denial when i confronted him.
ok ok..that one was easy to stop.i started taking pictures /evil grin.

Here's a question:

Why are we always picking on the religious when we let the damn sports fanatics off easy? I fucking hate sports. Almost all of them. It's all based on our thirst for war, our nationalism, partisanship, us against them, kick their asses we're better that they are. The draft is a model for slaverey. Idiots. Why don't you do something with your life that gives you that sense of achievement, instead of watching a bunch of overpaid chemically infused "athletes" grab each others asses. I think it's a lot of repressed homosexuality myself.

I say we pay the soldiers what we pay the ball players. Who would scoff at getting paid 15k/year to play a damn game, or conversely 6 million to get your ass shot at? Sports are at best stupid and boring, at worst stimulation for our worst traits as a species.

Oh, sorry, this was your rant wasn't it.

Oh, no. That was perfectly stated.

I take extra long showers without jacking it in there. It doesnt take that long to jack it if you know what youre doing... pppfftt.... amateurs