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Her towel in the bathroom has not changed in at least 4 months.
posted at 14:06
Tuesday, January 18, 2005
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Garth
"Things I Hate About My Flatmate distils the rage of living with a stranger into a daily nugget of purest blog bile"
Guardian Unlimited
"At first it seems quite sad to create a blog just to bitch about your flatmate, but after reading I realised their value in sharing the common experience and humour in recognising one's own domestic transgressions."
The New Zealand Herald
"The Things I Hate About My Flatmate blog is a daily catalog of the sins committed by the anonymous poster's rotten flatmate. Having had my share of inconsiderate slob roommates over the years, this one really hits home for me!"
Boing Boing
"I shall defend The Habitat, whatever the cost may be, I shall hate her in the kitchen, I shall hate her in the bathroom, we shall fight in The Habitat and in the streets, we shall fight about the rent; I shall never surrender."
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14 Comments:
Smell it, I dare you. She is putrid.
I have read some of these blogs with concern and sadness. The purpose of the world wide web is to foster a feeling of community and connectedness. You can't even manage these simple, caring emotions in your own home.
Maybe she is just too busy to wash her towels, or your climate is currently unsuitable for naturally drying a newly washed towel in the open (and she doesn't want to use a dryer). Besides 4 months isn't that long, I have friends who have used the same towel for far longer
Concerned and Caring*
*Not my real name either
No way! 4 months??
Can it stand on its own? are new forms of life evolving on its decaying surface?
Maybe the chill temperatures and presumably dry air limit the damage, but I'd expect that baby to stink up the whole place.
I guess you just cant smell it over her feet.
I had a flatmate once who didn't have a shower for the entire 6 months i lived with him. He would spend about 40 minutes in the bathroom every morning with the tap running in the (very tiny) sink, although the floor was never wet afterwards... and I never once saw him wash his towel.
My ex-house mate was like her. He never changed his sheets in 18 months and only ever showered if he thought he was on a promise.
When he moved out of his tiny bedroom, I removed 14 bin liners of old food, coke cans, pizza boxes and burger cartons/wrappers and other fast food rubbish. In the end I had to sling the mattress, I wouldn't want a dog sleeping on that never mind a human
oh god, you're scaring me now. my 17yo son is exactly like this. i have tried everything but he just doesn't care about personal hygiene or his room. we have had so many fights, i finally gave up to have some peace and quiet at home. i hate to think he's going to be somebody's despised flatmate someday. [sigh]
I have three towels that have an identical blue pattern. So although I am using a freshly washed towel every few days, I always wonder if my roommate thinks I only have one towel that's never been washed.
Concerned and Caring* - you're either an idiot or you have no personality at all, at least not one that includes a sense of humor. You wrote, "The purpose of the world wide web is to foster a feeling of community and connectedness." Are you serious? Who decided and where is it stated that that is what the WWW was created for? I wouldn't want to live in your "community focused, lets hold hands and love each other, bull-shit, phony world. I'm convinced people like you are mentally deficient. The good news is that realizing you're a retard is the first step in growing a personality. Start TODAY!
I found this blog today...and luuuuuv it. Keep up the good work dude (yes some people still say dude).
Felix (yeah, like the cat)
Hahahaha!!! The internet was designed for the purpose of SHARING INFORMATION. That's what it does. That's what we are all doing by posting here. It has achieved it's purpose, and then some.
My worst flatmate was a Chinese foreign student who got more pee on the floor than in the bowl when he pissed. I'm not talking about a splash, or even a few tablespoons worth around the back out of sight. I'm talking about a coffee-cup full minimum, everytime.
3 warnings, even written warnings, one shouting match, and then I booted his ass out.
He started calling me his brother and saying we were like his family- he'd been there 2 months.
People are weird.
Oh, he was also selling his ass to his English teacher to pay for rent and food when he couldn't get gardening work, but I wasn't supposed to know that.
my theory is that if i'm using a towel after taking a shower, then theoretically my cleanness should rub off on the towel, thereby relieving the necessity of actually washing said towel.
I founded the site today, and really liked the place.
It really made me laugh a lot, until tears come out from my eyes. I should say that I feel exactly the same, but just instead of flatmate, they are my husband and kids... ha ha...
It's sad, right, to say, that everything described here DOES happens in the life, and we have to deal with them everyday. Unfortunatelly, I am the one who always have to smell the towels and bring them to wash, because one day only in the bathroom, they already get bad smell.
i know this post is very late and will probably never be read but, i just wanted to say that i learned in my cold war class in college that the www was created by the scientists and universities and the government to permit the sharing of research and information during the "space race" with russa . . . who knew it would become the monster that we have all come to know and love?
i think a few people have bad flatmates,
my flatmate never does the cleaning and he has an obsession with his mobile phone and surfing wap but i think thats down to the fact he has no friends
he also does not clean his cat's litter tray out and right now the smell is putrid
he leaves plates lying around for days on end and most of the time doesn't care
Hello... I know I am anonymous, but if you can tell from times/dates, its me again!! :P
I LOVE your blog!! Please keep it up!!
My flatmates towel... where do I start!!
We share a hand towel, but keep our big shower ones in our room... she washes her clothes and hangs them in the kitchen... (I keep them in my room.. if someone I comes round, I don't want them to see that stuff...lol)
I've seen a towel in the kitchen... maybe once every few months...
BUT... for the hand towel... its DISGUSTING!! It smells of sick... goes brown!! And is always wet!!
Now, I know what you might say, it could be me, we DO share it after all... but it's not me!!
Back home at my parents house, sometimes I'll spend weeks there... the towel NEVER does this... I have a sister too!! So the same number of people... no change to the towel...
My question is... why would it do this?!?! Clean hands... going on to a clean towel!??! What DOES she do!?!?!?
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