script kiddiemy flatmate-from-hell was involved in telephony fraud which he was performing to support an IV drug addiction. he was receiving kickbacks from a german who was running a 'sex chat' operation out of israel -- for each person he illegally billed for time on the 'sex chat' service he received a small fee. australians may remember 'current affairs' television articles about 70 year old men, or aged war widows, wondering why they had $5000 phone bills. this guy was part of the reason why, phone companies closing ranks and pretending they didn't have security issues was another.
i ran into him recently after a period of about eight years -- i was feeling generous and grabbed his shoulder and forgave him for the money he owed me, about AUD500 for rent and bills and what not.
the fucker pretended to be french-canadian: a feral girlfriend started shrieking at me and it all became too hard. bear in mind that if i see him again, after that little stunt, i will kill him. maybe. His initials were GDMcC if anyone recognises this story and wants to help me tie his ankles and throw him in the yarra.
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i ran into him recently after a period of about eight years -- i was feeling generous and grabbed his shoulder and forgave him for the money he owed me, about AUD500 for rent and bills and what not.
the fucker pretended to be french-canadian: a feral girlfriend started shrieking at me and it all became too hard. bear in mind that if i see him again, after that little stunt, i will kill him. maybe. His initials were GDMcC if anyone recognises this story and wants to help me tie his ankles and throw him in the yarra.
Mother of Christ...my heart goes out to you all (please return using the stamped addressed jiffy-bag provided). I haven't got any horror stories to top those on here, but when I was in first year halls, we "broke into" my neighbour's room, found all his clothes, soaked them in water, and compacted the lot into the bottom drawer of our freezer. He returned from a weekend away, and eventually found his "clothes brick" after about forty minutes of "it's not fuckin' funny"ness.
Why did we do that then?
Because the atrocious happy baby orangutan used to defrost chicken drumsticks/lamb chops/whatever by tying dental floss to the thin end, hanging them over the side of the kettle (tea bag style, tied to the handle so the stuff didn't touch the element), and setting it to boil. In addition to being frigging horrible, it was also sadly obvious that it just didn't work! (Cooked on the outside, frozen solid in the middle) And he still didn't take the hint after the "clothes brick" excercise. His reasoning was that "the boiling kills off any of the germs". Which I suppose it does, but that's no good cause, we pointed out, to fill our frigging kettle with meat.
Ultimately we let him off cos' by and large, he was a sound bloke.
Like I said, nothing compared to what everyone else on this board appears to have gone through. Pissed me off mind you.
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Thu 20 Nov 2003, 10:59,
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Why did we do that then?
Because the atrocious happy baby orangutan used to defrost chicken drumsticks/lamb chops/whatever by tying dental floss to the thin end, hanging them over the side of the kettle (tea bag style, tied to the handle so the stuff didn't touch the element), and setting it to boil. In addition to being frigging horrible, it was also sadly obvious that it just didn't work! (Cooked on the outside, frozen solid in the middle) And he still didn't take the hint after the "clothes brick" excercise. His reasoning was that "the boiling kills off any of the germs". Which I suppose it does, but that's no good cause, we pointed out, to fill our frigging kettle with meat.
Ultimately we let him off cos' by and large, he was a sound bloke.
Like I said, nothing compared to what everyone else on this board appears to have gone through. Pissed me off mind you.