I'm living in halls at the moment
So ask me again in a year. But I do have a few anyway...

Incidentally, this place is so good (*laughs*) that even the uni promotional material refers to it as "The Ghetto".


"Weird French guy". Shaves his pubes and leaves the clippings on the toilet seat. Also known for wanking in said (communal) toilets despite me trying to take a shit in the next cubical.

"S". Enormous and bisexual. Has absolutely no control over his temper when drunk. The nosiest person I've ever met. He rolled back in at 4am the other week, obviously having pissed himself and put music on at maximum volume. Then he started crying for no easily explicable reason (he didn't change out of his clothes either). Six people hammering on his door didn't make him turn the noise down.

"P". Very short and very Irish. Has a habit of turning music on at 3am and passing out. I once hammered on his door loudly enough to wake the people at the other end of the corridor, but he didn't wake up. Fortunately we stole a master key off a repair man some time ago, so we opened his door, turned everything off and threw him out of bed. He didn't wake up.

"M". Not a bad guy, but faaaaaar too fond of the crappest kind of tuneless techno faaaaaar too early in the morning. Have some respect for hangovers will you?

"L". American. Great guy, but for some reason has a habit of giving free haircuts in the corridor and not sweeping up afterwards.

"Weird Polish guy". We've seen him twice in six months. His room smells like fermenting death.

"Weird Chinese guy with Yakuza tattoos". Haven't seen him around for a while actually. Slightly worried by this as I don't remember him moving out.

"R". 6ft black kickboxer. You do not piss him off. He has a loud girlfriend. This on its own doesn't really bother me, but she lives in Glasgow. That means that whenever she visits they make up for lost time, and we are treated to an evening's (evening until 4am that is) not-very-muffled sqeals. It doesn't help that the walls in this place have the soundproofing qualities of tissue paper.

"Other weird French guy". He moved out/was thrown off his course some time ago now - but he had a massive weed habit. Massive. I'd come back in the evenings and start to get a bit lightheaded just from the fumes creeping under the door.




It's just occurred to me that their description of me would read:

"Weird English guy". Alcoholic and borderline psychopath. The only person S admits to being scared of, despite him being a foot taller. Known to walk around campus very late at night for unknown reasons.

So I'm not really one to talk...
( MatJ LOOK, Sun 1 Mar 2009, 2:17, 15 replies)

The ghetto?
you're at Heriot-Watt, aren't you?
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Sun 1 Mar 2009, 9:20, closed)

thats exactly what i was gonna say!
my ex boyfriend stayed in linlithgow halls. spent many a night in the ghetto i have! fire alarms at 4-5am and nobody gets back in until they've found out who did it. The rooms are like prison cells!
(fernbrittonsexcessskin will give a shit later, Sun 1 Mar 2009, 10:45, closed)

seems that the ghetto is a common one
as Neuadd Philip Evans & Neuadd Philip Squire halls in Glamorgan uni are referred to as the ghettos too
(Lovefist233 Bothering Sheep since..., Sun 1 Mar 2009, 13:07, closed)

I am indeed at Heriot-Watt
Linlithgow house actually...


The fire alarms don't bother me so much - I'm always still at the union when they go off...
( MatJ LOOK, Sun 1 Mar 2009, 18:16, closed)

haha. *nervous laugh*
Please tell me you aren't one of my students?
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Mon 2 Mar 2009, 9:50, closed)

Having looked at your profile
I'm fairly sure I'm not.

First year Physics with Philosophy as an elective.
( MatJ LOOK, Mon 2 Mar 2009, 13:25, closed)

you're safe then.

( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Mon 2 Mar 2009, 15:16, closed)

However
I will keep an eye out for you around campus...
( MatJ LOOK, Mon 2 Mar 2009, 17:46, closed)

I'm going to have to get a job somewhere else now
and I was liking it here, too.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 3 Mar 2009, 10:08, closed)

Hahaha
"His room smells like fermenting death."

Clicked!
(McChinaman banned, Sun 1 Mar 2009, 9:36, closed)

So
why do you walk around the campus?
(Bernard Bernoulli, Sun 1 Mar 2009, 10:46, closed)

I sleep all day
And don't get enough excercise anyway. Plus it's more peaceful at night - there's nobody around asking "Why are you walking around campus?"
( MatJ LOOK, Sun 1 Mar 2009, 18:19, closed)

I had a weird Polish guy in Halls too
His room smelt weird and we couldn't work it out, then we caught him scaling trout in the bathroom.
(SnowyTheWereRabbit the Leporid from Hell, Sun 1 Mar 2009, 14:07, closed)

It really would be weird...
... for a Chinese guy to have Yakuza tattoos...
(cherrygloom could kick your ass at Guitar Hero any day, Sun 1 Mar 2009, 19:39, closed)

Fair enough
I was saying what it looked like.

Gang tats of some sort. Very large and obvious ones.
( MatJ LOOK, Sun 1 Mar 2009, 20:58, closed)