Mental housemate. No not 'haha you're mental you.' Mental housemate.
I lived in Southampton about fifteen years ago. One of my flat mates, lets called him Loony McNutter, was a real headcase. I hadn't moved in with him. He was a flatmate's 'mate' and he moved in afterwards.

This guys was seriously mental although when he wasn't being doolally he was a rather nice guy.

I know he was on antidepressants as he used to share them around quite generously but he had a quite impressive mental past.

This included: Being in the French Foreign Legion (twice), being up in court for kicking the shite out of four policemen all in one go, discharging himself from hospital after eating a beer can.

This can quite easily be dismissed as bizarre boasting but I'd heard it these from a number of sources, some that had known him for a long time.

However this last tale convinced me that these were true. We were all very hard up in this household and one day Mr. McNutter had bought a sack of potatoes cheaply and planned to subsist on them to save money for drugs and booze.

Living with us in this house was his brother who was equally screwed but in nonviolent ways.
Looney M. started getting very angry as his potatoes were going missing. In the end his suspicion fell on me.

To cut a very long story short not only did I need to move out of the house, to be on the safe side I relocated to Bournemouth.
It turned out it was his own brother, and I'm not surprised, was the tatty teef and all was forgiven.
I'm not the smallest person in the world and won't back out of a fight if it completly neccessery but you could tell just by looking at the bloke that not only would you lose but you'd better count your limbs with afterwards.

To finish on an interesting point about his brother, I can't for the life of me remember his name but this is they guy that wanted a haircut like Kieth from the Prodigy (circa 1996). So haved the top of his head but not the bottom he proceeded to walk round in public looking like he had badly shaved male pattern balding.
( riverghost servicing your mum since, Mon 2 Mar 2009, 10:54, 1 reply)

worth it
just for the image of strange neo-fransican hair man
( Sextant goes to him is emotionally erect, on this day, Mon 2 Mar 2009, 13:25, closed)