I regularly invite random people from the internet to stay in my house
I'm a member of couchsurfing.org which is a website that facilitates random strangers staying with each other all over the globe. There's a feedback system which weeds out the undesirables and people spend a while building up their profiles so you know what you're letting yourself in for. As I live in an awesome little village on the North coast of Cornwall, which happens to be full of party people and very close to lots of excellent live music, I have quite a lot of couch surfers asking to stay. I've never once regretted saying yes to any of them. I've had Polish, German, Chinese, French, American and English people to stay. I've been cooked for, furnished with huge volumes of alcohol, been played amazing music and made friends for life through it.
(teasus likes tea, Sat 24 Nov 2012, 15:53, 6 replies)

Have you shared anyone elses couch?
You can have mine.
(deadpidge, Sat 24 Nov 2012, 17:47, closed)

ta! just the once so far
stayed in London with my two teenage kids and had a great time. I intend to do a fair bit of travelling so I shall definitely make good use of it in a couple of years.
(teasus likes tea, Sat 24 Nov 2012, 23:50, closed)

I keep meaning to register for this
It looks like such a good idea. If I get stabbed in the night though I'm blaming you for finally making me do it.
( Herb Alpert's Taxi Driver I have very beautiful lips, Sun 25 Nov 2012, 20:28, closed)

OK you're on
Really - just do it - it's fucking awesome. Speaking as someone who isn't short on good friends, the people I've met through it have all been cool. Some of them have been downright fucking amazing, like Magda, who gave up her good job and house in Warsaw and decided to travel the world, working a little bit here and there. She was in Cornwall making pasties, now she's in China teaching English to infants, via lots of other cool places.
(teasus likes tea, Tue 27 Nov 2012, 15:03, closed)

This should win
for the sheer breezy positivity of it. Makes a refreshing change!
(Dr Skagra glorious glargzhem, Sun 25 Nov 2012, 21:18, closed)

Do I get a prize?

(teasus likes tea, Tue 27 Nov 2012, 15:04, closed)