Hi Bob!
Living with Bob was a fairly interesting experience in retrospect. We eventually concluded that we really couldn't believe him about *anything* he said. Gems include

1. He was Irish. Lots of stories about this one too, about difficultly voting etc... This one was found once we found his birth certificate in the lounge... birthplace? "Gravesend, Kent" Nationality? "British"

2. He was NOT eating all our food. He managed to keep this one up to the extent where we were seriously considering one of our other housemates was sleep-eating. Foiled when he left a month early, and about 9 loaves of bread, 3 packs of ham and lots more piled up in the kitchen.

3. He knew *lots* about computers, and this one was held dear to him: he offered to help wire the house up, and with the support of our landlord, who was even willing to stump up the costs if she could use it for future tenants. I, admitting to know not knowing much, and thinking I could pick stuff up, agreed to help out. 2 months in with him there, I had learned tonnes (laptops as makeshift wireless routers ftw) and realised he knew sod all. This extended to hardware too, which he claimed to know tonnes.

4. He apparently had worked as a chef and was an excellent cook. His idea of cooking; one jar/tub of sauce and one pack of filled pasta. badly overcooked. He started with dominos, then generic takeaway pizza, then when out of money, started on our food.

5. He'd worked in a slaughterhouse in Ireland. Again debunked by the bf who was a butcher and actually knows about how meat is taken apart.

6. He created several fictional jobs he was going to... Including one at the local football stadium... lots of made up stuff about working in the bar... foiled by random housemate who had done first aid there through st johns.

7. He had passed his resits and was allowed back for part II... nope. So he pretty much lived on savings until he ran out, and after that point? Dated one of the other housemates for food/money until she saw some bloody sense.

8. He had a great social life, and had been with all these great women, and these great parties... He spent the entire year in his dressing gown.

9. He was allergic to chilli. This one we're not hugely sure on: he responded when he ate something with chilli in that he knew about, but when i started adding it to all my leftovers? No reaction at all when it was mysteriously missing the next day.

So um, yes. The big one;
The general gist of this is that his mother was protestant and his father was catholic, and she died when he was 9, and now his horrid catholic stepmother was being horrid to him and suchlike...

He lied about *everything* else, which is the problem.

The clues:
1. he called his 'stepmother' "mum" on the phone
2. When i casually used the term "stepmum" in front of his dad in conversation, he looked very very confused.
3. he lied about everything else

Click "I like this" if you think he lied. I still am completely uncertain.
(mmmm curry doesn't really understand this sig lark, Thu 29 Nov 2007, 16:22, Reply)