even though it's a victorian flat and the walls are very thick and the ceilings very high
i still worry that they know a lot more about my sexlife than they should, as they are selfishly not all deaf.

my flatmate's curtains aren't great and she has flashed the old man opposite on about 3 occasions since moving in. she is obscenely fit, and he has moved an armchair into that window, i am sure this is coincidental. also we both have an unfortunate tendency to flash the neighbours at the back by opening the fridge naked in the middle of the night. stupid interior light.

i really don't want them to know that when i first moved in and didn't have enough airing racks or clothes horses, i would just throw out my bedding and buy a new set every fortnight.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 11:53, 3 replies, latest was 15 years ago)

Someone's going to say it
Your flatmate; POIDH
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 11:54, Reply)

no, i don't want her to sue me
suffice it to say, she is annoyingly hot. even my personal trainer said, "christ there isn't much i could do for her, is there?"
( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 11:57, Reply)

As a man, I've never believed that a girl can be annoyingly hot
Frustratingly hot, now that's another matter
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 12:01, Reply)

as a girl, the annoyance is strong

( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 12:02, Reply)

What, cos you're so minging?
I'll never understand why hot girls give themselves a hard time whilst various men slip over in pools of their own drool as they pass
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 12:10, Reply)

Darth Pandatron!

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 12:13, Reply)

Nah, I'm off her list apparently
It's actual frustration rather than pandering. If Swipey chooses to see a compliment buried somewhere deep in my post, then good for her.

Hang on, I need a poo
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 12:15, Reply)

no, i took the insult, as always
it's what i do best.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 12:20, Reply)

You and I may have more in common than I first suspected
Not intelligence, profession, gender, geographical location or history, sexual proclivity (I really don't like cock), attractiveness or willingness to attend a gym, but the insults thing. Fo sho.
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 12:24, Reply)

it is annoying if they are also extremely thick

(Zoz prayed for twink on, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 12:02, Reply)

I find the thick ones more likely to let me take a poke
(speaking from no experience whatsoever, as a serial monogamist whose two relationships have both been with hyper-intelligent women)
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 12:09, Reply)

I just assumed Swipe was saying that her flatmate was going through the menopause
And that she was suffering from annoying hot-flushes.
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 12:02, Reply)

don't you have a meal to cook or something?

( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 12:20, Reply)

Or an aged female relative to visit?

(porkylips looks better as the sun goes down., Tue 15 Feb 2011, 12:39, Reply)

You keep your bedding on for a fortnight?
Surely one of the pleasures in life is getting into a nice, freshly made bed with clean bedding on a Sunday night?
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 11:56, Reply)

now that i can wash it, it gets changed weekly
even though i was buying cheap shit from argos, even i drew the line at BUYING a duvet set a week!
( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 11:56, Reply)

This is beyond ridiculous.
Buy a new duvet set every couple of weeks because you didn't have enough airing racks.
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 11:59, Reply)

basically yes
but it was so cheap, like a tenner a pop, it was almost as much money to run the washing machine!

anyway now i have airing racks and designer bedding, so everyone's happy.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 12:01, Reply)

It doesn't cost a tenner to run the washing machine.

(PsychoChomp, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 12:06, Reply)

that was how i justified it
anyway that was a long time ago. i don't do that anymore. it's just the only shameful thing i could think of, that i wouldn't have wanted my neighbours to know what was in my rubbish sacks.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 12:12, Reply)

It's not much less than that
if you go to a launderette. The big machines you can fit your bedding in are about £5 a pop, and then you have to keep feeding the dryer 50ps...
(berk, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 12:14, Reply)

You probably disagree with taking your shirts to the dry-cleaners for washing and ironing!

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 12:02, Reply)

i agree with somebody else doing it for me
dry-cleaning is one of the brilliant perks of my lovely law firm.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 12:14, Reply)

I live in one of those.
Well it's Georgian-looking but really Victorian. Same difference.
trust me, they can hear you.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 12:10, Reply)

i'm surprised they haven't all moved out
walls are one thing, then there's fireplaces. doom.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 12:14, Reply)

Yup.
Irritable camel man comes up through the fireplace in one bedroom, and yelpy woman comes up through the fireplace in the other bedroom.
These people aren't even in my building. It's the building next door.
I heard Next Door cough gently once, and then realised that as their living room is below my bedroom (their flat is one foor and mine flat is two floors and a bizarre L-shape, so Next Door are also Downstairs) I should move into the spare bedroom. My living room is below that. so no worries there.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 12:18, Reply)

you have given me Teh Fear now...

( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 12:20, Reply)

Sod 'em.
"It's just apartment house rules, so all you 'partment house fools remember: One man's ceiling is another man's floor."
They will have to put up with it. Or go and live in a barn in the middle of a field. I put up with irritable camel, and he puts up with me.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 12:23, Reply)

my brother and i used to love that song when we were little
the crashing bass piano made us laugh every time.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 12:30, Reply)

Yup!
"tinkly tinkly tinkly thinly tinkly twiddle-dee twidddle-dee deee, dum, dum..."
"BOM BA BADDLE DA DAAAAR DAAAAAR!"
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 12:35, Reply)