What you said about that in your status
is pretty much every shared house I've ever stayed in unless there's some sort of washing up organisation.
(PsychoChomp, Wed 4 Jan 2012, 9:59, 1 reply, 13 years ago)

There is a washing up organisation
me. I'm fucking sick of tidying up after people but I can't use the kitchen if it's already a horrendous mess.
(berk, Wed 4 Jan 2012, 10:02, Reply)

My old trick is usually, "I'll cook a meal for us all if you wash up"
That sometimes works.
(PsychoChomp, Wed 4 Jan 2012, 10:06, Reply)

I bet you followed up with "hahaloljk" after they'd done the dishes though.

( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Wed 4 Jan 2012, 10:08, Reply)

Yes, then I would explain to them at length how witty the whole event was.

(PsychoChomp, Wed 4 Jan 2012, 10:11, Reply)

I'd have paid money to watch that.

( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Wed 4 Jan 2012, 10:13, Reply)

There's no shared area
we don't really socialise. And I'm fucked if I'm cooking a nice meal for those bloody wastrels just to get them to clean up after themselves.
(berk, Wed 4 Jan 2012, 10:09, Reply)

It's all about the give and take,
cook them a nice meal get the bongos out and sit around a bonfire and talk about how you want to change the world with love.
(PsychoChomp, Wed 4 Jan 2012, 10:14, Reply)

Then one of them can show you how they can do that fire staff twirling thing

(Bazongaloid, Wed 4 Jan 2012, 10:18, Reply)

I was taught to juggle right by this really spiritual guy, I think he was a Guru or Yogi,
I met him on this beach in Mali, he was from Surrey and we really connected, like on a spiritual level.
(PsychoChomp, Wed 4 Jan 2012, 10:21, Reply)

People you meet on beaches who can do circus skills are the deepest people there are.
Seriously, they just have a whole different outlook on life.
(Bazongaloid, Wed 4 Jan 2012, 10:22, Reply)

ha ha,
Totally, they're just on another level. They really SEE the world don't just watch it they SEEEEEE it!
(PsychoChomp, Wed 4 Jan 2012, 10:28, Reply)

I do have bongos and poi, as it happens
still not cooking them dinner though.
(berk, Wed 4 Jan 2012, 10:23, Reply)

Maybe you could just have a bongo session in your room?

(Bazongaloid, Wed 4 Jan 2012, 10:26, Reply)

Food is a great social tool,
it's hard to say "fuck off I'm not doing a washing up rota" if someone gives you a nice bowl of something before.
Think about it as manipulating their primative instincts to get what you want rather than doing them a favour if that helps.
(PsychoChomp, Wed 4 Jan 2012, 10:27, Reply)