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(, Sun 1 Apr 2001, 1:00)
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good experiences with gumtree/craigslist
So I emailed every random stranger about the spare room to rent. Does anyone have any past experiences with similar websites so I know what I'm up against.

alt q: Bugger, I've opened a wormhole to the crazy dimension haven't I?
(, Mon 5 Mar 2012, 19:44, 152 replies, latest was 14 years ago)
Are you still in Leeds?
If so I can keep an ear to the ground in my professional/landlord capacity.

Whereabouts? Gaz if sensitive.
(, Mon 5 Mar 2012, 19:48, Reply)
Leeds yes

(, Mon 5 Mar 2012, 19:54, Reply)
you may end up with kinky furry sex
that's what I hear
(, Mon 5 Mar 2012, 20:04, Reply)
Thats the last thing I wanted

(, Mon 5 Mar 2012, 20:05, Reply)
perhaps it was what you needed

(, Mon 5 Mar 2012, 20:07, Reply)
You're soliciting sex with a random on the internet again Cavey, you're better than this

(, Mon 5 Mar 2012, 20:16, Reply)
although somebody has to take over where Biggers left off

(, Mon 5 Mar 2012, 20:16, Reply)
What happened to biggers?

(, Mon 5 Mar 2012, 20:18, Reply)
She got herself a section 3, our thoughts are with her during these difficult times

(, Mon 5 Mar 2012, 20:24, Reply)
How may B3tans have been sectioned now?
I'm fairly sure that Edmund is in some institution too
(, Mon 5 Mar 2012, 20:30, Reply)
Most have had a least a section 2, those crazy headbangers
EdsMeds is their mental health hero
(, Mon 5 Mar 2012, 20:34, Reply)
Gilgamesh was in the loony bin for a little while.
www.kineticnorth.com/StuffAndTing/LoonyBin/Default.aspx
(, Mon 5 Mar 2012, 20:34, Reply)
Rory is telling fibs about BGB
I think Hairpot may have been borderline, especially after the occasion when he set up a meatpuppet to argue with himself.
(, Mon 5 Mar 2012, 20:40, Reply)
Oh lol I missed that. Weren't he the paedo fixer AND ENDED UP DOING TIME FOR TRUTH AND JUSTICE
Those were great qotw days
(, Mon 5 Mar 2012, 20:42, Reply)
lol what a shame.
He was pretending to be his sister but yes, that's the guy. Also got O/T in the tabloids after his "suicide attempt."
(, Mon 5 Mar 2012, 20:45, Reply)
Ban this sick filth!

(, Mon 5 Mar 2012, 20:47, Reply)
Thats borderline
just on the wrong side of the line though
(, Mon 5 Mar 2012, 20:42, Reply)
i am not better than that

(, Mon 5 Mar 2012, 20:23, Reply)
I've got you up there on a pedestal I'm afraid

(, Mon 5 Mar 2012, 20:24, Reply)
You're making her sound like a cake

(, Mon 5 Mar 2012, 20:28, Reply)
something something something cream filling something something

(, Mon 5 Mar 2012, 20:32, Reply)
In many ways she looks like a cake
a large cake, on the last day of it's best before date that's been dropped a few times so it's been in the reduced section of morrisons, and ended up being squashed in the shopping bag on the way home
(, Mon 5 Mar 2012, 20:32, Reply)
batteredburg

(, Mon 5 Mar 2012, 20:32, Reply)
Cor, gossip or wot, battereds fucked cavey?!!!!11
I knew monogamy weren't his thing
(, Mon 5 Mar 2012, 20:36, Reply)
i don't remember
i must have been iced
(, Mon 5 Mar 2012, 20:44, Reply)
funny looking but still sweet and lovely?
you're so nice, rory
(, Mon 5 Mar 2012, 20:45, Reply)
We'll get you a fuck from an internet random yet cavemeister

(, Mon 5 Mar 2012, 20:48, Reply)
And needing a lot of tongue work
I reckon you've pulled the intermittently entertaining Rory there, Cavy.
(, Mon 5 Mar 2012, 20:49, Reply)
I am better than this

(, Mon 5 Mar 2012, 20:49, Reply)
that's not what your gaz said

(, Mon 5 Mar 2012, 20:53, Reply)
Well he obviously hasn't got much going on in his life
And he can be amusing sporadically.

Go for it.
(, Mon 5 Mar 2012, 20:59, Reply)
I love University Challenge me.
What did everyone have for dinner?
(, Mon 5 Mar 2012, 20:16, Reply)
Pizza and garlic bread
your started for ten, who is Phred Jaques?
(, Mon 5 Mar 2012, 20:18, Reply)

Some cunt who always posts on your head innit.
(, Mon 5 Mar 2012, 20:21, Reply)
I'm passing to Scumbags

(, Mon 5 Mar 2012, 20:22, Reply)
Pork and caramalised red onion sausages
Why dy'ask?
(, Mon 5 Mar 2012, 20:30, Reply)

veg?
(, Mon 5 Mar 2012, 20:30, Reply)
I certainly am

(, Mon 5 Mar 2012, 20:31, Reply)

comfy trousers?
(, Mon 5 Mar 2012, 20:31, Reply)
This jacket makes it hard to type though
Luckily I've got my best stabbing knife between my teeth.
(, Mon 5 Mar 2012, 20:33, Reply)

bleak old shop of stuff - shite, discuss.
(, Mon 5 Mar 2012, 20:33, Reply)
Good concept badly done
Not bothering to watch any more.
(, Mon 5 Mar 2012, 20:34, Reply)
God, University Challenge was irritating tonight.
The captain of the Manchester team was a right twat. i had to resist the urge to punch the telly. You know, on account of how that would only break my telly.

I have never used Craigslist or Gumtree, but I hear they're both full of crazies.

Alt: I expect to hear of your kidnap, torture and dismemberment in the near future.
(, Mon 5 Mar 2012, 21:03, Reply)
I thought he was alright.

(, Mon 5 Mar 2012, 21:06, Reply)
He was a pillock.

(, Mon 5 Mar 2012, 21:08, Reply)
University Challenge is ALWAYS irritating
Chinless kids who know a lot about something, but nothing about everything else.
(, Mon 5 Mar 2012, 21:07, Reply)
Jeremy Paxman is usually the most irritating thing about the show though
so to out-irritate him takes some doing.
(, Mon 5 Mar 2012, 21:09, Reply)
I enjoy his mangled pronunciations
When he's trying to be clever but reading an auto-cue.
(, Mon 5 Mar 2012, 21:10, Reply)
I like his patronising disdain of any student getting a question wrong.

(, Mon 5 Mar 2012, 21:13, Reply)
That man spends most of his free time examining his gussets

(, Mon 5 Mar 2012, 21:15, Reply)
I thought you were in a steamy gaz exchange with Cavy

(, Mon 5 Mar 2012, 21:19, Reply)
I gazzed her some grot and she's just popped to take some bumhole shots
not an easy task once you get to her size
(, Mon 5 Mar 2012, 21:21, Reply)
Are you going to pay the mortgage on her new house?

(, Mon 5 Mar 2012, 21:22, Reply)
only if there's plenty of diarrohea

(, Mon 5 Mar 2012, 21:24, Reply)
Is that the same as diarrhoea?

(, Mon 5 Mar 2012, 21:32, Reply)
wrevheta

(, Mon 5 Mar 2012, 21:36, Reply)
lol sick burn bro

(, Mon 5 Mar 2012, 21:38, Reply)
But what else do you have, really?

(, Mon 5 Mar 2012, 21:23, Reply)
Soz, I only romance the ladies on here
you want LIC, he's always been confused about his sexuality
(, Mon 5 Mar 2012, 21:25, Reply)
You don't really do it very well, do you?

(, Mon 5 Mar 2012, 21:28, Reply)
Thankfully not, no
you have seen this haven't you?

www.flickr.com/groups/b3tabashes/pool/
(, Mon 5 Mar 2012, 21:32, Reply)
Yup, we're a handsome lot on here.

(, Mon 5 Mar 2012, 21:33, Reply)
They breed as well
it's disgusting
(, Mon 5 Mar 2012, 21:35, Reply)
I have decided to abstain from procreation
for the good of the human genepool.
(, Mon 5 Mar 2012, 21:36, Reply)
wouldn't having mr b3th rutting away on top of you not only put you off your tea
but also fracture your hip? yeah too right man.
(, Mon 5 Mar 2012, 21:40, Reply)
Probably would, yeah.
But I get round it by pretending it's you.
(, Mon 5 Mar 2012, 21:41, Reply)
How are we supposed to elope at this rate?

(, Mon 5 Mar 2012, 21:42, Reply)
You could get Gonz to drive you.

(, Mon 5 Mar 2012, 21:46, Reply)
If you're going to be a lothario
You must look like a man out of Maroon 5.
(, Mon 5 Mar 2012, 21:35, Reply)
He's a smug prick

(, Mon 5 Mar 2012, 21:21, Reply)
Easy to be disdainful when you have the answers in front of you

(, Mon 5 Mar 2012, 21:16, Reply)
and when you're a smug prick.

(, Mon 5 Mar 2012, 21:22, Reply)
Racist, I like the Chinese.

(, Mon 5 Mar 2012, 21:15, Reply)
Cute, cuddly, and easy to please
I said CHINLESS.
(, Mon 5 Mar 2012, 21:18, Reply)
The Chinese have many things they've done to impress
like Maoism, Taoism, I Ching and Chess.
(, Mon 5 Mar 2012, 23:52, Reply)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZ6tEgq_ZYI
(, Mon 5 Mar 2012, 23:53, Reply)
You could say that.
www.somethingawful.com/d/weekend-web/craigslist-ask-tell.php
www.somethingawful.com/d/weekend-web/return-craigslist-queen.php
(, Mon 5 Mar 2012, 21:20, Reply)
Evening benders.

(, Mon 5 Mar 2012, 21:38, Reply)
TD, Jeff's talking to you.

(, Mon 5 Mar 2012, 21:39, Reply)
Evening b3th.
How are you today?
(, Mon 5 Mar 2012, 21:40, Reply)
A bit meh.
Just found out there's another funeral I get to go to next week.
Yay.
(, Mon 5 Mar 2012, 21:42, Reply)
That's not good.

(, Mon 5 Mar 2012, 21:43, Reply)
I'm like Typhoid Mary.

(, Mon 5 Mar 2012, 21:44, Reply)
Any other news?

(, Mon 5 Mar 2012, 21:45, Reply)
No.
I'm going to have to bite the bullet and head to Bristol to chat with agencies.
(, Mon 5 Mar 2012, 21:46, Reply)
You could always phone them.

(, Mon 5 Mar 2012, 21:47, Reply)
That will be the first step
but they'd probably want to see me in person too, wouldn't they?
(, Mon 5 Mar 2012, 21:50, Reply)
Some will, some won't.
A lot of them will just want to meet with clients rather than candidates.

Worth calling them and seeing if you can arrange face to face meetings though, it's always better than a call.
(, Mon 5 Mar 2012, 21:51, Reply)
That's what I figured.
If you have a face to face, they'll remember you when they're putting forward potential candidates.

Also, once they've seen my angelic, trustworthy face, they'd feel bad if they didn't get me a job.
(, Mon 5 Mar 2012, 21:53, Reply)
hahaha
Well let me know when you are coming into Bristol.
(, Mon 5 Mar 2012, 22:01, Reply)
Definitely.
We can totally have a drink and that.
(, Mon 5 Mar 2012, 22:13, Reply)
Innit.

(, Mon 5 Mar 2012, 22:18, Reply)
Why I've never been so insulted in my life
Minces off...
(, Mon 5 Mar 2012, 21:42, Reply)
Still busy TD?

(, Mon 5 Mar 2012, 21:43, Reply)
Yes
Nothing until 13.00 tomorrow though so I can do some drinking tonight.

You?
(, Mon 5 Mar 2012, 21:45, Reply)
Busy still, but it's all good.
I'd much rather be busy than bored.
(, Mon 5 Mar 2012, 21:46, Reply)
Anything on the horizon to replace the current contract?

(, Mon 5 Mar 2012, 21:47, Reply)
Not at the moment, but I'm looking about.
I'm going to try and set up some meetings next week with people.
(, Mon 5 Mar 2012, 21:49, Reply)
Are you tied to Bristol or could you move for the right job?

(, Mon 5 Mar 2012, 21:50, Reply)
Happy to move.

(, Mon 5 Mar 2012, 21:51, Reply)
move like a funky disco machine

(, Mon 5 Mar 2012, 21:57, Reply)
I am a disco machine.

(, Mon 5 Mar 2012, 22:00, Reply)
I've heard that.

(, Mon 5 Mar 2012, 22:13, Reply)
What else have you heard?

(, Mon 5 Mar 2012, 22:13, Reply)
That you're bent and mean.

(, Mon 5 Mar 2012, 22:15, Reply)
Meh.
I'll bet if you make it into Bristol you'll want me to buy you lunch.
(, Mon 5 Mar 2012, 22:17, Reply)
I wouldn't dream of it.

(, Mon 5 Mar 2012, 22:18, Reply)
I expect you to buy the drinks!

(, Mon 5 Mar 2012, 22:20, Reply)
Liquid lunch it is, then.

(, Mon 5 Mar 2012, 22:22, Reply)
woohoo!

(, Mon 5 Mar 2012, 22:25, Reply)
Ho hum
I know that a large employer in this area is after your sort of expertise.

I'll have a look about tomorrow and gaz.
(, Mon 5 Mar 2012, 21:57, Reply)
Friends Life?

(, Mon 5 Mar 2012, 22:00, Reply)
No
Edit - They might be, but not the gang I was thinking of.
(, Mon 5 Mar 2012, 22:01, Reply)
Oooh.
Gaz me!
(, Mon 5 Mar 2012, 22:01, Reply)
Sorry. That sounds a bit Duncan Norvelle.

(, Mon 5 Mar 2012, 22:02, Reply)
Ooh - chase me

(, Mon 5 Mar 2012, 22:06, Reply)
Very true young man.
/is bored
(, Mon 5 Mar 2012, 21:53, Reply)
I thought you figured it didn't matter which arm you wank with?

(, Mon 5 Mar 2012, 21:54, Reply)
True, but it get sore after a few hours

(, Mon 5 Mar 2012, 22:04, Reply)
Hey spacker
how's you?
(, Mon 5 Mar 2012, 21:55, Reply)
Not bad, back home
healing nicely but still very tired so not back to work for at least a week I reckon. :(
(, Mon 5 Mar 2012, 22:05, Reply)
I hope you weren't as whiny a patient as mr b3th is.
He's driving me insane already, and it's only been three days.
(, Mon 5 Mar 2012, 22:14, Reply)
Nope.
I intensly dislike being dependant, makes me a shite aptient but in a different way.
(, Mon 5 Mar 2012, 22:30, Reply)
Evening all

(, Mon 5 Mar 2012, 21:49, Reply)
Tangled!

(, Mon 5 Mar 2012, 21:50, Reply)
Jeff!

(, Mon 5 Mar 2012, 21:50, Reply)
DOGS COCKS!

(, Mon 5 Mar 2012, 21:51, Reply)
NICOLE!

(, Mon 5 Mar 2012, 21:51, Reply)
PAPA! Fuck me up the arse like you did when I was 7.

(, Mon 5 Mar 2012, 21:53, Reply)
Is that why you turned to drugs?

(, Mon 5 Mar 2012, 22:17, Reply)
Drugs just came to me
Like a moth to a flickering lighter beneath a charred spoon.

But I can handle it.
(, Mon 5 Mar 2012, 22:20, Reply)
Just remember drugs are really cool, and are always there for us man, especially if you feel your world is falling apart
or even if your just bored on a Tuesday night
(, Mon 5 Mar 2012, 22:30, Reply)
Rory, you're the Elton John of O/T
Except it's Monday and your punctuation is shite.
(, Mon 5 Mar 2012, 22:34, Reply)
i'm mainlining crack thru my eyeballs at the moment cut me some fucking slack

(, Mon 5 Mar 2012, 22:40, Reply)
TD is northern and is injecting MDMA directly into his mouth.
He calls the process 'E by gum'.
(, Mon 5 Mar 2012, 22:41, Reply)
gawd

(, Mon 5 Mar 2012, 22:44, Reply)
I just wander around the fields scoffing mushrooms.
Some taste nice, some make me fight the Meekon, some make me sick.

I forget which is which.
(, Mon 5 Mar 2012, 22:46, Reply)
Fuck you're so hardcore
Are you - like - sniffing the dragon? From behind?
(, Mon 5 Mar 2012, 22:42, Reply)
I ent seen your mum today so far

(, Mon 5 Mar 2012, 22:43, Reply)
If you do ask her why all the money is going to my brother and not me, eh?

(, Mon 5 Mar 2012, 22:48, Reply)
I'm guessing it's because he's the favourite.

(, Mon 5 Mar 2012, 22:53, Reply)
Are you suggesting that TD
is a disappointment.
(, Mon 5 Mar 2012, 22:53, Reply)
And my sister is getting fuck all
Rancour? Oh yes.
(, Mon 5 Mar 2012, 22:59, Reply)
I'll try to kickstart this thread to life
But I think the plugs are carboned.
(, Mon 5 Mar 2012, 23:11, Reply)
I'm still here.

(, Mon 5 Mar 2012, 23:16, Reply)
here but bugger all to say
life is dull
(, Mon 5 Mar 2012, 23:21, Reply)
Do a wheelie.

(, Mon 5 Mar 2012, 23:22, Reply)
go fuck a dog

(, Mon 5 Mar 2012, 23:24, Reply)
Jump the Great Wall of China.
On yer moped.
(, Mon 5 Mar 2012, 23:29, Reply)
Engines are for poofs.

(, Mon 5 Mar 2012, 23:32, Reply)
Would Red Bull help your injury?
I understand it gives you wings. Wings are a bit like shoulders.
(, Mon 5 Mar 2012, 23:34, Reply)
Sorry, the only people I know in Leeds are either students, or moving away
Tonight I have had 3 rather nice ales, and I'm just letting the fourth warm up a little. It's been a good night.
(, Mon 5 Mar 2012, 23:35, Reply)

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