free houses
the bedshitter used to wind me up. despite earning about £150k a year, nothing could be thrown away. food would be eaten weeks past its sellby date; other people's leftover dregs would be hooned off in the pub; he would never ever get a taxi anywhere.

but by far the most annoying thing about this was his catchphrase: "i'm not tight. i'm just careful." no, no. you are a twat. tight or great big flapping douchebag, doesn't matter really.

also once had a multi millionaire landlord when i was a letting agent. he was a total and utter cock. leaning against my battered company fiesta, he once sighed "you know, rswipe, i'll never be a billionaire." my heart bled for him. it really did. almost as much as his would have done if i could have stabbed him as i would have enjoyed doing.

he bought furniture for his houses that was so pikey it made a grown man, a russian lecturer at the university of manchester, weep with rage and despair when he saw it. "why he do this to me?" he kept crooning down the phone.

then, to top it all off, he was the king of adverse possession (aka squatters' rights). he would drive around looking for empty houses, change the locks, put his name on the postbox, wait 12 years like a big fat bald basking lurking shark, then...... bang. new house to let! thank god they changed that law when they did.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Fri 24 Oct 2008, 10:22, 12 replies)

funnily
enough, my neighbour has just rented his mums house to a russian lecturer at the uni. Wonder if its the same guy. Meh.

(his mums dead and all, he's not being a total bastard!)
( I have run out of coke is a little sweaty, Fri 24 Oct 2008, 10:32, closed)

this was about 1998
but it's possible!

fuck i'm old.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Fri 24 Oct 2008, 10:46, closed)

Well, if my Uni is anything to go by (Exeter)
Russian lecturers aren't exactly rare. Three that I know of in the physics department alone, plus a Bulgarian and a Croatian.
(julius, Fri 24 Oct 2008, 11:40, closed)

I fucking hate exeter uni students
they are the bane of my life
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 24 Oct 2008, 14:25, closed)

Change in Law
Did they change the adverse possession laws? When? What is it now? Why did no one tell me?
(Rammer, Fri 24 Oct 2008, 10:32, closed)

lots of changes!
much harder to succeed now, as the legal owner gets notice and therefore an opportunity to object.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Fri 24 Oct 2008, 10:46, closed)

shit
I've been telling people to sit tight for 12 years. Should really keep up with the CPD
(Rammer, Fri 24 Oct 2008, 11:42, closed)

if they started
the 12 years before the change, they might be ok under the transition rules. otherwise it's 10 years, then notice.

check the land registry website, the guide is very useful!
( rachelswipe with a fork, Fri 24 Oct 2008, 12:06, closed)

Cause and effect
Just a thought - perhaps the shitty one's inability to control his bowels had something to do with regularly eating food that had gone a bit whiffy?
(cheez is feeling ergophobic, Fri 24 Oct 2008, 10:45, closed)

I love readin your answers!
I'm stifling laughter reading through some of your... ahem, shall we say fecal experiences! You've had far too many!
( SauronWibble I'll hold it, you lick it..., Fri 24 Oct 2008, 10:48, closed)

not all of them
were me, i hasten to add!

just the one bedshitting episode and the one incontinent puppy. that's enough for one lifetime...
( rachelswipe with a fork, Fri 24 Oct 2008, 11:17, closed)

I had forgotten that gem
"I'm not tight, I'm careful" and the other one when you are talking about spending money "Careful now".
(lympicita_ie, Sat 25 Oct 2008, 2:01, closed)