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Show Off Your Place: The New Apartment Thread for Nosy People (NSF56K)
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I am just starting to apartment hunt in Memphis and it's kind of frustrating. I don't want to live in east Memphis because that's all family homes and downtown is for people who make way more money than me + far from work.
So I'm looking at the midtown area, but for every place that I think is in an Artsy Fartsy area, someone else claims it's a Bad Part of Town. I don't even know, I've lived out in the burbs my whole life. I just want a 1 bedroom with a small kitchen and hardwood floors that's not falling apart. Bah.
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home design is like a fetish for me at this point
It won't be long before I explode and just start yelling at everyone.
yell. Let them know your beef and things will change. For the better, or the worse, but at least they'll change.
the guy is his responsibility. Say "hey, you know your friend who's staying in our house rent free? How about he starts chipping in some rent money? If you want to give him charity, he can sleep in your room, or you can pay some extra for him."
well maybe if your friend hadn't been living on our sofa for the past 3 months i'd be less angry about things
living here for 3 months, giving us no money and just sitting around playing starcraft 2 all day
you asked me if it was ok if he stayed here for a bit and I said sure that's fine, help a guy out for a week or two
nopenopenopenopenopenopenope, he's now a permanent fixture on our fucking sofa and I'm back to where I always am with living arrangements, I hate it, I can't stand the thought of coming home.
I gave them a nice solution, I move out and he can have my room and pay them rent. Easiest for everyone because they're so reluctant to kick him out.
"yeh Dave I really don't want you to move out, he'll be gone soon enough"
nope, I'm gone.
you owe absolutely nothing to the dude on the couch. Tell him to pay rent or fuck off or both.
"go see the doctor on the 29th and hopefully go somewhere"
He's a horrible fucking leech. It doesn't seem to bother him that he's a waste of fucking space an has been leeching off his friends for 3 months.
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The trick is get them to provide the date at which he needs to be gone and don't let them weasel out of setting a hard date for him to be gone.
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(My friends and I practiced saying nice things about each other on New Year's Eve and I am still trying to stick to my resolution to be a nicer person.)
"Sandra's favourite movie is escape from new York because she cries when magpie and brain die because they will never be together." HAIL SATAN
@That Dave Fella, man, that sucks, and what a jerk your housemate is! I'd probably be looking to move myself in your shoes. Yup, leave them with the rent. Good luck finding a place!
Fortunately our neighbours in the last apartment were naturally quiet anyway (WE were the loud ones - oops!) and this apartment seems pretty sound-proof so far! The other day I went outside and realised the people below us were watching TV VERY loudly (you could hear them from the street) - but we hadn't heard a thing inside our apartment!
This apartment also has great heating/air con - that and the sound-proofing are making me feel confident for the baby's arrival (I don't want to be the annoying neighbour with the crying baby).
I'm always so self-conscious about me being too loud, though
that's lucky! I wish this building's contractors had put a little more thought into soundproofing.
I only mind the bass really, and the sex noises when they wake me up. I am petrified of being loud, to the point if i hit a dish against the sink while washing dishes or drop something in the shower I feel really guilty. sometimes I wonder if my neighbors can hear each other through my apartment, and they both think I'm the loud one.
We can hear the guy next door snoring, but it's not loud enough to keep us awake. It's just amazing how deep and rumbling it is!
oh and @Janson just saw your bump picture in the parenting thread! you look great!
but my last apartment was right in the middle of town, by the bars, so there'd be drunk people screaming outside at all hours of the night
and police lights shining through the windows as they rounded up drunk folks
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Oh yeah there's a point where I do mind the noise, like when new tenants moved in next to/above me and were hammering shit at 1:30am. But for the most part I didn't mind it where I lived (although that could've been because the windows didn't block noise so I'd hear traffic and cars playing music all the time)
I was on the second floor and I'd always walk around softly and felt bad if I tripped or dropped something. Although one day the guy from the apartment below me stopped me and said "Me and my mom love you living there. We never hear anything. The people there before you were so noisy."
The only the worse is when my neighbour is having a particularly athletic session and I can hear him jerking it through the walls
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This is one of the deciding factors on why an apartment is way down on my list of desirable places. I love my music, and I love it loud. That, and having an area to garden. There will always be houseplants, and indoor lighting, but I need a balcony or something.
E: Tef ... that's ... ugh
My ex-roommate, now friend, was so blatantly obvious. His room would always be open, him just playing Fallout, and then he'd shut the door, turn up the music, and then 15 minutes later he'd turn the music back down and open the door.
I was so tempted to make a comment about it. So tempted.
I can't do that, I've left porn in the VRC!
Satans..... hints..... I'm a mo bro!
Jerk it louder. Establish dominance.
"If you don't know who Kendra is, I'm officially not speaking to you."
I did clap sarcastically when he finished one time
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Bravo
I get bored unpacking once I stop finding reasonable places to put things.
So my living room -- which is pretty huge -- has a "Find something to do with this shit" land in it, filled with tons of DVDs, books, and like 6 full moving boxes.
Blerg.
Oh well, babies don't need closet space anyway!
I really need to clean my apartment :<
Ha ha, That's exactly the same as my Living room, and I moved in on the first of September.
It's that special situation where you realize you've got too much shit and still fail to throw any of it away.