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Friends and roommates: great(?) companions
Polago
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Tonight I spent some time chatting with a friend in Calgary (new roommate in two months). Many of his friends that he's had through his life have lasted for only about three years before he moved to a new area, changed schools or otherwise. To contrast, my current roommate and I have been good friends for about 21 years while a friend back home in Edmonton has been a really great friend for the same length of time. The dude from Calgary has been a friend despite distance for almost a decade despite other circumstances so it's a consistent trend.
What kind of friends does everyone on here spend time with? What kind of roommates (and roommate stories) have you had? Any specific kind of person who gets along with you better than others?
Share tales of good friends and (good?) roommates.
What kind of friends does everyone on here spend time with? What kind of roommates (and roommate stories) have you had? Any specific kind of person who gets along with you better than others?
Share tales of good friends and (good?) roommates.
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And the best part about living in the middle of nowhere?
For my 19th birthday, my roommates deflated and stole a giant inflatable Darth Vader from the top of Burger King, and gave him his new dwelling: our roof.
My friend best female friend is the closest thing I have to a better half even though we'll never ever date. We're both incredibly protective of one another, and we tell each other everything. I'm trying to convince her to come to Portland with me because we would be fantastic roommates.
She has a 58% chance of survival
and I hate him because man he stole that idea from me
but i also love him because man now I don't have to
Oh man do you have pictures of that? That's awesome.
My roomates are standup guys. I met them god, almost five years ago at the beginning of college.
No, I really wish I did. I'm one of the few people left in the world who doesn't own a digital cam.
It was so cool, it looked like Darth Vader was peeking out of our rooftop, red lightsaber in hand.
EDIT:
It was like that, only, you know, on a residential roof and not a Burger King.
You will soon find out the difference between roommates and mates.
Satans..... hints.....
like filling someones car with live lobsters
and haggling with a fucking 7-11 clerk to buy a slurpee machine, and winning.
Are you sure you aren't living in a buddy comedy movie?
It's all fun times and hijinks.
They cast a shadow like a sundial in the morning light. It was half past 10.
pretty sure?
how does one check
This explains most of my childhood, up till about high school. Then we kinda started to tone it down.
The last funny thing we did involves fifteen pounds of bananas and nearly getting the shit beat out of us.
You're gonna be so happy all the time.
What's the rent
Have you ever had to do a report on history but ended up traveling through time and getting the actual famous historical figures to speak for your report, like Freud, Genghis Khan, and Abraham Lincoln?
Not "bloo bloo" type stuff, that's what forums are for, I just mean I am a ceaseless tide of (bad) wit and (bad) sarcasm at times, so having Serious McSeriousface near me doesn't usually turn out so well.
This came from my high school, where it was constant energy packed craziness, as opposed to my current school, which is very relaxed. So I've had to adjust alot. Recently I have made some very good friends, as I tend to direct my "creativity" a touch better.
I have friends all over the shop, drug addicted emos, nerds who have never touched alcohol, nerds who touch way more alcohol than they should, yadda yadda yadda
we were having a huge cookout type thing and someone brought over a bunch of lobsters so we boiled them, and had one left over
we drove over to a dudes house who bailed on the cookout because he couldn't stand up to his needy ass girlfriend and put it in his front seat.
After looking at it for a bit the hive mind declared a single lobster was insubstantial
quick trip to the ATM later we broke into groups to buy out three grocery stores worth of live lobsters
Huh. it's only been that long?
I call them and they say they'll be over in an hour. Four hours later, they show up.
What did you do with them afterwards?
They cast a shadow like a sundial in the morning light. It was half past 10.
I go through cycles though. It seems I only keep friends for a few years. My grade school, middle school, and high school friends were all different. I hope I can hang on to my college friends.
a few years ago I declared an open door policy for several of my closer friends, mostly out of laziness on my part so I wouldn't have to get up to let them in/greet them all the time.
There are obvious drawbacks to this
Like giving someone a full treasue chest
Full of 5c peices
Then another guy got a treasure chest full of condoms.
Then I got a cheeseburger with a red ribbon around it for my birthday and it was my favourite gift ever
we had another cookout, then I sold the rest to the restaurant I work
I live at home.
Good call.
So Portland eh?
They cast a shadow like a sundial in the morning light. It was half past 10.
That's the plan, barring any unforseen circumstances
Well, if I didn't live at home and if my parents weren't bitchy about knowing when my friends will be over.
I'm clean and quiet. And I cook.
Sweet. I'm thinking of moving to somewhere around there maybe in a few years when I have school done, and when and if your country doesn't suck so thoroughly in the eyes of the world.
They cast a shadow like a sundial in the morning light. It was half past 10.