I've heard of roaches being INSIDE THE MICROWAVE DISPLAY WINDOW...
Similar thing happened in this really cool but really gone-to-shit former hotel/apartment I lived in for a bit. In bed watching the Fox late night lineup on the tube and see movement to my left. Take a glance at my radio alarm clock and crawling on the inside of the display window was this two-inch long, hundred-legged prehistoric looking motherfucker of an insect. Really gave me the heebie jeebies. That place had a huge bug problem. I can't see how I tolerated it, looking back. Kept one of those pistols that shoots suction cupped missiles by the bed for shooting roaches on the wall across the room.
― andrew m., Friday, 9 March 2012 03:20 (twelve years ago) link
this is surely not a thread in which we own furniture
― desperado, rough rider (thomp), Thursday, March 8, 2012 7:39 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Most apts I encountered in England came furnished which would explain Thomp's flat with bed. That is not the case in the US. Nearly all apartments here are unfurnished.
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Friday, 9 March 2012 03:32 (twelve years ago) link
I would love a bed that wasn't on the floor.
― tanuki, Friday, 9 March 2012 03:38 (twelve years ago) link
xp: You have to use the same furniture as the last tenant?
― beachville, Friday, 9 March 2012 09:45 (twelve years ago) link
yes
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Friday, 9 March 2012 12:14 (twelve years ago) link
Both flats we lived in were furnished and that seemed to be the norm when we were looking. It is just basic stuff. Each place we rented came with a bed, couches, end tables, and a small table and chairs set. I don't know if that's what it's like throughout England but it seemed true of London at least.
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Friday, 9 March 2012 12:17 (twelve years ago) link
london, you are dirtbag like a motherfucker.
― beachville, Friday, 9 March 2012 12:50 (twelve years ago) link
in my first apt i had a filthy futon mattress on the floor. the place being a dank shithole the thing rotted from the bottom. so in my 2nd apt for like 5 months i slept on a blanket on the hardwood floor. then i found a mattress on the street and brought it home.
― adam, Friday, 9 March 2012 15:26 (twelve years ago) link
this prob doesn't count but:
went to sleep with a breathe-right strip on my nose, woke up with it stuck to my palm
― ⚓ (gr8080), Friday, 16 March 2012 20:19 (twelve years ago) link
ha no that doesn't count
what would count:
went to sleep with a breathe-right strip on my nose last month, woke up with it stuck to my palm today
― thuggish ruggish Brahms (DJP), Friday, 16 March 2012 20:21 (twelve years ago) link
haha yeah
― ⚓ (gr8080), Friday, 16 March 2012 20:25 (twelve years ago) link
getting out of bed with change stuck to your butt or back is a classic.
― free societies must let drunken gay Texans have sex (Je55e), Friday, 16 March 2012 20:53 (twelve years ago) link
i took a shower at a friend's house once and there were all these rusty/green pennies in the bathtub-- i asked him what that was all about and he said they stick to him when he falls asleep on his sofa and he doesn't realize it till they fall off in the shower and then he just leaves them there.
dude is a dirt bag hero.
― ⚓ (gr8080), Friday, 16 March 2012 21:10 (twelve years ago) link
extra gross bc pennies indicate infrequency of cleaning shower
― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Friday, 16 March 2012 22:06 (twelve years ago) link
bingo.
― ⚓ (gr8080), Friday, 16 March 2012 22:06 (twelve years ago) link
i have no idea why unfurnished rental places would be the norm, that would be insane. i am assuming there is a decent sector of this stuff in places with migrant worker or student populations?
aaaaanyway since this thread was last revived a mouse has moved into the coil behind our fridge.
― thomp, Friday, 16 March 2012 22:09 (twelve years ago) link
unfurnished rentals are the norm in most cities in the US, but not in Honolulu
― ⚓ (gr8080), Friday, 16 March 2012 22:11 (twelve years ago) link
xp: in america, poor students largely just buy shitty furniture or scavenge it from alleys.
― lag∞na beach: the real ∞range c∞unty (beachville), Friday, 16 March 2012 22:41 (twelve years ago) link
what happens to all that furniture when the tenant moves out? damn
― flagp∞st (dayo), Friday, 16 March 2012 22:44 (twelve years ago) link
All of which furniture?
I had no idea that furnished apartments were available besides at residence hotel type places, much less a common thing somewhere! The few times I see an ad for a furnished apartment I feel very suspicious, like is the furniture haunted? Embedded with spy cams?
― free societies must let drunken gay Texans have sex (Je55e), Friday, 16 March 2012 23:54 (twelve years ago) link
i have a story about a milkshake machine and roaches but i think it is more suited to the food service horror stories thread than this one
― humba (NZA), Saturday, 17 March 2012 02:53 (twelve years ago) link
i will say that it climaxes in a volcanic eruption of cockroach chunks
― humba (NZA), Saturday, 17 March 2012 02:54 (twelve years ago) link
what do landlords do when someone moves out and leaves furniture behind? xxp
― flagp∞st (dayo), Saturday, 17 March 2012 23:01 (twelve years ago) link
I kind of dig getting rice grains stuck in my sinuses, it feels good to snort them out and eat them
― flagp∞st (dayo), Saturday, 17 March 2012 23:02 (twelve years ago) link
wrong thread, broseph
― ⚓ (gr8080), Saturday, 17 March 2012 23:12 (twelve years ago) link
You're not allowed to leave furniture behind. W/ my current property mgmt. company, if you do, you are charged a $200 clean-up fee (this company does do security deposits; companies that do would retain part of your deposit). In the past when I rented from individual slumlandlords who owned only a building or two, you could ask them if it was OK to leave furniture behind and they would probably say OK unless it was gross.
― free societies must let drunken gay Texans have sex (Je55e), Sunday, 18 March 2012 03:00 (twelve years ago) link
when I say "hmm, maybe I should organize my fridge"https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn1/s320x320/529969_10100603735511160_16907950_49682394_634334339_n.jpg
nah.
― mh, Tuesday, 10 April 2012 15:56 (twelve years ago) link
too many healthy groceries to be dirt bag style
― ♆ (gr8080), Tuesday, 10 April 2012 17:19 (twelve years ago) link
ya if that's a dirtbag fridge...
― A Little Princess btw (s1ocki), Tuesday, 10 April 2012 17:20 (twelve years ago) link
was expecting a minority report fridge tbh
― swaghand (dayo), Tuesday, 10 April 2012 17:21 (twelve years ago) link
dirt bag fridge would be like, 4 bottles of various condiments and something unidentifiable in a plastic container that has been in there for like 6 months
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 10 April 2012 17:24 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVSPhWr_MJI
― swaghand (dayo), Tuesday, 10 April 2012 17:25 (twelve years ago) link
current contents of my fridge:
― ♆ (gr8080), Tuesday, 10 April 2012 17:26 (twelve years ago) link
would buy a can of 4 loko from you
― swaghand (dayo), Tuesday, 10 April 2012 17:28 (twelve years ago) link
Here's my guess on mh situation. Day 1, early: You started off strong. Hit the store, loaded up on healthy shit. Man I'm gonna eat so good this week. Gonna save $$ on lunch and not eatin' out too. Day 1, late night: Pizza. Save two slices. That can be lunch tomorrow.
― andrew m., Tuesday, 10 April 2012 17:29 (twelve years ago) link
I have about rolls of film and a box of baking soda in my fridge too. lol
― swaghand (dayo), Tuesday, 10 April 2012 17:29 (twelve years ago) link
yeah there's actually two containers of bok choi and one is turning yellow
― mh, Tuesday, 10 April 2012 17:31 (twelve years ago) link
― andrew m., Tuesday, April 10, 2012 12:29 PM (32 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
oh god this is a little too close to home
― catbus otm (gbx), Tuesday, 10 April 2012 18:02 (twelve years ago) link
nah it was more like "this is two weeks of random fresh food shopping" coupled with a bunch of stuff that's not going to spoil fast like yogurt and fruit cups and ingredients I'm going to make kimchi with this week
then there's the random detritus on the top shelf like some scallions where I used the green end and a container of blood orange juice that I extracted because the oranges were going bad
― mh, Tuesday, 10 April 2012 18:04 (twelve years ago) link
btw my new iron has a rubber stopper that plugs up the water reservoir when not in use
― ♆ (gr8080), Tuesday, 10 April 2012 18:06 (twelve years ago) link
I don't know if you can even still post in this thread anymore, jeez
― swaghand (dayo), Tuesday, 10 April 2012 18:10 (twelve years ago) link
it was still the 2nd cheapest iron for sale at walmart so
― ♆ (gr8080), Tuesday, 10 April 2012 18:16 (twelve years ago) link
lol u own an iron
― catbus otm (gbx), Tuesday, 10 April 2012 18:26 (twelve years ago) link
tbf he never said he was going to wash the shirts before ironing
fill the water reservoir with half febreeze
― mh, Tuesday, 10 April 2012 18:39 (twelve years ago) link
dirtbag style: a dried puddle of meat juices underneath the crisper
― i think this is serious (elmo argonaut), Tuesday, 10 April 2012 18:41 (twelve years ago) link
yeah I do not know what that dried puddle is but I am pretty sure it's vegetation-related, like perhaps the drippings from a bag of decayed cilantro
― mh, Tuesday, 10 April 2012 19:00 (twelve years ago) link
About a month ago I washed moldy tupperware with shampoo and hand soap because that was I had.
― EDB, Tuesday, 10 April 2012 21:07 (twelve years ago) link
I feel like I've def showered with dish detergent before
― swaghand (dayo), Tuesday, 10 April 2012 21:11 (twelve years ago) link
xmas paper sticking out the top of the makeshift "bin" in my room (plastic bag from the booze shop sitting inside a bucket).
― zverotic discourse (jim in glasgow), Tuesday, 10 April 2012 21:12 (twelve years ago) link
teacup containing remnants of a glass i broke last year on my bedside table.