The Just Thought I'd Share Thread

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Thanks, Marissa and Dani!

Originally Posted by louielouie2000

I had a drama queen flat mate in college who would slam and lock his door to his room and B-L-A-R-E Everybody Hurts every single time he had something remotely unpleasant happen to him. I have not been able to stand REM ever since.

Hilarious. I'm sure it was crazy annoying at the time, but the story is golden.

Originally Posted by markolas

I've had a couple of cuckoo roommates myself. One much more so than the other - I don't even know where to start w/ that one. I'll just say that I strongly suspect bipolar disorder and leave it at that.

The other one slept w/ his ex-bf's ex to get back at ex-bf (even tho he swore up & down that wasn't the reason...please). But that was nothing compared to the antics of the bipolar one. He was really crazy. Bat****.

There's really not much scarier than living with someone that unstable, right?
I spent last summer living with 4 high school friends, and one of them had developed serious mental problems since we graduated. I strongly suspect she was either a pathological liar or had a delusion disorder--she told so many bizarre lies that by the end of summer, we didn't trust even simple statements. Literally, if she announced, "it's raining outside," we would have to check for ourselves.

Originally Posted by daniellaaarisen

I won't get into that in too much detail on here because I don't want to piss anyone off but basically, she was saying that Playboy is the worst thing to ever happen and it's the nastiest porn ever and that Bush was behind 9/11, we've actually captured bin Laden and didn't tell anyone and we're the worst country ever for trying to establish democratic values in Afghanistan.

I'm not black or white on either issue but the fact that she's so extreme about things she knows so little about pisses me off....

Ugh, it drives me insane when people are that convinced they're right--especially when they know nothing about a topic.

And the Playboy thing reminded me of an argument with another roommate. This one I still adore, but she can be very rigid and overly demanding of people. She recently told me that she could never date a guy who looks at porn. No Playboy, no internet porn, not even occasionally. Like, do these men exist? And aren't there worse things in the world? But she was adamant that she would dump a guy if she didn't like his browser history. We spent literally five hours arguing about this.