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Some time this week some one has dragged the white board out of the cellar and stuck it up by the stairs. Yesterday it contained responses to house gossip "I did not go to a gay bar last night... I went go-karting, which is decidedly not gay." and stuff about who is cooking when. I wrote on it "Who moved my cheese?", cz someone has rearranged the fridge and my cheese is nowhere to be found (though they didn't touch my lychees).

Today, it has been wiped off and completely covered as a newspaper front page, with an article written about yesterday's inspection as a parody of UN weapons inspectors. Apparently they had a problem finding keys for my room, but I was IN ALL DAY (though asleep, but I don't think they came in then, hey came later). And there's some stuff about stolen bread that makes no sense. And ham.

Isn't this post-it note twattishness x1000000?

― Graham (graham), Thursday, 20 February 2003 13:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Yes, incredibly so. Did they use different colour pens?

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Thursday, 20 February 2003 13:31 (twenty-two years ago)

No, but the pen is tied on so you can't take it.

― Graham (graham), Thursday, 20 February 2003 13:32 (twenty-two years ago)

Scissors.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Thursday, 20 February 2003 13:34 (twenty-two years ago)

it sounds like something out of de sade

(a bit)

― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 20 February 2003 13:34 (twenty-two years ago)

No, but the pen is tied on so you can't take it.

That is the very definition of twattish.

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 20 February 2003 13:34 (twenty-two years ago)

you should tie everything else in the room to this board and then tie the board to something in another room

― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 20 February 2003 13:37 (twenty-two years ago)

Well, to be fair, there isn't actually a shelf or anything to put the pen on.

― Graham (graham), Thursday, 20 February 2003 13:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Its a white board, it has a pen. Its an ILE thread. Use it as such.

(So far it sounds like your flatmates have been). There is nothing twattish about htis at all. Stop being so judgemental ILE - you shock me with your snobbishness.

― Pete (Pete), Thursday, 20 February 2003 13:42 (twenty-two years ago)

Don't be fair, Graham, be vengeful.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Thursday, 20 February 2003 13:43 (twenty-two years ago)

i like mark s' idea.

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 20 February 2003 13:51 (twenty-two years ago)

yesterdays inspection? what inspection, i dont get it

― gareth (gareth), Thursday, 20 February 2003 13:51 (twenty-two years ago)

I hate it, I mean, really, REALLY fucking hate it when housemates leave notes around like "please stop using my washing up liquid", "can you please wash up my crockery after you use it" and, yes, I think "who moved my cheese" would also send me into a towering rage. If you've got something to say to me, say it to my fucking face. I wouldn't mind, especially about things so unbelievably trivial, and its better than leaving snide little notes and letting things fester.

People that leave notes for housemates deserve everything that comes to them.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 20 February 2003 13:53 (twenty-two years ago)

That sounds quite imaginative and communal to me. But I haven't seen the offending board in question. Far better to use the board for humour than for making comments which should be said face-to-face eg. 'did you nick my cheese?'

― alext (alext), Thursday, 20 February 2003 13:55 (twenty-two years ago)

oh yea, well, everyone knows notes are shit of course.

but what is this inspection thing?

― gareth (gareth), Thursday, 20 February 2003 13:55 (twenty-two years ago)

a recently moved out house mate would leave messges in the fridge "I have eaten yr pizza, sorry, will replace it" and "sorry, drank yr stella, we were gasping, will replace". the signs remain, the food/beer never turned up. the signs have finally gone now that he's moved out. weird. i mean, why bother? why?

― Alan (Alan), Thursday, 20 February 2003 13:56 (twenty-two years ago)

But yes, using the board for fun, silly and humorous stuff like responses to gossip and mock front pages sounds cool. Graham, isn't there just the remotest chance you are inflating all this into something it isn't?

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 20 February 2003 13:58 (twenty-two years ago)

WHen I was a student every door had a piece of paper on for people to leave messages on if you were out. Message board should be for phone messages, actually messages (I'm down pub come join me) and jokes. ANything else should be said face to face.

― Pete (Pete), Thursday, 20 February 2003 14:00 (twenty-two years ago)

"who moved my cheese?" is surely a joke that others did not get?

and not even an ilxor in-joke where they might be forgiven?

― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 20 February 2003 14:01 (twenty-two years ago)

I got it, but part of its joke potential is kinda let down by the fact that
a) Graham's flatmates are students, not go getting management consultants
b) Someone had moved Graham's cheese and would think this is a jobe at them.

― Pete (Pete), Thursday, 20 February 2003 14:04 (twenty-two years ago)

The worse one I ever had was following a small house spat when I got downstairs to find a list of chores attached to the fridge with a magnet. Some had been ticked and initialled. The culprits (a couple) explained these were the chores they had chosen and completed and the rest of us had to do the remaining chores (obv they had done all the good ones like 'finish cake' and had left us the rub ones like 'unblock drains').

Pete only twats had bits of paper on their doors. Anyway nowadays students all have 'mobile telephones' I believe.

― Emma, Thursday, 20 February 2003 14:06 (twenty-two years ago)

yes, they all have 'mobile telephones' with 'bugger all credit'.

My introduction to the world of little notes came with my old landlord, who had two notes in green pen which I think he used to recycle every time the need arose BLEACH IN SINK and RENT DUE. Some friends had a whiteboard which I used to deface - they used it whenever they'd run out of certain items. Once I noticed the board read "Green Sacks Flash" to which I naturally added "Do they?"

― MarkH (MarkH), Thursday, 20 February 2003 14:16 (twenty-two years ago)

Okay, I'm a twat then. And its not as if we did those chores in that house.

As mentioned above there is a world of difference between avoidance message boards, and ones where you leave actual useful/fun/communal messages on the board.

Said message boards should never be on the fridge of course, and if people use it to leave snarky stuff - the board should go in the bin.

― Pete (Pete), Thursday, 20 February 2003 14:31 (twenty-two years ago)

(Pete you didn't even live in the house at that time so of course you didn't do our chores you fule)

― Emma, Thursday, 20 February 2003 14:58 (twenty-two years ago)

i totally don't understand this.

― duane, Thursday, 20 February 2003 15:30 (twenty-two years ago)

write "I rubbed my dick on your cheese"

― Chris V. (Chris V), Thursday, 20 February 2003 15:47 (twenty-two years ago)

I have a completely open-door policy in my house, whenever I'm not in anybody can go in and take anything they like. The catch is, they have to negotiate all the half-full piss bottles

― dave q, Thursday, 20 February 2003 15:54 (twenty-two years ago)

No, but the pen is tied on so you can't take it.

Scissors?

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Thursday, 20 February 2003 15:57 (twenty-two years ago)

At least the notes on your board are silly and funny. WHO MOVED MY CHEESE?!?!? will be up there with, erm, I don't know. Something deeply ILE injokey, I supposed.

The only things on our bulletin board are pictures of dirty dronerock lovehandles taking the piss out of my taste in men, and invites to aaaahhhhrt paaaahhhhrties. Sigh.

― kate, Thursday, 20 February 2003 16:01 (twenty-two years ago)

Well, I don't think it's that twattish, I just thought ILE would, which is why I said that. It's quite amusing actually, and has a column about how people are using too many knives to butter their toast, which is U+K as there are never any clean knives.

Matt DC, the problem with "You should say it to my face" is that when you're living with 4 other people, it's almost never clear who stole your bread or whatever, and going around asking everyone is even more twattish than leaving a note.

― Graham (graham), Thursday, 20 February 2003 16:06 (twenty-two years ago)

There was a notice board of sorts at the old place, but it fell into disuse. Not very exciting.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 20 February 2003 16:07 (twenty-two years ago)

Don't forget the flyer for ken park picturing someone with their head between someone else's legs.

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 20 February 2003 16:09 (twenty-two years ago)

no, that's too many!! put one back!!

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― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 20 February 2003 16:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Who is this mystery cheese prankster

― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 20 February 2003 16:16 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.storybookfigurines.com/samuelwhiskers.jpg

― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 20 February 2003 16:19 (twenty-two years ago)

I much prefer techno notice boards (although I do think there's overlap).

(Yes, that was possibly the worst joke in the world.)

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 20 February 2003 16:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Don't worry Dan I looked at the thread title and a part of me wished that interpretation was true.

― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 20 February 2003 16:22 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh, inspections, yes. The house is let out by the university and we got a letter saying it's inspection time. I didn't see much of what they were inspecting, but a they said about my room was that it could do with a lick of paint, and asked if I was happy with the supplied furniture. I thought they'd be instecting us.

― Graham (graham), Thursday, 20 February 2003 16:25 (twenty-two years ago)

COnsidering what happened just before the Ken Park premiere, I'd say that was the most ROLLICKING of all aaaahhhhrt paaaahhhrties EVAH!!!

It's all fun and games until someone loses a nose...

― KATE, Thursday, 20 February 2003 16:27 (twenty-two years ago)

the thing is, if its a few slices of bread or a bit of cheese, you just have to let it go. i wouldnt ask who stole it, i wouldnt post a note. i'd hope the person said "oh by the way, i borrowed a bit of your bread" but if not, well, i'll live

― gareth (gareth), Thursday, 20 February 2003 16:32 (twenty-two years ago)

The thing is Graham that waiting until all four people are together and then casually saying "oh, by the way, did any of you use my cheese over the last couple of days?" and then when they reply, saying "is there any chance you could replace it", in a polite and non-confrontational way is fine, but leaving notes about it is only going to annoy people and breed resentment, however well-intentioned.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 20 February 2003 16:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Perhaps that magician required it for his stunt

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 20 February 2003 16:43 (twenty-two years ago)

http://groups.msn.com/_Secure/0TgAAAJsYf9pRwHvLqqhZSyFSil8PujnPCD08ExsKNCHEHJwVWkYac8UrWVcjlYtY0YPw7ZsjzxAolCxF9ud4elmSlYYtFX14u3kjs7kVFA!OENdWkEKHBQ/swc009.jpg

― Simeon (Simeon), Thursday, 20 February 2003 16:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Okay, I'm a twat then.

....and so am I. I always had one on my door. As I remember, Pete, your bits of paper were majestic - and it certainly beats writing things in blood (I hope you remember the incident to which I refer.... ;o) ) Oh, and they were brilliant for venting my rage upon when I'd come all the way into town from the Florey building only to find that you weren't in.

Besides, Emma's just being catty 'cause she HAD NO FRIENDS.

― SittingPretty (sittingpretty), Thursday, 20 February 2003 16:48 (twenty-two years ago)

*ducks*

― SittingPretty (sittingpretty), Thursday, 20 February 2003 16:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Sigh. The only people twattier than those with bits of paper stuck to their doors in the desperate hope that someone might communicate with them were those who wrote twattish remarks on random bits of paper belonging to people they didn't know just for the lark of it.

― Emma, Thursday, 20 February 2003 16:54 (twenty-two years ago)

I like having a blackboard in the kitchen, but only so I can write random things on it and draw pictures of boats. There's very rarely anything important to write anyway. Also, it provides at least 2 minutes entertainment at parties. I used to live with a neurotic lesbian who installed a handy white board in our hall. Myself and another flatmate would insist on corrupting anything she wrote up there, because her tone was so irritating.She did not like this. When she left a postit note behind the sink reading 'please try not to get this area wet' we realised it was probabaly time to move on.

― alix (alix), Thursday, 20 February 2003 17:07 (twenty-two years ago)

Message boards are great. Sophomore year I turned my message board into a comic strip called Guignir The Fangéd Brassiere Of Doom.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 20 February 2003 17:09 (twenty-two years ago)

You took photos of this, I hope.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 20 February 2003 17:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Sadly no. I don't even know if I could recreate the drawing now. (There was a side strip called Wacky French Acorn Head Man.)

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 20 February 2003 17:12 (twenty-two years ago)

*weeps for the lost art of the past*

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 20 February 2003 17:14 (twenty-two years ago)

(Ha ha little did he realise I was actually in but pretending not to be in when he left those messages).

I had completely forgotten the blood incident, and now it has been brought back to full visceral memory and makes me very, very scared.

― Pete (Pete), Thursday, 20 February 2003 17:15 (twenty-two years ago)

simeon thank you: for some reason i can only evah find ceramic figurines when i google beatrix potter characters

― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 20 February 2003 17:25 (twenty-two years ago)

I find something sad and Julius Knipl-ish about Ned's memory of his old messageboard.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 20 February 2003 17:26 (twenty-two years ago)

There was nothing sad about it! It was just there! But now that I know how to create accidental melancholy in others, my goal to be the new inadvertant Morrissey is clear.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 20 February 2003 17:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Graham, this strikes me as a great opportunity for someone who is a bit shy and quiet in person, but is clever and funny. Use that board to become popular in the house! You can so do that, and it will bring untold and broad short and long term benefits! This is a good thing!

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Thursday, 20 February 2003 20:34 (twenty-two years ago)

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