Have you ever lived with a woman?

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What's it like?

― Antmusic78 (Antmusic78), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 15:33 (twenty-one years ago)

womannish

― The Huckle-Buck (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 15:34 (twenty-one years ago)

They be shopping, moisturizing, and yelling at you for leaving the toilet seat up.

― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 15:34 (twenty-one years ago)

maxipads all over the place. horrible.

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 15:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Also, the End of Mystery

― The Huckle-Buck (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 15:35 (twenty-one years ago)

underwear on the radiator!

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 15:35 (twenty-one years ago)

They talk on the phone even when they aren't ordering pizza and no one has died!

― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 15:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Cotton balls between their toes. Every night. It's some kind of cult thing.

― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 15:36 (twenty-one years ago)

I've lived with... let me count... 8 women, and I'm living with one right now. It's been nice. I haven't dated any of them, though.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 15:36 (twenty-one years ago)

They pee sitting down!

― The Huckle-Buck (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 15:36 (twenty-one years ago)

they tend to buy a lot of vegetables. which is nice. and they keep telling you to use less olive oil in your cooking. which is ridiculous.

― Jay Kid (Jay K), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 15:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Why limit yourself to just one? Go Three's Company!

― ...in bed. (Chris Piuma), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 15:37 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.eurus.dti.ne.jp/~domenica/webph/8%20WOMEN%20(BQ)_2457.jpg

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 15:38 (twenty-one years ago)

and they break all your pictures.

― The Huckle-Buck (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 15:39 (twenty-one years ago)

also, they smell nice.

― Jay Kid (Jay K), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 15:39 (twenty-one years ago)

oh well. it wasn't that funny anyway.

Yeah, I live with a woman now. It's a bit like having a hamster.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 15:39 (twenty-one years ago)

I find having a female flatmate easier, since I generally have more in common with girls than guys. One of my flatmates actually was so absent-minded, though, that she often left her used pads lying around. I had to dispose of them myself.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 15:40 (twenty-one years ago)

always on the phone = OTM.

Plus, they always have ideas about doing stuff, which is nice. Like going to the pool or somesuch. I'd otherwise fester in the apt.

― Aaron A., Wednesday, 7 April 2004 15:43 (twenty-one years ago)

They're great for when you can't think of good things to talk about during the Superbowl, and help you decide whether or not you really are going to go out dressed like that!

― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 15:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, I really had no idea that certain colors don't go with other colors until quite recently!

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 15:45 (twenty-one years ago)

It's like having a gay friend you can have sex with!

― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 15:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Did you fondle each other often, Tuomas?

I live with my girlfriend now. It's pretty nice...she comes with cats and doesn't mind if I play video games all evening. We pretty much fester in the apartment though.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 15:46 (twenty-one years ago)

It's like having a gay friend you can have sex with!

Are your gay friends picky?

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 15:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, but mutual festering = classic, even when justified by attendant poverty.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 15:47 (twenty-one years ago)

they read like Martin Skidmore

― Aaron A., Wednesday, 7 April 2004 15:48 (twenty-one years ago)

tep was actually righter in his first post than anyone will give him credit for

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 15:48 (twenty-one years ago)

my gf hates talking on the phone and tolerates guitar noise at all hours. i should clone her.

buy a new set of towels for the bathroom randomly if you want to confuse them

― kephm, Wednesday, 7 April 2004 15:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Tep waaaaay off the money.

― ...in bed. (Chris Piuma), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 15:48 (twenty-one years ago)

All of my posts are from Richard Jeni bits, though! (I don't know if that's in response to being on or off the money.)

― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 15:50 (twenty-one years ago)

the worst live-in relationship i ever had was nothing BUT shopping, health and beauty products, and being admonished for leaving the toilet seat up

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 15:52 (twenty-one years ago)

She only goes shopping for dvds and comic books, and I have my own bathroom where I can leave the toilet in any state I choose. There is a lot of moisturizing though.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 15:53 (twenty-one years ago)

the BEST live in relationship i ever had was nothing but being poor, hairy legs, and peeing in the shower

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 15:54 (twenty-one years ago)

I live with a woman right now. She however does not be shopping.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 15:55 (twenty-one years ago)

the worst live-in relationship i ever had was nothing BUT shopping, health and beauty products, and being admonished for leaving the toilet seat up

Uhhh. This sounds a lot like me, sadly enough.

― Mandee, Wednesday, 7 April 2004 15:56 (twenty-one years ago)

the BEST live in relationship i ever had was nothing but being poor, hairy legs, and peeing in the shower

Amen to that. I just can't believe Jordan has his own bathroom.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 15:56 (twenty-one years ago)

I live with two. They are smaller than us. Sometimes they clean, though. And buy flowers!

― Ally C (Ally C), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 15:56 (twenty-one years ago)

i'd like to point out that my best live-in relationship as described above was with a woman and not just by myself

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 15:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Two bedroom, two bathroom apartment. If it was one of each, I'm sure there would have been exponentially more fighting by now.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 15:58 (twenty-one years ago)

they don't like living in the ghetto

― kephm, Wednesday, 7 April 2004 15:59 (twenty-one years ago)

it's kinda weird how our menstrual cycles became aligned

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 15:59 (twenty-one years ago)

kephm OTM

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 16:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Okay what is so wrong with shopping and health and beauty products? TELL ME.

― Mandee, Wednesday, 7 April 2004 16:01 (twenty-one years ago)

My last roomy (also a gurl) was very moody and weird and had odd taste. I would come home approx. 2 am twice a week to find her up late watching Vanilly Sky (in tears) AGAIN.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 16:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Living with a woman isn't even nearly the same thing as living with a woman you're boning which isn't even remotely similar to living with a woman your previous boning has put a baby in. It's amazing how quickly "I'm going to the store, you need anything?" becomes "I NEEDS ME SOME WATERCHESTNUTS AND RITZ CRACKERS NOW YOU FUCK!".

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 16:04 (twenty-one years ago)

they are programmed to set up curtains and shower shelves 5 seconds after moving in even if it involves 5 trips to target

― kephm, Wednesday, 7 April 2004 16:04 (twenty-one years ago)

my only female roommate dated a pro golfer and did mounds of blow. She was rarely home and for that, I loved her.

Then she settled down and her new bf moved in (without notifying me).

my next roommate will be a wife.

Mine or someone else's. whatever.

― Will (will), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 16:07 (twenty-one years ago)

i am programmed to leave unpacked boxes everywhere and keep the previous tenant's blinds, no matter how filthy.

― lauren (laurenp), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 16:08 (twenty-one years ago)

my current female roommate is really starting to cheese me off.

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 16:09 (twenty-one years ago)

I've lived with my wife for 6 years before we got married. Never any problems.

― Chris 'The Velvet Bingo' V (Chris V), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 16:12 (twenty-one years ago)

alternatively: living with a man is giving up order.

walks into room which has obv been bombed. can't find anything.

"chaos is fun!"

"ARGH!!!!"

― jesus nathalie (nathalie), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 16:17 (twenty-one years ago)

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I loved living with a woman, but then again she was my best friend. We lived together for 4 years & it was a blast. i think we only had 2 proper arguments in all that time. It's so true that you don't really know someone until you live with them. She always knows when there is something wrong with me, no matter what I say. So in clonclusion, living with a woman rocks totally!!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 8 April 2004 07:53 (twenty-one years ago)

i have scientific proof that moisturiser is for fools (and ladies)

― Jaunty Alan (Alan), Thursday, 8 April 2004 08:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Yes, I live with a woman. She is also a musician which means that playing music (or practising it) often takes precedence over listening to music these days. As I'm a music critic it means that our music room has become the equivalent of the bathroom in normal households, i.e. queuing up to use it, HAVEN'T YOU FINISHED PRACTISING/WRITING THAT SODDING REVIEW/BLOG PIECE etc.

Initially I go "Aargh!" but then I remember what the previous two years were like and know that I wouldn't want it any other way :-)

― Marcello Carlin, Thursday, 8 April 2004 08:35 (twenty-one years ago)

I once asked THE VICAR if he had some shaving foam.

His reply: "NO!!"

I cannot remember but perhaps this meant that by my standards, though not yours, I was like the wood-kerne of Heaney's 'Exposure' by the time I got to Belfast Central.

Amanda, I will never date again neither, beauty products or none.

I am not certain that beauty products can help you if you lack beauty.

If that is true, it does seem to undermine them.

― the pinefox, Thursday, 8 April 2004 08:38 (twenty-one years ago)

I heart the Pinefox.

― Marcello Carlin, Thursday, 8 April 2004 09:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Hi! My head is glinting ferociously today. I think it might have something to do with sebum.

Also, best thread ever.

― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 8 April 2004 10:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Even amongst the bald head licking, bacon fat moisturising, blasphemy and general ILXness of this thread the following is still the most revolting, disgusting thing EVAH:

"One of my flatmates actually was so absent-minded, though, that she often left her used pads lying around. I had to dispose of them myself."

Ew ew ew ew repeat to fade.....

― smee (smee), Thursday, 8 April 2004 10:54 (twenty-one years ago)

The most horrifying story ever told on ILE

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 8 April 2004 11:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Ohmygod. I give up, just when I think I can't be more disgusted Mr Perry appears....

― smee (smee), Thursday, 8 April 2004 11:15 (twenty-one years ago)

The sound of your gagging is like his Bat Sign.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 8 April 2004 11:22 (twenty-one years ago)

I lived with 3 women for a year. I couldn't produced the required amount of testosterone to be comfortable living in the house and slowly went (more) insane. They also adopted a stray cat a year ago and we hated each other. I haven't been in touch with at least 2 of them since leaving Manchester. The one I have seen once since used to shout "That's CARCINOGENIC!" every time I ate anything remotely burnt and we'd tease each other relentlessly. In retrospect, we should have been really good mates.

― Barima (Barima), Thursday, 8 April 2004 11:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Euw gross story!

x-post obvisouly!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 8 April 2004 12:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Hey, I could conjure up some gross stories from that time if you'd like...

― Barima (Barima), Thursday, 8 April 2004 12:29 (twenty-one years ago)

It'd be rude not to...

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 8 April 2004 12:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo! Not if they involve tampons or sanitary towels!!!!

― smee (smee), Thursday, 8 April 2004 12:31 (twenty-one years ago)

"towels"????? WTF? How big do they make those things in the UK?

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 8 April 2004 12:33 (twenty-one years ago)

I live with two girls. it's okay.

I lived with my exgirlfriend for months at a time. it was okay.

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 8 April 2004 12:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Wot, you don't call them towels?

― smee (smee), Thursday, 8 April 2004 12:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Dan calls them Al.

― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 8 April 2004 12:37 (twenty-one years ago)

napkins vs. towels fite

― sgs (sgs), Thursday, 8 April 2004 12:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Napkins? Now that's worse,napkins are for dinner tables. Ew mental picture.

― smee (smee), Thursday, 8 April 2004 12:37 (twenty-one years ago)

also, "pads"

― sgs (sgs), Thursday, 8 April 2004 12:38 (twenty-one years ago)

(Ronan owns this thread)

No one's ever made a 2-foot by 4-foot napkin.

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 8 April 2004 12:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Also bald men tie napkins round their heads at the British seaside to prevent ~~random lick attacks~~ sunstroke.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 8 April 2004 12:39 (twenty-one years ago)

They like to think that makes them safe.

― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 8 April 2004 12:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Do you remove the napkin before licking?

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 8 April 2004 12:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Of course, how could someone leave it on, that'd be disgusting!!!

― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 8 April 2004 12:45 (twenty-one years ago)

All the napkin comments are officially more minging than the line about them on Paul Barman's EP.

― Barima (Barima), Thursday, 8 April 2004 12:53 (twenty-one years ago)

What's wrong with mensturation? Bring back radical feminism.

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 8 April 2004 12:55 (twenty-one years ago)

In the context of living with ladies, 3 simulataneously menstruating women = less time in the house.

― Barima (Barima), Thursday, 8 April 2004 13:00 (twenty-one years ago)

I hear ya

*slaps a high five, cracks open beer, scratches arse

― chris (chris), Thursday, 8 April 2004 13:01 (twenty-one years ago)

mensturation = menstruation + mensuration?

― the bluefox, Thursday, 8 April 2004 13:02 (twenty-one years ago)

For Mr Perry

http://www.antique-linens.com/04april03itemsj/napkins1593.html

Hah!

― smee (smee), Thursday, 8 April 2004 13:03 (twenty-one years ago)

the australian expression is "riding a surfboard" btw

― mullygrubber (gaz), Thursday, 8 April 2004 13:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Ned, moisturiser on oily skin is helpful as the oil in the moisturiser convinces your skin that it has produced quite enough sebum

*puzzles at this* A fight fire with fire approach?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 8 April 2004 13:13 (twenty-one years ago)

$295 a pack? Them jonts better be washable, smee!

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 8 April 2004 13:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Even amongst the bald head licking, bacon fat moisturising, blasphemy and general ILXness of this thread the following is still the most revolting, disgusting thing EVAH:
"One of my flatmates actually was so absent-minded, though, that she often left her used pads lying around. I had to dispose of them myself."

Ew ew ew ew repeat to fade.....

Oh, it wasn't that awful. Mostly they had dried up already, and I don't think pads are that yucky. Having lived almost 5 years with female flatmates, I've pretty much grown used to them.

But I can't understand this moisturizer talk... I've used moisturiser ever since puberty, and I've always thought it was a normal thing for girls as well as guys to do. Most of my male friends use moisturiser as well. I really can't see what's so weird about it.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 8 April 2004 13:24 (twenty-one years ago)

the australian expression is "riding a surfboard" btw

Hence the should-be immortal "surfing the crimson wave"?

― Barima (Barima), Thursday, 8 April 2004 13:29 (twenty-one years ago)

One of the others straightens his hair for that artfully dishevelled 'I'm too cool to care' rock-boy look. i have suspicions of highlights, but can prove nothing.

if you're talking about the one i met briefly at brixton, then i think your suspicions are well-founded.

― lauren (laurenp), Thursday, 8 April 2004 13:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Hey Matt: so far, most of the gross stories I remember from my old house involve the cat. Or me. Shit.

I have to admit, that experience totally ruined Sex and the City for me tho'.

― Barima (Barima), Thursday, 8 April 2004 13:49 (twenty-one years ago)

mensturation = menstruation + mensuration?

Yes. Both are revolting on their own.

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 8 April 2004 13:56 (twenty-one years ago)

"Oh, it wasn't that awful. Mostly they had dried up already, and I don't think pads are that yucky. Having lived almost 5 years with female flatmates, I've pretty much grown used to them"

It's not the pads or menstruation talk I object too (except when it's Dang!) it's the utter revolting unhygenic disgustingness of not disposing of the things!!!Jesus, how long does it take to roll it up and stick it in the bin, hmmmm?

― smee (smee), Thursday, 8 April 2004 14:00 (twenty-one years ago)

tuomas, perhaps men using moisturizer in finland is more common because it's more cold and dry there?

― teeny (teeny), Thursday, 8 April 2004 14:18 (twenty-one years ago)

This whole thread reads like a Lewis Grizzard rambling

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Friday, 9 April 2004 14:35 (twenty-one years ago)

two years pass...

This thread is a thing of wonder and needs to be revived for future generations.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Monday, 10 April 2006 13:51 (nineteen years ago)

wtf about moisturizer? i use it all the time.

― AaronK (AaronK), Monday, 10 April 2006 14:16 (nineteen years ago)

During the last six and a half years I've lived with fifteen different women, and let me tell you, there isn't any pattern to it. Shocking, isn't it?

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 10 April 2006 14:23 (nineteen years ago)

Ah, the woefully misplaced optimism of two years ago...nevertheless, to paraphrase Donna Summer, this time I know it's for real... :-)

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Monday, 10 April 2006 14:45 (nineteen years ago)

How did I miss this.

― Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 10 April 2006 14:59 (nineteen years ago)

i lived with a woman, once.
it was neat. except she was neurotic.

― the unbearable lightness of peeing (orion), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 02:51 (nineteen years ago)

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