Hinted at by David R. in the "suburban den" thread.
* Scrap of shag carpet, unspeakably dirty, used as rug* Whiteboard on door, no changes to contents in the last five months* Large quantities of stale children's cereal purchased with wrongheaded ideas about indulgent freedom and debauchery* Quirky pet (snake, mongoose, etc) kept secret from authorities
― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 23 September 2008 22:19 (seventeen years ago)
Lots of vinyl but no turntable. (or vice versa)
― C. Grisso/McCain, Tuesday, 23 September 2008 22:20 (seventeen years ago)
-microwave that smells like ass-cans of shitty beer hidden behind cans of mountain dew-wall "decorations" made during some ice breaker-plastic drawers
― ilx: a miracle i helped create (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 23 September 2008 22:23 (seventeen years ago)
At least one of these images on a poster:
http://www.ece.mcgill.ca/~elotay/scream.jpg
http://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/wp-content/uploads/2007/01/clockwork_poster.jpg
http://www.mtholyoke.edu/courses/rschwart/hist257s02/students/Stacy/Images/einstein%20sticking%20out%20tongue.jpg
― C. Grisso/McCain, Tuesday, 23 September 2008 22:24 (seventeen years ago)
-bathtub drain clogged with vomit by alcoholic roommate-fire alarm dismantled by stoner roommate
― Put big bows (or small) In you hair. (Curt1s Stephens), Tuesday, 23 September 2008 22:25 (seventeen years ago)
what are the current equivalents of the 80s/90s ubiquitous prints of a Klimt painting, a Warhol Marilyn, or that Bud Girl poster?
― Drew Daniel, Tuesday, 23 September 2008 22:25 (seventeen years ago)
on the subject of posters:
http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/pic/PA/6445023~Baby-Orangutan-Posters.jpg
― Put big bows (or small) In you hair. (Curt1s Stephens), Tuesday, 23 September 2008 22:26 (seventeen years ago)
Maybe one of those fakes Warhols that company that advertises in the back of rolling stone does, wherein they silkscreen pictures you send them.
― C. Grisso/McCain, Tuesday, 23 September 2008 22:29 (seventeen years ago)
weed dealer
― Shakey Mo Collier, Tuesday, 23 September 2008 22:37 (seventeen years ago)
Poster of most recent charming semi-crossover indie or foreign movie that reminds us all how sweet and magical life can be (2002: Amelie - 2005: Garden State - etc)
― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 23 September 2008 22:39 (seventeen years ago)
― Drew Daniel, Tuesday, September 23, 2008 10:25 PM (48 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
I believe these would be:-NO FARTING POSTER-GEORGE COSTANZA "THE ART OF SEDUCTION" POSTER-SOMETHING LIKE THIS:http://images.marketplaceadvisor.channeladvisor.com/hi/79/79173/va111.jpg
― ian, Tuesday, 23 September 2008 23:17 (seventeen years ago)
^no, tht was 2001
― logged in (cozwn), Tuesday, 23 September 2008 23:18 (seventeen years ago)
http://www.generalsarmory.com/John-Belushi---College-Poster-C1000.jpeg/John-Belushi---College-Poster-C1000-full.jpg
― M@tt He1ges0n, Tuesday, 23 September 2008 23:19 (seventeen years ago)
just an FYI, don't search for "college dorm" with safesearch turned off if u r at work.
― ian, Tuesday, 23 September 2008 23:19 (seventeen years ago)
http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/pic/GB/GN0324%7EStudent-Crossing-Posters.jpg
― ian, Tuesday, 23 September 2008 23:21 (seventeen years ago)
this guy's face, tho:
http://images.heaven666.org/images/topless-college-dorm-party.jpg
― rollerblading on the back of a cereal box in 1997 (internet person), Tuesday, 23 September 2008 23:23 (seventeen years ago)
^^^kinda nsfw, btw
scarface or reservoir dogs poster
― 12HOOS2012 (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Tuesday, 23 September 2008 23:25 (seventeen years ago)
Family Guy poster, Pulp Fiction poster, Guiness poster, this:
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/414E4BKYEGL._SL500_AA280_.jpg
All of these things can be found in my roommate's room. He also has a shirt that says "COLLEGE" like in that Belushi poster. Consummate Bro.
I abashedly admit to owning that Clockwork Orange poster, though it was a gift.
― circa1916, Tuesday, 23 September 2008 23:25 (seventeen years ago)
haha I think every year of college so far I've had at least 1 roommate w/a family guy poster
― Put big bows (or small) In you hair. (Curt1s Stephens), Tuesday, 23 September 2008 23:28 (seventeen years ago)
also I recently bought a shirt that says COLLEGE
CDs/CD-rs out of box, piled on desk, occasionally stained with beer
― Pizza Dalek in the Cult of Sbarro (kingfish), Tuesday, 23 September 2008 23:30 (seventeen years ago)
hideous industrial "lounge" with stove that is used rigorously and regularly by 4 of the dorm's 75 inhabitants
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 23 September 2008 23:31 (seventeen years ago)
people sitting in carpeted, fluorescent-lit hallways, late into the night
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 23 September 2008 23:32 (seventeen years ago)
private soap
fucking clanking radiators in winter
maybe not any more, though. lol old
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 23 September 2008 23:36 (seventeen years ago)
I was going to post that kiss posterthey even have an updated version called something like kiss 2012
― cool app (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Tuesday, 23 September 2008 23:39 (seventeen years ago)
no one posted ramen?
old-school answering machines
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 23 September 2008 23:44 (seventeen years ago)
people throwing keys out their windows
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 23 September 2008 23:45 (seventeen years ago)
of which 1-2 are only using it to make mac-n-cheese. If 2, 1 of these leaves the crusty pot just sitting there.
― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 23 September 2008 23:45 (seventeen years ago)
Bob Marley - Legend
― calstars, Wednesday, 24 September 2008 01:17 (seventeen years ago)
The Earth Mama next door
Guy down the hall who plays the first Clash record over and over
― calstars, Wednesday, 24 September 2008 01:18 (seventeen years ago)
Stolen shampoo
― calstars, Wednesday, 24 September 2008 01:19 (seventeen years ago)
somewhere, there is a rush dude
http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/pic/AQUA/24-274~Rush-Posters.jpg
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 24 September 2008 01:22 (seventeen years ago)
vomit in the toilet, shit in the sink, blood in the shower
― omar little, Wednesday, 24 September 2008 01:22 (seventeen years ago)
http://towncraftmovie.com/video/527
― Pleasant Plains, Wednesday, 24 September 2008 01:43 (seventeen years ago)
I was going to post that kiss poster - this is the "kiss" poster that all girls at my school had in their dormrooms (circa 1996-2000)
http://www.worldsfamousphotos.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/robert_doisneau_le_baiser_de_lhotel_de_ville_kiss_at_the_hotel.jpg
― Pillbox, Wednesday, 24 September 2008 01:54 (seventeen years ago)
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y6/akadaver/a121nintendones.jpg
― Millsner, Wednesday, 24 September 2008 02:11 (seventeen years ago)
Empty bottle of tequila with the worm still inside
― calstars, Wednesday, 24 September 2008 02:25 (seventeen years ago)
Haha, I just remembered that I briefly had a Clockwork Orange poster in high school but my mom made me take it down because it had that "primary interests are rape and ultraviolence and beethoven" line on it.
― Everything is Highlighted (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 24 September 2008 02:27 (seventeen years ago)
Er.. let's try that again..
http://palavraguda.files.wordpress.com/2007/08/doisneau_kiss.jpg
― Pillbox, Wednesday, 24 September 2008 03:23 (seventeen years ago)
Scarface posters for the suburban thuggs and gangstaas (particularly middle-class suburban puerto ricans, the meanest ricans of em all)
― burt_stanton, Wednesday, 24 September 2008 03:59 (seventeen years ago)
^^^ social anthropology in action
― immodest mickey (velko), Wednesday, 24 September 2008 04:05 (seventeen years ago)
Anime
― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 24 September 2008 04:12 (seventeen years ago)
stopped toilets, foot fungus
― Every Day Jimmy Mod Is Hustlin' (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Wednesday, 24 September 2008 04:44 (seventeen years ago)
Posters from not just Pulp Fiction, but any/all Tarantino movies
Trainspotting poster
Stolen beer promo schwag(bar mirrors with logos, light-up signs, etc)
― Pizza Dalek in the Cult of Sbarro (kingfish), Wednesday, 24 September 2008 04:50 (seventeen years ago)
I haven't been in a dorm room in ages but walking around the campus where I work nowadays I see DOZENS of Belushi "college" shirts and a ton of meatheady guys in Reservoir Dogs shirts - which I only started to see this year and was kind of surprised by.
And yes, today I saw the one dude with a Rush t-shirt on.
― with one and a half pair of pants you ain't cool (joygoat), Wednesday, 24 September 2008 05:26 (seventeen years ago)
Date rape.
― Three Word Username, Wednesday, 24 September 2008 12:58 (seventeen years ago)
Pizzadining hall flatwareutter deseperation
― Trip Maker, Wednesday, 24 September 2008 15:16 (seventeen years ago)
desperation
lack of air circulation
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 24 September 2008 15:18 (seventeen years ago)
Stolen cafeteria tray to be used as sled
― Pizza Dalek in the Cult of Sbarro (kingfish), Wednesday, 24 September 2008 15:18 (seventeen years ago)
electrical cords seemingly everywhere
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 24 September 2008 15:19 (seventeen years ago)
Torchiere lamp with dodgy stand, about 30 seconds away from falling over and starting another fire
― Pizza Dalek in the Cult of Sbarro (kingfish), Wednesday, 24 September 2008 15:19 (seventeen years ago)
spare change on the floor
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Wednesday, 24 September 2008 15:19 (seventeen years ago)
whiny notes
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 24 September 2008 15:20 (seventeen years ago)
ethernet/coax cables duct-taped to ceiling, walls, out the window to neighboring dorm rooms, etc
― Pizza Dalek in the Cult of Sbarro (kingfish), Wednesday, 24 September 2008 15:20 (seventeen years ago)
broken hearts
― Mohammed Butt (max), Wednesday, 24 September 2008 15:21 (seventeen years ago)
suicidal thoughts
rancid plastic bin/grocery bag used as soda/beer can recycle point
― Pizza Dalek in the Cult of Sbarro (kingfish), Wednesday, 24 September 2008 15:21 (seventeen years ago)
EMPTINESS (next to Cure/Placebo/Bright Eyes poster)
― CharlieNo4, Wednesday, 24 September 2008 15:22 (seventeen years ago)
small fridge not cleaned in 2-3 years
― Pizza Dalek in the Cult of Sbarro (kingfish), Wednesday, 24 September 2008 15:22 (seventeen years ago)
half-ass collection of shoddily torn-out Absolut ads taped to wall
the guy from boarding school who knows how to arrange his bunk bed to create a "hallway" in his own room
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 24 September 2008 15:22 (seventeen years ago)
envy and self-debasement
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 24 September 2008 15:23 (seventeen years ago)
max you've been hanging out in the wrong dorms u saddo
― Granny Dainger, Wednesday, 24 September 2008 15:23 (seventeen years ago)
surprisingly high cost tv with at least two video game consoles connected
― Pizza Dalek in the Cult of Sbarro (kingfish), Wednesday, 24 September 2008 15:23 (seventeen years ago)
pile of gear in corner from whatever club sport occupant is drunkenly involved with
― Pizza Dalek in the Cult of Sbarro (kingfish), Wednesday, 24 September 2008 15:24 (seventeen years ago)
autoerotic sex acts
― J4gger Dynamic Pentangle (Just got offed), Wednesday, 24 September 2008 15:28 (seventeen years ago)
I may be too much of a Britisher (also lol old) for this, but:
fridge contains 5 milk bottles, each with initials on the lid, all empty except for thin veneer of ex-milk paste
in winter, bags of milk/beer bottles hanging out of windows of any room more than 10 yards from the fridge
laundry room with two washing machines containing sportswear which has rotted there all month; in front of third machine a pile of clothes lying in the inch-thick foot-scented blue dust on the floor, ejected about three seconds after the wash completed
― Kaluza Klein (a passing spacecadet), Wednesday, 24 September 2008 15:42 (seventeen years ago)
Leftover Howard Dean campaign materials stored under bed, couch, or futon.
― C. Grisso/McCain, Wednesday, 24 September 2008 16:15 (seventeen years ago)
Fridge with "Bodyglove" sticker on it (lol 90's).
― snoball, Wednesday, 24 September 2008 16:46 (seventeen years ago)
^^^^
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 24 September 2008 16:48 (seventeen years ago)
Smartfood.
― suzy, Wednesday, 24 September 2008 16:55 (seventeen years ago)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^!!!
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 24 September 2008 16:58 (seventeen years ago)
Payphone that someone who doesn't live in your block has cracked so that they can make long distance calls abroad. No-one knows who did it, and for a while it looks like everyone is going to have to split the £3000 bill.
― snoball, Wednesday, 24 September 2008 17:01 (seventeen years ago)
Upholstered chairs/couches of questionable origin
― Millsner, Wednesday, 24 September 2008 17:02 (seventeen years ago)
You people went to gross dorms.
In mine:
* Nag champa incense in every other suite* Batik-print "Indian" scarves tacked over the fluorescent lights* "Door decs" with cartoon characters on them; okay when the annual theme is AA Milne, not okay when it's Precious Moments* Sign-up sheets for 1,001 group social activities* Free Newsweek
― Vampire romances depend on me (Laurel), Wednesday, 24 September 2008 17:11 (seventeen years ago)
Anyone who'd put a cartoon character or some similar tweeness on a door would have been quietly asked to leave my college for infractions against cool, etc.
― suzy, Wednesday, 24 September 2008 17:15 (seventeen years ago)
On top of the fridge/freezer: tarnished brass cafetiere, caked in dust, that no-one ever uses.Also: wok stolen from Chinese restaurant in audacious drunken move.
― snoball, Wednesday, 24 September 2008 17:21 (seventeen years ago)
Mini Christmas lights strung around haphazardly are also a staple
― Millsner, Wednesday, 24 September 2008 17:49 (seventeen years ago)
* shitty paper lanterns* Hunter S Thompson* awkward tour introducing someone's parents around* soccer ball (or other such thing) that never leaves the room but is just idly tossed up and down by people who come to visit
― Doctor Casino, Monday, 25 January 2010 00:53 (sixteen years ago)
fractals man, fractals
― pithfork (Hurting 2), Monday, 25 January 2010 01:16 (sixteen years ago)
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2084/1784362672_0abd03e2dc_b.jpg
― scott seward, Monday, 25 January 2010 01:23 (sixteen years ago)
http://files.dmusic.com/music/h/a/halfdeaf/soooooo.jpg
― Doctor Casino, Monday, 25 January 2010 01:41 (sixteen years ago)
In Every Dorm Ever: That which is so not going to happen
― pithfork (Hurting 2), Monday, 25 January 2010 01:42 (sixteen years ago)
I mean, it looks much more like an apartment than a dorm (suspect there was extensive debate on this in the original SNGH thread) but I feel everything else, including the not-happening, applies very well to every dorm ever.
― Doctor Casino, Monday, 25 January 2010 01:48 (sixteen years ago)
i think it was some dude's parents' house.
― actually if you want to get technical about it i am sort of down. (tehresa), Monday, 25 January 2010 01:49 (sixteen years ago)
but yes.
xp to scott
http://forcefieldpr.com/site/wp-content/uploads/2007/01/pandabear.jpg
― schlump, Monday, 25 January 2010 01:50 (sixteen years ago)
i went to lol oberlin, so uh...
- empty can of Black Label (or cheap iconic brew of alma mater) on windowsill- empty bags of weed in desk drawers- tapestries- stolen plastic cups
― arch-enemy Gay Cowboy Monster (the table is the table), Monday, 25 January 2010 02:06 (sixteen years ago)
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41I7GaOEcSL.jpg
― NotEnough, Monday, 25 January 2010 14:24 (sixteen years ago)
http://www.homearcades.com/images/JUSTIFICATION.jpg
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 25 January 2010 14:33 (sixteen years ago)
Smart enough to graduate but dumb enough to leave the lights on on all 5 of your cars.
― 26 Mixes Focaccia (Stevie D), Monday, 25 January 2010 16:25 (sixteen years ago)
Poster of a famous painting with spliff inserted.
― BTW, I'm frightfully middle-class (chap), Monday, 25 January 2010 16:44 (sixteen years ago)
a seldom-watched copy of "Requiem For a Dream"
― Adam Bruneau, Monday, 25 January 2010 17:44 (sixteen years ago)
Miserable young people who wish like hell they could be living anywhere but in a dorm.
― Aimless, Monday, 25 January 2010 19:10 (sixteen years ago)
Dang, I was gonna post that Justification For Higher Education thing too.
― henry s, Monday, 25 January 2010 20:04 (sixteen years ago)