Comments on: Clearly seeking his master’s in diplomacy

By: Lisa

Lisa — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 00:13:53 +0000

Yeah so all that water might be annoying, but he threw everyones food out! I had a flatmate do that before, grr! Also, if they have a problem with him, they should come and see him, but since he has a problem with them, he writes a pan note.

Also I’m Welsh and shared a flat with seven other people, either Welsh, Irish or American. The American is the only one I’ll miss, the rest were slobs, I should have left PAN notes in the kitchen

By: Jinx

Jinx — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 04:57:45 +0000

The just turn around and knock instructions, make it seem he lives in the bathroom or the closet of the bathroom. Hence knowing who’s mother does and doesn’t live there. If I saw this note, even if I wasn’t the offender, I wouldn’t shower there anymore.

By: ChirlyGirly

ChirlyGirly — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 21:53:27 +0000

Love that movie!

By: fluffy8u

fluffy8u — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 20:04:44 +0000

I’ve heard both. Billie Pipper says “three-quarters past.” I think it’s a Wiltshire thing. Also, I believe Michaela Strachan is no longer on the BBC. So there’s that. Plus, one really uses cockney anymore.

By: A Brit

A Brit — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 19:01:05 +0000

“three-quarters past” = a quarter to

Overall though a good effort – B+/A-

By: racerx2233

racerx2233 — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 06:01:27 +0000

Reliable source = Ben Afleck

By: heather

heather — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 05:04:20 +0000

I don’t blame the guy…it absolutely pisses me off to step into a puddle of water first thing in the morning… I usually wind up screaming at my sister and it escalate from there…i’m not so passive-aggressive lol

By: mixels

mixels — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 01:43:48 +0000

Erm, England is pretty famous for its shower setups, especially in hotels and such. The WC is literally a closet. It’s not uncommon to simply shut the door and turn on the shower, not having a door, curtain, or tub to retain the water. A drain in the middle of the floor helps, but the itty bitty lonely drain will often get clogged. It’s not uncommon to find yourself standing in a few-inches deep pool of water that slowly drains over the next hour or more.

Hell, even in America in houses with huge, old style… erm… American… tubs, I’ve seen clogged drains whip up some wicked puddles. I’m really not sure how one would go about drying them. Using a towel would be a disaster. Sure, the towel would soak up a fair bit of water, but not near enough of it, and then you’d have to worry about carrying a drenched and dripping towel across a likely carpeted floor to a clothes bin. Bloody idiot, this guy is.

By: fluffy8u

fluffy8u — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 08:59:59 +0000

Racer, I take it that this is from experience? I’m just asking because… in the off chance I find myseslf a…rround dead hookers… y’know… gotta do something with them…. and it’s always nice to have a reliable source.

By: Kyra

Kyra — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 06:11:37 +0000

I actually find this one weirdly interesting, because I had the exact same problem when I spent the semester in England–I shared a university-housing flat with like ten other people, with three bathrooms between us, two of which had showers. Most of the time there weren’t any problems at all…except for the fact that the majority of the time, I’d come in to shower and find a lake on the floor. Did it come from people not toweling off? No, it was because for some reason, nobody could figure out this very basic principle: if the shower curtain hangs outside the tub/shower stall lip, it is completely useless except as a privacy screen. If the shower curtain hangs inside the tub/stall, it keeps the water in. We were all uni students; I’m not sure why this was so difficult to figure out.

Um…yeah, apparently I was more worked up over this than I thought…? I’m not this uptight, really, it was just freakin’ annoying to have water leaked all over the floor because everyone else was too dumb to understand proper shower-curtain usage.

By: racerx2233

racerx2233 — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 06:08:50 +0000

Sorry I got here late…
The answer to #3.3 is seven.

By: fluffy8u

fluffy8u — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 02:29:27 +0000

IT’S A “V”?!?! I thought is was a square root sign. I imagined it was a funny nick name or something. Maybe he was a Maths geek. Like √David S. Cohen or something.

By: fluffy8u

fluffy8u — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 02:09:17 +0000

I believe you mean “arse.”

By: fluffy8u

fluffy8u — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 02:07:50 +0000

Are you singing John Waite? Snippy, this is neither the time nor the place for British music.