I know a lot of you went to college, and probably the rest of you have had roommates at one point or another, so share your stories of pain and dumbfoundedness. Here's mine:

One of my roommates is in a fraternity. He's in a band, too, but that's another story. Anyway, drunken fraternity brothers are common place here.

I normally have class in the morning, so I go to bed at midnight. At 3:00 in the morning, my roommate came home with his bandmates and a few fraternity brothers. They went to the backyard and drank quite a bit; but since they drank outside, they didn't wake me up except for 2 or 3 times when they came inside to use the toilet or get more beer.

7:00 this morning. A frat boy came inside again, waking me up, and bumped into my bedroom door, all while a girl periodically giggled in the background. I got out of bed, and I was about to open the door and break his face on my knuckles, when I heard liquid hitting door and wall, and I saw a puddle of urine begin to seep under the door, and I heard him repeatedly mumble, "I'm going to kill you." 

I live at home, but our old neighbors would usually have a party a month, so it was kind of annoying waking up at 2:00 am to a backyard of guys shouting in unison "SHOW US YOUR BOOBS" over and over or having them come out drunk as fuck one Monday morning in winter talking as loud as they could on their phone "Dude you know you totally wanted to fuck her in her fuckin ass dude" when you have an exam in three hours. 

I live on my own in a flat, and I think it's fair to say that pretty much all my neighbours are mongoloid fuckwits.

Let's see - there's "Mr Scrapey" living below me who seems to have a fetish for playing musical chairs at six in the morning, continuously dragging what sounds like wooden furniture across a wooden floor unrelentingly until he decides to fuck off to whatever shit job funds his rent/drug habit/furniture repair bills.

And let's not forget the "Bhangra Boys", a household of delightful young Asian gentlemen, whose enthusiasm to celebrate the customs of their cultural homeland is matched only by their ability to play that fucking horrible music at full volume whenever they fucking feel like it.

I could go on, but I'll only make myself more angry >:{ 

But...

So far my place has been great. I live literally 10 ft from a pond filled with ducks and a gazebo to take it all in. My neighbors are quiet and friendly, and there are a lot of hot college age women who seem to enjoy doing laundry in the shortest of shorts just as I am walking out the door in the morning.

Also it's been about 80 degrees every day. 

I'm moving in with you. Let t3h molestation begin! 

So func has had a secret RSS feed for a while, but I finally added a link to the news page.

I'm also considering making a personalized RSS feed for each user, but I'm not sure how it would work and whether it would be useful. 

So far my place has been great. I live literally 10 ft from a pond filled with ducks and a gazebo to take it all in...

Mucklucks! Galoshes! Macadamia! Gazebo!

If you have no idea what I'm talking about, download "bulbous bouffant by Dr Demento 

RPG,
that's pretty bad! Was he actually talking to you? Did he know what was going on? Is the band any good?
My room mates have always been pretty cool. My big complaints/hissyfits are like "I bought the dish soap AND the toilet paper this week, god dammit!" then they hand me a joint, and a mug of cheap wine. So if they are pricks I don't really notice. 

A mug of wine? What... What the FUCK!?

RPG, ouch, change room mates man. =\ 

"then they hand me a joint, and a mug of cheap wine"

I need roommates like that. 

I was told that he was sleep walking. My landlord has offered to let me stay in another of his houses for the remainder of the lease. 

Bal - yes a mug. Our house of 6 people has like, 4 coffee mugs and a plastic cup I don't drink out of anymore for private reasons.

RPG - but is the band good? 

I'm pretty sure we have laws against drinking wine in anything other than wine glasses here... ;) 

rpg3dm2 rocks. I love it. 

so it could be me forgetting, but are lifts always so jerky ?

Not many levels have them but stuff like vondur's kaos level and a few others do, and as you are going up on them, its like being on a trampoline. 

of House last night, left me wondering, is this show ten times better than anything else on television, or what? Among Hospital proceduals you have the choice of the simple minded morality play of ER, or you have the preciously written whoredom of Grey's Anatomy which is as cliched as the Anna Di Franco songs that it sometimes uses. House is just so much more interesting. 

but I think it's awesome you americans know who Hugh Laurie is.

You should get some tapes of Blackadder (series 3 or 4 i think) if you want to see him in some awesome comedy.

On the subject of season finales... how about that 24, eh? Jack Bauer is my anti-drug. 

Drew: They're ok. It's more a matter of whether or not you like jam bands that don't play original material.

nitin: Thanks. :) 

how does it (24) compare to seasons 1-4 ? I quite liked 1 and 4, thought 2 was decent in the second half and 3 was faily average. 

Arrested Development.

Sadly dead beyond recovery now (DAMN YOU FOX!) but still three seasons of absolute awesomeness. 

But I always wait for the DVD to come out before watching it. I saw the premier two hour episode this January and it looked like a strong start.

Last night Hugh Laurie did a bit of a ridicule of the accent a character who is British. It was a kind of a wink to the audience that Laurie is not really the Jersey boy he effortlessly plays on the show. 

IMHO, 24 season #5 was better than seasons 3 and 4. 

I love it, waiting for season 3 on dvd. Gob Bluth is one o th ecoolest characters ever.

jago,

thanks. 

anyone got an answer on the q3 question, it's really annoying me. Other maps I've played recently with lifts :

storm3tourney4, pjw3dm6, lae3dm3 

season 5 of 24 is by far the craziest season yet. I'd say my favourite seasons were 4 and 5, but it's not easy to think of a season objectively of a show with so many episodes/twists/etc, if you know what I mean. It all sort of merges together.

i should get arrested development on dvd